•' 1
■lan frontier's on the list, ain’t It? Draw
ings made o f tha old walla to have every
thing put in the same place. I don’t lay
out to be aoopernatural, but I ain’t auch
a born wooden head, 1 can’t make a gueaa
aa to what all that mettna. I t ’a cate.”
“ Do you happen, to know,”
aaid
O ’Rourke, suddenly turning on hla com
panion, and seising him by the wrist,
“ i f Austin F arley’s new novel is on the
book stalls yet?” Ilia look was triumph
ant for the moment, and,
Indeed, he
thought he had trapped Frost with great
neatness.
Farley had never written a
book with the theme o f which O'Rourke
the effect that little pitchers have long
had not been made acquainted long before
ears. I shall think o f that proverb with
ita first page-had reached the public, and
respect forever a fte r to-day."
he knew this story perfectly. Frost did
“ Y on choose to be facetious, air," m id
not look In the least disconcerted. On
Zeno, with an a ir o f chagrin. “ I will
the contrary, his eyes took a new light of
not pretend not to understand yon, but
certainty, and he slapped the table em
your good fortune la leas agreeable to me
phatically with the hand O’ Rourke had
than It la to yon. W ill yon kindly make
left at liberty.
a m atter o f business o f our talk, air?“
“ Austin F a rle y ? " he cried, with a voice
“ T h a t is Just what I wish. I happen
at this moment to be pressed for eleven o f triumph. “ I t was him that gneesed
that Zeno was a spy.
And I couldn’t
hundred pounds.”
“ Ah. a ir !“ said Zeno, “ I f I should hap make out how It was that he was so
pen to bo press« il for any such sum as sweet on him in spite o f that. Said he
that I am a fraid I should bo forced to was a pearl o f men, and a man o f genius.
Said he’d love him for a collaborator.
quit tbs country.”
“ I am about to transfer tbe pressure I asked him what set him admiring Far-
from my ahonlders to your ow n," said ley, and he aaid It was his native talent.
O ’Rourke quietly.
“ T h e sum is small I f F arley’s done a book like that, he's
enough In nil conscience. I merely men got his idea out o f It, that’s positive.”
O ’Rourke knew Frost for an unblush
tion it bees net I happen to want it now.
I t doss not h a ve me a solitary five-pound ing liar, but it was Improbable to his
note when my Immediate necessities era mind that F arley's book could be oat ns
mot. Y ou r employers w ill find my hum yet.
H e dismissed Frost, and wandered out
ble chnrgs no more than a flea-bite, Mr.
into the streets, striving to banish his
W roblewakoff."
“ Vary wall,” aaid Zeno, “ I throw op own thoughts.
H e walked on gloomily, not knowing
my hand and go. T h at is all. I t is not
in my power to find auch a sum or any whither he went, and not caring; and
conscience struck him hot and hard all
thing like auch n sum.”
the way. Y e t what could he do? Noth
“ W ill you ring tha bell for me, P r o s t f
asked O’ Rourke.
Frost rang tha ball, ing but torment himself until the thing
making a somewhat crab-like program was dona. A n d afterward, forever.
across tha room in order to koap an ays I
on Zeno. “ Bring me n dosen telegraph
forma," aaid O ’ Rourke to tbe waiter.
There waa another pause, and when tha
forma ware brought and they ware again
alone O’ Rourke handed the sheets to
Frost. “ Go to that table," ha said, “ and
writs to my dictation. A re you rm dy?
N ever mind Mr. Wroblewakoff, Frost. I
w ill taka care o f him. Now, i f you please,
w rite : ‘Qnard every dock and station.
Wroblewakoff la Zeno.’ , Repeat that on
every form. Addreas to
Bremmer, to
Dobroaki, Slater, Hughes, MacAdam.
J o yce; addreas them from yourself at
your own address. I w ill give yon more
names by and b y."
Frost wrote one form a fter tha other,
shooting a shifty, frightened eye at Zeno
every now and then. Zeno leaned back
in his chair, looking from
Frost
to
O’Rourke with a mischievous, snakynem
o f glance, which expressed with tolerable
clearness his own feeling at tha turn a f
fairs had taken.
O ’Rourke, with his
band on the back o f a chair, stood at the
head o f tha table, and never took bis eyes
from Zeno for an instant.
“ W rite me a telegram, my faithful
Frost,” m id Zeno, suddenly. “ Date from
T h e L a d le s F e lt It N e e e e a a ry to R e s t
T h e m s e lv e s A w h il e .
THE GIRL WITH
A MILLION
---------- By D. C. M urray
C H A P T E R X X I I . — (Continued.)
T h e boy, who at first sight o f O ’ Rourke
had expected to be hailed with a friendly
hoiateroiuKM
and treated to a free amt
on tha patriot’s shoulder, had not known
what to make o f him under his new as
pect, and after waiting for some, time to
be noticed, had betaken himself to one o f
tha windows which looked upon the street.
There ha wound himself up in n window
curtain and draw upon tha dusty p a »—
w ith his forefinger.
H a was still con
cealed whan the apy and hla companion
“ Engaged?" aaid Zeno, with an oddly
foreign gayety which had distinguished
him fo r a wash p ea t “ Tha good Frost
and I are a little before our time. W#
w ill e m it
W a w ill w a it Th at la but
little trouble.“
doom om this rang ant the boy’s riser
treble in a delighted laugh.
“ M r. Z e n e l" ha cried, and danced ont
from behind hie window curtain.
T h e apy turned and stooped with a
horrible threatening face,
both
hands
draw n hack and apart, with tha fingers
working. The boy fell back, frightened
•tad wondering.
O 'Rourke by a mere
impulse seised the spy by the shoulder
an d dragged him back. Zeno’s hand went
lik e lightning to his breast pocket and
■toyed there, and ha fixed an eye like a
oerpeat’s on O ’Rourke. Tha patriot drop
ped his own hand and smiled. W hatever
•Ise he waa, ha had never been a coward
outside hla coat in tha region o f his heart.
“ M y dear little Austin,” aaid O’ Rourke
In his silkiest voice, “ come here.
You
ora frightened.“
H e ant down and took
the child upon hla knee. “ W hat made
you take this gentleman fo r M r. Zeno?
Ms. Zeno was a very wicked man, and
this is a very nice gentleman Indeed." /
“ I don’ t like him," aaid the hoy, shrink
in g into O'Rourke’s arms. “ I liked Mr.
“ This la a very nice gentleman, indeed,”
aaid O ’ Rourke. “ W hat made you think
h e eras Mr. Zeno. A u stin ?"
“ I didn’t,” said little Austin, rubbing
his eyes with his knuckles. “ I thought I
heard M r. Zeno speak."
“ W hat a funny m istake! " he raid. " I
shouldn’t tell that to anybody I f I were
yon. People would think that waa quite
ailly, wouldn’t they?”
, “ Yea,” assented little Austin.
O ver ths little follow*« innocant golden
hand, O ’ Rourke looked s t Frost and Zeno.
“ Monsieur,” ha raid placidly, speaking
h i French that the child might not un
derstand him, and choosing his phrases to
«h a t end, because Austin had mastered a
fc w phrases o f the language at Janenne,
■“ I have never mat a more striking exam
p le o f Infantile perspicacity. I am pro
digiou sly Indebted to our young friend
mnd shall probably profit a little by this
.brilliant stroke o f his.”
T h ere were five or ten minutes o f blank
■Hence, and then Dobroaki, opening the
•door, looked In and nodded smilingly at
h is three friends.
“ Good morning, gentlemen. I w ill Join
p e n immediately. Come this way, dear
littla one.
Your father la going away
now. L e t me aee. I think I have some
w here a packet o f bonbons. L ittle people
lik e bonbons, eh? Sometimes old gentle
men eat bonbons also.
I do. Ah, you
find that droll? I w ill be with yon im
m ediately, gentlemen.”
T h e smiling old man led. the child
aw a y, and dosed the door with a bow.
1
—1
When O’Rourke and Frost reached the
form er’s chambers after
this episode,
Froot told o f hla fears for Dobroski.
“ I think,” he said, leaning forward
and speaking in a whisper, “ they want
to get the old man away— spirit him out
o’ the countiy.”
“ Dobroaki r*
"Dobroski. WroblewskofTs in the pay
o f the Russian government, and tbe old
man’s been in the v e ^ . middle o f all the
plots against the Czar and the govern
ment this fifty year. I t ’s my notion they
C H A PTE R X X III.
wsnt to get him Into Russia and squeese
“ Beautiful summer we era havin’,” said
things out o f him there. I guess they’ll
M r. F r o s t with a ghastly attempt to seem
make it warm fo r him If ever they do
a t ease.
H is lips were blue, and his
get him into the C sar't dominions.”
eyes were dilated and
curiously pale.
“ B ut he w ill never be idiot enough to
N eith er O’ Rourke nor Zeno
took
the
go there,” said O ’ Rourke half to himself.
■lightest notice o f him, bat each regarded
Th is was horrible if it were to be believ
the other fixedly.
ed. T o have le ft spies at liberty to dog
“ Yon are here,” said
O ’Rourke
to
the old man and frustrate his plans was
Zeno, “ to discuss the purchase o f arms
bad and base enough, since he who did
f o r Ireland?”
it, and was paid for doing it, had pro
“ T h a t is why I am b an ,” answered
fessed to be with him heart and aoul, bat
to hand him over to his enemies was
“ W hen that is over we w ill find a worse.
“ No, no,” he ra id ; “ Dobroski’■
p riva te place somewhere and discuss an too w ily to be caught by any trap o f the
other question,” O ’ Rourke m id quietly.
Russians H e knows better than venture
“ Vary wall,” m id Zeno, just ss calmly. into any part o f the C w r ’s dominions.”
Dobroaki and O ’Rourke discussed ths
“ T h ey ain’t going to ask his tear«,”
business o f the morning seriously, and whispered Frost. “ I ’m certain about one
Z en o’s aspect o f seriousness was com thing, and I can average the rest. They're
plete. The patriot had never before con going to drag him.
I'm sure o f th a t
cerned hlmelf personally in an enterprise Zeno’s been at me— Wroblewakoff been at
o f this kind, and would scarcely have ma, I mean. H a’s been at me about bow
cared fo r Frost as a colleague even now to give a man a drug over and over again.
I f ha hod not felt ao sure o f his bold Look here, he’ s brand new furnished hie
o ver him. T h e discovery o f the morning rooms. I caught a chap making sketches
alone w eald have given him a
power o f tha walla one day. U gly as sin tbe
which Frost would have been powerless boose was, too, and a fellow there making
t o fight against, and even apart from that pictures o f the Inside o f it. W a lt a b it
he knew enough to break him a score o f Yon help to hunt this down.
He sent
tim es over.
me down to the railway station with n lot
When the morning business was fin o f pecking cases— one lot for Calais and
ished, and It had bean finally arranged another for Vienna.
H is rooms didn’t'
that the whole details o f the purchase stand In want o f new furnishin’ a b it and
should be left practically In O’ Ronrke’s theaa yer parkin’ cases came from the
hands, with Frost to act as hla Interme earns establishment he got hia furniture
diary, ths three guests took their leave from. Do yon sea anything in all that,
together.
now 7”
“ Nothing,” O’ Rourke confessed— “ noth
“ W here ran we have that talk I spoke
ab ou t?" asked O’ Rourks, ns they ram « ing.” ) H e began to think that Frost was
Inventing soma sham secret to keep back
upon tha street
“ Y o n ran come to my rooms. I f yon what he knew, and he watched and list
please,” responded Zeno, somewhat sul ened keenly, bnt with no great appear-
Alice o f interest«
len ly.
“ T r y a bit further," raid Frost, still
“ On ascend thought” said O’ Rourke,
“ w e w ill find other quarters, M r. W ro leaning forw ard and speaking in a whis
blewakoff. I happen to know a very re per. “ T h is struck ma as being all a lit
spectable and quiet restaurant near your tle bit queer. I . wasn’t lot know much,
hone«, where wa ran have a p riv e t« room. and it kind o f piqued me, so I took a walk
Into tha Tottenham Court Road, and I
Suppose wa drive th a n ? "
got Into talk with a warehouseman.
I
“ Aa yon pleasa,” returned Zeno.
In a littla while the three w e n seated wasn’t long In finding out what I ’d guess
♦ t —
i n q a ie t
Frost ordered cold ed to ba shoot tha thing before. The
lunch, and Intimated to tha w aiter that stock for Calais was the same as ths stock
th ey wished to ha left alone until they for Vlanna, and ths stock for Vienna waa
tha same, to a teacup, aa had gone to
«howId ring for hie farther attendance.
Anything in all that,
“ I bad not the advantage o f knowing Zeno’s rooms.
yen very intimately at Janenne,” m id now ?" The patriot's eyes were bent upon
O 'R ourke, when they w e n finally laft tbe floor, sod bis fees was shaded in hia
“ Th ree seta o’ rooms furnished
alone. “ Even I f I had had that advan hand.
tage, I do not believe I should b a n rec alike to a hair. Calais is oo tha way
Vienna's on tha way to a
ognised yen but for tha little accident to Vienna.
«4 this mam lag W a b a n a proverb to good many places, but I reckon the Run
Th at pretty ears are not alw ays tha
bast sssd corn has bsao shown by tbs
experiments at the Ohio Station. They
ml acted twenty-four extra fins nan , all
o f the asms variety. The seed o f these
wore planted, each aar In n row by It
self, and thinned to throe stalks In a
hill, so that such ear had tha same
chance aa Its neighbor. One ear out o f
tbs twenty-tour yielded at the rate o f
l i d bushels per sere, another 113 and
a third 104 bushels, w hile other ears
made fifty-five, sixty-five and seventy-
seven bushels per sere, Th e row that
made the smallest yield had fifty-eight
barren stalks.
T b e row next to the
highest had fif teen barren stalks, and
the row that made sixty-five bushels
hod fifty-tw o be m o stalks Th e ears
w ere nil o f equal appearance and o f
equal germ inating quality.
T h e re
m its show very p b tn ly that w hat w e
have been fo r years hwleflng upon, that
the breeding o f corn la the field, tbe
rem ora! o f disturbing Influences about
It, and tbe e o ih fug tow ard an Ideal
plant as a whole, a plant o f productive
character ra th e r than big e o n , are nil
o f fa r more Importance than the selec
tion o f fine ears by the sl u t s
card
without any knowledge e f the breeding
o f the corn. Selection o f the largest
ears tends towardslngle-earproductton,
fo r It Is a Isw o f nature that when w e
Increase the slae o f the Individual fruit
o f any plant w e w in decrease tbe num
ber o f fruits, and when we Increase
the number w e decrease tbe else o f
the Individual fruit*. But it baa also
been shown that a stalk w ith tw o or
more medium-sized ears o f corn w ill
make more corn than a stalk with one
big ear. In a test made tor the yield
o f grain, one sample was from a sin
gle-eared plant, one from a two-eared
one, one from a three-eared one and
one from a four-eared one, and the
quantity o f corn shelled Increased ex
actly with tbe number o f ears on tbe
plant. Th e breeding In the field to
breed ont barren stalks Is the essential
matter In developing the productive
character o f the corn, and the best
ears are merely relative and not by
any means the largest
'
you see how Impossible, how cruelly Im
S im p le l l a s s k t e r l a f O w tat.
possible, yon made It fo r me to defend
Figure
1 shows a big galvanized Iron
m yself properly hi h er pr esence? Don’t
washtub
set
upon a few bricks plied up
you see how still more cruelly Impossi
ble It was far me to defend myself when fo r tbe occasion. A, small fire can be
Msskeyne appeared? H ow could I wound
Maakelyne?
A man I ’ ve loved like a
brother this ten years ! A man who has
heaped countless benefits on m e! A man
who has acted toward me with a con
stant kindliness! Julia, I swear to.yon
by all I hold sacred that I knew Mira
Butler's predilection for myself before
you and I ever met. I f you and I had
never met— I confess i t ! You ask m*
for the truth, Julia, and yon shall have
it all without disguise!
I f you and I
had never met I might have brought my built beneath.which w ill,o f course.melt
self to look upon Miss Butler ss a charm o ff the cAnting o f zinc on the bottom
ing and suitable future w ife for me. Bnt o f the tub. bnt this w ill do no great
that I ever loved her, that I ever told harm. Such a tab costs about 75 cents,
her so, or gave her reason to hope so or and can be purchased anywhere.
believe so, is profoundly false.
I have
Fig. 2 Is the table and hogshead for
never loved a woman until I met you. I
have never breathed a word o f love to
any woman but yourself. You will be
lieve me some day. I can go away and
wait. And even if we meet no more, I
have a certain prophecy in
my own
heart. You w ill understand me and dr
me justice.”
(T o oe continued.)
la v e t
fro m
D is g ra c e .
In one o f the old fam ilies o f C h arts»
ton* South Carolina, w rites Mrs. Kav-
enel, there was an important personage,
Jack, the butler.* Jack disputed with
another old man, Harry, the butler o f
Mrs. Henry Izard, the reputation o f
being the beet and most thoroughly
trained servant In tbe town. From the
judging o f the wines to the arrange
ment o f a salt-spoon there was noth
ing which these withered brown poten
tates did not decide and maintain.
Nothing would have astonished either
more than that master or mistress
should dissent from his verd ict
Jack was intolerant o f anything
which be considered a breach o f tbe
etiquette o f the table. Nothing could
have Induced him to serve a gentleman
before a lady, or a younger before an
elder brother. T o place fru it and wine
on a table-cloth Instead o f npon the
mahogany waa to him a fa llin g from
grace. On one occasion he was mnch
annoyed when a Senator from the up-
country tw ice asked tot rice with his
fish. T o the tin t request he simply r e
mained d e a f; at the second he bent
down and whispered Into the senatorial
ear. Tbe genial gentleman nodded, and
suppressed a lau gh ; but when the ser
vants bad ie ft the room, be burst Into
a roar, and cried, “ Judge, you have •
treasure! Jack has raved me from die-
grace, from exposing my Ignorance. H e
whispered, T h a t wouldn’t do, air; w e
never eats rice with fish.' ”
IL A U O irV R IIfO
TABLX AND
VAT.
scalding and taking off hair, scraping,
etc.
F *• *1
~1n
-M M
Fig. 8 le the fram ework on which to
build the smoking box.
P o t a t o « « to r P la n tla a r.
In digging potatoes, known to ba
pare seed and o f the same variety, fre
quent variations may often be noticed.
Boms o f these are due only to differ
ences o f «oil, bnt others are true
“ «porta,' ’and w ill reproduce their kind
I f planted another year.
If
these
"■porta" are usually productive and
valuable they should be carefully
saved for planting. In this w ay some
Up to a few years ago the dentists o f
o f the beat varietlra o f p o t a t o « have
Japan pulled teeth with their fingers.
been originated, one or tw o kinds o f
Forceps and other Instruments are now
late rose being prominent Instances.
being generally used.
One day Ellen Dow and Aunt M ar
tha, on a city shopping Jaunt, acquired
Innumerable bulky packages and tw o
string bags full o f smaller bundles. By
afternoon they were completely ex
hausted, and there was still a list o f
tblugs yet uupurebased.
“ I can’t walk another atep!" exclaim
ed Aunt Martha at last. “ I muat find
some place to rest and sit still a fu ll
hour."
“ W e can go to some w aiting room,”
suggested Ellen.
“ No, that's a waste o f tim e;
we
sha’n’t be seeing anything while w e’re
doing that,” responded Aunt Martha.
Suddenly her eye fell on a sign across
the street:
“ Concert at Throe O’Clock I”
“ N ow that’s the very thing 1" she
burst o a t “ W s con go to that concert
and rest w hile we’re there, and then
finish our errands. W hat do you say,
Ellen?"
“ Th at w ill be nice," Ellen responded,
"unless It is too expensive."
“Oh, It’s likely w e can get some sort
o f seats fo r fifty or seventy-five cents.
I don’t mind where I s i t "
“ Anything w ill do tor me," rejoined
mien. “ I ’m never fussy."
“ H ow much are tbs seats?" Aunt
Martha asked the doorkeeper, n little
tremulously.
" I t Is s free concerM o advertise the
Pollard piano," replied the man. “ Step
right In."
“ W ell, i f this Isn’t
la c k !" gasped
Aunt Martha. “ And there is scafteely a!
person in tbs hall, either, so wa have
o ar pick o f seat*.”
“They always say music Is better fa r
off,” suggested Ellen, motioning to some
seats near the back o f tbs ball.
Aunt Martha agreed aa she dropped
Into n chair, and disposed the bags and
Tbs strawberry propagates Itself In
tw o w ays—by runners and by seed. I f
the numera are kept from rooting, the
vine w ill make an effort to reproduce
Itself from seed (production o f berries)
In tbs R>rlng. and some horticulturists
have given ns their opinion that I f tbs
vinas are not allowed to throw out run
ners In tbs summer there w ill be no
Ions o f vita lity by tbs old plants, and
toe matter Intended to be converted In
to runners w ill be stored In the plants
and converted Into fru it when the
proper tim e arrtveu. Th e first thing to
do after harvesting tbs crop la to thor
oughly clean between tbs rows and
pull out tbs weeds between the plants
in the rows, so ss to giro the beds tbs
benefit o f tbe boe an muob ns possible.
Moisture Is always beneficial to straw
berry planta, and tbe ground should be
worked deep at first and than kept
loose on the surface until late In tbe
fall, when tbe vines may be mulched.
Burning tbe beds should be dons when
the ground le fresen. This, It is claim
ed, w ill enable tbe plants to begin anew
In tbe spring, tbs old planta being
thereby Invigorated, the ashes provid
ing potash, and tbe seeds o f weeds de
stroyed. Leaven, strew o r other m a
terials may be pieced over the plants
before w inter sets In, to remata aa n
mulch until surly fa the ^ r t n g
F er
tiliser Is applied both Jest a fter hub
vest and early In the Rising. Potted
plants are numera that a re grown la
pota, cloee to the parent plants, e*ch
“ I don’t know," Elian aaid, after an
runner being separated from He parent
when It Is w ell rooted In the p o t I t Interval, “ but w e've made a m istake;
Don’t you
le traneplanted from f i t pet to tbe w e can’t aee much here.
think we’d better go farther front?"
open ground.
“ Maybe w e had."
'T h e y gathered up th e ir packages,
In one ton o f ssboe from Mtumtnoas
moved down the aisle, and took possoe
coal ere 8 pounds o f potash, 9 pounds
sion o f tw o end seats. Tbe audience
o f phosphoric meld, 38 pounds o f lime
began to assemble.
and a large proportion e f waste mat
“ Let's move to the middle o f this
ter. Coal ashes are said to he about
equal to clay, and are nearly o f tbs ro w ," whispered Aunt Martha. “ No one
same composition. They possess little can crawl past all these bundles.”
Accordingly they moved to the center
or no value as s fertilizer, but serve
to assist light, sandy soils to retain o f the row, and were quiet a few sec
moisture, answering tbe earns purpose onds, when Ellen murmured:
“ I t makea me dreadful nervous to bo
es day. Th e percentage o f potash end
phosphoric arid contained Is too email packed In among these seats so I can’t
In quantity to pay fo r hauling and get o u t W hat If there should be a
spreading coal ashes on the gronnd os fire?”
“ Th at’s a fact," assented Aunt M ar
a fertilizer. I f any benefit le derived
It le due to the mechanical effect e f the tha. “ W e’d better go and alt In those
ashes on the soil and ea an absorbent seats by the w all— they’re right on an
aisle.”
material.
Again they gathered the bandies and
straggled pest the long row o f people
There la more lose storing potato so
to the two seats near the wall.
than in storing any other crop. Burring
There was a pause, and then Aunt
all waste from rot, there Is a heavy
Martha raid, s o ftly :
shrinkage, both In quantity and w eigh t
“ Ellen, I don’t think I can stand sit
A bln holding 100 busbela win show a
ting h ere! There’s a hot radiator right
shrinkage o f nearly one-tenth, besides a
by my side."
greater loan In w eigh t A bushel basket
They rote once more to search tor
full that w ill weigh funy sixty pound*
In October, when taken from the soil, ether Bests, but the ball had filled, and
win not weigh so much a fte r being there w ere no empty seats le ft Even
stored In tbe cellar daring tbe winter. thoee they had Just vacated were In
The shrinkage In weight la much less stantly taken.
*11 wish we had stayed where we w ere
when kept In pits closely covered with
earth, for there la then less chance for at first!” M id Annt Martha petulant
ly. “ W e might as w ell be shopping as
evaporation.
standing up all through this concert” —
Youth’s Companion.
T o a careful observer It Is clear that
W k * t H s w s l a r Spoke.
horses are now better classified than
formerly. Thus tbe horse that la best
What can be the matter?
Doom
adapted to road purposes Is placed at open, members rush ou t; members are
such work, and the horse that Is suited tearing past you from all points In one
best to tbe plow and heavy hauling has direction— toward the bouse.
Then
its own proper work assigned. Hence wigs and gowns appear. They tell you
the advantage o f breeding fo r a pur with happy faces their committees
pose. The man who makes the best have adjourned, and then come a third
success o f rearing horses Is the one who class, ths gentlemen o f tbe press, hil
clearly understands the situation, and arious. Why, what’s the matter? Mat
breeds what la most desirable fo r his te r!
Macaulay Is np. You Join the
customers.
runners In a moment I t was an an
nouncement one hadn't heard fo r
O n u l s f o s Rye.
The practice o f turning cows on years, and tbe pawing o f tbe word
young rye in tbe fall Is a good one, bnt ‘‘ Macaulay's np” emptied committee
when the ground Is very wet damage rooms now as before It emptied clubs;
may result. Grazing the rye causes It the old voice, the old manners and tha
to stool, and tbe young rye provides old style— glorious speaking; well pre
late greet} fo o d ; but, while the rye field pared carefully elaborated, confessedly
may be used fo r cows In the fall, they essaylth, but spoken with perfect art
should not be turned on too early In and consummate management
tbe
the spring. It does not do ao roach grand conversation o f a man o f the
harm for cows to change from grass to world confiding his learning and bis
rye. as It does from dry food In the recollections and his logic to a party o f
spring to young rye.
gentlemen and Just raising his voice
enough to be heard through the room.
K e e p Sheep.
A s the house filled he got prouder
Every farm er should have a few
and more oratorical, and then he pour
sheep, In order to save mnch o f tbe ma
ed out bis speech with rapidity, In
terial grown that may be wasted. Sheep
creasing a fter every sentence, till It be
w ill eat a great many plants which cat
came a torrent o f the richest words,
tle reject, and they graze closer to the
carrying hla hearer* with him Into en
gronnd. Young and tender weeds are
thusiasm and yet not leaving them
delldona to sheep, and they, therefore,
time to cheer. The great orator was
assist in ridding the fields o f such pests.
A small flock o f mutton sheep should be treinbllng when he sat down. T b e ex
kept. If fo r no other purpose than to citement o f e triumph overcame him,
end he had scarcely the self-possession
supply the fam ily with choice m eat
to acknowledge tbe eager praises which
K w » 1 s > A n im a ls la C s s ilt ls s .
were offered by the ministers and
I f the animals are allowed to run others In his neighborhood.— From
down In flesh It w ill be n loes to tbe W hltty's “ Parliamentary R etrospect"
fanner, ns be Is then compelled to re
H e w le M ake R velets.
store them to their original condition
before he makes a gain. A t the same
There's a new way o f making thoan
time, there is « waste o f many days, troublesome eyelets, discovered by n
as the animals are below their normal girl who Is locklly famous for Invent
condition, which Is lost time that can ing labor raving Ideas, rays the Wash
never be regained.
ington Star. I t consists o f running tbe
eyelet around and then cutting It from
r * o 4 la s C o b b a n « to P o o lt r y .
end to end and buttonholing It, making
The email and in ferior cabbages are the stitches as deep as those upon the
valnable as food fo r poultry, and w ill usual buttonhole, but reversing the
be highly relished In winter when stttch so that the edge stitches back
green food la scarce. They are easily upon tbe material Instead o f around
handled, aa the heads require no cub tbe open edge o f tbe eyelet
I t la
ting, the fow ls picking them to pleeea about one-fifth as hard to do as the
and consuming them down to the usual way, and tha difference la. length
o f time Is even more marked.