It is best to have honey well refined
Zbefore storing it away. '
A young queen . that has’ defective
{wings should be destroyed.
A colony in proper condition is al-
ways proof again st robbers.
Bees quit breeding early and'general—
§ly come through the winter weak.
Fruit bloom serves to build, the bees
up strong, but does not give much sur-
.plus. . 5
Allow no stock of any kind to run in
the apiary during the winter, unless it
be poultry. -
Frames of empty combs can best be
taken care of by keeping them in or-
dinary hives.
There is nothing more valuable in the
apiary than empty combs; they should
.-. be well cared for.
When a colony dies from any cause
cleanse the hive thqroughly and rinse
j. ,yvith boiling water. - .
' Never move a. comb hastily or hold
" .a new comb horizontally, as it will prob-
ablbereak and fall. ‘
Pure granulated sugar is in every re-
spect. as good as the best quality of
honey for feeding bees.
Make a nice entrance. to each hive by
spreading sawdust in front up to the
level of the bottom boards.
Mice often destroy colonies of bees
besides eating large quantities-of honey
if once they get into a. hive.
Two things must go together in
building up colonies for winter, name-
'ly, feeding and breeding. One without
the other will not be. of much avail.
To introduce aqueen successfully the
colony should be made queenless some
three or four days prior to presenting
'the new queen to it.——St-. Louis Repub-
lic. '
BEES CHANGING COLOR.
To Keep Honey Makers of Any Pur-
ticulur Race Pure Is Almost
an Impossibility.
The beginner who gets a colony 01
Italian! bees is often puzzled- to- find that
within a year or so the bright, yellow
rings have largely disappeared from
the workers, and some of the bees are
entirely black. It isn’t easy‘ to keep
Ibees of any race pure, utterly difi‘eremt»,
in fact, from keeping any other kind
of stock pure. The young queenl mates
'with the drone high in the air, and: may
;meet a d‘ro-ne- from a colony 'two or
three miles away. So it happens that
one who has a. colony of full blood
Italians in a locality where black bees
prevail is almost. sure to find upon the
change of queens that his bees are a
cross between Italian and blacks, or,
as they are commonly called, hybrids.
On the other hand his neighbor, who
has nothing but black bees, will be
surprised to find in some of his hives
bees that have yellow stripes», the
drones from the Italian colony- having
met the young queens of the black
colony. As already hinted, it is im-
possible to prevent this, the best that
'can be done being to continue/co get
"fresh, pure blood by introducing from
time to time a. pure Italian queen. A:
yellow bees become more plentiful in
the neighborhood, the chances of pure
fertilization become greater. '
A. L. Aspinwall, in Beekeepers’ Re-
view, gives a. plan whereby he thinks
he has succeeded in getting the ma-
jority of his young queens mated in or
near his own apiary. He cutoff a. six-
teentghr of an inch from the wings of
his young queens, and by this means
.made it more difficult for them to fly
‘ far away. SOme of the queens had an
.7; eighth of an inch'taken from the wings
on each side, and these were equally
’; a success—Homestead.
KEEPING FOWLS WARM.
The man Illustrated in the Cut Can
Often Be Used to Considera—
ble Advantage.
Fowls can hardly be kept too warm
in. winter, especially at night when. not
exercising.
it the heat from their
bodies can be kept con-fined about them
they will be very comfortable indeed.
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PROTECTED Roosrs.
To aid in securing this condition of
"‘ often be used.
things the plan: shown in the cut can:
Place a. board at the.
ceiling in front of the roosts and have
_; the platform below the roosts come
out as far from the mar wall as is this
. board. Stretch a wire in: front of the
.board, close to it, and hang a curtain
.. of burlap upon the wire. A string and
fa screw-eye can. be arranged“ so. that
4.;the curtain can be drawnfrom the
y" hallway after the fowls are, at roost.
f‘They will keep very warm in such an.
.8» tan: t
r
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yinclosed space—Orange J udd Farmer.
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Post-Morten on Fowls.
Sometimes a postpnortem examina-
tion is the only thing that will reveal
the cause of sickness and death in the
flock, and, though unpleasant, it‘may
be necessary in order to prevent the
spread of disease, says the American
Gardening. Whatever the family.
there is almost always one person in it
who knows how to dissect a fowl. 1f
0 one else has the requisite knowledge.
e cook can always be appealed to.
fither for the work itself or flozr instruc-
iou as to its details. This suggestion
i:
1
iggffor the benefit of the occasional nov-
ce who falls into inextricablc difficulty
1 - this point. > "'
NOTES FOR_ BEEKEEPERS. ,
', ; The eggs of worker bees will often
hatch. ° ' .
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“' OYS. I'll give anyone of you $50
if you’ll start that jam."
No one answered, while the 'boss
‘paced back and forth. on the shore, and
lookedhelplessly from the rough. hardy
'woods—then to the. huge mass of logs.
through which the water seelhed and
foamed at thehead of the jam, where the
lumber lay piled many tiers deep and
extended up the Stream foraconsidera-
ble distance.
(in ahead the water foamed and tum-
bled in its mad course through Jackson
falls, 3. river driver, was not familiar
with the series of long rapids that ren-
dered river driving more than usually
hazardous at that point.
The drive of a million and a half feet
of lumber had progressed down the
swollen stream very rapidly so far. The
men had worked with a will, and every"
thing had gone smoothly as far as Jack-
son falls. ‘ . '
The leader of‘the gang, though a fair
stream, and-had neglected the usual
precautions of stationing men at the
head of the falls, and rigging wing
jams to keep the logs from lodging as
they came down the stream.
“How be ye goin’ to do it without
gittin’ drownded?" asked a. weather-
beat-en old stream driver, after going
out. and taking a. careful survey of the
situation. “‘We’ve done all we could,
except choppin’ off a. big“ spruce that
holds the'hull thing. VVeive got some
as good white water men”—-—a term ap-
plied to the most venturesome and skill-
ful drivers—“as ye can findin Maine,
'but there hain’t none of ’em goin’ to
risk their necks too fur.”
“If I was a. younger man I’d do it,"
replied the boss. ‘
“Ef you’d ’a done as I told ye,” re—
joined the grizzled old veteran, “there
wouldn’t’ ’3 been no trouble.”
“Yes, I know,” said Mr. Hall, the
boss, impatiently, “but I didn’t, and
we’ve got to make the best of‘it.’ I’ll- -
make it a. hundred. Every day counts
now. The water will fall soon, and. I
want to get this lumber down.”
Some of the men walked out on the
jam and looked at the log that acted
as a. key. It would bewa very easy
thing to cut that. log and set the mass at
liberty, but how would the one that did
it regain the shore?
The men knew that the instant the
log was severed those pressing against
it would dash forward, rolling and tum-
bling over each other as they rushed 1'
through the boiling waters of Jackson
falls. No live man could keep his feet
upon the whirling, rolling logs, and
once down among them, nothing but
death in its .most terrible form could
ensue. .
One by one they came back, shaking
their heads. I . ‘
“If there was a. ghost of a chance,”
said one athletic young fellow, leaning
upon his peavy, “I’d try it. I’ve cuffed a.
log through some mighty tough places,
but I dare not tackle this.”
“Well,” said the boss, moodily, “I
dcn’t see what we’re going to do. VVe’ll
have to get some horses and warp a lot
of those logs over with tackle and' fall.
It’ll spoil two or three days, and every
hour’s precious.”
“How much did you say you’d give,
Mr.‘Hall?” questioned a boyish voice
at the elbow of the boss.
The latter .turned. ‘ The voice was
that of Nick Arnold, the “cookee,” or
cook’s assistant, who had just come
down. the stream with the'men’s lunch
in a couple of baskets slung upon a.
neckyoke.
Mr. -Hall laughed.
“Do you want to try it, Nick? Pm
afraid you wouldn’t do, when these old
hands are afraid to und’ertakeit.”
“pr much did you say you’d give ?”
persisted the boy, a. hardy specimen of
an embryo backwoodsm'an, apparently
about 15 years old. I
“I said I’d give a hundred dollars.”
“I’ll do it for that,” said Nick, con-
fidently, setting his baskets of food
down, while more than a. score of men
laughed in derision.
The boy ran nimbly outover the com-
pact body of logs, looked keenly at the
one which held the jam and at. the inter-
vening space between himself and the
shore. Then he came slowly back.
“It’s a hard-looking place," he said,
his usually merry face wearing a
rather‘subdued. expression, “but I’m- go—
ing to earn that hundred. Honest, I
am?” he added, looking steadily at his
employer’s face.
“Oh, I’ll pay the money fast euoug ,”
replied Mr. Hall; “but I can’t consent
to your risking it.”
“Le’s tackle the grub.” said one of the
men, an invitation which was imme-
diately complied with. ‘
And they distributed the food, which
rapidly dis-appeared.
“If I get drowned instarting the jam,
and it goes all right, will you pay the
money to mother?” asked the boy,
while the men were eating.
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“Of ’course; but I can’t agree to let .
you.
‘ What would your mother do if .
you were killed ?"
“I am not going to be killed," said L
the boy, resolutely. “I'm going to hold
you to your bargain.”
“Would you let him try it?" queried
the boss, turning to the men. “Do you
think he’d stand any show?"
“Well,” responded one of them, paus-
ing in his efforts to demélish an im-
mense piece of boiled pork.-“I don‘t-
really ’spose he’d stand as good a show
of getting killed as a man—boy’sfi‘will
go through most anything. When 1 was ?
a youngster I rode a single log through
the rips at Island falls when the water
covered the . log clear to my knees,
though I shouldn’t dare do it now.”
And so Mr. Hall yielded to the boy‘s
determination to undertake the}, 'b.
He sent a number of men dovvn the
stream to do what they could in case
the venturesom-e lad should fail to re-
gain the shore and be carried down with
the logs. and Nick Arnold. grasping an
ax. stepped bravely out to the front of
n
the drive. to win the promised hundred
dollars-~au'almost fabulous sum iii-his
eyes.
Once he. seemed to falter, and Mr.
Hall called to .him to return, but the
roar of the water drowned all other
sounds, as .he moved forward
stepped down upon the huge
jammed squarely across the’ fall-s, it
having been uncovered by the men in
their, eiforts to break the jam.
Nick stood upon the submerged log.
which was bending with the immense
weight bearing against it, and looked
down the long stretch of rushing wa—
* ter, gave one glance toward the wood ed
Shore, from which the men were aux-
iously watching him. and swung the ax
quickly over his head.
Those on the bank saw the bright 31.x
glitter in the April sunshine; saw the
long. light hair of the. boy dancing in
the wind, as he bent forward to give
force to his blows. Then a reportlikc
a. cannon boomed above the rush of the
water. and the logs grated and crushed
together, as they started suddenly for-
ward.
“There she hauls!” shouted one of
the men. ,, ..
But where was Nick? The sudden
.crash of the breaking log, and the in-
stantaneous movement of the jam, had
startled the expectant men to such a
degree. that. they had failed to notice
the movements of the boy.
“He’s gone, sure,” muttered one of
the men, his bronze face blanched to a
grimy white. “We’d orter knowcd
better’n to let. him try it.”
But the'logs were moving splendidly.
They rolled over and over each other,
as they hurried by. Now and then one
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STEPPED BOLDLY OUT.-
of them would be forced up among the
huge rocks that lined the shores, only
to be snapped asunder like. pipe stems
as the irresistible mass swept
IVould they find the mangled remains
of little Nick Arnold? or would he be
ground to atomsin this terrible mill?
Mr. Hall walked down along the
“totepath,” beside the stream. The
jam was broken. but. at what a fearful
cost! He had seen many men drowned,
but this death could be laid directly to
himself. Slowly he made hisway along
the. rough path, clamberingover wind-
falls and brooding upon the brave boy’s
fate and the mother’s sorrow, when s'he
learned the sad news.
reached the foot of the rapids and saw
a group of men on the shore, and
among them a littledrenched form
that. caused his heart to bound and his.E
pulse to beatwith gladness. It was
Nick Arnold, safe and sound, with the
exception of a few slight bruises.
“We seed ,hlim clingin’ to a. log, an’
pulled him ashore afore the thickestof
’em got here,” said one of the men.
And Nick explained how the log had
given way much sooner than hevexpect-I
ed, throwing him into the water, with
no other chance but to swim down
stream, though the foam completely
covered him a good portion of the time.
When near the foot of the rapids he
had seized a log, which served to rest-
him somewhat, and the watchers below
had succeeded. in rescuing him, though
not a moment too soon. as the stream
was almost immediately filled with the
whirling tree trunks.
“But Learned my hundred dollars,”
said Nick. proudly.
And he gotthe money.—Golden Days.
MUCILMARRIED PEOPLE.
Some Aged Men and “70an Who in
Their Day Took Delight
in Matrimony.
At Campobasso. near Milan. an old
woman committed suicide at the age
of 103. Her reason for the deed was
that the' infirmities of age compelled
her to remain seated in her chair. She
had been married seven times. her last,
wedding taking place when she was 67.
It is reported in the register of Brant
Broughton. Lincolnshire. that on April
23, 1678, one Thomas Watson buried
his eighth wife.
Four years ago Dr. Mary Spencer, of
at'
Bourbon, U.’ S. A., was married
Neath, Wales. to her eleventh husband.
The most'remarkable feature of this
case was that the lady at the time of
the ceremony was only 44. her initial
matrimonial experience having been
undertaken at the immature-age of 15.
On ,April 28, 1772. James Gay died at
Bdrdeaux at the age of 101.. During
his long life he had taken unto him-
self no less than 16 wives. , ,
The foregoing cases. however, pale
before that mentioned by John Evelyn
in his diary. ,He writes: “Toward the
end of August I returned'to Haarleon.
They showed us a cottage where they
told us dwelt a woman who had been
married to her twenty/fifth husband,
and. being now awidow. was prohibited
to marry in the future; yet it could not
be proved that she had ever made away
‘ with any of her husbands. though the
suspicion had brought her divers times
into trouble."——Golden Penny. ‘
and .
log, .
5 oflice in filing dispatches
although they get only the
'by. ,
After awhile he _.
" A PERSEVE’RANCE TEST.
The Western Union’s Way} of Dealing
with Female Afi‘pucants for
Employment.
Many girls are employed at the West-
ern Union Telegraph.company’s main
and other
work requiring no great skill. Now,
current
wages of worksers in such employ-
ments, there are alWays many appli-
cants for every vacancy- In view of
this fact the company has adopted an.
interesting method of dealing with ap-
plications. Every girl applying is ques-
tioned as to her age, education and res—
idence. Furthermore, her height. is
taken. The facts as to the applicant
are then filed for future reference, and
she is advised in case she is really anx-
ious for a place to return at the end of
four months should she nothear from; .
The
the company before that time.
reasons for this advice is that the list
of applications is destroyed every four
months. says the New York Sun.
Many applicants never come a sec-
ond time; some, however, come a sec-
ond, a third or even a fourth time, and,
although the officers of the company
hold out no special hope to any appli—
cant, they do say that here, as else-
where, perseverance often succeeds-
The requirement that the applicant
shall appear in person each time is an
ingenious means of weeding out those
applicants that lack the perseverance,
which, other things being equal, is like.
1y to make a girl more useful to the
company than a girl with less of that
quality.
Menelek’s Amusenlent.
The latest news of Emperor Menelek,
says the Manchester Guardian, touches
his interest in surgical operations. In
the hospital at Addis Abeba attached
to the Russian mission, he is continual-
ly watching the surgeons at their work.
Their skill of‘ten- calls from him expres-
sions of admiration. His. great desire
is to act the part’of an assistant—for
example, to hold the limb when an am~
putation is being performed. He nevez'
misses an operation. '
Arsenic Not Allowed.
In Sweden yarn is not allowed to be
sold it it'contains .0009 per cent. of
arsenic. A carpet has been condemned
by the inspectors because, it contained
1.000-th part of a grain of arsenic in 16
~-‘.~—.<~q :“n‘\m
Quick—t—i—rbvnn or Guinea rig-.3. '
The guinea pig grows more quickly
flian any other quadruped. It is fully
grown when six weeks old. and beginl
to bear young at two months.
NURSING MOTHERS.
Partisularly lieu! a Tonic Reconstructor.
The Mother’s Life and Child's Health
Depends on Proper Nourishment.
Vinol, Wine of Cod Liver Oil, .clps
Nourish Like Nothing. Else. We‘
Guarantee lts Action.
Women who are nursing babies need i'inoli
Their strength and entire energies are taxed
to the utmost at this critical time.
Viuol, the modern rebuilder, will enable
them to obtain not only suflicient llOlll'lSh-
ment to maintain their own strength. but wul
enable them to get the necessary elements to
insure that the milk which they give to the
baby will contain. all that the little one. needs
- in order that he may‘thrive and grow. .
nguarantleetheaction of Vinol and Will
refund thé‘itfibneyfio anyone who 15 not sans-
fied with thé‘g‘bod results that are obtained by
its use. ,jtememberlt’ipol tastes delicmus.
.PLAISTEDISd-rug‘store. 43 washing-
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DECEMBER 4, 1898.
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for it, and this is seen to be 1 1 u.c in the sudden death -
of Garcia and Err-Senator Brice and the alarming in-
crease In the death rate. ‘ , '
Brazilian Balm.
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