THE STACK BEHIND THE BARN,
September Is here with the
feeds,
And the homely
weeds:
My heart goes back to a va
And I am again a boy at
1
in
ripened
sniell of the avium
the stack behind the }
Dear of the old home-farm;
The hedge-rows fencing the crops from
memory
harm,
The COWS,
haste,
The barnyard,
waste,
Aud the stock
heavy with milk for
{00
yellow tl harvest
Dear, doar,
Sweet Willd
80 well,
And the se
turned
ut dearer
|
IN
It
BROWHING'S BOOKKEEPER,
rected to
rear of t
Mr. Brow
at her entra
The lady
applicant for
kis Pe A
her
estly at the young and j
revealed, and Arthur, af
the same
walked to a window nea
She
ployed in the business
ghe had assisted her uncle, w
merchant, and Kept his own books, and
ghe thought hers ASKIN -
ing the situa
tion. Rhe «
references,
ing seemed pleased by the man-
ner, and at the end of the interview re-
quested her to call again at the last of
the week, before which time he would
cali on the had
him to.
“There,” sald he, rubbing his hands,
a way he md of expressing pleasure.
“There, Arthur. I've a presentiment
that there i8 the right one, at last,
Quite an odd idea for us, Isn't (t7 hav
ing a lady bookkeeper.”
“Yes,” Arthur sald, going to his desk
again and falling to writing vigorously.
During the next day Mr. Browning
satisfied himself that the young lady's
character was unexceptionable,
veil
rection,
had never been
Bo was a
persons gh
the situation was given to her,
The next Monday morning she com-
menced work.
some little assistance, which Arthur
that ske went on alone,
as he expressed it, and then rubbed his
hands again and nodded approvingly
Really, that
evined Intense,
the
knees,
gentieman's satisfaction
He had
table Vi
and his
new Iu
ith a
eyes i
paper
tend,
KKeeper,
of
and always sulle
he
Perhay it was because
smiled
way, her
revealed a rew of teeth
She was very indus
Mr, Browning
to ask her,
’ ¥
wearying herself
fing indore
NN his
ghtfully, en the
opporiunity
wer missed an
| speaking with her,
ad rissed her,
the lady her
when she spoke;
when
graciously
self always
wand, by the smile was very
pleasant, and
hite as milk
much
and
too 8),
ane
ventured
she was used to
v would
: #]. Nhe ne of
oo, Perhaps Arthu
rd I'l do all 1 ean to
his prejudices I think the
appreciate
acquaint-
will
doesn't
hie
must get better
iz, that
ed.”
And
first
forthwith it seemed be
ost important thought of Mr.
Browning's mind, to get Arthur in Miss
Hard He
every possible way to dmw her out he
to the
il n
invented
ng's company.
fore him, but he often found it no easy
matter, for the young lady secined as
shy of Arthur as Arthur did of her.
Matters were in this state-and Mr,
frowning fretted over them very
much—when Miss Harding informed
him one evening that she should like to
work until ten o'clock night. He
congented, supposingsthat she had suffi.
at
length of the long salesroom. ‘I've no
doubt that it's quite a sacrifice for him
make, bat he
wry face, Yes an
Mr. Browning
man listen to me
your nm ped
made How
very
to ithount any
boy
honest, blinded
good
dear,
After you hind gone
up from
him reading,
skelter behind a table
room to where pretty
and
un, arm-chair and all, carried her to a
Roh lis chair
iis
an
Mary
tanking her
where vou left toss
book helter
noross the
Inrding was sitting,
BC Teed)
Then
desk
place before the fire, and put a
between her and the ht,
he dragged up her
nnd fell
hour the
fresh and
11
suffering all
asl
stool before
writing, less than an
WOrk was
earnest, 1 shie had been
day itl i headache
1" ’ '
I'nen he
f Low
did he kn
hoes
Kept
brougl
them?
gterile plains so common in
When feeding
full
vhile
ir =
a Inarge male
and
¢ a
balance of the flock
his height ag sentinel
the lie on
lege and browse At the slight.
«ft approach of danger the sentinel
are erect apon their hind feet,
body, the tail stretohed back.
ward, while the powerful thigh mus.
to their
to the joints, by which act the body
flies through the air on a low curve,
The ordinary jump is about nine feet,
but thirty feet Is often made at a leap.
until the hour arrived for him to
for he never spent his even-
fio
ga home
ings at the store
recollect that it would be
her to go home alone,
sald, privately to his son, “but it
would not be right to sallow her to he
ont =o late alone, amd the evenings are
getting =o cold pow, that I don’t like
to be ont with my rhenmatism, though
| I would go rather than she should be
“0 well, father, I'll go, of course.
Don’t fret; ll see her home,” sald Ar
thur, amiably.
“Arthur's a good boy,” said Mr.
NEA HBSS
ground or on an up-grade, they can
ount-run fhe fleetest dog. but down
grade they lose their balance and roll
The flesh of the kangaroo
furnishes excellent food, kangaroo
venison being considered a dainty dish,
while the tall furnishes an excellent
and nutritious soup Philadephia
Times,
over.
Home Made Cologne.
For a simple cologne, such as is nee
ful in 3 large family where the chil
dren are fond of helping themselves to
“mother's belongings,” an excellent
formula directs that sixty drops each
of oil of lavender, oil of bergamot, oll
of lemon and orange flower water, bw
added to a pint of alcohol. This should
be corked and well shaken, It is more
fragrant hat mere expongive if five
drens of attar of roses and five of oil
of landal weed be galtded.
a
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE
FARMERS.
Mexican Method of Using Corn Fodder.
Farmers, Don't Move to Town--Food
for Lambs.
FERTILIZERS
gardens Ammonium
for
ten parts; s
Pertilizer
sulphate, Hum nitrate, if
{
teen parts; ammonium phosphate, thin
ty parts; potassium nitrate, forty-five
For "ota
parts; sodium
paris lnwns
APE Le
haust thelr
ext, and
denial, wove]
mortgages, they in turn move fo town,
the yy
and the story i= repeated.
Permanent homes in the country are
lustead, a
not contemplated, cheap
house does duty as a shelter, and it is
ser-by may gaze in, and in addition fl
it with dust. Farmers build near the
kighway =o that they may save every
rod of ground, There ix no room for a
forest tree or a lawn that will indicate
leisure or Rents are high
cause jandiords must have money
live in towns,
taste,
io
Without any purpose but to escape the
country, the farmer moves to town,
How much better it would have been
for him to remain where the experience
of a lifetime would be of greater value
than the labor that has gone before,
and where he may be a blessing to a
community In numberless ways -
MEXICAN METHOD OF UTILIZ-
ING CORN FODDER.
Much has been written about hand:
ling corn fodder, but we have a method
in use here in Arizoasn, writes 8 M.
Hall, which is much superior to any-
thing suggested, The corn is »ut and
shocked in the nsual way, When it Is
cured and ready to husk, we prepare a
large number of strings about a yard
of baling cope or large rope
A 4% 110]
long, made
unraveled, loop one inch
fn the end of earl sit
die the fodde
long |
yaste when
macy
and
question abou there is
¥ t DY . 3 “
lifference of opinion. For horses
¥
_ fies
wrifer wonld feed grain groutd. For
advant
it siraw i= na
feeding is
OO
ois, calves lam
wa, steers and hogs it i« an
4
tO
age grind it. Good o
valuable fod, and if
carefully done there ie
mend the plan of feeding sheaf oats,
If large fed at
mach of the straw will be left npeaten.
there are convenient facilities
if oats, a large per
fle
mach to
oace
quantities
are
for entting the she
centage of straw can be utilized by so
doing, The greater danger of injary
untlireahed ix about the only reason
ing the crop in many case, There are
horses which do not properly masticate
oats, but these are rather exceptional
cases, If the grain i= mixed with cut
straw, hay or stover, it will be better
catch. Young animals pretty thor
writer has not found sufficient gain
from grinding to repay the cost of the
ever. It ix better to have oats ground
if to be fed to bogs of any age. In
mmny cases a mixture of cate and corn
will be better than cither grain fed
alone. The younger the stock the
larger may be the proportion of oats,
insist that onis
better th
Wear for C
all white
black «ilk
¢ cuff
sr black
lack silk
q
Rhomberg's Coat of Arms.
first nan who made a name as A
dressmaker was Rbhomberg,
{fa Bavarian peasant from the
i. One day in
age appeared on
in Paris with ele
are
an
cuteheon he shape of a pair of ¢
seis and an open pair of scissors pal
1 on the panel of each door. This was
Rhomberg's cont of arms, He owed
hix rapid success to his genius for con.
waling and remedying defects of fig
are. He left an annual income of
R10000 a year to his heirs,
Seventy Men to Make a Knife,
“In the manufacture of knives.” says
one of our scientific exchanges, “the di-
virion of labor has been carried to such
an extent that one knife is handled hy
the Wade is forged until the instro
for the
Less than seven humired years ago,
or twenty generations back, each per
son now living had apeestors number
ing over a million. Nine generations
back his apesstors puwbered over a
thou ad.