Show UP IN A MINARET A view from the point in a tar turkish k town tow entrance to the mosques is rarely refused to christians except on festivals I 1 and it is to the top of the highest minaret in the town that we are bound the narrow spiral staircase affords no more than head and shoulder room he fhe steps are foul with summer blown dust with bones brought in by owls and kites besides other venerable rubbish and after what hat seems interminable gyration we emerge upon the airy gall gallery cry which encircles the top of the slender tower towe it is a crazy perch for thi the whole structure sways sensibly in the stron strong g wind and it seems as if a moderate moderal e kick would send the frail parapet clattering down on the tile roof far below but if your head is steady the view well repays the labor of the ascent beneath your feet cluster the flat roofed houses here and there a chimney iiii rises ea crowned with an immense storks nest making one wonder how the domestic c economy of the bipeds within the house houge can be reconciled with that of the bipeds without irom from the dusky labyrinth of streets r spring arm twenty six minarets mina like silvery bodkins besides the one to which we are clinging then let your eye travel over the splendid prospect lying beyond the town full forty miles the fat plain is spread east and west and five and twenty north and south with hardly a tree to break the level sa save e where the peasants cots cluster round round the fortified granges of the land owners the northern horizon is closed by the massive rampart of mountains which marks the latest shrinkage of f ottoman rule blackw ds magazine e BE sure the sows bows are stinted for a crop of fall pigs that win will sell well no A can compare with avith the in profitably utilizing uti lizino the wastes of the dairy e u THE TuE greater the check the growing pigs receive the smaller the check their i owner will I 1 receive I 1 FALL pigs have the advantage 8 of fine w weather eather and though they se sell 11 for less than spring pigs more live and do well and the results ure are not so far apart after all THE man with a butter dairy of ten cows cos co s ought to raise twenty awen ty fine young hogs in g a bummer er that will dress frol from to 22 po alach and half as aamann man jy more in winter skim milk buttermilk clover a little midd lines irs will xvi lido do it |