fQjECTHE FARMER Blue grass will bear pasturing THE HOUSEHOLD. time and labor in getting off when f^llPll^stinct of Mine Eats, lightly earlier than almost any other fc first opened, do not put it on again t/fg ft—•— As the work of mining advances in grass. Its roots lie near the surface, even lightly, because the probabilities Pointers for Farmers. and are quickly started into growth the great coal mines, says a Scanton NEWULM MINN Oil cloths will last longer if one or are it will always make trouble. Instead, Oil the bearings of the mower often' in the Spring if the land is^rich MANUFACTURER *0F (Pa.) correspondent of the New York tie apiece of thick paper over asiaga few drops of oil each time. two layers of wadded carpet lining FINEJI GARS. enough. For this season too they the can it will answer the purpose of Times, the collapse of the workings Every time you btop to oil the ma^hmo are laid under them. are more easily reached by light the tin cover in keeping out the air en,st a glance around to see that becomes more frequent, more extensive, showers. Later in the season it mav and dust, and one is sure it can be the bolts and pins and nuts are all and more fatal. After all the To remove wagon grease from suffer from drought, but hardly more quickly removed. jinen or cotton, soak in lard and rub coal has been removed then the coal so than other grasses and clovers w»n in well, then wash in warm soapsuds. pillars left to support the roof are that strike into the subsoil and thoroughly ^-Special brands made to order. The best covering for books is Broodsthat are being weaned by ». 5 A-* mined away, and this is called "robbing exhaustits moisture long before To remove milldew, rub common made of American leather or glazed *he mother hen, require watching for the Summer drought has come. the pillars," and this is an extremely yellow soap on the article, then sift lining. The materials can be purchased a few evenings lest they crowd into hazardous undertaking. I WM. FBANK. JOHN BBNTZIN. %434 starch on that, rub well, and place in in nice dark colors. They oeighboring coops and get pecked by Cottonwood Mills. is however, done by the employes of the sunshine. serve a double purpose, as they keep cross-grained hens or crowd together Name and breed alone are not the the coal company, and not by heedless new books in nice condition and hfde and smother. passports to high prices, but individual the decayed looks of others. I stitch thieves, as the phrase would suggest. Red pepper pods or a few pieces of merits cuts thefiguresnow charcoal thrown into the pot in which the flaps across from point to point Turpentine, coal oil and vinegar, that its importance deserves. This Custom grinding- solicited. Will 4 onions, cabbages, &c, are being boiled to keep them in place. There was a great fall of roof in •equal parts, well shaken together, promises well for future excellence, grind wheat for $ (one eigth) or exchange will prevent the unpleasant odor. one of the principal mines at Archbald, JMid rubbed on the eggs of the bo for when all breeders begin to discriminate 34 lbs. flour, 5 fis. shorts and 8 I on horses' legs will, we are told, in the northern portion of the in the quality of their animals, fis. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour Persons exposed to summer heats utterly kill them after about three begin to realize that it is possible Lackawanna valley, recently. The To clean ornaments of alabaster and feed sold at low rates and delivered ^,i and obliged to exercise in the sun applications. for them to be purely bred yet men had been ''robbing pillars" and dissolve borax in boiling water and a New Ulm free oi expense.*^ j|f should by all proper means endeavor be without particular excellence or had made considerable headway. apply with a cloth or soft brush rinse to promote respiration. Excessive FRANK & BKNTZIN. value, we will begin to see a more Everything looked all right Saturday The little chick is happy when he carefully and dry in the sun. drinking of ice watpr will not do this rapid improvement all along the evening when they quit work, can swallow a big fat worm. Don't though it will probably lower the AUG. tyJESP,-. line.—Farm and Home. begrudge him the little fruits, or the When a felon first begins to make but when they returned to the mine vital temperature below the proper its appearance take a lemon, cut off •plants he sometimes accidentally Monday morning they found that point, nor will distilled or fermented one end, put the finger in it and the *de$troys He will return its value in acres of the roof had fallen liquors bring about this healthy reaction longer it is kept there the better. HARNESS MAKER «a few weeks, destroying pests Whether farming pays can be in, and a great field of against the heat, but water answered a variety of ways I was rock, from three to nine feet moderately cool and used freely, will Soiled coat collars can be rubbed —and Dealer fn— recently talking to a farmer who was do it. in thickness, lay on the floor of Thirteen miles from Cheyenne is Whips, Collars, and all other with ammonia and then a woolen harrowing by the roadside, using an the colliery, after having ground •whatss said to be the largest horse articles usually kept cloth laid over and a hot flat-iron Even with good care clothes-pins old-fashioned A harrow, with wooden several stout anthracite pillars to farm ha the world. There are 120,©00 in a first-alass harness held ]ust over the cloth to steam it and line will become dusty and soil teeth twelve inches long and two powder. The miners congratulated acres of land, where roam 5,000 shop. without pressing. garments when pinned upon the line. inches in diameter. His wagon stood Shorses, which require the constant atTtention themselves on the fact that the great To avoid this put the pins in the near, with one odd wheel. This man New harnesses made to erder and re of sixty-five men. One hundred rock, which must have weighed millions boiler and partly fill it with water, remarked, with a groan, that farming pairing promptly attended to. miles of wire fence keeps the of tons, had iallen Sunday when In a basin of water, salt, of course, adding a tablespoonful of ammonia didn't pay. When spoken to NEW MLM, MINN animals in bounds. fchey were absent from the mine. falls to the bottom, so ^never soak to each pailful of water used, and about better implements, he replied In cases of a falling roof the experienced salt fish with the skin side down, as when the water it hot stir them theH.FRENZEL, that he wasn't going to have any oi By stirring the soil after every miner is forewarned by the salt will fall to the skin and re-around several times, then take them those new-fangled things on his place. cracking sounds, often a pistol shot, rain, the weeds will be more easily main there. out, rinse, and diy in the sun. They that invariably precede the downrush destroyed than at any other time. should always be kept in a clean bag, A farmer who rears extra fine calves Manufacturer of of the great mass, but an inlallible Kever allow weeds to go to seed, especially Twenty-five cents worth or less, of and then the washing will be only never turns them out into a pasture warning of future danger is SODA WATER, in the garden. A single weed paint applied to window and door necessary occasionally. for the first year. They are kept in said to be the desertion of the mine screens before they are adjusted for tthat seeds entails more labor next a stable and fed clover hay, wheat by the huge rats that make the slopes SELTZER WATER the season will add to their appearance •season than it would cost to clean bran, oil meal and perhaps some their home. and durability. Do not forget that a pound of borax and out all of them at this time. The belief in this particular notion oats They grow finely and do not dissolved in a gallon of boiling is quite general throughout the coal have the adverse circumstances oi To cure felons mix one ounce water with a pound of white bar soap fields, and, repulsive as the great, Champagne Cider. the hot sun, flies and rainstorms I Venice turpentine with one ounce of fierce mine rat is to the miner, he cup up in it, then put into plenty of The sudden approach of summer takes less time to feed them than water, and with a smooth stick mix likes to see it at ease in the dismal warm water, will suffice to wash half Iheat is enough for fowls to contend when in afield and they do not waste and spread a thick coating of it Centre Street. New Ulm, Minn depths where death is of such frequent a dozen blankets. The less rubbing with when the plague of lice is added as much. They get well broken and around the finger, bind on with a o^curance There is good reasons they have the better. If there are Empire Mill Co. fthe burden is fntolerable. While the gentle, besides making a fine lot of cloth and renew daily. for associating the disappearance spots, first apply to these a little of poultry keeper cannot control the manure. We must feed more to make of the rat from a colliery with the borax and soap, and careftilly weather he can control the lice, and manure. The soil needs it. an impending disaster. The rat is a ROLLER MILL. rub them, but fulling is almost inevitable there is really no good excuse for permitting sensitive thing, it makes its resting Knives with rubber handles should if rubbed hard. Souse them place in the nooks and crannies of them to worry theflocksa never be washed soap suds, as it up and down, and gently squeeze the the miner and it feels the first slow they do for night and day. The managers of Central Park in takes the gloss off the rubber and 24 Rollers and 4 Burrs. suds through them then rinse in lukewarm movement of the crumbling rocks as New York city, are finding out what causes them to flake up. Ivory, bone water, stretfeh smoothly and they begins to squeeze and settle and most farmers' boys could have told or wood handles should not be put shape themselves for the disaster dry as quick as possible. We take pleasure in informing tint The farmer who considers all matters them, that the squirrels which they in hot water. which culminates in the fall of roof. aublic that we are now ready for busness. have introduced as companions oi designed for the improvement o* The wary rat is first to feel the commotion. The best machinery and all the agriculture will not neglect the sheep. the birds are destroying their eggs Tinware of all kinds should be He is dazed by the grinding It is a mistake to suppose that because latest improvements in the manufacture and young, and driving away all except In an old weedy pasture or wood lot thoroughly dried before putting in motion ot the rocks he undoubtedly milk is a liquid food it is at the of flour enable us to compete with the persistent English sparrow. they will more than pay their keep thinks they have suddenly become the cupboard it soou gives out if al. same time drink which is capable of ihe best mills in the country. The fact that in new settlements imbued with life and he flees with his by the service performed in keeping: lowed to rust. Burning kettles, frying satisfying the thirst of infants. Although We are constantly buying birds leave the woods, and cluster fellows, panse-stricken, from the place. •down the noxious weeds and briers" pans and tins while cooking milk appeases hunger, it Wheat, around human residences,is not from The first great fall of the root that while nothing equals them for restoring shortens their usefulness. makes thirst more intense after it tf Kye, their love for man, but rather from theCarbondaledabout ever oecure in this region was at Corn, fertility to a worn-out field. has remained some time in thirty-fave or forty their fear of the squirrel. In the domestic Omts, Cold biscuits left over may be dipped stomach and digestion of it has begun. years ago. The entire side of the cat, however, most farmers Buckwheat, into hot water and then placed singly I is thirst which causes mountain fell in and several lives harbor an enemy of birds that if not A strong, vigorous plant produces healthy, breast-nourished infante- to on the hot grate in the oven long were lost. Several days before the fed more than squirrels usually cry for long periods of time in many a strong, vigorous seed, which in enough to get well warmed through, disaster the people of the neighborhood At the Highest Market Priotfe must prove quite as destructive as instances. There are many cases of Aura,, .withstands abuse to a certain when they will be found to taste were astonished to see swarms Colman's Kural World accounts they. indigestiou due to weakness OP in-of •extent above the more delicate off. rats leaving the mine. This fact We sell all kinds of good. for the depreciated value of cattle as sufficiency of the child's gastric juice, was recalled after the great disaster spring of weaker plants Strength is JPZOUR, To take" ink stains out of a mahogany follows. One would thmk there was which would be greatly benefited or occurred, and the rats were credited given a plant by proper cultivation table, dip a feather in a spoonful SHORTS, no market for western cattle but even cured if the child were allowed with extraordinary foresight. in suitable soil. But proper cultivatfon^Toes. of water mixed with eight drops Chicago, to see the manner in which an occasional drink of water. not consist in allowing the The rats become very bold in theAT LOW RATES* of nitre andiapply to the stain. Rub they are crowded to its stock yards. An exchange suggests that an additional mines They will frequently take a weeds tq rob the plant of nutriment. with a wet cloth immediately. Very When years ago every country town incentive to raising good piece of bread or meat from a miner's Special Attention given to deep stains require a stronger solution. had its own slaughter houses and liorses^did it ever strike you that Nearly every one loves canary hand, and follow him aboutforfood. 0\a.S"toxxa. "Worlc every city was a market, men met birds and takes delight in caring: for the horse was the ouly product of A miner, who is not easily frightened, with competition among buyers, them, but many people are ignorant the farm that the farmer was allowed told me the other day that he has An extra stone for grinding feed. but nowadays when everything is what is best to feed them. They Carpets and upholstery fade when to put his own price on? The Big often been scared by mine rats. On collected together and shipped to should be supplied every day with exposed he sun, because of the Steam Comaheller. one occasion he had a considerable FouHtx the price on the meat crop, the great central stockyards they actinic or chemical power of the sun fresh water and in hot weather should distance to* go, and he had to pass Wood taken for cash or in exchange John Bull on cotton, and the gamblers, find but few buyers and these able have a dish large enough for them to through a portion of an old working. rays, which decompose the dye-stuffs. Efopife )im £o. on the grain, but the horse crop bathe in filled for that purpose, aside There he encountered about a dozen to hold the market and control The process i» closely analogous- to has not yet been cornered. from their drinking cups. Cabbage rats. They were large and fierce, prices. This system has nearly that which occurs in the taking, of CJSH PURCHASES and fresh lettuce may be given them and were not a bit startled by his ruined the producers' business and photographs). »U CHEAP SAOliEa also crackers and a piece ot apple. presence. On the contrary, they soon we are assured that the end is nearer "fflfcere, is no crop grown on the farm showed that they rather liked his Sand is excellent to sprinkle in bottom than most people imagine." H. HANSCHEN, To cure freckles, take two ounces company. His oil was burning low bat will run out in time ifcare is not of cage and cuttlefish bone of lemon juice a half drachm of powdered in his lamp, and smelled very strong, should be kept constantly fastened &akenrtsoobtain new seed occasionaliyv Contractor and Builder,. borax,, and one drachm. &i and it was evident that it had a An Opening- f«r Americans, inside of the cage. Do not give a or (unless care is taken to keep the sugar. Mix together and let them great attraction for the hungry rats, bird anything containing salts, as It is stated as a matter of statistics mfy$$f|ft-*itd carefully selected, but stand in a glass bottle for a few days, they followed close at his heels, and salt is very injurious. that 742 professional gardeners Special attention given to masoa then rub it on the hands and faee whenever he hastened his speed they no other crop seems so shortlived as New Kind of Jam. 3?* have come to this country from occasionally. did the same. His only hope was in Work in the city and country. ^ipotatoes, nor can new varieties of The uncounted millions of roses keeping the tiny flame in his lamp Europe within the past year, oi -any other be so easity produced. I New Ulm. grown in Roumelia are not merely glowing, and he felt that if it was ex whom 309 were from Germany, 288 •will pay occasionally to try for a turned to account by rose farmers tinguished by any mishap they would Quite the newest thing in bonnet The North Star Lung and Throat Badearn new tone. from England,. 80 from Scotland, 40 for sale to the preparers of that powerful attack him at once. I twas with unspeakable a sure cure for coughs and colds. strings is to have them of narrow from France, 2 3 from Austria, and relief that he reached his essence which, inclosed* in long ribbon velvet, fastened just back ©f ^~isTdis(jouraging when,even a little Bohemia, and 2 from Belgium. This destination before the last faint flicker slender, carefully-stoppered bottles the front coronet, carried theuce to •grain ^s given a cow in Summer at seemingly disproportionate number of his. lamp died out. KOEMKE & lettered with gold, is still so popular the back, crossed and held there w^h pasture to nave her begin to fatten of skilled horticulturists among the •$£m throughout the East, although it a fancy pin, then brought under the jinstead of increasing the milk flow. immigrants is partially accounted Carpenters^. has quite gone out of fashion in this chin and tied*in a loopy bow beside "Gtowpity the homeless!" never receives IBut if the cow be of that kind, the for by the fact, that many who country. Many tons weight ot their the left ear. so sympathetic a response in *sooner her owner discovers it theclass themselves as gardeners at leaves, gathered and packed while Builders and Contractoik^ every humane heart as in this pleasant •better. If graining fattens her she Castle garden are really scarcely In cleaning»ofl cloths use no* soap they are freshly fallen, are converted Thanksgiving season. When NtW ULM, MINN. Hi- •probably is not worth keeping with*«*ttfc"the more than farm hands and go to or scrubbing brush, but wash off the into rose jana, one of the exquisite your rotund, browned, and well stuffed t#feM.Tl grain. So fatten her as work as such in this country. On dirt with salt water and flannel. conserves which constitutes Designs and plans made to order and ttuarkey comes'in on the platter almost vrapidly as possible, and get a better the other hand, there are many Then go ower with milk, and! rub estimates on all work funushed} and 5 a leading feature in the lsght but sighing for the carving-knife, ,*COW in her place. contracts faithfully executed, -if ^N gardeners who come to this country with a soffr brush till dry aaidtehining. toothsome refection offered to theand your home is odorous withmincepiee. he Shorthorn cattle originated in casual visitor in every well-to-do It will lastrBonger if it lsgivenia hght in the cabin instead of the steerage, and all other goodies characteristic Oriental household. Rose-jam, considered i§. "Durham, England, and it is even yet coat of varnish when put down^, and THE and of whom, of course, no accurate CHICAGO AND of all this glorious holiday time, as a sweetmeat, is far superior 1 common in some old-fashioned sections if the varnish is renewed every* six record is made. So not forget to make up a basket in flavc* and savory to the somewhat to speak of them as the Durbam months. Mr. Henderson junior of Peter in"1,*iv4^*i cloying preserves arf our country. for some poor, deserving family to t-~ MUn breed. Of course the original Henderson & Co. once said that CnEAMffiD POTATOES:—Cutr one pint whom it would be a veritable godsend. ||, Durhams were not bred up to the fully 90 per cent, of the professional of cold! boiled potatoes,, cover Such an act will aid the diges* present standards tor beef making, gardeners in this country were W^TERN with cold milk when hot add one 4l *S taon of your-dinner wonderfully. Hew He Sometimes Felt. 'Wf out the characteristic tendencies of a of foreign birth and that they came heaping teaspoonful flour, moistened in about the proportion indicated good beef breed were in the original Congressman W. KflL E. Mason, o* with a little cold milk cook ten minutes, Lucky Neeley. by the statistics for last year, the ctock. Good feeding and careful Chicago, tells a story of a man out then add one tablespooniul of most from Germany, Englishmen Hearing tf»»t 15,000 Had been drawn by selection of breeding stock has done ». 0VEE 7,000 KILE8 butter,, one tablespoonfal chopped west who spent muck time and m©ney being second and Scotchmen third some one in this county the last drawing thereat **s*\is O parsley, pne halfWspooiifiilspfpep- in numbers. Atone time, he said, in litigation over Ms father's estate. or The Louisiana State Lottery and that per ^fmm^M€ the money had been there was scarcely an American-born money lad been paiftaad was depontad -r Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska S He had been at it some seven years in the Columbia Bankin„ Co- a Herald *e- andWvomm* Dakota PThe heavy driving rains often carry gardener in the country, but the when one day he returned homa from fP ne rat TtercaltedonMr Lne**F«U.* ™?J? \ty uS^^A «*the Agricultural, porter called on Lne£»Pn'eraon,thecaeh away from the barn-yard a deep proportion of them is continually ™™m% Soapsuds arebetter titan water for Commercial Centres of the ler of the above named' bank, and learned court looking more desponeat than stream of valuable fertilizing material, increasing. Horticulture is a much that H. Neeley, mt BSfebyviHe, a vilfiage washing purposes, because the soap ever, and his wife asked him: fill 10 or 13 mile* from hare, was the Jacky older science in Europe than in this which is irretrievably lost. This forms a chemical combination with man. Mr Neely held! one-twentieth of ticket country, and it is natural, he said, •f* -"Well, John, did your case- come Bnaybe prevented by keeping the the greasy matters present, and renders No. 63,856, which drewthe first capital prize that professional horticulturists of f308,000 in thfrdrawwg of the Lanwiana yard wejl scraped upf and the con. them soluble in water. Without upfortrial this time?" jy$£ should chiefly come from ther^, State-Lottery Company- held the 15th of last this help the water could not dis* '•No, Susan,, it was postponed tents carried out promptly to the mouth. The ticket was deposited last week Whatever the foreigners do here, how* solve them. Hard water is wasteful again. I've been trying for seven with the Colnmhia Banking Co. of this city fields, and spread. There they are ever* is an object lesson to American years to get it decided, and every who collected toeeame through "thmr New ISf %~Z A I N S of soap, because it contains lime free from leaching and waste, and gardeners, and the foreigners themselves 0rVai»8correef«n4»t, the LouWia Nation- Wh Chicago, St Paul dollar I have earned in the meantime salts, which formsaninsoluable compound there they will do the most good. al• that-Mr. and Minneapolis, Council Bluffs and Bank W» snderetand Neeley, become Americans in the has gone to the lawyers." Then with the soap, thus rendering who is quite» yoonjeriman, not yet liavinp Neglect of this liability to wash out second generation, so that it is only bringing his clinching fist down on attained htenjaionty, is quit* elated over a part of it useless & the best of the contents of the barnjyard a matter of time when American his success. He is a sober, industrious Hf the supper table the disgusted heir ONLY LINE TO THEBLACK HILLS is often one, of the great leaks of gardeners will rank with that of other young famer and this windfall of luck will exclaimed I tell you, Susan, I give him a j?ood start in. hfe. This is the countries in skill as* well as in If the cover of a tin a W a he farm, and yet it is one which sometimes feel almost sorry that first tuwe he ever bought a, ticket, and he riumbers.--New York Sun. jpaay be easily prevented? powder be so tight as to require much rertawly made a good investmentforone dad died."—New York Tribune. dollar.—Columbia (Ttewu) Herald, SOY.1. (humita^ **S£. t£K!^