AGRICULTURAL POINTS. AN INHERITED VICE. died before they were born, and some "Jennie!" he shouted, mistaken. The baby was not expected he Bi W a W it a cows should have been oxen, or made what are you doing?" to produce any disorder it was simply I Jacksonville, Fla., in the winter into veal in calfhood. She started and almost lost her balance. another object to be scrubbed. of 1848 an auction sale of the personal "Did you wipe off the cider barrel?" Stats for the Farmer and Notes for the But one day in February a letter state of a deceased planter, said a voice from the head of the cellar Bee Notes. Housekeeper. "Oh," she cried, "How you frigtened came which changed all their plans comprising some seventy or eighty stairs. A very great hinderance to the me Why, Harry, do you know, slaves and other "chattels, was held and altered the current of their lives. practical handling of bees, is the fear "Did I wipe off the what?" asked IBow to Insure Eggs Throughout the Winter this frieze is covered with fly-specks, in the pnblic a place. I was It was from Boston, from the attorney of stings. Every beginner should the person spoken to, with a puzzled —Necessary Care for Young Lambs—Has and I can't wash them off without glad of the opporuunit to see for of an aunt. She had died suddenly, air. guard against them by supplying himself •Growing—Dairy and Apiary Notes—Household myself how such things were done. spoiling the paper, but I find 1 can and left all her property to "her dear He was a young man, handsome and Hints. or herself with a bee veil which On beginning the sale the auctioneer take a knitting-needle and sort of nephew," and had appointed him sole will protect the face. well-dressed, with a frank, jolly face. announced that, families would 1 Got Esgs Every Day last Winter. scratch or prick each little speck off executor. Harry became perfectly beside A prime necessity in handling bees He stood a second waiting for an be separated, would be sold in with it." In the first place hens should never himself at this news. He sang, answer, the pitcher of foaming cider is a smoke of some kind. Those known "lots. After a number of "lot ad fee crowded in their winter quarters he shouted, he seized Jennie around as "bellows smokers" are by far the in his hand. He turned to his companion, been duly to the block a second, corn should never be fed to the waist and made her dance the knocked down to the highest bidder, best. This mode of applying smoke a pretty, delicate-looking girl, laying hens, as it contains no elements wildest kind of a gallop. He tossed a bright looking was who seemed amused at his perplexity. for quieting bees is adopted by nearly at assist in egg production and is the baby up in the air, and made a futile forward and placed on he stand all bee-keepers and is proving invaluable. (pnly fit for the fattening process. Now, effort to stand on his head. The auctioneer at the same time "What did your mother say?" asked ttor my method, not theoretically called an old colored an a he "Oh, dear Aunt Sarah! oh, rare Aunt The extractor for removing honey the young man of the girl beside him, given, but as a practical experience. I crowd to come up a a beside Sarah!" he cried "nothing in you? life from the combs without injuring them after wailing a minute. did so. and the auctioneer got eggs every day last winter, and expect became you like the leaving of it! Jennie, "She asked if you'd wiped off the is a very important implement, and then said: to this winter. My houses are I'll buy a Turkish bath, and you one which no apiary should be without. cider barrel," she replied, half laughing. mot artificially heated, nor are they so can lie in it all day! You'll be so Every one having only three colonies "Here, Harry," and she led the "Gentlemen, the old an is this trarm as to keep water from freezing clean—so clean, dear—that you'll beg will find in nearly all seasons a use way to where, in a row, under the boy's father he lives in the Wes In them but they are tight enough ,to for mercy! Oh, Jennie, isn't it too for it which will more than pay for stairs, as many cloths were hanging Indies, a is a free a a turn all draughts and the windows are good, too splended? Oh, dear me, I to buy the boy a take him to his its first cost in one season. Especially as there were barrels, and taking one Supplied with tight shutters. The must calm myself, and remember that home to a him free. He bids is it valuable for taking the honey down, she handed it to him, saying: apartments are eight feet square, and I'm a mourner!"' $400, which is all the money he a out of partly filled sections, so as to "This is the eider barrel cloth." fire intended to hold no more than "Let's go abroad," said Harry. "I'll The intent of this a was leave the combs clear of honey which He looked at it curiously and then at twelve hens. The floor is of dry dirt, He took her by the hand and led evidently to discourage a advance resign my position, and we'll just go is darker, so that it will not be mix ed her. sovered about a foot with clean, dry her upstairs. They went into the of at bid. and it touched a sympa and have a whole year of enjoyment with that which is white that will be "Do you mean to say," he asked, room together, and he shut the door. thetic cord in his audience. Th straw. This should be forked over I'm tired to death and you look worn stored early the next season. "that your mother wipes the noses—I crowd watched the proceedings for a «very two or three days and changed "Lie down, Jennie," he said, earnestly, to the bone, Jennie. We'll take a good beg your pardon, I mean the faucets, The truth which every beginner minute or two in silence, while the for fresh as often as necessary. In the lie down." nurse for the baby, an'd just have a of every one of those barrels every should learn, and one that should auctioneer dwelt on the bid of morning I give a warm feed consisting She looked at him half frightened. glorious time!" 8 time they are used?" $400, a was calling it out for the stand out with great prominence is, "Wha is the matter, Harry? You ft of bran middlings, very small portion Jennie murmured a little at first, but "Why, yes," she said, with dignity third and last time, when, from the that a large force of bees will do a j»f» of oatmeal and the refuse scraps from act so strangely was finally persuaded to look favorably outskirts of the crowd, a voice bid "why shouldn't she?" large amount of work, and that said he table, stirred up in hot milk. I "Strangely he echoed, with a upon the plan, and they sailed in May. "Fifty." Every eye was at once turn ^1? He took the cloth meekly, and force should be on hand just when the feed only what they will eat up clean short laugh "strangely, Jennie! ffc Harry was like a boy let out of ed in the direction of the bidder, who tenderly wiped off the damp faucet labor or honey harvest is on hand. he said, desperately "either you or I then about ten o'clock, two or three school. His jollity and fun knew no was a rough dissipated looking fellow, with it, and then hung it back on its Failing to have the workers on hand good handfuls of wheat, oats or barley must be crazy, that's all bounds. He became a great favorite a typical slave a in appearance. own special naiL at this time, means a fail ure to secure are thrown into the straw this keeps "Why, Harry, what do you mean? I, Th auctioneer paused a on board and made many friends. Jennie "Well," he exclaimed, ''that beats very much of a harvest of honey. them busy scratching the rest of the at least, am perfectly sane." moment looked annoyed, a then was sick most of the way over and me! I've heard of neatness and order Therefore every effort shonld be made day. A hen must be given plenty of repeated his previous statement concerning "Well," he said, "perhaps it is I, kept her state room, but the baby was to secure a large stock of working bees before, but I never saw anything like the old man emphasizing he texercise she is sure to become too fat then, who have lost my wits. But as well and nearly as jolly as its father. this! I don't believe your mother will at the time or times when the flowers remark at $40 0 was all the money jto lay if she has nothing to do but when I come home and find all my Harry was almost thankful that half enjoy her halo, she'll be so busy yield the most honey, or when the he had. "An now, said he, *'I am ,ptand around and eat. "Oh, well," garments gyrating in unseemly attitudes its mother was too sick to see how very plants are in^bloom which usually gives scrubbing it all the time." bid four hundred a fifty." a isome people would say, •'all this is too upon the line when I find two dirty it got on deck. dozen voices came the cry: "With the surplus crop. The young girl didn't laugh. She I touch trouble, it won't pay." All women poking sticks with cloths on They reached London in the midst draw your bid!" Th auctioneer went up the stairs, saying as she went: fcight, then, if it don't pay to sell eggs them through every hole ia the'lattice of one of its worst fogs, which certainly No Two Alike. awaited the result. The bidder "Don't you like to have things clean? at twenty-five and thirty cents per work on the front piazza when I find was depressing. Jennie could growled a surly refusal, saying he There are no two things in the I can't bear dirt." (dozen, there is no money in poultry at my wife picking off fly-specks with a speak of nothing but the grimy, dirty "wante at boy, and ad as world just exactly alike. No two cows "Can't you?" he said, lightly. "Now Jail But there is money in it, as knitting-needle, I can't quite tell appearance of everything. a right to bid as a are exactly alike, and the individual is I revel in it! All the most picturesque (hundreds of successful poultrymen will whether it's my own house or a private hundred and fifty," came slowly from constantly changing, like her owner, things in life are the dirtiest, you -amply prove. asylum." the lips of the auctioneer, The shouts from year to year. This calls for constant know." "You must expect such things, Harry," of "Withdra your bid!" were repeated watchfulness and individual They came together into the dining Court the "Mother's Fondness in angry tones on every side. said his wife with dignity "don't treatment of the cow, according to the "Sprinkle a little salt on the lamb so room, where a tall, tMn woman was "Well," said the bidder. I withdraw you know I'm cleaning house?" demands of her condition. So far as Khe mother will be induced to lick it. putting the finishing touches to a wellspread it." "Yes," he answered, "you havn't possible the cow should be given the The auctioneer quickly went back U*o make a ewe take another lamb supper table. done anything else since I married opportunity of selection of food, and to the original bid, on which he dwelt -after she has lost her own, tie the skin Her one daughter, Jennie, was engaged you!" the time when to drink water and when two or three times, when down went *of the latter on the "adopted" youngster. to Harry Jackson. He was The color came to her face and she to eat salt when to stand idle, when his hammer. "Sold at four hundred. If at any time the lamb is weak going to take her away from her old began to cry. Old man the boy is yours a him to forage, when to lie down and when land sickly give it half a spoonful of home to the city, and one would have "Very well," she said, brokenly, "if down. The crowd cheered, and the to move around. Bee keepers study flhog's lard. Repeat the dose in half thought that the approaching separation you feel like that, I think I hatt better principal figure in this little a a the habits and wants of their bees Jan. hour if no better, as this cuts all from her only child would have go home to my mother. I was always who, the moment before, ad been the dairyman should do the same with phlegm, makes breathing more easy, weighed heavily on Mrs. Putnam. But clean there." the picture of despair, hurried down his cows. land gives strength and tone to the system it didn't. To tell the truth, she was so "Don't talk about your mother," he from the stand smiling and happy.— t,)i But of all things there is nothin Hints for the Kitchen. very busy keeping things clean that New York Sun. cried, excitedly. '.i like sunshine for young lambs, as she had never had much time for Cleanse the sink-spout with copperas He was walking up and down the a W in Uufl gives them more strength and emotions of any kind. water. room rapidly. Presently he stopped lerowth than anything else. Should Harry Jackson was not rich, though "Oh, let us go away!" she cried. "I There are 2,750 languages. If sassafras bark is sprinkled among and sat down on the edge of the bed i-4heyvVffet chilled at any time, give dried fruit it will keep out the worms he had a good position in a railroad can not stand it here. It is too horribly Watches were first made in 1476 beside her. «hem some rum with a little assafcetida company, with those "prospects of dirty. I've tried and tried not to Tin cleaned with paper will shine "Jennie," he said gently, "don't A barrel of rice weighs 60 0 pounds dissolved in it. Manure should not be rising" so dear to every young man's mind, but I can't help it I told Mary better than when cleaned with flannel. cry. Can't you—can't we manage in The average an life is 3 1 years. allowed to accumulate in the barn, as to change the baby's dress whenever it heart Ham should be broiled very quickly, some way so that you won't have so A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds 'the gases arising from it are very unthealthful. got soiled, and he's had five clean ones and just enough to cook through. It was in March that he was married, much of this eternal fussing?" A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds on to-day, and now I've put him to It is one of the most pro- and after a]little trip, which somehow Yeast jars should be washed in cold After a time he comforted her, and The first steel pen was made in 1830 Efic causes of bad outcome with prega bed, because he's only got three more' was not as rapturous as he had water and afterward thoroughly scalded. they went down-stairs together, and A hurricane moves 80 miles per Oh, it is too dreadful. The very air ewes, failure of milk, disowning anticipated, he brought Jennie back hour. he never realized that the inherited seems full of dirt I can not stand it. kf lambs, shedding of wool, and perSliaps with him, and they went to housekeeping. The value of a to of silver is Oilcloths will last longer if one or vice had conquered him, and was now Let's go away!"' death. W would say, in conclusion, He had almost furnished their $37,704,84. two layers of wadded carpet lining are firmly established in his home. that there are but three short The first lucifer a was a little home, but she was to add the last They went to Paris, which seemed laid under them. She had expected to go home Christmas, in 1829. ^periods each year that sheep require Tea leaves are good to scatter over touches and make all the final arrangements bright and cheerful after murky London, but she was not very well, and The first iron steamship was built jany extra attention—that is, breeding that women love. She was delighted ana their spirits rose, and they carpets before sweeping, not only to they had not a great deal of spare in 1830. teeason, lambing time and weaning freshen the colors, but also to prevent with everything. were both much more contented there. money. Harry was finding out that Modern needles first came into use eeason. the dust arising. One morning after they had been They did not stay long in Paris. too much cleanliness is as expensive in 1545. Growing flax. Jennie seemed to taste that dish towel Plenty of towels in the kitchen is a home about a week she said to her husband: as any other extravagance. So Jennie Coaches were first built in Englan All through the west, as is generally in everything she ate, and the flavor saving, and six good wipers are none in 1569. decided to stay at home, and they was so disagreeable that they aetermined known, flax is grown by farmers for too many. Three each a week and the "Harry, do you know those portieres The first horse railroad was built were very well satisfied, after all, to *eed alone. The fibre, which in Europe to escape from it and seek fresh rinsing after meals is not needed. are going to be very hard to keep clean? In 1826-'27. spend their first Christmas at their fields. alas! they took the Inherited is considered the most valuable Cranberries will keep through the They are so heavy. I wish you would Telegraph wires have to be renewed own home. Vice with them, and it drove them every five or seven years. a of the crop, is here thrown away, send a man up to beat them this week." winter in a firkin of water, but to have On Christmas Eve when Harry came AS making too much trouble to save. like a gad-fly from place to place. One million dollars of gold coin them quite fresh the water must be "Why, Jennie," he answered, "they in she ran to meet him, saying: weighs 3,685 pounds avoirdupois. ^A careful computation shows that the changed several times during the season. haven't been up a month. They surely It found dust under the bed at Strasburg, 'There is a box from mother in the One million dollars of silver coin j#ax fibre thus wasted would, if utilized, and queer, stains on the towels in can't need cleaning already." hall. I wish you would open it. I've weighs 58,920, pounds avoirdupoir. igjive work to enough population to Colongne. The washing was miserably Lay a piece of thick Canton flannel "Yes, they do," she answered firmly been waiting for you." Until 1776 cotton spinning was performed £nake a city of 150,000 people. The done in Brussels, and the sheets under your tablecloth. Even coarse "they're all dust in the folds. I was by the hand spinning wheel. jmore this subject is studied, the greatjer were damp in Ghent. The inside of apery will look a much better quality looking at them yesterday and while Albert Durer gave the world a the pitchers was black at Antwerp, and this wastage appears. The men enjgaged with a subcover than if spread directly the man is here he might as well beat prophecy of future wood engraving in working UD the flax fibre Jennie found two flys in the soup. One over the bare table top. the rugs, too." in 1527. she might have forgiven but two did j'would be withdrawn from agricultural Flowers can be kept fresh for some Glass windows were first introduced Her husband kissed her. look like a gratuitous insult {pursuits. We should furnish a home into Englan in he eighth time if a pinch of soda or saltpeter is "What a little housewife it is, to be But things improved from the time century. taarket for probably 1,000,000 more added to the water. Wilted roses will sure!" he said lovingly. "Well dear, The firgt complete sewing machine Sbushels of wheat than we do now. The they entered Holland, and Jennie's face regain their freshness if dipped a minute I'll try and snare a man and send him was patented by EliasHowei 1846 lost its worried, anxious expression, ax industry, being made doubly profitj&ble, or two in hot water. up to-day," and he went down the Measure 29 0 feet on each side, a and became strangely peaceful. They most enormously increase. If The elasticity of cane chair bottom street whistling. you will have a square acre within went one day to a little village a few |we are now producing too much other can be restored by washing the cane He did no^suspectit, but the inherited an inch.—Worthington's Annual. miles from Amsterdam. Jennie was ferrain, especially wheat, the increased with soap and water until it is well vice had shown its cloven hoof. p- iri wonderfully pleased with all she saw, jgrowth of flax would displace a part of soaked and then drying thoroughly in He was sure of it, when Jennie proposed S he ok he Pill, and her face grew brighter at every $the extra product. Flax is said to be, the air, after which they will become to clean house in May. fresh step. The clean little tiled rooms The justice of the peace in Salt ist exhaustive. But the seed as tight and firm as new, if none of the "Why, Jennie," he expostulated, where the cows were kept seemed to a was recently called upon to A"' ^nakes the most valuable feed for manure canes are broken. *^this house was put in thorough order impress her more than any cathedral, unite a couple in matrimony Th making. The stalk excepting the In washing tumblers or goblets that not two months ago!" and the arrangements for tying up name of the was Pill* U^f/fibres should be saved and returned to have been used for milk do not plunge I know it," she said, "and it isn't He got the hammer and chisel and their tails drew forth expressions of When the Justice reached at a S he soiV So, though flax will always them into hot water without first rinsing, very dirty, to be sure, but it will be so set to work, cheerfully. Presently the positive rapture. of the ceremony when the bride \''4 require rich land, its net exhaustion as it drives the milk into the glass long to let it go till fall, and the spring cover flew off, and he bent to examine agrees to a the for better She was so delighted that they 'of the soil, with good management, and cannot he removed. always seems such a good time to clean the contents, and gave a long, low or worse, the Justice said: "Clara, stayed there over night, and in the may be less than with many other To clarify molasses heat over the in, and I feel so well now." whistle. do a this Pill?" The bride morning she was up early looking .crops. fire, pour in one pint of sweet milk to Her arguments carried the day, and There were four dozen cakes of responded in a loud a distinct 1 from the window. each gallon of molasses. The impurities Arithmetic in the Dairy. for over a week she revelled in scrubwomen sapoiio in the box, and that was all. tone: "Yes, I will take pill if it The red tiled roofs of the houses will rise in scum, which must be Too many of our farmers neglect and soap-suds. But Jennie did not understand his gleamed on every side. The tall windmills kills while her face was suffused taken off before broken by boiling. *fcheir arithmetic in the dairy business. Harry, coming home one evening, whistle, nor the laugh that followed it. moved lazily. The str eet was with blushes.—Des Moines Graphic. Saving in the kitchen tells upon the 4' Very few have any definite idea of the was surprised to see his entire wardrobe absolutely immaculate. A stout Dutch She took out one of the cakes and held income and makes the bank account hanging upon the clothes-line. sjf cost of a quart of milk, yet the matter woman was scrubbing the pavement in it almost lovingly. An Insuranc Clerk's Good heavier, but there is one saving that front of her house on her hands and im of a fraction of a cent determines the The legs of his trousers flapped with "Dear mother," she said, tenderly, It isn't often that a young clerk still Ms knees. Jennie watched her as if fascinated. exceeds even these it is that the wife the wind, and seemed to be kicking it or loss in the business. They teens has 15,000 placed his hands to do "how good she always is to me!" and mother save herself. with as he pleases, and to use as his fancy viciously, as if they resented the insults 1,1^1^will attend a cheese meeting in the It was absurd, preposterous, it was Her husband joined her, and looked may dictate yet this was a little event that spring and haggle for hours over the to which they were subjected, and pitiful, but her husband realized that too. She turned her face to him, occurred last week to Eoe Grant, a youne Had Nothing to Say, even his coats shrugged their shoulders difference between a sixth and a nothing—not a diamond tiara, nor a and he looked at her in astonishment. man who lives on Vinestreet with his parents A well-known society girl had a at him in an offended and injured way. -seventh of a cent in the manufacture I was the glad, peaceful lace of one and whois employed inthe offices ofthe Hartford grand piano—would have been so acceptable Life and Annnity Insurance Company queer experience with a midnight marauder whose every longing is satisfied. A of a pound of cheese, but neglect entn, He found two women on the piazza, a gift or had represented so calm, glorified expression shone in not long ago, says the San Francisco mt 3 a .tirely to consider the cost of a pound ?"v & 7 5 °oe-twentieth who were cleaning the balustrade much happiness to her, as that box of her eyes. She looked like one who of ticket 63,856, which drew the first caDital Examiner. She was awakened Jof milk. Every farmer should have around it. This was a sort of open sapoiio. prize of 300,000 in the drawing ot The after much tribulation comes to the at about 2 o'clock in the morning by a -some data by which he can tell how Louisiana Statel^ttery Company on the lattice work, and they had Jittle sticks It was in April that he baby was "sweet and blessed country" at last loth of October. The locky young man was noise a her room. She is a plucky little •much a quart of milk costs him at different wound arouud with cloths in their "Harry," she said softly, "let us born, a sweet, plump, pretty baby, who questioned by a newspaper man an'd he emphatically thing, so she sat up and said: seasons1 of the year. *_' v" live here." denied haying won the *15,000 hands, which they seemed to^ be inserting didn't seem to appreciate its advantages "Who's there?" ^t ,**,- "Would you be happy here, darling?" but expressed himeelf as being willing to rel Each cow should be tested by herself, into every opening. in being born into "the best-scrubbed ceive such a snm. Since the interview the he asked. No answer. Xi—" at least once a year, and twice Coming in he found Jennie on the family in the state," as Harry called it newspaper man has learned that Grant did "Her eyes wandered back to the receive themoney that it was paid to himbv i-would be much better. In this way "Whols thereP" she demanded again. highest step of the step-ladder, apparently He hoped that the advent of this young Dutch woman scrubbing the pave- the managerof the AdamsExprees Company JQZB-COWB that make our profits could Silence was the only reply. They rested and feasted on prodding the wall with some stranger would make a change in the this city, and that two supernumerary "Why don't you speak,?" she cried her a single moment policemen guarded the house the nieht the tfS'be separated from those that are a shining instrument. ,t*ffl&gfflkm& frightful neatness of his home. I money was kept therein. All this was done "Yes," she said solemnly,, "perfectly nervously^ *1 I positive idss. It is not every cow that She was so intensely in earnest, and seemed to him it would be impossible without the knowledge or Grant's parents! happy." is a success. There pre as many fail«re I an't got* anything to say," came but when they, too, found out how fortunate to keep a house with a baby in it so her whole occupation seemed so absurd, The Inherited Vice has found its full the son bad been, immediate efforts were in the dairy nerd as in the human in meek tones from the would-be-thief, clean. that it struck him for one awful made to^pppreas its pablicatiQn,-^BartfQrrduuu"«**^"M.18 and perfect gratification at last, and as he hurriedly slid out of the door. (Conn.)Cuaea November family. Some people should have moment that she had gone insane. But he soon discovered tna lie was they are living at Broek still. Is