(A Treating Trees Gnawed by Mice. My experience in treating trees 4 which have been gnawed, says. a. writer in the Agriculturalist, is as fol-, lows: Take a three-eighths-inch chis--, el, a gouge of the same size, a light. mallet and a sharp knife. Place the chisel in the sound bark just below the gnawed spot and across the grain of5 the wood. Drive it in about three-' eighths of an inch and again exactly, opposite, above the gnawed place. Now inseit the gouge midway be- tween .the cuts and drive it down to. the lower cut, turn the gouge and drive upward to the upper out. With the knife cut a scion from the tree, cut square off at each end and a. lit-l tle longer than the space between the, cuts, and spring it into place so thati the bark of the scion will meet the5 bark of the tree, which it is sure to do; My trees which had been planted two! years were ten to twelve feet high1 and some Of them gnawed entirelyi around, I put three to five scions in: each tree, straight toward the heart of the tree. Get a barrow load of fresh manure from the cow stable and with a pad- dle plaster the wound all around so as to cover the ends .of the scions! and wrap with a piece of burlap and! tie with Woolen twine. Out of forty-f eight trees treated only one died. The last time I saw the orchard, which}; was many years after the operation; every tree was in fine condition and? all completely healed but greatly en-f larged near the base. This work should1 be done in the Spring about the time*l the sap staits. i i - Early Setting Hens. i Ma1ch and Ap1i1 are the months for] setting hens. Chicks hatched late1j than April will be too late to furnishf laying pullets in autumn. Hens Which. set early are a little more diflicult to' manage because the broody fever is not so strong as it is in warm weath-_ -er, but if ca1efully handled they can usually be made to stick to a nest! when it is changed. The safest and: easiest way is to give each hen a room by herself. At first the nest should, be filled with china nest eggs, about; a dozen of them. Those she cannot break while getting accustomed to the change, and she is much more likely to set than upon an empty nest. : The nest should be carefully made with a good foundation of earth and chafi, covered with fine hay, A hen often knows a pOO1' nest better than her owner aces and will refuse to adopt it. Place her on the nest and fix \a covering of cloth over it to keep it da1k.Vith these .conditions the hen will usally accept the situation, After a day or two the genuine eggs may be given her and the nest uncov-' cred. If she has a separate room and is given a good supply of grain, water, grit and a dust bath. the hen will re- quire but little more attention—Amer- ican Agriculturist. 'o Longer Fear the Scale at San Jose. . A correspondent of the San Francis- co Chronicle, residing at San Jose, has this to say: “Our Eastern friends are everywhere in a state of great alarm at the ravages of the San Jose scale, so called because it was near San Jose that it began serious work upon its ar- rival from South America: We do not believe the trouble will be permanent any more than it was in this State One may mingle. among fruit farmers near San Jose for a year and never hear the pest mentioned. The lime, sulphur and salt mixture has been considered a soverign remedy; Latterly it has been claimed in other places that the decrease was due to a parasite, There is. however. at present in San Jose so little interest in the San Jose scale that we do not know that any one there has "even looked for a parasite, although probably the official bug hunters have done so. lVe state this as a word of encouragement to East— ern fruit growers who are now alarm- ed. as we were here about ten years since.” Care of Grapevines. The proper way to take care of grapevines: Have fresh bearing wood each year. wnilc not checking the gen— eral growth too much. If the vines are young. withestablished arms, the bearing canes are cut back each year to a bud or two. new shoots trained to, a desired height, but not cut back, simply pinched three or four'leaves above the fruit when set, Or they may be allowed to grow along the top , of trellis, to avoid the forcing of lat- erals. belong. On large arbors, with es tablished vines, the pruning is more intricate. but the principle is the same. Never cut away the leaves; they are the things and stomach of the plant. The grapes need the sun, not directly. but through the leaves, and ripen far better in their shade than if they are pulled oft—Troy Times. V‘urm Furrows. Like seed. like crop, Don't. ask the farmer, ask the farm Thrift is better than a bequest from 1 your old uncle. .. The farm is no mint, but it is a mine of manly health. Before you begin wo1k think where the pay is coming from. , Weeds are the farmer s faithful overseeis; they make him stir the soil. When the bugs get a mortgage on yourorchard, pay interest and princi- pal with a spray pump. An increase in the percentage of fat in the milk increases the quantity of cheese which may be made from any given quantity of milk, but not neces- sarily the quality. Always drive the chisel“ of fibres. which WRECKED BY A PILOT’S LEG. How the Mysterious Loss ofa. Stc'am Prc- pellor Was Solved. “We are never amazed when vessels go aground and are wrecked on‘ Lake Erie during the gales that are common on that treacherous water, for we ex pect such things then, ” said a lake skipper, but when one is grounded on a clear day and wrecléed, on a course as clear as. the day, a 1d in the hands of a pilot that knows the ground like a book, we naturally wonder a little and want to know the whys and wherefores. propellor Susan E. Peck, that went aground near' Bar point and was lost with a $20,000 cargo. “The captain of the Susan E. had sailed successfully hundreds of times between Point Pelee and Bar point, and in all kinds of weather, and this time he had a wheelman who was known from one end of the lake to the other as one of the most expert navigators in the lake business. 11.- had been lying up a long time for the very good reason that owing to an ac. cident to one of his legs that leg had to be amputated to save his life. The lost member was replaced by an arti~ ficial leg and then the pilot was ready to take his post at the wheel again His first service after his misfortune was this trip of the Susan E. Peck. and he ran her ag1ound. “The puzzle to everybody was how it was possible for the propello1, han- dled by a 'man of such skill and ex- perience, on a straight course only forty miles long, and with every sail ing condition favorable, to leave her course. The pilot was the most puz- zled and astounded person of all. He soon got another vessel, and this one he ran in such an erratic manner but fortunately with no disastrous result thathe was compelled to give her up and his usefulness as a pilot was gone. He and others went to investi— gating to see if they could discover what was wrong with his seamanship. After a while they discovered what seemed to be the trouble. In the pi- lot's artificial leg a great deal of steel had been used in the joints and other places. Sitting. close to the binnacle. as he did while steering, this steel de~ ranged the compass so that it drew the wheefunan way off his reckoning and led to the wrong piloting that had wrecked the Susan E. Peck and endan- gered the other vessel that the wheel- man navigated subsequently. This was what they argued, and to demon- strate the correctness of the theory the pilot took charge of a vessel with- out wearing his false leg. Everything worked to a charm. The mystery of the Susan. E. Peck was solved, and the pilot restored to his old place in the confidence of Lake Erie skippers and vessel owners."’—Chicago Inter— Ocean. Trees in New Zealand. The kauri is the monarch of the New Zealand forest. an indigenius pine. growing to enormous height, fre- quently eighty feet. before it sends out a bough, while its average diame- ter is from eight to nine feet. it is said to be 800 years in reaching ma- turity, There is no ,underbrush in a kauri forest. the prince of trees per- mitting no rival within its domain. The totara is another species of pine. which however, has none of the char acte1istics of the coniferae of Other countries. either in ‘habit or appear- ance. The most singular of all is the rata. a peculiar tree with somewhat. the nature of a parasite. If it springs up near a rimu pine it winds about it like a huge vine, its tightening coils gradually crushing the life out of the unfortunate plne. When it reaches the. top it sends out branches and stands a hollow shell. its coil knit closely together by a dense network appear in the last stage of its growth. It has a like af~ finity for its own species, and a second rata springing up beside one of'earlier growth will absorb and destroy it as it destroys the rimu. If. however. 1 neither rimu or rata is within reach it grows up a respectable and well be- haved tree. attaining a height of fro-m fifty to sixty feet, and is used for masts in ship building.~—Chautau- quan. How Insects Hide. How many have ever noticed the. ' skilful way in which many insects dis— guise themselves when in danger from some large animal or bird? Probably you have all observed that the cater- pillar “plays dead” when he is dis- turbed and that many insects choose for their homes some tree or shrub whose bark or foliage match them- selves in color. There is a certain variety of moth. quite common around elms, which fixes its wings 'sothat they closely rc- semble spots or lichens on the bark of the tree and can only be detected by the trained eye. Another moth, whose principal colors are’pink and yellow. arranges itself on the bottom’ of a primrose, so as to wholly escape no- tice. In the East Indian Islands there is a spidcf which reposes on the upper side of a large leaf in such a shape that it pert. ct'iy resembles decayed m.atter A hunter in tropical regions tells of . ‘ What it Does seeing a cricket pursued around the trunk of a tree by a lizard. Suddenly the insect settled itself in a small de- pression in the bark, ,spread out its wings slightly and attened itself so that the lizard actually crawled over it and went away without ever know-- lng what had become of it. Hen That Kills Bats. A gentleman of Wilmington, Del., has a Plymouth Rock hen which catches rats. ‘The hen waits at a. rat hole in a stable and pounces upon an animal as it appears, usually seizing him by the leg. vigorously and picks out its eyes. Such was the case of the l l ‘ a plentiful mu 11 Lunar 111m. Norwalk' Produces its Share B‘ut‘They Are Growing Less EveryDay. What a. wonderful lot of people there are who suifer with backache. From the millionaire sitting in his office clip- ping coupons. down to the humble citi‘ zen who swings a pick for a. dolla1 a. day; nobody is free from it. And it all comes from the same cause. The kidneys are to blame. Backache is really nothing but kid- ney ache. You can be‘ suie that in means a disordei ed conditien of the kidneys. And if you are wise, you will heed the warning immediately. Backache neglected means severer forms of kid- ney disease, diabetis, 111 inmy troubles, Br' 1ght’ s disease—death. Doan’sKidney Pills are the one sim- ple iemedy that can be replied upon in all f01 ms of kidney trouble. Some of your neighbors have tried them and not one has found them want- ing. Here is the experience of a Nor- walk c1tizen: , Mr. Josiah Dodge, No. 2 Belden‘ place, says: ‘ I had some tiouble in the way of kidney complaint, and rheu- matic-like pains in the back. Being a frequent visitor at Mr. Hale' 3 (now Glendening & Co’ 5) d1 ucr store, I no- ticed a. great many people buying Doan’s Kidney Pills, and as they all spoke veiy highly about the 1esu1ts obtained, I got a box, began taking them and in a few days’ time they had cured the attack. I am iecommending them to my friends. Doan’ s Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers P1 Ice 50 cents Mailed by FoSLer-hlilbu1n Co. , Buifalo, N. Y, sole agents f01 the U. S. Remember the name Doan’ s and take no substi- tune. Jr:;j.i_il F NT REEDBIRD TEES file 5:21.111?” 1.6 «united and flew No 5112111111 Be Eaten. Philade'u‘itla is the only city in the world v."‘.1.e1.~.~ the reedbird can be found ”111 a state of eveiiunning obesity, and the only p'lm :1 where he can be cook ed to neiieciion. In New $01k the French cooks conceal its delicate toothsomences in rich dressing. There they know as little about reed- birds as they do about terrapin, scrap- ple, and pcpperpot. Recently there was given in this city :1 (1.1112131- in which reed-birds were served in thir- teen different forms. Among the courses were soup made from reed- birds. recedlrirds stuffed with Blue Point oysters. rcedbirds placed inside a hollow potato and roasted, reedbiirds stuffed with her-‘1) filling and baked. reed. ateWed with fresh mush- rooms, reedbirds split and broiled—an abominable practice. by the way— reed bird saute, and a seeming pic, from which two dozen iecdliirds flew forth and around the r.oom But afte: all.the1e is only one way to cook and eat the succulent 1eeedies msaute! Select birds which have little clumps of yellow fat on both sides of the part last over the fence. Placethem in a sauce pan, or. bettei still. a chafing-dish, with plenty oi the best butter. salt, black pepper, and sprinkling of paprika-— the sweet Hungarian pepper which nowadays can be found in any first- class grocery. They must not be split and their heads must not be removed. Coook. them for five or six minutes, U11 1'.‘ y . .x ”‘1 ‘ l/l‘. uh according to the size of the bird and, the .heat of the fire, but do not allow the yellow fat to become browned Nothing could be simpler, and yet few, very few cooks can prepare -a reedbird without destroying its tooth- sameness. There is also an art in the eating of his daintiness, but it can only be. ap plied toubirds of the character and prepared in the manner described above. Wring oflf the head and sink your teeth into and absorb the brains Then hold the little darling aloft by the protruding bones of both legs, and, slipping him into a watering mouth. crunch your way through his carcass until not a bit of :him remains but the leg bones. Then cast your eyes about and say grace. Thiat’s eating reed- birds, that is.—Philadelphia Times. Trnllhh some Jerusalem. PeOple often ask how it is that ill“ future of Pair-sine presents sue-l1 dith- culities. The reason is simply that In rusalem—you (‘illl-Oll separate Jerusa- lem from Palestine-«is the sacred city. of so many (reeds and warring faiths Not on};- is it the holy place of all the Dhristiau churches. and two of them quarw.’ bitterly, over it—the Greeks and the lLatins—but it is also one of the most sacred places in the Mohammedan world. Mecca and Me- dina are hardly more sacred than the Mosque of Omar. That is a fact which is often ignored by Europeans, “rhg forget that to turn the liohamtuedaus out of the. tefuple enclosure would dis turb the whole Moslem, world from the Straits Settlement to Albert-1. “‘1- must never forget that Mohammedan pilgrims from India visit Jerusalem Just as Christian pilgrims visit from Europe. Lastly, Jerusalemisprofouud _» ly saeied to .he Jens, and'the J11“ s are beginning to be locally numerous and important. —Spectator Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters cures malaria. and bilious attacks. It cures nervous prostration and exhaustion. It. makes the nerves strong. It makes ii“.i‘.’.“.‘:fi,bi3?.‘i .flostetter’s muscle and healthy Stonlach Bitters fibres. It banishes dyspepsia, indige'stloln and constipation. It then shakes hi1n~| does all these things. -’, '_ ‘ ~ ‘ ' s THEEVENINGGAZETTE: ‘_ ’fi'f',l* .I OF NEW YORK. . ‘ "? RICHARD A. Masonry, President. Statement for the Year Ending Dec. 3i,’9 . According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State'oi New York. _ INCOME. $42,318,748 51 Received for Premiums . . . . :- From all other Sources . '1 . . . . ' 12,687,880 92. $55,006,629 43 Drsn'nmsumuums. To PolicyA-holders fer Claims by Death . . . $13,265,908 ‘00 To Policy-holders for Endonents, Dividends, etc. . 1 1,485,751 35 For all other Accounts . . . . . 10,493,379 53 $35,245,035 8 8 ASSETS. United States Bonds and other Securities . . ' $160,956,141 33 First Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage . . . 68,503,580 90 Loans on Bonds and other Securities, . . 9,396,619 00 Real Estate, appraised by Insurance Superintendents at $23,534,826.88 : Book Value . . . . 20,604,649‘61 Cash in Banks and Trust Companies . . ’ . 11,621,377 36 Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. . . 6,434,957 10 P $277,517,325 36 If - ). _ - . r. A LIABILITIES. Policiy Reserves etc. . . . _ . . 2 6 Contingent Guar’autee Fund, , . . . . $33163: g: Divisible Surplus . . . . . . . $2,220,000 00 . , . , - 277' 517.32 6 Insurance and Annuities in Force . . . 5971:711,99; :9 "O I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor; From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned, as none Board of Trustees- l HENRY H. ROGERS J N0. W AUCHINCLoss THEODORE MORFCRD WILLIAM BABCOOK .STUYVF-SANT FISH AUGUSTUS D. JUILLIARD CHARLES E. MILLER WALTER B GILLETTE ' . H. WALTER WEBB , ADRIAN ISELD- J1. GEORGE S. Bowoop. WILLIAM C. WHITNE ' WILLIAM BOQKEFELLLh JAMES N. J .1an CHAS D. DICKEE JR. ELRRIDGE T GERRY JAMES SPEYERJ FREDERIC CROMWELL J ULIEN T. DAVIES .A. N. WATEBHOUSE CHARLES R. HENDERSON RUFUS W. PECKIIAII J. HOBART HERRICR WM. 1’. DIXON ROBERT A. GRANNISB GEORGE G. HAVEN SAMUEL D. BABCOCB RICHARD A. MCCuRor JAMES C. HOLDEN HERMANN C. 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