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erRI There's one face you shall see no more; Two weary eyes that you, perchance, Have often looked in heretofore Shall ne'er again return your glance, And as you hurry through the strect, You will not mark his absence there; The stones worn smoother by his feet Will never mis him. never care. A PRODIGAl 0 By DAVI *ggs O0,0st S00*0000' Old MalcolmN MacVean, for forty long years village shoemaker in In chonnen. looked out by his cottage door in th- still morning, shading his eyes from the sun with his hand. It was a morning late in September, and the sun having shone with un precedented constancy for well-nigh a whole month, the scant sheaves were dotting the little fields every where. And there was great rejoic ing in - hearts and on .he tongues of the tillers of the soil. For once in the cycle of years IMchonnen had bel'ad its reputation of being :-. wet, cold, dreary "lace, where the fruits of the earth could not ripen, but had to be gathered green and sodden from the fields year after year, and gi-er to cattle baasts as winter fod der. Now this mystery and great wastry had often laid '-eavy or the soul of Malcolm MacVeaLn. and he had prayed over it. even wrestling.with the Al mighty for the heaviness of the blight that :eemcd to lie on the strath he loved. But after forty years he was no nearer solution than he had been at the beginning, and was forced to fall back upon Holy Writ. "My ways are not your ways, nor My thoughts your thoughts, saith the Lord." , Neither Malcolm nor any of his grumbling nclghbors ever gave a thought to the folly ol trying to cl tivaLe farms in land that was never -meant for it. of - Iwin corn and planting potatocs on furrows that were half the year under water, when the burns ran in spate fromn the hills., and the -norass .th- :t the lock was impassable even for the sheep. And when the pe)oplc one by one dropped away, felled by the scourge which arose from these unhealthy condi tions of life, they took no thought of <he folly that had made a place of human habitation there at all. Who was first responsible for the birth of Inc',nnen none could tell. Sure it was very old, nestling there in the silent,-close shadow of its en cirling hills. The holses them selves, with their gray walls and overhanging eaves, would tell you; and the ruined, empty. desolate cot tages scattered here and there on the loch side, and also further up on the slope of Benachree could tell, too, ~that the place had fallen on evil days. For looh~s it was picturesque -enough, and in the summer they would come in coach~es from distant places of resort to see what they Niled a typical Highland clachan -(pronouaiced mostly as if it were spelled clackan). and make little notes in pocket-books, or thumbnail sketches of the inhabitants and the quaint nestling little homes. Then they would write articles perhaps asbout the depopulation of the High lands, and give their own reasons for the same, and voluminous cpin ions not worth the paper on which they were written: though they did vwell enough for people who cull their .koowledge from newspaper columns. y ~For to know and understand the Iuwardriess ~of life at Inchonnen it was necessary not only to live there, but to be a native of the soil. All the dwellers at Inchonnen had this inwardness of life at Inchonnen it of them were poets though they had never presumed to set pen to paper, and had to dictate their rare letter by word of mouth to Malcolm May Vean or to the villagt schoolmaster. And because the aloofness of their lives and their nearness to the gr~eat heart of Nature the people of In chonnen were a people apart, silent, mystic. ver; reverenlt, given 'to en duirance, and 'i ary little to speech. For hese reasons they were not perhaps fitted to go out into the w-orld and fight there with common citizens5 of the world: and so in the ordinary estimation Inchonnlen had sent o-it mn.ny failures. It was for one of them Malcolm NacVean c-as lookir g that still, qu'et miorning, shrding his eyes as they roamed the long winding trail of the white road. He had kept this vigil at the dawning for well-nigh twenty -areach morning with a fresh access offaith and hope. Far do-i.n th~e road he could see a moving black speck, for, like a mirage in the desert, it had deceived him often. He took out his big old-fashioned watch, and saw that it was just five o'clock. an unlikely time.~ for any r'e spertable trav.eler to arrive on foot at a place so remuoteZ rt Inch'onnen. No dioubt it was some "gangrel body," or one of the tinker women, with her load of tins on her back. who had fallen by the way with fatigue, and slept under th-e &y brackens. Hei stepped back to the little kitch ca, laid some more peat on the iire and swung the singing kettle back from the smoke; thein, taking his stout stick, set out for the road. I e often took a walir in the mornirg be fore the da's' work claimed him. and nobody s' eing himii vonderedl or thought it strang" Ac lready tle thin few shl: ards in n onnen or .11.: :auts to shamie them with their in. Justry. As hie left the village behind and came out on the treeless road the wind seemed to spring up freshly froma the hills, to stir his gray locks uind fill his lungs with free vigor. Tlhen he could see the flutter of skirts ir. the far distance, and knew it was ax woman approaching. Perhaps his heart beat a little faster-it migh1 be the woman he wished to meet erhat he had beeD disaDI~nted SC I stood beside him yesterday To take a last look at his faee,? The weary frown was cleared away, A peaceful smile was in its place. The thousands in the streets rush on Just as ther did when he was there, And do not Know that he is gone Ah, well' Perhans he doesn't care. --S.E c. 0 Asis footquieed, es seee te- e eddw h s eslp ofenc RETU Roh n a fm freshness oft hswa ope.row whence sheod escoe. Tnd is before there was any possibility of recognition, only something told him the answer to his long prayer had come at last. The ends of his plaid fluttered in the wind, he had his bon net in his hand, and his stout stick under his arm so that he would not be impeded, sa he came quite close to her, she standing still in the road, with her thin hands folded, a look which cannot be described upon her f ace. leIt was sad face, and weary-the face of one who had been down in the deeps of life, an had tasted its bit te 'est cup. Yet she had left it a bon nie, fresh lass, with the bloom of the morning on her cheek, ad the light of the sun in her eyes. It was not for her to speak. She was not clever, like the prodigal of old, to con a moving- le-;son beforehand; she had no words to pierce the heart of the fait her thiad so frievusly offended. But none were na-eded. The silence about the made fitting environment -ro: a mzo-nent of acute anguish., It was tLhe old mian who first found his voice. ItEws a y wsa man, so ye are come harne?" Thcre wias a moving athos in te hese bald eords. Elspet MacVean shook as an aspen thivers in the w:ind. ",Ay, father,"' was all she said, and they looked at one another again in that strange, deep silence. It was feep enough and elastic enough to bridge to gulfce the hintervening years. He was not learned in snowl edge of the morld from any experi ence of his own, but his daughter's story needed no telling. It was writ large upon ier fo top to toe. Her eyes ha -vept, her face had blanched and grown thin and weary threh oeen onrtehss hrporcoh inthough wlas amng decethole, tpoke bald wovrsy that wouldn "Wyher,'a wae al .h sai, anth niht?" looed atke anoherailny. tha stranedeepa slence Iat night b-eepi tenough an Iad etougheep idge theakn gul ol hae intrveig edg one :the rtherom any experi e"eofhyw, but hi cknws drughters tiaras upon yaed- toon tro toeHr eyslair Its heen fac had blanched anderow ithsben a wary rd and feedin I'm ctme husks hor Iken oth i"Y toug mclea hand detentl wle. soke teerrty mkthth woudart "IWhere naethn to teaIra thaea nicht? he marryked hu~ly.? ese then, itaird his~ eyesseemd ftom-ee lness a t'thwelt mercilssy.po her, face. rakn a dy E "et It me nintre years nhear ine. si But thee' somethen rd," shelair. Itrssiben ae had rodrmy ornsa." whtG'od m c forid Y aren welo." "Yuhihthmevite, Elspet.Yehepite prick.'" It ha ahigverdicl whch yoeread "Did whe mrary yeiss?"o the yarske then anid who eyes seemed requtedhm fatherly cae dweltcouldlessly thaton oher ans. Whthwaprsnl Shnere shook her he om-cm Ha letn me say tregyars.n Ther airer'dok. Had'e been seic sne. might he' sidthting twee," yashe id pressnger hand itoerl ide, chand' ,Ia coina ee teur Godou forbid! the cases."com haWe canset the haer pai thes an' as his vrdicma wih clashrto theawole dracea vista othe years he had wied sHe hade, faterac forI aethery care he oudlae world but therthanse. Forat he wasnpresenear inge, an tev"oehinhere."ial Mis ry isiller sishn."Ese Me'a "Ihad nohngogh," egmadin anser. "Cothenos an se bee hase,o -tis igt havte csaid tha sinx."nt yersheha uchned herutep little,l them tchaneiraown dor.Esptac Veat'as threy sayl iny incher father's Itusel be ifor sou, aykn'o or reun Toher thir casthes."to t"at dicanre sht. He oorrydins altcolmagea when when hs od mand sornear to limstn." i. n hre nothigi the ide worlpd buta ol yea, as eve woma hh hosia, ano mysl; isaid urwin a'on "oeat, t"youartu havecmebc, Efo ne. is"s nte lpoi. Hey quegkend heir steadps an lithe an eenng graith. one aor plan he btoaou then door. After Ma shook was hed whe ody man fol "owet him Tenxitl was the door "She'i nsot~ iat Iong, M"alcolm. such tac cof dher ife." hol The athe fistoidee iwen doc or? "i' a oa ohdn "In about six weeks or so he stress will come. I'll drop in as I pass by, Malcolm: but it is little I can do for Inchonnen's fell scourge." When the old man re-entered the cottag- Elspet turned to him. "-Te says I am to dee, father; but it winna be yet. zot this year nor the next, you can tell him that frae nie." "In the Lord's rime, lass," said the old man rebukingly; but there was a mist before his eyes. The ner' morning his broken sleep was dist rbed . by the swish of a heather besom on the floor, and the stir of much cleaning. And when he drew the curtain of the box bed, in which h' shut himself nightly in total defiance of all the laws of health, he saw that the place was empty of all its meagre furniture, and Elspet on the chair, with'a pail of whitewash read:- to her hand. "Mec:y me, lass, ye are beside ycr sel'!" he cried with a gasp. "Lie still or I bid ye get up: it's jist five. At six the wa's will be dune, an' ye'll get your breahfast. It's the dirt o' twenty years,' she added critically; "for what can a man body ken aboot'a hoose?" She spoke blithely, like one who had gotten a new lease of life. And she had. In some mysterious way home had laid a healing spell on Elspet MacVean, and in the midst of her gladness she had no mind to lie down a.id die as was expected and predicted she would do. The "something here" either dis appeared, or remained in abeyance to her strong will-certain it never troubled her, and she lived to be a comfort to her father to the day of his death. Hers was a record of deeds rather than words. As for her neighbors, after they had gotten over the first shock of their surprise, and found what a different Elspet had returned from the one who had gone away, they bore her no grudgo, nor did they cast her ill-doing in her teeth. Just as her soul, for the twenty years of her exile, had never ceased to be in blessed bondage to the memory of her father's righteous example, so now it bore rich fruit in a quiet life of service to God and man. The woman who had sinned and suffered became in the place of her birth a succorer of mauy.-Brit ish Weekly. EN TlF1 C A scientist says that if the earth were birdless, man could not inhabit it longer than nine years. All the sprays and poisons in the world would rot keep down insects, which would eat up everything in the way of living foliage and plant life. J. P. Gra':es has bought the watel rights on the Kettle Falls, on the Columbia River, seventy-five mile; wpLth of Spokane, Wash., and a 100, 000-horse power electric plant is to be installed there. These falls are among the largest in this souatry. An interesting hygrometer is rmade by dipping a strip of calico in :'. so lution of one part of cobalt chloride, seventy-five of nickel c 'ide and twen ty of gelatine in two- hundred of ater. The strip) is green in flue weather, fading as 'noisture aIpears. It is claimed by a medical autinri ty that the wavering of an incanues lent globe, the spluttering brightness f the arc light, and the glaring white of tne vacuum tube are the agencies which already have made eAmericans a "spectacled and ninking nation." Some interesting experiments have bee made to ascertain which woods last the longest. It was found that birch and aspen decayed in three years, willow and chestnut in four years, and elm and ash in seven1 years. Oak, Scottish fir and Wey mouth pine decayed to the depth of half an inch in seven years; larch and junipe- were uninjured at the end of seven years. The medicinal qualities of pure olive oil are numerous and are he oming better known day by day. A teaspoonful taken after each meal will relieve constipation and dyspep sa. Mixed with an equal part of lime water it is invaluable for burns. Poured into the eye it will remove any foreign substance lodged there. It is a sure cure for hang-nails: 1s good for chapped hands; is excellent rubbed over the whole body after taking a bath, and is beneficial for use in massaging a dry scalp. There are thirty recognized thnera peutic agents originating in the slaughter pen, among these pep~sin and pancreatin. There is a product of the thyroid glands that is ema ployed in t-eating cretinism, or idio cy. Another is suprarenalin2, adapt d to stopping the flow of blood in delicate oper~tion.s. To pr~odu1ce one 00nd of this the glands of 100,000 seep ar'e required, but the pounfl( is worth $5000. Oil extracted from the wol of slaughtered sheep makes the fnest emulsions. Anhydrous am mronia is another important article of commerce sent out in quantity. In Sar'diniaf. Sardinie. was a wild placc in the middle of the last century. A tr'av gatskis. one before and another behind. without breeches, shoes or sockings and a woolen or skin cap o the head. The women have no te:' habiliments than a long wox c2 gown and a woolenl cap. The ~asants always go armed to defend themselves from one another, so that taveling in the interior is extremely unsafe without an escort: and it is eevn dangerous for ships to send their people on shore for water un less they are well armed. In short, the Sardes are the Malays of the Mediterranean." In Atchison there is a rule to call the attentio:n of the sheriff to a slot machine when you,. 10se five time izn CHILDRN'S I THE HUMMING BIRD. hat a "boom! boom!" sounds among the honeysuckles' tying "Room! room! Hold your breath and mind your knuckles!" And a fairy birdling bright Flits like a living dart of light. With his tinv whirlwind wings .lies and rests and sings! A'l his soul one flash, one quiver, Down each cup. Ile thrusts his long beak with a shiver, Drink; the sweetnes up: Takes the best of earth and gos Daring sprite! Back to his heaven no mortal knows. A heaven as sveet as the heart of a rose Shut at ni-ht! -Harriet Monroe, in St. Nicholas. IT IS WELL TO THINK. Mother was working in the flower arden. "Harold," she said, "will ou bring mother the big flower-pot hat is in the shed?" Harold ran to the shed, but soon ,ame back without the flower-pot. 'It is so big, I was afraid I would ireak it, mother," he said. "I can get it," cried Jennie, who vas a whole year younger. And she 'an out and soon came back. wheel ng the big flower-pot in Harold's sxpress wagon. "I could have done that if I had hought of that way," said Harold. "Any one could do it after the way iad been thought of," said mother, but Jennie thought of the way." ittle Workers. THE DANDOLIRE. The bandolire is a quaint toy, made f two discs joined at the centre, Lnd having a string wound between hem. To play with it you hold the ises in the left hand, and wind the tring between them with the right. hen. holding the end of the string, 'ou let the toy fall, and it will re >)lve as the string unwinds. Just efore the end of the string ii 'ached you give the toy a quick up yard jerk, when the discs will begin 'evoling in an opposite direction. The velocity acquired in the revo ution will cause the toy to wind it elZ up the string in an opposite way. ad when a!rain allowed to fall it will The Bandolire. vin. itself again, tnd keep on thvm > a" indefinite time, first unwind7 ng down the string arnd then wind' ' itelf up. It is a very pretty toy, and is easily ade out of almost any desired ma *eria~ It has quite a history, in spite ). its simplicity, having been invent' d,. a long time agos to amuse an ast Indian princess. In 1'790 it was irought to England from Bengal,. and ecae the fashionable toy under he name of "Quiz.." From England it was taken to Nor nandy,. where it was called "Jou 'ou," and it was not long until it be' ame the rage in Paris. Indeed, ii 'as made of every kind of material, om sugar to gold, and it said that he Duke of Orleans made a present f a bandolire, set with diamonds, hat was valued at 2400 lires. To-day, in France, the toy is called LL'Emigr: nt," because at the time of he French Revolution, when sc many people were forced to emi ;;ate, the toy was much in favor with the nobility. Any boy can make a bandolire ioi imself, and he will be sure to havs lots of fun with it.-Philadelphis ecoid. TREAT FOR THE ORPHANS. No inconsiderable number of mner in New York City live by buying ut tikets of admission to places o! ausement and reselling them, at advanced prices. on thle sidiewaik or the evening of the pe:rfrmance There is much complaint agains hese. men. the newspapers 'hor'att a tt--atroical rauanangr stat a crusade against them. While calm consider ttrion would sca:'cely' show their call ng to be V.orIse than m~any. othe iuinss coming within the limi :iled "legitimate,'' man'y of thes' run a'e not ovrrpsesn iln alp -r-ree; and altogether' the gcnera'z attitude towvard the ticket speculaC tc'. is one of execration. Recenly' the circus exhibiting i1 adison Square Garden gave the're alar"Orpans' Day.'' the annua rat prodd for the joy O'' tii 'alsscildrenO~ of the cit y. o dlts were allowelI inside. es teahrs and othei gnui dias (2 h litte folk. One wondered, there fore, why tihe ticket speculators wer i their usual place on the sidewaik. A big policeman near' the door, ok serving these men in conferene~ ket an e-'e on them. Presently 1:3 iniignionl burst bour' ds. "Well," he elain'ed. "that'sa dirt a trick as I've seen: The ticket sp~elalitor's were "'ol nering' the peanut mrket. The Italian venders, whose enti; stcks the ticket speculators ha~ oh, wer-e ordered to nu4t the UNc )EPARTMENT; I nuts into bags-the disgusted Po licemen looking helplessly on. The ticket speculators now lined up on eachi side of the entrance, and presen:.1- wagons and various vehi cles carne runbling up. labcled "Children's Aid," "Orphans' Aid," "Hlorne For Crippled Children." As the little ones were put in line and marched or hobbled or were car ried across the sidewalk to the en tranc . each one received a big bag of peanuts, free. "Well, now, I'll- Say. I take it all back!" The big policeman offered his hand to a speculator. "What!" cried the speculator. "Did you think we wanted to sell at a profit to those little fellers that ain't got anything at all?"-Youth's Companion. A ,AMD TH1 XT LOVED OLIVE. A few Years ago my little six-year d wvas presented with :. young lamb which was brought up by hand, and which soon became a great pet. He quickly grew to love Olive and her itle )rother, and was often let out of the pen where the sheep were kept to become ..n interested partici pant in all their romping games. As he warm days of May came on it becaine necessary to drive the seep to at distant pasture. but Olive Ileed so earnestly for her pet that she was finally allowed to keep him at home. .About the same time Olive and her brother began to attend the distric- school. The lamb, missing both his four-l'gged and two-legged d immeditely became very lonesurom and inclined to stray from fome. so that it was thought. best to tio him to an apne-tree not far dis a. r D(icany rebelled at th in iniy and bilated incessantly. One dCIh broke his rope, and we ondhmin the~ back: roomr chewing his c a:id p'eifdily standing by oe*' old familiar dress, which hung ir..: down up)n a nail. Tbis e is an idRa: and, when Dicany went bnek to the apple-tree, re dr-ess went ten, and was hung on a branch whe, c' h could reach it. After this the Iamb stopped bleat ing and led a very quiet and happY life,.'carirn his rope with patience in school hours. and bounding and :i lmpin: with joy when the children :-'urned at night.--Christia 1lau THEi~ APETiTE OF A BIRD. Whean an old-fashioned hoste'ss, sv Answers. urges her guests to eaatrthe conventional manner of showin"' hospitality, and remarks. "Why. vou haven't the appetite of a b 'i'rd!" realiy speaks the truth, 'toug sh~e does not intend to. The average man. if' he had a i' appetite. would devour from Tir'ty to thirty-one pounds of food a day. which would be a tax on the lar drof his hostess. Rcntf experiments have proved hat the average bird manages to eat rout one-fifth of his own weight ally with ease, if ho can get so muchi iood: and in a wild state, though the brd has to hunt for his daily proven der. he is eatdig a large part of the ime during the day, and manages to get his full rations. The smaller the bird,. the more vo racious seems to be its appetite and its powe:- of absorption. A German scientist recently kept a canary under observation for a month. The little creature weighed only sixteen grams,. 'but in the course of the month it managed to eat 512 grams' weight of Ifood!' that is, about thirty-two times its own weight. The bird must therefore have eater. its own weight in food every day.. An ordinary man with a canary's appetite would consume 150 pounds of food a day. But the canary is an extreme case. The ordinary bird, in ood health, will be satisfied with one-fifth of its weight a day by way offood. Which Way Are You Going? Some observant Frenchman has very wisely said-"The stairway cf time is ever -echoing with the foot steps of those wearing wooden shoes oing up-and those wearing pol ished boots coming down." Bob Tay lor aptly said-"The world goes round and round, sonme go up and some go down." In all spheres of life and activity, some are growing in strength and useflness, others are losing their grasp upon "'the things that are worth while." The question for each of us to answer. is-whIen w' e yo' "& i"g'-.Ve have been c~osel wateili ~n lthasso, ared soevr lriCn- ils "2' upo -'lrt 'Tere is rno standstill - You must' "move on.' one way or the 3 .icond. TIhe Lorces that carry you Sup are--.abor, ch'.-enial, diligenice, -sobiety, ec0'oomY, honest:y, trut uinss iand pcrrsx orance. Td a ae al isturdiy, '.ug:;cd, force~ul v i' 3Third. 'The Zs:neteCs '.,Lat let you - :1pse on the dlown'ward pail ar: i extra-a-mu,.n'. set:lf-ndeOnce, loe oft oft fadSlserfiin'.me'2 a:'d "" -i - hair'....-5onm:ern Cultivat e:' - A Ters.e Sermnon. e Perhaps the tersest sermon c-er delivered wvas that by Dean Str.i n. who taking as his te:. t,"H that ;iY Ietn to the poor lendeth to the Lord.," Sbegan and ended thus: "Brethr'en. if ou like the security, down with the dust" -.The temiper'ance committ.ee of the Southern M. E. Conference reported e in favor of a raie which would y ro d Ihibit the use of tobacco ty loung .. as Ors. Keep Sheep in Condition. When your sheep are in good con dition make effort to keep them so It is an awful hard job to get run. down sheep in prime condicion again Stick to the Sheep. A writer hits the nail squarely on the head by saying: "To make the most out of 'sheep they must be kept for a series of years. Some years they will return a much better profit than in others. but it is hard to sell out and buy in at the right time." Tho.-e "Kicky' Cows. It is rather poor iolicy to ha.'e a kicking cow in the dairy, and un less she proves to be something ex traordinary in the way of a "milk machine." the cow stable would be much better off without her, and the milker's temper would certainly be greatly relieved. The dairy needs cows. not mules. Apply a Good Fertilizer. The value of vegetables depends largely upon quid: growth, and if crops are not growing well some quick-acting fertilizer like nitrate of soda, guano or poultry droppings, should be worked into the soil close to the roots. Frequent cultivation cf the soil with the cultivator, rake or hoe will often be all that is neces r.' Ground the Whole Corn. At the Wisconsin station experi ments were held to determine the comparative value of whole and ground corn for fattening pigs. On an average 105 pigs required 5.16 pounds of feed per pound of gain on a ration of dry shelled corn and middlngs, as compared with 4.8 pounds required1 by an eqral number ou a ration of corn meal and rid diings. In other words, there was "a saving of thirty-six pounuds of fetd fol' ealch 100 pounids of gain made by the hogs. This shows a gan by grind'ng the corn to meal of 9.9 per cent.. or. .ay, ven ier cent. in round numberr. WhilJ, the dre ct advarage from grinding corn to meal was about seven per e lnt., in tlese experimets there was a second advantage secured in that the hogs getting corn meal made more rapid gains than those fed shelled corn.' VInes ill 'the Barnyard. The barn should never be built near the house. and whcrev:-r . is, t should he kept as sanitary as the house itself. A country barnyard should be as neat and tidy as the dooryard. There is no teason why vines should net grow over the walls and fences. and treecs shade the in closed animals. It is posible to ha.ve lilacs and mock oranges .growing around the barn as freely as about the shrubbery. Thle animals ar'e not any less ha ppy', and ene enu pick great bunches for. o:nesz'f and [riends. The D~ifl'rence in Uco-e. At one of the wester's ;-a~itutos a llpeaker ill dweliig upon th :e sub ject of how" little diffe:e'ce there was in the breeds of hog:: nowadays, said: "So many people~ want to know what is the~ best oreed of hogs. There is no rquarrel now upon this subject because when the hog is dead and thn head and ears are taken off. you can hardly toll one breed from ainother. There is really ittle difference between better known pure bred hogs, but there is a great difference between the pure bred hogs and thle razorback. Do not make friends with the razor back." Use of Ccoal Ashies. While coal ashes contaie no fer ailizing value they are cer'taiinly use ful on the farm and should be saved. They are not entirely valueless in the soil, for they will materially as sit in1 making a stiff clay soil more workable if well mixed with it. Tb'c best use for coal ashes, however, is in the filling inL of wet spots, sifting them and usingr the fine ashes in thre dust boxes in the poultry houses and the coarser plortions for the making of walks :alone or mixecd with gravel. They may be uIsed to advantage as a mulch around trees mainly for ihe ~upioso of keeping the soil moist and keeping the gr'as: i'om growinig around them. Good Tonics For Swine.. In one of its bulletins the Arkan sas station says tihat it is necessary to keep accessible to hogs iomne material that supplies lime and salt to aid in bone-buildin;;, as :en appe tizer, and to r'evw: intes;tinal par'a sites. This inixture should he kept in a stronn. box urotected from rain, and'l the quantity and freqluenecv withl wich pigs wlvsrau : ft: fo)i:gUwing is I :1e mi:xtur 'c a?~ t wast I as:e1't; cioUn :ai:., i'iar :undas; vnhen o~'niartss, :md dry be.d t:'e< r dust shlter ini witn e. :md lags ldaz it wvii nm. heco:ne to:~ lT z C ~ v C' I'0 'i sj-U tin. upoX ,': .: are kepbt. duzre:.; w~nar upont som: brus are "ro *i'-* with ::ny men.: fo' ventilati~o.,, a. c'ernsequently thb aua impa:-I', ecaily du;~!'rin:; t'n uarteis a'e n't ke clean. or, least, not "'s chIa aitthey shocik be J)ring tbe - . i " er :t, wheItn th results in a condition of affairs bet ter imagined than expressed in words. The manure is often piled in such places and in such q-antities that the inevitable results is the contamination of the air in the cows' quarters. The barn yards are often quaking quagmires that can not be crossed unless one wears high rubber boots or is on a raft. Look Out For Weak Fowls. At this season of the year it pays to look the flock ove': carefully and to week. out any hens or chicks that are not promising. One will find many that are not sick, but are of a nature that grows slowly and are not at all likely to amount to much at the next laying season. See to it that such birds are not sick, but. if they are in good. health get them by themselves and prepare them. for market in the manner that will land them there at the smallest ex pense, yet in the best -ossible con dition. They may need a little grain, but it will pay to feed it and in enough variety to give them a good appe tite for the corn which is to fatten them off. * Too many of these birds which will not amount to anything. * are raised yearly, and the- 'wofst of the plan is that their eggs are used, to a greater or less extent, for breed ing, and a race of undesirable birds perpetuated.-Indianapolis News. Care of Sheep. Sheep should be turned out every pleasant day for exercise and fresh air. Do not expect them to get a living from the frost-bitten grass that they may find, as a little of it will not hurt them and may do them good, but it cannot be a nourishing I food. A few oats, a little bran, and If their roughage is of inferior qual ity a little cornmeal every day will' do them good, helping them to bring beter lambs and grow more wool.. Plenty of water where they can go to it as they please, for when on dry feed they like to drink little and of ten, and they want it always clean. A sheep will go loDg without water rather than to drink that which is not clean. Give them bedding enough to keep their sheds dry and clean, and plenty of pure air. Cold does not hurt them when they have on their winter coats, but keep them dry, with thv fleece free from rain or snow. If there are any weakly I ones separate them and give better feed for a time. Allow no crowding through narrow gates or docrs. American Cultivator. Culture of Vines. The first point to notice in vine culture is the difference between prmanent and ternporfgry vines. The woody ones like ampelopsis, Virginia creeper and wistaria, which ought to last a lifetime, are natu rally slow to start. They an~, in fact, comparable to trees in this respect as well as in cost and the thoroughness with which the soil should be prepared for them. Since their roots are to go twenty or thir ty feet deep or more, the poor soil. to a depth of four feet should be trown away and replaced by good soil, and the ground should be liber ally provided with well-rotted 'ma nure or with commercial fertilizers.' If properly planted the permanent vines will require no attention for the first two years excep'. a little pruning. .After that time the strong growers must be kept within proper bounds. It is usually easy to keep vines in good condition by cutting them back a few feet every year. Nearly all of the permanent 7ines Iwill stand any amount of pruning except wistaria wvhich does best if 'allowed to grow year after year without pruning. The commonest mistake in prun ing vines is to allow them to grow for five or six years without any. pruning whatsoever. This is why you see on porches everywhere vines that are top-heavy, i. e., which have a mass of foliage at the top and scarcely any at the base. This is, 1of course, absurd, for the purpose of. growing vines is to screen un sightly buildings and it also has the disadvantage on a porch of furnish iug a hiding place1 for mosquitoes and of littering the porch with leaves which fall before their time. If vines are headed back from. one to four feet every year from the seond to the eighth year, it should Ibe entirely unnecessary to sweep the porch every morning so far as fallen leaves are concerned. The reason why these leaves fall in July and - August is that a top-heavy vine is so crowded that the sunshine can not enter the mass of foliage and ripen the leaves. The vines bear more :caves than they can ripen and it s those imper fcctly ripened leaves that fall prematurd'Iy. The next most important points u vine. culture 'are to determine nhther the vine needs artificial sup port or not, and, if so, of what kind; whether you want a' foliage effect or a flowering effect, how high vou want the vines to grow, and whether ere is any danger of damaging our property in any way. For examnple. ampelosis requires nosppr on any surface whatever. It wll rowa hundred feet high, a veranda as a Ilowvering vine which os not grow so talL Mo~rger, any ine that grows twenty feet high or muore may cause soet-ouble if it is grown dire.ctly on1 a frms house. X ou may want * reove the vines in order to paint te hiouse. You can do this easily ic any -;ind that requires artifi c a' suport, but it is impossible or LLicul t with anything that 'is self supportLing like amlpelopsis.-In Asa Dekluge, who has. been chosen ~idL of tht Apache Indiansb to sue ce a Gce-onime;, is a graduate of the Id~in ser~col at Carlisle, and has -"-a inlee with his5 ti. -