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Fumicatlng an Orchard.

The only remedy which is absolute
ly effective for all kinds OF scale is that
of fumigation. This was first prac-
ticed in California in the citrus belt to
check the ravages of the cottony cush-
ion scale and the red scale. Hydro
cyanic acid gas proved most effective
and is now used almost exclusively.
G. W. Woodworth, in bulletin 122
of the California Experiment Station,
describes in detail the process of fu'
migating trees in an orchard. Briefly,
it consists in covering the trees with
some sort of tent, generating the gas
and allowing it to remain until the
scales have been destroyed.
The tent generally used is what is
known as a hoop tent and ranges from
eight to fourteen feet in diameter.
The hoop itself is of three-quarter.
inch gas pipe, but half inch will do fol
smaller sizes. The manipulation oj
the tent varies according to its size.
If the trees are small, it can be easily
thrown over tree, put in place and
then taken off. If the trees are of con-
siderable size some effort will be re.
quired. In the illustration the method
of changing from one tree to anothe,
is shown. After the fumigation is
completed, the hoop is lifted until il
is in the position shown at b. Two
men, holding the sides of the tent,
carry it to the next tree and place it II
the position shown at c. Then, with.
out pausing, and while the tent is full!
of air, the upper end of the hoop is
forced over the tree and down the
other side to about d. The hoop can
then :be easily pulled down to the
ground to e. If there is any trouble
10 pulling over the cloth, the third mar
with the pole goes round the tent and
lifts the cloth away from the tree, re-
lieving some of the friction and enab'
ling it to adjust ltcelf to the top.
Common duck is used for making the
tents, most of them being of eight
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Effects Of Feed on Eggs.

Anyone who has observed eggs
closely has noticed that some eggs
have what poultrymen call greater
consistency than others. That is, out
of dozen eggs bought at Gtore half
will have whites and yolks so thin
that they will spread out thin and
wide and be almost fiat.
This is the effect of the feed given
the hens producing the eggs. Hens
that are fed on milk and grass and
allowed to pick up their living about
the manure pile produces eggs with
thin yolks and whites, and these eggs
are invariably insipid and tasteless,
and when boiled or poached are not
exactly appetizing. There is flaw or
about such eggs that is not altogeth er
pleasant in any case and often it is
positively repulsive to one who under
stands that this flavor comes from
eating impure food.
Take lot of hens and feed them
milk and grain and their eggs are firm
and consistent, and they have flavor
that makes them relished by the most
fastidious. The grain furnishes the
mineral constituents and.the albumin
ous portion, in connection with the
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

They also serve who only stand and
wait.-Milton.
The man who pardons easily courts
lniury.-Corneille.
The best teacher one can have is
observation-disclosures.
Good manners and good morals are
sworn friends and fast allies.-Bartol.
To be good and disagreeable is high
treason against the royalty of virtue.
Hannah More.
It is not the place that maketh the
person, but the person that maketh
The place honorable.-Cicero.
The opportunity to do mischief is
found a hundred times a day, and
that of doing good but once year.-
Voltaire.
The conditions of conquest are al
ways easy. We have but to toll
while, endure a while, believe always
and never turn back .-Simms.
So remarkably perverse is the ma
ture of man that he despises those
that court him, and admires whoever
will not bend before him. -Thucydi.
ies.
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike
those of the body. they are increaeed
by repetition, approved by reflection,
and strengthened by enjoyment
Cotton.
Much ostentation and much learn
ing are seldom met together. The
sun, rising and declining, makes long
shadows; at midday, when he is high
est, not at all.-BiJhop Hall.
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Virtues of Buttermilk.

The growing practice of utilizing
the waste products Of all manufac-
lures has brought out the fact that
huttermilk possesses many unsuspect-
I'd qualities. A medical paper says
its reputation as ON agent of superior
digestibility has become firmly estab-
lished. 1t is, indeed, "a true milk pep
tone-that is, milk already partially
digested, the coagulatioa of the
coagulated portion being loose and
faky and not of that firm, indigesti-
BILE nature which is the result of the
action of the gastric juice upon sweet
cows milk. It is of great value in
the treatment of typhoid fever, and,
being decided laxative, it may be
turned to advantage in the treatment
of habitual constipation. 1t is no
less valuable in kidney troubles, from
its diuretic qualities. 1t is in great
request for the treatment Of diabetes,
either alone or alternately with skim
milk, and in cases of gastric ulcer and
cancer of the stomach it can often be
retained when no other food can.
Chemical analysis shows that in its
nature it greatly resembles koumiss.
with the exception of which it is the
most grateful, refreshing and digesti-
bic Of the products of milk.-Eastern
Farmer.
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a part of this clover is pastured or
mown for hay, such will bloom the
second time, and continue in bic ON
until after hard frosts. have seen
bees working on this bloom in o.
tober, writes F. A. Smell in Bee
Culture, when all other honey-yield-
ing plants were killed with one ex-
ception, that being giant white-spiral
mignonette, which is sometimes
grown in flower gardens.
Sweet clover stands drought we'll,
but gives better yield of honey and
pasture with frequent showers. The
honey is light in color, but, to my
taste, not of as fine a flavor as that
from white or alsike clorers or bass
wood. In the dry regions of the
West. sweet clover and alfalfa have
proved valuable plants for bees and
stock. The hay is largely fed to
stock. Here cattle pasture ON it
freely, and the hay has seemed to
give good satisfaction, as stock soon
learn to like it.
This plant should be grown in all
waste places, and thus take the place
of the noxious weeds which grow
there.
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Astor Earning Unpopularity.

William Waldorf Astor seems to be
grievously oblivious of the character.
istic adherence of the English people
to ancient customs and privileges, and
is, in consequence, in bad repute with
the tenantry in the vicinity of his es'
tate at Cliveden. For centuries they
have been accustomed to indulge in
.makings and 'picni,s on the
Cliveden ground, but the queens new
subject has barred them from the
premises. Mr.. Astor could scarcely
have adopted more effective means by
which to render himself unpopular
with his neighbors.-Philadelp
Record.
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ounce canvas. After the tent is made,
it is rendered gastight by one of three
methods. The first is coating it with
thoroughly boiled linseed oil, applied
with brush until the entire cloth be
comes saturated. If properly done,
the tent remains strong and tight and
is not too stiff. The second method
is the use of sizing and paint. The
sizing is applied in the same manner
as oil, and penetrates the fiber in the
same way. AS soon as this coating is
dried, it is followed by a coating ot
flexible paint, usually on both sides oi
! the tent. The third method is to satu'
rate the cloth with a decoction oil
chopped leaves of common prickly
pear cactus. This is made by filing a
barrel two-thirds full of chopped stems
and adding cold water until the barrel
is nearly full. Allow the stems to soak
for twenty-four hours and then draw
off the solution, which is ready for
use. Tents treated in this way are
liable to mold, but by adding TO tho
solution a little tannin this is pre-.
vented. Soak the tent in the solution
over night and then raise in the morn
ing and allow to dry. The cloth is
scarcely stiffened and seems to be very
satisfactory. Potassium cyanide, in
on earthen vessel, is introduced under
the end of the tent, sulphuric acid is
added, and the hydrocyanic gas is gen
erated. The amount of cyanide will
vary with the size of the tree. A tree
four feet high, three feet in diameter,
will require two ounces Of dry cyanide,
one-third ounce acid and half ounce
water. If the tree is seven feet high
and four feet in diameter, use one
ounce Of cyanide, nne-half ounce acid
and two ounces of water, and so on in
proportion. Forty minutes are re.
quirel for the gas to do its work ef-
fectively. The fumigation is best done
at night. The gas is deadly poison,
and great care must be used when fu-
migating. American s.Agriculturist.
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Tha YiiaI Need of Coal.

The industries by which markets
are supplied and the communications,
land or sea, by which these markets
ere reached, have, since 1916, come
to depend more and more upon COAL
The twentieth century will see q
marked increase in the prize OF the
coal of the United Kingdom. OF Euro
pean Powers Russia has by far the
greatest reserve OF coal. India, Aus
tria, and South Africa will come to
the aid of the British Empire; but the
United States must becomethe centre
of the worlds coal supply, to be, IN
the far future, perhaps supplanted by
China and Japan. How these changes
will affect the relative sea-power OF
nations it would be rash to attempt to
predict.- Century Review.
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oermans IlRe Baar,s Flesn,

Lion flesh is said to be very good
sating, but tiger is tough and sinewy.
Nevertheless, the latter is eaten In
India, as there is a superstition that
i imparts strength and cunning to the
,ater. Bears flesh is great favorite
In Germany, and smoked tongues and
hams are considered great delicacies.
On account of the rarity of Bruin
ihey are expensive. Sausage-so dear
to the Teutonic heart and stomach
Is also made from bear liver; twenty
Eve pounds of sausage can be made
from single liver.
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AN oeJEcT.LEssoN IN WEALTH,
how an American Girl is Teaching tho
French the Magic Power OF Fortune.

bow an American Girl is Teaching tho
French the Magic Power OF Fortune.
Parisians had heard of the late Jay
Gould and his high-piled millions Of
money, but for the past two years they
have been receiving special object
lesson on the power of wealth in new
world hands, in the effort of his
daughter, the Countess de Castellane,
to reproduce in Paris the palace of the
Grand Trianon, as built by the French
Kings at Versailles more than two cen.
turies ago. Three-quarters Of an acre
of land was bought at the intersection
of the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne
and the Avenue Malakoff, at an ex-
pense of close to q million of dollars.
this being the most costly residential
site in Paris. Public interest has
been made keen by the announcement
that while the exterior would hold true
to the fourteenth century, the IN
terror was to be blending of the
fourteenth and fifteenth periods, if
the Gould millions and the cunning
of the French architects could COM
pass this unique desire. The revival
of two historic periods in French archi-
tectural history was so remarkable
an undertaking that from its begin
ming the progress of this house has
been followed with such a wide in
terest as has been given to few purely
private building projects. In May tho
family was occupying the central por.
tion, but the interior decoration of
the two wings probably cannot be
completed in less than two years more.
When it became known such maison
was to be attempted many of the
French said it would take twenty
years to build and furnish with art
treasures; but Western enterprise and
local ingenuity promise it's completion
in fifth of the time. The property
will then have cost thirty millions Of
francs, or six millions of dollars. Both
the Count and Countess are collectors
of rare art works and bric-a-brac, and
in single year, it is said, they ex-
pended million of dollars in pur-
,hases for their new residence. When
the matter of ceilings was being ar
ranged for the Castellanes went to
italy and sought the splendid palace
Of Verona. They did not want the
palace, but coveted the eleven cell
ings it contained from the brush of
Tiepolo, and these could be secured
only by the purchase of the old struc-
;ure. e.-Edward Page CASTOR, in the
Woman's Home Companion.
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The Real Culprit.
slE5l352zlD1

A youthful graduate Of the Harvard
Law School went out West and opened
m Office in a small frontier town. His
first client was a man accused Of steal
ing horse. The case came to trial
before an old judge and a jury COM
posed of hewhiskered ranchers, and,
though there was no doubt of the
guilt of the defendant, he had regi-
ment of friends who swore he was
forty miles away when the horse was
stolen. This evidence the prosecu:.
ton was unable to break down, and
the young lawer plumed himself on a
certsin acquittal. The jury retired,
and tive minutes later came back into
court.
:Have you agreed on a verdict?'
asked the judge.
"We have" answered the foreman,
as he shifted gun he carried on his
hip. ''We find the defendant not
guilty, an recommend the defendants
lawyer, OWN to his youth an inno-
cence, to the mercy Of the court. -
New York Tribune.
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One Of ScotL's Heroines.

"Jeanie Deans" the heroine oi
Scott's novel, 'The Heart of Mid.
lothian" was in real life named Helen
Walker. The incidents related in re-
gard to the trial and conviction of her
sister we're true in every detail, and
it was only by the efforts of Helen
Walker in circulating a petition for
her sisters pardon that the latter's
life was saved. Sir Walter Scott
erected a tombstone to Helen Walker g
memory in the churchyard of Iron.
gray, with an inscription expressing
bis appreciation of her virtues
Ladies' Home Journal.
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Uainp Natural Gas In England.

A correspondent states that at last
The natural gas at Heathfeld, Sussex,
has been put to practical use. The
railway station has been lighted with
it, after experiments with various
burners. This new application has
aroused good deal of interest in sci
entifc circles, and several natural
history societies have visited the place
and inspected the new arrangement.
O. Dawson, F. G. s., who has visited
the place and made an inspection,
says it is, in his opinion, the first
time practical use has been made of
natural gas in Europe. e.-London 7 Tele-
graph.
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Anew Southern resort of surprising beauty
is the Isle Of Palms, about six miles from
Charleston, S. c., reached by the Southern
Railway to Charleston, and the Consolidated
Traction Company from Charleston, through
Sullivan Island.
The Isle of Palms is an island upon which
nature has lavished her most precious gifts.
The foliage is of tropical richness, while the
warm waters Of the Gulf Stream beat upon
one of the finest Atlantic Coast surf bathing
beaches.
A splendid pavilion of great size has been
erected, which will be enclosed by glass in
winter, making the most unique sun parlors
in the South. The military band from the
fort gives attractive concerts daily. new
hotel has also been built, called THE Isle OF
Palms, which compares most favorably with
the hest hotels in the world. 1t has over four
hundred rooms the service is rerfect tho
cuisine unsurpassed. 1t is open all the year.
Full particulars Of Alex. S. Thweatt, East
srn Passenger Agent, 21 Broaaway, New ork.
The strength Of two horses equals that OF
fifteen men.
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A Hint in Case OF Fire.

Fire always goes to the top Of large
buildings, and for this reason it is
better not to 90 to the roof, unless as
last resort. Firemen urge persons
not to jump, even if the blaze is
scorching-in case the fremen have
begun to scale the building. If it is
necessary to go through the flames
never do so without first gauging the
distance and covering the head with
a blanket, or some heavy cloth. Hun
dreds of people lose their lives be-
cause they first lose their heads.
Above all things, keep cool.
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milk, and the combination is one that
makes good eggs. Hens fed ex-
clusively on grain do not produce
eggs of the best flavor, but their eggs
are infinitely better than those from
hens that must depend altogether on
themselves for their living.
The quality of eggs depends alto
gether on the feed the hens eat, and
where this is understood, consistent
eggs are valued as being worth twice
as much as those lacking consistency.
Pomona Herald.
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Gueer Companions.

The Kennebeo (Me.) Journal tells
of man who has fox and a hound
that are boon companions. When
both animals were in the pup stage
they we're placed together, and have
now enjoyed year of each other 8 So
ciety in peace and harmony. They
sleep together and play with each
other much after the manner OF two
frolicsome pups.
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KILLED the Flock For an Earring.

A farmers wife near Wellington,
Mo-, while feeding chickens recently,
dropped an earring, which was quick
" gobbled up by one of the fowls.
She could not pick ou. the particular
chicken, so killed them one by one
twenty. seven in all-but failed to ind
the earring. Then she began to look
around and found it in the grass,
whore the old hen had dropped it.
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Sweet Clover For Bees,

This clover is one that yields a
large amount of honey. 1t begins to
bloom in this latitude in the early
part of July, usually; some seasons q
little earlier, others little later. By
the time white and alsike clover and
Eastwood are going out of bloom,
sweet clover is well out in bloom, and
where abundant a continuous bloom
will be had for securing surplus
honey of two months or more. When
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Governor Sayers, of Texas, Is one OF t
champion golf players OF that State.
HOW,S This J

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F.J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, @.
We. the undersigned, have known F. j. Che
ney for the last Is years, and believe him per-
fectly honorable in all business TRANSACTIONS
and financially able to carry out any oblisa-
ton made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
WALDING. KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price. &C. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
! FARM and GARDEN.
Preparing Poultry For Market.

Dressed fowls should always look
nice and plump and should be packed
in nice clean linen. Plumpness ap.
peals to the appetite and neatness in
spires confidence, both being points
worth looking after to buildup first
class dressed poultry trade.
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Worse Than the Dumduin.

The British Government is now
manufacturing q new bullet which is
even more deadly than the dumdum.
The new projectile has soft metal
point, which expands with the friction
of flight.
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Adv,ce That Nav Prove Useful

Advice That May Prove Useful.
A Quaker's advice to son on his
wedding day: "When thee went
accounting I told thee to keep thy eye.
wide open. Now that thee is married,
T tell thee to keep them half shut"
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Beauty II Blood Deep.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
tic clean your ttood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm.
purities from the body; Begin, to-day to
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug.
.gists, satisfaction guaranteed, lG,, Csc, SOC.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, educes infiamma-
lion. allays main, cures wind collie CSC. q bottle
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Attention is called to the adv. ofthe Stock
Exchange firm OF Messrs. Muir 4 Powell,
appearing in another column of this paper.
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Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic. cure constipation forever.
i0c, 25c. II c. C. c. fail, druggists refund money.
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The number OF Buddhists Is computed to
be 455, ,000, 900.
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A New Southern Resort.

In a New England factory women are
smployed as piano makers.
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As switchmeu, women are employed by
several Western railroads.
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In Italy 100000 people find employment
in raising silkworms.
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Mrs. John J. Ingalls, Is famed throughout
Kansas for her blackberry jam.
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No.To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong blood pure. SOC, 81. All druggists
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There are 1904 pianos in Chicago,
or only one for every 800 inhabitants.
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Consulting fashion expert is st. Louis
woman's occupation.
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To introduce Findley's Eye $'alve I will
send by mail absolutely FREE 25 cent box
to any one writing me postal card giving
name and address. It cures sore ewes at
once. Address J p. .HAYTER, Decatur, Texas.
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Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away

To quit tobacco easily and forever De mag
netic. full Of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To.
Bac, the wonder.worber. that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure guaran'
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York
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AhSnlnfelY Free.

The Church OF Scotland, has forty-nlne
mission schools In India, with 5000 pupils.
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wehave not been without Piso's Cure for
Consumption for 20 years.-LlzzIE FERREL,
Comn Ct Harrishurp Pa Nav 4, 1884.
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There are 635 professional guides in the
Tyrolese Mountains.
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. About one German woman In every
twenty.seven works in factory.