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COMMERCIAL. ORCHARDS.
0Usi1ess Principles They Ares :.
Paying InvestneAt. ~

There are two causes that probably
more than all other things have made
apple growing in different localities
seem Improbable. One is the failure
to grow sufficiently large acreage to
sell to 5the best advantage. To give
the shipper a profit apples must be
handled in large quantities-not less
than carloads, and several carloads
make it still better. srz~ -
Buyers will go into, any locality
where several carloads can be pur-
chased and will pay fair prices for
good fruit. A little investigation will
usually show that where prices are
very low either the quantity was such
that carload could not be secured or
there was such a large number of va
rieties as to spoil the sale. Here is
where many have made mistake.
They have planted a sufficient acreage
to supply sufficient quantity, but at
the same time planted such a large
number of varieties as to spoil the
sale.
AS in other lines of farming and fruit
growing we are learning by expert
ence, and it is proposed now to form
fruit7growing associations. In given
locality a number of farmers form an
organization: and agree to plant SO
many acres each so that in the aggre-
gate several hundred, acres of not
more than three or four varieties will
be planted! A very considerable saw
ing can in this way be made in pur-
chasing the trees; and by meeting and
giving their Experiences the better
plan of setting out; .eultivating, and
caring for can be ascertained.
When the trees come into bearing
they can be sold to much better ad-
vantage, in every way; while by dis
tributing the crop among a consider
able number of farmers the risk of
serious loss is reduced to minimum.
Where this plan has been tried good
profits have peen realized. One man
in a locality growing few acres and
especially of mixed varieties could not
under present conditions make large
profit. unless the circumstances were
unusually favorable.-N. J. Shepherd,
in Farmers Voice.
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while the other is open to receive
grain or hay. For older calves that
are hitched in stalls the same plan
is useful. In this case the box in
front could be continuous, having d.
visions as shown in front Of each stall,
with similar openings for the young
sters' heads. The calves could, be tied
to a stanchion' behind the openings.
Such a plan permits leaving pail of
water constantly before the calf, q
desirable feature in the care of young
stock, as they need to drink more
frequently than older animals.-N. Y.
Tribune.
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No Cure for Peach Yellovv,,

Fellows is highly contagious, in
durable disease of the peach. Trees
affected with it should be destroyed at
the earliest possible moment by up
roofing and digging them out and
burning roots, trunk and branches, in
Guiding fruit, on site. No remedy save
that has proven successful. Dragging
diseased trees or branches through an
orchard will infect healthy trees. Late
summer and fall are the most favor
able times for detection of yellows by
symptoms of fruit and twigs. These
are: 1. Premature ripening of the
fruit, which is highly colored and
spotted and has the flesh marbled' wit b
red. 2. Premature unfolding OF win
ter buds. 3. Abnormal development
of new buds in the trunk and
branches, which grow into slender,
sickly- hooking shoots. < -
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importance of Cleanliness

Taints are too often the cause of
low quality in butter and cheese. If a
creamery or cheese factory have in
it's vicinity open bitches containing
stagnant water, the breezes and the
flies will bring into the product of
such place enough of the odor of the
stagnant water to greatly deteriorate
the quality of the goods being made.
Then, too, perhaps taints are blown
from further distance than we are
wont to believe; our nostrils may not
be acute enough to tell us of an that
come in 81 the factory windows. Filth
organisn1s are great consumers of our
profits, and they must be met at the
frontier and kept out of the domains
of the cheese maker and the butter
maker.-farmers' Review. E. a., -
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WORTH KNOWING.


Without staff our little Bonnie
Throwing back kiss to mel,
Unlike many former pilgrims,
Started out br:m full o. glee:
i, am going, don't you follow
Gould catch him if I RAMP
"O'er the hills-I know I'll find him,
Find that funny Echo Man!
For I want to know Just awful
Can you blame me that do?-
When a fellows cross and snappish.
Why he's cross and snappish, too;
While If one is sweet and pleasant.
AS one can be every day,
Mr.. Echo Man Owe tried it,
Has but pleasant things to say"
Their Is need Of no long Journey
For what Bonnie wants to know:
Every day, just now, this minute,
You can quickly prove it so!
Snarl, and every one snarls at you
There's better way by half
Smile, and, like your Echo Neighbor,
Each one gives a jolly laugh!
-Adelbert F. Caldwell, in Good House
keeping,
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Germ you. III take q view Of that $7OO
piano that I shaved and toiled to buy
for you, after you'd begged for it, and
told me that you could just die a-play-
ing the piano, and I'll label that 'Au-
steal instrument which Mrs. Jobson
hasn't touched for two years, four
months and IS days.
'.sThat'll besa highly truthful one,"
said Mrs. Jobson. snow you have five
left"
mo. 8 will be portrait of you wear
ing that $24 hat that you bought the
other day-that plastered over with vio-
lets and hydrangeas and geraniums
and poppies and roses and honeysuckles
and hyacinths and lilies of the valley
and sunfowers and cauliflowers and
chrysanthemums and sweet peas and
pansies and lilacs and other flora and
fauna and things-the hat that looks
like it ought to decorate the head of
little eight-year-old child of the rich
on her way to Sunday school in a
landau automobile, with two French
nurses along with her. I'm going to
label No. 8 Mrs. Jobson in the act Of
trying to convince herself and her hus-
band and the rest that she is real
young"
"Clever idea, that" commented Mrs.
Jobson. "Now, No. 9?''
mo. g." said Mr.. Jobson, scratching
his chin refectively, will portray you
in the act of reading with wide-eyed
avidity that noble chef d'oeuvre, Art
less Artie, or From Chambermaid to
Duchess That'll be labeled Mrs. Job
son engaged in literary pursuits"
mo. 9 will be lovely, too," said Mrs.
Jobson. mo. 10, now, please?"
swell, I might snap you from the
parlor window, as you lean over the
front gate and converse in low, earn
est, passionate tones with that hatch
et-faced woman next door who locks
her husband up in the cellar when he
asks her permission to go down to the
corner to buy newspaper and a cigar,
and I could call that one Mrs. Jobson
in the act of knocking her kind and
loving husband
"Another original idca," said Mrs.
Jobson. "Now for No. III"
mo. II could be view of you in the
act of receiving IS or 20 peddlers and
fakirs down in the basement hall and
buying out everything they had in
their packs, and labeled 'A.rs. Jobson
as an almoner and goou thing"
"And last, but not least" said Mrs.
Jobson, inquiringly.
II haven't got No. ~ charted out
yet," said Mr.. Jobson, ''but it'll be q
fitting climax to the panorama"
Mrs. Jobson had thought that hi
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THE ONE WHO STAYS, At HOME.

The family grows; and some must 20,
Far from the sheltering roof.
; Where high suns burn, or cold winds blow,
To hold the foe aloOf
But while the many forward run.
And great ships go and come,
1e let US sometimes think of one
The one who stays at home.
Stout hearts have they who cross the seas
, And distant perils face,
Who wish to 'scape from deadening ease.
Or scale to higher place.
But valiant, too, is he whose heart,
Like theirs, would breast the foam,
Yet at the old hearth keeps his part
The one who stays at home.
New countries have great fields to reap,
Need young and vigorous brain:
But MOtherland some sons must keep.
To sow and bind her grain.
The old folks. too. need some one, there
They can no farther roam
OF all the flock there's one to spare
The one who stays at home.
Joseph s. Dunn, In N. Y. Independent.
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REBECCA, THE OWL.
Story Of Bird Whose Annual Advent
sees,. IL IN Event In the MouDtains
Of Virginia.

In the mountains of Virginia this
the name o: '.Rebecca." For
many years she has come and gone
with the seasons, built her nest, reared
her young and prophesied for the ben
eft of the people, who hold her in
great veneration. To modest or harm
her in any way would be looked upon
as a punisha BILE offense.
So great is her age that the present
generation remembers when the
grand fathers talked of this wonder.
full bird whose wisdom so far sur
passed their own that when needing
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PRESERVING SEASON.
Suggestion Regarding Putting On
Fruit That Should he Regarded
by Wise Housekeepers.

In putting up fruit see that all the
essentials are on hand before beginning
| work. Don't wait until the fruit is in
the preserving kettle before running
to the corner grocery for sugar. 1t is
economy of time to buy sugar in rs or
50-pound bags, for you will need it right
along, suggests writer in the Wash
ington Star. See that all utensils are
in perfect order, that supply of new
rubber bands is on hand and that the
cans and glasses are as c:ean and sweet
and clear as soap and water can make
them. II every time a can has been
emptied 1t has been carefully washed
and dried and put away with it's own
top screwed on this part of the work
will be greatly simplitied. Yet, even
if cleaned before putting away, they
will need to be scalded just before
using. Have ready small sharp-point-
ed knife for pairing; silver-plated
fruit knife ground to fine edge and
kept expressly for this purpose is best.
Have half pound of paraffin on hand
for covering jellies, several long-han-
oA~A "oOoCA 81 OOuSs q Adu1c, COlduOcr,
a bright tin strainer, a small skewer
or silver nutpick, several large bowls
and platters and a couple of large por-
celain or granite kettles. Never use tin
vessels for cooking fruit, nor yet iron.
Brass, when thoroughly cleaned, is
pleasant to use, but its expense and
the labor necessary to keep it in good
condition preclude it's adoption in the
ordinary kitchen. A plentiful supply
of cheesecloth and towels, and large
1nouthed funnel to use in filing jars
should also be in readiness.
The size of the cans to be used may
depend largely on the size of the fam
lily. For small family the pint-sized
jar is best for nearly everything, TAX
ing pains to select those with wide
mouthed tops. Half-gallon jars will be
found useful for large whole fruits.
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The TOOthache in Summer.

Warm weather is trying enough in
itself without the extra annoyance of
toothache, and it is we'll to have reli-
able remedy at hand. Even the most
troublesome tooth ma = have the pain
almost instantly stopped by the use of
little of the common compound tinct-
ure of benzoin, sold everywhere in the
drug stores. Put few drops on cotton
and place it in, or around the tooth.
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Mice Add to His Wealth.

A man in upper Michigan has novel
source of revenue. While. in his barn
attending to his horse he found rather
mangled two-dollar Canadian bank
note on the floor. It was sent to Otta-
wa and redeemed. A few days later he
found a ten-dollar bill, and later two
five-dollar bills. Since then he finds
bills every three or four days. They
are all chewed or crumpled, and the
theory is that mice are bringing them
from some place in the neighborhood,
perhaps cellar, where they have been
hidden for years. The neighbors are
much agitated for fear the secret hoard
is in their houses, but the finder will
allow no one to enter the barn and
scare away his bonanza mice. 3
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those who came to greet her as an op.
cratic star at the French opera house.
Just before the curtain rose on. the
opening night Mr.. Strakosch, who was
to conduct the opera, appeared in the
greenroom and was amazed to find the
pride of Lammermoor waiting to go
on the stage with her own black tresses
waving down her back. instead of the
pale, corn-colored locks of the Scottish
lassie.
''Why. Addie, what does this mean?"
excitedly inquired the great impresa-
rio.
''That I am going to wear my own
hair tonight" answered the budding
prima donna.
but you must not. 1t is inartistic,
inaccurate, absurd"
"Oh, no, it is not absurd" calmly
responded Patti. my old friends in
New Orleans only know me as black
haired, skinny little Italian, and not as
a golden-crowned Scotch girl. Besides,
I will not disguise myself tonight to
please anyone"
The distracted manager argued, pro-
tested, threatened and cajoled, but
"Addie" stood firmly to her purpose.
A tremendous welcome was accorded
the youthful diva, but the audience
greeted Lucia not as fair-polled bride,
but as their own 'black-haired, skinny
little Italian."-Chicago Chronicle.
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j. Proper Care of Flower Beds.

The plants in flower beds are usually
too thick in the plats. It will be found
Of advantage to give each plant plenty
Of room, and when. the lawn is moved
the short, dry grass may be used fol-
the purpose OF mulching the flower
plants. Give sweet peas wire netting
on which to climb. Pansies will thrive
well in the sun, contrary to the claim
that they must be grown in shady
place. All manure for flowers must be
fine and decomposed. What is known
as compost is better. Some plants will
be destroyed If fresh manure il used
around them
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i COMMON .EARTHWORM.
The Despised Little Wriggler II q
Most Important Factor in the
Economy of Nature.

To see really what sort of fellow
the common earthworm is, first put
him into a bowl of water. He will
soon wriggle' himself free from every
particle of dirt, and you may then
| make him more comfortable on some
dry. smooth surface while you study
the peculiar movements of his.remark-
able body, which consists of series
of segments, or rings, all alike in form,
except at the two ends, the anterior
end tapering to a blunt point, the
hinder end being broadened and fiat
| tened.
Watch the worm shorten himself
after long Stretch. Projecting from
the sides and the lower part of each
ring, you will see the tiny bristles,
called setae; with which he manages
to walk. When he lengthens his body,
the setae on the hinder rings prevent
him from stretching backward, be-
cause they in pointing backward stick
into the ground. The worm can there
fore stretch only forward. In the
same manner, when he shortens his
body, the setae in the front rings.
sticks into the ground, and the hinder
part of the body is drawn up; he re-
peats this process every time he moves
along.
That way of walking may seem very
complicated and wonderful. but it is
no more wonderful than that you
should be able to balance your body
on your two feet and walk without
giving thought to how you do it.
or how wonderful it is that it can
be done without thought. Watch a
baby's efforts to keep his balance in
learning to toddle only few steps,
and you will understand that walking
seems easy to you because you have
had so much practice.
The usefulness of the worms may
be seen at once when you compare
some Of the things that they do with
those that>they are unjustly accused
of doing. They do not destroy the
roots of trees and plants. They eat
half-decayed leaves, which they are
able to grind with the muscles of the
mouth; but they have no teeth with
which to gnaw.s They are useful to
man in boring through the ground and
loosening the soil to make it ready
for the fibers of plants to enter. Sur
face soil is more or less loose, but the
subsoil is hard and compact until the
earthworms have worked it. Our tall
est trees even, would soon die if no
opening were made by the worms for
their root 6bers to enter.
TO keep wormSlife in check nature
has provided The. birds, and anyone
who has watched the robin dine will
see that there IS no danger of the
earthworm supplies exceeding the de-
mand.-Our Animal Friends.
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WIVES OF PRESIDENTS.
ing American Women Who Have
Ruled the White House,

OF mistresses of the white house one
OF the most popular was Mrs. James X.
Polk. Like Mrs. Cleveland, she was
brunette, and of fine presence; it was
often remarked that not a crowned
head in Europe could queen it more
royalty than the wife of the republican
president. Poets penned verses in her
honor, and on the last Sunday of her
stay in Washington a clergyman ad-
dressed her from the pulpit. She was
treated with great distinction, and aft
er leaving the white house was visited
every New Years day by the legislature
in body.
Mrs. George Washington also had
dark hazel eyes and brown hair. She
was not beauty, but she had good
form, rather below middle weight, and
her manners were frank and engaging.
She dressed plainly, and at ball given
in her honor she wore simple ,russet
gown and white handkerchief about
her neck. One of her dresses, which she
herself manufactured, was of cotton,
striped with silk, which she obtained
from rawlings of brown silk stockings
and old crimson chair covers.
Mrs. Monroe was considered beauty.
She was tall and gracefully formed,
polished and attractive in society. Mrs.
John Adams was never beautiful. but
she was of imposing appearance and
very intellectual.
Mrs. John Quincy Adams was famed
for her charming manners, and Mrs.
Andrew Jackson for her amiable tenn
per and kind heart. Mrs. Martin Van
Buren,. who died before her husband be-
came president, was pretty woman.
with modest, unassuming manners and
gentle disposition.
The first Mrs. Tyler was one of the
bellies of eastern Virginia, and was most
attractive in her striking loneliness of
person and character. The second Mrs.
Tyler was the first woman to marry a
president. Before her marriage she
was. for the one season she spent there,
the belle of Washington.
A sparkling brunette was Mrs. Will
liam Henry Harrison. She was very
handsome, with face full of ANNA
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was speaking satirically. But he
wasn't. Mr.. Jobson took snapshots of
Mrs. Jobson from time to time, when
she was looking at her worst, and be-
fore she could fly the merciless eye OF
the camera, and he grinned sar-
donieally every time the instrument
clicked and one more film was added
to his collection. He took the final
snapshot of the dozen one morning
last week, and in the evening he
brought home an armful of gear and
chemicals wherewith to transform the
bathroom into Photographic dark
room. He spent four hours rigging up
his apparatus, and then, with an ex-
preston of intense amusement on his
features, he took the camera and dis
appeared within the darkroom to de-
velop the films. Two minutes later
Mrs. Jobson heard torrent of re-
marks such as she had read of in con-
nection with pirates and the army in
Flanders, and Mr.. Jobson burst out of
the bathroom with his hair tousled
and an expression Of deep wrath.
"Arent they good?" she asked him.
Mr.. Jobson stood before her chair
and shook his finger at her.
Madam" he said, II desire to know
the exact date upon which you re-
moved the films from my camera. The
information is essential for use in the
papers which shall have drawn up
tomorrow morning.
The papers have not been drawn up
yet, and the dozen snapshot portraits
of Mrs. Jobson, tied together with
pink or any other color of ribbon, do
not adorn the mantelpiece in the Job
son Observation-Disclosures Star.
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Cess 1a,.s 8 for manner:

A building contractor having heard
that his men did not start work as
promptly as they should, thought he
would drop around some morning and
see. &As he came to the building in
course of erection he saw a man with
his hands in his pockets, smoking, while
ascarpenter.s kit,sunopened, lay at his
feet: Simply asking His name, which
he found to be Henry Thompson, the
angry contractor counted out four
days pay, gave it to the man and or
dered him to leave at once. Then the
contractor went to the foreman and
told how he had made an example of
Thompson for loafng. 'What!" ex.
iclaiamedg The 14reman. "Why, that
man Thompson was only looking for
iOb!"
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ton, and her health, which was robust
added glow to her features, which in
creased her charms. 'Upon her coun
tenance," it is recorded, mature had
been profusely LIBERAL
Mrs. Thomas Jefferson was remark
able for her beauty. Her complexion
was brilliant; her large, expressive eyes
of 1.-THE richest tinge of auburn" Alittle
above medium weight, she was slightly
and delicately formed. She danced
sang, played the spinnet and harpsi'
chord and rode with great skill.
Mrs. James Madison was pretty
buxom woman, with smile and pleas.
ant word for everyone. She had regu.
lar features and sparkling eyes.
Mrs. Zachary Taylor was quiet
woman, but had great strength of char.
acter and the true spirit of the Amer.
lean heroine, enduring patiently priva.
ton incident to life on the frontier,
where her husband, as Maj. Taylor, was
stationed. She had no ambition beyond
making her home happy.
A blond of rare beauty was Mrs. Mil
lard Fillmore, with skin of dazzling
whiteness and auburn hair. She was
quite tall, with fine figure and of com.
manding presence. She is ranked with
the wives of the two Adamses as a
learned woman, and it was through her
that her husband asked for and oh.
tanned an appropriation of congress to
buy books for the white house. Up to
that time there had been Bible there,
and little more.
Another woman of rare beauty was
Mrs. Franklin Pierce. She also had
many accomplishments. She was very
refined and quiet, stunning society.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln as a girl was
very attractive and she had many suit
ors. When she became the mistress
of the white house she was "fair and
forty" That she was the successor of
the popular and accomplished Miss
Lane was not point in her favor. At
the first levee she appeared in pink
silk, decollete, short-sleeved dress and
a floral headdress, which ran down to
her waist and destroyed what comeli-
ness simplicity might have given her.
Mrs. Andrew Jackson possessed the
beauty of face and form which rem
dered her mother one of the most beau
tiful of women. Mrs. Grant was a
blond of delicate figure, rather below
middle stature. Mrs. Hayes was of very
attractive appearance. Mrs. Garfield
was noted for her tact, and her hus-
band once said that he never had to ex-
pain away any words of his wife.
Mrs. Arthur, who died before her hus-
band became president, was known as
"the beautiful Miss Herndon with the
marvellous voice" before her marriage.
Mrs. Harrison was fair as girl and
possessed the blond style of beauty,
which also belongs to Mrs. Mckinley
4. Y. Sun.
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Healthful and Delicious.

A most healthful dish is hasty pud-
ding. 1t is made by mixing enough
water with a pint of Indian meal to
take out all the Jumps. Add the mix
ture, tablespoonful aa>a time, to q
quart of water, kept at boiling point.
When this has been thoroughly dis
solved, add a sufficient quantity Of
dry meal to thicken, season with salt
and serve.