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MRS. M ARY J. HOLMES
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C I1 A P T E R V I.— (Continued.)
, Contrary to G&y’s expectations, Ajrnea
did not rSfú*e to let Jessie go for a ride,
particularly as she had no suspicion
where be intended taking her, and the
little girl was soon seated by her broth
er’s side, chatting merrily of the differ
ent things they passed upon the road. But
when Guy told her where they were going,
and why they were going there, the tears
came at once into her eyes, and hiding
her face in Guy’s lap, she sobbed bitterly.
“ I did like her so much that day," she
said, “ and she looked so sorry, too. It's
terrible to d ie ¡"
Then she plied Guy with questions con
cerning Maddy’s probable future. “ Would
she go to heaven, sure?" and when Guy
answered at random, "Yes,” she asked,
“ How did he know? Had he heard that
Maddy was that kind of good which lets
folks in heaven? Because, Brother Guy,”
and the little preacher nestled -closely to
the young man, fingering his coat buttons
as she talked, "because. Brother Guy,
folks can be good—-that is, not do naugh
ty things— and still God won’ t love them
unless they— I don’t know what, I wish
I did.”
Guy drew her nearer to him, but to
that childish yearning for knowledge he
could not respond, so be said:
“ Who taught you all this, little one?
— not your mother, surely.”
“ No, not mamma, but Miriam, tbe
waiting maid we left in Boston. She
told me about It, and tanght me to pray
different from mamma.
Do you pray,
Brother Guy?”
The question startled the yoong man,
who was glad his coachman spoke to him
just then, asking if he should drive
through Devonshire village, or go direct
to Honedale by a shorte rroute.
They would go to the village, Guy said,
hoping that thus the doctor might be per
suaded to accompany them. They found
the doctor at home and willing to go
with them. Indeed, so unnerved had he
become listening for the first stroke of
the bell which was to herald the death he
deemed so sure, that he was on the point
o f mounting his horse and galloping off
alone, when Guy’s Invitation came. It
was five miles from Devonshire to Hone-
dale, and when they reached a hill which
lay half way between, they stopped for
a few minutes to rest the tired horses.
8uddtnly, as they sat waiting, a sharp,
ringing sound fell on their ears, and
grasping Guy’s knee, the doctor said, “ I
told you so; Madeline Clyde is dead.”
) It was the village bell, and its twice
three strokes betokened that it tolled for
somebody youthful, somebody young, like
Maddy Clyde. Jessie wept silently, but
there were no tears in the eyes of the
young men. as with beating hearts they
sat listening to the slow, solemn sounds
which came echoing up tbe hill. There
a pause; the sexton's dirgelike task
done, and now it only remained for
him to strike the age, and tell how many
years the departed one had numbered.
r “ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten.”
Jessie counted it
aloud, while every stroke fell like a
heavy blow upon the hearts of the young
men, who a few weeks ago knew not that
such as Maddy Clyde had ever had exist
ence.
How long It seemed before another
Stroke, and Guy was beginning to hope
they’d heard the last, when again the
#Ull. muffled sound came floating on tb*
air. and D f. Holbrook's black, bearded
tip half quivered as he now counted aloud,
T0ne. two, three, four, five.”
/ 'Th at was a ll; there it stopped; and
tain were all their listenings to catch an
other sote. Fifteen years, and only fif
teen had passed over the form now for-
*ver still.
. “ She was fifteen," Guy whispered, re
membering distinctly to have beard that
■umber from Maddy herself.
“ I thought they told me fourteen, bnt
o f course it’s she,” the doctor rejoined.
“ Poor child. I would have given much
to have saved her.”
Jessie did not talk; only once, when
she asked Guy, if it was very far to
heaven, and if he supposed Maddy had
got there by this time.
“ W e’ll go just the same,” said Guy. “ I
w ill do what I can for the old man;”
and so the carriage drove on. down tbe
kill, across the meadow land, and past a
low-roofed bouse whose walls inclosed the
Stiffened form of him for whom the bell
had tolled, the boy, fifteen years of age,
who had been the patient of another than
Dr. Holbrook.
Maddy was not dead, but the paroxysm
o f restlessness had passed, and she lay
now In s heavy sleep so nearly resembling
death that they who watched, waited ex
pectantly to see the going out of her last
breath. Never before had a carriage like
that from Aikenside stopped at that hum
ble cottage, but the neighbors thought it
a m e merely to bring the ‘doctor, whom
they welcomed with a glad smile, making
a way for him to pass to Maddy's bedside.
Guy prefarred waiting In tbe carriage un
til such time as Grandpa Markham could
apeak with him, bat Jessis want with tbe
doctor into the sick room, startling even
tbe grandmother, and causing her to won
der who the richly dressed child could
be.
“ Dying, doctor," said one of tk¿ wom
an affirmatively, not Interrogatively; but
the doctor shook bis h ad, and holding
in one hand bis watch, ha counted the
faint pulse bents as with his aye be meas
ured off the minute.
“ There are too many here,“ be said
“ She needs the air you are b r a thing,”
and In hie singalar, authoritative way,
be d a r e d tbe crowded room of tbe mis
taken friends who
were
unwittingly
breathing up Maddy's very life.
All bnt the grandparents and Jessie;
be suffered to remain, and sitting
by Maddy. watched tiU the long
sleep ended. Silently and earnestly tbe
aged couple prayed for their darling, ask
ing that. If possible, she might be spared,
add God b a r d their prayers, lifting, st
last, the h a r y fog from Maddy’s brain,
bar ta Ufa asd partial coo
Jt was Jessie who first
the axpu aaisa of tha opening eyas.
MMt," MV
and darting forward,
she exclaimed,
“ She’s waked up. D r Holbrook.
She
will live.”
IVonderingly Maddy looked at her, and
then as a confused recollection of where
they had met before crossed her mind,
she smiled and said ;
“ Where am I now ? Have I never come
home, and is this Dr. Holbrook’s office?”
“ No, no; it’s home, your home, and
you are getting well,” Jessie cried, bend
ing over the bewildered girl. “ Dr. Hol
brook has cured you, and Guy is here,
and I, and----- ”
“ Hush, you disturb her,” the doctor
said, gently pulling Jessie away, and him
self asking Maddy how she felt.
She did not recognise him. She only
had a vague idea that he might be some
doctor, but not Dr. Holbrook, sure; not
the one who had so puxsled and tortured
her on a day which seemed now ao far
behind. From the white-haired man
kneeling by the bedside there was a burst
of thanksgiving for the life restored, and
th>n Grapdpa Markham tottered from
the room, out into the open air, which
had never fallen so refreshingly on hie
tired frame as it fell now, when he first
knew that Maddy would live. He did not
a r e for his homestead; that might go,
and he still be happy with- Maddy left.
Bat He who had marked that true dis
ciple's every sigh, had another good in
store, willing it ao that both should come
together, even as the two disappointments
had come hand in hand.
From the soft cushions of his carriage,
where he sat reclining, Guy Remington
aaw the old man as he came out, and
iljghtiny at qdc ^, he ^ccofltcd him pl6A8*
antly, and then walked with him to the
garden, where, on a rustic bench, built
for Maddy beneath the cherry
trees.
Grandpa Markham a t doWn to rest.
From speaking of Madeline it was easy
to go back to the day when Gny had
/first met grandpa, whose application for
money he had refused.
“ I have thought better of it since,” he
a id , “ end am sorry I did not accede to
your propoal. One object of my coming
here to-day was to u y that my purse is
at your disposal. You a n have as much
as you wish, paying me whenever you
like, and the house shall not be sold. Slo
cum, I understand, bolds the mortgage. I
will see him to-morrow and stop the whole
proceedings.”
Guy spoke rapidly, determined to make
a clean breast of It, but grandpa under
stood him, and bowing his white h a d
upon his bosom, the big t a r s dropped
like rain upon tbe turf, while his lips
quivered, first with thanks to the Provi
dence who had truly done all things well,
snd next with thanks to bis benefactor.
“ Blessings on your h ad, young man,
for making me so happy. You are wor
thy o f your father, and he wae the best
of men.”
“ My father— did yoi^know him?” Guy
naked in some surprise, snd then the story
came out, how, years before, when a city
hotel was on fire, and one of the gnats
in imminent danger from the locality of
his room, and his own nervous f a r which
made him powerless to act, another guest
braved farlessiy the hissing flame, and
scaling the tottering wall, dragged out to
life and liberty one who, until that hour,
was to him an utter stranger.
Pushing back his snowy hair. Grad-
father Markham showed upon his temple
a long, white s a r, obtained ' the night
when be periled his own life to save that
of another. There was a doubly warm
pressure now of the old man’s hand, as
Gny replied. “ I ’ve heard that story from
father himself, but the same of his pre
server had escaped me. Why didn’t you
tell me who you were?”
“ I thought ’ twould look too much like
demanding it as a right— too much like
begging, and I s'pose I felt too proud.
Pride is my besetting sin— the one I pray
most against.”
Guy looked keenly now at the man
whose baetting sin was pride, and as be
marked the cheapness of his attire, his
pantaloons faded and ahort, his c a t worn
threadbare and shabby, his shoes both
patched at tbe toes, his cotton shirt minus
a bosom, and then thought of the hum
ble cottage, with its few rocky acres, he
wondered of what he could be proud.
Mantim e, for Maddy, Dr. Holbrook
had prescribed perfect quiet. Even Jes
sie was not permitted to stay, though
Maddy clung to her as to a dear friend.
In a few whispered words Jessie had told
her name, saying she came from Aiken-
side, and that her Brother Gny was there,
too, outdoors, in the carriage. “ He h a rd
bow sick you were at Devonshire, this
morning, snd drove right home for me to
come to see you.
I told him of you
that day la the office, and that’s why he
brought me, I guess. You’ll like Guy.
I know all the girls do— he’s so good.”
Sick and w a r y as she was, asd un
able as yet to comprehend the entire
meaning o f all she h ard, Maddy was con
scious of a thrill of pride la kaowing that
Guy Remington, from Aikenside. was in
terested in her, and bad brought hie sla
ter to see her. Winding her feeble arms
around Jessie's neck, she kiseed the soft,
warm cheek, and a id ,
“ You’ ll come
again, I hope.”
" Y a , every day, If mamma w ill let me.
I don’t mind It a bit. If you are poor.”
“ Tut, tut, little tattler!” and Dr. Hol
brook took Jessie by the arm. “ What
makes you think them poor?”
In the closely shaded room Maddy
could see nothing distinctly, bnt she
h a rd J ea ie’s reply; "B ea n se the plas
tering com a down so low, and Maddy's
pillows are so teenty, not much bigger
than my dolly’s. Rut I love her; don't
you, doctor?"
Through tbe darkness tbe doctor a u gh t
tbe sudden flesh of Maddy's ey o , and
something impelled him to lay hin cool,
broad hand on her forebad, as he replied,
“ I lows all my pet l a t e ;” then, taking
J ea ie’s arm, he led her ont to whore Gny
wae waiting for her.
C H A P T E R V II.
Had It net b o o for the prassnes o f
Dr. Qslbrook, who, accepting day's la-
vltatlon to t a . rode back with him to
Aikenside. Mrs. Agnes would have gone
off into a passion when told that Jaaie
had been ‘V-posed to fever and mercy
knows what.”
*
“ There’s no telling what one will catch
among the very poor," she a id to* Dr.
Holbrook, as she cla'sped and unclasped
the heavy gold bracelets flushing on her
white, round arm.
“ I ’ll be answerable for any disease
Jessie au gh t at Mr. Markham’a,” the
doctor replied.
“ A t Mr. Who’s? What did you a l l
him?” Agnes asked, the bright color on
her cheek fading as the doctor replied:
H a la la g Ptarsons.
“ Markham— an old man who l i r a in
I t la not only In congregation* o f
Honedale. You never knew him, of
quadrupeds, such as boga, cattle, h orsa .
c o u rs e .l^ H
Involuntarily A g n a glanced at Guy. In ! etc- that we often find particularly
whose eye there was, a she fancied, a vicious specimens; w e also come acroaa
peculiar expreaion. Could it be he knew them I d flocks o f poultry, among hens,
the secret she guarded so a re fu lly ? Im turkeys and even pigeons There are
possible, she a id to herself; but mtill b u llla and b ru ta In tbe pigeon
the white fingers trembled as she handled v e il as human fam ily. A mala pigeon
the china and ailvyr, and for once abe
that la disposed to make him self a
was glad when the doctor took his la v e ,
nuisance In fighting other old birds aud
and she was alone with Jessie.
killing
aqunbs might as well be re
“ What was that girl’s name?” aha Bak
moved from the loft.
I f this la not
ed : “ the one you went to see?”
“ Maddy, mother— Madeline Clyde. S h ’s practical, d ip hla wtnga and provide a
so pretty. I ’m going to see her again. neat for tbe pair on the floor.
May I T ’
For a mating pen get a box and put
A g n a did not reply directly, but con perpendicular alata on the front and
tinued to question the child with regard through the middle. It abould be large
to the cottage which Jessie thought so enough to make each apartment 12 or
funny, slanting away back, she a id , so
15 ln c h a square, and one o f the slats
that the roof on one side almost touched
or
dowels In the partition should be
the ground.
The window pano, too,
were ao very tiny, and the room where movable. The food and w ater vessels
may be hung on the partition ao that
Maddy lay sick was small and low,
“ Yes, yes, I know,” A g n a a id at last, both birds may use them In common.
impatiently, w a r y o f h arin g of tbe cot I f out o f sight o f their old m a ta It w ill
tage whose humble exterior and interior not take more than tw o or three days
she knew so much better than Jessie her for them to unite. The movable slat
self.
can then be taken away, and I f the
But this was not to bo divulged; for mating la permanent they may be turn
surely the haughty A g n a Remington,
ed Into the lo ft to find a neat
who, in Baton, aspired to la d in society
Feeds fo r Pigeons— W e like whole
into which, as the w ife o f Dr. Reming
ton, she had ban admitted, and who, w h a t b a t o f all grains fo r pigeons
in Aikenside, was looked upon withdavy, | But there are many other grains which
could have nothing in common with the pigeons like snd thrive on, among them
red cottage or its inmates.
So when common peas, barley, bu ckw h at, cow-
J ea ie asked again if she could not visit peas, soy beans, English burse beans,
Maddy on the morrow, the answered de the various kinds o f vetch, broom corn,
cidedly: “ No, daughter, no. I do not sorghum seed, millet and many others.
wish you to associate with each people,” A variety Is, o f course, always relish
and when Jessie insisted on knowing why
ed. Corn is a good feed when given in
she must not associate with such people
as Maddy Clyde, the answer was: “ Be moderate quantities, especially during
cause you are a Remington.” It was all summer, and not as an exclusive diet.
in vain that Jeaie, and even Guy him Pigeons also learn to a t boiled pota
self, tried to revoke the decision. Jes toes and other vegetables, soft mash,
sie should not be permitted to coma in such as we give to the hens, etc. For
contact with that kind of people, she r a l l y fine, plump, fs t squabs, wheat
a id , or incur the risk o f a tch in g that Is hard to b ea t
dreadful fever.
So day after day, while life and h alth
H llla ld e C h ic k e n C m * .
were slowly throbbing through her veins,
I have adopted tbe plan o f substi
Maddy waited and longed for the little tuting a large m a tin g coop fo r each
girl whose one visit to her sick room
thirty or forty chicks as soon as they
seemed so much like a dram . From her
are large enough to rooat, says an
grandfather she had h a rd the good news
of Guy Remington's generosity, and that, American Agriculturist correspondent.
quite as much as Dr. Holbrook'a medi I This la made from a dry goods box
cines, helped to bring the color back to four feet long, three feet wide and
tbe pallid cheek and the brightneu to her
eyes.
She was asleep the first time the doc
tor came after the ocasion of Jea ie’s
visit, and he did not awaken h er; but
for a long time, as It seemed to Graadma
Markham, who stood very little in awi» of
the B a to n doctor, he watched her as
she slept, now clasping the bine-veined
wrist as he felt for the pula, and now
wiping from her foreb ad the drops of
s w a t, or poshing back her soft, damp
hair. It would be three days before ha
CHICKEHf COOP.
could see her again, for a sick, father in
Cambridge needed his attention, and af three feet high. The front and bottom
ter numerous directions as to the admln- are removed. T w o strips are nailed
iitering of sundry powders and pills, be perpendicular on the front corner, pro
left her, feeling that the next three days jectlng a foot below the bottom o f tbe
would be long ones to him. When, at box. This raises the front and gives
last, he was about starting to visit Mad- the roof the necessary pitch when fac-
dy again, he puxxled his brains until they |ng n downhill position. T w o strips
fairly ached with wondering what he na|jeij on each side form a support for
could do to give her a pleaant surprise
wh,ch are fastened together
and show that he was not as formidable
by crosspieces ao all may be removed
a personage as her past experience might
at one operation to be sprayed.
l a d her to think.
W e move thla coop twice a week, and
(T o be continued.)
It la always clean and fresh. The
open front and bottom seem a little
S t n s c e r ’i A p p e tite .
of
A w a iter who alw ays endeavored to risky, considering the jioaalblllty
give the best pa a lb le Bervice fo r hla wandering cata, rata or weasels. But
customers supplemented a n . order to w e are w illin g to run some risks If we
the kitchen attendants w ith the re- can fill our own and customers pens
quest for “ a little extra In each dish." , In the fa ll with large, robust stock.
“ Th ey didn’t ask me fo r an extra al- This one P,an haa enabled ua to pro-
lowance,” he a id , “ In fact, they didn’t duce Orpingtons well up to standard
know enough to ask fo r It, but I could aIze* which some fa ll to do. Th e nc-
aee that their appetites would be equal companylng sketch o f coop w ill ex-
to the supply. T h a t la because they Pla,n Itself.
________
are strangers here.
Newcomers In
any restaurant or boarding-house al-
waya eat more than the old-timers,
Everything has a new
flavor
and
whets their appetites.
I t la nothing
new fo r customers who are Just get-
ting acquainted w ith a place to eat
as If they had been starved for a
month.
Aa a m atter o f fact, they
have fared quite w e ll; It’e the change
that makes them ao voracious.” — Cbfi
an go In ter Ocean.
A ld r ic h ’s B irth p la c e .
Th e quaint old town by the aea call
ed Portsmouth la the only scacoast
town In New Hampshire and la one o f
our very oldest settlements, fo r It was
founded In the year 1623. and It has a
history worth knowing. It was an old
town when Thomas Bailey Aldrich was
bom In one o f Its quaint and ancient
b o n e a on the 11th o f November in t l *
year 1836, and he has written a very
delightful book about Portsmouth call
ed “ An Old Tow n by the Sea,” while
Uis famous “ Story o f a Bad Boy” la a
very true account o f bis boyhood tn
the New Hampshire seaport.— 8 t Nich
olas.
T h o ra n «h c . l t l v . t l . . .
Thorough and frequent cultivation Is
regarded by many aa the b a t mulch
fo r gpr |n^ summer and fall, which in
duces tbe roots to seek food In every
direction, thereby becoming more nuni
erotia and deeply Imbedded, as well ns
going further beyond the penetration
o i TOjd in winter.
In this condition
|a cmly In climates where the cold
la severe that a covering o f straw or
other bulky material la required. Such
coverings should be removed as early
In spring as tbe season will permit,
and the cultivator used. If the crop
la such aa to permit o f Its use. Even
"
a 'thorough' stirring o f tha
^
w|1j admjt the air and afford pro-
tectlon |n the wlnteri but !t is poa-
alble that late stirring o f the soil,
la v i n g the ground bare In the w inter
son, may permit o f l a s o f fe rtility
o f the ^
b j in ch in g o f the soluble
portions
to avoid
land to
It under
by rains and melting snowa,
which some farmers sow tha
rye late In October and plow
early In the spring.
H elp IH elp I
I ’m F alling
P r e a r r v lm
M e a t*.
A method o f preserving meat has
been brought out In France by H. de
Lappareut, which seems to have met
with considerable success. It can be
also applied on a small scale
for
household purposes, a y a the Scientific
American.
T h e principle consists In
exposing the meat to sulphurous add
fumes.
By burning a small amount
o f sulphur In a receptacle containing
the meat hung up In place It can be
Preserved fo r several daye, even In
summer. There la no taste le ft from
the sulphur fumes, and there seems
to be no danger to health.
Such *
method can be used also on a large
seals for preserving meat fo r army
use. as It la qnlte simple and easy to
apply In practice. From experiments
made on a large scale It appears that
the meat fumigated with sulphur did
not contain more than 22 grama (340
grains) o f sulphurous acid gaa per 100
kilogram s (220 pounds) o f meat, which
Is on the order o f ten thousandth«.
Th e m a t should be fumigated aa soon
aa possible a fte r killing, and prefer
ably on parts which have no cut bona.
Lean meat la found to keep b a t To
preserve It fo r several months meat
can be Inclosed In vessels full o f car
bonic a d d gaa. It has tbe appearance
o f frrah m a t , and Its taste Is not »
changed a fter cooking. In England Mr.
L a a c a lla Scott proposed a
method
which consists In Immersing the meat
In a solution o f bisulphite o f lime.
C a lo r
at
R g g i.
Thus cried the hair. And a
kind neighbor came to the res
cue with a bottle o f A y e r’s
H air Vigor. The hair was
saved! In gratitude, it grew
long and heavy, and with all
the deep, rich color o f early
life. Sold in all parts o f the
world for sixty years.
- About mm fast m o T Uat aaarly all at
hair following aa attack af roaaafaa. I i
adrlaad bv a filand ta aaa Ajar** Hair Vli
1 did *o. aad aa a ra.aU I now r I Hava abaaa iS »
haad of hair.“ - Mas. W J. B
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Slava.
Ho-tea»— You aeamad tmbarraoad at
meet inf Mr. Smoyklt, Mrs. Travnoo.
G n a t— I thought yoa knew, Mrs.
Longshore. He’s my— my antepenulti
mate husband.
$100 Reward, $ 100 .
The readere of thla paper w ill be pleased ta
learn taat the rail at lea. t ona dreaded dtaaaae
thataelenca h a b e a s abla to oura in a ll It«
itSfea, end that la Catarrh.' Hall’s Catarrh
Corals tha only poaittva cure now known to the
medical Ire tern lty. Catarrh be ng a ooaitltu-
ttonaldtseaaa. reqalraaa ron.iltuttonal treat
ment H all'« Catarrh Cure I. taken Internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mueetusup
of tbesyatem, therebv dwt-oylngtheloun-
datlon of the dUeeae, and giving t e patent
strength by bulMin*
I up the ronatltqjon and
aula tin« nature tn ■
do
olng lu work. Tha pro
prietor* havesn
have so much faith
ru ra tlv*]
lalth In iu
Iururatlv*pow-
an hat they offer Ona Hundred Dollar* for an«
tt it fail* to cure. Bead Ufi Hit ol
A t tha C aliforn ia Agricultural E x . Sfflffloniai*. ^ *
A id re«» P. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O.
pertinent Station, the chief object In
Bold by all dru g«l»u , 75 c.
making a chemical examination o f
Take Hall’s Family Pill* for eooetlpatlost.
brown-shelled aud whlte-sbelled eggs
M a lta t h e C e a t r a r y .
was to determine whether there la any
“ Naaty medicine, la tt? What are yoa
superiority o f one over tha other aa
to quality. Th e t a t shows that tha taking It for? T o help your cough?”
“ T o help It? Great Peter, no I To
■bells and their color have but Might
kill IL”
effect on tbe food value o f the eggs.
It haa been a i d by some that the
Mothers w ill find Mrs.
brown egga are richer than tha white Syrup the beat remedy to uea foe their
iu rla g tha leathlng period.
ones, but thla statement la not borne
out hy a chemical analysis, and tbe
T k e O ld
B ie v r tr a e e .
physical examination provra that the
“ He's tbo boy a fter your own heart,
main points o f
superiority, though l n ’t h e r
alight, are possessed by the white egga.
“ Not much!” replied the old man.
Tbe minute differences that are found “ He's tbe boy a fter my pocketbook I” —■
between the two groups are exceeded Atlanta Constitution.
by variation between varletlra within
tbe same group. It may be stated that
there are practically no differences ao
fa r aa the food value la concerned be
tween white-shelled and brown-shewed
HOME MADE MIXTURE
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Malaise Dacka.
Th e most - frequent troubles w ith
ducks and geese Is vertigo. They drop
down on their feet or fall on one aide
suddenly, at times recovering aa sud
denly or dying Immediately. Thla hap
pens only when duck a or geese are fed
too much grain. The best prevention Is
to make their feeding ground a pas
ture, where the g r a a la short but abun
dant, and let them get more o f their
subsistence fo r themselves. They w ill
require but little food a fter warm
weather comes, aa they are then well
over the laying period, becoming non-
producers.
Th e nonproducera abould
have no grain. There la a saving In
expenae and there w ill be few er looses
occurring
from
disease«.— Poultry
Farmer.
A C h ic k e n
V illa g e .
On the road from East Auburn to
Turner there Is a novel sight, a chicken
village. It may be termed, for at tbe
aide o f a well-kept farmhouse there la
a village o f perhaps a dozen little white
peak-roofed houses, and the bouse
nearest to the road Is built to repre
sent a church. Tbe steeple la aa per.
feet as If the tiny building were r a l l y
Intended for a place o f worship. These
miniature bouses are nothing more or
less than chicken coops, yet ao per
fectly Is everything arranged that the
passer-by might, at a flrat glance, think
It a "play town” belonging to some
child.— Kenebec (M e .) Journal.
A P o ta to Ci
B. P. W agner o f Missouri haa de
vised tbe follow in g; Th e Illustration
■hows how I make my potato coverer.
Get
two
boards
about 3y» feet long;
fasten together to
come
to a point,
with a brace at
open end. The sin
gletree la attached
to brace by m a n s
of
clevises
and
chain. Tbe
horse
walks In tbe row,
potato < overxs .
and thla tool w ill
do the covering nicely.
lo t.
Do not attempt to save your own
seeds u n lea you have used every pre
caution necessary to prevent cross-fer
B ird * a n d In a e e t*.
tilisation.
Plants often m ix without
I t la much easier to d a troy birds the knowledge o f the grower. A mel
than Insects, hat as the number
B x p e M iv e .
. . . . o f on, It la claimed, may he fertilised by
“ Our time la money," grumbled tbe W d a la reduced the Insects multiply a pumpkin, and, though the fru it o f
collector.
j Th e wren Is s very useful blfd, and thla season m ay be apparently genuine,
“ Then,” replied the debtor, “ how can may *** induced to remain near tha yet the seeds o f such, If need next sea
yon afford to waste so much o f tt IM dw elling bouses I f b o x a are provided son, may cause a failu re o f the crop or
fo r them, b u t «■ they are unable to destroy tbe quality.
chasing ms?"— Philadelphia Ledger.
contend against English sparrows, the
O n * Renana.
014 O t H t f o r B r e e d in g .
entrance to the wren b o x a should not
T a c h e r — W hy should we always b* èxceéd an Inch in diameter, sa tbe
Egga from young geeae are often In
neat and c la n ?
I t la b a t to keep old geese
wren la very small snd can only pro fertile.
L ittle L tisle— In case o f accident— tect Itself by going where the sparrow fo r breeders One gander to three or
Th e Technical World.
cannot follow .
Every encouragement four geeaa la a good mating. Where
there are aa many ganders aa geeae,
Howe, the Inventor o f the sawing
* ¡ 5 by,
they often pair o ff and only mata t o
machine, «old hla patent rights for a
^ ^ ^ " , ‘ tTo 1 ° T
{• th ir.
ta
j protection and accommodation.
SAID TO BE INEXPENSIVE AND EASH.V
PREPARED BY ANYONE.
It Said to Promptly Releva
Overeóme Kidney Tronfile and
der Weakness Though
to Take.
W hat w ill appear very interesting <o
many people here is the article taken
from a New Y o rk daily paper, giv in g a
sim ple prescription, aa formulated by a
noted au’ horlty, who claim * that ha
haa found a positive rem edy to cure
almost any ra ie o f backache or kidney
or bladder derangement, in the follow
ing sim ple prescription, if taken before
tbe stage of B righ t’a disease:
Flu id E xtract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound K aigon . one ounce;
Compound Syrup Barra par ilia, three
ounces. Shake w ell in a bottle and
take in teaspoonful doom after each
meal and again at bedtime.
A w ell known authority, when asked
regarding this prescription, stated that
the ingredients are a ll harmless, and
can be obtained at a sm all coat from
any good prescription pharmacy, or the
m ixture would be put up if asked to do
ao. Ha further stated that w hile this
prescription la often prescribed in rheu
matic affliction* w ith splendid fa u lts ,
he could see no reason w hy it would
not be a splendid remedy for kidney
and urinary t io u b la and backache ■■
it baa a peculiar action upon the kid
ney structure, cleansing these most im
portant organa and helping them lo sift
and Altar from the blood the fool acids
snd W M is matter which cause sickness
snd suffering. Those who suffer can
make no mistake in givin g it a trial.
P a r t ic u la r * W a n te d .
Customer— Where is your hone depart
ment?
New Floor Walker— Er— garden or
aarlor variety, madam?
Syruptffigs
& "Elixires enna
Cleanses the
Mem Effect
lily. Dispels
Dispel Isolds andnead*
ually,
ache
nes due to Constipation;
A rt its naturally, acts iruly aa
a L c laxative.
Best forMenWwngn and Childs
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