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i«. the Alpine cnkle of the I.HOe 8L Bernard, baa Jail been •dw ornied with tb* Order of the Legion of Honor.

Uardcner'a garUn, Shr'phcrd'a none, B^lert bat Lous. lAdr 1 * soock. “An# Lhe iM^y II0II7 henr. JNirj |>!sce<. Utry ththgt. r airy woods where the wild bet triog)^

. "A Clnclnnoll Jinfse Ciae orekled that • man wl.u has worked aJl day la "t&-. titled U> aome topper, and a bet hopper ■t that when he get* home.”' The! nan urbOH' evmpUiUit intptrod Lh* decision. cotnawt.* rbe Alhiuta Conatito«iwn. was imI aaUofVcd with the hot

aroasts he bad been receiving.

Tiny wood* below whose boughs fc-hsdy fairies wetse s how?. Tiay taoegoas. Coss at Wiysse, Where lb* braver harass cUmb! Fsir srr rrowm op people’s trees.

THE CUNJMNO CROW. Onec a chained op watch-dog 1*7 1“ -front of his kennil taslly pfeltlog a bone. A hungry crow looked on with ' longing rye*, and hoped that by dl**fcrrtinjr tbe a MCttUdb ' of the dog It might succeed In ieenrirg the boar for Itself. ‘ 6o It came as ctose'tp the animal aa it dared, and began to Indulge in all sorts of Wdlcnlona antics. The dog, however, took not the slightest

no l Ice.

Then thi- crow hurried ‘off and fetched a friend, who seated himself on tbe bough of a tree Jiltt behind ihe kennel, awhile the 8r»t crow again danced before the Bog. Aa the animat continued to remain absolutely indifferent. the crow friend flew Into the air. suddenly swooped down, and struck' the dog*! spine a tremendous

blow with lit beak.

Tbe dog started with surprise and pain, and, diopplng tbe hone, made a fierce but unsuccessful grab ot his ss■sUsnt Meanwhile tbe first crow snatched up the bone as quick as lightning, and flew off with It. _Xbe two conspirators then ifeared the stolen property between tfiem.—Watchman. BIO CAT. LITTLE BELL. Wilium Baker's trig Maltese eat says a Peru correspondent of the India! Hs News, crested some excitement yes terday morning when It tolled the bell of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, on Flax HID, a tuburb of this city. The ben la about the siae of an ordinary dinner ben, with a clipper that weighs

leaa than a pound.

“Little WHlle." as the eat t* called. Rhea sparrows, and went hunting to the belfry of the little church yestefday morning about 4 o’clock. A sparrow must have been In the be!l to Start, with, and when the cat made a jump

lor It,the bell tolled.

The twinging clapper then attracted the attention of the eat more than did

, b the apartev. and “Little WUhe" began conference of fereyr. and then haring F te pj,, Vlth It The bell Bounded aerify sheer genius ot persistence made eral timet and tbe people Bring near

' Tbejr Japanese talk as well aa they hg! .. declares the LouisrlUc CourierJournal. While the Kna-nan* hare keen hysterical from tbe beginning of She war tbe Japanese hare not been hteard. except soberly and wisely. “The Japanese people," saga Bason Kascko "are wot going to isolate tk«*nmelves because they betlere they bare iearned all there I* to be known about {Western clvllisaUon. and hare OYffeoinc a gnat Western Power in war. iWe owe too much to the UnNcd state* ■cd Burope to forget the debt or to Chink we can't learn more.” That la only one bit of good sense in an Interview which contains nothing but good

' Theodore Rooscrelt bas act his name' tneffacably upon the page of history, declares the San Francisco Argonaut iW< may befog.- hare thought him • man of destinyy the world may hare •bought him an eiltiringly romantic flgiirr. a nation may hare don* him •moot unprecedented; his acts may bare seemed to change the currents ■f national life, but none of these things are eren remotely comparable

So the aciucraacsit of. first.

reach thuftt, Bernard Hoap.cc. In 1887 Grand aarrd the Brea of fire

trarelers who were lost to a anew hurricane. Hla reward far this act was a ■Urer medal, in tbc fnyavfJng ysv.be recelred the Order of Merit from the J\i»r «f ltuty-#or nnriug the Hrea of atx Italians, in TtWOhe rescued, single handed, Mme. de Verrage, a French lady, who had.beon swept away hy an rvalanclie, and nanreworded bg a gift

of sixteen afailliags. , Some years later Grand and bit son

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and not a - heroic old more trarelers at

THE SINGING FLAMES. Vd* erb 1 ' hear ot “ainglng**

qaaieaT Here are two little expertwcmwOTwr;

that conference to accomplish tbs greatly desired thing. As the man who brought to on end a great war, Theodore BooserclPs place among great historic figures is absolute and aocare. The world of today praftes hici; the world 200 years hence will

get know well his name.

Strict speed laws arc becoming comaaon and their enforcement is rigid!; demanded by public opinion, says the Omaha News. It la all because df a few harebrained scorchers who were divinely designed to run wheelbarrows Inciond of automobile!. The governoriralve of the intellect of autosaobile •corchcrs wa» never designed to be attached t* machinery. Against, thp fool In an an to the war ought to he one -of wrtcrmlnaUflw. It would be .cheaper and plea tan ter for the public to exterminate the auto fool than to permit torn to cvoUloc exterminating the public. The (oily of intrusting machines to incompetent drivers, and uapCeiaBy to the yonth and children of both k should he too obvious sir comhas got to : will not ■land It Owners and makers of aotomoblles ought to.be the first to more toward stopping it

When he tarns hia «j rhat affaet. i hla country's Wright and prestige in Europe by her Tar Eastern •dventure a Baaslon can And but UtU* swmfort, says the Maw lock Bon. Ha •earns that naval experts have atrick«to Rossis permanently oat af tbe Hat •f naval power*, on the ground that the total collapse af her navy, to apdta

by peered through their windows to see what was . happening.' Borne thought there was to be an early Doming service, while others supposed that tome one was In trouble. Mr. Baker Investigated, and found hla pet cat in the belfry playing with the bcB clsp-

The sketch la supposed to represent a npee .eff g wWo yaUh six matches a ticking in 1L . , J Tbe mixxle la to lay It flat on the ta Me, and Wtfh a knifemake ttrb atralgh. »«■. parting the potato In six pleCSg

LOOKIjiCJ FOB BIBBS.

Whit is the heat place to look Jar birds? Why, every kind of place boa its charm for different kinds of birds.

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sand pipers, green her;

even see him plunge headlong into the watto and came out With a gleaming ablner-ta his UghUh In the manbei are the beanuru] qjaar ' ■■d the Of—'" jaaawVdHPmil _ _ _ rnwh, 11/,Jbead of yon, showing their white tall fenthera aa they go. The gnat thing to learn about birds, after yon have come to know a nnmher of kfnds. ataiFlrat, that every kind

T.W.f.T.T.T j. 4 FARM TOFfCS. * rnTrmti ^

THE SMALL FEEDER. The man who regrata seeing bla anl- . mala eat so mneb la the same fellow that regrets that hla bank account la so small at the cod of tbe season. BEKD POTATOES. Varie0fBk>f potatoes may be prevented from running out’end even improved by srieetlon. To select potatoes, gig by hand-picking which will separate and select the seed from tbe best hlBa. i la a_fcw years by this process the yield of merchantable potatoes can be vastly

Improved.

OATS WITH GRASS SEEDS If yon want to get a quick lawn sow i oats wlth‘‘joor'grass seed. Tbe oats should be sown very thick, my live quarts of oats to one quart of grass -.seed. 'The ground 'should be smooth and well prepared. Then sow your •eed, rake It in and roll over with a hand roller to make the ground level and free from lumps. When the oats come up mow with the lawn mower and you have a green lawn which will ‘last all tutorner—until tbe grass gets well started.—Embree B. White, In The Kpltomtat. . THE FOOD PLANTS OF BEEF. Ton naturally ask what txN» feed on. Well, there are tbe usual spring flowers and some fruit blooms, then comes red raspberry, and I want to say that tbe beer were JuM swarming oa It in tbe woods Then comes white clover; when It la at its beat, basswood begins to bloom. The goldenrod is just opening; there arc mBrs of it, and sandwiched in with it are catnip, milkweed, thistles, buckwheat, etc. In sbort,'1^.i* • wild feed Instead of a cultivated one that we depend on. Those having fields of their own can take advantage of adverse conditions by seeding ground to honey-producing plants which will produce crop# of forage and hay nearly equal In value to those now produced, and tbe added honey obtained from them by (he bees will often more than balance any loss otherwise.—P. G. Herman, In the American Cultivator. 'A PROPEB DRAIN. Open sink drains are an abomination, yet they arc found about many farmbo use*. A cesspool can easily be made by home labor, and a plumber's Mil for connecting it-with the kitchen sink will sot be large. Locate the cesspool

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**fTk ExchsBc* rrve* tor oUadarC qnality is ?%'. pc- quart. - aorra*. tflTfaakwj; S| S IniUUor. crMiDrry i?%(* lou Factory, third* to fir«u ... 15 (f 17y. Part otimt, good

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and D, aa shown In the picture, and at the top of A fasten a piece Of wire, B, with a ring about five inches In-diame-ter at Its other end. Over tUs ring ptoee a iriefee gf wire gawse. C. Oct a piece of glass tubing about a. quarter of an Inch In its oststde diameter, and have a Jet made at one end. and *Mo have It .bent at right angles, as shown in tite’eot It can then be fastened to the block of wood, K, with a tittle wax. sc tnst Its tip Is about trio inches under tbe gaaae. To the other end of the glass tubing fasten n piece of rubbrr tablsg -and eonnset It with

a gas jet-7.. ... Tun o the gas

the wire gauze, and It should burn there with a thin eoulcal flame about foar inches long. Let It burn a moment ettadlly. and then if you suddenly make a biasing Bound tbe flame is so sensitive that It will shrink at once to a

■mfiti blue flame.

AgXto 1st K burn up quietly, and the* suddenly whistle, or clap your bands, or jlagle same coins, or nutko pbig notse. Again the flanu shrink, and it will set to the mu ct any sudden, loud nolte. • Now get a glass tube, T, tf possible, twelve inches long and an inch and a quarter In diameter, but any ate will do, from sevenjpebe* to length, and-Ghm three-quarters of an Inch to an inch and a half In diameter. .Boat the tsbe lightly on tbe ganae, covering-tbe Jame with It If now yon will lift the gaaae and the tube from ... — — >graduaUiv

on ground tower than the bouse. Tbe opening should be some five by nine 'feet Inside foe ttoneo, if In parooa aoil. Dig down abont six feet and build up t wan. fls shown, to within a foot and a half of the top of the ground. Lay crass pieces of heavy cedar across the nasrow way, cover with cedar plank*, .and on three place.earth and sod to the level of the ground. The wall la not cemented. If the cesspool is located In a gravel' soil, it trlU seldom need cleaning ouL CBIM80N CLOVER IN CORK. T. K O., a Pennsylvania subscriber, writes me; I sowed crimson dover need la my comat the last cultivation of the corn given to June, it ahead of the two hone ealUvatnr, run-at the usnal depth of about two inches. Do you think I covered it too deeply, as it has failed to come up? Aa our season since the sowing your crimson clover has been Ideal'I tbe crop, much more so than it 1 been for harvesting. I am Inclined think that the trouble ties not so much

to your' dover a

June was of necessity almost Being old. It may have been last year’s or some other year's. I have frequently sown ycar-old seed with perfectly satisfactory results. I have eovcre<\ good need very tightly, covered It.an inch and covered it tore Inches or more, *- a seam the present,' and

now is to cova- U at 1 ■when possible. In yoW case I am sure to the low or nil vitaUiy of the or-d. Bowing this dover at the “laying by” cultivation of the corn saves labor, audTT It hits Is afl right, but whew It sd at u cost of lorn of seed and the very greater loss of the crop.

—From the Independent. The horizontally-shaded portion of the map shews the vast area of Manchoxia which Russia returns to China. The other shaded portions show ihe southern half of Saghailen which will belong to Japan, and Korea, which passes under Japanese control. Tbe Liaotung Peninsula with'Port Arthur and Dalny aw transferred to Japan.

MABIA MITCHELL'S HOME. The old boose in Nantucket where Maria Mitchell was born is probably the only house on this continent which Is preserved on account of being the birthplace of ■ woman. Tbe Maria MitcbrU Association was formed three years ago, has purchased the house, installed an admirable curator In It. *nd is making a collection there of objects which belonged to Miss Mitchell, of the Bora and fauna of Nan tuck it. and of books of science. Maria MitcbtU was born In 1818. The >ouse where the family.Brad Veatal street, Nantucket, was a square one, with a huge central 'chimney. There was a amalineao-tokitcbcn, and a baek'yard of fair‘siae, at well aa a front yard, with beds of old-fashioned

Mr. Mitchell was an rtbnsiastic a. tronomcr, and hi* children were early taught to count seconds for him by the chronometer, and tc consider tbe study of the heavens the moot interesting possible. In the Uttle back yard he had his sextant, and b*»w were brought to him for adjua.mcnt the chronometer of the whaling ships of .the town. At the time of the eclipse of the sun to 1831 the window was taken out of tbe tittle parlor, the telescope mounted to front of It, and with the twelve-year-old Maria counting the seconds. Mr. Mitchell, observed tbe eclipse. Fifty-four years Utrr she counted the seconds again, while her class of eager girls at Vaasar College observed an

eclipse.

On the evening of October 1, 1817. Marla slipped away from guests in the

for the family when service failed. In short, sho was always ready to help. In 1865 she was called to Va College, and for twenty year* there sbe made a deep impression upon the developing plans for women's education. and at the same time built op ■ reputation for genuine acbaUrsbip- Today her hundreds of students moke pilgrimages Jo the Nantucket boose, and rejoice that it is to be preserved as a memorial of * nature which somewhat reoembled it in its simplicity and its strength.—Youth's Companion.

CLOCK WOBX EHCHIKEB.

I useful engraving tool Is represented. In the accompanying ill nitration, from the Jeweler’s Circular, and ctro-

masxTiKG tool with snxnim.

parlor of the oM house knM&ZAip to the telescope an the roof. lYcacntly •be came hurrying down to tell her father that the thought ahe had covered a comet. With tbe alow mnnleatkra of those day* K waa long before ahe could be rare that hers had been tbe Ural aye;to sea It; bnL ao It proved.' The King of Denmark, teen yean before, - - - - medal to (h* first Ha had . - .^-WwrorSL—— er*s promise, and to due time the medal came over the sea to the young astronomer. It forma a enrions tween the Old World • Hew • tribute from a King to her thref-by-four study oa tbe second floor of tbe Nantucket bouse. Until 1S8S she worked away with

lists of a movement with a mainspring which is arranged with a revolving spindle, carrying puncturing or traclug cutters, by mean# of which a piece of jewelry or a ring may be marked with name, Initials, or ciphers, by any operator of ordinary skill. The tool has two attachments, one which operates perpendicularly, and the other which may be operated at on angle, and Inside of a ring.

E ?. n !r2£“2 r ! ‘ - *»* Mrditmi. efaMee.. ... ; 22%a t i* Pes. choice 1 771*3 1 ?t. Red kidney, choice 3 CTViS 3 li. xeliow eye — 3 2 00 Black turtle (oup 3 71) dr 3 77. - . a-TuS sht Apples, King, per hi,! S 90 3 3 ». Greenmg, per bo: 1 75 3 2 2 Muslunelons, per erate 75 4? 2 6.-' WsUnseloo*, pcs carioed.,75 09 UJ93 IT' I caches, per basket .... 25 3 1 Ok rears -Kiefer, per bbt 1 00 3 * 2f Bartlett, per bbl 3 50 3520 SeekJe. Her bbl.. . .... 3 SO 3 5 Or

Fowls, per I Chickens, per lb .. Roosters, per lb. . Turkey#, per lb .. . Ducks, per pair ... Geese, per pan- 1 Gu oc 1’igsons, per pair — @ nKsasu) rouLTSi Turkeys, per lb.. 14 3 I .uckene. Pliila , per !u 17 if Fowls, per lb I.H43 Spring ducks, per lb.. ... 13 3 Squabs, per dozen 1 25 3 nop*. State, HKM, Tkmee 19 3 Prime 17 3 Pacific Coast, Mi, choice.. 1R 3 OM odds. . 0 3 Hsy. prime, per 100 )b — A No. 1, per 100 lb K) A No. 2, per 103 lb 72143 Clover nuxed, per 100 lb. Straw, long rye

Carrots, per patnatoeipiS^pcr"—Luna beans, per tag.. Com, per MO.... .... ._

Cauliflower, per bbl. 1

Ob*, per basket Brussels sprouts, per qt. Pumpkins per birr.. .....

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4‘ A 1 2

nd.... ........... Corn, No.2-white Oats, mixed .... ... Clipped white ... ...... Lard, city.. UV* STOCK. Beeves, city dressed ....... Cclres, city dressed,....... Country dressed.. .. .... beep, per MO lb S smbs, per 100 lb......... 5 ogs, ihv, per 100 Br. 4

CLASSIC SLOT MACRIIE.

FOB A FARMERS' UNION. Movement to Organize and AfflUato With American Federation of Labor Chicago. 111. — Farmers of Illinois. Wisconsin, Indian* and other adjacent States may affiliate with the American Federation of Labor at Ike coming convcction of Jhat body, to b-' In Id to November. The project 1s finding much favor to Wisconsin, according to re~ ' iri* brought from that State by Jos. W. Morton, a Chicago tabor trader, who wm be a Ucicsate to the conven-

tk.n.

Mr. Morton aaja tbe farmer# ore «*>-

tin

inslastic ore xl control I

American Society of (equity, and the uniting of the fanners with Uie American Federation of labor It accom■pliabed will be done throurt delegatee sent to the convention. The farm era plan to cat out the middleman and bin '

Eflessai

siaiism. aqr laarnsL . Society of Equity Is working along 80-

Tobacco Crag a Bonn nr*. ip tobacco grower* of Lancaster County. Pennaylraats. ore reollatac unprecedented return* thu year. It hi estimated that fully 14.000 acres of tobacco were planted, and. as the araaon has been a perfect one. the chan eat sa well aa the largest crap to years has been gathered. Pr* riles By all of the

. _ i avenge fanner ret from twelve to fourteen ctnts. iMrtaft 1 belter n