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Show POULTKY THE MASTER TEACHER. A STORYfO, Ah. much have we to learn of all S2X PY A. CONAN DOYLE; INTERNATIONAL P0 ASSOCIATION. CHAPTER A MIDNIGHT tree that he couldnt hardly bolletv Uncle Jep didnt say nothin. Hal ' couldnt He jest chopped down thw tree, trimmed the limbs often it it a log, hooked the steers to It, and drug it and the bar over to the Eddy. Old Mose forked over the 330 only too quick, and 310 besides for the pine log, so that Aunt Huldy and Uncle Jep didnt only git their cow, but (hey had quite a snug Agger to stuff to the old coffee pot, fer future reference, besides. And what did Aunt Huldy do? She made Jonas a present of the borried gun and thanked him fer borryin it and not fetchtn it back. Though I dunno as I ought to thank you, neither she says to Jonas. It was a smilin' Providence that done it she says. Ed. Mott in New York XVI. thin voices, timidly at first, but gather ng volume as they went on, until the Wilderness rang with their shrieks. Lights shone In all the windows opposite, chains rattled, bars were unshot, doors opened, and out rushed friends to the rescue. Harold, with a stick; the Admiral, with his sword, his grey head and bare feet protruding from either end of a long brown ulster; finally. Doctor Walker, with a poker, alt ran to the help of the Westmacotts. Their door had been already opened, and they crowded tumultuously Into the front room. VISITOR. Charles Westmacott, white to his lips, all this time, was kneeling on the floor, y while the his aunts head upon his knee.supporting She lay was being outstretched, dressed In her ordinary played in these clothes, the extinguished taper still three suburban vil- grasped In her no mark or wound las, while on a com- upon her pale, hand, and senseless. placid monplace stage love Thank God and humor and said Charles, you are come. Doctor," up. "Do tell me lights and shadows how she Is, andlooking what I should do." were so swiftly sucDoctor Walker kneeled beside her, and ceeding each other, passed his left hand over her head, and while these while he grasped her pulse with the three families, right. drifted together by fate, were shaping She has had a terrible said each other's destinies and working out he. It must have been with blow, some blunt In their own fashion the strange. Intri- weapon. Here is the place behind the cate ends of human life, there were ear. But she Is a Woman of extraorhuman eyes which watched over every dinary physical powers. Her pulse Is stage of the performance, and which full and slow. There Is no stertor. It Is were keenly critical of every actor on my belief that she Is it. Across the road beyond the green and that she Is in no merelyat stunned, all." danger lawn, bepalings and the "Thank God for that!" hind the curtains of their creeper-frame- d We must get her to bed. We shall windows, sat two old ladies. carry her upstairs, and then I shall send Miss Bertha and Miss Monica Williams, my girls in to her. But who has done looking out as from a private box at all this?" them. that was being enacted before Some robber, said Charles. You The growing friendship of the three see that the window Is open. She must Harold of the families, engagement have heard him and come down, for she Denver with Clara Walker, the engage- was always perfectly fearless. I wish ment of Charles Westmacott with her to goodness she had called me. sister, the dangerous fascination which But she was dressed." the widow exercised over the Doctor, Sometimes she sits up very late." the preposterous behavior of the I did sit up very late," said a voice. Walker girls and the unhappiness She had opened her eyes, and was blinknot which they had caused their father, ing at them in the lamplight. A villain one of these Incidents escaped the came In the window and struck notice of the two maiden ladies. Bertha me with through a life preserver. You can tell the younger had a smile or a sigh for the police so when come. Also that the lovers, Monica the elder a frown or it was a little fat they Now, Charles, a shrug for the elders. Every night give me your arm man. and I shall go upthey talked over what they had seen, stairs. and their own dull, uneventful life took But her spirit was greater than her a warmth and a coloring from their for, as she staggered to her strength, a as reflects a blank wall neighbors feet, her head swam round, and she beacon fire. would have fallen again had her nephew And now It was destined that they not thrown his arms around her. They should experience the one keen sensa- carried her among them and tion of their later years, the one mem- laid her upon upstairs the bed, where the orable Incident from which all future in- watched beside her, while CharlesDoctor went cidents should be dated. ofT to the and the DenIt was on the very night which suc- vers mounted guard over the frightened ceeded the events which have Just been maids. narrated, when suddenly Into Monica Williams head, as she tossed upon her CHAPTER XVII. sleepless bed. there shot a thought which made her sit up with a thrill and IN PORT AT LAST. OW tragl-com-ed- close-cropp- police-statio- a gasp. Bertha," said she, plucking at the shoulder of her sister, I have left the front window open." "No, Monica, surely not." Bertha sat up also, and thrilled In sympathy. I am sure of It. You remember I had forgotten to water the pots, and then I opened the window, and Jane called me about the Jam, and I have never been in the room since. Good gracious, Monica, it Is a mercy that we have not been murdered in our beds. There was a house broken Into at Forest Hill last week. Shall we go down and shut It?" I dare not go down alone, dear, but If you will come with me. Put on your slippers and dressing gown. We do not need a candle. Now, Bertha, we will go down together. Two little white patches' moved vaguely through the darkness, the stairs creaked, the door whined, and they were at the front room window. Monica closed it gently down, and fastened the snib. What a beautiful moon!" said she, We can see as clearly as looking out. if It were day. How peaceful and quiet the three houses are over yonder! It seems quite sad to see that To Let card upon number one. I wonder how number two will like their going. For my part I could better spare that dreadful woman at number three with her short Bktrts and her snake. But, oh, Bertha, look! look!! look!!!" Her voice had fallen suddenly to a quivering whisper and she was pointing to the Westmacotts house. Her sister gave a gasp of horror, and stood with a clutch at Monica's arm, staring in the same direction. There was a light in the front room, a slight, wavering light such as would be given by a small candle or taper. The blind was down, but the light shone dimly through. Outside in the garden, with his figure outlined against the luminous square, there stood a man, his back to the road, his two hands upon the window ledge, and his body rather bent as though he were trying to peep in past the blind. So absolutely still and motionless was he that In spite of the moon they might well have overle ooked him were it not for that light behind. Good heaven! gasped Bertha, it is a burglar." But her sister set her mouth grimly and shook her head. We shall see, ahe whispered. It may be something tell-tal- worse." Swiftly and furtively the man stood suddenly erect, and began to push the window slowly up. Then he put one knee upon the sash, glanced round to see that all was safe, and climbed over Into the room. As he did so he had to Push the blind aside. Then the two spectators saw where the llfht came from. Mrs. Westmacott was standing, as rigid as a statue, in the center of the room, with a lighted taper in her tight hand. For an instant they caught a glimpse of her stern face and her white collar. Then the blind fell back into position, and the two figures disappeared from their view. "Oh, that dreadful woman!" cried Monica. That dreadful, dreadful woman! She was watting for him. You saw it with your own eyes, sister Bertha!" Hush, dear, hush and listen! said her more charitable companion. They Pushed their own window up once more, and watched from behind the curtains. For a long time all was silent within the house. The light still stood motlon-es- s as though Mrs. Westmacott re- rigidly in the one position, while gained worn time to time a shadow passed in front of It to show that her midnight visitor was pacing up and down In front of her. Once they saw his outline alearly, with his hands outstretched as If In appeal or entreaty. Then suddenly fnere was a dull sound, a cry, the noise f a fall, the taper was extinguished, nd a dark figure fled in the moonlight, fbaked across the garden, and vanished amid the shrubs at the farther side. Then only did the two old ladies understand that they had looked on whilst 'tragedy had been enacted. "Help! 'ey cried, and Help! In their high. n, The peerless masters and their schools. Their science, formulas and rules, And knowledge polytechnics!. The Calf and the Cow. The dairy calf, to be raised economically and with the greatest chance of developing into a valuable dairy cow, must be raised by h&hd, says J. H. Grlsdale. True, considerable skill and careful attention are necessary to succeed along this line, but careful observance of four or five principles will insure success; First, regularity of feeding; second, uniformity in quantity of food; third, uniformity in quality of food; fourth, uniformity in temperature of food; fifth, cleanliness. The young calf should1 be fed at least three times a day for two or three weeks, and preferably four times. The ration the first week or ten days should consist of whole milk fed at a temperature of about 100 degrees Fahr. This ration may be gradually changed to skim milk by Introducing a small amount into the whole milk, ration and gradually Increasing the proportion, being careful to feed always at the same temperature. The place of the fat removed in the cream may be taken by oatmeal or flaxseed meal boiled, being careful to make but a very slight addition in the usual amount at any one time. Most ills that calves are heir to arise from a violation of some ene of the principles I have mentioned or from a lack of cleanliness. Almost every case of scours or indigestion may be traced to some sudden change in the time of feeding, the quantity or temperature of food fed. The boy is father of the man is a trite saying, but even more surely the calf Is mother of the cow. The dyspeptic, unthrifty calf can never hope to develop anything but a commonplace cow, and two or three successive generations of calves so treatel are surely enough to chill the aspirations of the most sanguine dairy man. The calf once past the age of three months is usually safe, the danger from that time on lying in the risk of getting too much food and taking on fat rather than growing. It Is usually best to breed when about 15 months old and when four or five months advanced in pregnancy, or even sooner, a heavier ration of a kind fitted for milking cows should be fed. As parturition approaches she should be fed as much as she can stand of foods suited for cows in full milk, even though she get fat and develop an abnormal udder. Much of her future usefulness depends upon her treatment during the first period of her lactation. A ration must be found that will induce milk production, but such as will not encourage the laying on of fat She must be treated kindly, well fed and milked for twelve montha or longer. Habits formed during the milking period stick to the cow as long as she lasts. So let these habits be good ones. In conclusion to the prospective dairy man I say as was once said to me: Breed, weed, feed and hustle but of these the greatest is feed. ill-fe- AY had broken before the several denizens of the Wilderness had all returned to their homes, the police Danish Dairy Cattle. finished their inWe may very properly and all quiries, inquire come back to its whether there are cattle In other normal quiet. Mrs. countries which would improve our Westmacott had dairy herds or be a valuable acquisibeen left sleeping tion to the variety we now possess. peacefully with a small chloral draught to steady her Although others may hold different nerves and a handkerchief soaked in views, it is the belief of the writer arnica bound round her head. It was that the only countries to which any with some surprise, therefore, that the attention can profitably be given in Admiral received a note from her about this connection are Denmark, France, ten oclock, asking him to be good and Switzerland. The first named enough to step In to her. He hurried In, furnishes the best example in the fearing that she might have taken some world of dairying as a national specturn for the worse, but he was reassured ialty, of rapid development, and of to find her sitting up In bed, with Clara and Ida Walker in attendance upon present high average production and her. She had removed the handker- excellence. Here we find the Red chief, and had put on a little cap witb Danish cattle to be the standard stock, pink ribbons, and a maroon dressing-jacke- t, and very satisfactory business cows daintily fulled at the neck and they are, of a pronounced dairy type. But they lack uniformity except in sleeves. , My dear friend, said she as he encolor, particularly in udder developtered, I wish to make a last few rement and other dairy points., and in to marks you. No, no, she continued, the show ring the very best of them look saw of a as she dismay could not hopefully compete with the laughing, of not face. shall "I dream his upon best of any one of the four leading dying for at least another thirty years. dairy breeds of this country. As dairy A woman should be ashamed to die before she Is seventy. I wish, Clara, that performers they are good, but not reyou would ask your father to step up. markable; the best yearly records the writer has seen show an average proAnd you, Ida, Just pass me my cigarduction of 8,000 to 8,800 pounds of ettes, and open me a bottle of stout." as the milk per cow, in herds of 11 to 19 Now then, she continued, Doctor Joined their party. I dont quite animals of all ages, with an average know what I ought to say to you, Ad- fat content of about 3 Vi per cent, an miral. You want some very plain of 290 to 325 pounds of equivalent to. speaking 'Pon my word, maam, I dont know butter per year. A very celebrated herd of 70 cowa averaged 7,150 pounds what you are talking about The idea of you at your age talking of milk a year. In Jutland there is a of going to sea. and leaving that dear, distinctively dairy race of sharply depatient little wife of yours at home, who fined black and white markings in aphas seen nothing of you all her life! Its pearance reminding one of Holland all very well for you. You have the life, cattle, and still more of Brittanies, aland the change, and the excitement, though between these two races in but you don't think of her eating her size. They are very attractive cows, heart out in a dreary London lodging. of rather less than medium size, and You men are all the same. excellent milkers. Both these races (to as CONTINUED.! of Danish cattle may be credited with being economical producers; yet none The Orlglae of as Old Baying. of them are wanted here, for superIt is a curious bit of literary exercise lative excellence seems to be lacking to take a common saying and trace It on the one hand, while on the other back to its origin. Take the common they appear predisposed to tubercusaying, for instance, All that glitters losis and very generally tainted with is not gold." It Is found in current this insidious and dread disease. literature everywhere and in a dozen Henry E. Alvord in Tear Book. different forms. Dryden renders It, All as they say, that glitters is not gold;" The Kitchen Garden. Spenser says, Gold all is not that doth While gardening la steadily on the golden seem; Lydgate has the same Increase, yet it la a deplorable fact idea in the words, All is not gold that that many farmera have little or no outward showeth bright; Chaucer ex- garden and by this means deprive presses it in somewhat different phrasthemselves of a privilege that should eology; Middleton has it, "All is not be taken advantage of by every one. gold that glisteneth, and Shakespeare Nothing is more healthful or more says, All that glistens is not gold. Go easily produced for the use' of the a little further back and the same ex- family than a good supply of garden colpression is found in the monkish vegetables of all kinds. Thus it is lection of proverbs, and there is no that nearly the entire living of the doubt if a classical scholar were to set family can be secured from such a to work with the determination to hunt garden for several months In the year, the proverb down, no matter how long and that living Is the most healthful it took, he would find it in Latin, Greek and palatable of anything that can be and most other ancient and dead lan- furnished, especially when iruits are guages. It is a natural outgrowth of added. We would not advise farmers sarcasm as applied to fictitious show who are not within easy reach of a and is no doubt as old as the science good market or canning establishment to attempt to raise much more of metal working. than enough for their ownr use, because in a great many places the busiWomen and Cows. Mr Grumps Why iu creation do ness is overdone and prices are kept women always call a cow he? Mrs. at a low figure. This, coupled with because cows the prevailing scarcity of help, maGrumps I presume its and ugly with terially interferes with the looked for cross so get always success, when carried on on a large women. scale. John Vanloon. sent any a shaft at random The effects of barnyard manure mark the archer little meant, mnv a word at random spoken have been seen in a soil twenty years that's a heart wound or soothe after its application. 3keu- - -- Scott But there's one master echoola his men To higher wisdom, worth and power. That shall outline the passing hour Oh, master with the strength of ten. Chinese Incubators. The Chinese have been using incubators for centuries, how many no man can tell. Hatching chicks by this means Is a trade there, and certain Chinamen do nothing else, at least during the four months of the hatching season. We illustrate herewith a Chinese Incubator seen from the outside, and show also a cross section of the same. Such an incubator will hold from 1,200 to 1,350 eggs. The incubator is three feet high and three feet in diameter. About 20 to 30 of these are kept in a single room, and this room is heated by a fire of charcoal. No thermometer is used, but the heat of the eggs is ascertained by touching one or two to his eyeball. Nothing is done by rule; but the man that takes charge of the incubator plant becomes very expert in the matter of temperatures and has little trouble in keping the beat about right If the eggs become too hot, he airs Aye, there's one master who doth share The lesser burdens and the groat; One who la yet to graduate Out of the schools of Work and Care, In Master Tolls tuition we Are but beginners, learning how To spin the broidery of Now About the web Eternhy. Frank Wolcott Hutt, to Boston Times. UP TO THE WHITE MAN, Booker Washington Uses Clever Par. able to Make a Point. Booker T. Washingtons fund of stories about his race, with which ha illustrates the points be makes In his seems inexhaustible. A address, Southerner asked him recently, when about to address a Northern audience to prove to it that the Northerners were responsible for the Introduction of slavery Into the American colonies. Mr. Washington said that it was n large contract, . and told a story to An old colored illustrate his view; Aunt Huldy had some amazin wouldnt say so! says Uncle Jep. man had a pig. which he sold ona pints, said the loquacious and rem- Sneakin away like that, you morning to white man for 33. Tha iniscent man from the Knob country. thief o' the night, you! says he. white man drove off with hla pur So had that bar. He was a genuine If Id had the gun that Jonas borried chase, but on the road the pig esspectment o' what the Knob country and haln't brung back yit, I bet you caped and found its way back to could turn out in the way o bar when wouldnt it, consarn his pictur! Uncle Zekes cabin. A little later anIt Bot out to do It, that b'ar was, and But sence Im ou your trail Ill foller other white man came along, and he had been raisin' the very old Ned it, by cats, and show you some tricks Uncle Zeke sold him the same pig for amongst the pigs and farm projuce that maybe you halnt heerd on yit! another 33. On his way home with generally for so long, and had kep so says Uncle Jep, and he follered the the pig the second purchaser encounregular and aggravating shet of all b'ar till night, and then bunked In at tered the first returning in search of the traps and tricks that was sot and Elis, tother side o the swamp, soi the escaped animal. After some tried to waylay and circumvent him, he could be on hand esrly next morn-f- wrangling they decided to go back that at last what did old man Mose, to show the bar them tricks. and refer the question to the old over to the Eddy, do but declare he Aunt Huldy woke up In the night darky. Uncle Zeke said No. 1, would give 320 in cash for that bar some time and heerd the pig squeal- - didn't you sell me this pig at 9 30 fetched in dead, or if anybody'd oclock this morning?' Sho I did, run him in and hand him over alive. massa But, Uncle Zeke said No. Alive! folks hollered when they 2, didnt I pay you 33 for this pig heerd of it. Anybody that tries to at 12 o'clock? Sho you did, massa fetch that bar in alive, they says, 'Well, then, who does the pig belong will more than likely find their to?' Sakes alive said Uncle Zeke, bein' fetched in dead! they can't you white folks settle dat quesbut folks ahd know it all, didn't says; tion between yosejves? they hadnt stopped to consider Aunt Huldy. PRICE TAG TOO PLAIN. Jeptha, says Aunt Huldy to Uncle Jep one day. Jest about that time; Why the Audience Giggled During Jeptha, says she, seems to me that Author'e Speech. if I was you I'd sort o take a holiday J. L. Harbour, the author, waa ones this arternoon and wander over tords invited to a very swell function, and Big Injin Swamp. Mebbe you mowt as he was dressing for the affair ho run foul o that pesky bar. Of course,' discovered that he did not have a seys she, you cant hardly expect to Aa he was to sit proper waistcoat get him alive, but all things being on the platform aa one of the honored mortal here below, says she, 'you guests, and waa to make a little mowt accidentally git him dead. If speech, he felt that he must look his you do, says she, Itll be 320, and 320 best So he sent out for a whito will buy a cow, says she. waistcoat, which cost him 33.50. ComUncle Jep didnt see but what pleting hla toilet be set out for the that'd be a proper idee, and he Pulled It Tight and Jumped Behind function. off knocked took his the Big Pine Tree. All went well until, while he was old smoothbore rifle and started out She In. Jumped out o bed and run speaking, be brushed his coat a little Jonas went and borried that other gun o' mine, ding bis pictur, and to the winder. The moon was shinin one aide to put his hand in his trousers Then those sitting in the aa day. Aunt Huldy Jest give pocket haint brung it back yit says Uncle bright front rows to the audience tittered one look, and then say a: Jep, as be started, B'ar arter the pig! says she. 'A Every time he made his gestures tbe The bar ll fetch Jest ezacly as He waa la much if you git it with the smooth- sockin big bar, and hell have that front rows giggled again. bore as it will if it bad come a tumb- pigpen smashed down In less than a despair, but managed to finish hla Going Into an ante-roohe lin down before the gun that Jonas jiffy says she. And there aint a speech. one of bis friends; Is anyborried, says Aunt Huldy. So don't gun in the house! If there was saya asked waste your time grumblin says she. she, Id sneak out and blow the top thing wrong with me? What made o that bar'a head off saya she. The the audience giggle? Did I make a Go look for the bar. So Uncle Jep went, sayln that If idee o Jeptha tendin his one gun to break, or do I look funny! The friend looked him over and then he got on to the trail o the cunnln Jonas, who hain't brung it back ytt, old varmint hed foller It if he bad to and then goto off with tother one roared with laughter. Pushing Mr. camp on it all night. He got over and campin' all night on a bar's trail! Harbours coat a little to one side, he Look there, my dear fellow! that Jonas! If I had him said: jest this side o Big Injln and hadnt Consarn see no sign o' that b'ar or any other here Id no, I wouldn't, neither! hol- Mr. Harbour looked there, and on Aunt Huldy, whod been looking his waistcoat he saw a tag, and on It b'ar, and was beginnln' to think that lers if him and Aunt Huldy didnt git a out o winder all the time she was in conspicuous figures, 33.60. New cow till they got it with the price o' talkin. No, I wouldnt, neither! she York Times, that bar theyd never quarrel about hollers, clappln her hands. It was a MR. POOLE AND THE PRINCE. whod do the milkin, when he heerd smilin Providence that made Jeptha somethin' snort. He turned, and there lend that gun to Jonas and kep' Jonas he see the b'ar, standin right out in from fetchin of it back! ahe hollers, Tailor Who Made King Edwards Clothes to Bo Knighted. plain sight, and actin as If he was and then she scooted down to the Poole, the London tailor, ia about afeard Uncle Jep was goto on with- kitchen, grabbed her clothes line, tied out seein him. Uncle Jep knowed It a sllppin noose In one end of it, and to receive the accolade. Why not? was him, 'cause that b'ar was the only started out on a run tords the pigpen. Has he not done more to make Ed"The bar stood on his hind feet ward VII presentable than all other one in the hull Knob country that had bangin away at the pigpen, and the artists in the United Kingdom put toa white spot on Its brisket This Is the first time I ever was splinters was (lyin tremendous. Then gether? Clothes make the king ae to a shootin match .for a cow! says the door went smashin in, and the well as the man. Poole makes tha Uncle Jep, and the idee tickled him so b'ar reached in an yanked the pig clothes; ergo, Poole makes the king. that he had to take his gun down from out. He hadnt much more than done When Edward was simply prince of his shoulder till he could git through it, though, when from round the barn Wajes he owed Poole at times as his laughin. 'A shootin match for a Aunt Huldy come a rushin'. She give much as 3100,000, and even suffered cow,' says he, and he hauled up a'gln a yell. The bar dropped the pig like the tailor to address him In publie and whanged away at the white spot a hot ptater, and fore he could turn places without fear of the tower. and see what it was that had skeert There are on the bar's chlst. several distinguished The bar give a start, felt of his him Aunt Huldy dropped the noose Pooles in England, but none so over down of clothes th6 end line his ehist with one o his paws as if somefamous as Tailor Poole. thin was ticklin of him there, and head, pulled it tight, and jumped beSpeaking of Poole, one of his custhen turned a look on Uncle Jep, as hind the big pine tree that stood Jest tomer saya: His accounts are rena comfortable Jump away. much as to say: dered once a year, just around It was a smilin Providence says Christmas. now! What a you Look If not paid, he wait handlin that gun so ding keerlesa she, that made Jeptha lend hla other twelve months and sends a seoond Jonaa Jonas to from and for? here gun around kep bill. Such as do not pay on The b'ar looked mad, too, and Uncle fetchin' of It back says ahe, for oth- of tbe second statement are receipt dropped me out and be erwise would unmitlJeptha Jep waa so took back at the from his books, and never again ara Jest ten dollars ! says she. to give an order In his The bar come to himself and they allowed New York Press. establishment. sprung after Aunt Huldy. He slung hla big fore legs around the tree to Cost of Painting Steamships. ketch her where ahe stood, boldin on So great Is the size of a modern to the rope, and in leas time than It took him to fetch a good breath Aunt transatlantic liner that the total area to be covered every time It Is painted Huldy bad circled round that tree runs up into the acres. Thus ' to ento bind bim to tbe trank enough times paint the top sides of a big tirely as snug and lastin aa if hed been a knot growln there, and she kep right steamship from water to rail calls fore. on windin the rope around him and enough paint to cover an acre of About as much more is required the tree till the rope was all used up and the bar waa a prisoner at the to paint the upper works, while the stake. , - big smokestacks call for over half an Then Aunt Huldy went back to bed acre of paint, and in the case of the and was snorin away aa If nothin German steamships with four smoke must he nearer irore had happened than only Jest git-ti-n stackss the totalof area an acre. Since the up to give the baby peppermint comof the Long to the forenoon o next day great ships panies are painted every voyage, the home. Uncle Jop come shows that to keep the Huldy says he, if it hadnt been calculation ter Jonas borrylng that other gun o one hundred or so vessels of the InMarine commine and not fetchin of it back, Id a ternational Mercantile s in shape requires the pany killed that pesky bar dead, of about 2,250 acres each He Turned, an Thar He See the an won them 320 be says, yisterdy, dtog his painting B'ar. a cost of between 3250,000 and ngly picturs! he says, meanin Jonas. year at says Aunt Huldy, 3500,000. Well, Jeptha gated critter's not tumblin and givln good thing that his dyin' kick that the bar was corn- its an 8oup. Origin of before he bad you didnt do it,' she says. in for him soup, now regarded ss a naWhat fur? says Uncle Jep, hardeven thought o' loadin his gun. And tional English dish, was first made by ly believin his ears. the bar kep him dodgin and skirmlsh-Jof Huguenot refugees Why, cause if youd a killed that the very poor mongst the trees for half an hour before be could git a load into hts bar dead yisterdy says Aunt Huldy, from France, after the revocation of of Nantes, because ox taiia gun. And then see what that bar I couldnt 'a' ketched him alive last the edict no market value. then had done. Soon as he see that Uncle Jep night says she. Arter Aunt Huldy got through had bis gun loaded, the aggravatin t, The Irony of Fafta bruin begun to dodge amongst the laughin at Uncle Jep standin there A lady purchased a nice new doortrees himself, and he done It so slick starin at her with his mouth wide and quick that Uncle Jep couldnt git open and his eyes almost bulgin, she mat the other moratog with the word Welcome stamped thereon In glowhis gun onto him no way, and the took him out to tother side o the pigfirst thing be knowed the bar had pen, and there, sure enough, was the ing letters, and the first ta come along rampagein old bar that was worth and put his number elevens on it waa dodged out o sight. If that aint a dirty, mean trick I 330 alive tied so fast to the big pine a tax collector. n own-selv- CROSS SECTION OF CHINESE INCTJ- -, BATOR. them; If they become too cool he covers them with warm blankets. The per cent of hatches usually runs from 60 to 70. This is very good when it is understood that It includes the infertile eggs, which are taken out and sold after a few days of incubation. Chicks are hatched out by the thousands and retailed to the villagers at from 1 to 1 cents each. The practice of heating the whole room instead of the incubator only is one that has been followed to a small extent In this country. The Guinea Hen. From the Farmers Review: The Guinea hen is one of the most interesting fowls on the farm. She la always wide awake and lively, always on the lookout for any enemy that may appear, and when seen she is not alow to give the alarm, which oftlmea is a great protection to the other fowls. Then she is a great layer; will commence soon as it is warm in spring and will be a regular contributor to the egg basket till fall, if not allowed to ait They can be raised as easily as chickens and when they are raised with chickens they will be as gentle as chickens. The white Guineas are finer table fowls than the colored ones, as their flesh is of a lighter color, and their skin more yellow. I dont think any one could tell the difference between young guinea fried and a young prairie chicken, and an old one ia as an old prairie chicken. When hatched with chicken hens they have to be shut up with a hen four or five days until they get used to the hens cluck, then they can be turned out and fed the same as chickens. They are great foragers, always on the go, and catch a great many insects. If they want to go Into the garden, let them go for they will not scratch up any thing, and are not likely to eat anything but insects and worms. A. Z. Copeland, Vermilion County, Illinois. Profits in Sheep. In the management of sheep, how to produce the greatest profit from the flock la the first consideration; not how to produce the greatest number of lambs, aa 1b usually the case with the young shepherd, but to produce an animal that will give the greatest profit for the labor and expense involved. We will suppoee that the shepherd has secured his flock of ewee In the fall. What breed? Well, that ia a matter of fancy; any of the good breeds will do, bo long as they have been Judiciously selected. The next and greatest consideration would be the selection of a ram. He should be big, strong and rugged, and, above all things, typical of his breed and full of quality. The ewe influences only her own progeny, the ram the whole flock, and on him depends Us or retrogression. A Improvement strong shearling or older ram is capable of serving from 50 to 70 ewes, or more according to treatment It be has only 50 ewes, he may be allowed to run with the flock, and fed night and morning. If from 60 to 100 he will require to be kept inside and only allowed one service of each ewe, night and morning, as they come in season. It Is a good plan to mark the rams breast v 1th lamp black mixed with oil, and in ten or fifteen days change the color. The ewes rump is thus marked, and according to the color the time of lambing is calculated. Gamley. A-- stump-grubbl- atu-fac- three-quarter- first-clas- s first-clas- Ox-Ta- ll hot-fo- Ox-ta- il Seems Useless, Under the Conditions. Black Tom of Snake Hill, N. J who has Just died, at the age of 102, attributed his longevity to the fact that he drank whisky and smoked tobacco all his life. He also spent his whole life in New Jersey, which may help to account for it. Advocate the silo, and if you have will thus benefit both the public and not one yQurself, construct one. You yourself. n |