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Dealer in FRAMES, PICTURE FITTINGS and GLASS in all sizes, Pictures copied and enlarged by home artists, Pictures of family groups, residences, stock or any subjects sub-jects taken on the spot. Keep youp Money at Home. SPRINGVILLE, UTAH. DAIKY AND P0ULTEY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL. READERS. How Successful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm A Few Hints as to the Care of Live Stock and Poultry. Dairy Notes. We have heard frequently of preservatives pre-servatives that contain salicylic acid. Some idea of the harmfulnesa of thi3 chemical can be obtained by reading the testimony of the witnesses before the congressional pure food commission commis-sion that has been holding its sessions in Chicago. It was found that this acid was used extensively in beer. Dr. Pruyn Stringfleld, professor in the Northwestern University Medical school, said: "Its effect is to stimu late the action of the heart, and with .11 a few minutes a depression of both the heart action and of respiration fol lows. I have had cases In this city where I believe death was directly traceable to the effect of salicylic acid drunk in beer. It is likely to paralyze the heart." This should be sufficient to convince people that all kinds of preservatives are dangerous. Even the mildest of them have the effect of medicine and must not be taken at ran dom and in great quantities. The value of Inspection of dairy products is seen In the world's market for butter, cheese and milk. America has been very backward about enacting enact-ing rigid laws against adulterations and false brands. We have been afraid of interfering with individual liberty, and it has taken years of argument to persuade even a part of the states to pass laws protecting honest dairy products. But Canada was not thus backward, and soon made laws against the making of filled cheese and laws to ensure that all butter sent across the ocean was free from all suspicion of oleomargarine. We had a large cheese trade in England, but during the years when we were debating whether or not it was good morals to attempt to suppress sup-press the making of filled cheese, Canada drove us out of the English cheese market and herself took possession. pos-session. We will have to enact more rigid national laws yet, before we can hope to regain our lost prestige, for we must not only make good products, but we must convince our former customers cus-tomers that we are making them. Our system of inspection of dairy products, as of all food products, should be both rigid and thorough. The use of butter cultures is a thing that has drawn the attention of our butter makers both east and west. The stations have been interested enough to take up extensive work in this line, but the results have been rather averse to the idea that it is necessary to use cultures in butter-making butter-making in this country. The Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Experiment Station has recently re-cently issued a report on their experiments experi-ments along this line. It is the opinion opin-ion of the experimenters at that station sta-tion that "the results obtained by pasteurization pas-teurization have not, as a rule, justified justi-fied the expectations based upon the theory of the process and upon the results re-sults obtained in other countries, and the results of these trials, so far as they go, agree with the general experience. ex-perience. Of course, only tentative conclusions can be based on so few experiments, ex-periments, although they corroborate the results obtained by other students of this question, but it may be safe to conclude that pasteurization and the use of pure cultures do not, according to our present standard of perfection In flavor, promise to materially aid the American buttermaker, where the conditions con-ditions are favorable for making butter but-ter by the usual method. It may be, however, that if our country should become as thickly populated as some of the countries of Europe, and we have difficulty in making butter uniformly uni-formly good, pasteurization and pure cultures would be an advantage In overcoming the trouble. But for the present at least, even for our export trade, the outlay necessary for the purchase and use of a pasteurizing outfit out-fit and pure cultures for butter-making butter-making hardly seem warranted." Such Is the opinion of the Pennsylvania station, sta-tion, based, not only on Its own work, but on the work as reported of Madison Madi-son and other stations that have done much along dairy lines. Around the Poultry Yard. During thehot weather the farmer should see that his fowls are comfortably comfort-ably cool at nights. We know whal it is to swelter in the July and August heat, and we should have compassion on the fowls shut up tight in the pens. Some take their chances on the birds being killed by prowling animals and leave the windows and doors open, but this is never a wise thing to do. Wire netting is cheap, and even the inch mesh would cost but a few cents to put over the windows. The window sash can then be taken out, and not even a weasel can get in. The writer has found that by taking out windows in two adjoining sides of the henhouse a good change of air is allowed without with-out exposing the birds to drafts, which should be under suspicion even in the summer time. Colds are produced by a cool breeze blowing over a wet surface. sur-face. Sometimes the weather in midsummer mid-summer is such that the fowls sweat and are too warm to make exposure to a draft safe. Grease as a means of fighting lice on little chicks needs to be used with caution. Too much grease will prove very destructive to the chicks, as well as to. the lice, as it seems to blister the skin. A little should be put on the top of the head and a little under each wing. Even a small amount will be found to be very destructive to the parasites, and even if all the lice are not killed at once, it Is better to make a second application than to blister the skin of the little things you are trying to protect. The use of kerosene is not to be considered, as it is entirely unnecessary. un-necessary. Overfat hens are not profitable, and the fat becomes not only a detriment to them as producers of eggs, but is a positive danger to the lives of the fowls. Hens that are too fat should have their ration of corn taken from them entirely, and if possible should be made to hunt for a living for a time. The exercise and the suspension of the fat-forming foods will result in a speedy decrease of the fat and a corresponding Increase in the profitableness profit-ableness of the fowl. Raising Turkeys. , In nothing does a good beginning count for sc much as In raising turkeys, tur-keys, says a writer In the Homestead. Many are not very successful In turkey growing, and after they have given as good care as they know how, they wonder why they fall. The beginning should be good. What does that mean? It is a common practice among short sighted turkey growers to pick out ail the best for market, keeping tte small' er ones, under the impression that they will grow large enough by the time they are wanted for breeding. This is a grave mistake. In a flock of turkeys there will be those that are better developed, de-veloped, bigger boned and these are just the kind needed for breeding purposes. pur-poses. To achieve success In turkey growing It is well, therefore, to make a good beginning by selecting the best hens in the flock good, deep, blocky birds, with large bone and short legs, and dispose of the long legged, loose built ones. To make a success does not really mean the selection of a certain cer-tain breed, for the breed of your choice may make you more money than any other. The Bronze Is a very excellent breed, and any of the breeds which has a large sprinkling of the wild blood in it will do very well. The greatest trouble with the sorts with wild blood in them is that they are harder to keep near home, and are very easily frightened. fright-ened. Having selected the breeding stock, which should be done in the fall, they should be wintered in the best condition without too much fattening, which can be done by letting them run out all the time. You will be in a position po-sition to start in right. Small Flocks. Small flocks of poultry usually do better than large ones, and there are several reasons why this should be so, says an exchange. They receive more care and attention in proportion to their number. One could scarcely keep a flock of 15 without devoting a half hour per day to them. At this rate one would only care for 300 in a day of 10 hours, yet many think tfey can take care of about a thousand in that time and not keep very busy. Spending so much time among a few, one gets to noticing the personal peculiarities pe-culiarities of each one. He can soon tell which ones lay five eggs a week and which only three, and if one does not visit the nest at all for weeks he knows it and is soon rid of those that are all expense and no income. If he desires to raise chickens, he can by a little care select eggs from those hens which matured earliest and have been the best egg producers, and thus he is breeding for eggs. And last, but not always least, the Item of table scraps and waste vegetables for which usually usual-ly no charge is made in itemized accounts, ac-counts, are really valuable to the small flock as furnishing some variety to the ration and an amount that may really deduct something frfm the grain bill, while in a flock of 100 or more there would not be in an ordinary family enough to give each hen a fair bite. This makes the expense of keeping each fowl something greater in the large flock if the variety of food is bought for them, and the returns a little lit-tle less if it is not. Dairy Possibilities in Louisiana. W. L. Foster, a Louisiana farmer, says: I said I believed we here could raise live-stock to compete with those sections that seem to have had credited to them a natural adaptability for the business. Let me give you a few illustrations: il-lustrations: We milk at our house from four to seven grade and thoroughbred thor-oughbred Jerseys. No attention Is given to their feeding and milking. A negro boy attends to that entirely, having been shown a few times how to mix their feed of cotton seed hulls, meal and bran. In winter they run on about two acres of barley and oats, and in summer on about live acres of Bermuda. From accounts I have kept at various times against these cows, I came to the conclusion that the milk and butter used by my family and the milk and clabber fed my pigs, about paid for the feed of the cows, leaving as a profit the butter and cream sold In our city, which has amounted, since Jan. 1, to $299.20. Now, with an intelligent in-telligent and Interested owner to properly prop-erly feed and milk these cows, and to see that no feed was wasted, and one more carefully to see that all fertilizer was saved, I am . sure the profit would have been much greater. Romney Marsh Sheep. A writer In the Pastoralist's Review has this to say of Kent, or Romney Marsh sheep: "I have been a breeder of Romneys in New Zealand for more than twenty years, and the first origin of my flock was direct from Kent by importations some thirty years ago. I find them most hardy, prolific, and profitable in every way, and it may surprise 'Old Weranga when I state, for a fact, that my flock of 1,500 pure ewes, which is depastured upon rich river flats (very wet in winter) survive the wet, cold, and snow of a South New Zealand climate cli-mate without turnips or any artificial food, and walk into the shearing shed in October in robust health, carrying heavy fleeces of wool, and often with 115 per cent of lambs by their sides." Carefully-Bred Animals. The superiority supe-riority of the English, Scotch and French horses is due to their being raised almost as part of the family. Behind Be-hind their docility, size and adaptation adapta-tion to special work, the plow, the saddle or the buggy, Is a long line of kindly care, patient training and careful care-ful breeding. That marvelous capacity capac-ity for producing milk, possessed by the Holstein cow, and the superlative richness of the milk of the Jersey, are the results of judicious feeding, handling hand-ling and breeding, and of wise selection selec-tion for many years in sections where a few cows are kept by each family as a valued treasure. The same is true of all the better breeds of horses and other domestic animals. Prof. S. A. Knapp. Farming in the South. The South ern farming system Is unlike that of the North. It is more feudal, says Octave Thanet Whether this makes for good or evil I leave to the economists, econo-mists, only hazarding the remark that the landlord system, where the land lord is a resident on his estate, has one advantage worth keeping; the per sonal relation between owner and tenants ten-ants is so close that it is likely to be kindly; and a spirit of friendly responsibility re-sponsibility on the one hand and friendly dependence on the other, is a common fact on plantations. Snravine Mixtures. At the Canadian experiment farms spraying was done last year with Bordeaux mixture and naris ereen. and as a result It was diffi cult at harvest time to find an imperfect necimen of fruit. Different formulas of Bordeaux mixture were compared, one containing six pounds and the oth er four pounds of copper sulphate (blue-stone). When applied to crab-armle crab-armle trees the weaker solution was found to be equally as efficient as the stronger, and did not injure the foliage. Inspecting Cattle in Pennsylvania. The number of inspections of cattle for tuberculosis made during the year 1893 In Pennsylvania was 14,437 399 In herds not known to be infected, and at the expense of the owners, and 10,447 at the expense of the commonwealth. As a result of the latter, 1,348 animals (12.9 per cent) were found tuberculous. and were condemned. FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Rome Cp-to-Date Hints About Cultivation Cul-tivation of the Soil and Yields Thereof Horticulture, Viticulture and Floriculture. Farming Without Stock Exhaustive. A. C. True, director of the Minnesota Experiment Station, says: When the lands are grazed by sheep and cattle the soil fertility is drawn upon to the extent of the nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash required to build the blood, bone, and tissue of the animal body. This is considerable in the case of growing animals, but insignificant in-significant in case of animals which have made their growth (especially of bone) and are simply maintained or fattened on the pasture. If, however, concentrated feeds are used in addition to pasture, and the manure produced returned to the land, there is an actual ac-tual gain in fertility of the land. It will thus be seen that exclusive grain farming or continuous culture of a single crop has a much greater tendency ten-dency to impoverish the soil than stock raising or combined grain and stock raising. A comparison of the amount of plant food removed from the soil and the amount capable of being returned re-turned to it under different systems of husbandry has been made by the Minnesota Min-nesota Experiment Station. The. systems sys-tems taken into consideration were all-grain all-grain farming, mixed grain and general gen-eral farming, mixed potato and general farming, "stock farming, and . dairy farming, examples being selected which represented the different systems. In each case the farm is considered to contain 160 acres. In the example of all-grain farming selected no stock was kept and no fertilizers fer-tilizers of any kind applied to the land, the small amount of fertilizing material mate-rial which necessarily accumulated was disregarded, and the grain was all sold from the farm. The entire farm of 100 acres was under cultivation. The crops raised were 100 acres of wheat, 40 acres of barley, and 20 acres of oats, yielding 15, 40 and 50 bushels per acre, respectively. It is calculated that the fertility removed from such a farm in the grain and straw of one year's crops amounted to 2,460 pounds phosphoric acid, 4,020 pounds potash, and 5,600 pounds nitrogen. This does not include the fertility removed by the weeds, which often is very large, and the amount of nitrogen lost from the soil through leaching and the decomposition decomposi-tion of humus. In the example of stock farming selected se-lected for study, 25 acres were sown to oats, 20 to barley, 10 to corn, 5 to peas, and 1 acre each to potatoes and millet. The remainder of the farm was in meadow and pasture. The stock kept in this case comprised 10 beef cattle, and 10 dairy cows, 10 horses, 5 steers, 10 head of young stock, 30 sheep, and 20 hogs. Five steers of 1,- 000 ponds each, 5' head of young stock, 5 horses, 10 hogs of 250 pounds each, and 1,500 pounds of butter were sold from the farm. All the crops grown, including 40 tons of timothy and 30 tons of clover, were consumed on the farm. Eighteen tons of food material and 5 cords of wood were purchased and consumed, besides the crops produced. pro-duced. Under these conditions there was approximately a gain of 35 pounds of phosphoric acid, and a loss of 50 pounds of potash, and 898 pounds of nitrogen. The loss of nitrogen was more than balanced by the gain due to the clover crop, so that on the whole there was practically no loss of fertility fer-tility from the farm. In the example given of a dairy farm, 30 cows, 5 head of young stock, 4 horses, and 20 pigs constituted the stock kept on the farm. The crops raised were' 10 acres of wheat, 20 of oats, 10 of corn, 7 of rye, 5 of oats for hay, 2 acres each of roots and peas, 1 each of millet and potatoes; 25 tons of both clover and timothy were produced, pro-duced, and the remainder of the farm was mainly in pasture. Sixteen pigs of 250 pounds each and 4 head of young stock, 5,000 pounds of butter, and all the wheat and rye produced were sold from the farm, while the rest of the products were consumed as feed and 80 per cent returned to the soil as fertilizer. fertil-izer. Ten tons of feed and 5 cords of wood were purchased and consumed in addition to what was produced on the farm. The figures given for dairy farming show a gain of 76 pounds of phosphoric acid and a loss of 85 pounds potash, and 809 pounds nitrogen. nitro-gen. The loss of nitrogen, however, is again more than offset by the gain through the clover crop, so that there Is practically no loss of fertility in dairy farming under proper management, manage-ment, but rather a constant gain. Draining; Barnyards. There is a commonly received opinion opin-ion that tile drains do not work well in barnyards, for the reason that the tramping of the surface will puddle the earth to the extent that the water will not get down into the drains, says Drainage Journal. To some extent this is true, but tile drains will drain the underlying earth and prevent the mud in the barnyard from getting so deep. We have found that three or four drains well located in the barn lot, the number depending on the size of the lot, will serve a good purpose in keeping keep-ing the foundation firm. I then gravel the surface where I expect the stock to tramp most. By so doing the surface sur-face soon gets firm and free from sloppy slop-py mud, and we have no deep mud. It is all a mistake to think that tiling will do no good. The water from the eaves may be caught in gutters and conducted down to a tile drain and carried away, without affecting in any way the barn-lot. It requires a little good comon sense in ditching and graveling grav-eling to have a dry barnlot. But there are some who would not feel at home unless they could approach their barn and stable by stepping from one piece of a rail or board to another, getting to the door with a hop, skip and a jump. It would be so unnatural otherwise. other-wise. There are people, however, who prefer dry land, and we write for their benefit. As for the other fellows they can roll up their trousers and wade through. Most of the complaint about manure being washed away is due to leaving.lt under the eaves of the barn fcr the water to fall upon it and wash it away. Better have the water carried away with gutters entering into down pipes connected with tile drains. By so doing do-ing you may have a dry barn lot. The Hessian Fly. The Hessian fly without doubt originated origi-nated in western Asia and followed its main plant food westward. That plant is whet, though the insect also feeds on barley and rye. Like wheat, its origin is lost in the dim light of the past. It may Lave been ah insect unnoticed un-noticed by man till it came into contact con-tact with the wheat plant, which at once proved more to Its liking than any plant it had before found. The result was a sudden development of vigor and a thriftiness that caused it to send out millions of colonies Into the first wheat fields. It has been known "in Europe for centuries, and in the United States since 1778. Popular Popu-lar belief credits its advent in this country to the Hessian soldiers who are said to have brought it over in the etraw with which they fed their horses on their long sea voyage. Certain it is that we are unable to find any authentic au-thentic record of this pest in thi? country previous to the Revolution. At the present time Europe and Asia as well as America, are annually sufferers suf-ferers from the depredations of this pest, which, however, seems to hold aloof from the more northern regions. The same thing is seen in this country, where the more northern states are lit-tl lit-tl visited. In fact, the barrier of cool climate seems to prevent the Hessian fly from getting a foothold at all in the state of Washington. Canker Worm and Curl Leaf. The Michigan State Board of Agriculture Agri-culture has been sending out inquiries to ascertain the prevalence of canker worms and leaf curl in that state. In reply to the question, "Are there aay apple orchards infested with canker worms?" 181 correspondents ia the southern counties answer "yes" and 146 "no"; in the central counties 57 answer "yes" and 54 "no"; in the northern counties 31 answer "yes" and 31 "no," and for the statex269 "yes" and 231 "no." These replies indicate that this pest is gaining a foothold in the state, and that, if not properly controlled, will eventually ruin the apple orchards in Michigan. In reply to the question, "Is curl leaf prevalent this season?" 50 correspondents corre-spondents in the southern counties answer an-swer "yes" and 271 "no"; in the central cen-tral counties 19 answer "yes" and 79 "no"; in the northern counties 6 answer an-swer "yes" and 38 "no," and for the state 75 answer "yes" and 3S8 "no." Many varieties of peaches last year were seriously injured by curl leaf. The conditions were not so favorable for this disease this year. It has not been noticed so much either on account ac-count of the trees being killed and injured. It is hoped, though, thftt enough spraying has been done to demonstrate whether or no this disease dis-ease can be controlled by spraying. Strange Fatality Among White Ash Trees From Farmers' Review: While the. past winter was unprecedented in. continued con-tinued severe cold weather, some strange results are being made manifest mani-fest as the season advances. In this locality we have always considered the American white ash as one of the most beautiful as well as the most hardy for street or lawn planting, but entire rows of trees of that variety in our city are dead. Some of these are more than twenty years old, and have always al-ways presented a healthy and vigorous appearance. The precise locality of the tree has cut no figure in this fatality, fatal-ity, whether on high or low ground. In the High School grounds we had some splendid specimens on good, strong soil, that look now at this writing, writ-ing, May 20, like bare trunks and lifeless life-less limbs, while now and 'then one shows a feeble attempt at leafing out. A beautiful seedling crab in one corner of my lawn, which has borne fruit for two years, put out leaves and blossoms, blos-soms, but is now dying. Is the natural surface-root system of the white ash the cause of this sudden fatality with apparently healthy trees or the extreme ex-treme cold? I shall be glad to hear from others. R. S. Hoxie, Rock County, Coun-ty, Wis. Fruit In Southern Iowa. Effects of the winter can now be fairly estimated. In the orchard peach trees, save the young ones, are practically dead. Several varieties of plums are also gone. Cherry trees are many of them badly damaged. Many of the cherries now ripening are wormy. There are some pears, but the trees are making good growth. Among small' fruits the majority of the grapes and the canes of the blackberry are killed. What blackberry canes remain are promising very largely. Raspberries are all right and have set fruit thickly. Strawberries are a full crop. So are gooseberries and currants. Never saw better. The grapes which survive in my grounds are the Moore's Early, Moore's Diamond and the Pockling-ton. Pockling-ton. The Concords are killed. Apples in my two orchards are full enough. I see no difference in the summer or winter varieties. In the ornamental shrubs, etc., the long continued cold killed nearly all the roses. The Yuccas Yuc-cas also perished and the clematis and honeysuckles were badly damaged. Shrubs, such as the California privel and African Tamarisk, are dead, root and branch. The Soil Problem in Nebraska. The annual report of the Nebraska Experiment Station says: Without doubt the greatest problem in Nebraska Nebras-ka agriculture is to determine the proper prop-er methods of soil tillage. The conditions condi-tions affecting plant growth in the Trans-Missouri region are totally different dif-ferent from any heretofore encountered encounter-ed by the Agriculturist in any portion of this country. With an annual rainfall rain-fall of 23 inches and a loss by evaporation evapora-tion from a plane water surface of 50 inches In the course of a year, it is not difficult to see that the end and aim of soil tillage in this region must be to conserve, in so far as possible, moisture mois-ture in the soil. Not only are the climatic cli-matic conditions very different from those found elsewhere, but the Boil of this state is generally quite different in its physical structure, from that covering cov-ering other portions of the country east of the Missouri river. The result is that the Nebraska farmer must work out an entirely new practice in the treatment of his soil. Bogus Seed Collections. The World Seed Co., of Boston Mass., has made a target of itself for the division of seed Investigation of the agriculture department. de-partment. This company has been endeavoring en-deavoring to defraud farmers by sending send-ing out packages bearing the captivating captivat-ing legend "Beauties Flower Garden," etc, and purporting to contain a mixture mix-ture of three hundred varieties of choice flower seeds which would produce pro-duce a perpetual blooming flower garden. gar-den. All this was offered for five cents. In addition to this farmers were solicited to sell packages of thee seeds on commission and under various arrangements. The seed division made an examination of the seeds contained in a package and found them composed of about 75 per cent of red top, timothy tim-othy and chaff, about 20 per cent of such common seeds as sunflower, sweet peas, morning glory, etc., and five per cent of other varieties. The various departments 'of the government are on the watchout for these fellows who try to stick people for even small amounts. A chick once stunted for lack of proper care or feeding will never attain the size or thrift of the others. Let the growing cockerels and "pullets "pul-lets have plenty of cracked corn every other day. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. "Vnnie's Bogy," a True Story by Alma St'hreiber What Happened to a Little Girl Who Had the Good Luck to Be Traveling in Italy. New Kngland's Mountain Child. Where foams the fall a tameless storm Through Nature's will and rich arcade. Which foiest trees, entwi-iinjf, form, There trips the mountain maid. She binds not her luxuriant hair With dazzling gen or costly plume, But gayly wreathes a rosebud there. To match her maiden bloom. She clasps no golden zone of pride Her fair and simple robe around; By flowing riband, lightly tied, Its graceful folds aie bound. And thus attired a sportive thins?. Pure, loving, suileless, bright snd wild-Proud wild-Proud Fashion! match me in your ring. New Kngland's mountain child! She scorns to sell her rich, warm heart For paltry gold or haughty rank. But gives her love, untaueht by ark Confiding, free and frank. And, once bestowed, no fortune change That high and generous faith can alter; Through grief and pain, too pure to range. She will not fly or falter. Her foot will bound as lieht and free In lowly hut as palace hall; Tier sunny smile as warm will be, For love to her is all. Hast seen where In our woodland gloom The rich magnolia proudly smiled? So brightly doth she bud and bloom. New England's mountain child! Nannie's liogv- Nannie was a ten-year-old girl who had the good luck to be traveling abroad with her aunt. They had been In Paris and in Italy, and then went to Switzerland to spend the summer at a big hotel among the mountains. Nannie enjoyed the life perhaps more than most children would. She was imaginative, and the beauty of the scenery around her gave her great pleasure. Still, sometime? she felt lonely and homesick, for her aunt and nearly all the people she met were grown-up, and not very lively companions compan-ions for her; and she-often longed for her brothers and sisters to play with. These homesick feelings came on worst at bedtime, and Nannie hated bedtime for other reasons besides. Her bedroom bed-room was away up on the third floor, at the very end of a long corridor. She was sent to bed early, as all well-brought-up children are, and at that time her aunt's room next door and all the rooms were empty, for the grownup grown-up people were downstairs enjoying themselves. When her aunt's maid had seen her Into bed. and said good night, and shut the door behind her, and Nannie heard Parker's footsteps echoing away in the distance down the long, bare corridor of the summer hotel, she felt dreadfully alcne. and made haste to get to sleep so that she might forget it She felt afraid, too. although she i did not know exactly of what; but she would have been ashamed to confess her fears even to her kind aunt, for she knew that it was silly for a young lady who was grown-up enough to be trsreling about Europe to have any; still, she couldn't help having them all the same. Every night she kept wondering, won-dering, supposing anything should happen to her, how she could make the people down-stairs hear. One night she hadn't been in bed arery long when something made her want to open her eyes. As she did so, she was startled to see a great blazing eye gazing at her through the darkness at the foot of her bed. Nannie's heart went pitapat, and she felt terribly frightened. What could it be? She had heard stories about all sorts of strange apparitions, but she knew that these stories were not true, and she knew that 'ghosts and bogies did not exist. But it was all very well to know that; she co' 'dn't help feeling miserably frightened as long as this mystery was unexplained of the big, burning eye looking at her. Nannie, shivering all over, and with her head buried under the bedclothes, tried to reason with herself what it could be, for she was a reasonable little girl. She came to the conclusion conclu-sion that she must have dreamt it She did have nightmares sometimes. So she cautiously peeped out to see whether the eye were still there. It was staring at her as fiercely as ever! It was dreadful! Nannie felt more frightened than before, for she knew now that she wasn't dreaming; she was only too plainly wideawake! She quickly took refuge again beneath the bedclothes, and racked her brains to think what she should do. It was no use screaming out, for everybody was too far away to hear her. and the thing might only come nearer and sitf-focate sitf-focate her, or something. But the suspense sus-pense was too agonizing to bear! She had almost rather be killed than suffer suf-fer it any longer. Then an inspiration came to her. She said a little prarer: "O God, please send that eye away, or at least make me brave enough to get up and see what it is!" After that she felt better, and it didn't seem to require so very, much courage after all to sit up in bed ready to jump out when, behold! the eye had vanished! Here was an immediate answer to her prayer. Nannie felt delighted, and was glad she had been brave, and lay down again contentedly, feeling that a weight had been taken off her heart Lo! there was the e3'e again fixed on her! This was too awful! Nannie felt desperate. But surely, surely God would not desert her in her hour of need! Nannie could not bring herself to believe that. After all, she had not got up to fare the danger; she had only 6at up in bed. Evidently something more was required of, her. She would make one more effort Summoning all her resolution to her aid, and in excited haste lest her courage cour-age should melt away too soon, the little lit-tle girl jumped out of bed and walked toward the eye. It seemed to disappear disap-pear as she moved, but she went steadily stead-ily on, until she was stopped by coming com-ing right up against the window of her room. Then she understood! The window was a long, high one, without any shade, and as the night was warm, had been opened at the top to let in the fresh air. Through this opening a star had been peeping! It was so high up in the sky that Nannie could only see It when she was close up to the window, or from farther back in the room, only by bending down as low as her head had been when It was lying on the pillow. When she had 6at up in bed, of course the wall of the room had come between her and the star. The mystery was explained! Her big, burning, blazing, bogy eye had been nothing af tejj all but a beautiful star shining into her room! Nannie, with a much relieved mind, could not help laughing at herself, and feeling rather ashamed of herself, too. Sh-s felt that this would be a lesson to her for the future, and made up her mind that if ever again in the course of her life she met with a bogy, she would not begin to be frightened at it until she had walked right up to it, and had looked it boldly in the face, for perhaps it might turn out to be only a star! ALMA SCHREIBER. Busy Animals. The fox is a dealer in poultry, but he is nothing more nor less thaq a thief. Fat ducks and chickens are his delight and a plump rabbit comes next best. The otter and the heron are fishermen. fisher-men. The otter is not often 'seen, for he carries on his work mostly under the water, but the heron stands with his long, thin legs in the water waiting wait-ing till a fish comes by. Then a sudden sud-den plunge with his long, sharp bill and the poor fish is brought up and swallowed. The ants are the busiest of all. Catch an ant asleep in the daytime if you can. They are always in earnest at their work, building their underground homes and laying up stores of food fo,r the long winter. The swallow is a fly catcher, and skims low over the surface of the little streams. It takes a great many flies to ieed him for just one day, and he is forever at work. The beaver is a wood cutter, a builder build-er and a mason. It cuts down the small trees with its teeth, and, after it has built its house, it plasters it with its tail. The snail, too, is a builder, but it takes the material for its house from its own body. It is so anxious to begin work that it commences to build ita house before it is even hatched. The mole that burrows under the ground makes a little fort under the earth from which it tunnels In every direction, and it makes such clever paths that it can run from one to the other and can scarcely be caught. The bees do not all live in hives or tree trunks. The mason bee digs a hole in a brick wall and lines It with clay. In this nest it lays two eggs and closes it up. The miner bee bores long holes in the Eandbanks and the carpenter car-penter bees bore their tunnels in wood. The upholsterer bee lines his nest with poppy leaves. The rose leaf cutter takes a leaf between its jaws, begins near the stalk and cuts out a circle of Just the right size and as perfect as as could be marked with a compass. With these circles of fragrant rose leaf it divides its round hole in the wall into little cells. Humors of Kxamlnations. Blue books on educational matters often repay the trouble of wading through them by supplying fresh instances in-stances of the unconscious humor of pupils under the ordeal of examination, says the Westminster Gazette. In Dr. Ogilvie's report on the training colleges col-leges in Scotland, just issued, we find several gems of the kind. We should have thought that the duck would have been a subject well within the descriptive descrip-tive powers of candidates whose aim In life was pedagogic, but one committed commit-ted himself to the statement that "the mother duck is called a drake," and another to the observation that "the principal use of ducks is to make chicken broth for invalids." After this, the declaration that John Rus-kin's Rus-kin's principal work was "John Gilpin" Gil-pin" seems a venial slip. . Remarkable ingenuity was displayed in the interpretation of the phrase, "the antlered monarch of the waste," and if Sir Walter were alive he would be somewhat surprised to find the meanings that his poetry has conveyed convey-ed to the rising generation of his native na-tive land. One boy thii3 deciphered this graphic description of a stag "a monarch so called, but in reality a plain man." But even this mysterious effort at elucidation is thrown into the shade by another version "a man with his hair very likely raised in anger." an-ger." If the dominie responsible for the training of this brilliant candidate ''knew of his pupil's performance we should think he would at once become an antlered monarch of the waste himself, him-self, according to the definition. A Kind Monkey. Monkeys are more renowned for mischief mis-chief than for kindness, but even monkeys mon-keys can be benevolent. Monsieur Mouton records the doings of one in Guadeloupe that surely seemed to merit that reputation. This monkey had a friend in a goat that went daily to the pasture. Every night the monkey, mon-key, would pick out the burs and thorns, sometimes to the number of two or three thousand, from the goat's fleece, in order, that the animal might lie down in peace. On coming in from the pasture, the goat regularly went in search of his light-handed friend and submitted h'traself to the operation. opera-tion. Strange to say, the tricky instincts in-stincts of the monkey reasserted themselves them-selves after the prickles were removed; he would tease the poor goat unmercifully, unmerci-fully, plucking his beard, poking him in the eyes, and pulling out his hairs. The goat bore it all with patience, perhaps per-haps regarding it as only a fair price to be paid for the removal of the tiorns. A Real Princess. This little princess is the favorite granddaughter of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, and her father, the . Archduke Rudolf, would one day have been emperor if he had lived. She has a fine castle, in which she lives with her mother, and has many fine horses and carriages, but she lives as simply as most healthy American girls $yf her age. Both she and her mother are very fond of horseback riding, bicycling and other outdoor exercises, and the people of Austria love her very much, for she is very kind to the poor people and spends a great deal of her time planning for their comfort and happiness. She and her mother," it is said, think more of each other than all the world beside, and they are more like two sisters than like mother and daughter. Bubbles by Hand. Have you ever tried blowing bubbles from your hands instead of from a pipe? It can be done, and the bubbles will be much larger than those of the ordinary clay pipe makes. Lather your hands well with suds; then place them in the position of a cup. Just as If you were scooping up water from a spring, leaving, however, a small hole In the bottom. Hold your hands about a foot from the mouth and blow a current cur-rent of air into them. After one or two trials you will be able to make bubbles nearly as large as your head. Mrs. Annie Besant is said to have renounced England altogether and to have adopted eastern customs of living as well as thinking. |