The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

IM PERSO ar-'l IJ"ic-vbra 0f ’ p ie U b la n c h a v o been .J o J unusual re s u lts a nt? , | ! “ *'ig Peart* b ro u -lu 1^ l a t Myerstown, L»a., loH a1- to a fire, whon jt v ® ■from th e groat exp0l vI liv l burned h is m,ek jg j. k f u c t\ ■u |S physician h r >ugbt a lib V I widower who had K - O f h h to ta l, * & £ £ ■prescription he had ulvln ►e/oro h e r deatlu ' I, th e h e a d of th e f a rm e r ris in g flve-and-tliirty, rn h o is-or-protonndly in tu ilh - |m a n of m iddling hoiuht Ity h a ir and a lo n g white ■dyke c u t w Ia n in New lla v e a washes PI hacks h e receives Xlb f- thon rin sing th e ’ notes Jv’ater, and he rep o rts that I 1' h'lvos a clean, crisp look iieist dilapidated bill, ■year-old negro boy in q aj, IJa. whose favorite s p o r t- le a d s w ith o th e r hoys, has J*1-' lunatic asylum.'" It i<, lih a a ity was caused l»v the brain received in his ■dent and moving sp irit of I Sorictv of Psychical he. ™' ■h has for its, object the" litig a tio n of. ghosts, is >Ir. I editor of th e Arena. _\1- | ‘a.‘tical and hard-headed . he possesses .a g re a t life, ■iciinuy. |tita t in a d istric t in Mc-ade there is only one family, and wife constitute the .* {Ln'1 ‘-bey employ their ■laughter, as teacher, who |n o pup.Is. Recently they la.-y from thirty-fii'e to . rnontn. an his back was th e most a r t of a beggar who for liected alms on the step s of lihureh, Paris. Of late in seemed to grow. The Jdeliriuin, hc-jumped from II. was kilted. This hump |0'Ju in bonds and coin, s of Cambridge, since th e t ’ ,*las’ been :.n the queen’s I The follow ing are the le s o f the,amount of money led: G ran t .of £12,000 for fears, .CUSS, 009; armv emol- | 1SJ7 to J«di, iSHi.000; colo- llie r guards. ISJ i to ISO!), |m n ler-in-chief, 13*52 to ; rangersh ip of parks. £!>"!.000. 1 , "LE NONSENSE .^ ‘is the teller in?” Afan- I 1has gone away. ” Depos- Ine for ii rest, I presume?” Pl.vi— “Su; I fa u e y it's to/-., ••Australian Joke. pc I" said tile salesman, “ th is la Cigarette pocket.” “ 15ut 1 eig iuv ttes.” “Oh, ct can hold the money tsm o k in g them .’’—M ens . jugliter refuses to be my ’ “Mie’s foolish, p : i pressed her a t allv® th e tru th she is a h v a jt It I have been afraid to . Ires*. Ifnt—“ I fear, young man, I my daugh ter’s h and fo r IYoung Man—“ Well, look p y . antj k ind ly , mention • ‘ JaltiicutiOiis she possesses. Truth. It have you been g u ilty of whont tiie tw en tieth time kiStrata liavc had you be.* Ihd is it ray fault, y o iir m h av en 't been prom oted loilice?” [(writing)—“ Shall Tsond. pour love?” L a u ra—“Of ju bad b e tte r m ake it my I Perishable goods can* (hrough th e mail, you napolis Jo u rn a l, ph an exquisite s k ir t as d a u g h te r wore a t th e py-dress party ! Was it E lia—“N o t exactly, tie was very brief, and I I r the shade of th e par- p in p.”—P ittsb u rg h Bill­ s ’- yo u r rival lias been com ing engaged to .Miss a y o u n g m an to hi® 1 did my best; i « was cn I.’’ “ind eed ” How­ ie knew enough to le t him. tit billiard* and t nigfon Star. farmer’s b.iy am) very mr was pulling off his irato ry to going to bed, her asked; “ Freddy, doing?” F reddy b ad process of tre a ting d replied: “l i e ’s husk* emorest’s Magazine, fist Motto.—She had *( looked at th e d o ck pretended to be h a lf ttos, b u t th e y o u n g ed- llitig upon h e r w as so a t he old n o t observe tons o f weariness. At “Most new spapers a ren ’t th ey ?” “som e y ou rs o n e r ’ *Y*a,” We are b e t* to sta y .” o rn i t w m ftothethlng s said w ith A sigh, and '•a u m e d .-if, V. f n u a TEMPE11ANCE NOTES. am a lc o h o l a l p h a b e t . . (or Alcohol; deathlike its grip; u(.'rHt'sa-»er, who takes ju st a sip; orcr Companion who urges hint on; n for the Ue«<"« of (lrinl[ ‘hut Is born; SjcfEBdoavirhe makes to resi.,1. rnanis lor PnenJs who so loudly Insist; r JsftltC tia.’t that lie afterwards feels; 5| far the lle.v»n» that hang at liis heels; -ityi Intention nnlrltik not at all, Vjtanils for Jeering that follows Ills fall; f (arli's Knowledge th at he is a slave, t stands ft r the Unuor lilsaippetUeS crave; Sforcoat.ti.il Mwiings-so gay. Ssiamls for No that he tries hard to say; 0 (ur the owips (hat then come to pass. PaiM‘h K*r l'nd e that he drowns in his glacs; nttr tin1Quarrels that nigliUy abound GsUnrtS f**r It.iui, that hovers around; Sstand* (or Sights th a t lila.iision bedim, llilatnis for Trenihling th at selr.es liis lii;mbs; X(or ids exit regretted by done, youth of this nation, such weakness Is crime; Zealously turn from the tem pter In tlmol -Ur. pyrus Rilson, In North American Ito- vfew. • THE SCOURGE . OF FRANCE. A Terrible I’lctu re D raw n fro m A c tu al 1 , 1 ft*. The following is a tran slation of an article which appeared, in Le P e tit Journal, which is th e most largely cir­ culated of Parisian daily newspapers, its sales averaging'som ething like nine "hundred thousand copies p e r day. An article in so wfclcly circulated a journal* certamlv must te ll the tru th : I-.lins been said with truth that, of all the dangers menacing our agricultural popula­ tion at the present day, the gravest and the ®on diitlcult to fight'against is alcoholism. Noone cun have boon a resident of a country district without being struck with the devel Dptaent of this scourge during the last thirty years, the deplorable effects of which are every- . where visible. The habit of saving, th at was so long the strength and the glory or our tillers of tlio soil, is gradually disappearing,’ The money box of the liquor soller swallows up, sous by sous, the wages that formerly, in the form of silver pieces, were hidden away in some corner of the, clothes press, to be brought out when enough was accumulated to buy a little piece, of ground. The peace and harmony of families is se­ riously iuipufred. In the villages the women are reduced, like the wives of workmen In the towns, to haunt th e doors of tile drink shop in order to rescue the bread of their children from the alcoholic gulf. In most of our hum- lets the drunkard,, who was formerly the ex­ ception, hus multiplied by contagion. Once the peasant never entered the cabaret except on a Sunday to leisurely alp a few litres ■of wine and play a long game of bards o r bowls- for the scot. Today,, when kilo and when going to work, whether it is a holiday or not. the rural laborer npver moots a comrade without inviting him to take a glass—a glass of hrandy. be it understood. One glass moans two, for. it is only common ■civility to call f6r another, and if. as often happens, friends drop in, each-one treats in.his turn; until the man, who came in ju st to take a nip goes away charged with a half-pint or a pint of spirits,’ almost always adulter­ ated.. This guKzIlng of spirits (mul what spirits! for the country tavern-keepers do not hesitate to : soli the mast fright­ ful mixtures for gain) Is not a rare occurrence. IfepcttU’d daily, it becomes pernicious la the last extreme. ' ! ' When a young Vnati begins drinking, only to like the rest, habit soon makes it a neces­ sity, and rapidly he becomes lmbrutcd. The agricultural laboror is only willing to work for *tbe sake of procuring th e pleasures of new ca­ rousals. Deprived of liquor, he is stupid and atetl kind. In p la te of being econom­ ical, th e y are spend th rifts; in place o f being imluhtrious, they are loafers. The consequences, it is n o t too much to say, tvill prove fa ta l to Franco, W ith a drunken, b ru ta l and demoralised working class from which to re c ru it h e r army, de fe a t w ill be h e r portion, when she attem p ts, as she surely will, to retrieve her position us the dom inant continental nation of western Europe, by un appeal to arms; w hen h e r pas­ sion for revenge over th e hum iliation suffered a t th e hands of Germany, and h e r design to reconquer Alsace-and Lor­ raine, lends h e r to begin war, she w ill find h e r regim ents of drunken helots no match for the iron battalion s o f her Uerman foe.-—Toledo Blade. . GERMANY’S LIQUOR LAW: “ " K n ip e ro r 'IV ltlhuu’g C ru sad e A g a in st . D ru n k e n n ess, Tiie. proposed now "la w ' against the abuse of spirituous liquors has been published in th e lleiehsanzeiger. I t con- ta iu s tw en ty -th ree paragraphs. While p a rag rap h 28 of the trade law formerly le ft it to the differen t federal govern­ m ents to g ra n t licenses, the' law is now changed as to allow of the grant* ing of a-- license only in cases where th ere appears to be. a need fOr a retail liquo r shop or for a saloon. • The need o f 's u c h a re ta il place or saloon m ust be shown. A license will be refused to anyone of immoral char- people who iiiay be sus- businoss as savago beast. Tied to this animal, who covers her with blows ami cvcq. refuses to give her food, the unhappy wlfo loses courage ami some- limes takes to drink In her turn. So much the worse for the children! They will follow the example of their parents. ’ No more te rrib le picture was ever drawn from actual-life th an th e above. It seems th a t a revolution, is going on in France—a revolution which is de­ stroying the one class of her people who have been h e r stab ility ..And .the foundation "stone on which she lias built the magnificent stru c tu re of a mighty nation. * Tiie ag ricultural class referred to above are tiie ones who, going to their secret hoards, poured in to the lap of the nation those m illiards o f francs which were required no t only to me.it the expenses of th e w a r w ith Germany until the cap itu lation of Paris, bu t then to pay the unexampled w a r in­ demnity w h ich .that country exacted as the price of p eace G reat as w as the japidity w ith which th e U nited S tates recuperated a fte r the civil war, and paid off the la rg e r portion o f her im­ mense war debt, i t was b lit child's play in comparison w ith w h a t F rance did •after the Franco-Prtissian w ar. No •other country ever had a ru ra l popula­ tion who could respond to such enor- onous demands by pouring in to th e na- tion’spu rse th e ir accumulated savings. If the article above quoted from Le Petit Journal be tru e—and we have, unfortunately, no dou b t b u t th a t it is 'Correct—tiie rum curse h a s fallen upon this industrious and saving class. From a nation of th rifty and frugal and hard­ working men, they have become d ru n k ­ en and debauched; working only to ol>- tatn money w herew ith to continue their potations, mid even Rtarv- . ing their wives and children in order to do so. In place of the peasant’s wife having laid up, in s6me sntig corner, a bulky accumu­ lation of silver coins; saved piece by piece, wherew ith to purchase a b it o t land and become ah independent- free­ holder, she is obliged to go and w a it a t tiie door of the village w ineshop, fn or-.- der to waylay he? hu sb and anil o b ta in money for the h a re tltgessarica of life Iwfore he goes w ithin and waste* H in drink. Jfo longer, Jt' seems, can1 the French peasant* b e poihted to as kn example of a people who c an indulge in drinking th e ir lig h t n a tiv e , w'indh a t freely a* We d rin k tc a a fid coffee; With*’; out becoming Sots, and w ith o u t losing their weH-eamed rcpffUition fo r Indus­ try and fm jbdJtf. f r o m d rin k in g w ine they have fmae to d rin k in g brandy, ifiib lj to furnish liquor on credit except iu cases where the guest is talcing them with his meals. No claims tor liquor furnished in contravention >f this order can be legully collected. Common drunkards and people who by th eir addiction to liquor endanger the public welfare or neglect their families cun be placed under legal guardianship. Such a person is legal­ ly equal to a* minor, Tiie guar­ dian, or, In his default, the court can order the detention of such a person in "an - asylum for in­ ebriates. Fines of. thirty to sixty marks and imprisonment up to fourteen days may be imposed upon sueh persons as •violate tiie provisions of the above law. A fine np to 10(1 marks or imprisonment up to four weeks can be imposed upon anyone who beeomes Intoxicated while engaged in work connected with the saving of life or the preven­ tion of fire, etc.; also who attempts such work while drunk, except in cases Of urgent need. The same applies to persons engaged in taking care of the health of others, such as physicians, nurses, etc. Tiie danger arising from the sale of liquor in general stores, the danger to morality by female attendance, and the other reasons for the different par­ agraphs of the law are exhaustively treated. The law is carefully drawn, and in th e event of its passage (which is thought to be almost a foregone con­ clusion) will, It is believed, do much to stop the spread of alcoholism. NOTES HERE AND THERE. TiriJ Brotherhood of Locomotive En­ gineers expelled nearly four hundred members the past year for intoxication. E.vor.tsrr papers state th a t the Ameri­ can lady delegates made the most ef­ fective speeches a t t)ie g reat temper­ ance meetings in London. - I ) r . D k h c a k tb s , of Paris, writes that ot-cr half the income of all medical nten of France comes directly and indi­ rectly from excessive use of spirits, Tim Irish Temperance league, at the ycqncst of the Belfast auxiliary of the Reformed Presbyterian mission, a t An­ tioch, Syria, has issued a pledge card irt Arabic, whieh it is believed Is the fits! temperance pledge card sent out in that language.. An exceedingly pretty design of flowers embraces certain characters in Arabic, the translation ot which is as follows: ^Society Temper* I promise, by the grace of God a c te r o r to pectcd as using the- liquor a eloofc for debauchery, gambling, pros- titu tibn , etc. I f the location—as, for instance; n e a r a church—appears unde­ sirable, the license can also be refused. ■ filetailers a re all d ealers who sell in .quan tities of le ss than fifty liters, and this may be extended to cover, those Selling below 1U0 liters. The retailors cannot sell in quantities of less than half a liter. In cities of over 5.000 in­ h ab itan ts tiie re ta il trade in, liquors m ust no t be connected w ith any Other kind of trade. Sph-its m ust not be stored in salesrooms which serve any other purpose than th a t <ii selling liquor. Excepted Jfrom this are only th e drug store's, which may s e ll liquors in sealed and labeled bottles. All inn and saloon keepers m ust supply the guests w ith non -pirituous liquors if required, and also with' eataples as fa r as possible.. They must keep stric t or­ der in th e ir places and prevent' any­ th in g which may lead to the abuse of alcoholic drinks.'.- The different gov­ ernm ents are perm itted to regulate the employment of female •waiters. Tho police can forbid the sale of liquors before 8 o’clock a. m. Tiie sale of d rinks to m inors below the age of Id is forbidden, except" in cases where they are accompanied by grown persons or while traveling. Inn and saloon keepers, as well as re ta il dealers, are forbidden to furnish liquo r to people who have been con­ victed of common drunkenness w ithin th ree years, . also to all intoxi­ cated persons. They cannot ex-" pel a drunken tnan from . heir premises except by sending _ him to his home or to a police station, brutal; wlion .lrunlt lio Ta t’ranY f^ In u and auloou-keepers arevaof, allowed OF GENERAL INTEREST. —The Columbia gas well a t McKees* port, I’m, was plugged up w ith the re ­ su lt th a t a ll the w a te r wells in thn neighborhood began to bubb le and so ta ste of petroleum th a t they were unfit fo r use. —Tho w ill of George M erritt, one o l th e old California pioneers, provides th a t a band of music m u st precede tiie fu n e ra l cortege and th a t refreshm ents m u st be serve^-at th e close oAtlio cere­ monies. * -o' .J k ; _—The g re a te st b ird cage con­ tin e n t is said to bo th e Gigiga Central railroad station in New York, Tho noisy English sparrow s swarm th ere by tiie thousands and nest in the g re a t arching roof girders. -r-The San Francisco board of trade, which is in fa c ta local-development or­ ganization, is discussing th e feasibility of m aintaining a tra in in g ship from which the m erchant marine of the Pa* eific may bo recruited. ■ —Dr.-William A. Ilammond says th a t oven well-to-do Americans requ ire more re st than any o th e r people in the world and g e t less, lie th ink s a hum an being should have a succession of lab o rs and diversions as a farm has. ro tation of crops. —-A. cook fell overboard from a schooner on th e lakes recently, and was stunned by the fall. Consequently he remained under w a te r fo r half an hour wkkout'-inconvenience so fa r as drowning was concerned, jind was in a few m inutes a fte r his rescue as well as usual. —There is a hotel in Boston th a t is frequently m istaken for a church by strang ers who pass one of its entrances. A t the end of the corridor and visible froni the' street fh'ore is a peculiar fe a t­ ure of the stairw ay which, from a lit­ tle distance, resembles tlio pipes of an organ. ' —The Astoriun says th a t as Mr- •Alexander, an Oregon sheep raiser, was driving a herd of ten thousand mutton sheep through K lickitat county to the Sound m arket recently a small canyon was reached which the herders did not see, and when the front sheep came tc it the re a r ones pushed them ahead un­ til there was a bridge formed w ith tho strugg ling and dying leaders. The re st of tbe band passed over, and w hen the herders arrived they found three hundred and sixty dead and dying sheep. —"S tarb o a rd ” which has always been disputed by scholars as to its meaning, lias u t la st been explained w ith satisfactory authority. Mr. K. K eat says th a t Dr. Kingsley informs him th a t as “starboard” is, by common consent, from “ steer-board," the side on which tbe helmsman stood to grasp the steering pndUle, so larboard is from ulet'r-/joaril. ” the, em pty side, where the steersm an didn’t s ta n d Ih H akluyt’s "Voyages” th ere is this passage about Ohthcre: “Whereupon ho tooke his voyage directly no rth along the coast, having upon his stcerc- boord nhvayes the d esert land, and upon the loereboord the mnino ocean.” —Georgia h a , a unique railroad train, whieh is described by tho A tlan ta ‘’Con­ stitu tion .” I t ru n s from C lumblee tip” on the Air Line road ou t to Roswell, a distance of only about fifteen miles, b u t the little tra in is famous. I t consists of one car, which is divided into three compartments, an engine w ithout nnv of th e modern improvements, w ithout even a tender, the wood b e in g piled up in the cab, As soon as everybody gets on the tra in sta rts. There is no. pre­ lim inary boll-ringing or w arning from th e engine, but you are off, bumping and rolling around n t the ra te of a b o u t nine miles an hou r before you know it. 0 W —A St. Bernard dog became involved in a quarrel witli two curs a t Wilming­ ton, Del The cu rs snapped and grow led a t the Canine bully, which tu rn ed and made the little fellows “ki-yi," An­ other dog, which was watching the row, ■aiv th a t tho curs w ere g e tting the w orst of the fight, and immediately Btarted for help. A t Whiteman’s livery stable ho found th ree collies and an­ o th e r large dog to whom th e situation w as quickly explained by barks. The fou r stable dogs made a dash fo r tlio corner. When tho St. Bernard saw the reinforcements coming he found th a t he had im portant business in the direc­ tion of M ark etstrect, The curs th anked the collies for th e ir tim ely rid by wag­ ging th e ir tails, and th e collies w en t back to tho stable. THEFARMINGWORLD. CONVENIENT RACK. A S im p le D evice (That Is G ood fo r B o tll S ta b le a n d Ifarm . Absorbents fo r th e stable are univer­ sally considered im portant because of th e p a rt they play in ta k in g up odors and liquids th a t afterw ard enrich the land. ' A convenient rack tiie length of th e stable 'may be made V shape beside tiie stable wall bade of th e cows as shown. I t may be th ree fe e t wide a t the top and bu t nine inches wMp a t the bottom, which is le ft open an d is three incites from th e floor, , This allows easy access to . tiie contents w ith the stable shovel, working on a, smooth surface, and a s fa st as the dry e a rth is removed more falls-.down. Thoracic or bin is numbered “A” in th e cufT" It m ust no t be h ig h enough to strik e tho hips of th e cows as they are being driven in and ou t of the stable. If tbe m anure is throw n ou t of the windows th e bin should have a drop lid. I t mfiy be filled' from the windows, bu t a d ic ap e r way is to draw th e absorbents ontp tiie floor above and dump them ■into the bin th rough - trapdoo rs. B i s T 8 the drop or g u tte r back of the corn, C and D tiie floor where tiie cows stand and E the stanchions or tie posts. I t will be noticed th a t the forward p a rt of tiie floor is.boxed in and filled w ith earth. This saves p lanking and-pre­ vents injury to the cows’ knees. It also acts as a . purifier of tiie stable. Three or four months a fte r filling .in it w ill be found dry enough to use in tiie drops, when it should be shoveled into th e bin and replaced w ith fresh earth. A stable k ep t dry w ith dry soil and paving two storage places for loam n ear .the drops may be expected to keep healthy cows and not con tam inate milk. Such conveniences also encour­ age the saving of manure and so enrich the owner, soon more than retu rn ing their co sta-H o lliste r Mage,- in N. E. Homestead; _ ____ FACTS FOR FARMERS. Ix is very desirable to.keep the breed­ ing stock in a good th rifty condition. A failure to do this w ill show in the offspring. . T ukuk is an opening for some en ter­ prising individual to introduce late straw berries th a t will not ripen until our p resen t ■ well-known varieties are ou t of season. ■ ' O ne cubic foot of silage is estimated as th e allowance for one cow per day, On this basis tlio size of the silo re­ quired for a certain number o f c a ttle inay be easily calculated. - Too much live stock is quite as bad "for the farm er ns too much land. Do not crowd the .stock, mid do not keep more than can lie fed well, pastured well und housed well. If you have more than this sell off the surplus speedily. 1 A soi.fTioN of crude carbolic acid w ill bo found excellent for destroying odors, but to destroy an odor does not g e t rid of th e cause of the odor, only disguising it by sub stitu ting one more powerful; hence clean away 'the sub­ stance th a t produces the annoyance. Ui'ST in wheat may be prevented by destroying.the spores in the seed. Dis­ solve a pound of sulphate of copper in ten gallons of water, nnd soak th e seed iu the solution for tw enty-four hours, and then dry ,tho seed by dusting o r rolling in land plaster, sowing the seed as soon as it is dry. A, pint of linseed meat, and the same of cornmenl, mixed nf.d scalded w ith boiling water, if given to an animal n t nigh t w ill sometimes prove more ben­ eficial than any medicine th a t can be given. Lifisecd meal regulates tiie bowels and relieves constipation, as well as preventing scours. u*ncc Almighty. th a t I w ill n o t tost* ab y and th a t of a m ost abm n in y a d ilto r-4 kind of in tox icating d rin k .” One W ay to ScII C le a n . A South Illinois street druggist man worked a novel cigar-selling scheme a few weeks ago Iff the following fashion. Ho found a stray nickel on the floor of his store one morning and resolved to post this notice on the window of his store: “A sum of money found on Tuesday lost In this establishment The owner wilt receive same within up­ on deseribingthe money. ” The scheme worked like a charm. Hundreds of citizens came in daily for over a week, while the notice was left on the win* dow, describing their losses and bewail* ihg their misfortune. Invariably every applicant for the lost money bought a cigaf*. Some were satisfied with five* cent straight whifs, but the great ma­ jority, anxious to impress the drug man favorably toward their claims, Invested to two for a quarter. §o great was the rush that the fortunate druggist had to order a fresh Consignment of choice brand* (None of the applicants ever applied for the nickel. All the claims ran up into the hundreds o t dollars, one tnan stating he missed his hank book with fifteen hundred dollars.— -Indlytaa* no! is Sentinel* AN ECONOMICAL SILO, Valuatilo BuKRtmliouK from tin* NeW llH injiHhtrc rinjK -rlim -nt (Station. T he day of costly silos is past, say s D irector YVhifccher, of the Now Hamp­ shire station, and it is this fa c t a lo n e which enables th e rapid extension of. th is system of storage. A wooden s ilo v keeps its contents' w ith less loss than a stone o r'cem ent one, ch.vlly because o f . the. p en tration of a ir through m o rta r and cement. A silo b u ilt independent of tho barn can be built fo r SI per ton of capacity, if the capacity is above 75 tons. If bu ilt in tho Corner of a b a rn , th e cost of labo r and m a te ria l w ill l« j' about- h a lf th a t sum. A silo 10x10x25 foot w ill hold 100 tons. As stated in a bulletin of the station above mentioned, if b u ilt in the co rner of a barn, it w ill require forty pieces ' studding, 2x8, twenty-five fe e t l o n g - 080 feet; fou r pieces basem ent sills 8x8, seventeen fe e t long—800 feet; board* for inside walls, 8,500, The boards should not" bo over seven inches wide, planed on one side, and the inside course made to b reak jo in ts with, the- outside course, Matching, the board* is useless. Common covering boards, free from loose knots, a re good enough, and in m any cases the barn frame and studding can be p a rtly utilized, and the above quan tity of lum ber be con* siderably reduced. A cement bottom, though no t necessary, is desirable. Among th e advantages enum erated for the silo are the following: More actual food m aterial can be produced "from an acre of corn th a n from any other of our common farm crops. Three times as much dry substance ‘ may b e produced from a given are a of corn as from, a like a re a of grass. The objection sometimes made th a t ensi*- lage is too w atery is m et w ith th e sta tem en t th a t it is not a s w atery as pasture grass in "June. The farm er who lias a silo is about as independent of tiie weutlier os a man can b e 7 A s id e from heavy ruins nothing interrup ts this kind of harvest­ ing. L ig h t rain and showers, while making th e w ork disagreeable, do not stop it, and when once properly in the silo, a ll danger of imperfect curing is past. The early date a t wbicli the land can be cleared makes it fiossiblo to either seed down .to g rass or" w in ter grain u month before corn in the shock would be dry enough to husk. Anot her* advantage in the no rth is th a t varip- tles of la rg e r and la te r grow th may bo planted for this purpose th a t will no t fully ripeu before frost. HANDY DRIVING CART. APPLES FOR ANIMALS. I t I* a n E r r o r to ftnppo,* T h a t Acl<l, A re N o t U sefu l» V oim I. Apples of any kind, ripe and sound, are much lilted by all animals. A liorse w ill come across a ten-acre field fo r an apple, white a cow o r a pig w ill be equally pleased. Sour apples are no less nu tritiou s than sw eet tines. I t is un e rro r to suppose th a t acids are no t useful as food. Some, as the citric and "malic acid of fru its and the lactic acid of vegetables, are in ­ dispensable to* health, and th a t com­ mon disease of sailors, scurvy, is caused by w an t of these vegetable acids and is Cured by them . O ther anim al dis­ eases caused by accumulation of a lk a ­ line m a tte r in th e blood, chiefly soda and lime, a re prevented by using fruits which a lt contain iCids; and, a s w h a t­ ever con tribu tes to h e a lth hasten s th e fa tten in g process o r tiie yield o f milk, sound, rip e apples a rc useful fo r fa tten ing pigs and f o r m ilch cows* Being easily and completely digestible, a s roo ts also are, th e re is n o need to cook apples, b u t potatoes differ in th is respect and a re b e tto r cooked th an raw - Sound te e th are n o t in ju red by th e acid of Apples, Apples m a y w ell b e grown as a feeding crop fo r th e ir usefulness,— N, Y. T ribune, W ith I t One Man Can Do More Thun Two w ith mi Ordlnifl^r Outfit. Tlioso who have used a wagon to drive posts in- and have found it incon­ venient should carefully exam ine the post driving c a rt which is shown. T ake a comniou low wheel c a rt und remove th e sides and ends. On th e floor th a t is left build a sto u t chest on which you can stand th e drive posts, which are held erect by two steel arm s th a t a re firmly secured to tho side of th e cart. 'These arm s are constructed as shown in A. H in g e a door to th e re a r end of tiie chest, as you will desire to ca rry you r ax, spade, sledge; wire, stre tch e r and hamm er w ith you. On the side of . th e chest nail il small box of tw o com­ partm ents, one for n ails and one for ■ - ' staples. On th e end side o t th e c'art can be carried n few boards and posts. Of course th is is only for repairing, nnd if a m an repairs tw ice a y e a r it w ill no t tak e long and bu t few posts snd liosrds w ill havb to be tak en along. B u t if thu fence is old and w an ts much repairing load your wagon w ith po sts and boards and strin g them o u t where wanted, le ttin g your m an follow w ith the c a r t Then th e team can be ta k e n to th e house and put to work. By so doing a m an and a team •is gained, to r w ith th is c a rt one man can do a s much and do i t as w ell as tw o men w ith a» team w ith a load of m aterial.—M. LaF.* Raney, in F arm and Home. A RAT-PROOF ROOST, A n X njrenloni D evice In v e n te d bjr a M is­ s o u ri P a rm e r. A roost pole proof ag a in st r a ts th a t a tta c k chicks on the ro o st is se n t to F arm and Fireside by Mr. R obert Os* terho rn , Missouri. Tbe stak e s are 2x3 inches, nnd th re e fe e t long, driven into th e ground abou t one foo t d e e p T h e m etal plates, A A, a re te n Ind ie s in di­ am eter (any old wash-basin o r la rg e pie [date inverted, w ill answ er), and th ey are placed centrally Over the stakes; the pole, which is one inch thick and four inches wide; being nailed over them. The end pble (B) shown on one end, il need where the end of the polo comes near * wall th a t rata can. climb. The end plhto should be Mx inches wide, seven indie* high and elitoett Itoqhei from the walL'