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The. peach next to the apple is the most important zfruit grown in our country.. But its culture is greatly ne- glected by many otherwise good farm- 31‘s. \Vhy this is the case it is difficult to understand when we. consider its wonderful adaptability to almost. all meSL require Sltting up nights to at- tend to 1 . In some seasons It IS adv19â€" able, to cease prunmg altogether, be- cause. the serles of seasons is 941"}: that there has been an excess of termmal as a rule weak growths the bQSt and ant V;flnrn11n F...-.L 1-- 1 mate over eight quarts; moreover, the hill would. not produce more than about one-tenth as many new canes .for the next year's crops as it did this year. But if, after the bloom appears, its bearing surface should be reduced so that the hearing capacity of the hill should be. from one-half‘to threeâ€"fourt he of that above indicated, the planter would get about the same amount of fruit with more than double the amount of new growth, and the severe pruning in removing the half would be a bone- fit. The same rule holds good with the grape, and it is advantageous to prune quite severely, But when we turn to the apple ort cherry tree, such annual cutting hack would often practically destroy the tree. PRUNING TREES AND FRUITS. In the matter of pruning, there is a difference between trees and small fruits that should he constantly kept in mind. All kinds of tress need prun-i ing; but, as compared with small fruits; and vines, they need it but moderately in comparison with trees, shrubs, small‘ fruits and vines apparently have more of the original curse resting upon them. or, to put it into other words, their n3;- tural habit of growth is such that it is a part of the function of the plant to make superfluous growth. The black- berry root sprouts, grows in massed conâ€" fusion, and the shade, which it itself furnishes, causes the plant to thrive, better, while the brush patch habit and the ample provision of thorns prevent ’ destruction by animals. The vines of the grape use their climbing, power and i vine tendencies in their natural state to raise the plant to the light and the sunny side of trees, but in the cultivated state this tendency is objectionable and becomes a nuisance. The surplus growth ; is wholly unnecessary, is in the way. of the planter, and can be advantageous- ly pruned off. In trees, however, there is no such tendency to superfluous growth, hence they do not need so much ' pruning, It is true that among the difâ€" J ferent varieties of fruit trees there are some that make excessive growth and 1' need extra pruning; but the greatest?i growers need nothing like as much 1 pruning as small fruit plantations, such i as raspberries, strawberries, blackber- 1 ries, gooseberries, currents and the like. 3] As a rule the effect of pruning upon ¢ trees is to produce a stronger and more i vigorous growth of new wood. The ; same is true of small fruits. The straw- berry is pruned {by restraining the runners. Suppose you had planted one plant last spring. This summer it might possibly have set enough new '7 plants to multiply to from seventeen 1 to twenty-fives If these are left, it is i likely that there will he that many 1 hills of indifferent fruit; But if the,‘ grower permits the mother plant to! fasten down but three or four plants «3 around her, pruning off the other run- f per, the motherwith the four plants I around her will set clusters of fine berâ€" I rice and the five plants will have great- : f er vitality. If in the raspberry or is retained there is a good growth for next years fruit, and enough bearing wood left to produce say 1,200 berries, they will be under-sized because the plants are over-loaded and would not 'H‘Mflffl b1 PRACTICAL FARMING. 1 Poor man! exclaimed the prison mis- ‘ sionary, to. whom the sheriff’s guest had been relating a. tale of woe. Your life seemg to have been one unbroken series of mxsfortunes. A Prescott man has been fined 818.35 for chopping the tail off his horse.‘ A SUGGESTION. Farmers are not so often annoyed by visits of their neighbors’ chickens to their yards as are village people and those who live in city suburbs. In some localities this chicken visiting becomes a trying nuisance. I The following is related of a down east farmer who was much annoyed by feathered visitors to his barn yard. The uninvited chickens would not only ruf- fle the feathers of those that were there by right, but would feed upon the corn that the good farmer threw to his feathered creatures with a liberal hand. --~.’ “\Iâ€"-, ”my of flesh out from shoulder; will prob- ably die. John Turpakone. ear out. off and numerous slashes on shoulder and back. Paul .Pawlak. face and arms slashed. John Nester, face. head and breast. badly cut. Michael Oleaniz, stabbed in the face and back. Andrew Telep. stabs and nose broken. These men are under guard in the hospital, and an investigation of the affair is being 'held. ’ Yes, sighed the fallen one. I have had many trials. Instead of attending meeting last Sunday the aggrieved farmer remained at home, determined to take radical steps to rid himself of trouble and his barnyard of his neighbors' chickens. He took a. pint of corn and through the center of each kernel he bored 3. hole. Then he took some silken thread and fastened a short piece to each kernel. 0n the free end of the thread he .at- tached small slips of paper, on Whlch, among other sentiments, was inscribed: "Trust in the Lord and feed your own hens," “life do not cast our bread upon the water for broilers," “No free meal tickets,“ and “Please keep me at home and I’ll not get into trouble." In due time the neighbor's chickens gathered in the good farmer’s barnyard and swal- lowed the kernels to which the senti- ments were attached. It did not take; the chickens that drew prizes long to; reach their separate roosti . places,and f the town was aroused by t e sight of fowls making tracks through the by- roads, while in their immediate wake fluttered slips of white paper. l 4. Peaches will grow well on land ftlinat is too rough and rocky to be cul- tiva'ted with profit in grain; In fact, the peach flourishes best on rough land. Land that. is worth only a few dollars per acre will grow as good peaches as the best farm hand. i 5. No other fruit is more certain. .A peach tree under proper cultivation Will hear every year if the buds and blos- soms escape frost. It is the only fruit that is liable to be killed in the bud, but this does not often happen, not more than once in twenty years.- But on the other hand, it will survive quite a hard freeze when in full bloom, en- during oold better than any other fruit atAthi_s_ trying period: This is a very brief summary of some of Lhe good qualities of the peach. .In our next article we shall try to glve some hints about its cultivationfirawn from many years of experience. is always regarded, not simply as a luxury, but as a. necessity m every home. 6. No f'ruj‘t' keeps its taste better or is more easily preserved ember by can- ping or cvaporatgng.‘ The ganged peach 3. There is aflways a. good market for fine peaches. All know how abund- ant peaches were the past season. yet even medium-sized ones brought .as much per bushel as wheat. and the Imâ€" est peaches were worth two or three bushels of wheat. year. 2. Its season is Quite well extended. BY planting several varieties, it is not difficult to have peaches from the tree for four months, or one-third of the 1. It bears fruit soon after planting. Put a. pit in the ground just where you wish it to grow, cultivate it well, and you can begin to eat the fruit the third year. It bears as quickly as blackberries, raspberries or most of the small fruits. In this respect it has a great advantage over the apple, which requires several years of growth before it makes much return. soils and climates; The peach has many things to commend its culture to pub- lic favor. HIS HARD LINES. Breakfast Frittersâ€"Two eggs, beat well, two cupfuls of butter-milk or sour milk, a little salt, a half teaspoonful of soda, and flour to make a batter stiff enough to drop from the spoon. Have a skillet of hot lard and drop in small spoonfuls and fry 3. light brown. They are nice and light. For a change you can put in some chOp- ‘ped meat or oyster for each frittea', ifor those that like oysters. l 1 Egg Toast.â€"-Cut some small slices of ‘bread, brown and butter. Take the yolks of hard boiled eggs, put in a. bowl With salt and pepper, melted blit- ter, rub together and spread on the toast. Set where it will keep warm. Put a teacupful of milk in a saucepan with salt, butter and a little corn starch. Have the Whites of the eggs chopped, and dropped 1n the sauce-pan, let boil and pour over the toast. Pancakesâ€"The yolks of two eggs, beat them up lightly, add a pint of milk and a little salt, and flour enough to make a thin, smooth batter. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and stir them as lightly as possible into the batter just before baking; they are very nice, and made without baking powder or sodau As fast as fried lap over or cover with a pan, till ready for the table. Fried Breakfast Baconâ€"Remove the rind and cut up several slices of bacon, scatter in the frying pan and fry gently. Beat up six eggs, add to them salt and pepper, pour over the bacon, let it set nice y and turn. Have ready sliCes of toast, on which lay the bacon and eggs, pour over a little melted butter. Ham Toastâ€"Mix with one table» Spoonful of finely-chopped ham, the beaten-up yolk of an egg, and a little cream and pepper. heat over the fire and then spread the mixture either on hot buttered toast, or on slices of bread {lrifd quite crisp in butter; served very o . Baked Eggsâ€"Grease well a. dish or pan, with butter, break into as many eg‘gns‘gs my; wish to cook. sprinkle/over Buttermilk Biscuitâ€"Three cupfuls of buttermilk, one of butter, half a. tea- spoonful of soda. a teaspoonful of salt and flour enough to make dough stlff gnough to admit of being rolled out Into biscuit. gtTittle éalt andfipepper aha‘b'la’éé'ihéifi In the oven a few mmnents, they are very good if well cooked. Corn Cakes.-â€"-One quart of sifted meal, one teaspoonful each of salt and soda, and butter-milk to make a thin hatter. Bake or try on very hot grid- dele. him to his room, give him a quick sponge bath, tuck him in his single bed. with a light wool blanket over him be- sides the sheet. and in a. lowered light sit by him and talk to him till he is quieted. Tell him gentle, soothing stories, nothing to excite his imagin- ation. and when he is finally asleep. have the room, cool. dark and quiet. Don’t let 'him try to sleep in a room which has been a sitting room all the evening, without having it thorough- ly refilled with fresh outdoor air. which may be accomplished bv throwing win- dows wide open for fifteen minutes.” a physician prescribes some important remedy that must be taken and which is not pleasant. a. mother feels that it is time well expended to coax and Wheedle, and even bribe the little one thought and effort in getting your child to sleep every night, if he does not fall off his chair at the evening meal from drowsiness, as the normal child should. Give up concerts, theat- ers, parties, anything till you have se- cured for the nervous, twitching boy or girl, the. benign habit o§_sleep. Coax every child in your family a bed to himself," was the strong way in which a physician put it the other day, ad- dressing a woman’s club on “ Some of the Important Littles of Children’s Health.” Another thing emphasized was the need of early sleep. " It is so easy to let a nervous child lose sleep in the early evening, when he or she should be hard at it,” said the Speaker. “ \Vhen from experience. It is extremely unfortunate that just at this age, from fourteen to sixteen. the hardest educational work is usual- 15’ Dressed upon girls. [TDWISB pressure of study at this age may do much mis- chief. It would seem as though some reform in the educational system at this period was a. crving need. Indeed the health and welfare of the mother and daughter of the land depend upon it in no small measure. Too many mothers shirk the responsibility of this trying time; but let me urge you as mothers. and as you love your children, leave them not to ignorance, but with gentle, kindly voice, give them simple but invaluable lessons from the great hook of life, which you have learned CHILDHOOD T0 GIRLHOOD. \Vhen the daughter is stepping from childhood into girlhood. it is not only. as rule, a period of awkwardness and uncertainty for the girl. but it is a moment of great anxiety for the moth- er. It is an age when a. child is un- gainly and angular and less lovely than at any other time in her life. A time when a certain shyness begins to man- ifest itself and raise a faint vail be- tween the young developing mind and the parents or friends of childhood. It is a time when the mother should try to retain the fullest confidence of the child, and constant watchfulness re- garding mind and body 18 most essen- tial. At this period of transition girls should not indulge in any over-violent exercises, of gymnastics or skipping. running or any extreme physical ex- ertion. for they are easily fatigued. Cold bathing should by all means be avoided, for an illâ€"timed shock .to the system may cause a life~lon££ H1138]? ~ W W.â€"-\ -\ \N" ~,-\M/WWI\A«N HOUSEHOLD. FOR BREAKFAST. him to get down fmm the table Gem danced with demonstrations of joy at his release. Sinpe That day he has no trouble in mastmatmg the biggest beef ~v-â€" Gem was put on the table and his master stood in front of him, kept his eyes fixed on Gem’s, and told him to open his mouth. Gem dld nso, and a rubber dam was soon adjusted in place. The dentist set to work with the instruâ€" ment of torture called a burr, and one of Gem’s ears went down in at-hreat- ening way, while the other remained cocked. The doctor held one finger rais- ed and kept his eyes fixed on Gem’s ed and kept his eyes fixed on Gem’s, that never wandered from his master’s gaze. The attitude of Gem's ears prov- ed a barometer of his sufferings, when the burr touched a spot close to the nerve. \Vhen both ears went down,the dentist knew he had gone so far as dogs' nature would let him go. Gem’s eyes never wandered from the doctor’s in the hour and a half the dentist was at work. Gem stood the final polishing, and when his master gave the‘wordflfor the dentist refused to proceed.â€". Dr. \Vard insisted that he could make Gem stand on the tabhe and have. the tooth filled without Wincing. The dentist was dmbious about trusting his hand be- tween the brute’s jaws, but finally conâ€" sented to try. ‘ -~ ‘ The bulldog's name isb Gem. He is as ugly in appearance as a prize win- ner in a dog shows His nose is a mass of wrinkles, and his eyes have a wicked gleam for any one but his master and Mrs. W'ard. His affection for them. however. knows no bounds. ‘When Gem was discovered. one lday clasping his muzzle between his paws, rolling over and over on the floor. and moaning, his mouth was examined. and it has found that there was a. big cavity in one of his incisors. It was decided that a dentist should be consulted. The dent- ist found that it would be necessary to use a rubber dam. and he promised to fill the cavity provided Gem was eth- erized. This was done and the opera- tionwas considered a successful one alâ€" though Gem evidently thought other- wise. Some time afterward the filling came out, and Gem’s last state was worse than his first, for he refused to submit to another operation with ether. At the first sniff of the anaesthetic he not only added a score of wrinkles to those already in his nose, but showed his teeth in so dangerous a way that An operation That a Scranton llcnfist. ma “1“: llesiuitlun. but. Success. A powerful and ferocious bulldog, owned by Dr. \Vard of Scranton, P3... enjoys the distinction of having a big gold filling in one of his incisors, and a good many citizens, who have caught a. gleam of the gold in his mouth, wond- er how the filling was done. Some think it was done through hypnotic in- fluence by the doctor over‘the dog,while others insist that it was through the dog's implicit obedience to his maLster's command. .For apple bread boil a dozen good- Sized apples that have been carefully peeled and cored, until they are perfect- ly tender. While still warm, mash them in double the amount of flour, and add the proper proportion of yeast. The mass should then be thoroughly knead- ed without water, as the juice of the ap- ples will make it sufficiently soft. It should be left to rise for twelve hours, then formed into loaves. and baked when quite light. Apple bread was the invention of a scientific Frenchman. and it has alufays been highly commended for its healthfulness. ' pears, raspberrieS. strawberries, plums, etgz. may _be_done_ i_n {be same way. In spite of their name, apple biscuits 5:10 not belong to the bread family at all, as neither flour nor yeast enters into their composition. Peel and core some ripe apples and reduce them to pulp; fla- vor with essence of lemon and mix while warm with! their weight of powdered sugar; drop on plates or into paper cases and dry in a slow oven for several days. The heat -should never be sufficient to bake, only to dry them. \Vhen thor- oughly dried they should be packed in glass or tin for winter use. Apricots, ches. which made the bottom sixteen inches in circumference. Each of the side pieces was about three inches Wide at the top and three and one-half inches high. from it a perfect square, six inches 'square, and four pieces for the sides, measuring six inches wide at the bot- tom, nine inches wide at the top, and about four inches high. The measure- ments must be perfect and the sides must be carefully measured and divided so that each slant is of the same length. Cover the five pieces neatly on both sides with cambric, sateen or creâ€" tonne, and if wished all the edges may be bound with braid or ribbon. \Vhen this is done the basket may be put to- gether. The sides are first sewed to- gether, fastening With- a few stitches at the t0?!) corners and a few at the bot- tom; then the bottom may be fastened II}. . Now we have a basket measuring §IX inches square at the bottom. nme inches square at the top and about four inches high. Inside, on the Sides, should be fastened two small cushlons for pins, a pocket for the thimbie and a small flannel needle-book with pinked edges. A very Pretty basket of this kind was seen recentiy. It was eight-sided and covered with dark red silk. The tiny cushions and t‘himble bag were also of red silk. and the entire hbasket was bound with red satin ribbon. Such a basket is. harder to make, as one must be very careful to have each side of the octagonal bottom the same length. Each side of this one measured two 1n- a A HOBEEMADE SEWING BASKET. FILLING A BULLDOG’S TEETH. TXVO APPLE RECIPES. "He had, "but ffiey n'ght and got them. I hear Mrs. Derby, that your hus- band has two revolvers and a winches- ter for any burgiars who ”may gall. An eminent Japanese bacteriologist, Prof. Kita-Soto, who studied in Eu- rope under Koch, has discovered the microbe of the “black death,” and his discovery was confirmed by Prof. Ger- sin, formerly attached to the Pasteur Laboratory in Paris. The baccilus is short, thick, easy of culture and when inoculated on Guinea pigs kills them in twentyâ€"four hours. Specimens of baccili-infected glandular swellings lak- en from victims of the disease. have been forwarded to Paris and it is honed a vaccine may be obtained that will prove efficacious. The last occur in the groin or neck, or, very frequently, under the arm- pits. The swellings is oval and egg- like in shape, and the more of them“ there are the" less dangerous is the at- tack. Sudden, stabâ€"like pains shoot through the body, and this gave rise to the superstition among the Turks that the man with the plague is wound- ed by the arrow of AN INVISIBLE DEVIL. Dark spotsâ€"whence come the name of the ”black death'-’--appear on the skin of the victim just before disso~ lution. These spots were called “the token," and their appearance was the signal for abandonment of all hope in the Middle Ages, and the victim was then and there scared to death by be- ing told that all_ was over. A sticky perSpiration exudes from the pores, and then follows the glandular swellings from which the disease takes its name. A feature. of the. disease is the sud- denness of attack and the awful rapid- ity with which one stage follows anoth- er until death ensues. The first symp- tom- is usually a chill, as in an ague Then follows an acute nervousness and: mental disturbance, with a fever that sends the temperature up to from 100 to 107. The patient staggers likea drunken man. Headache, a burning thirst and intense pain in the upper part oi the abdomen follow. In India, as in China, the advent of the plague was heralded by an epidem- ic among the rats, which were found. dead‘by the hundreds in and about the native dwellings. In some instances rats, evidently suffering from the dis- ease,‘ swarmed, swollen and dying, in- to rooms where were human beings. They reeled and staggered and wan- dered aimlessly about as though in the same delirium which marks a certain‘ stage of the disease in man. A press despatch from Bombay last: week reported. 2,091 cases and 1,494’ deaths up to date. Europeans and such natives as were able to get away were leaving the city by thousands. The newspapers were threatening mar- tial law unless the natives obeyed the sanitary_ _reg ulations. _ ings. The rats swarming out of the extra-mural ditch about Canton and dying by thousands was the first warn- ing the Chinamen had that an epidemic of the disease was upon them. ll‘hey burned red paper, tried to fool the gods by changing the date of the new year and died by the thousand convinced that they had taken all the sanitary precautions within the power of man. From China the disease .got to For- mosa. and the Malay Peninsula. .‘The‘ Japanese, with their modern learning and freedom from the idiotic. supersti- tions which afflict the besotted China- men, mane a strong and intelligent fight against the deadly invader and‘ kept him comparatively at bay. But the disease crept into India and among certain groups of the natives there :has spread with: . and nearly depop-ulated Marseilles, to say nothing of the De Foe horrors it wrought in London. The disease took pestilential form in Canton about two years ago. There is a wide, open ditch about a portion of the city into which all the refuse and exuvia of the swarming population is emptied. It is the placid Chinese theory that the tide washes the festering mass away. The tide. does nothing of the kind, and the filth remains there in the blister- izug sun to the depth of two or three feet, a breeding place for myriads of rats and other foul vermin. Swept All Europe in the Seven:eeuth Cen- turyâ€"The Breeding Place of (he Plague - Some Features of the Disease. eriea. that these Eastern epidemics only too frequently girdle the earth before they have run their course, as did 13 grippe, which first was heard from in an alarming form in distant Russia, but which soon reached over our shore: with the disastrous results which are still so fresh in mind c Already two cases, of it have occur- red on one of the Pacific mail steamers on the way from China to San Fran- cisco. Two Chinese stokers were It is said on good authority that the bubonic plague has been more or less prevalent in certain parts of China ever since the seventeenth century, when it gained such terrific headway that it Recent despatches from London say that two cases of the bubonic plague have developed there-the same dis- ease which since 1891 has been ravaging certain parts of China. This is only another reminder to us here in Am- THE TERRIBLE BUBONIC PLAGUE MAY REACH AMERICA. LIKE THE BLACK PLAGUE STOLE HIS ARSENAL F RIGHTFUL R'APIDITY. SXVEPT ALL EUROPE the : other £33