A«a Protection tor II hr*.
For some time past British entomol
ogists, or bug hunters, have been exei
ciscd over the extermination of cerlaii
insects in consequcnee of the zeal o
collectors, who roam over the country
with butterfly nets. It would be dilli
cult to protect butterflies and moths bj
legislation, as has been done for birds
so an association has been formed un
der the auspices of the Entomologica
society of London. The members agrei
to leave rare insects alone for awhile
and to do all m their power to curb tin
sporting instinct in others. The insec
collector who abides by it will be mon
than human. Imagine a stamp collectoi
agreeing not to pick up a rare specimei
from the roadside, yet a similar temp
tation will be met and have to be resist
ed by the insect collector.—Chieagc
Chronicle.
Of Coarse He Was Educated.
“I suppose your son has had all tht
advantages of a good education?”
“Good education!” exclaimed the ok
man. “Well, I want to tell you that
that boy has more education than any
body else in these here parts, and I can
prove it, too.”
“Been to college, has he?"
“Well, I should say he had. Wen,
to four colleges in less ’n one year—
jest seemed to go right through ’em
like a cone-shaped bullet.”—Chicago
Post.
HninlltatcU.
"No,” groaned the sufferer. “I don't
mind the bruises so much. Its the hu
miliation of the thing that is hardest
upon me.”
“But,” the visitor said, "according to
the accounts in the papers, it wasn’t
your fault. You were on the right side
of the road when the pnllicinn coonrT'.vd >1
“I know that, Tout the fellow who
ran into me was on a last year’s wheel.”
And he rolled over and wept.—Cleve
land Leader.
A Serious Cane.
Mrs. Briske—Johnny, did the doctor
call while I was out?
Little Johnny (stopping- his play)—
Yes’m. He felt my pulse an’ looked
at my tongue and shook his head, and
said it was a very serious case, and he
left this prescription and said he’d call
again before night.
Mrs. Briske—Gracious me! It wasn’t
you I sent him to see; it was the baby.
—Yellow Kid Magazine.
Timely Warning.
Husbanu—What did you do with that
comic paper that the newsman left here
yesterday?
Wife—I left it up in the nursery.
“For heaven’s sake run nnd get it
before the children get hold of it. It’s
a dangerous thing for them to handle.”
“You don’t tell me! Why, what’s the
matter with it?”
“It’s full of old saw's.”—Boston
Courier.
How Boston Owla Hoot.
She had just returned from a visit
to Boston.
“Is it true,” asked an acquaintance,
“that there is an air of culture and edu
cational refinement plainly noticeable
in the speech of Boston residents?”
“My dear,” she replied, impressively,
— “even the owls around Boston hoot:
‘To whom!’ instead of ’To whoo!’ as
they do in the west.”—Chicago Times
Herald.
Good Liquor.
Alkali Ike—What sort of whisky art
they settin’ out over at the new Blue
Ruin saloon, Pete?
UIUUUO A
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You can get drunk on it now, stay full
for 24 hours, an’ then git drunk agin
whenever you want to by merely sliakin’
vour head.—N. Y. Journal.
FOR WOMEN’S TROUBLES TOO.
New Baden, 111., August 12th:—Mrs.
Anton Griesbaum, Jr., has been very
ill. Female weakness had run her
down so low that she could not do her
housework. She had tried many things,
but got no relief.
Dodd's Kidney Pills, a new remedy,
which is better known here as a cure
for Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy,
and Rheumatism, worked like a charm,
in Mrs. Griesibaum’s case. She used
three boxes and is now a new woman,
able to do her work as well as ever
she was. Her general health is much
improved, and she has not a single
symptom of Female Trouble left.
Dodd’s Kidney Pills are making a
wonderful reputation for themselves
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FARMER AND PLANTER.
ABOUT THE FARM GIRL.
A I'ch I'lnuly Word* on a *n!il> ot
that la Lsniilly Sadly Neg
lected.
The farm boy—why, lie is the sub
ject of hundreds of articles by those
who think they know just how he
ought to lie treated by his father and
mother. 11 is room is carefully de
scribed. and we are told how we ought
to try to interest him in farm mat
ters, so that he will not want to run
away to the city; but the girl, who
thinks or cares for her?
Ilut it is a serious matter we have
to deal with when we come to think
about the farm girl. She will be the
farmer’s wife ot to-morrow if some
city or town chap does not come in
and carry her away to grace his home,
which 1 do not blame him for doing;
it is the most sensible thing he could
possibly do. Still I would far rather
see her stay among the birds and the
flowers and the sweet scenes of the
country than to know that we have
lost her, even to make our city youth
happy.
Dut where are the girls of the farm
to-day? I do not know. Do you? Al
most every week some one calls at
Clover-leaf farm and asks: “Do you
know where I can And a good girl to
work for me? My wife is sick, and
we need some one to help us for a few
weeks.” And 1 do not know where to
send him. 1 try to think of the girls
that used to be in tlie neighborhood.
One of them is teaching school— a
grand and noble occupation. Another
is fitting herself for the same calling.
We are proud or the reports wnien
come to us from her. Still another
is “doing dressmaking” in town. So I
go on, and come back just where 1
started. I. do not know of a single
girl that could be had for love or
money.
Xow, 1 can not say that 1 blame the
young women for wanting to do just
ns well as they possibly can. It is all
right to reach out for the very best
that is within touch. Teaching, type
writing', sewing, working in the fac
tory, serving as a clerk in the store—
these are all honorable professions.
Hut so is farming. I wonder if it can
be that it is because our girls really
prefer to bo shut up in the factory,
or bend over the sewing-table from
morning until night, that they go
away from the farms? I do not quite
think so. What then?
I believe it is because the girls are
dissatisfied with the life on the farm.
It is not simply because they can earn
a little more money in town than they
can on the farm, although, no doubt,
some do leave us on that account; but
the prime motive, so far as my obser
vation goes, is lack of real love for the
country home. A feeling of sadness
came over me when T wrote that last
sentence, for I do not like to think
that any of our boys and girls should
ever cease to love the scenes of the
country. And I do not believe they
would if their home surroundings
were just what they should be. That
may hurt some fond father or mother
who has helned Mollie naek her trunk
(c go away to town. I think 1 nan feel
something of the sorrow which ac
companied her going away. But let
me ask that mother whether or not
she has not by herself talking slight
ingly of the farm and its work, by the
way in which she has educated her
daughter during the early years of
her childhood, helped to bring on this
feeling that the country is not just
the place for a live, girl or boy. It is
not exciting enough. Nothing ever
happens in the country. Life is dull
here. Is not Ibis the common trend
of the conversation?
Well, if that be true, what shall we
do to keep our girls with us? Kvcry
farmer father and mother must an
swer that for himself or herself. Do
you think if the home were as beau
tiful as it should and might be with
the outlay of a little c-are and not a
great deal of money; if the girl's life
were full of bright, cheery and help
ful things, as every farmer girl's life
might be; if all that is said and done
in 1he home should be such as to deep
en the girl's love for the country and
the country home; if, in short, the
farm were allowed to weave its mystic
spell around the farm girl, that she
would be so anxious to get away from
it all and shut herself tip in the hot,
dusty, lonely city? I do not.
And 1 feel all the more sorry to see
our girls go away when I think of the
time to come—and it surely will come
—when she will long to get back home
to the farm. And it may not be pos
sible to do so them. Life’s duties
press hard upon us as we grow older,
and the thing we would, like to do
and which we wish we had done we
can not possibly do now. The heart
may grow weary thinking about the
home back in the country, where all
was so free and pure; duty says: “No,
here is your place; stay in it.”
Well, this, then, is a plea for the
country girl, a direct appeal to the
fathers and mothers who have girls
yet untouched by the spell of other
kinds of life. What do I ask? Only
1hat you shall do or say nothing
which will tend to wean the girls
away from the farm home. I know
how life presses in upon us some
times, Weary in body, we can not help
thinking how good il would be if we
could find some place where we might
throw off care and rest. The words
we are apt to speak at such times are
the words upon which our boys and
girls seize to foster the s^f.rit of un
| easiness, which ends in the determina
, tion to go away and see for them
( selves what the city is like. If we
were to stop when Ihese words rise
| within us, and rest, awhile, the incli
nation to speak them would soon pass
away, and we would see that, after
f- - , every spot and place in all this ;
world has its hard days and its heavy
burdens. The farm has as few aa
my. The morning's light would bring
rosier outlooks.
Then, too, the country home should
be just as full of brightness as flow
ers, birds, trees, pleasant surround
ings generally, indoor and outdoor,
can make it. Good books and papers
have a helpful influence which can
not be estimated. But birds and
flowers and cheery surroundings are
not quite enough to satisfy. 1 do not
know why the farm girl should not
have a pecuniary interest in the farm
stock—the hens, the lambs, the calves
—iust as much as her brother. Do
you?
It appears to me that were the farm
girl treated thus, as a partner in all
that pertains to the country home, it
would save them and their parents
many a heartache in days to come,
and instead help memory to weave
golden spells over the old farmhouse
and its scenes. This is worth while
when we think what the farm girl of
to-day may lie to the world of to
morrow. God bless the farm girl!
May her heart be kept pure and true
to her home in the country! — Edgar
L. Vincent, in Farm and Fireside.
With n Purpose In View,
A good many farmers are going to
breed mares this coming spring—
more than for many years. I wonder
how many of them have a clear idea
as to what kind of a horse they are
trying to produce. The farmer
breeds horses for two purposes—for
his own use and for the market. Tf
any man prefers to use a scrub and
to breed what he wants nobody can
offer any reasonable objection. It's
his funeral. But the whole breeding
fraternity has a right to protest
against the breeding of scrubs for
market—and about every horse has a
market. First, because a scrub stal
lion interferes with the opportunity
for a good one to do a profitable
business; and he must be profitable
to his owner or he can not be availa
ble to breeders. And. second, be
cause every cheap or scrub horse
lowers to some extent the market for
a medium grade of horses, which will
come no matter how high the breeder
aims. Horse-breeding is not an exact
science, and there is always a chance
of a mediocre animal from a good
mating. Enough of the kind will be
produced in this way without the use
of scrub sires.
Let us have an object in breeding.
Let us consider the purpose as care
fully as in breeding for milk or for
beef (and let us not fail to realize
that the stallion can’t do it all). A
farmer's boy, looking over a horse at
a blacksmith-shop, pronounced it a
“nothing." He was right; the horse
was a common one. useful to the man
who bought him cheap, but profitless
to the man who raised him. Are not
too many of us working on the phi
lanthropic plan of breeding “noth
ings” for somebody to pick up at
mean prices? The way, and the only
wov, to nvoifl it in to l>reo<l soincthinf’’,
Avoid extreme mixtures and work to
ward a certain purpose.—W. T. B., in
National Stockman and Farmer.
Have all fruit and other crops gath
ered as s'oon as ripe or sufficiently
ripe to be shipped. Cool off before
packing in crates or baskets, and see
that the packages in which they are
shipped are properly ventilated. Sort
and grade, carefully when packing and
mark each package with the grade,
and let the contents strictly conform
to the marking. This will secure a
reputation for reliability, and will sell
products for 1he best prices when
markets are glutted.—Farmers’ Home
Journal.
HERE AND THERE.
—Lime and sulphur dips should nev
er be used on sheep. Some large buy
ers of wool refuse to buy the wool
from slice]) which has been dipped in
lime and sulphur.
—Over most of the southwest feed
crops will be short ihis year, Hay
will be unsually scarce, the oat crop
is known to be very short, and most
of the corn fodder has burned up in
the fields.
—There is no need of any one wait
ing for something to turn up in or
der to accomplish results. Failure is
born the minute you stop on your
course. Success comes to the l>oy or
man who hustles, but never to the
lcafer.
—Where market eggs are the object
of the poultry raiser, it is better to
have the birds of some purely district
breed, that the eggs may be as uni
form in color and size as possible.
—That the Belgian hare industry
should be an adjunct to poultry cul
ture is in evidence by reason of the
poultrymen all over the country
“stocking up” with the little animal.
—Still uglier reports of the havoc
wrought by anthrax or charbon con
tinue to come from the Mississippi
delta. It is now said that if ils rav
ages are not checked hardly a mule
will be left serviceable by fall.
- Look out for the cat in the poul
try yard. The 1 oo-innocent-lookmg
cat is not to be trusted. The cat that
“never touches a thicken” when any
one is around may not resist the
temptation cn other hungry oc vi
sions.
—Wheat and oat straw posses but
little fertilizing talue, the chief bene
fit from their use bring to add hu
mus to th-3 soil, and as absorbents for
stable manures. Its greatest value is
as rough forng* for cattle an 1 horses,
ai d may be used liberally as fodder
and bedding.
Seventy-five sheep yield about as
many pounds of wool as an acre of
land will cotton. The wool brings
about twice as much per pound as the
cotton. And the, sheep is as good af
ter the wool is taken off as it was be
fore.
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“He’s forever speaking of ‘the late un
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the civil war.” “Oh, no! He means his
late wife.”—Philadelplda Press.
“De man dat staht out to git sumpin’ foh
nuffin',” said Uncle Eben, “giner’Jy winds
up by gittin’ nuffin foh sumpiu’.”—Wash
ington Star.
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New York, Aug. 13.
CATTLE—Native Steers....$ 4 60 (fi$ 5
COTTON—Middling . ® ,
FLOUR—Winter Wheat- 3 55 a
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OATS—No. 2.
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BEEVES—Steers . 4 40
Cows and Heifers. 2 50
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HOGS—Fair to Choice. 5 00
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RYE-No. 2.
TOBACCO—Lugs . 3 50
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HAY—Clear Timothy. 11 00
BUTTER—Choice Dairy... 13
BACON—Clear Rib.
LOGS—Flesh .
PORN—Standard Mess(new)
LARD—Choice Steam.
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HOGS—Fair to Choice. 5 65 @>
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NEW ORLEANS.
FLOUR—High Grades. 3 50 @
CORN—No. 2. ®
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HAY—Choice . 20 00 ® 21 00
PORK—Standard Mess. 15 50 ® 15
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COTTON—Middling . @
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Guyer—Yes, and especially in the money
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I do not believe Piso’s Cure tor Consump
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To Prove It.—Kind Gentleman—“Ah,
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don't believe a nice little dog like him will
bite.’’ Tattle Boy—“Don’t, don’t yer? Sic
’em, Bill!”—Ohio State Journal.
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