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Show ri J a mo tag machine the 8li. tbu8 of labor. saving considerable a effecting should be planted euTilage for Millet INTERESTING, CHAPTERS about June L OUR RURAL READERS. and The hay of vetth and oats, peas make, grass of and Hungarian oats, Dew lurMiUI iirwn 0pnii ThU good coarse feeds for winter, equal to ! ! as A t lb Dcportaumt hn average quality of hay. The of I.lv btnrb ud and oats can be cut when in blossom Hlata m (o Ut earl) in Julyand followed Immediate!) ) Poultry. One i. thus en by Hungamn grass 3 to 3? from to aided grow MONO thP most On lands aere a of these hays per tv, vvlDtei economical cannot be made to produftwo fur that coarse" fecd one-hatons of English ha) and dairy stock can b )eaily. this method might he followed meuUored torn with too advantage, if labor la not anmillet, of barn) aid a variet) tostiy. Dy planting hay anil soja beaus nual fodder cropa, many farmers are On natural gras situated aa to'be able to sell EngiUh land not easily rf- - j advantage. ficted by dr, nights the farmer will CioadlNi Motion. naturally grow a It Is without doubt true that the considerable area of bay. and depend of ,h, for prime. Active fac,r upon thl. crop to a large extent t shee p Intc . the L nlt- ol Uthe importation coarse feed. Such land should Canada is the quality oi made to produce three tons of ed States from is no doubt that great- There mutton. three to about hay. equivalent. to In Canada produce 1. taken thousand pound, of digestible wa,- - er pain. utt fluff quality of ter per acre. Similar land planted methods to corn and equally .well manured country, and there the English have been much would probably produce fully four of mutton making than here. It thousand pounds digestible matter per more generally adopted the English true'that be said to u acre, but the increased cost of growing considerable an acre of corn would In the writers sheep farmer regards with Indifference the importation of sheep Judgment fully balance the Increase In Canada, for There are, however, consider- from all countries except yield. no country one with exception that not are able areas on every farm that natural grass lands. Such lands are so sends any sheep to England to compete mutton except at very aoily affected by frequent drought., with native There Is. of course, much lower one-haprices. that from one to one and no good reason for Canadian mutton tons of hay per aere are maximum that of the United States. crops. Land of this kind is far better or abroad, but it does do home at either suited for corn and will yield fully three times as much digistlble matter It, and simply because more attention and skill are devoted to the work of per acre aa when In pinking It. There Is nothing In the Eusllage: Coin or any crop put , of Canada the silo Is not Improved In quality. soil, climate or feeding-stuffmake better mutton, The various fomentations which such that nece.-artl- y materials ucdeigo, decrease to an ex- - the materials are at hand heie In as tent their nutritive effect. 1. c a ton great abundance and of as fine quality, of fodder before being ensilaged would and therefore the only thing lacking feed-afthave a greater nutritive value than is the more skillful combining and to make a and bleeding, misalhly The mg. writer ihuju being ensilaged. "BorBelleve in putting any crop into the qualit) of meat as fine as the world silo that can be piopeily cured I ti- - can produce- .- Ex. ut lion till DAIRY AND POULTRY Uh early in' September for w..;PAYACHURCII the Missouri pou'td association.-said- ; omrooa discs. Roup has --beeoatt The symptoms at swelled eyes, discharge from B(siflls, and frequently a rattling g ti((, $ruaL When none of these sympton,j appear it is shown by offensive bread. 11 usually comes from dampneM txd is to fowls what hegvy colds are t human individuals, and result jgjiphtheria or canker. When roup vff jr8 1,1 malignant presence known form, which makes by a peculiar ftisafable odor, a most excellent remedy is a sharp ax. Kill all such affected krt4 and burn them. There Is no' atu! Don or" profit In Then work to doctoring roupy (afi prevent the wii jsyla from taking the disease. Keep tb dry and ably- - warm; use isafoetida and carbolic acid in drinWS water, and thorCleanlioughly clean and ness Is the key to u ess If the fowls do not have acre I gravel and sand, this must be supplied Grit is as essential aa food, s they must have It in some shape. Broken crockery and glassware afford rieellent grit. Coarsely ground oyster shell, ground flint, etc., can be purciased by the barrel. River sand It good. A flock of fowls will soon devour hrie lb8, yet sand la not a iu!itute for gravel. Keep sharp grave! before the fowls and they do better. Pigestion will not be complete unless Mfuod is fully masticated, fattlo. Ragland Rxclaaon1-1The British pnUnient has at last passed the bill aiding permanent the exclusion of cattle from foreign countries except suibiain'38 83 shall be The slaughtered at pods of entiy. Canadians are nwd concerned, for it strikes them hariest Many English farmers have beet ci ustomed to purchase live cattle olthc Canadians and fatten them on tie English pastures. They bought thimtU late low enough to allow a reasonable profit on the have Anertian cattle transaction. been long since kharied from this privilege. The tall ha been passed icaljy in behalf e'tfie cattle raisers of Great Britain, be: the pietext Is that disease exists in Canada. v JZZZZZi DEb- T'-- Going1 have pejfectly sweet wetft)M5Te'i-lUe-nty-five! food va- - sour gives them fits, luernlly fits of NEW AND SUCCESSFUL SCHEME g jing goitP lt was Miss May Wiev, the daughter rious kinds, which the bfiepbeid shim DEVISED BV THE LADIES. of the auctioned. Then came a pair ofT guard against. But theie is no i o" 'u' feet with high insteps that treatel a sible question about ruos, s How th Root Rarty" a (ooilartfd nutri'iuu J the sweet, palatable an burnt of excitement in the room maw-- o Some or the 1'ret.lett tedal Tuirty cents" cried lOoung man. sugar beet or the succulent Extremities Weal for KiUhulouslT latw so,RD wuh pr'SS fannot "Thirt)-onef- " shouted another... ! as 11 1rUefe shade the ground so much Thiny-two- ! L. , "Go it, bovi,'" exclaimed the am lion- - 1 whU pievmt the grass Ir m ioin- , T am I ,;V, eer "That's th way to do it! Thirty- - Ing. or bo smother it as to kill it What am l)lett!y n a 8110:1 tlnlP Rape lb ! two thirty-tw- o any more bids tc n Ten ten The bidd'ng on these feet ran up to spreading plant, that will completely fifteen fill the row s If thfiare three Bet vv ,de, twenty 50 cents and then paused t w enty twenty. being much like axXbbage.but with '! a .Going going leaves instead of making Only twenty tents "Fity-one!- " basi'y erlfd tljcc young liead. spreading, On any good farm, and undtr for those beanttfu-mail who ha3 started the bidding And a flock of sheep will pa' feet? Only twenty It the feet. The owner of these management, their in the manure thy wlnterffeeding cents for than? feetcaught was Miss Belle Clay, one of the will make. Give them lots of straw, g r a c e ful ankles? prettiest girls of the village, and th and they will convert It into the rhb-ea- t Only twenty cents, bid. was the highest of the evening. 'ad kind of food for crops. While we for those light-blu- e The auctioneer found that high Insteps are ah! twenty-fiv- e about all our woolen goods e twenbuying twenty-fivaroused brisker bidding than hat ones. of ty -- five. Any more bids for the neatest, England, to the ruin of our own miU He also found that the feet were abmen and impoverishment of our operadaintiest, prettiest feet and ankles in solutely no index to the nature or the tives, the great and good statesmen of the town? Going at twenty-five- ! GoIs appearance of the possessor forsomeof that country are paying us for the pracing going gone! the prettiest and most popular girls of tical freedom of the American market Slave market? Oh. dear, no! Cannibal auction? By no means, says the the league went for ridiculously low by devising legislative ttchemes for r sums. shutting out our sheep and cattle. ThirNew York Journal. It was merely a ditt When the sale was over there was a ty tons of roots may be grown on any tn version of the young ladies and gentledeal of disappointment and a good acre of land by the right cultiva-tlor- . nt men of the Epwoith league In the vil- great 2')0 deal of rejoicing. Some of the will This feed sheep gieat thirty lage of Suffern, NT. Y., for the purpose ICO men who had obtained feet for days, or 200 sheep for a month This of raising money to pay the methoiiat young OUl 10 cents found that they hail won the will supply of the feeding rr preachers back salary. girl whom they had desireif, whhe For the future ewes the twin lambs Us Pastor Kleffer had accepted a call to very Bhould be reserved some that hd allowed their enthusiIt Is not at all thl another community. Before depart- asm to them 30 cents necessary that twin lambs should be ten above carry ing he suggested to his flock that he found they had the to XU wrong girl. Strange discouraged on account of inability would like to have the money they as it tp may seem, many of the ladies rear them. Better ewes, trained to It, owed him for back salary. As no one cjf feet brought large bids were are all that is wanted to rear twins sucbe was generous enough to come forward feedis done The by cessfully. from and far training while elderly beautiful, m with the whole sum, the Epworth in other instances ami are not robust animals, very pretty lassies ing. Sheep tt league undertook to raUo the money. warm on a a of drive day had been "auctioned off at the first thirty miles cj Mrs. T. Moore, is altogether too much for them. The secretary of the bi 1. deand be effect to them would league, has almost grown gray in devistire Ever since then the girls have been disease of the lungs, but most esing schemes to rabe money for ohaiba-bl- e kept busy telling every one that it was velop in Suffern Church fairs, not purpof-epecially by the overheating produce they who raised the curtain. she knew, ve.e ol Barn par'ics were congestion of the skin, and by injury to the wool cause the dropping off of it effete Progress ve cuchie parties, SPIDERS FATAL BITE. This, however, is only a temporary s would and sociables surprise part! trouble, which the sheep will get over v not draw another cent from the poikets 1 rrrllile lirmh of a Sea I'xptain'x In a Ehurt ttmertnrr tEwtlt not save the ,Jj cl the young men Something new had Daughter. Little Catheiine Lund, an infant woolalread on the sheep. It will sm -to be devised. Mrs Moore has never failed. The EpcCbrih league gave a daughter of Cant and Mrs. Lund ly cause the loss of lambs at wtamnj whose lesldenee is at 329 13th street tune. American Sheep Breeder. ot "f party. It took place one night last week died on Saturday last in terrible agony Hens Vary as layers. CEYLON BUFFALOES. The prettiest girls In the village had as the result of the attack of a venIn to the number and size of omous regard drove that its spider In all their finery poisonous arrayed them-ielveI two pullets that laid The young men had donned their Sun- fangs tn her left eyelid while she5 slept, eggs remember much larger eggs than others of the San the The Call. Francisco says day clothes. The entertainment that's same and breeding, and more than what they called It took place In the child was in good health when it was the age number. One of the pullets average to bed on but put Friday evening, lecture room of the Methodist church. was There were undersized. somewhat w seemed mothill peev ish and hen the A curtain had been drawn across the two also other very laying pullets front of the platform and so arranged er took It up the next morning. The small eggs, and much more than the Ud of the left eye was swollen so that that it hung within four Inches of the occurthe slgnt was almost obscuied and a average In number, blank days observaplatform. The men were gathered In These at intervals. ring long front of this curtain with their eyes dark brown mark semed to be in the tions extended only during the few center of a Irritated the Within spot. the to open space at the bottom. gluel months of hatching, not for the entire few hours Mrs. Lund saw the entire n Mr. C. G. Wiley, a merchant of season. So far a breeds go, it has been and a pillar of the church, was the side of the baby's head was becoming my experience to get the fewest eggs auctioneer. Presently one of the young swollen and feeling much alarmed, sent from hens laying large ones. From women walked out upon the platform for Dr. Logan. The physician exam- Iloudans, laying very large eggs, very ined the childs head, which by that and the spectators beheld her fejt. satisfactory numbers were obtained. these time was terribly swollen, and gave Leghorns gave more of considerably ''Now, said the auctioneer feet will go to the highest bidder and it as his opinion that the wound had smaller size, and Hamburgs produced the purchaser will have the privilege been caused by a venomous Insect of a much greater number of very small of takirg the possessor of the feet to some kind. Gangrene had already set eggs. The Iloudans, however, were in. and while the doctor did everything confined much of the time. The Legsupper. murmured the young in his power to alleviate the child's horns some of the time, while the sufferings he Informed Mrs. Lund that Hamburgs had almost unlimited run men. or The identity of the feet, continued the case was hopeless, as the poison most of the year. This was fifteen now had cannot 20 a give I obtained start such fatal its and that years ago, will not be revealed the auctioneer, could not be checked. Mrs. more specific records, for I did not then until the sale Is over. Now, gentlemen progress Lund once at Instituted search for the appreciate the Importance of collecting what will you bid for the feet that unceuth cause of exthe to the be and sometimes forms, milked, hairless, child's terrible conditiou, them. Later experience with Mmorcas, we Illustration n very On this page plowing, give stand before you? and from beneath bed swept a big, which laid very large eggs, was to the the of Ceyloncie team of buffaloes hitched though not often, as they are fierce and emplification of ugliness. The wonder a ventured "Ten cents, timidly to a cart common to that country. It troublesome and. their yield of milk is still further licreased when the awkblack which spider, immediately effect that they were less prolific than small and of poor quality. Their flesh ward beasts, teivoid the mid-da- y will be noticed that the tongue Is fasheat, youth. showed at the in- the Leghorns., In her fight. anger how10 cents walk the for What! Into those Is deliberate Only neighboring tened to a yoke bound to the horns. is almost Inedible. It different, sect sorso much which had Inflicted Eggs from nine Leghorn hens, laying Southern their from bodies until Trilbies! Well, well, well! Ten 10 ponds, submerging Thai the weight of the pull is on the ever, with their cogeners row on her, Mrs. Lund crushed it with on the average for the year, 143 eggs, Come horns end not on the shoulders, as with India, which are larger and tamer, and their noses, raid almost perpendicu1015 thats right! along boys. are often Imported for dairy usee in larly, protrude bove the waters, pre- When I was as young as you I'd never one heavy blow, so that when Dr. averaged 1.90 ounces each, while eggs us. from nine other hens fed the same, and senting the appearance of a shoal of Consul W, Morey, of Colombo, writes large numbers, for they are fairly tractstop at 13 cents for 20 good boy! Logan tried to Identify it with the whose able, and give a good supply of whole- alligators. No successful attempt at Twenty--2of these animals as follows: The com venomous average egg production was a science to known he spider 0 20! more bids? Are Any crossing thse buffaloes with true cattle moo buffaloes also inhabit Ceylon, and some milk. Being kept in the neighborover 93 eggs, averaged 1.91 fraction was to unable so uncerdo and Is still are found both wild In the interior and hood of large towns, they are allowed has, I believe, been made, the mixed these delicately curved Trilbies going tain as to what Two hens averaging 114 ounces each. family it belonged. for only 20 cents? For shame! Ju3t the commons, where they progeny, whenever any appeared, havpartially tame in the Singhalese vil- to feed upon each during their second year, By the next morning the baby was eggs to stranging died young. From the Farmers' think of the poor girls feelings! Golages, where they are kept and used to present an Interesting sight that averaged 1.98 ounces eggs a in Review. produced almost at their who are astonished was and no seen that it stupor ing to supper with a young man who trample the paddy (rlcc) lands after ers, two other similar hens, and m weight, chance of its surviving existed. The had only hid 20 cents for her feet!" was 72 eggs each, whose egg production on head left was the side swollen until Twenty-fivthen.! said the young tn the same In cure Blood of Streak to Kcgodifficult is laid U exactly fording averaging very eggs fortunately man who had bid twenty, whereat the the skin was tense and the scalp as whose difficult hen also A eggs avera la Is Cochin For to corn referred fodder. It The blemish Indian practical purposes It is not possign hard as a board and the dark color of weight. 2.22 ounces in weight, laid 122 sible to weigh out the coarse feeds auctioneer smiled. to cut or shred It and preserve It out- that something Is amiss with the aged the skin testified to tlie virulence of The first pair of feet finally went to side of the silo In quantity for any organs of the fowl, and I and a great deal will have to be left during the year. Another (same breed man who. by the way. had the poison. That night, scarcely forty-eigthis young the faulto to the reasons, these the that and food) laid 130 eggs, averaging 1.90 say should be inclined Judgment of the feeder. If hay length of time. For hours the ra was after wound become Of two Leghorns whose eggs ounces. atlo all things considered Is undoubtty eggs are all laid by the same fowl. alone is fed, give all the animal will cents. eeived, the baby died. the same in weight, viz., 2.01 to If this be so, and she can be distin- eat up clean twice daily. One-thir- d averaged edly to be preferred for preserving th The young lady was Miss Frey, one h of the coarse fodders can one laid 132 eggs and the other corn plau. and practical experience guished, I should advise Iopards-tow- n ounces, Whtr to Work. of tbe belles of the village. 62 eggs during the year. Individual into confine her for a time, feed- consist of straw, it U hardly economihae demonstrated Ite value. For those fail because they do not work out. of another Many feet Then camp pair to over cal feed on fifteen of while hard the roots who destfw conn meal during the winstances show such variations as to Indicorn; pounds ing sparingly Inf tantly cried Charles where sinners are. The success of the cate no Twenty-five!- " relation between numter for feeding horaes, pigs, and poul- so aa to check the production of eggs dally. From 30 to 35 pounds of en Salvation Army is d ie to the fact that ber nnd general remove White. to Idea It size will themof a matters It la More be sufficient daily that eggs, and enough data silage very good than It right may try, A laugh went up. they go where sinners are. Workers are not available to Justify conclusions the ears from the stalk Just previous selves under this treatment, but noth- - j this will disturb the digestion of some Thats the way," said the auctioneer, must cut down the grass and gather from the averages. I have always They can be lng more cao be done. I think It ex- - animals, and also mAke many cow 3 tutting for ensllae. "Bid as If you really up the sheaves. Rev. Dr. McKelvey. lose In liesh. Nine to twelve pounds encouragingly. thrown upon the gtouhd and allowed tremely probable that the blood-spot- s thought, however, that the hen laying to weeks cure,them. of wanted Just see the graceor Now, two for other simabout On of of a hay coarse feed to remain very large eggs, as a rule, laid fewer are tj,e outcome high feeding. Raot to Dr Prout!. than the average. William P. Wheeler, and can theB be husked. If It were not n.ore than one occasion 1 have noticed ilar na'ure, together with 30 to 33 ful curves oh, dear! In some unaccountable manner the What makes her proud? Upon her hat in Rural New Yorker, for the Increased labor Involved In re- that the spots are most frequent in pounds of eustkge . make sufficient Are feathers, bows and comilex curls for an animal's daily curtain had jumped upward, revealing moving the ears and tn husking and cases where a high percentage of eggs coarse fixlder It And, what Is more important still. not good economy to feed two pairs of black stockings and sevneeds would writer the are most nnd the that the same, Is eggs obtained, grinding Longevity of ) The eyes of all the other girls. not advocate putting any of the grata numerous In the spring months, when over one half of any leguminous crop, eral curves that the auctioneer had not C. Davenport says in Gleanings: Detroit Tribune. Into the silo, for It has been clearly hens lay more freely than at other either, gieen or dry. In the total dally Intended to refer to. "One summer I had a strong second "'Oh-h-h-Da It again! cried the seasons. It by no means follows that coarse fodder ration. While the coarse swarm Issue from a large box hire, abown that the loss during fermentacan be fed according to the feedLEADERS OF THOUCHT. do not remember the date, but it was young men, but in the same mysterious tion la considerable. The meJlum green the hens have been overdone with feeds wo far as mere feeding is ers' Judgment observing the general fashion the curtain descended again. before basswood blossomed. The aeja bean is a valuable crop to put into food, in is f.U-There Milwaukee a handsome just tho silo with corn. The method of concerned, but it cannot be denied that rules ihith forabove, it becomes neces- Now, the young ladies who were on the paper devoted to the game cf whist queen of this jswarm was lost, on her thssake of economy and platform disclaim gll responsibility for cultivation has alrndy been described. tn the spiiug and early summer fowls sary i trip, or In some other way, for one in this country devoted mating h to wogh or ctrefully measure heal two In food animal I am certain that they --did mot have a and their much fodder obtain bean the mysterious rising and falling of the There is to- - trade daily parts One part marks ration. Th coarse feed will curtain, whuh happened several times entirely good proportion. It rambles, particularly when they have the corn fodder le laying queen at any time during the H. H. and R. B. Claiborne, brothers, summer. I thought I would let them should not be put In In layers, but both free access to manure heaps or to plan- - fttrnttiTrom 1M to 1.50 pounds of di during the evening. They say that issue the Oswego (Kan.) do without one, to see what they would and we add the condid not know who did it. Mrs. corn and bean plants run through the tatlons; In either of which there Is al- gestibie pto-uthey as One acts editor, the other as do. They were hived on combs that centrated feed? primarily to secure the Moore declares most emphatically that cutting machlns together. Thus mixed, ways a large supply of such food to extra 1 on to ki4 and every year they contained considerable honey, so they pounds of protein it was cot a part of her programme. business manager, the beaafodder wlUYeep better, and be had for the asking. Ex. "shake the boys up by changing did not have much room to store belcw; necessary , to properly balance the ra The auctioneer had will aid in neutralizing the acidity of nothing to do with places. but they filled up what room there was, Diphtheria Among Fowls. Domestic tion. IL the corn. The advantage of this mixThere was woe on the Platte the and then. Instead of working much in two diseases of a (Ilphthe-rlti- c have fowls Vs. the Increase It that for it? did feeding Who ture other day when the North Platte Tele- the sections, they took the world eTsy nature, according to a report of Each time the curtain popped up it graph, a republican paper, percentage' of protein in tho ensilage M. Galle I to of the which e published, In the fall I thought 1 would unite what moth Tb.sisa Academy Belgian p.euya8p-lJkhave been from 1.4 or 1.6 per nt (corn alone) to by reason of a mistake In the shipping few of them were left w Ith some other Medicine. One Is a contagious catarrh, may be found flying In the hot eun-shmixIf this 18 or ensilage). (mixed But it wasnt office, a column of democratic J.i scan hing for suitable place in occupied by a skirt called also morve, or fowl glanders, plate colony; but on coming to examine them ture could be fed ae an entire daily which That' strange, too. Then, again, there matter. and fatal I was surprised at the amount of bees to to are which is which very contagious deposit its egg, went wild a time it ration, but very little concentrated hena and may give diphtheria to hu- laid shriek every The Valley (Neb.) Enterprise thus there was left. There seemed to be near the bud,' where. In was resingly would be in rich protein, feeds, and a murmur of horror every time playfully refers to a loathsome contemman beings. The other, though called a few nearly as many as when I hived them; they hatch Into small up quired. Com for ensilage should be fowl diphtheria, has nothing save the larvae, day. It went down. It was. altogether, the porary: W. A. Crane, the hired map so in order to experiment further they to the which eat way their cut when the ears are fairly well name In common with human ever on the warmed-ove- r, and crrlon-eate- r were put in the cellar where the rest center of the stem, frequently passing most Incomprehensible thing that glazed. Beans planted about May 25 in Suffern. .defunct ' sheet were, They came out In good shape In ' soft soap, happened one stem aad up another, eventudown will be ready about the .same time. When the bidding became slow half a at Elkhorn, is making himself very con- the spring. A queen was given them; ally causing the, death of a portion of, Barnyard millet is also recommended A Pig and Lamb. A p!g will awaken or the entire of the girls came upon the plat spicuous again since he emerged from and although they dwindled away very dozen like the prevloua1 I to be used In connection with aoja the neighbors with his Bqueal when species, this, plant and form at one time and stood In a row, a complete Wreck which he and his fast, they pulled through all right too, imported, ig beans for the silo. It requires fully a fast, but a lamb will lie still and die. tw o brooded, ao 1 'Now' year chance, boy,"" said the fake factory recently fell Into. But the Now, in this case the workers Jived that the work of much plant food to produce a crop, a Often they crawl off Into some hole to st ruction Is carried on during the en- - auctioneer. We will begin with the pitiful pleas of the poor ImbMIe for st least ten or eleven months, not only i dqet corn. and will not stand dry rest, and have not enough sense to find tire summer. feet at the extreme left. What am I help in the time of whisky famine a few, but thousands of them." If th weather as well.' On fairly moist land their way back again, and there they same thing had been tried the past reached the ear of some tender-hearte- d in the putumn or early I bid for them?" ' Remedy. from 15 to 17 tons can Ins. grown per soon chill and die, when very young. spring all stems found hollow should citizens and the plant was billn summer 1 do not think there wouid cents. Twenty Twenty twenty . In numberless way a have been a live bee left after they had. acre. The seed csn he eown broadcast, They need care be cut out and burned.- - Indiana Ex- twenty! - Any more? 'Those lovely teet and then he wa hired to run It I """ been In the cellar a month." and the crop need no further atten- - Exchange. periment Sutton. for fin rru lf j n-- hiem - , lf g ' , ' XV 1 a j - - j f80' two-thir- I . s Suf-fer- Ah-h-h-- ..iM -- e, ht one-fourt- s h! m Times-Stan-dar- ln -- semi-annu- al d-- I I wd |