_ Pbrink above him Miss Davison ber- _ {#eit, ber face like a wild rose and her ‘So'm. He sent Ernest, hix boy. Irs the biggest one’s been ketched bere for four summers. ever since 1 come” And the wen about who had whipped 3 Beechy looked envi: three-pounder which Miss tioned for herself, her ladies at table. : Wyndham must be a a. : ham. excitedly; “see the old hook in 1 grown fn his face. You have hooked a Fishermen never have such quit when he finds that Be the olden; inhabitant™ Tn bet his first shall be his last” ~ And they made light of the stranger's prowess because they didn’t want to see spoils Iald like a trophy upon hloe's plate, 00 bi next morning while patie e traps aid for his wary Beart, he handsome widower evaded : a Jncoys. He spent | arm it may be When it leaves. the F heard Ernest, who was catching frogs | He was Kis dup in the water one : z. ready for a far cout when he After the currants srl min mere picked 1 set a tomato plant be tween sarh two bushes The vines among the weeds, say “Moresin’, Miss | Chloe” and looking np, be SAW on the very sttraciive. Ths bushes x wild. Blown anresls of gold, r. Wyndham?’ Bhe it. and be paused, ished pleasure at sulted {nstant, Mish Darl | cally when the bushes have completed yeliaany You're down the season. — Edgar MacKiniay, In New 1% sak how do Jou bet. Miss Dav " jm laughed at him. bot she clung to ye “shatnee to learn,” and instead of | tered about her jawn party. r.| “You won't think we forward it 1 hs it tell you a Tittle secret of mine’ she | eooed. ot bet on you.” Yana the BODE of its fight brogght the | Be erie; “now strike him | to the little Bamniing wigiilz=s and out In the river the stricken bass leaped up | into the light and shook bis silver ar played the brave quarry ui hy “Bot bow about the ofoer bet my fet? Will you come to my party tle humor of condemned criminals ts well n.| exemplified by the following stories: «| procession a criminal once called to | {the governor of «1 oblige me. puvioor a 10g me the day o the week ¥ | week, ain't it?” § there's anything “tme TH De pleased ta answer, and a omen Jou ess prete , lenis “You might tell me, Ee futed to the Japan current, and the] 1 Gulf stream is supposed to have a like | influence on the western coast of Ea v, Tope, ete. aren't beled j Fostand Homestead, early for me. But i tare down | as + lo tell you that Tompkins and Mr. El | Peach Loaf Curl, ge have got a big bet on you this. A number of {nquiries have reached re excited be- a fish up yet. bet $10 that you them to curl and blister. the bilstersd 8% be calls ir, this : _ #pots changding first to a light greep i the Stier 8 man thioks Jou ! color, and the leves finally falling ' This fungus is widespread and causes © ronsiderable damage. It can be con quered by spraying with mixture, six pounils copper suipbate, , trying a long | : ids. Apply two or thrie times at intervals tt bet, but 1 think you'll | of two or three weeks. The Inter applh hope so. Tompking is , you know, and Te Hike * pounds of bluestone and two pounds of {inte to the barrel being sufficient, : 4 will hardly ever happen that ihe leaves . he's soins to win, ¥ honking 8 sitting down in the shade n pon the ment Station. Jvet green. “Tos small” be mnt. = “oothiog less than 8 two-pounder EE Proprasting Grape Vines. again, A. looking op for | kad: “How long do tose * beanch ran notil there can be abou! I pinch off the end which wit throw the growth inte the buds along | way place it in the soll about two of four inches deep. In a few weeks the | surface. By fall there wil be roots | separated from the parent stem and from one abother and transplanted i where they are wanted. This in fess In the fall after the leaves drop. #nd ‘heeled Sn. The tops Inciine toward | lng the winter, rigging of this year's growth is mand, and cne 3 bands or two buds left above ground with the bamboo and frowns when fe told her How to | one has but a parent ving of a good | keeping her mind on the Hsing chat. Bort. or can get the branches that bis Cultivator. “No, deed. There! Press your thumb on the reel! No, he's gone” "Well. then” whispering, “it you | done come, Til Jose a box of glover” “You've been betting I'd come?’ Destractive Midsamumer Fest, Usually during July, Angus: and Sen { with eaterpitlars of wvarions kinds. One At that instant the line flew tant, “Now!” Rhaking with excitement she pressed ber thumb setise of combat to his face. two inches long when full grown with x black head, just back of which is a full yellow band. It is. therefors, called the yellow “Becked eaterpifias. mor in defiance. He took the rod and leaning fhe grass “He's a warrior, Chloe,” said Wynd veteran, and we win the bet” “That I shall,” he laughed. And they | strolled up the hill together. John H. in the Chicago Rerued. Hur ald, ? I Sn Jests. Ho | musow-szoxED CATERPILLAR ASD The callousness and even the grim | PARENT. together on a limb, where they feed upon the foliage, gradually devouring everyibing within their reach, Jeaving only bare branches. When it in dis turbed 1his lnsect sesumies A very pe pubiar attitude, by throwing up the Sead and forepart of the body, turning On walking to the scaffold io solemn | the prison. “Jost * he fail “har tell “¥Mon. | answered the surprised gov. ernor. “Monday!” exclaimed the pris | ener. In disgusted tones. “Well this re's a fine way of beginning the And he marched ob with disgust imprinted on every line io his face. On another occasion an officious hangman whispered as he placed the | white cap on his victim's bead: “If ¥ July you'd like to nrst! The adult insect or moth boas 8 wing yet sypanse of about two laches aml 18 of know." The vietim eraned Lis peck 2 light brown io geoeral color, as forward, and said in an enually dow, | shawn in our picture. The feinale de but very much more nuxions valeel posite from seventy to 100 white eas apon the surface of the leaf, wiere they hatch usually duriox July, the | young worms feading for Bre or six weeks upon the young foliage and shoots, The presence of this pest is gsually noticed by the entire defolia ing the binder portion also, as shown in our picture. When full grown they gegally leave the trees at night, practh »aily all af the same time. They bur row in the ground two or three inches the woths emerge the following June safe? London Globe. Those Warming Currnnts, The mild climate of the northwest const of America is commonly attrib minal. Ingsmuch as the caterpillars feed tn eclonles they can be destroyed by hand-picking. Infested trees thon oughly sprayed with Paris green. an € | senate of lead or disparene, either in TES | water or Bordeaux milxiure, will pre. | vent injury by this. pest. Frequently But it can hardly be sup | posed that the Japan current, however grew up aver the bushes and looked acting | 8s supports, prevented loss from rot | # Professor Bruper's chief assistant in | and disease and a splendid crop re | explaining the human body. If the soll is well fertilized { aothing in lost by such methods, eape | “1 thelr growth and are done bearing for | the station regarding a disease of the | peach that affects the leaves, cansing i Bix pounds Hime, Hifiy gallons water. _ pations can be rdooed in strength, ton | i six feet of it placed on the ground | + | three Inelies deep in a trench about | french may be filed level with the | | trom every joint, and they may le | trouble and more sure than growing | i them from slips. which should be cul will be sheltered and not molested dur | If well ripened wood another below, niost of them will be found To have rooted jo the spring. ir | pelghbor ents off when he cuts back in the fall. be can soon start a vine | yard at no cost but a lee labor The | {tember fruit as weil as many shade i and forest trees are badly infested | 61 the most destructive of thew is shown Iu our illustration. It is about | The worms are usually found clustered £ it backward, aid at the same fime ais i where they transform and remain until | tion of the mb, commencing at its ter | other day they sre th F the sight of a skeleton dangling from a the eiling directly over the pulpit The gruesome spectre held jauntily petween bis Heal ous jaws # great cig | mrette, chief instructors in the physiology de The visitor was one of ihe partment, where he usually oteppies a small compartment of his own, and When the professor mounted the ros trim and caught sight of his missing | property he regarded the dangling drach of bones with an odiously solic ous mir. ax If afraid that the cause of 1 science might lose one of its most valo: | able supports if any accident should ! happen to bis skeleton. fessors found it bard to preserve their | dignity, and some did pot even Uy. A broad grin spread over (he faces Various suggestions were passed around as to the signif. of the students. cance of the ghostly presence. Cer fain obstreperous “preps” sald that the scraped bones typified the dryness of chapel speeches. Rordeauy | pel But President Butler would bave none of the surrounding merriment With & stern face he advanced to 8 position beneath the skeleton and faced the grinning students. “The greatest vietory In the world” | © sald the president, “is to preserve one's dignity under ail eircumstances. The | most hopelessly silly sight 1 have ever | already curled can be cured, but in te sprayed frees the spread of the disease | 1s checked, the new growth fs healthy, | . { and the trees are apt to be free from | disease the following season Charles A. Keffer. of the Tenuessee Expert obmerved ix the photograph of a smirk ing, grinning human face” After this the speaker retired. Jeaving his hearers to draw thelr awn conclasions.—In- dianapolis News, WISE ‘WORDS. SRR AX : To withhold truth is fo buy gold.— : {on CEs. To layer a grape vine to obtain new Danish prover eines to set of some choice variety. lef performs small duties Brooke Herfond it is fore 1 jead fs mardh 11 i= Bo reservoir, bus a4 fonntain Ros. well D. fiteheoek tis the moral purpose, the fidelity, The Charm of ths Suburbs, The suburbanite cannot get every- ng But he takes what he can get Even a» things are be can get a good deal. Half an hour's railway journey ~an Bopr spent in the fram out of a day of twenty four—Dbrings him down © to a road of ganlens instead of a road of houses. The gardens are small, no | doubt, as the houses are small, but the gardens ave there. Within the Dext few years the engineer will ran his electric railways and tramways to pras within a bumired yards of his door, and Le will be transported quietly, quickly and cleanly from Lis suburban garden, his trees and his pure ar to the telephones of the office, and quiet. ly, quickly aod cleanly back again. | It is ouly the lack of facilities of {ransport wiich preveuts Mm even | pow from enjoying to the tal all thar the out-and-out town dweller enjoys: | when those facilities Increase. as they | will increase, the word “suburb will, of course mean more. But meanwliile s a Tay 3 Linin E apne Proven d We 3 fie is in the right place; he should mot | ini 200 bushels of potatoes on oe mere ! {thin to keen on growing 1H Lushels | {on two aeres, I as much milk as two, with one<quarter { or one-third He afraid of the word “suburban — Loudon Spectator Arming the Easmy, England 8 not the only country ngh tated by the | Professor Ehrenberg. in a recently pub. shed work, asks pertiseptly whether “the intirmational market for Krupp guns bs compatible with German inter. este” Krupp has striven since 1848 to interest the French Government in his | guns, and ouly recently went to Brest at France's request to arvange Tor a pew electrical lustadation. In the last Uhinese eampgign Rrupp guns were actually used against the Germs, It is naturally repugrant to the na- tional feeling that weapons made in Germany should serve to kill German : Fuops. And Germany bas an asbivrary : Other pro- | field; | for oyster shelly or grit, Three who help each other are as | good as six. Spanish proverh, & If 8 good face is a letter of recom : | mendation a good beart fv a Jetter of! credit Bulwer. : the cane When these arp wall under | Men must now quite commonly used i a fleecy foam. Eo American farmers adopt. act that abe sells arms | ro both possible and actual enemies. asd The farmer must learn the nse of the i The only way tn clesn out a nest, should the contents bepome splled in to carry the box ouside, burn le Bay, then dip & sponge fn Kerosens, and apply a lighted matel fo the box, Brat rubbing ft over with the sponge. “The off will burn over the bex for & fow niinwtes and then dease. If there are any lee they will have hot a poor hance, It an ogg is broken in the nest, the result ls nxunlly lice. unless the neat is at once cleaned. The best ‘mode in to beglt anew. with the box i very clean. and fresh-cut hay or straw put in. The Chineh “en. The Ohio Experiment Station ren ports that the chinch bog is especially fond of millet and similar grasses, and where wheat fields sre Infested. It will be well 10 sow a barrow strip of millet between them and other crops. A strip of millet two or three yards wide rosy be sown by the side of the corn field next to infested wheat or : oats, and when the bugs have taken | possession of ft the millet may be plowed onder with 8 jointer plow and | the groand barrowed and rolled, thos . burying the bogs Another method in to plow a deep furrow across their | tracks, as they travel from geld to the bugs in this furrow will | have difficulty in gettiog ent. and may | then be killed by sprinkling them with kerosene emmuision. This tay also be peed where the Ha have attacked the i outer rows pf cor, ORIG A XPrAY PUD and throwing Ht with sufficient free © tb wash them oft the oorn, Feeding Grit or Shells. The illustration shows 3 handy box It is filled at the top and is self fondling. For winter use as grit nothing x quite so good as the muall gonrry stone fragments which may be obtained for alinost | i nothing at any stoneyvard. Whosoever is ont of patience is oof | of possession of Lis soul not torn bees and kil themwelves ti stinging others Bacon. i A soul occupled with great ideas bent | The divinest views of life peneirate most clearly into the meanest emergencies James . | Martineau. : The sim for which we give our hest | strength is everything. the visible sul. | coms as nothing. Troe Mith may be the i greatest, goodness aud fidelity at the | i : 3 5 on 17 some ince Where They | MEHL When Yitiile suocess is 38 (he Cheerfulness—suformnad at first—by and by inspires a gracious content : ment; and selfsacrifice-at first a con. | selons strogelefoses itself in the soil. forgetfulness of Ive. In such ways as is no quarry or sjoueyard nesrhby. a these the daily crosses of duty change | Jato the many rayed crown of life. kept on hand, sifted to the right sive at the poultry supply stores and are A GmIT NOX. best professional poultrymen. it there grit that will answer very well I a ; barrel or two of gravelly sand, sme of which should be shoveled lute the Trite greatness first of ail ls a thing | coon every Week ut f¥G In winter of the heart. | bust and geperous sympathies, | pelther behind is age por too far be 1t i» up with is age, and abead | of it only just so far as 10 be able to It cannot slumber, for | ooo Fr nd actitht iy xa peceskity of its existende, Ey I a Rite avd Sopsice. { causing her fo dry up more quickly. The hand method is the best. The | . milker sbould work both hands rapidly, the sactifiee, which makes the small things great 1 Oypster shelly are not hard enongh to A 3 : ’ It iw ali alive with 20 | py ope ples of grit—New Englund Homestead. Milking. In milking do not use a milking ma~ _ keeping up a constant flow until the Thers is no humblest task op which a man can put forth | the strength thers is in him which, gieasured by the morsl law, is not more excellent, more wonderfol. and | more inspiring than the most brilliant | things that an immoral genius can con- | peive or 2a immoral giant can perforin, John White Chadwick, adder is empty, when, except in cold weather, the milk will be crested with Cleanliness ix one great point to keep in view, The best time to milk is either before or alter feeding, never while the cow is eating, ! Do not draw the milk with a Jown- ward Jerk: pften injures the udder. {1 freitutes the cow and and with a firm pressure on the last three fingers, empty It. drawing slight iy on the teat and udder at the same time: so proceed alternately with each hand until the supply Is exhaust. ad. The cow should be milked rogue larly and stripped quite cleun. The milk should be strained into cans and then set into cold water as fitst as the cows are milked the milk set at Jeast twenty-four fonrs: thirty-six hours is the time In which sll the cream will rise. In off early in the morning or aller sunset —F. L. Morris, in The Epitomist. Sucesss on the Faroe. Very few farmers make the most of thelp opportunities. The key to suo cess 8 doing things right and in praper time, It is easier to do things right than wrong, when the effort In each case is measured by results. Too much land for their capacity or eape by the Fill tha teat, | ia cortdin place they charge on that particular place, wrige ‘gling in from the Inke in great pam. bers. They seemed to resent it ss an ‘encroaihment upon their rights. and to amstint of ‘shoolng’ or chunking They would simply choke the drinking placa have we AorE Sha pe A Han from Adkansas, “i will put the water moccasiy against every other kind of Banks ath earth. | was reibng o sory about the snakes on Martinkus in one i of the newspapers, snd it seems that they ari afflicted on the island with 8 | rather Ged brand of snakes, snakes Gat renily go around ooking for trouble. £ could bist help thinking thst the Mars tnique reptile must be related in some way to the vicious water moccasin, which i to be fond in the St. Frans cis basin, up in Arkansas They are savage. and what is worse and more of it they seem to have organized for offensive and defensive purpose. There | are millions vpon millions of theses snakes in the basin of the St Francis river. between the Sunk lands and the mouth of the river. a few miles above Helena, 1 have seen the iske alive with them. 1 have known of instances would be impossible for » farm band to water his hores after his day's work 00 sconunt of the soaks. The snakes feed in the edges of the lake dusing the sviming. and as econ as an effort would be made to water the aorse st wonkd make 8 would drive them away. seen this same thing happen & number | of tin. Of course. it would be nec | essary to take the horse elsewhere for : waterhiy purposes. They { tremely polsonous, and { bave heard of many instances where the mocensin’s | Bite killed animale. Dogs in that part { of the country frequently die as the res sult of belag bitten hy a water modes sin. They ara pot bed about running away when | torred against anything in the reptilian ! line t3 be found in Martinique, or st are ax» they are in a flock. In fie, the manning had Better he on the other side; if it happens to be either near the beginning or st the end of sun snake season, for they really soem to be more vicious and more petulant. # | muy say. at the extromes of the | goason than at other times, [ Suppose ! there 1a some natural resson for the fact. Coming back to the point, twill put the partienisr brand of Arkansas witer moccasin to which | have ree | any other piace. for that matter. ford | really beilove they are the Diost desper © ately vicious snakes on the face of the | earth, —New Orleaus Times-Democrat. selociton tn providing for the protec ' tion of animal life from the many ene {mies which bess it was Hustrated © an interesting manner by Professor BB RK. Poulton in his Jecture at the Royal [astitution upon mimiery in Dees By means of lantern sildes he showed the remarkable superficial rosomblag a8 that have besa develnpad batwaes differant species type that is the subject of mimiery ow | rles yith the surroundings and climate of the particular country; | thera 18 mach evidence to show that The Mimieey of Animals The working of the law of naturd SE of butierfiies. The indeed. all inpects in given areas tend to sdopt a contain type of coloring for protee -. tive purposes. This nstural mimicry : | is peculiarly well marked in the come of South American butterflies Among 8 Inzge number of different species 8 on dominant pattern prevails, bat the uoloring varies. and often mathe sharply, from district to district. One American butterfly furnishes a pects larly intelligent example of mimicry the puter surface of its wings, re sembling a dead leaf, while the Inne | and more hidden surface retaing he propur markinge—London Chronicle dlarioos Nou Bust The people of Warren indulged Ix | an unusual Sunday diversion by ry ing to corral 200 pigs that were rosin: ing #t will around the town when the residents awoke. The porkers want fn train AB 4, that was wrecked Sun | day morning near Warren, and wer Ns TASC 8% | rlpeged by the breaking of the For butter let | released by the breaking of the cars All night long the Digs rommes | round the streets of the town nding | excellent rooting on the well-kept pai mr {tal Ia the chinmon error ikat mmoy It i better tix master thavoughly the art of grows : One cow should give more Teed, the relative ealue of fesding thelr affect en individual stalls NH, To obtain | : such results it is pecessary to Audy | i nous i cane testing Instruments fo order to Know © it be is getting the proper amount of fats and solids. He must also under stand the necessity of providing a comfortable temperature with proper cleanly ventilation are standing lle yoar after year. How much better to master the diffieulty hy causing a few trees to produce abund. antly every year Knowledge with the necessary application will do it Barren trees cannot be redeemed with- out conslderable mental effort physi. calisel, | spread over a large orchard will fail — | HA. 8, in The Epitomist, Whe same amount of work Great evchands | ; Ltawna and hide of ¢ skimming, the cream should be taken | Blokes rg Se AAS HM NA A When the owners of th lawns ane Sownr beds looked an the destruction they went at work in earnest to round . Armed with every ip the destroyers, thing from a clothes pole to & pitch fork the wild hog hunt began. Has kall Underwond won the honors of the hase by capturing 132 of the ant aris catch the pigs. About 6 o'clork they ware 811 castured. BAS ! Not the Lesson He Meant. A minister recently preached a sen mon and Hhestrcied his point by say 4 ing “You Bnew vou plant roses in the gumihine, and bheliotvope and gerani smd, bal if vou want your fachaiss BTW VOI must Keep (hom in a shady After the se'mon 4 woman un to het face Deaming with slegsure "Oh, 1am s¢ gratefn for that sermon” she sald, olasping Xe ty SI © hix hand, and shaking it warmly, sam Pearson's Weekly. His heart glowed for a moment—anly for a momment thoweh “Yeu” “f mover knew before what was the matter with my fachsing.” rp AN HA re pnd A Hraken, Tees—1 heard that he with her. Jv, has brakes no. It was she who Broke the angagement. Tesw-—~You don’t say” When? The milroad company went § pnumber of men to the town to help shi went on, fervently | Jie When she discovered that the engagement had broken him.—Pulls *
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