That 0Hr f Sor3an.
ON. Vi other ride o' Jordan may he rri-nt aa rirlfctit ktn be,
lint I ain't a-faultin' thia old world; ahe a bright enough fer mel
You've sot to be a swimmer when you atrike that Jaaper Sea,
Yonder, on the other side o' Jordan.
IT.
I make no doubt the country i a country out o sight,
With all them fields o' livin green nn' rivers o' delight
Hut I jest ain't in no hurry fcr to 1 io nn' take my flight
Yonder, ota the othex aide o' Joidunt
nr.
I know the time they're havin' in the aweet old liv-an'-by,
Hunt set the atnra to'd.tiicin' in the blue bend o' the akyj
but I'm ioat no good nt llyin' nn' n angel's got to tly
Yonder, on the other aide o' Jorduiil
IV.
Hh, no matter what the trsnlde, nn' no mnlt.-r where I ronm,
This world to me i awerter than it swectct honeycomb.
An' I never shall resign it till they holler, "Come on home!"
Yonder, on the other aide o' Jordan!
Atlanta Conatitutioa.
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FROM PERIL
TO PERIL
BY THOMd H. BRrtlNERD.
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&i(! -ok ft ,'i ji- Kit
MQyL HE party cambered nbout
f ....... - .. n'T p..iH
O 3 the engineer In charge of
Jf It the surveying of the now
XOW rond t0 lhe Ucysefs; Shel-
Iav ruther tnn nhl fnr etieh mnuntnln
work, but careful end reliable in bis
reckonings; Denis, who was chain
hearer, end four or five other men who
liad been engngod In Cloverdalo. Shel
ley and Denis una worked for mnny
years with Cndy, and respected him as
ft Just though severe man.
Besides thou already mentioned
there was Cady's brother, a tall young
fellow, nineteen years old. He was nt
borne from Yale on his summer vaca
tion nnd had chosen to spend It out
with bis brother on this surveying
trip.
He worked or not as lie felt Inclined,
tut working or Idling he was the life
and pleasure of the party. He had
merry brown eyes, blond hnlr and the
gayest laugh that ever woke the echoes
of mountain or vale. Ills upper nn
ahaved Up bore a fringe of silky hair,
rather softening the expression of his
month, which had not yet taken Its
final mascVillne expression.
He was a Junior nt college and car
ried with him that undeflnable air of
knowing everything, which always
seems so droll to men whose knowledge
la based on experience rather, than
book learning. Ills name was Charles
Cady, but Shelley called him "The
lad," and the other men had adopted
the name for him.
It was the 3d of July and had been a
Bcorchlng day. The engineer's party
was high up on the mountain staking
nt the road. It wound up In a slg
Bag, going first easterly on a gentle
scent, then westerly, each turn gain
ing a little on the mountain side. They
had been on the present section for
about two weeks, nnd were nearlng
the divide from which the road would
Cescend Into the valley of the geysers.
The next day being a holiday, Carly
asked the men to work nn extra hour,
bo that they might finish staking up to
the ridge. They had driven the nt
Btnko, nnd, throwing down their tools.
Bat down to rest before going down to
camp.
Their way had been tortuous nnd
Very difficult, because It had to be cut
through the dense chaparral. When
they looked down from their resting
place It seemed Impossible that they
should have to come so far and yet be
o near camp. The wonderful clear
ness of the atmosphere In that country
! world famed. Tboy. could see far
town the mountain the gang of China
men who. were employed In the con
struction of the lowest section of the
toad, slowly wending their way to
their camp, their pickaxes and shovels
banging on the ends of bamboo poles
Which they carried across their sboul
Bern; higher up, in a ravine through
Which a mountain stream ran, was
tholp own camp. They had no tent,
ivery man preferring to spread his own
blankets wherever the fancy took hlra.
' rVrelI, boys, we've got through a
tough piece of work to-day," Cndy
Bald, standing up and stretching bis
arms over his head. "I am glad to
morrow la a holiday, and I suppose you
are Just as much so. Here goes for
camp."
He struck out down the mountain,
not following the trail, but going
Btralght down, ns nearly ns possible, iu
a direct line. The rest tumbled after
blm after the manner of tired men who
are through their labor. They hnd
gone some four or five hundred yards,
When Shelley stopped.
"Who has brought the theodolite;'
be asked.
Cady stopped at once. No one hnd It.
Denis remembered to have seen 11
leaning against some rocks where they
bad been sitting, but no one else knew
anything about it.
Some one must go back; that was
ertaln. Cady hesitated, the men were
all so tired.
"That's all rlgth; I will get It, Tom,"
Bald Charley.
He turned back and began to climb
the mountain again.
"Good lad, good lad!" said Shelley;
"he'll make a tine man or.e of these
flays."
The men went on, each moment get
ting Into thicker chaparral. They
threw themselves against It with all
their " weight, breaking and forcing
their way, finally emerging at a point
about thirty yards from the spot
where All Lung, the Chinese cook, wus
beginning to fry bacon for supper.
They weut quickly forward and
threw tbemsolvea under what shade
they could find, to rest until supper
hould be ready. That Is, all except
Denis. He had been ths last to corns
fut of ths chaparral.
' i- r ' ... .
i:y. Sii vij if ii X StUitA
As he Hung himself against the last
thicket a piece of brush struck him
across the fnce, making a long, ugly
cut, from which the blood ran freely,
lie was tired and heated nnd the pain
made him angry. He put bis baud up
to his bleeding cheek and looked up
the mountain at the thick purple
tangle lying in the hot sun.
"Blast you!" he said; "you'll tear me,
will you?"
Taking a match from his pocket, ho
struck It on the side of bis trousers,
"and before any one could see or Im
agine what he was going to do he hnd
lighted a branch of grensewood on the
edge of tho thicket. The flame shot
Into the air and leaped from branch
to branch and from tree to tree. Turn
ing round, with a loud laugh, he cnlled
out to the other men:
"There's n bit of a bonfire for the
Fourth of July!"
The next Instant his arm shrank In
a grasp so fierce that the bone seemed
to break. lie turned his eyes up to find
Cady towering over hlra.
Penis' fnce grey gray nnd flabby In
a moment nnd his lower Jnw dropped.
"Merciful heaveus!" he muttered.
"The Lad!"
Charley Cndy hnd been rather glad
than otherwise to turn back for the
theodolite.
Under the Influence of the scene
Charley's eyes grew soft and tender
with emotion. He drew from the Inner
pocket of his blazer a letter, which be
rend for tho hundrcth time, then fold
ing the blossom of verba snntn up In It,
put It back In his pocket nud gave hiui.
self up to a deep reverie.
Suddenly he became aware that the
keynote was changed; It was no longer
n soothing murmur, but nn nngry roar,
lie looked behind him, down the moun
tain. Black smoke already tilled fiie
valley, shutting out nil view of the
camp and his companions, and out
from this pall durted red tongues of
flame.
They ran along the tops of the
bushes; Ihey leaped from one to
another of the oily grensewnnd trees
In a maddonlng riot. The whole moun
tain was on tire, nnd he where should
he go, what refuge could he hope to
find?
He looked nbout for one moment of
fearful hesitation. Hanging over bis
head, n hundred yards or so from
where he stood, was a huge rock which
looked as If It bad been rent In twain
by somo convulsion of nature. Quick
as lightning he decided that his only
clinuce to escape the horrid death
which. was rushing upon him was to
rench the shelter of this cleft. If cleft
It should prove to be.
Already he was climbing, hand oyer
hand; drawing himself up by bran
ches, touring his face nnd bands as
he went; hearing behind blm the hiss
ing of the fire and tho crackling of the
burning twigs. Up, up he struggled;
now the smoke almost blinded him;
the tears were In his eyes, which
nevertheless kept one spot of gray
rock before them.
Tho breath came In great sobs from
his panting lungs when, even aB the
flames licked around the bushes at its
base, ho stuggered Into the opening iu
the rock and throw himself face down
ward in the darkness within.
lie lay quite still for some time. The
terrlblo exertions which he had made
rendered him for the moment uncon
scious of everything around him.
After a while ho ruised himself, in
tending to go further into the opening.
and found that he had fallen Into some
thing wet. Iu a moment he saw that
he was In the entrance of a cuve, and
that his hands und clothes were cov
ered with fresh blood from the mang
led remains of a calf, over which he
hnd stumbled.
The blood was still flowing, nnd It
wns evident that but a few minutes
should have elupsod sluce the calf had
been in the fierce claws of the inhab
itant of the cuve.
With a revulsion of sickening horror
he rushed out toward the open ulr, but
a wreath of flame thut swirled around,
singeing his hair and eyebrows, drove
him back.
Creeping close to the wall, he shrank
as fur as possible from the ghastly re
mains of tko cnlf. Ho was trembling
now aud icy cold; his teeth chattered,
and his wild eyes peered into the gloom
from which at every lr.stuiit he ex
pected the form of a mouutaln lion to
leap upon him,
As his eyes became accustomed to the
darkness he fouud himself looking into
two balls of flume. Low dawn, they
were, as if the creature ww crouch
ing on the ground.
How long be sat there faelcg those
fiery eyes h did not kuow, but when
his cars ' were able to distinguish be
tween the noises so that he could di
vide the roar of the fire from tot
throbbing of his own heart, he found
that a soft moaning sound came' front
the direction of the watching eyes.
In a few moments his reasoning
faculties resumed their sway. He
recognised this sound; It was fear,
deadly fear. He felt n real sympathy
for the beast, while he cast an anxious
look toward the outer world.
The firo still burned below him, but
the raging, leaping Annies hnd passed
and now the Mind made a rift in the
smoke, and he gathered all his
strength for one more effort to save
his life. Without one preliminary
movement which might startle the
lion, he sprang to his feet and leaped
down the mountain,
Below, In the ravine, the group of
horror stricken men hnd scarcely
moved. Denis still stood, shrinking
tinder Cndy's vise-like grip. Ho hnd
looketl once Into Cndy's face, once Una
those nf the men around him.
He read his fate and knew that he
bad nothing to hope for of mercy
from the one or of assistance from tho
other. His face was ashy, and his
teeth hnd bitten through his Hp, from
which the blood ran Into his beard.
Cndy leaned forward, straining his
eyes to see through the smoke and
darkness. Ills breath came hard; the
veins In bis forehead were swollen and
almost black.
The smoke lifted for a moment,
showing the blackened mountainside.
Where within nn hour hnd been the
homes of myriads of happy birds and
beasts nothing now remained but des
olation and denTli. Cndy searched the
ground for anything thut should move.
No, there was nothing. He groaned
with a sound which was like the snarl
of a wild beast In pain.
Denis heard the click of a revolver
nnd shut his eyes. At this moment
Shelley laid his bnnd on Cady's arm
and pointed upward. Out of tho dark,
ness there came a tall figure, leaping,
falling, scrambling up again, and com
ing down the mountain.
Cndy's band Involuntarily relaxed
bis hold on Denis, The men shouted
nnd rushed forward, reaching out
their arms, but Denis was the first of
all. He sprang up the hot mountain
side like a monster cat, and when "The
Lnd" fell fainting toward him, ho
caught and hold him tenderly, and
would not be assisted by the others.
but carried him down, nnd laid him,
burned and bleeding, but alive, in his
brother's arms.
Shelley took off his hat nnd stretched
his hand toward the sunset sky.
"Thanks 1 to whom thuuks are
due."
"Amen!" said Cady. New. York
News.
A MONKEY'S JOKE.
It Gat Hint a Good IHnnrr, While It
Btnrtled 111 Cook.
I remember in a description of In
dia or Ceylon some forty years ago a
story of nn Kugllshmnu who had a
monkey looking out of his wondow
ono day, he saw his cook getting a
fowl ready for boiling, while tho mon
key lay on tho ground shamming
death, nnd n pnrty of crows stood at a
little distance divided between the de
sire for the kitchen offal and the fear
of the possibly shamming monkey.
Ono crow more adventurous than the
rest came within the magic distance
nnd was instantly In the clutch of tho
monkey. At tho snmo moment the
cook having finished trussing tho fowl,
put It In the pot nnd went away.
Tho monkey plucked his crow ns be
hnd Just seen the cook pluck the fowl,
took the fowl out of the pot, put the
crow In nnd retired with his exchange.
When the cook came back and saw the
fowl left preparing for his master's
luncheon turned black he wns, as may
bo supposed, struck black with terror
nt this manifest intervention of ths
evil one. London Spectator.
To Tell If a Man Shares Ilimielf.
"I can tell in a minute simply by
looking nt a man whether he shaves
himself or Is shaved by a barber," said
the wlelder of tlu raze" and brush.
"No, it isu't a question of cleanliness,
nor yet a question of hacking tho face.
There is no reason why a man who is
accustomed to shaving himself should
not make as clean a Job of it ns the
average barber. And yet I can spot
hlin every time. See that little lock
of hnlr that grows down the side of
the face Just in front of the ear? Well,
when a man is shaved by a barber
those two locks don't vary in length
more than a sixteenth of an Inch. Tho
mnn who shaves himself, on the other
hand, Is invariably lopsided. He al
ways begins to shave higher up on tho
left sldo of the face thun on the right
side, ns a consequence of which one
sldo of the face looks longer thun the
other. No, I don't know that I can
explain this phenomenon. I only kuow
that tho condition cxIbU." I'hlludcl
phla Ilccord.
How Loi1 Brampton Cut a Speech.
Lord Brompton, formerly Sir Henry
Hawkins, tho English Judge, wus pre
siding over a very long, tedlcus aud
uninteresting trial, and wns listening,
nppurently with absorbed uttentlon to
a protracted and wearying speech from
an eminent counsel, learned in law.
Presently Henry uiude a pencil memor
andum, folded it and sent It by the
usher to tho lawyer In question. This
gentleman, on unfolding tho paper,
found thuso words written theroam;
"I'utlcnee competition. Gold medal,
Sir Henry Hawkins, Honorable men
tion, Job." Counsel's dlspluy of oratory
camu to an abrupt end.
Where Horaes Are Cheap.
From six dollars to ten dollars a
ueud is the lullug price for bronchos In
New Mexico. It costs about ten dol
lars per head additional to round them
uy aud to havs thetn baiter biuks.
Y
PLUCK. ROMANCE
1 JND ADVENTURE,
A IIAUNTED nOUSE.
litl
N Cumberland County,
threo nnd a half miles
north of Montrose. III., is
an old log house nbout
twentv-two feet aitnnre.
continuing one big room, with shed
kitchen attached to the rear. It Is a
weather beaten, unsightly structure,
but to-dny It attracts more attention
than the most stately mansion that
graces that section of country. It is
believed to bo haunted.
No native of Cumberland County
passes it, night or day, without a shiv
er, nnd to the strnnger nnd casual vis
itor It is pointed out ns tho rendea
vons of the spirit of n dead man whose
soul finds no rest In its present state
of existence. When nllve he vowed
that his spirit should visit the earth
nnd trouble his sou after death. lie
is now keeping his vow.
The house wns formerly the home of
Thomas Klllott, a typical woodsman,
of medium size, with white hnlr and
beard. He had a son, a cripple, who
lived with him, Oue of tho son's legs
is almost useless, nnd he is compelled
to walk with crutches. The father
nnd son often qnnrreled. One day tho
father told the son he would never
forgive him for the Imagined wrong he
had done him, and ninny times before
he died he repented this vow;
"My son, you have wronged me. If
It Is possible for the spirit to return
to the earth after death, my spirit will
come to haunt you nnd to torment
you."
if the stories of brave nnd honest
men who have snout several iduhia
iu the home are to lie believed, tho
spirit tins returned and there bnve
been weird doings In the old house,
which lmfllod nil attempts of reason
able explanation.
The son Is no more able to r-vnlnln
tho antics of the ghost thnn are bis
iioignuors. Neither can ho escape its
visits. Once ho moved to Muttoon.
hoping to nvold tho unpleasant visits,
out the supposed ghost followed him.
He moved again, but his chnnirc of lo
cation was no bar to his uncanny vis
itor. I'lnnily be gave up and went
bnck to his old home.
If he Is In any way concerned with
the ghostly nnnnrltlons his lnnile la
so artful that no ono has ever boon
able to detect it. Parties of men have
frequently spent the night there, but
none have been able to account for
what he had soon. Ono nlu-ht lust
summer a party of thirty -five residents
of that section went to spend tho night
in uie nou.se.
Orvllle Stevens, who lives nenr thorn
and two other men spent a night In tho
Huuniou House. Ho relates a stiirlllnir
story of his experience.
Stephens avers that ho wns nwntc
mod by a noise like footstens on frost-
cn ground. Sitting up lu bed. ho lis-
toned. The noise grow more distinct,
coming nearer and nearer, ond niinnr.
ently some one entered tho house.
-iroiiiiuinsr with fear, ho aroused his
companions.
Two crutches belonging to vonni El.
Ilotr, which were lying on tho tloor.
rose, bunipcd together n rounto nt
times, nnd then slid across tho floor
under Stevens' bed. One end of the
crutches rested on tho floor, while the
other end began to pound upon tho
under side of tho bed. Next, the stool
on which tho lamp was resting turned
over, then right sldo up again, tho
light remaining In its position, appar
ently bidding dclinnce to tho law of
gravitation. Then a chnlr In tho mid
dlo of the room began to do a clog
dunce. Jumping out of bed, ono of
tho men took hold of tho chuir, but it
slipped from his grosp and continued
the dance. The man on the floor
turned to Stevens nnd asked:
"What would you do if the chair
should fly at youV"
"I'd slnm tho thing back again,
mighty quick!" was the reply.
The remark was no sooner made
than the chair flew through the air
and struck over Stevens' bed. He
quickly ducked under the bod clothing
In hopes of avoiding his would-be assail
ant. Then the bed clothing began to
slip from tho bed, going down between
the footboard und the straw tlck.n'bo
men held on to tho clothes, but they
slipped from their grasp. Stevens
Jumped from bed nnd looked under It,
hoping to catch a glimpse of the mys
terious visitor, but nothing but the bed
clothing was in sight.
After a while they retired again,
and for an hour or more quiet reigned.
Suddenly one of the men gave a yell,
and, Jumping from bed, declared thut
something had blm by the foot. He
returned to bed only to have the per
formance repented. This time he de
cided to sit up tho rest of the night,
but there were no further manifesta
tions of the spirit visitor.
Stevens says that these nro things
which he saw, and no argument can
convinco him that the age of spooks
has passed. Ho Is firmly convinced
that the ghost of the old man wus In
the room, nnd doesn't care to spend
another night there. New York Tele
gram. ft BESTED A BE A It.
A narrow Adlrondiiok ledge Is a dun.
gorous pluce to be at uny time, but it
is a particularly dangerous situation
with 48:2 pounds of live boar advunclng
from the rear aud a yawning chusm
failing lu front.
But Wllllum L. Brown, of Newark,
5. J., was not parulyzed with fear. He
bad already emptied two loads of bird
shot into bruin, which didn't tend to
put the animal la a good humor, aud
then he emptied another charge,
Bruin rose on til l hltid feet and ad
vanced to the combat. Mr. Brown'a
"bottle holder" was half a mile away
and going In the wrong direction to
lend encouragement to the situation.
It may be remarked that next time
Mr. Brown, who Is a lawyer, goes
hunting ho will Insert a clause In the
contract, probably, compelling tho
guide to stand by In the event of dan
ger. This particular guide started for
camp and got there In record time.
The bear advanced to the combat
and Mr. Brown drew a dlrlt, he sny,
A swing of the loft foropaw caught
the lawyer on the Jaw. But It wasn't
a linrd swing. The blrdshot had be
gun to make the varmint tired. Not
ing this, Mr. Brown sailed In and fin
ished his enemy.
Ho has Just returned from the North
Woods, and whllo among his friends
corroboration Is not necessary, there
are the scrntches on his face to show
what he lias been through.
Brown says be was with a guide
partridge hunting when be met the
boar. He shot twice at the animal, bo
doclnred, and then fled, with the boar
In pursuit, mnde ferocious by the pep
pering of small shot.
It wns not until after he had begun
his flight that Mr. Brown discovered
that his companion hnd deserted htm
and wns well on his way down the
mountain toward safety. During the
race Mr. Brown tried to reload both
barrels of the gun, but succeeded lu
Inserting only one charge.
A SNAKE STORY.
A man named Snyder, living on the
Cane Bun road, In JelTersou County,
Kentucky, was troubled over tho mys
terious disappearance of nbout UK) of
his line large hens. He guarded his
hen house nil one night, shotgun In
hand, but fulled to see or hour any
disturbance. The next morning, how
ever, he found that twelve more of his
fattest hens had disappeared. During
the following day Mr. Snyder discov
ered, nbout half a mile froi bis bouse,
an enormous snake, eight feet long nnd
ton Inches In diameter, with one of bis
fat hens still struggling in the snake's
mouth. Mr. Snyder is reported to
have run to his house, and returning
with his gun, soon dispatched him.
Mr. Snyder then made a post-morten
examination and found In the snake's
stomach tho bodies of seven large
chickens and ten duck eggs. While
be was engaged in counting his chick
ens and eggs which bad been appro
priated by bis snnkesblp ho wns sud
denly attacked by twelve other snakes
of equal size. After bravely firing the
remaining load from his shot gun into
bis foes, the race for life begun. But
Snyder wou the race nnd landed sufe
ly at home, nnd It Is supposed that his
good wife drove tho pursuing snakes
off. Of course, the reporter wns loo
considerate to embarrass Mr. Snyder
by commenting on the remarkable fen.
turo of twelve large lions being taken
almost from under his noso without
making a flutter or uttering a slnglo
squawk. Such questions might spoil
a good story.
WIFE'S BATTLE WITH BULL.
After a despornto battle, with a
fork as a weapon, Mrs. Stephen
1 allies, of Moi'ristown, N. J., saved
her husband from being gored to dentil
by a maddened bull. Tho nulmul
bloke loose on tho Haines farm nnd
Haines tried to catch him. Tho bull
knocked the fanner down, gored him
nnd slushed his clothing Into shreds,
Mrs. Haines, healing her husband's
cries, seized a pitchfork and attacked
the Infuriated animal. Sho plunged
the fork so deeply Into the bull's sides
that the tines broke off. She then
clubbed tho handle, and by a fortu
nuto blow on tho bull's nose finally
drove him away. Iluiues is budly
hurt, but will recover.
A FIERCE BEAST IN RAGE.
Mrs. William Clow, living at a lum
ber camp near Cedar, Silch., had an
experience with a wildcat that she
does not care to have repeated. Her
husband wus away from home on busl.
ness and sho was awakened during the
night by tho screams of tho animal,
which was trying to break through tho
doors. Fulling to effect nn entrance
by thut way it climbed to tho roof,
and for several hours made despcrato
efforts to tour tho boards off and got
Into the room. It was nearly morning
before the frenzied benst weut awuy.
RISKED LIFE TO SAVE CHILD.
Samuel Welsh, Hurry McCurdy aud
George Bassett, of Camden, N. J were
enjoying nn outing nt a clubhouse at
Fork's Landing, along lVusnukcn
Creek, wheu a woman cried In the
window thut a child had falleu into
tho creek. McCurdy Jumped over
board, und was swimming with tho
child when he became exhausted. Both
were sinking, when Welsh and Bas
sett sprang to their aid aud pulled
them usho'.
ENGINEER'S WONDERFUL PLUCK
All the men of tho Jersey Central
Railroud aro talking of the display of
pluck made by Engineer George B.
Bought, While his train wus stupp.-d
at Bayonue, N. J., ha slipped aud fell
from the cub, breaking his log above
the kitij. Despite tho mi In, Bought
climbed bnck to his cub, ran tho en
gine to Elizabeth and was sent to the
hoKpitul. Bought resides iu Jersey
City.
Muuhlue Thut Sews llutlom.
Tho sewing of buttons on shoes nnd
ou garineuas Is no longer done by huud
lu modern factories. Thero Is u mil
chine thut sews S300 buttons ou gar
ments lu nine hours or more thun
eUiht expert sewers could possibly do
lu the same time. This macliiue re
quires no expert operator, A boy or
gU-1 ruus It.
Barn Wisdom.
Borne good things: Kerosene oil for
Iron tools; linseed oil for wooden tools,
and lead and linseed oil for farm
wagons, carts and machines.
A good pitchfork, wherever ono Is
needed, Is a good Investment. Don't
carry two or three forks from barn
to barn all over the placo. You can't
afford to.
Don't sell worn-out tnoU to the Junk
man. Instead, take them apart with
wrench, chlFel and hammer and put
by to be used In making some of the
hundred and one things needed on the
farm every year.
To Keep Eggs.
Fresh laid eggs ore placed in com
mon pasteboard boxes on end, as eggs
are packed, then covered completely
with common white flour and Btored In
a cool place. After three months they
were fouud fresh and nice, and scarce
ly discernible from freshly laid eggs.
I used' common shoe boxes, which hold
about two dozen eoch, the number of
eggs and date of packing being written
on the cover, so the first packed could
be used first. Eggs packod in a mix
ture of lime water and salt are nice for
cooking purposes, but after a conplo
of months are unlit for eating. Cor.
Practical Farmer.
Squash Ins Borers.
When the squash vines wilt and die
In mid-summer it Is well to look for
the borer. This Is the larva from an
egg laid during June or July upon tho
stems near the root. The grub lives
In the stem or root till near the end
of the summer, when It goes Into the
ground and remains In the pupal state
till spring. It often does considerable
damage, not only to squashes, but to
all cucurbltaceous plants.
Such an Insect Is secure from all poi
sons. The moth may be picked off the
leaves when they are at rest during the
early evening. They are described by
Weed as "a handsome Insect about
half an Inch leng, with an orange col
ored body ornamented by several black
spots upon the back, and having olive
brown front wings and transparent
hind ones." One way of trapping them
Is to plant early varieties as soon as
tho season allows. The eggs will be
laid on these and when they begin to
wilt they ore pulled up and destroyed.
If the vines are covored with earth
after they begin to run they will take
root at the Joints sod live and ripen
fruit even though the main root be cut
off.
It Pays to Raise Turkeys.
The way I handle my turkeys Is to
feneo In five seres with pnrk fencing
eight feet high; have three acres of
clover sod, nnd sow two acres to buck
wheat and oats, mixed tcKOthrr, for the
turkeys to work In. I put a fence
suitable to t'.irn cos from tho grain,
then pasture tho rml. Thin amount of
land will feed thirty-live old birds and
their young. Each mother bird will
forward ten strong turkeys. I do not
feed my small turkeys anything. If
you wish, give a little millet seed or
small wheat; do not feed scft food,
It Is not nature. Give plenty of fresh
water dally. By doing ok above de
scribed, they will do well. You want
to build a low shod three feet on tho
bncic and four feet in front; closo In
back of nests ond open In front; set
short posts out In the lu, sny three
foot high, and splko on polos for roosts.
I have bad good luck with mine this
year. My turkeys brought me from
$1.75 to $2.73 per head at Thanksgiving
They were hatched the first of Juno.
About ono month before selling feed
plenty of shelled corn and water. I
have not lost one turkey from sick
ness yet. I am Intending to make a
business of It as fast as possible. Of
course I have the large turkeys. James
Thompson, la The Epitomist.
Keeping Bees on a Farm.
It Is a source of wonderment that
more of our farmers do not keep at
least a few swarms of bees, Around
them on all sides blossom fields of
clover, the pastures are glided with
golden rod and the woods studded with
basswood.
Unlike other stock, bees require no
special pasturage. They forage upon
that which is unavailable to every
thing else.
Should you broach tho subject of
bee-keeping to a group of farmers,
nine out of every ten would tell you
that hla father or grandfather used to
keep bees, a:id that ho could do any-'
thing he chose wilh them, and would
probably conclude hy t jlllng you that
he had often thought of keeping a tew
swarms himself, but had never be
gun. Now thero must bo a cause.
Nearly every one keeps his hens, nnd
why should he not keep bees as well.
The plain facta nro these; most peo
ple prefer to go without honey, rather
than run tho "terrible risk" of being
stung by he ss. There are those to
whom a bee sting is especially painful,
but for the ordinary person the scaro
Is more serious than tho hurt. Even
the oldest and mont experienced bee
keepers do not find tho sharp-pointed
"tall of a bee," an Instrument of pleas
ure. However, the hurt Is only mo
mentary, and has no lasting effects.
Bits of Barnyard Sonae. N
When the cattle are through the
bars put them up, and put them all
up. Do not leave one or two down
and then drive stock that way. Lets
of cattle, especially young stock, are
made unruly Just that way. Make
them Jump over one bar today and
tomorrow they are ready to go over
two, and so on until no bars, however
high, will atop them. There is mora
human nature about cattle than ou
and I imagine.
Every living thing needs exercise:
cows are no exception. I think of thia
when I see some folks advise keeping
cows In the stable the year round. It
Is not the natural thing to do. You
would not be at your best shut up that
way, neither is the cow. Takes fresh
air and sunshine to make a cow kick
up her heels, and It Is the cow that
does kick up her heels that gives gcod
healthy milk.
Now, this does not mean that tha
cows should be driven off a mile or two
through howling winds and storms to
get what water thoy want to drink.
This Is the way more than one man
does, though, and It Is aolng to the
other extreme. The mlddloof the. high
way Is the best placo for you and n
to do our traveling.
I know of men who are In the habit
of currying off their cows with the
milking stool. That Is not the best
way. The teeth are too tar apart to do
good wcrk. The cows know it, too,
and sit down on every man who treats
them that way. Farmer Vincent
A Mistake In 8electlnu Trees. 4
A mistake many now beginners make,
when they decide on the variety of ap
ples which they Intend to set in an or
chard is caused by the way they make
ths selection. An Inexperienced per
son In apple culture, happening to see
at fairs or on fruit stands an apple
that takes his fancy, Inquires tho name
and at once orders that variety for the
future orchard, not kncwlng the habit
of ths tree or whether or not It is
suited to the diameter of the ground
on which tie orchard Is to be set. For
Instance, Uko the yellow Ballllower.
On low, rich ground the tree Is a 'good
grciwer, but blossoms very early, and
an orchard ou such ground would have
lltllo fruit The Bollflower with me
on high ground bears well, and the
fruit tells well. Take the Wlnesap;
Its root system Is a failure. In my or
chard one hundred trees of t! .s variety
wero set out twenty years i .-o; there
are only a few trees left now. and each
one Is held In place by a big post. The
Jonathan Is one of ths bent c f apples,
but with me the birds eat m t of the
fruit, and toward fall, when the winds
begin to blow, all tho apples fall to
the ground.
I know a man who has a Fimbo or
chard, and about the time he 'jegins to
pick the fruit he finds each apple has
a crack on each side of the item, and
they begin to rot at once. A man sev
en miles from me is sotting oat an or
chard of Bismarck apples. He doesn't
know whether thoy will suit his soit or
locality. How much better it would be ,
for a beginner to go to the orchards
j s neighborhood whore he Intends
M S t his crchard and learn all he can
from the people who have had experi
ence with apples In that vicinity. He
would probably find that the apple that
ho Intends setting hnd been tried and
had proved a failure. A beginner In
apple culture grading nursery cata
lcgues would conclude he would be
picking npple3 In four years, but if he
s-ts nn orchard of Northern Spy, he
would be about twolvo years older be
for ho would have apples to pick.
Hcraea F. Wilcox, Julian, Col.
Farm Notes.
Let the hens out these warm days In
a scratching shod.
The economic value of all foods de
pend upon their digestibility.
Don't neglect thoso frozen combs.
Thoy make your flocks look bad.
See that the Incubator Is in good,
condition and begin hatching now. '
An anlmr.l must be kept in good
flesh and thriving to make it grow.
The roaring and feeding of live stock
Is the salvation of Impoverished farms.
It Is very desirable to put the early
lambs to maturity as soon as possi
ble. The greatest profit in agriculture lies
in keeping every sere actively produc
ing. One of the first things to be dona on
a stock farm is to Improve the pas
tures. The farm teams accustomed to heavy
work should not be driven on the roads
rapidly.
Young and growing animals require
a food which will make muscle rather
than fat.
Sheep need and must have plenty of
grains and a variety of fodder to fat
ten rapiilly.
. It Is ever true that the good milk
and butter ccw will turn her food Into
milk nnd butter and not Ilcsh.
The highest welfare of all domestic
animals rorluirc3 that their food bo not
only wholesome but nourishing.
To prevent the colts becoming wild
and tricky, treat thm kindly. There
in no animal more tractable than the
horse.
When pigs are allowed to sleep in
damp places, the result will often be
utlifimss of the Joints, rheumatism and
il!ixiso of the spine.
Nothing will purify a stable and
keep It freo from odors as the free use
of dry dirt. A good way to use it is
to scatter it over the floor.
Intensive farming seeks to give
higher cultivation and heavier fertili
zation, and to malm every acre yield
tho heaviest crops possible.
In selecting a site for an orchard,
shelter from prevailing high winds' in
the form of a hill or body of timber
will be fouud of great advantage.
Clover Is a cleansing crop, as it us
ually shades the Boll so that no weeds
can grow and at the aame time it fur
nishes the right conditions to cause
their seeds to germinate and then
smothers ths youug plants in their infancy.
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