ABK!
Tint high, clear, Tlbrant note,
striking through the silence like a
sword of sound!
"There!" cried Jack Hnrrowsby.
"They're starting up. That's Kipperton's
fife. lie s cuius to play Columbia.
"No," decided old McClelland. "He's
Just a-ttmin' up. I don't remember to
bare ever teen so many folks coniln' into
town. Jest look at that Kansas hill, an'
along by the railroad track. Like as not
they'll bo full fifteen hundred at the
rrove."
"Sure! They've got the flag strung
acrost the street. It's gittin' wore."
"It oughtn't to. It ain't out but Deco
ration day an' Fourth of July. But the
winds is hard on it."
It was a fair day a fine daly. A day
tit for the flag to tloat high, for music to
resound, for prayers to arise, for the loyal
llTing to honor the valiant dead. A day
of blue and gold of soft breezes that
claimed no kinship with tierce midsummer
winds. Hain had fallen in the night, and
even yet upon, the roadside grass it glit
tered, a delicate, brilliant web, fine as
lace upon a lady's gown.
"There's John liarriston gittin' out of
his old buggy," commented Harrowsby.
"I wonder he ain't ashamed to own such
a lookiu'' trip, with all tbe money he's
got."
"Yes, an' here comes Thorn's carriage
from the other way. Thorn's the ouly
farmer around here that keeps one. I
don't say he ain't right to git some com
fort out'n his life."
The Thorn surrey rolled down the
street. On the front seat sat n heavily
built, auburn bearded man. Beside him
was a whltc-bloused boy. On the back
seat was a pleasant faced woman, and
beside her a slender young girl, white
clad from her head to her feet.
Mr. McClelland shook his head. "They
spend too much. They'll wind up In the
poor house!"
"Oh, I guess not," laughed Harrowsby.
"Any one -who picks up Ed Thorn for a
fool is goln' to drop him mighty quick.
He can afford to spend some. Of course
JJnrristou is wuth ns much niraln."
"Don't look like it!" clicked out .the
undertaker.
It didn t look like it. One would never
hare Imagmed the gaunt old creature,
fumbling over his broken rope harness At
the side of Ins ramshackle vehicle, the
possessor of more worldly wealth than
the prosperous appearing man driving by
at ease with his handsome family. One
likeness, however, in common they had.
uoin wore tne army blue.
"They're both good haters," went on
the speaker. "Them two men come to
this country pretty soon after we did.
One of 'em must be here nigh on to thirty
years, an' they've never spoke a word to
each other Iu ail that time. Krom the
name town back Hast, I've heerd, an'
fit in the war together same reg'ment
Fame comp'ny!"
Mr. McClelland nodded. "I remember.
Thorns. conio several years after: An' to
think of them two eatin' the pame dinner.
, an cirivm' to the same funerals, wulkln
In the same Fourth of July procession, or
jikc now m tnis Here Memorial day pa
rade even bavin' the same politics, an'
never as much as a civil word between
'em. I wonder whnt caused it,"
"A woman, I've heerd said."
'The town's fillin' fast."
It. was filling up fast. On everr road
leading down ' into the peaceful volley
incKieu people on root, on horseback, in
buggies, and in wagons. There were burly
fanners, greeting neighbors, talking of
crops ami weatner. There were women
with chilJrcn in their tired arms nnd
clinging to their gowns, some alert, more
stolid, but almost all In their appearance
01 premature nge anu weariness, giving
evidence of overwork and latent depres
sion,
The Grand Army hall was only the un
per floor of an abandoned and dilapidated
building, used as a furniture shop before
the town boom had burst. But the men
who cume down the rickety steps scaling
the outer wall were the units who made
the magnet of attraction. These men
formed In line on the broad strip of the
street, Intervening between their occa
sional quarters and the livery barn. The
stirring notes of the life rang out, and
the beating" of a drum throbbed upon the
air.
The blue-clad ranks formed. There was
tbe bent old body, the square, firm face
nrid the floating white hair of the father.
JJeside him tramped his son spare, sin
ewy,'' upright, but perceptibly lame in one
leg the leg which had been presented at
Shltoh with a much-prized bullet. And
one was pounding, and one wos blowing,
each with vigor und enthusiasm.
Up the main street they marched, per-
haps two-score veterans In all, the colors
w.mriE eonuiry unci nieir post uneau, tne
music rising bravely in their midst. And,
side by side, ns it chanced, iu the parade
were the two men between whom for so
many years a bitter grudge had lain iin
buried John Barriston and Edward
Thorn.
The summit of the incline was reached,
and thenvooden church which rose from a
sweep of rocky soil, Horses and buggies
were hitched all along the rough fence.
The foreground wns crowded with people
waiting to see the veterans pass in. Then
there were prayers and hymns nnd ad
dresses. The latter were delivered from
behind the dividing rail where pictures of
the heroes of a great conflict buns la
State.
For the women of tbe Belief Corps,
who had marched up the street In the
rear of the men, had beggared tnc nine
town of Its glowing peonies. Its heavy
headed snowballs, Itspungent soutnern
wood, and sfarryVririgifs, ami "red honey
suckles, and the first, white,. scented calal
na branches to do honor to the occasion
And here again, side by fide, were the
two men. who, fast fettered by n child
hood" "affll youth of friendship, had gone
forth to war together.
The services were over at last, and the
crowd in the church poured out Into the
sunshine. Again fife and drum made mar
tial music. The brief journey to the
tt-nf&tery was bectin. It wns here, after
the stiff- wreaths nud crosses which the
women had brought from the church were
duly distributed nnd speeches made by
some of the old soldiers, that John Bar
riston first caught a glimpse of the young
man who had come late into church. He
stared iu astonishment strode toward
htm.
"What has brought you back?" he de
manded.
"A row," replied hi son. "I'd a fight
with one of the fellows nt college. I was
in the right, but I did him up a bit wor-e
than I meant to. I thought I'd better
come home until it blew over."
The old man choked with rage.
"And It's for this for this I've tolled
for you, nud slaved. for you, and all but
starved myself for you. How " he wns
choking in his wrath "how dare youx"
"I dare a good deal sometimes."
Just then a girl brushed by them. Her
gown caught on the point of a stone. She
stumbled. Involuntarily Mark Barriston
extended his hand to aid her. She shot
him a swift glance. In tbnt look was
recognition and a certain startled, pleased
surprise. J Hen she had passel on. and
Mark Barriston stood hat in hand staring
after her.
"Do yon know who that Is?"
"It's Edward Thorn's daughter." said
John Barriston slowly. The hoarse voire
shook over the words. "You must never
hold word with him or his, or " He
lifted his great rough hand to the dazzling
sky, with n mighty oath, "or else you go
your way, penuile;s and poor, save for my
curse!"
"That's unfair!" flamed Mark Barris
ton. The old man's blood spoke then.
"It's unjust! You read the Bible nnd
you hate your brother. Tell me why!"
But the passion of his father hnd spent
itself for the time. He looked suddenly
gray and stricken. He turned and walk
ed unsteadily away to where the close,
sharp spikes of an iron railing kept jeal
ous guard over the nnrrow mound It In
closed. All other boundaries In that sunny
little city were of wood, but these John
Barriston had deemed too frnil to keep
the world apart from her the one woman
of his love, whose life bad been a brief
and unsuspected tragedy.
"I'oor father!" The young fellow, look
ing after the lean old figure seeing the
gnarled fineers clutched hard around the
iron spike on top of the railing, felt a
fierce ache in his throat. He turned
went away.
When Mark Bjrristori straight ns n
Norway spruce and good to look upon
striding home in the sunset light, came
upon the wrecked carriage of Kdwerd
Thorn, he wns hardly surprised only
most absurdly elated. Obviously, he could
not pass on. He might not take the whol
ly disinterested credit accruing to the
stray Samaritan, but mere courtesy de
manded that aid be offered. And since
Mark Barriston had been away at col
lege he had learned a lesson which prairie
people are slow to appreciate that while
kindliness, however gruff nud sullen, is
good, 'courteous kindliness Is infinitely to
be preferred. And so he uncovered to the
ladies in the carriage with a grace that
was pleasing ns novel to the farmer folk,
nnd offered his services. And when he
had gone to the nearest farm house for
rope, and had helped to splice the pole,
and all was once more in readiness foi the
homeward driver he would have turned
away but that Edward Thorn, putting
out his hand with a word of thanks, de
tained him,
"Thank yon much, Mr. Mr. you are
a stranger hereabouts, I judge"
"My name is Mark Barriston."
"Mark Barris O!" He leaned more
heavily over the side of his surrey. Twice
the lips set In the blonde beard opened
twice closed without speech. His eager
look dwelt hard on the boyish face up
lifted in the mellowing light. "I might
have known," he muttered. And then
he said slowly: "Her eyes you have your
mother's eyees!"
"My mother!" echoed Mark. "You
knew iter you knew my mother?"
"Well, my boy. "Better," he said, nnd
so low his voice now he might have been
communing with himself, "better than
any one else!"
There wns silence. A chill stole np
from the draw below. A gopher ran
across the road, frightening the horse
which had broken the pole. An anxious
voice spoke from the rear seat. i
"It Is late, Edward. We'd better go
"Perhaps" dryly; "but a man muw
work with his head or his hands. It Isn't
every one who gets the chance to chooe. '
The following day Mark Barriston un
packed his books nud set himself to study
furiously. But how might one study
books when day by day tinture turned
over a fresher and, still more enchanting
page of-her own Inimitable volume? But.
It was not wholly the charms of nature
which made Mark Barriston change hi
mind about accepting n teiiuornry resi
dence on the farm iu the North bclongilik'
to his father. It wni quite casually lu
Ion nuil that this farm which his fattier
had but lately purchased was nenr nu-
other belonging to and occupied by Ed
ward ihorii.
lie told himself he would not nttenipt
to see Dellln, but it tuust be admitted It
was a little ditllcult to avoid doing so
when he wns obliged to pas lier"hoine
every time he went to or returned from
town. The romance was nn Innocent one,
nnd ns sweet as it was innocent, ltnm
bles along the creek- a spurch for the
latest flowers-the steadying clasp of n
hand in abrupt descent or ascent the
discovery of mutual tnstes snntches of
song the flutter of her sash ribbon
against his hand silences embarrassing
but delicious, nnd that was all.
Only Edwnrd Thorn used to remark to
his wife that really that girl wns growing
on pretty to le useful, nnd the man on
John Barriston's north farm averred lie
'never seen that kind of a farmer nfore."
It wns he who blunderingly precipitated
the clininx of the situation. He hnd rid-
len over to John Barriston's relative to a
hipment of cattle.
"loud better go through to Chicago
with the stock. D.m, his master said.
My son cnu attend to things until you
get back."
"He can, if he takes time enough from
plckin' posies with Dellln Thorn."
"What!" screamed John Barriston.
"What!"
"I didn't think, sir!" Dan hnd shambled
up aghast. "I forgot the bad blood
atween "
"Saddle my horse quick! This min
ute! Quick!
Five minutes later he was riding north
at breakneck speed.
Mark chanced to meet Dellln nt the
.. .. - .......i tit1 Mfiun i rwi. .. .
Utc th, old CUmu! I Army ... 1()1J8K B Ull 1'XU JilllW. n,; , ' 1 ,
tn clo.e. bine 1 "". l..d I . .....1 " l"
the farm wagon, piling " ;r, 1.......
'S-'S u." W. ' c, SHOULD HAVE A HOME ""IZ"?
I W w. t - I (HeilllH Mil
lie could near iutv - - - . , , .
fe and see the old man handing liU InU
S sunder to he care, for un II the
...1- ... Ilk.. llK Otlilllt.'
o,,eri,,ll, ;rme..mh Im n.h.
drum
onso
looked down and nwny,
ping the Iron railing.
Mark Barriston. turning hl tc
the livery barn, looked around nt son ml
of hi. name to tlud IMwanl 'Hioru at hi.
OF THEIR OWN.
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In.. .''
1 hU,,.
A I.nruo Number of tlin Writ May
llo Kept In Otic llouo If It In Ar
'''. ir 1.0. yJjmt
1 1 N t II Ill-it, ,,'
night to II... : r'mi
mimed lii ! I'roiMfr iiiinr-iiii ,., irouin,
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19
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Cut nro too fund f ltl'" tl'V lilni-li
How's your father? Wb " I H,ni,m,., to got iinywlier.) tumr tl.cin. ,, ,, , ll,t(
Pp there." lie motioned toward. .' , ..mingi'iui'iil of n Iioiikii for , , '"'Hsir
hillside. . . I .. I. 1 tnl.m Hint " '." """"' "III 1 nt, "
i ... th hotel, the mm-, iiicho umi - ... ......... Mnjoyi.,i, nun ; ""t
er y:". fir; 1-"-!"". """r 'r:!" j r " , ! . ...... -, 1
Vrounil the swecn by the ralironn irm. j or n hiiiiih iiuir .-."
ncr.. the lines, up the hill nUH).IIe-on ,H, ,,,,, rollm r Willi fllit kI.I.-h.
he went. Through th gateway "' I , with throu or four IIooim. Knell
rlght-nnd across the worn path to where , wJ, vu )lMr for ,j, ,,Kl.0im
br the miadraiiKiilar Iron railing "",, ,.,.. I1M.i i.ih i..Ha N mi'I on u
nolo It mil v pliUTil In tlu gioilllil mill
eight feet liltth or bo, mill Imvliig two
mm Imrn mifely lilted to It so lluil u
Imliler tun V I m lined to get lip to tilt
llllllHt. 1 HIS Will till ll II 111'J.VII t,l...". I irri I M III, I.
1 -I.. ...!..).( ...it . . . . . r I..- f.. ..I... I 11. .
I IllOllglll Mll'HC JuUr IIIIIKHI llllll llllll U'lllHH'". t"l l'K-
ilut I think she'd rnther we , ,,r ttltlH I Imvo ItH
own nest.
Fur larger flock n Iiihiw limy
nt with bowed head.
"Jack!"
It was the old name that leaped to hi.
lips. The other looked up.
"Ned!" Me rose trembling to hi. feet.
"U'l'n talk It over. Jack. I never meant
to do so,
..1.1. li
would, than that our clilldren-your. and
mine should suffer."
"Yours and mine:" Then the old liar
riston vindictlvenem came back In nil In
strength.
"Mine shnll not suffer. by should I
care for yours? You know what you did.
Kdwnrd Thorn. Played fast and Iimim
with the woman you loved the woman I
loved I" " ,
"I don't know whnt you mean, .aid
l-Mwnrd Thorn.
"I'll tell you then." Me wns trembling
still, but bis grip on the railing IicIimmI
to snpitort him. "The day we marched
forth to llcht von told me Annie I-ester
hnd promised to be your wife "hen you
came back. You knew how I loved her
11
"Loved her then?" Thorn's rolce was
n husky whisper. "No no!"
Barriston stared at him a moment.
Then he went on.
"That's all right. It doesn't really mat
ter what you say now. But you know
how you acted down there in Virginia.
The disgraceful scrais yon got lnti--tlie
dishonor you brought not only upon your
own name, but upon that of the woman
who has been rash enough to promise to
marry yonl"
"Yes," Thorn said slowly. "Yes. I did
all you say more. I wns young. I'm
not urging this In extenuation. But "
he paused, fumbyng In his breast iockft.
and extracting one yellow slip from a
package. "I wish you'd look at this. It
was after I had got this that I Hold
an ! Have you finished?"
"Not quite. Then you went home you
remember? I staid Hivay. I eouldn t gu
llmt thlH result n ' .
'iKht nil..,.,. : 01 .S,
llHltllllN regular '
"' rlKl.t kl .f ;H
'"-"in ..!,. y
..un a,,.i xM,lK..,, ,.t,c,;;,
I l.'.iH III Pl'itl
I
Kcnnr It...,, Ai,,uh
Pro nl.ly 11,,. , t i
Ill llllll. Mm..'
U till. ,ll'., f (.,,1
new i-
abandoned bridge down by the walnut I bnrk and see Annie and you-
grove, when his father came tearing
along. But when that father dropped
from his sweating horse, so shaken wni
he by passion so racked by
could not utter one syllable.
"Whnt what is the matter?" Dellln
turned appealing!)' to Mark. She had
never been told of the eumity between the
houses.
"Never mind now. Go home," he said
In the tone of authority no man dare use
except to one woman, nud she, that one
to whom he is most madly enslaved, most
willingly subservient she who holds his
life iu her fingers ns one may hold a rose.
"Stop!" cried John Barriston.
He burst out into a storm of abuse of
his son her father herself! There was
no stemming the tide of his fury. It
came down in a sweeping flood a parti
ally incoherent fury, it is true, but none
the less overwhelming resistless. Once
Mark strove to speak twice. In vain.
Suddenly he turned held out his hands
to the girl. He had never sioken one
word of love to her. He spoke none now.
But there was that In his eyes which no
woninn needs words to interpret- a look
that was at once n surrender and a de
mand.
The old man saw the gesture saw the
look. A silence fell upon him. Indeed,
there was no sound betwixt earth and
sky just then save his heavy breathing.
Marl; put his arm around Dellln, drew
her to him. And he faced his father, not
irreverently, but fearlessly.
"She has done you no wrong, father!"
he cried, "she nor I. lou said you would
curse me. If you must curse us! We
can bear It better for sharing It!"
Again, as that day in the cemetery on
the hill, John Barristou lifted his hand
dloft.
A little, fluttering cry broke from the
girl.
"Papa here is papa!"
And there, indeed, stood Edward
Thorn.
He saw the young people. He saw the
gaunt old form towering before them. IIo
saw the hand uplifted in wordless malediction.
They beard one wild word saw Mark
Well, what then?"
"Then .lack! Do you think I'm Imbe
cile or delirious vet? Then you Jilted
rage he her thing tier over as heartlessly as a
man lllngs nsi.ie tne woman wno lias Hir
ed him. There Is no comparison to be
mnde. The whole town was talking of
your conduct when I returned. But you
had gone, lou coward!
Kdwnrd Thorn took one itep-then
stood ipiite still.
"Will you listen now?" he asked. "I
did love Annie yes. Ami I did many
things I nm nshnmi'd of in those old army
days that i. true. But that I ever o
my own accord broke faith with Annie-
no. John Barriston no;
Barriston laughed a harsh laugh
"Oo on!" he said.
"Perhaps." Thorn rejoined. "Ir would
be better If you were to read this first."
He held the slip of paper toward him
Hnrrlston unfolded It read It.
Neil. dear, forme me. iou will. I limr
t .Hit encourage you-yes. I i1ld It, j-on
peak. I was erpn so wlrknl as to nnsiver
ru as you wisoeu. 11111 1 uinn t rare fur you
I linvv ntrirrr i-ureu inr jimin mat way,
I only illil so to make Jark liarriston uinlrr
iinnu iuai ne u. 1 (ion 1 Know wnat 1 uni
til him to understand! Anyhow, be nvrrr
ipoke. And now tint Hip war I. nearly over
nd you are coming back you must glr me
np. 1 ran 1 give you up, urcause my rather -well,
you know haw stern he la nnd how h
lias set his heart upon our marriage... Hut
I'll afraid to oppose him and I'll marry no
mm while Jack lives .0 pretend that roti
rouldn t have me. (. do. Neil. Ami t,...
wie, iitrruniin, .m-uii, no ne doesn't
turc A..M;.
It was a long time In-fore cither snokn
again. The procession had left the
ciiurcn, ana one couia trace its sinuous
progress through the town. In .Hence
liarriston iinnuctl nacK tlie letter.
"I wish you had known It alwavs
T l. 1. . , .... '
uiil'k. murmured morn,
"The pride of a womun," muttered Bar
rlston.
"Tbe stupidity of n man." said Thorn.
There was the roll of vehicles up the
hill the tramp of feet. The voterani
filed in the gate. The little doctor come
forward In all his guy regalia, Delllu
morn Knelt beside Barriston
She comprehended the broken sounds he
maue.
'm. - ...... n .
Barriston spring forward. Then th i,i '"'"-wun you, iCsyOU shall
..i.. ,i . . r nnve 11 always. "
strong W of his ran.riowe "d to 1 T,be 'l n- Th('
the ground. His face was purt.le HI. ProfessIonn forefinger on the pulse of
ns purple. Hl
There was a foam
"Yes-yes. Well." to Mark. "I'm glad
to have seen you. I suppose," with some
hesitation, "I can't ask you to come to
our house?"
' "I'm afraid not, sir."
Ho moved a step backward. The elder
man sighed a wistful sigh it sounded.
hen Mark reached home he found his
father sitting rending by lamplight. The
book was the Bible, bis only literary rxis-
sesslon. Tbe deep cut lines of the old
face seemed deeper, the stern mouth more
Inflexible, the keen old eyes more relent
lessly pehctrntlng.
"I ell me about your quarrel, lad." he
Mid.
Mark told him, not. sparing the other
man, but equally outspoken In regard
to his part In the affair. There was a
long silence when he had finished.
"Well?" ho asked at length.
" 'An eye for nn eye,' " said the hard
old voice. ' 'A tooth for a tooth.' You'd
better take that north farm. Try It until
fall. You can go back to college then.
The man there needs looking after."
"i hatp farming.
teeth were clinched,
on his lips.
Although Barriston was borne at once
to his son's bed, although the physician
drove over In hot haste, and all was done
that could be done, it was many months
before a gleam of consciousness Irradiat
ed his countennnce before lie gazed In
telligently Into the faces which came and
went at his bedside. Delila was Bitting
with him one radiant January day. Her
right hand held a book. She felt a touch
upon the left which rested on his coverlid
a caressing touch.
"A pretty hand," she heard a voice
murmur. "Annie had pretty hands. An
nn
the prostrate mnn. Ho rose snoke. He
could not make himself heard.
"Men of the fJrond Army of the Itenub
He," he essayed again. "Your comrade-
John Barriston."
The music swelled aloft, martial, tri
umphant. But John Barriston did not
hear.
The Grave In My Heart.
They are covering the graves of our heroe.
Willi the love lest flowers llier ran 1.
ut.M ,cii..v, iii.-iiiiji ivn iiiiiikiu
Willi the fragrant blossoms of spring,
For the graves belong to the nation;
tihe claims and makes them known
And she counts among her heroes
lift ivhn ntiei. tent. mTnn nlim.
The murmurous sound trailed , ye- thp cover tho craves of the br&vt
nfF Intn llnn An.) l.n
. In, if J,",h,n "urrl8," lWsf
back to his old home. He was wasted, I Htculs soft forth o'er tho land,
frail, patient to the point of pathos. He T1'l'y cover the graves of our soldiers,
logical, but left to Mark every arrange- I
t,meandMrnar,?t' 7? Bt S Z ffi&$S?Si,
time. Mark drove him. Neither spoko The memory of days he was with me
of the winter passed-nor of what had ti . tlic nul0' heart .eemed stilled.
led up to his seizure. In. May he' was , T Kse'oT tilt wiuTI hm
nb.e to sit out on the front porch-hls one . These hlpssoi.is shall s "celen and hallow
book on his knee. On the morning of I . w.1 h tl,elr 1Ic"t itle art, '
Decoration day Mark was sunn-hied to AS'J '"'"P ".P tl,elr comfort!
find him up early and dressed 1 In S old 7 nwtlr grave In n.y'he.rt.
uniform.
"Why, father." he cried. rm, Inventions that have been nnt(.ni,i
think of going In to the ceremonies." , n tho United States for not more than 21 I
uiiu iuai uiiiv iiihii nn nnintiin. in -
KXTI'IIIOII Or I'lOKO.V IIOt'sK.
Iiliule oil the loi of 11 Imrn. lllld If tile
I mm hurt 11 cupola mi inn of It. HiIn Im
the very thing. Twenty, or oven forty
pigeons tuny be ki'iU In such it place,
but It will Ik neioHNiry to linve n irnp
door ut the bottom which tuunt be cure-
fully closed every time the house la
left, lifter having been visited.
But larger Hocks may have lo Im
provided for. nud a Miiall Hock will
soon become a large one, for allliougli
these birds Imvo only two young uueti
Iu the tiest. yet they will nest mivuntl
time Iu the year, nud the young one
wioii go (0 keeping house for tlit'iil'
selvi"!i.
A large number of pigeons may lie
kept Iu one house If It In arranged In a
proper uimnicr. And nlgi-ou If left to
themselves wilt s.miii bring their owner
Into trouble, for they are apt to go on
to nclglilxirV newly wnvii ileitis, and
gather up the seed with iiiui ii Indus.
try. This, however. Is easily prevotit'
ed, for these birds love (11 utay alKHit
their home, ami If they are regularly
fill they will not wander away aflur
food. But If It U thought that tliu
home fields may In- Injured by the
birds. It may lie wild that where nlg-
eoiis havo bad full opportunity to run
over wheat or oat Held (or pen, of
which they are extremely fond), yet
the liei-d they eat Is well spent on them.
"('uln Mire- ,:,. ,?H
I" I till III..,.
erllMleil Nllpp,., Alh j
She In
linvana .'..i..,iz
llfll llll.ler p,.,r,,.t
III to iiirfin. ki, .... ..
may lie linng,,,,.,!, i, L"J
Mm (.'iilian-Spiiui,!, momZT
was Idle, muni ))f WT
IhivIiik goi,,. , ,1.. . '
Hiirlot:o i..,i,.ty muZ.
wagon -till f,.r ,1H J
try'H rntlse. TUU t,Mk
IIhi In a iiingnlikw., J
ferro, a preity im
Villia. Her .lri,ivliisr
for their Mpli-iid.ir am
ami ollleern of . Kmtui
Willi one aiiii,lii-r fnrbMh.
yet hIi U beau ., n(,
fnr nu n ritht flu ililniiliifp mi ili Miw.il
- ' immiiimi si 1 iiiu niin . r 11
will Increase thecron. i that the vlelil '". I ' "o tniM
at harvest time Is often much larger cbatige her imd tlnn la M
than It would have been hut for the
pigeons thinning out the need. If tin
pigeon house Is kept at Ihu Imrn. or oil
11. 1110 turns will mt wamler away to
the fields, unless to one iiile close to
them. A house largo enough for n
hundred pigeons. Is shown In the drnw-
lugs, iMith the outside and Inside of It
The house Is ten by tight feet nnd the
walls nru eight feet high. The ar
raiigement of the Inside Is shown In
figure 2. The tiest boxen nre plnred
can llml n man who wni a
Ideal. She I iTjHfinllr M
leuiM beeaiiKe. she M;il
"can achieve great M
CiiIiniih and Kpaulanli mi
ami piny upon a u.am!Hi
INTKIIIOII OP I'lOKO.V IIOtSK.
tin llellnves In HnrpS
"ICxperleni'u lins ntW
there Is Hindi a thing aik
Mid a veterinary siintM'
hIioi oil the South Hl.l. 'i
111I110 had a beautiful ()
nmre that was subject M
of colic. About n yearnpi
ak'k and JoueM. the owmt
over here for twaliiH-nl. I
her, and hIiu hii'ineil ai p
hiiinnn being might, roUty
agulnst my coat .lecv. l
her iiffcetlon In her dumb n)
"One day about six w
hIio came to the door of li
lug and evidently suffcrlM
treated her again aim f
I found out afterward ttaU
no otio nt her hoiim suiW
that Hhe had worked the I
liai. net out to Hnd llicd
"CurlotiH rlrcuniHtnncf,
who had heard the storf
But that'H not nil of
doctor. "Three ilaynnjiol
on shelves fastened to the slileu nr tl,,.
hoiise, and 11 roosting platform Is mad.)
Ill front Of till) Hllell'eu 'I'l... ul,..l...
. v n.iri 1 ; 11m I - u,
supiiorted liv nrimu umi 11,,. 11,11.. .1 tn mr ofllco III the worM
on the outside open 011 to them. There o'clock. Them lay the
Is a box In the house In which food ft of the "oor-d'l
Is kept for use In murine -..,n ...1,.... been taken sick, and liauB
the birds do not wish to go out. ns before to the shop lal"
10 get a good view of the Insldo of fol nobody mere w ":
the house, ben. I (Hilt Itrillil un II u tn If.. I elni.H. nnd Mho bad (Hod.
a short of tube to look through, ami Htory Isn't proof that n hon'
use one eye only, shutting the other. 1 would llko to hear 8onl
nils niaites the perspective very plain, Itr'-Chlcago inter we-u
nun snows jiwt how thu iouho w.i.il.l .,ii
.....I, ir .. ... " w...ii fin.. (11 Hoari"
.uuiv . l u iu wt?ri. 111 ir. . I . .-.-
. ...i.i
Tho family were at uw.'
in 1
Jiu
te , . . .. .
t,un(Pi ii.L'nu 01111H. iiKe allMitliem. I "w . ... .i.u
must be kept very clean, m.,1 m, i the other niornlinr in v
should be swept and sanded twlcu a WoHt 13,1(1 clorisyman.
week. It will be the least trouble to do 0,(1 tl,0,"'ht h,B mp',1
It every day, when a few minutes will L'r ,0,,K wj1'on Ur.u" ,1 ,
suiiiie 10 ,10 1110 wont. The lloor should "u VC, ' su
be sanded after every sweeping, and tmit to th, ""fJ
nm nuniM wiiouiii du (lusted with a mix- "ua " Kina" """ ,1,1 to
turo of sand and Hue gravel, wood nh. fu t0 tliu ,loor... .J
ua and sulphur. There win 1.,. . desertor from tho fnuuiy s
bio with vermin If thorough cleanliness U' l'rau woru l"turn!!W
la observed and above nil ti.i...,u .1... Iv. and when they we .J
sweepings of the bouse should be dls- f,ltl,or l,nJ'e,, for H' v.U,
posed of safely Iu the barnyard or H,,"rt tl,no ,ntt'r 1,10 , J
away from the house, for there Is iiolh- lllll 1,1 n c,OHOt "lstfllrt' j
lllir ..m... III. ..I.. a .. t.i 1.1, ....I.. '
... nnviy 10 llliriior 1IC0 Or lldlS ""' ,
and supply a breeillng-placo for them "Oh. niammal" he ck'
tiinn the sweepings of the house. nnntly, "pnpa tells tiou
Till) lll'Hl Imveu ,.,.,.1. , . . Ililn.ru 1 lln hilt IlOVCr tf"s' ,.
lontf, nine Inches whin, si in..i.,.u 1....1. about tho good tbnt m
In tho front, and ten Inches In tho renr. liuul I,ln,n D('lL'r'
mu uiviiieu ny partitions Into live TT i.v im; '
apartments, each having a separate e. 8nM,,t,?f,0U of Vf
trance, which Is four and n i,i, 1.",." Tho Jnpnneso Houso 0 f
, 1'lKb, nnd three wide. Tho ,,ictur ""8 ImH8t'd n VlZiJ
0110 sldo of tho houso. tho hoi'B 1)0I0W 11,0 u J 1
IV I in ....... I .... ...... I r nl 1I1D 'v .
occupied by other men nro piizzlca
a nn... .. i... iii men
. . .. . ... iiiu lw'ii 1 tiritiiii iiiiiiri'uiiiiu im
Bines win i,i.i n. . . ........
""'w nesis, nnd If tho lliiiu a good t.wc