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GARDEN AND

Don't prune your apple trees in the
fall. The best time is when In bloom
or just before.
Most Of the roses dc better if given
protection in the winter. though n great
many OF them will survive without it.
Dahlia tubers keep best if put in a
box or dry sand and keptin ncool place
where they will not freeze. They will
not keep well in q damp cellar.
Sweet potatoes may be keptin a cellar
that is frost proof, by being laid down
on dry sand in such q IL that the
tubers do not touch each other.
An experienced grape grower told lis
not long ago that he had gone back TO
the old arbor t%rellis, as he found his
grapes do better when trained that way.
The fall has been SO dry thai straw
berries that were set out must be given
good care or they Will not make a start.
Keep them well cultivated and il the
patch is not too large, water them.
With berries, as with every other crop,
he who grows the best makes the most
money, and as it requires but little
effort to make al average crop a large
it is worth while to do the extra
work.
The man who sells fruits of any kind
is the one who sells but a small guam
tity of the valuable elements of his
farm and a large amount of water which
does not cost anything and is found
everywhere.
While for general purposes the Con-
cord grape has no rival, there is a con-
slant demand for new varieties, and the
originator OF a promising one is always
well paid for any trouble it may have
cost him.-Western Plowman.
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The blessing OF Cheap Books.

Chicago Record: Our book stores
are fairly inundated with cheap edi-
tons of Scott, Dickens, George Eliot,
Hugo, Cooper, Thackery, Hawthorne
and other great novelists. Nor are
philosophy, theology, criticism and
biography denied to tile many. Pres
colt, Morley, Emerson, Ruskin, Mncau-
ley, Lamb, De Quincy and other in
tellectual lights are becoming the com
panions of me of limited meaus and
educational opportunities. The great
est pleasure of life, that of intimacy
with the worlds noblest and most Gle.
waiting thought, is now accessible to
most of those who possess the elemen-
tary training supplied by the public
schools.
This means a revolution in the pop
ular taste. 1t means n decline of liter
airy trash and sensationalism, a grow,
ing demand for all that is enduring
and wholesome and profitable in let.
iers. The revolution is due to two
on the classics and the improvements
in the printers art. These improv-
ments were at first regarded by the
short-sightYd, but never was Il tempo
rary hardship to some overbalanced SC
quickly, signally and Overwhelmingly
by benefits to every side Of human ma.
ture. Who can estimate the benefit
flowing from the diffusion of knowl.
edge, the. popularization of the higher
forms of literary art? When good
books are so cheap, the multiplication
of sickly, grewsome. ephemeral and
vicious ''literature' need not inspire
much apprehension. An effective an,
tidOte is provided.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-01-22
Thirty Miles for an Acorn.

st. Nicholas: Down in Mexico there lives
q woodpecker who stores his nuts and
acorns in the hollow stalks of the yuccas
and masueys. These hollow joints are
separated by joints into several cavities,
II the sagacious bird has somehow
found this out, and borcs a hole in the up
per end of each joint. and another at the
lower through which to extract the acorns
when wanted. Then 1t fills up the stalks
soiidiy and leaves its stores there until
needed, safe from the d~epredations of
any other thieving bird or four-footed
animal.
The first place in which this curious
habit was observed was on the hill in the
midst of Il desert. The hill was COW
cred with Yuccas and magucys, but the
nearest oak trees were thirty miles away
and so, 1t was calculated, these indus,
trious birds had to make n fight of sixty
miles for each acorn slowed thus in the
stalks.
An observer of birds remarks: "There
are several strange features to be no
tiCed in these facts; the provilent instinct
which prompts this bird to lay by stores
of provisions for the winter: The great dis
lance Travelled to collect Il kind of food so
unusual for its race, and it's seeking in Il
place so remote from its natural abode a
storehouse so remarSahlc.'
Can instinct alone teach, or have expert
ence and reason taught, these birds that,
far better than the bark of trees or crew
ices in rocks or other hiding place are
these hidden cavities they make for them
selves with the hollow stems of distant
plants?
This we cannot answer. But we do know
that one of the most remarkable birds in
our country is this California w~oodpccker,
and that he is well entitled to his Mexican
name of El Carpintero-thc carpenter
bird.
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Municipal Affairs: The census reports
show that the population within the city
linits continue rapidly to increase, not
w~ithstanding the remora of large num-
bers to the suburbs. A very considerable
proportion of the people in large cities find
it necessary to live within easy reach of
their places of work. They must, there
fore, not only live in the cities, but must
concentrate In certain sections. Thus in
New York city. at the time Of the police
census in April, 1885. one-half of the popu-
lation of the entire city was crowded into
certain wards whose total area was less
than ope-tenth of the entire city area.
Two Of the wards had a population of
G43.S and $50. . persons to the acre. respect
lively, while in the city as a whole the pop
ulation was 46.7 per acre. How these
people are housed in New York CITY is
learned from the last report Of the New
York health department., which states
that 1,iS1. 1892 persons. comprising $50, 2S7
families, lived in what the law designates
as tenement houses, occupying, in the ae-
gregate, 2,g09 tenement houses, of which
2,faS We're rear buildings.
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Boston Transcript: One of the uil-
fortunate results of an over stocked
market of turkey is that the surplus
has to be put into cold storage at an
expense of about ] sen a pound, and
he fowl becomes dry. This Christmas
The surplus is unusually large, and be-
tween fifteen and twenty tons arc be
ing put into cold storage by the com
mission houses, but the quality is al
SO remarkably good. Having bee.
packed under favorable weather con.
a%it:ons, it is well preserved; indeen.
HE quality was V better, according
10 the inspector of provisions, who has
,een very busy this week inspecting
The meats on the market. There is
practically no demand, he says, for
roast beef, pork or lamb, and though
turkey sells rapidly at a low price, the
.etail dealers will have n big stock te
dispose of among the hotels and res
.aurants otter the Christmas trade is
ended. Competition has reduced the
price to a great extent.
Much of the stock stored away will
De consumed during the summer
months at the city hotels and at sum
ner resorts, but there will undoubt-
idly be some left to be placed on the
market next year for the Thanksgiv-
ing trade. Large as the surplus is, it
is no larger than under the circum-
;tances vas expected. The farmers in
The west, whence comes the greatest
part of the poultry sold in the east.
we're unable to fatten their turkeys for
Thanksgiving, and could send only
enough to meet the demand at that
time. Gold weather has favored them
in their preparation for the Christmas
season, as they could pen in their fowls
and fatten them quicker.
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WHY tho nur,s Nose i, Co,d.

What makes the dogs nose always cold?
!Ii try to tell you, curls of gold,
Y You will good and quiet be,
And come n stand by mammals knee.
Well, years and years and years ago.
HOW many don't really know
there came a rain on sea and shore.
Its like was never seer, before
since. 1t fell u%nceasing down
TIL all the world began to drown.
But Just before IL gan to pour
An old. old man-his name was Noah
B 81 him an ark that he might save
And IN II he also designed
10 shelter two of every kind
Sof beast. Well, dear, when it was done
Ana heavT clouds obscured the sun.
Noah,s folks to 1t quickly ran,
And then the animals began
10 grayely march along in pairs.
Inc ieopards, tigers, wolves and bears,
Inc deer, the hippopotamuses,
Ine rabbits, squirrels, elks. w%alruses,
The camels. goats, cats and donkeys.
The tall giraffes, the beavers, monkeys,
The ;rh rats, The big rhinorceroses
The drolEedaries and the horses,
The sheep and mice. the kangaroos,
Hyenas. elephants, koodoos
And hudreds more-'twould take all day,
MY dear: so many names to say
And at the very, very end
Or the procession, by his friend
And master. faithful dog was seen.
The liivelong time he'd helping been
TO drive the crowd of creatures in.
Aia up", WIFI iOuI, eSultanl DARK,
lie gayly sprang aboard the ark.
Alas. so crowded was the space
He could not in it find a place. e
So, patiently he turned about
Stood half way In and half way out,
And those extremely heavy showers
Descended through nine hundred hours
And more. and darling. at their close,
Most frozen was his ones nose,
And never could 1t lose again.
The dampness Of that dreadful rain.
And that IL what. my curls of gold,
Made all the doggies' noses cold.
B. NJ. Lincoln. in New York Tribune.
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The Poets welcome 10 1905.


The Poets Welcome TO 1898.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
For eighteen ninety-seven was a damper
on his fate.
That seven" was so hard to rhyme! But
now that eight fas come,
Repiete with rhymes. a mighty store, of
which let's sample some.
See, Observation-Disclosures
VIII rhyme with Bait
And also Crate,
AS well as Date.
And Fate and Freight,
And Gate. and Great. INT Crate, and
Hate;
Then Il his sweetneart's name is Kate
She will come handy, soon or late.
To be his darling little Mate,
And soothe his tired. worried Pate.
Oh. rhymes come bounding at a Rate
Preposterous for ninety-eight,
Rhymes that will Safe. See here comes
Slate.
And State, and Skate. and Trait, and
Wait,
Abate, Await. and Animate.
Berate. Rewait, and Corrugate,
And confiscate, Confederate,
AND Dominate, and Desecrate,
And Emulate, m illuminate,
And Granulate, Habilitate,
And 1rrigate, and Joculate.
Besides kinnte, and Liberate.
And Masticate, and Navigate,
Ard Osculate, and Palpitate. 81
Qu~adrifurcate. and Illuminate, a-
And Saturate. and Titilate,
And Undulate. and Vitiate,
And Waterate, Xylopiate,
And Y%ttriate. Zythepserate,
An6-well. that's nearly all. indeed,
That any poet well can need,
But If he's greedy and wants more
The dictionary holds a store.
New York Evening Journal.
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Up With the Emperor.

London Sketch: l heard the other
morning in a railway carriage All
amusing story with regard to English
and German inck-tars that was new to
me. 1t was told of the members of the
crews of the two ships engaged in tho
recent blockade of Crete. These tars
Were engaged in a festal gathering
ashore, and one OF the Germnas pro-
posed the health of his omniscent en-
peror, which was duly drunk in rum
by the assembled party of both nation
%alities. Presently the English bout
swain suggested that the name of her
most gracious majesty should be
toasted with similar honors, but the
tars of the fatherland received the
proposal with Il chilling silence.
Amt YOU going to drink the queens
health?' came the English inquiry.
"Nein, nein," was the Gcrmunic re-
Spouse. NOW, then, boys exclaimed
the boatswain: 81 don't want no UNI
~pleasnntness. but we can't have this,
you know; faint fair. Take yer time
from me: two fingers down yer
throats and up comes the bloomin' en-
peror."
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-01-22
USED The suREElr cuRE.
4 Fathers Experience with 1t as n Rem.
edy for the leo Cream Habit.

when was a youngster," said MI.
Bozzle, Il used to wonder how the con-
fectioners could make any money. 1t.
always seemed to me that the clerks
would eat SO much candy that they
would eat up all the profits. l rcmem-
Der reading or hearing later that this
was not 50; that when a new clerk came
into the store the proprietor would say:
Now, l hope you will eat all the candy
you want; don't hesitate to help your
self at any time, and that the result of
this was that at the end of Il week she
WAS SO sick and tired of candy chat she
hated the sight Of it, and didn't want
any more for year. This, | suppose,
might be called the surfeit cure.
after had grown up and came tc
have a family l remembered this and
thought l might turn the idea to adj
vantage. l had four children and the
amount of money they spent for ice
cal and candy and soda water was
something awful. l thought that by
spending i'll 4 lump enough money to
make them tired of those things | might
in the long run make Il considerable
saving. So l set aside 81, 900 for that
purpose, and one day l said to my old
est child:
"'Tillie, l don't think you and the
children are beginning to have the ice
cream and candy that you ought to
have. l am afraid you think that be.
cause papa isn't very rich you must
skimp yourselves about those things,
but you needn't; you can have all The
money you want forthcm. Here's $50.
Now | wish you would take the chill.
:lren out and get some ice cream and
candy. and whenever that money is
gone just let me know, and Ill give YOU
more
WELT they used up that 81, 900 in about
Ten weeks, and at the end of that time
they were as hungry for ice cream and
candy as ever. l kept up the supply OF
money, was like the gambler who
keeps OH playing after he has lost a lot,
in the hope that his luck will turn. |
thought they might reach the surfcitins
point at any minute, and it seemed too
bad 10 make u dead loss of the money
already invested, when perhaps the ex.
penditure of Il few dollars more would
accomplish the desired result; so | have
kept on. Bat the children's appetite
ior ice cream and candy seems actually
10 increase. They tell me | am so good:
and that, Of course. is something like
TO see them happy; BIZ meanwhile my
hard-carned money is netting away,
and l am inclined to think that the
,urfeit cure is u dclusion, If not a snare.s
N. \. SIN.
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His Final Call.

Minneapolis Tribune: There is a
certain Young man in this city belong
ing to the 400 who does not call on a
certain young lady of his set any more
and the hired girl question is at the
bottom of the trouble. NThe young
man and three companions, in their eff
forts to add to their fund Of worldly
knowledge, attended one of the dances
where the domestic help We're wont to
.ongregate on Saturday nights, and
they had a very delightful time. The
young man in question paid marked
attention to Il petite young lady, but
pleaded Il previous engagement when
the time to escort the young ladies
home arrived. The other evening, in
CHANGING over his list of engagements,
he discovered that it was about time
to return a party call due a young
lady. and started out to fulfill his en-
gagcment. He arrived at the house
and rang the bell. The door was
opened by the maid, who looked at the
young man for a minute, and then
said:
Good gracious, you must not come
to the front door to see me; the help
must receive their company at the
back door"
1t was the petite young lady of the
servants tall, and the young man fell
Of the steps in his hurry to leave, and
this Is the reason why n certain young
man calls no more. on a certain young
lady.
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Ordering Nursery stock,

To make sure that an order can be
filled it should be sent in at rs early a
date as possible. 1t is best 10 order for
spring delivery now. The order will
be filled, and the rule in all nurseries
is first come first served. In the north
all nurserymen take up their out CT
door stock early, and hill it in so as to be
able to fill orders from the south during
the winter season. This is really much
better than taking stock from nursery
rows. When the trees are hilled in and
properly protected from frost their
roots will begin 20 start before winter
Is over, and they can be planted much
more safely than stock recently dug
American Cultivato:.
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slowly, then, after q pause, he began 10
struggle to his feet .'Come," he said, i've
will go and meet tifm.n
AS 1t Is but Q sttort way, u.cis, conld
you get on without s1ei l have never an
swered madame-I mean Mrs. Flelden's
last letter. pfd i should like to do so this
afternoon"
$50 do.lmy deurie, so do. I'll lust gang
3 bit down the road. May be Illmet Ken.
neth.'
Mona escaped as quickly as she could to
her own pleasant room. from the window
If which she could catch a glimpse of the
sen between two hills, and having hastily
put out her writing materials, she sat
down, leaned her head on both hands, her
elbows resting on the table, and fell into
profc nd and painful thought.
Her uncle's words had suddenly barred
The recesses of her heart. and Ia! there lay
an unsupported root of pain and mischief.
That Mary was completely guarded by
aer warm attachment to Kenneth, Mona
lid not doubt. That Warning admired her
VAS possible, but she did not believe 1t was
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-01-22
+. Relic of George Washington.

Chicago News: In a store on the West
Side is a curious old stove, said to have
belonged to George Washington and af-
terward presented to Christ church in
Alexandria, Va. 1t is q solidly built ar
rangement, about six feet high, capped by
an American eagle cast in iron. The foun-
dation is square and massive, with four
stout legs. rather fancifully wrought. The
stove is square, %slanting upward almost
to n point. In 1t at its base arc two OPEN
ings, and these appear to be the only
doors. There seems to be no receptacle
for ashes. and one is left to speculate upon
how our digniied George started the fire
In the morning when the weather was
cold. and how, if the thing did not draw"
did he vent his Ill humor at its contrari-
ness. when there We're no doors to slam
nor to kick shut.
Above the tapering square part is a cor
rugated columl., a foot high, and upon
this rests the eagle, with outstretched
wings. Each side of the stove is artistic
ally decorated with the figure of Il wo-
man In iron and raised from the stove, es
In a cameo effect.
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A Good Dictionary for Two Cents.

A Good Dictionary o rTwO Cents.
A dictionary containing the definitions
If 10000 of the most useful and import
INT words in the English language is
published by the DR.. Williams Medicine
Co., Schenectady, N. Y. While it contains
Tome advertising, it is a complete diction-
Try, concise and correct.
In compiling this book care has been
taken to omit none of those common
words whose spelling or exact use occa-
tions at times n monentary difficulty,
wen to well educated people. The main
aim has been to give rs much useful in
formation as possible in a limited space.
With this in view, where noun, adjective
md verb are all obviously connected in
meaning, usually one only has been in
serted. The volume will thus be found to
contain the meaning of very nan more
words than it processes to explain.
10 those who already have n diction-
airy. this book will commend itself be-
rnuse it is compact, light and convenient:
to those who have no dictionary what
ever, it will be invaluable. One may be
secured by writing to the above concern,
mentioning this paper, and enclosing a
twO-ccnt stamp.
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ANTHRACITE WAS A NEW THING.
Hot Stones" That Caused Much
Anxiety.

a. Anxiety.
In 1925 the Rev. Charles Brooks was
pastor of n church in bingham, Mass.
tie had read accounts of Il new fuel
called Lehigh coal and having n mind to
Try it ordered a ton from Boston, to.
gether with a stove in which to burn it.
The coal was shipped by packet and
was examined with the l%ivcliest curios-
ity by the passengers. Not one of them,
we may suppose. had ever before seen
a piece. An account of its adventures
was written by MI. Brooks long after.
ward and is quoted in a recent history
of the town.
After handling the coal and guessing
as to its properties, the passengers de-
termined to burn some of it in the open
cabin fireplace. They took three or
four pieces and put them on the live
Goals of the wood fire and expected them
to bluzc.
Fifteen minutes passed and the coal
was as black as ever and almost as cold.
The bellows were brought; another piece
was pressed into service; two strong
young men did the blowing; but the coal
remained black.
One and another of the twenty pas.
sengers proposed some new way of 10.
hitting the queer stuff and yet there was
not the slightest sign Of success; and
when the packet reached the wharf, the
three or four pieces of coal were as far
from taking fire as ever.
The matter became town talk and the
minister's new fuel was voted n laugh
able failure. "If those pieces of irresisti-
Bile Lehigh had been saved" writes MI.
Brooks, Il should certainly put them in
to the Cambridge museum"
On the next Monday morningthe tin
MAJ came with some pieces of funnel,
the new stove was set up aud the fire
was made. Shavings. charcoal, tho
Lehigh and then a match and the thing
was done.
an n hour" says the parson. IL
had my stove full Of ignited coal and l
kept it r%eplenished a week without its
going out. The news spread and I
mad visitors enough; and such laughable
EXPLANATIONS and raw wonder as my ex.
pertinent elected were truly refreshing
to me. .
One anxious friend said: Those red
not stones may give out some heat but |
am afraid they will set fire to your
house. Another said: We shall not
sleep c%ontentedly while we know you
have such a fire going all night!"
But Mr.. Brooks survived what he calls
his "fiery trials" aud the "red hot
stones" soon burned themselves into
popularity.
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Kansas, 1sp7,

hHZaEaL wHEEnLtHe
Just A-faulin' out the stufs &s5
From the plains o. kensns.
Railroads can't get cars enough
Fur to empty Kansas
0rt to see the farmers grin.
stroke the llacs on their chin,
AS h cash comes rolin' in,
Over there in Kansas,
Women sins!n' songs o. glee,
Bout oil fruitful Kansas,
Babies crewin' merr!ly
Everywhere in Kansas.
Purity girls a-buyin' clothes.
Toggtn' out from head to toes.
style? You bet your life she goes.
Over there In Kansas.
When. the cares o. dag ssdone,
On the plains o. Kansas,
And the kids begin to yawn,
~Sleepy-iike in Kansas.
Farmer wipes his glasses blurred,
Reads a chapter o. the Word,
Then he kneels down and thanks the
Lord
That he lives In Kansas.
The Philistine.
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SPUR PRUNING.

young cancs tiedtothe lower wires and
G and D cut to two eyes. In this way
one season canes are grown for the next
years fruiting, which are then cut back,
to be succeeded by canes of the same
years growth. The whole vine about
the lower wire is THUS kept entirely of
young wood, care being taken not to
allow the shoots to become too numer-
Gus, and any gnarled stump being cut
out and renewed with n fresh shoot.
The original Guyot plan, showr in No.
l, vast to keep the one horizontal branch,
e, awhile to spur on, and shorten up and
spur alternately the upright branch
at B.-Farm and Home.