A little five-year-old friend, who was always allowed to choose the prettiest kitten for his pet and playmate before the other nurslings were drowned, was taken to his mother's sick room the other morning to see the two tiny new twin babes. He looked reflectively from one to the other for a minute or two, then, poking his chubby finger into the plumpest baby, he said decidedly, "Save this one." In promulgating your esoteric cogitation on articulating superficial sentimentalities and philosophical psychological observation, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness, compact comprehensiveness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cognancy; eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity and jejune babblement. In other words, don't use such big words. HOW HE WAS "SLEIGHED." A boy once took it in his head That he would exercise his sled. He took the sled into the road And, lord a massy! how he slode. And as he slid, he laughing cried, "What fun upon my sled to slide." And as he laughed, before he knewed, He from that sliding sled was slude. Upon the slab where he was laid They carved this line: "This boy was sleighed." "A Farmer's Wife" wants to know if we can recommend anything to destroy the "common grub." We guess the next tramp that comes along could oblige you. MISCELLANEOUS THE UNION BROAD-CAST SEEDER. [Illustration of a seeder] The only 11-Foot Seeder In the Market Upon Which the Operator can Ride, See His Work, and Control the Machine. NO GEAR WHEELS, FEED PLACED DIRECTLY ON THE AXLE, A POSITIVE FORCE FEED, Also FORCE FEED GRASS SEED ATTACHMENT. We also manufacture the Seeder with Cultivators of different widths. For Circulars and Prices address the Manufacturers, HART, HITCHCOCK, & CO., Peoria, Ill. When you write mention The Prairie Farmer. [Illustration of coulter parts] Don't be Humbugged With Poor, Cheap Coulters. All farmers have had trouble with their Coulters. In a few days they get to wobbling, are condemned and thrown aside. In our "BOSS" Coulter we furnish a tool which can scarcely be worn out; and when worn, the wearable parts, a prepared wood journal, and movable thimble in the hub (held in place by a key) can be easily and cheaply renewed. We guarantee our "BOSS" to plow more acres than any other three Coulters now used. OUR "O.K." CLAMP Attaches the Coulter to any size or kind of beam, either right or left hand plow. We know that after using it you will say it is the Best Tool on the Market. Ask your dealer for it. Manufactured by the BOSS COULTER CO., Bunker Hill, Ill. "THE GOLDEN BELT" ALONG THE KANSAS DIVISION U. P. R'WAY. KANSAS LANDS STOCK RAISING Buffalo Grass Pasture Summer and Winter. WOOL-GROWING Unsurpassed for Climate, Grasses, Water. CORN and WHEAT 200,000,000 Bus. Corn. 30,000,000 Wheat. FRUIT The best In the Eastern Market.