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C H A P T E R X.— (Continued. I
Left alone for the last tin»«, Smith took
the girl in his arms attain.
“ Remimiber your promise not to aay a
word about my plans until to-morrow
morning, when you may tell everybody if
you wish."
“ I shall remember,'’ said the girl; “ it
la a safe promise. I could not possibly
reach my father’s plantation before morn
log. It's a terrible road. I don’t sup­
pose there's a horse in the settlement.
You’ll be safe from me.”
“ I know that, o f course,”
said the
young officer.
“ Now promise me something in return.'
"Anything you wish, my darling.”
“ Please be careful of yourself. Don’t
get hurt. I couldu’t bear it after waiting
all these year* for you.”
“ Then you did wait for me I Oh. El
leu. Ellen!”
He strained her to his hewrt and kissed
her in farewell.
But the parting had
to be a brief one. I f his ship should
take ground on the shore, that would be
the end of his undertaking. He saw her
safely aboard the boat, which presently
landed her with Chloe in attendante at
the little fishing village, consisting of
half a dozen hovels on the strand.
Sending Chloe to seek a shelter for
them for the night, she stood on the
bench, her eyes filled with tears, watch­
ing the boat return to the ship, watching
the figure of her lover alone aft, watch­
ing the ship itself gather wav. round the
bend, and enter the inlet. When should
she see him again? How should that
plighted word between them be carried
out? He had told her— indeed, she knew
H— that a great conflict must ensue be­
fore the Confederates could be subdued,
or, in case of success, gain their inde­
pendence. It was hardly possible that
they could marry until the war was over.
Bhe knew his impetuous, daring nature.
8 he felt sure that he would be in the
thick of the fighting. He might bo kill­
ed. He might be killed in the next few
hours!
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UK'HHurPrt the d'eti •e sal
instinctively e*t( ni tini i be. H ie
the f ï revh imt > , . *\i
at which thVGreyho
Pry as she mixlit, th • s
wo
-ontart before she -could g«- to t
might as well, for an^the co i!d
*n the hill and watch fh# .iThtnct.
-omvthing— her love, pcriniH -draw
forward. She might die iu tha, attempt,
but at least abe could try.
Once more she gathered her skths in
her hands and ran with the fleetneai of
Camilla, as if die had not taken a ste:f
during the day, dowu the bill and towards
the wharf.
She strained every nerve.
PrdBt from P o u ltry.
She brought into play every atom of
Poultry men esthtiqte t h a t It coats 1
strength in her being to accomplish her
hopeless task. Her heart beat terribly, cent « p i n e to produce an egg. T h e
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lle r . mouth was parched
and _ dry, her _ estimate Itf based'on the fact that the
breath came shortly, she panted lik e \ ! hen
eggs -in, the year. In otbei;
driven hare.
Something rose in her ' worda,»wh«*re llte fow ls are confined to
throat and choked her. She had not run runs, and the feed must be purchased
wisely under the stimulus of her terror it coats 10 ceutk a mouth or $1.20
and her desire. She had uot saved her­ year to mulutatu a hen. I f the beii la
self for the end. She had spent herself an Indifferent layer and gives but sixty
at the first dash. Presently she found her­
eggs In a year, her eggs coat the poul
self reeling. Only her indomitable will
tryuiuu 2 cents each.
Yept her up. She would hare fainted
An experiment conducted by the Cor­
had ahe stopped.
She struggled along the road, deeper- nell experiment station In 1002 showed
ate, blinded. She was within one hun­ that the average coat o f feed fo r
dred yards of the wharf now. The Grey­ ilosen eggs waa 0.2 cents, or about %
hound waa slowly swung alongside the of a cent an egg. The coat fo r each
Ellen. She heard voices. The drumming hen fo r the year waa 09.0 cents.
At
in her ears prevented her from distin­ that time wheat was sold at $1.43
guishing what they said. She tried to hundred pounds, while at the present
call out a word of warning. H er husky
time It la $2 ; bran sold at $1.35 a hun­
voice died away In her throat. A cheer
dred
pounds and It la now $1.80; and
broke on the night. It waa followed by 4
yell. There was a shot, two t/.ota, a meat scrape coat $2.13 a hundred
crashing volley, the ring of steel on steel, pounds and now we pay $2.40- So at
oaths, cries, shrieks, groans, words of the present Increased price o f feed*
command.
the coat o f feeding the ben la easily
She was at the gang-plank now. It 20 cents a year more than It was In
seemed as if she could not take another 1002.
step, yet she ran np it and boarded the
To make poultry profitable on the
■hip. Nobody marked her in the dark­ farm It is necessary to breed fo r bet
ness and confusion.
The deck, which
ter laying. Thia is done by Installing
had been filled with writhing, struggling
figures, suddenly grew quieter. The ahots trap nests in the henhouses, abd each
died awrfy. The curses and yells stopped. year picking out the beat layers and
The clang of steel blades was heard no breeding only from such. Th e farm er
H e must
more. But the groans were loader than must grade up his stock.
ever. She leaned against the gangway get rid o f the mongrel birds; he must
gasping for breath, striving to recover drive out the drones, and must encour­
herself— praying, fohrftil, broken.
age the workers. The farm must pro­
“ It ’s all over,” she heard a voice say. duce better poultry and more o f I t
“ W e’ ve got ’em. Their leader is here.”
There are advantages on the farm
It was Captain Haywood who spoke.
fo r poultry raising that the poultry-
“ Show a light here, someone." cried
another voice, her father’s. “ Bring him man does uot have, and I f the latter,
below to the cabin,” continued Major In many ways handicapped, can make
IKiultry keeping a successful business,
Jones.
“ Ay, ay, sir,” answered Haywood. the farm er should at least make the
Mr. Matthews, look out for the prison­ work a valuable adjunct to his In­
ers and send men to secure the other ship. come. Properly managed poultry can
You have done splendidly,” continued the be made the meet profitable crop on
Captain to his crew.
the farm — Investm ent
expense and
Amid the cheer« of the victorious Con­
labor considered.
federates her father and Captain H ay­
It la argued by some farm ers that
wood, followed by two men, half drag­
their
bens cost them practically noth­
ging. half carrying, a limp, inanimate
figure between them, entered the cabin ing, aa they have free range and can
beneath the poop— the Ellen being pro­ gather all the food they need. There
vided with a raised poop. The light car­ la some truth in th a t and there also
ried by the third man fell full on the face is some froth In the fact that farm ­
of the prisoner as" they hauled him ers’ flocks seldom yield a profit com­
through the door. She had strained her pared with stock In the hand# o f a reg­
eyes after the group, unable to move un­ ular poultryman.
til the moment. when in that flash of
light she recognised her lover. His face
F e e d ls s M eal, W e t ae D ry.
was white as death. There was a red
Many o f our farm ers seem to hold
gash serosa.his forehead.
the opinion that feeding meal w et to
She had been incapable of motion be­ their cows w ill bring better results
fore. No one had yet noticed her in
than when fed dry. One old farm er
gangway in the excitement. She
where she got the strength she never makes the remark, “ how can the cow
knew— across the deck, brushed past two get any goodness out o f a pan o f dry
or three groups o f astonished men, and meal?” yet notwithstanding the fact
that so many dairymen bold to the
burst into the cabin after the others.
Ile r father sat at the head of the ta­ practice o f feeding the meal wet, the
ble, Captain Haywood stood at one side. experiments to date Indicate that bet­
One of the seamen was kneeling by the ter results are obtained by feeding
door, supporting the prostrate officer. He It dry. Professor Jordan, o f the Maine
had evidently been wetting the fact of
Experiment Station, fed a bunch o f
Captain Smith, who had just at that mo-
men recovered consciousness. He strug­ calves corn and cob meal with lofig
gled to a sitting position by the aid d f hay In d ry form, aa against hay which
his hands. The girl stopped in the door­ waa run through a feed cutter, mois­
way motionless«, Not a vestige o f colo# tened and sprinkled with corn and cob
was in her chef#» o f Up»- Her skirts meal. Th e results were In fa vo r o f
were muddy an«Ji bedraggled.
Her hat the dry feeding. .The gain waa great­
was gone. Her heir hung about her face er, nud less feed was required for
in wild dishevelment. Only the rapid 100 pounds o f gain. Professor Jordan
motion of her hospm betokened life. Hay
also conducted an experiment with two
wood and her father stared at
her,
herds o f d airy cows, one herd was fed
speechless.
dry feed, w hile the feed o f the other
“ Y o u !”
whispered Captain
Smith,
struggling to Bis feet. The seaman as­ was moistened. The greater yield o f
milk was obtained from the herd that
sisting him. he rose unsteadily.
” Yon !” he said reproachfully.
IIs received the dry feed.
brushed the blood out of his eyes as hs
S a ltin g D o w b M e a t.
did so and thrust out a trembling hand
towards her. Some drops of blood were
Curing meat fo r future consumption
flicked upon her dress by his gesture.
la one o f the annual jobs on the farm.
“ You broke your w ord!” he said; “ th# In some sections o f the country, says
blood of my men is upon you !”
the Journal o f Agriculture, the prob­
This was too much for the girt. She
lem o f salting down meat la a serious
put out her hand as if to ward off a
one because o f the b e a t In sections
blow, her other hand grasped at her
bosom.
A little moan came from her o f the South there are winters when
parched Ups. She collapsed slowly in I there is very little cold weather and
dead faint, a limp heap in Captain Hay­ It la not until late that bogs may be
wood’s arms. They had all been too as­ slaughtered. Here la a recipe which la
tonished by her entrance to say a word said to be a good one:
F or 1,000
in the brief time in which the scene had pounds o f meat take ten quarts o f salt­
taken place.
peter, 1 pound o f pepper and 2 pounds
(T e be continued.)
o f yellow sugnr. M ix well, put In a
tub or some suitable veaael, and tben
t ’ M P lir w ts tlT e ,
apply the mixture well to the m eat
Purchaser— Th at horse I bought from
Thia la said to be the most success­
yon stands on his toe all the time.
ful method o f salting meat there Is,
l>ealer— Why. that's the swell thing
both from a standpoint o f purity and
these days. Everybody is craxy over
flavor.
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toe dancing.
for her presence on the shore. He thought
hard as he stood before her. Her whole
bearing, he noticed, wee that of a person
concealing something.
The Greyhound
was very laty. lie had noticed that she
was remarkably light in the water, too.
almost as if in ballast, whereas the should
have been sunk to her loadlme with the
heavy cargo he knew that she ought to
have been carrying.
Miss Ellen, as representing her father,
virtually owned the Greyhound.
Her
will pn that ship, save in technical mat
ters, was paramount, but she had been
put ashore. She refused to explain her
presence. There could have'been no mis­
understanding between Captain Evers and
herself. While the Captain was not per­
sonally, known in the sound, yet his repu
tation was well established as that of
brace, skillful, courteous sailor. Major
Jones had learned this through common
friends before he had permitted Captain
Evers to be engaged to bring In the Grey
bound.
The Petrel had been gone for a week
also. Nothing whatever had been heard
from her since her departure. Putting
these things together. Captain Haywood
stumbled upon the troth o f the story. The
Greyhound had been taken, she had been
lightened of her cargo, and was now com­
ing in in order to cut out the privateer
be was to command!
“ Miss Ellen,” be burst out furiously,
” 1 see it all. The Greyhound has been
captured. Her cargo has been taken ont.
Site is crowded with Yankees and is com­
ing in to cut out my ship. They put you
nehore to get you out of the fighting. Is
that true?”
Poor Ellen was in a fearful dilemma.
She could only stare dumbly at the Cap­
tain.
“ You do not say anything,” he said
I know it in true. What keeps you silent
I don’t know. Yon are betraying me— ’
“ I owe you no allegiance.”
“ No. but you are betraying your fath
er, and, worse than that, you are betray
ing your State. Fortunately, I can thwart
them. I ’m sorry to call you a traitress.
Good-by.”
C H A P T E R X I.
Miss Ellen was so thoroughly miser­
He swung himself into the saddle,
able, so entirely oblivious to her sur­ struck spurs into his horse and galloped
round Wigs, that she did not hear a horse­ off.
man approaching until the horse was al­
A traitress.’ Was it true? Yet if so,
most upon her. The rider stared at her how could she help It? She was quick
curiously as he drew near, recognized her to foresee just what would happen. The
presently, threw himself instantly from new and direct road, cutting off the bends
his horse, took off his hat and bowed low and turns o f the crooked inlet through
before her.
which the steamer would necessarily be
“ Why. Miss Ellen Jones T he exclaim­ obliged to proceed slowly and with cau
ed. “ what are you doing here? Why are tion, would enable Haywood to reach the
you not on the Greyhound? I saw her Ellen long before the Greyhound.
He
rounding yonder point a few moments could organize resistance. It was proba­
ago.”
ble that some armed forces would be in
“ Captain Haywood,” faltered poor El­ the vicinity o f Jones’ Wharf. Thinking
len. “ I — I ----- ”
to surprise the privateer, the attacking
She did not know what ta say to him. party would be surprised themselves and
She knew that he was in love with her. raptured. There would be a fight, her
The son of a neighboring planter, he bad lover would be in the thick o f it, and he
paid court to her before she went to the would be wounded, perhaps killed. Rather
Bahamas. Although he had received no that a thousand privateers should be lost
encouragement from 'the young woman than that should occur! She must get to
herself, her father hhd made no secret the Ellen herself before the battle. What
o f his approval of thé young naa’ i suit. she could do there she could scarcely tell.
80 hacked. Haywood' still maintained But she might do something. A t least,
hopes that Be would ultimately win her. she could try to-save hiss. -
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Haywood had been a naval officer, who
She turned and ran desperately towards
had resigned his commission and gone
the largest house, which stood well bask
South at the outbreak of the war : there­ from the shore in a clump o f trees. Ev
after be had joined with Major Jones in erybody in that quarter knew the Jones
equipping the privateer, of which be was
family, one of considerable importance 1n
to have command.
that section o f the country. A ll of them
“ W e have been looking for the Grey knew Miss Ellen.
A fter going from
bound moat eagerly,” be continued. “ She’s
bouse to house she finally succeeded iu
two- days overdue, according to aur cal
getting the loan of a common, old farm
culations. The Ellen is all ready but the horse, lie wonld have to do. Ohloe ¿mid
guns. I've been looking for yon as well.” be left behind till the morning.
She
be added. “ I am surprised to find you must go on. TTiere was no woman’s sad­
here. What does it mean?”
dle to be bad in the village. She did not
“ W hat are you doing here yourself. hesitate on that account. She took what
Captain Hay wood ?” asked the girl.
she could and mode the best of lit’Throw ­
“ I rode down to the point this after­ ing her right knee over the saddle born,
noon to find out if the ship were in sight she rode nntil out o f observation, and
You cannot know bow anxious we bave then bestrode the horse manfully, in man
been.
I was rejoiced beyond measure ly fashion, and proceeded on her way.
when I saw her round the bend. I hail­
The horse was tired from his day’# la­
ed her, hoping to get aboard, but she was
going rapidly and they didn’t pay any at­ bor and was but a poor, old, lumbering
tention to me. They didn't recognize me, beast at best. Ellen was a consummate
probably, as she was some distance from horsewoman, and she communicated some­
the shore, so 1 came on here to bait my thing of her anxiety nad purpose to the
thing o f her spxiety and purpose to the
horse and then rid# buck to the ship. It ’s
and her efforts, however, her pace was a
fifteen miles. I ought to reach there in
slow one. About a mile from the wharf
an honr and a half.”
the horse gave out completely. She slid
“ Fifteen miles in an boor and a h alf! from the saddle to the ground, gathered
Over such a road?” exclaimed Miss Ellen. her skirts in her hands, and ran fleetly
“ The government baa made a new road along the ground at a great rate. She
along the river bank to be used in trans­ was thankful that she was young, active
porting supplies and moving troops. It ’s and strong. She covered the ground with
much shorter than it used to be and in amazing speed. It was qnite dark now.
first-rade order. But you haven’t told me The road ran from the forest through
why yon are here.”
which she had been riding since she left
“ I — I ----- ”
tha village along the open shore at a dis­
Her plighted word rose before her. She tance o f half a mile from the wharf. It
could not tell the truth, she would not left the forest on a hill and abruptly de­
D lffr r r u t .
tell a lie, yet nothing (nit the truth would scended to the level of the river; on the
Slmklns— That fellow you were talk­
«erre. There was no reason why a young other side o f the wharf the forest began
woman should land there from a ship again and continoed up to tha great ing to must be craxy.
Tltnkins— Oh, no, be isn’t.
He 1#
which was going directly to her destina­ bouse, which M t on a bluff and was em­
merely eccentric.
tion and would land her at her own place bowered in trees.
In two hours. There was no reason why
Slmklns— But be talked aa If h#
Just as she got to the open she saw
she should be In this wretched place at the Greyhound, a black mass in the fad­ didn’ t have any sense.
all.
Tlmkina— Y es; but be has a goodly
ing light, rounding the bend. The Ellen
“ I had a— a disagreement with Captain lay quietly at the wharf. Tha Greyhound number o f dollars.
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Smith.” The fatal word slipped out in had been delayed. She had touched the
spite o f herself.
K n e w ths I n ,
shore once or twice and the navigation
“ Smith !" exclaimed
the
astonished had proved more difficult than Smith had
It waa evidently her first trip to the
Haywood.
“ Why, I thought his name anticipated. Tha vessel was at least an balr goods department o f the great em­
was E vers!"
boar lata or Miss Ellen wonld not have porium and she was noticeably embar­
“ Tea, yea. I mean Captain Evers.”
been In time even to sea her approach.
rassed.
“ But what sort of a disagreement could
Ellen had not overtaken Captain Hay­
’ I — er— wish to look at
yon possibly have which would warrant wood, of conrze. His horse waa a thor­
you iu leaving the ship here sad at oughbred, and every minute had increased false hair,” she stammered
night? I don't understand.”
“ Very well, miss,” rejoined the diplo­
the distance between them. For a mo­
“ Captain Haywood,” said the girl des­ ment the girl stared from tbs hill at the matic salesman. “ W bat shade do«#
perately, “ I do not recognize any right two ships. She knew positively what the your friend wish?”
In you to catéchisa me la this manner. conditions were. Tbs men o f ths Grey­
I landed from that ship because I — I hound, armed to the teeth, ware ready for
A s s tk n ■
wanted to. I am not required to give you boarding. She did not doubt but that tha
“ The people are clamoring fa r lr*s
aay explanation whatsoever o f m;
(jacks of the Ellen would be covered with extravagance In running the govern­
men equally wall armed and that so soon ment.” “ In that case,” declared Sena­
liie s Ellen spoke with indignant fervor, ss ths ships touched each other a dread­
tor Snifter, “ we ought to appoint a
but she was not remarkably good at era­ ful battle wonld ensue and tha Grey­
committee, w ith a fair-salaried bead,
sed Captala Haywood was a ■
hound's craw would be overwhelmed. She
rowd. intelligent
doubted «hat Captain Smith would to ascertain Just bow many people are
Wm
Ms hoarders
Ha would be killed clamoring, and other Items o f general
’— Pack.
hr her
Meat refuse! to
to • moral eertalaty.
P r e s e r v in g ;
M ilk .
A German patent specification de­
scribes a process fo r preserving milk
by removing all dissolved oxygen by
means o f the addition o f a small quan­
tity o f ferrous carbonate. T h e process
Is based on the fact tbat freshly-pre­
cipitated ferrous corbonate In the pres­
ence o f oxygen immediately assimilates
oxygen and evolves an
equivalent
quantity o f carbon dioxide. One part
o f ferrous carbonate la sufficient fo r
30,000 parts milk, and the properties
o f the milk are not altered In any w ay
by the addition, which should be made
before the milk Is boiled.
W i l l s Visiting a practical farm er a
fe w weeks ago he said tbat w h ,*s
everything wae fed out on the fa m
and the manure returned to the soil It
should grow richer Instead o f poorer
a n # that furtherm ore there was leas
connected with the farm when It waa
conducted on tbeee principle# thau
when the system waa varied from year
to year.
One thing la certain, the growing
and feeding o f live stock on the farms
compels the grow th o f crops to feed
that are beet adapted fo r tiie produc­
tion o f flesh and animal products.
Prominent among these crops are clov­
er, a lfa lfa and the other nitrogen gath­
ering plunts that possess a high feed­
ing value and are relished by animals
on account o f their palatabillty.
W e cannot too often repeat the
fact that the farm ers who follow a
short crop rotation. In which a legume
is grown every third year, need not
Worry about maintaining an adequate
supply o f nitrogen, providing he feeds
these crops to live stock and saves
the manure, both liquid and solid, and
returns It to the aotl. When nitrogen
ouh grain
foods are purchased and
fed to the animals In connection with*
the hom egrow n foods the Increase In
nitrogen la still greater.— Agricultural
Epltomiat.
PeeAUa* M ilk Cows.
M ilk contains water,
fat, protein
(casein and cu rd ), sugar and ash, and
these are all made from the constltu
ents o f the food. I f sufficient protein,
fa t and carbohydrates are Dot con­
tained In the food given her, the cow
supplies (his deficiency fo r a time by
draw ing on her own body, and gradu
ally begins to shrink In quantity and
qu ality o f milk, o r both. Th e stingy
feeder cheats him self aa well as the
cow.
She may suffer from hunger,
although she is fu ll o f swale and hay,
but she also becomes poor and does
not yield the milk and butter ahe
should. H er milk glands are a wond
erful machine, but they cannot make
milk casein (c u rd ) out of-the constitu­
ents in coarse, unappetizing, Indlgea
tible swale hay or sawdust any more
than the fan n er blm aelf can make bdt
ter from skim milk.
She mast not
only have a generous supply o f good
food, but it must contain sufficient
amounts o f the nutrients needed fo r
making milk.
Until this fact Is un­
derstood and appreciated, successful,
profitable dairying la ont o f the qnea
tion. Many forcible lllnatratlona o f tta
truthfulness have been fnrnlabed by
the agricultural experiment stations.—
H. B. Speed.
H v lr la s th * Farsner. •
In an Important Interview with G if­
ford Plnchot, the government forester,
and a member o f the Country L ife
Commission, recently appointed by Mr.
Roosevelt, given to Edward I. Far­
rington, the follow in g points are elab­
orated:
Th e things which the Country L ife
Commission desires to do, above all
else. Is to make the fact plain that
there la a tremendous problem before
the American farm er to-day.
Th e things which must be secured
fo r the farm er are better fanning ma­
terials, better business and a better
living. Th e commission Is concerned
with the tw o latter.
Everything whlcb baa to do with
making farm life efficient and pleas
ant w ill receive* particular attention,
fo r this la one o f tbe most Important
o f all agricultural problems.
Th e commission w ill make no at
tempt to Impose anything on tbe fann­
er, to dictate to blm, or to carry pa­
ternalism to an objectionable degree
T b e facts are to be assembled In as
complete a form as possible and placed
before tbe farm er in logical order.
T e a ip a r a r y
S h eep
Pence.
One o f the beat portable fences for
use in soiling sheep Is made In panels
with supports, as shown In the sketch.
MOVABLE IXÎtCX FOB SHEET AND HOGS
Panels are 10 feet long, made o f 4-
Incb board solidly n ailed' together.
A fter this fence Is once pot up. sheep
are not likely to overtnrn I t A fence
3 H feet high will turn moat flocks.—
Farm and Home.
t
Q n a rte r
C ra ck .
Lath er Lsflln Mills, noted Chicago
lawyer, died recently, the direct result
o f a second stroke o f apoplexy, tbe first
seizure haring prostrated him eight
weeks before. Mr. M ills was born at
North Adams, Mass., S ep t 3. 1848. Ills
father w as W alter N. Mills, a pioneer
dry goods merchant o f Chicago and an
Intimate friend o f the late Marshall
Field, whom he had known In Massa­
chusetts. A fte r being graduated from
the U niversity o f Michigan, Mr. M ills
waa admitted to the bar when 21 years
old. H e succeeded from the beginning,
l i e figured In many celebrated cases
and opposed at tbe bar sneb
legal
heavy weights aa Emory A. Btorrs.
John L y le King, W irt Dexter.
Fred
Mitchell and many others. H e appear­
ed fo r the prosecution in tbe first trial
o f tbe Cronin case snd in many other
salts o f much Importance. Aa an ora­
tor Mr. M ills enjoyed w id e fame. H e
was Interested In many philanthropic
enterprises and was president o f the
Boys’ d o b and other Institutions for
tbe w elfa re o f the young.
GOOD L U C K T O S P A R R O W S .
T h r o w * at D * * a r t le s B r t l *
R o w H om e to r B ird F a m ily .
Suspended from tbe branches o f e
tree In McDonough street, near Reid
avenue, Brooklyn, tbe New York H er­
ald says. Is an old shoe which long ago
served Its term o f usefulness to hu­
manity, bat which now affords a com­
fortable home fo r Mr. and Mrs. Spar­
row and their little brood o f baby spar­
rows, which are Just shout old enough
to fly.
F o r three years the old shoe, care­
lessly thrown Into the tree a fter serv­
ing as s good-luck emblem a t a wed­
ding, has been swinging In the branch­
es, defyin g wind and weather. Thera
bare been storms In tbe neighborhood
that have uprooted trees and broken
o ff their branches, but tbe tree In
which tbe old shoe has found a lodg­
ment has withstood a ll weather sieges.
Not long ago two sparrows came Into
the neighborhood and started house­
keeping In tbe old shoe, which affords
them a shelter and Is sufficiently large
fo r the simple tastes o f serial fiat
dwellers.
W hether or not the great nation o f
birds Is ruled by an ornithological
Roosevelt Is not known, but certain It
Is that Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow are not
believers In race suicide, and since tak­
ing up their abode in the old shoe they
have raised a large brood.
Th e Sparrow fam ily has many o f
the com forts and conveniences o f life.
Th e opening In the shoe serves all the
purposes o f a vestibule. Th e tip not
only makes a fine piazza fo r the whole
Simrrow fa m ily In fa ir weather, but
makes s fine swing fo r the Sparrow
children when the wind Is gently blow­
ing. Judging from tbe chirping, tbe
baby birds enjoy their fun just as
much as human children m ight enjoy
an old orchard swing.
Residents o f tbe neighborhood, even
th$ children, appreciate the situation
and every day one o f the fam ilies
whose homes are near the tree leaves
out food so that the father and mother
bird need not send any o f their brood
to bed hungry.
W h y T h ey W a s t e d G eorge.
Th e young w ife answered tbe phone.
“ T h a t’s another call fo r George,” she
said to her mother. “ Somebody wants
him
to come somewhere and play
bridge. I t ’s the third Invitation he’s
had this evening.”
“ T h a t would seem to indicate,” said
the mother, “ that George Is very popu­
lar.”
Th e yonng w ife sniffed.
“ I t unquestionably Indicates," the
said, “ that George Is an eaay loser.”—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
This la one o f tbe most serious trou­
ble« with which we h ave'to contend In
onr dry climate.
When a crack ap­
pears It la a difficult matter to bring
down the new growth o f sound hoof
without firing and blistering, so that
prevention ia all Im portant There Is
no need to cut out the sole or open
the heels, as It la called. Th e frog
and heels should be left absolutely
slone, and they cannot be too well de­
veloped. Th e sole w ill take care o f
Doazeette R ate,
I
ltaelf. fo r nature exfoliates dead horn
lau ra • * P a r M m .
Em
ily
(playin
g
“
house”
)
—
Now,
I ’H
as required.
Keep the wall rounded
Professor Bose, o f the Minnesota at the ground surface, tbe toe short be mamma and you’ll be papa and little
Agricultural College, says that statis­ and tbe frog prom inent and w ith few Ben and Beeeie w ill be our babies.
W illie (a fte r a moment, anxiously)
tics o f the actual boars o f labor on the exceptions horses w ill come through all
— A in ’t It about time to whip tbe chil­
farm s Investigated show that farm ers rig h t— Field and Farm.
dren?— Meggendorfer Blast ter.
work nine boars s day In sommar and
between four and Are In winter. P r o ­
A B alance# R z H ra .
B e t * led.
fessor Bailey, o f the Farm L ife Com­
Cora and clover pasture forma a
Long-Face Individual— Young man,
mission, tells the story o f the sehool- nearly balanced ration, and there w ill
you can’t attand to your bualnaaa I f you
'em working from 9 to 4 nntil she be little danger o f Injuring the bread­ don’t koep stra igh t
rried a farm er, and had to
ing qualities o f the pigs i f they are
Young Man— T h a t’« all you know
from 4 to 9.
Moral, school ma'i
allowed plenty o f corn and tbe rua off about I t I'm a contortionist.— Boston
good w ires fo r farmers.
a peed clover pasture.
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