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q CY RACHEL T was onily a plaui, snug little house, rising slowly fromhh the smail. neatly fenced lot, an 1 gradually a;suming hot:5e-l;i:e pro 1" ... .. : 00: Content wat- hedt its d11;i 1y g:r:th with a wondertul light of :saisfaction in her brown eyes. She could see it plainly from Auint Prissy's litt!e shop window, loolfin.; down the q;uiet road and across a firl white with dais;es: and she lovE d to watch the sea of bending blossomiii, and whis per softly to herself, "T1h path that leads to it is all pure whit." rowin' tinely ain't it??' said Miss Pris-y, cheerily, dusting and arrang iug the bright silk hIadkerchiefs, sk,ins ,f yarn, boxes of needies. jars of candy antd the rosy cheeked apples that decorated the show window. even while she lool:ed beyond thtin at the new buildirg. "It's goin' up slick as a n12w pin." -Yes, yes." returned '::..le iochim. shtkiag his hemhi: "if ti:erer ouly dcn't ,omr a hard wind and blovr it over, or a heavy rain to flood the celiar, or somebody set it a-.ire, mhebiby. There's no tellin'-never no telilin' in this un certaint world. "La, .oachi:m." said Miss Prissy, nmbly inountino the eoun;er and pur slinr coaversation and a spider-web together. "we iain't bad a drop of rin this three weeks, and it's just what we're needin'. As for winds, 'twouid take something mure'n con tno; to blow such walls as them -do wn." ' I don't know 'bout that--don't kr.ow," answered Lniel Jt:achim, un ronviuced. "It blew a pretty smart breeze last night. and I could feel our house shake. Thought tery like,y our roof would be carried away afore mnornin'-more'n likely. J went up to the garret to-day and t'ed a rcpe to the ra.ters and then hitched the oth er cad fast to the old spinnin' wheel: but it's doubtful if that'll save it doubtful.' Content laug,hed softly, but Uncle 3oachim heard it. "Don't make fun of solmn tihings, rhic ; don't never do that," he said, re. ;rovingly. "I knew a n an oncte that ridiculed the idee of any barglar; ever breakin' into his house, and the very next day his brother had his pockets c:ed. A good -many folks have a ;ooi many things happen to 'em, and it's best to be prepared." We!!." commented Miss Prissy. br:skiy. 'I must say fort. I'm 'bout as well prepared for pickpockets as for in:yting I know of. Nobody 'd make -much out of my pockets. unless they . tras sufferin' for a pair of steel-bowed spectacles and an old brass thimble. Ti.:ere comes the mail," she added, as a rusty, dusty hiorsemiau stmped at the ucoor. "Content and mne'l 'tend to it, T*c2Em, de:ur; yot.'re feelin' poorly 'ic-Ja-' I isnow, and you'd bettee' sit semd40.Me :had no :dea of doing anything 2but it was a pleasant fiction of Ess Priss.f's t':at "brother Jcachimn" se lways just a'cout to do something s- .i and energetic-a behef that had iet ded out ini v.11 the twenty years .-'t s.ie bad taken careeft him. Fath ',n;thier, sister, ail were gone but ?dese two n'nd tiue sister's orphaned i^ 'l: ontent, a bonny. wtinsome mai u,who had come like sunshine to th qu p.aint, quiet old house. - Un"'e .Joseim sat in his easy cheir - nlit gaze that wandered afar off, hr:tn over the hills that were not re"th \ lleys ilud n?ever would 'd up and the mountains that S Mohai.mmed. He had trengZth o spai in help - .,, :.. - , - - , a( w(ar the t - .' oN ~imst!f as a sort ef rrser've corps !:ILt the terribl e alaites that I iever camne. But Miss P'rissy's keen't ' and Uindiy c-yes could. fortunately, see t 'r.eater home-evenl to the sewing of buttions on: brother .Joachim's coat the iuending~ of rents in his linen, and the necessity of providing for three mecais a day. So she whiskagd about. env~oys busy. worked and planned, i tundand darned; made over her dresses wrong side up and inside out, v:mti.vcd neat caps out of nothing, - snd co:l:ars out of what was let. Sh tocaeof the smalj store that w alote village postoffice, and loo' itrthe diminutive garden besi< s, .:i m whole family grateful, and in -'"nsly pitying a :ny ''poor lone WO' r:;:i:folks i nik# man'i thelp cp rteet 'emi.".m The- arrival of tt. - Mili curreut. an~d < Aunt Pr1 -s orted tihe sna - e with so:v' good uatured guessin^n neigh bo"'y .sympathy-hoping- thi s . Grey- was from Ler sai'm tha t th1e on" tor D)e"con - enig abr * me-aule o spt i:a -r men.a to con:e -- iy i'-te-r for nA'. .'s i1':<j N: on. c:wrz'd C.onh.n, laugh 1:: ny mi [h ine e-yes :hnat did not )&o f . t par u'aly' disalppointed. lu fac't, Jackscoresondece a s not im; mense: bult it was a sa:;sfactionl to knaw wh'l:h1n.r there was anything or '.-a-mrat sgtisfacion,. one would :a4 w. seeinug h:ow regularly' he . -n::e and. the w.ay in which he Ii "i\'w' are you to-day, 'H[;rd to say-' eeasif I H OUSFE* B. HAMILTON - by room, window by window, it had been reaied and t-liked of, larger ain fairer than it now coid be in re ality, but that only J::ck and Content knew. Jack was s>;i!ful and energet ec; he had laid up sonic five or six hundred dollars, and that was not all. "*.ou see, Content," he had said, gally, when they talked of it in the spring time, with the old apple tree showering its pink blossoms around them where they stood-"you see, there is that work Tor Regan, if it suc ceeds, and I think it will. It is some sort of a pumping apparatus. you know. He had got the idea in his head, but wasn't workinan enough to carry it out. and so he caine to me. I dug into it until I fahcied I knew what he wanted. and improved upon it a lit Ite, maybe. I've spent all the time I could give, evenings and odd hours, on it for nearly five months now, some times doing and sometimes undoing: but R:gan is to pay ine $3000 if it works as he expects it to. He thinks I can do it." "I think so, too," said Content. "It will be something nice for us," remarked Jack, thoughtfully. "But we won't say anything to any one about ii yet a while, until we are sure. There is no need, for we have enough for a little home, even without that." Uncle Joachim and Aunt Pri.:sy were not very worldly wise. They thought, or Miss Prissy did, that love and even the smallest home promised consider able material for happiness; and her eyes twinkled with tears and smiles behind her old spectacles while, in one breath, she wondered how she was "ever goin' to do without Content," and in the next if they "hadn't better be huntin' up rags to cut for a carpet for Conteut's floor-agains she has One." Uncle Joachim was as iearly con gratulatory as he knew how to be, but deprecatory also. "I doii't see why you two shouldn't stand as good a chance for comfort as anybody. s'posin' there is any such thing, which is doubtful," he said. "Any way, 'tis risky. very risky; like as not you won't enjoy yourselves. It'll be a great affliction to have Con tent leave us, but it'll be a load off my mind to know she's safe out of the house. It's a dangepous place to live in, this is, keenin' a post office as we do. 'Counts of folks robbin' the mails kcep comiin' all the time, and I've just a feelin' that ours '1l be robbed, too, some night, and we all murdered in our beds." "Dear me: I shouldn't thi'nk it would be worth while," exclaimed Aunt Prissy. unselfishly. scanning the mat ter iu the light of a speculaition. "Our mail! Why. I don't believe there's 1 ever mor'e'n ten dollars in the whole on't at one time, and mostly there ain't any thing." "That don't make no difference,r Prissy-no difference." persisted Uncle Joachimi, with a doleful shake of the head. "You don't know the sight of wickedness there is in this world. I' tell you there's plenty of folks thatI would do 'most anything for ten dol lars. "Well. well," succumbing to super icr wisdom. "maybe it's so; 'but it does seem dreadful low wages for any hui man being to do such work as that for. I s'pose there comes some time for most all of us. though, when the Evil One comes along our road and sks what we'll sell ourselves for. I' we're willin' to do it at all, I don't know as it matters much about the price.'' --t As the days assed by, anid Jack's "prize-wo' - e laughingly called i ore and ore fair to prove accessfuil, he and ontent conjured olden plans for ' fair little home indom it held bring them-how bey would ae d to this and beautify bat,-talkin,A it over, evening after t . nSng, i the soft twilight.1 It's i.Ast about done," said .Tack, one y, J'opping for a moment at the or. /"Regan wants me to take it 10,n to the old stone quarry and try tIt's a sort of quiet place, and tere's always water there, you know; o I guess I'll go this afternoon." "Oh, I do hope it will be all right' just what you expect of it:" exclaimed Content. "Bid it good speed, then," he said, with a hopeful smile, turning away down the narrow 'garden path, while the sweet fact watched him from the doo-way'. The sky was wondrously blue above his head that day, and the whole earth umrvelosly fair in the golden sun light. Every rustle of the leaves. everiy bird-note, seemed to him most pefect music as he passed down the old road that led to the disused quarry, bearing his precious burden. It was a quiet spot, not without its own lonely beauty in the gay shelving rocks and the masses of broken stone that lay t their feet. Mess had grown up)o.n some of these, and trailing vines from the ::reen beyond had found their way hther, rejoicin;: in the clear water iat JIack had selected for his purpose. Te p)lce suited him altogether, and as he carefully proceeded with his ex \peiment, and trial after trial assured 'iimi that his work was well done, he 'aned back upon one of the rude pil I -rs near him, glad to enjoy in that L nigenu solitude andC si'ence the first\ * s mninent of success. aillo' Why, is tha. you, JTack?" ai rather uncertain voice near him; lie started suddenly from his rev o to find that Uncle Joachimn had iroac-h'd unobserved. "Didn't know t~ vou was a highwayman, or es ped- convict, or soinethin', when I ni you down here all alone. What u got there ? Some new-fangled ater-wvheel or somethin'. I s'pose. eli, well; you young folks always ink you can turn the world upside wn with some grand new platn or other, but you never do it." "Maybe not; I don't think I'd care ' try, for the side that is up now lases me well enough. What brings -ou here. unclie?" "Well," answered the old man, umbling his way ov'er the rocky, un even mass about him, "~ just thought 'd come down here and look round r a good, big, hiefty stone.; I tell you what 'tis Jack, f don't feel a mite sate about them mail robbers. You s o we open the trap-door nights, and put the mail-bag right down into the cellar; and I've been a-thinkin' if we had o:e of these heavy stones hitched on to the under side of the door, so's two or three men couldn't raise it, 'twould be safer." "But I don't _ee how yin ar.:going to raise it yourself :hen," objected Jack. "\Well, I ' an't tell exactly," said Uncle Joachim, somewhat discomfit ed, but persevering. "\We'll have to think some way. for if anybody got down there to rob, and just touched off some' powder down there. why, they could blow us all to fiinders-to finders, Jack'" The young man watched with an amused smile for a moment or two, as he .7andered about near by examining one stone after another. then forgot hiii in his own occupation. A train went thundering by on the heights above, and the old man paused in his search to watch it. "Dear! how these rocks crack now and then!" he exclaimed, as a sudden, sharp sound fell upon his ear. Jack starte, and looked up with a thrill of horror as his quick eye de tcted the rapidly widening fissure that vas separating a mass of overhanging reck from the main wall. "Uncle Joachim!" he shouted. But before the warning cig had left his lips the old man, too, had seen. and turned to fly, but stumblod and fell. In the brief moment that followed a rush of conflicting thoughts swept through Jack's mind. Should he catch up his treasure and bear that to a place of safety at all hazards? It was the first, the natural impuise. But his old companion-could he leave him? Must he make so gredt a sacrifice for him! Was that worn-out, useless life worth so costly a price-the hardly won fruit of toilsome months. his brightest hopes for the future? Ought he-dare he-to caculate the worth of any hu man life, however weak? Thought lives in at rCgion above time. I.t was but an instant that he paused irresolute in the sharp, fierce strug ;le; then he sprang to the old man's side, raised him up, an.1, half drag- I in, 'half carrying, bore him away with the speed and strength that only uch an hour can know-hurrying up he sloping bank until a deafening ,rash behind them told that they were safe. They paused thee, exhausted. and ?ank down upon the ground to survey he scene. A great mass of broken stone covered all the place where they ,nd stood, and Jack's model was :rushed to atoms and buried beneath "Well, well," murmured Uncle Joa him. tremulously breaking the solemn lence that had succeeded the dying choes. "that was a narrow chance, nd I'd never have got away but for o, Jack. I'm 'bliged to you. I really n: though. seein' as somethin' is sure - happen somec time. I don't know as wouldl hiave made much difference n!yl for the women folk:; 'twould ae been a great loss to the women olks. More'n likely I'll be sick for week or two now. JTack"-as a sud Len thought struck himn-"why, Jack. ou left that jimerack of yours down here. didn't you? Kind of a pity to ae it smashed up' though I s'pose it vasn't of mnuc-h use." - Jack turned his eyes f;:om the ruin nd looked at him wh ia strange smile n his pale face. '"Iow little he knew f all the hO,pes ant plans that had een. or .would comprehend the value i th-;e which he so carelessly called V-pfhls: And yet, perhaps he him elf could as little understand this york of the great Creator beside him. i comprehend His purpose in even lis seemingly fee'>le and useless life fiat he hiad saved. There was nothing if contemptuous pity in the gentle tess of Jacks voice as he said: "Hadn't you better go home now, nle Joachim? I will go with you." He told Content the story that day nly Content ever knew it all--and she istened with the light that shone roughi her tearful eyes growing )righter at every word. "Sorry but so ~lad!" she said, not so paradoxically )ut Jack could understand it. "4 was hard to decide for a minute, hough it seems a shame even to .say t now," Jack said, honestly. "But I ~oudn't sell myself, you know, and so i good many of our hopes and plans ire ended for a long while to come, Jontent" "But Jack, dear," answered Content, ;oftly, "I think our work often reaches farther than we know. It may be in building our earthly houses we are building for our heav'enly homes as well, and some things tlmt crowd and cramp these may make those ai7 tha fairer." So Jack's house Is only a litte one, ut Content thinks Uncle Joachimi speaks more truly than lie knows hen he calls it "well built;" an:I watching it from over the blooming meadow, she sees more than the daisies, and murmurs to herself, as if the words were set Lo inward music, "The path that leads to it is white lean and white, thank G3od!"-Good Litra ture. One Tongue-i Englan-1. What strikes the American con stantly in England is the homogene ousnet of the people. We have the foreigner so much with us that we miss him when we come to England. W~hen I take my walk in Central Park I am likely to hear any other tongue oftener than English, to hear Yiddish, or Russi"an, or Polish, or Nor wegian, or French, or Italian, or Span ish, but when I take my walks on the lens at Folkestone, scarcely more than an hour from the polyglot continent of Europe, I hear nothing but English. Twice, indeed, I heard a few French people speaking together; once I heard a German Jew teliing a story of a dog, which he found so funny that he almost burst with laughter; and nce again, in the lower town, there came to me from the open door of an eating house the sound of Italian. But nearly everywhere else was Eng ish. and the signs of Ice on parle F"ranais were almost as infrequent in the shops.-W. D. Howells, in Harper's Magazine.. Geronimo, the noted Apache chief, bas learned to read, and can write his ame. He is exceedingly 'proud og his -cenmninments. . Keeping Butter. A New York dairyman writes that he has kept butter successfully both in summcr and winter by simply fi!ling it into jars, covering the top neatly with cloth, putting on salt and pressing down hard with the hand so that no air can get in. Often a paper is put over the top. During warm weather It may be necessary to add more salt once in four or five weeks, How to Detect Spavin. When the buyer suspects that a zpav in, large or small, is present, yet finds lameness absent, possibly due to con tinuous exercise or some preventive measure adopted for the occasion, he can speedily ascertain whether it is indeed present by a simple test. Have an assisfant lead the horse out to hal ter and prepare to trot him instantly at the word "go." Now lift up the foot of the suspected hind leg and hold it as close to the horse-s belly as possible for a few minutes. Suddenly drop it and immediately trot the horse, when he will, for the first few steps or even rods, go intersely hair, but soon re cover. This is an ugfailing test and should be practiced in every case where there is the slightest suspicion of a spavin.-Dr. A. S. Alexander, in The Indiana Farmer. The Cow Stables. he stables where the cows are to be kept should receive first attention. They should be made sufficiently warm, should be well lighted and should have means for ventilation. Then the floor under the cows should be properly constructed. The raised portion on which they stand should be four to six inches highei than the rest I and of just sufficient slant to allow tl'e liquids to run off fr(eiy. The floor should be smooth and eien and not full I of cracks and holes. A cement floor, if < properly constructed and kept well f covered with bedding. will be free i from these defects. mo.e durable than I wood and altogether cheaper in the end. Cows should not be too crowded in a their stalls. There should be room I enough for the anim>Js and for a man to get between them comfortably and a milk or clean them. Putting Away Fotatoes. One of your correspondents recently I proposed a method if housing this use ful crop. I want to suggest that ail discussion on that subject is ont of order. The tnbe.-s are already put P away, housed "r aired for where thay l grew. Leave ther in the ground till I frosty weathet and then diu them. If 1 dug too soon they are in the way: they are subject to atmospheric action 1k nd somewill rot; they are exposed to 1t unlight which turns them green and a itter. The rioles may eat a few of E hem in the hill, and the weeds may mutiply :.o *as to make them hrard to 0 ig, but a lirtle extra care will govern : 1ll this. andt the lo~ wilt be lighter S han afte- _ taken out of the pI If th~ are dug, the very best thing o d vith them is to pile them up anmd 1) drthem with dirt. Thaet is their F atural element. and' they cannot be n o healthy anywhere else.-W. S. S., in h he Indiana Farmer. . - Hene Eating Egge. Egg-gating hens are a ntuietnce. and' fter inany years of experience in poul-1 try rabing the writer feels tlmt when a best unay of stopping it is to. kill the tF her.- If our birds were not -well sup- i plied with limy substane'es. sumch as oyster, shells and the like and all thet grit they desire. we would' furnish tse before killing the hen. .As a rule, th4 habit is nmer'ely a habit, and is not S n due to any lack of a food element ex et that of limec. Usually the egg-eating hen gc:s into he habit of eating an egg that has be omes accidentally broken; liking the taste, she acquires the habit, and once equired it is almost impossible to break it. We have found it thme better plan to have both grit and the lime material so placed that the hens may help themselves at will. Some hens re quire more of these than do other hens. a o t is hard to dole it out properly. t It is better to let them decide as to a their needs whenever possible. ( Itat P-roof Corn Crib. A correspondent to The Indiana Farmer asks how a corn crib may be onstructed so as to be proof against rats. We give reply to this by the cut of a crib on this page. The, crib may e built cheaply, and of any size de sired. The cut fully explains the con struction. It is set either on wooden poss or orick foundations, put fifteen inches in the ground, as shown in the cut, and two and a half feet from thme ground to the crib sills. Two-thirds of the distance from ground to the sill are galvanized iron hoods, projecting ut and dowr.wvard around the foun dation pests four inches in width. Rats can never pass over this hood. whicti they would have to do to reach the, crib. Such a crib is absolutely proof against rats. It is constructed of inch1 lumber, open for air to reach the corn. but with tiaring sides for protection against rain. Water For Ducks. The writer has had many years of ex perece in raising ducks and has been more or less successful in the work. Kthough preferring other lines of poul -m Sill, (lucks are i:rotitable if .sed under proper conditions and hin easy reach of a market whIch d mands them. Several correspondents have askeld if water is necessary to duck-rai.ing, and the reply is that it is and it isn't. To explain: A number of yar:' since we located the duck 1 ching houses on a portion of the ...n -ere there was no water- in tending to transfer the ducks near the creek later on. Pressure of other work prevented the transfer until the ducks were nearly half grown. It was then noticed that while some of the young ones were in very poor health, most of them were doing as well as we could wish and had shown no desire for water, except to drink it. This seemed so contrary to what had been the understanding of the require ments of ducks that we investigated by going to the man from whom the eggs were bought. It was then found that for some five years the ducks raised by this man had had no access to water, except for drinking purposes. The desire for a pond had been bred out of them, so to speak. In raising ducks. therefore, ascertain what sur roundings their ancestors have had; If they have been raised on ponds, water must be supplied your ducks or you will not be able to raise them prof itably.-Indianapolis News. Shredded Fodder Coue to Stay. Well shocked fodder will not dam ae much if not shredded for weeks. n!ess it is a very wetseason. A very important item to be considered is the ondition of the fodder when shredded. If dry it will be bright and sweet and will not heat, but if shredded when vet or much damp, will heat and r:oald. and a large per cent. of its rood value lost. When properly put up hredded fodder will feed one-third or.ger than when fed whole for cattle tnd any kind of stock except sheep, vhich do about as well on whole fod ler" as they do not waste it as badly. Xs to the feeding value compared with ther roughage. one ton of shredded odder is worth two tons of bright ;traw. I find It almest equal to timothy hay or all stock in winter except milk !ows. which do better on shredded odder. What the stock refuse to eat nakes the.,esf of bedding and is easi y spread when hauled out. In short. you get the value of your odder at once, there are no stalks ceumulating in the stables, or wast ng in the fields, but is in the best con ition to get the best results. There re also some disadvantages connect d with. shredding. Fodder shredded efore it is well cured after cutting s a total loss.-P. P. E., in Indiana armer. Turkey Raisia. Turkey Bulletin (No. 200) by the De artmnent of Agriculture, now on the overnment press, contains the fol )wing three general rules for select ig stock: First-Always use as breeders tur ey hens over one year old. Be sure wey are strong. healthy and vigorous, ad of good medium size. Do- not rive to have them unnaturally la'rge. Second-The male ma~y be a yearling - older. Do at imagine that the rrgg overgrown' males are the best. trength, health andI Tigo)r, with wefi oportioned medium rdze, amr'o 2 i:t po0ints of excellence. Third--Avoid clos~e breeding. New hood is of vital importarev~ to turkeys. etter send a thousand mites for a n:ew l- thain to risk thae chatnces of in -eeding. Secure one. it the fall so as be, assured of his: heaLti and vigor nor to the breeding- season. Regarding the kind of b.ens to select e fc4owing advice is given: No mat r what variety of tar-keys- may be se cted for keeping, they should, above II things, he s'trong, vigorouS, healthy d well matured, but not akin. Bet r seeure the femates. fromz one local and the male fromn another to in ire their non-rela-tionship, rather an run the risk *f i.nbreeding. In 1 fowls it is well to, rem.enber that ze is influenced largely by the fe tale and the color- and Einish by the tale.. Securi'ig over-large males to air with small, weakly lhens is not -ise- policy. A medium sized male ith good. fair-sized females of good mnstitutional vigor and mature age, -ilL. do far better-than thb.e largest with smallest females. Lessons From S-wiss Dufrying. It is possible fol us to draw many ~ssons from Swviss dairying. Prob bly this industry in -Switzerland is ie oldest occupation of man there;. t least, .it has been the principal'in ustry since- the narrow v-alleys were cupied by the first settlers, So many enturies has dairying leen carried 'on 1 these mountainis that the records do ot go back -tc the commencement. e only know tlat long ago-cen uries ago-the Government of the can ns of Switzerlands concluded that he people of Switz?rland, as a whole. tad a right to say how the pastures, .t least the pastures on the mountain teights. should be handled. So laws vere passed gover:.ling both the pas ires owned by the public and the pats ures owned by the individual dairy nen. To these laws the Swiss ap arenty owe the p):cservation1 of tiheir a stures. The Alpine pastures are leased to tile tighest bidder, and the men that se ure them -are prevented from suo) e:sing. Thisa acts against a few men etting control of all the pastures and ubletting at figures that would be a iardhip to the men owning cows. le lessee agrees to so handle the )asturs that thiey will not only be ept in as good condition as when he :ook charge of them, but that they vill be even better. The communities hat own thle pastures have them sur -eyed and their capacity determined. ['he number of cowvs or other animals hat can be kept on them is tixed by rule and this iiumber is small enough ;o that the pastures wvill no': be injured >y being fed too close. This is a rule hat might be profitably adopted by ur American farmers. The pasture eason endures for about four months, tnd not till the grass is wvell started in the spring are the animais permitted to be driven on. Trees dot the patures ere and there.'and these trees are not llowed to be cut on any pretext, un less indeed they become too numerous in certain localities. Where there is danger of an avalanche starting, the trees are not permitted to be cut at all, bu: are left to bind the soil, which would otherwise be 1Rosened by the rains and the melting sdoard's Dair man.' GETTING EVEN. How a Walter in a Salt Lake Cafe Played a Practical Joke. "When I first ran a cafe in Salt Lake, lifteen years ago, we didL't have Japanese dishwashers. and we had. to take white men who were out of luck and were willing to do anything," said Angelo Manca. "They did not usually stay long, but some of them might have stayed longer if the cooks and waiters had not made them the butts of practical jokes. "One morning in answer to an ad, a big, husky fellow walked in and of fered to wash dishes. He might have been a little bit hungry, and he cer 3'nly looked like a 'Hoosier.' I put .$m in the kitchen and after the wait ers sized him up they went after him. One of them walked into the kitchen solemnly with a plate of leftover cakes, set them down before the dishwasher and ordered him to eat them. The dishwasher was surprised and wanted to know why. 'It's a rule of the house that the dishw asher must cat all the cakes that come back to the kitchen,' the waiter explained. The new dish washer ate the cakes without further question. "Pretty soon another dish of cakes was set down before him and he ate those also. It was so funny that I whenever the supply of cold cakes lagged for a while the waiters would call for a plate of them, carry them out and leave them a little bit, and then take them back to the dishwash er. Early in the evening the recruit came out to me and asked for his pay, saying he was going to quit. I asked him what the trouble was. He said: "'I hain't no fault to find with the work, but I don't like that rule about the cakes.' 'What do you mean? I asked. "'Why, that rule that the dishwash er has got to eat all the cakes that go back to the kitchen.' 'What in timrnder are you talking about?' I asked. "I'm talking about just what I said -this thing of making a man eat up all the cakes that come back. I've ate sixteen plates to-day, and I can't swal ler another bite, and when they brought me the last bunch I just quit and come out. I'm done with It. Z feel like I was going to bust.' "I looked at him and he was sweled up under the belt like a toad. I had to laugh as I told him to go back and leave the cakes alone. Then he got mad, and I had to pay him off and.let him go. As he went out he said: -I'll get even with that feller, see if I don't.' "A little later the waiter went out. He was a dude. He was making good, money and he spent a lot of it for lothes. He was flied up as If be was oing to be married. About five min tes after he went out he came back with one eye nearly closed and a big bump over the other. He had a cut on one lip and anothe- on the side of his nose. His 'clothes looked as if he had rolled over in the mud',. and they were torn in two or three places. I asked, hat was the matter aiL he said: "'I met that dishwasher outside, and e certainty fixed me plenty. I thought e was fulI of prunes whenr he came In this morning, but it didn't help his disposition any to fill him up with cakes.' "-Seattle Post-Intellige acer. Md War Borsee.. These old horses never: forget the tills, no matter how long it has beeni since they last heard them.. One day some years ago;. when I was passing an open lot in the out skirts of Chicago. I found a boy try ug to play on.the cornet While the by and I were at work on the cornet. an old ash haurier came along driving n animal that had once been a good horse, but was:now only a colhiection of skin and bones. The horse stopped when he heard us; and stuck up his crs. I came to the conclusion that lie had once been a cavalry horse and sed the old man where he got him. 'From a farmer," he said.. I could not find a "U. S." on the horse: he had probably been- discharged so. long ago that his brand had been worn off. But taking the cornet, I sounded the stable call, and the horse began to- dance. "Hold fast to your lines, now," I warned the old man. "I am going to make that old horse do some of the fastest running he has ever done since he left the cavalry." Then-,. beginning .iith the call for the galloy, I next sounded the charge, and the old plug' went plunging up the road at his fast est gait. dragging his wagon after him. I gave him the reeall next, arA he came down to a walk,. much to the relief of the old driver.. He said that this was the first time he had ever seen the horse run. ,He nad never been able to get him to go faster than a slow wa before. "You don't feed him well enough to get him to do much run niing." I told him. "That horse, when he did have to run, got his twelve pounds of corn and all the hay. he could eat every day."-Forest and Stream. A weighty Subject. Looking toward the holidays, an cx ellet business is assured in the best grades of goods. It was believed by many last spring that large forms Ia cravats had run their course and that this season would bring a return to narrower shapes. Eut the trade is caling now for two and three-quarter and three inchi four-in-hands, wihere as a year ago two and a half inches was the stanidard width. This, too, i spite of the well known fact that the waistcoat opening is higher this ver than last and that wing collars re not so extreme i2 form. The up per class tailors agree that waistcoats are to be higher next spring, and this will compel a return to cravats slightly narrower, say two and one-half inches. We have always advocated the large cravat as more sightly to wvear and more prolitable to seil, and intelligent retailers have been quick to adopt this view. Of course, the demand for wide cravats must be created colncidently with tha*demand for wing collars-the two are inseparable in their close re lationship.-The Haberdasher. _ A Bath-House Mistake. Around Stockholm there are many suburban resorts where sea bathing is Indulged in when the weather is warm enough. At one of these resorts a isitor observed a large signboard at pgateway, reading "Dam Bad Haus." -his notice gave him quite a shoek, tl lie found out it means "Ladies' Hu-e--t J4me' Gazette / IULT TO TIANSPLANT FERNS. Many persons have tried to plant ferns from the woods with success. owing chiefly to the fact they did sot attempt it at proper son, or did not transplant to the per soil. Probably the better wa to start them from seed, which had from any seedsman, of the annual sorts. Ferns must have a ly shaded, moist location, and a sa rich soil, with plenty of leaf mol it. On .the top of the permanent' place two irches of mistureof mold and sandy loam. On this so seed thinly, and cover with wet -sphagnum is best. Keep the wet and do not disturb-It. Th will germinate and root down *:t prepared soil and accustom the to it better than plants from the woods. BORERS IN THE ORC A correspondent wishes to: there is any wash that may : upon to destroy the tree bor+n prevent their depredations in.. chard. We cannot say thatd though there are several -tbkt. ommended, and that may-be less efficient. Simple whit plied early in June, and worked, down into the ground may pre; insect from depositing its eggs bark- of the tree; but this must. garded as a preventive rather remedy, for once the larva lodgment in the tree, a wash n be depended upon to disturb,it Another wash still more high ommended consists of -whale. or soft lye soap, made in the of two pounds of soap to, of water, to which is to be pint of crude carbolic acid.-, more efficient as a repellant common whitewash. The is a valuable application evey any reference to the bor:" the insect has obtained a about the only remedy is to out or pierce it with a shai, Up-to-Date Farming. APPLES FOI STORA. Fo:.-merly it was supposed pies ought to sweat before t stored, bet investitations that any ripening which, between the picking time storage house is injurious to ing cjualities of the fruit. P layed twenty-four hours dia as well as those stored'at.one lett pears delaged three or were soft in two or three storage, while the fruit t nnce was in prime commerel* tin at the enid of Ev weeks vestigatons emphasize the of quick storing ars soon as the picked. -Fruit. stored in the or on the railroad uiding, or it freight cars, in Ihot weathg, jured .seriously, and no treant the storage house- earr-orc damage inflicted. The investigations5 point o-t that app1es, pears and peach - more slowly If left on- tr when- removed and stored in chard.. The fruit fI: much b the tree than off If iR capnot-be at once. The method of ii aso- ef fundamental imorn luencng the behavior of the the storage house. SHIPMENT OF' APP The soiting table shouldt venet width to reach sa large enough to hold at ls of apples. The fruit -shouldt over the table and allowed down the slope of the table' sorting done from the lower the pile. In cold weatherba shipment should be lined itr entirely protecting the sidesf tour. The first two, layers s of iiform good specime= stems down. Then It the bi half bushel at a time,. sham two or three times during !!!e2 The lining paper ?s then - the top and the head .puts pressed down. Tender as Spies. Bellflower,. etc., protected at the ends with or patent paper eushlons, which are to be shipped io,g should be pressedidown l but for a short distance o erate pressure is required. res should be stenciled car the address of the receiver, of the apple and the addre shipper. An account of thee. should be sent to the dealer as soon as the fruit is ready DEPTH OF PLANTING Bulbs have a great facl justing themseives' to the In which they find themseN their popularity. But all they give the best returns en the best opportunities 'peace and comfort. Ini they are almost human. that makes the bulb so eas Is that it is, so to speak,Y before the gardener getsf sole object he has is to - young flower, and generali fice the bulb itself. In pra better to get new stoel rushing the. bulb for all I and throwing it out as s lower is done. Tulips a= selves to almost any 'reaso of planting, and flourish a just as well, whether deep, Hyeinths do not, hon planted too deeply, will de stunted leaves. The rea need not ~be discussed n The crocus is easy, too,# dency to work up ies face In succeeding years, method of reproduction, It reverses the process "droppers," which d the new bulb well belo Seillas do the same very much to the s teur, who misses their a season. Generally a plant as deeply below the bulb itself is dep not an absolute rule. dnng