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zThe Great American Hen. ' ' Some one has figured that the American hen each year earns enough to buy all the silver and gold dug out of the mines, ail the sheep in the country and their wool, and leave a balance equal to the entire year's crop of rye; barley, buckwheat and potatoes. Or, as a hen enthusiast writes in Farming, "she pays the interest on all the farm mortgages,rays the entire state and county taxes of the whole Union and then leaves a balance large enough to give every man, woman and child in the United States a dollar." ?? Cutting Silo Corn, v, It is of primary importance to know at what stage corn should be cut to secure the best results. It is also necessary it is pointed out in Farming, that a careful study l>e made as to how rapidly nutriment is stored up in the corn plant and when the maximum amount is reached. When corn is fully tasseled it contains but eight-tenths of a ton of dfy matter an acre cr onepi'' fifth of what it contains when fullyripe. When in milk it contains near":ly three times as much dry matter as i .when fully tasseled. Only seventeen days were occupied in passing from the ,milk to the glazing stage, yet in this time there was an increase in the dry matter of 1.3 tons an acre. This shows the great advantage of letting the corn stand until the kernels are glazed. After this period the increase in dry matter is but slight. ;*v. Contaminated Grass. . An inspection of grass and clover seed, undertaken by the Vermont Agricultural Experiment station, has very great significance for farmers who buy ,iheir seeds in the open market; for It ptlainly appears that much of the ' seed so sold is of very inferior quality. The Vermont station authorities, acting in conjunction with the bureau of plant industry, of the United States ';*j' . Department of Agriculture, examined J35 lots of seed, representing fourteen varieties, and found them all more or less contaminated by the seeds of weed ~anm?flmM harmloca hut rvften HaId. Serious, to say nothing of inert foreign matter, dirt and chaff. Samples of closer seeds were found to contain 13,,000 weed seeds to the pound, one sam. pie including 16,000 seeds of the red ; jplantajn. The tests also involved exami nation of the germinating power, which was often found to be low. & \ . f".; Save Falling Leaves. i When the leaves begin to fall, do not jborn them. Save all of them. They y , make the humus that by and by beg; - comes soil, and is of immense value in all its stages of change. The mcst irrational work ever done by a human being is to take what Nature has spent 'the whole summer in creating for him, and throw it hack into its elemental ^conditions. These leaves are Nature's jcontribution, and her very best con 'f tribution to man's wealth. They are ; naturally spread all over the lawns ;each year, as a winter protection; and after they have accomplished that mission they are worked over into a compost of humus. As a rule do not rake . Ithem too completely off the lawns. The ?? jleaves you do take instead of burning, use for banking up buildings, for that . '.will save coal; to cover or bank plants; for stable bedding; or on the floors of ! henhouses, and in rooms where the . hens may scratch during the winter. ?Indianapolis News. f \ Eat More Apples* ' Farmers and others who have a good apple orchard handy will be interested in what "Naturopath" has to say about their value for medicinal purposes: Apple eating, especially before retiring, is .very beneficial to health. Apples are | very nutritious, for they contain more J phosphoric acid than any oter fruit | or vegetable. If eaten before retiring the brain and liver will be benfited; undisturbed sleep is produced; the odor of the mouth is disinfected; the super- | fluous acids of the stomach are restrained; hemorrhoidal disturbances are paralyzed; secretion of the kidneys is accelerated, and the formation of stone prevented. The eating of apples -- " ? a ?u_ IB also an exceiiem, picvcumc ui indigestion, and of certain forms of throat troubles. This stray verse emphasizes the suggestion: Apple a day, keeps the doctor away; Apple at night, starve him outright; Apple each meal and one for sleep? Kill him and shroud him and bury him deep! Winter Dairying. Winter dairying is each year growing in favor witji farmers. They have found that the cost of keeping a winter milker is very little more than of keeping a cow that is to calve in the spring. The cows in the summer milked dairy will be drying off in November and by December the dairy will be a dry one, unprofitable, yet requiring a great amount of feed and care. How much better it is to have the cows oome in fresh in October, keep them . well fed and in comfortable stables 'fc, wo ' . ' rw;.. -?i r I and secure a uniform flow of milk through the winter until grass comes again. This work lias been made easier since the silo has come into use, and plenty of succulent feed is always at hand. When an old dairyman comes to real ize what it cost him in the past to winter an unproductive dairy?the labor and the thousands of tons of hay expended to bridge the dairy from one season to another, just to get the cows to cheap grass and low prices?it looks like a fortune gone. Now, by the later plan, the cows are most largely pro| ductive when the food they consume is dearest and prices best. Potatoes for Poultry. A writer in "Mirror and Farmer" believes in potatoes for poultry, fed in connection with some other food to balance the ration. They should be boiled, but need not be mashed unless one prefers, as the smallest chick can pick them to pieces. If mashed, however, and a suitable mess made of them, they will be better relished. After cooking them take ten pounds of potatoes, four pounds of bran, one pound of linseed meal, one-half pound of bone meal and one ounce of salt, and mix the whole, having the mess as dry as possible, using no water unless compelled. Such a meal should answer at night for one hundred hens, and the morning meal should consist of five, pounds of lean meat chopped. Hens so fed should lay and pay well, as the food is composed of the required elements for producing eggs, and also for creating warmth of body in winter. The morning feed seems hardly sufficient for a flock of 100 unless it is assumed that it is in addition to a grain ration. The Gleaner would also prefer to feed the mash in the morning, with grain towards night, especially in winter. A crop full of in ash to go to roost with would naturally get a bit "clammy" in a zero night Presumably, however, 'the experiment has given satisfactory results. Sugar Beets in France. "The aloohol which is used in France," says Consul-General Mason, of Paris, "for various industrial purposes is manufactured mainly from sugar beet root, the material being either the refuse molasses from ^ugar factories or beets which by reason of unfavorable weather, inferior soil or other causes, contain only a small proportion?I to 6 percent?of sugar. Potatoes and grain are also used to some extent for distilling purposes, but to a relatively much less extent than in Germany. "The French government, like that of Germany, was attracted by the idea that if the manufacture and use of denatured alcohol could be sufficiently stimulated and extended there would not only b$ added an important product to home agriculture, but the country would be provided in case of war with a native grown fuel for military vehicles and other important purposes which would not be imperiled by the interruption of an imported supply of petroleum products. Accordingly, the minister of commeroe and .agriculture organized a special exposition and offered prizes for the most effective types of alcohol motors, both stationary and pertable, for motor vehicles, and agricultural machinery, as well as alcohol lamps, stoves and other fixtures for domestic use.*' Maintaining Fertility. ' There are several things the farmer must take into consideration when he sets about to learn how to maintain the fertility of his soil, writes C. D. rs?ui. ?? The firct annul ill tut; L/uiuvaivi. is, what to raise and what not to raise, what to sell from the farm and what not to sell. There are some crops that require less fertility than other crops and still bring the farmer as much money. There are some crops that sell for practically no more than other cwps, yet they take from the soil two or three times as much fertility. There are some products that can be procured cn the farm, which when sold will remove practically no fertility from the soil. However they can be sold for as much or more than crops that draw heavily on the supply of fertility on the soil. Corn or wheat removes a great deal of fertility from the soil. To produce an acre of corn it requires over S17 worth of fertility. To sell $500 worth of corn and corn forage from a farm will mean a loss of more than $350 worth of plant food. To pr.oduce an acre of wheat it requires no less than $10 worth of fertility, and to sell $500 worth of wheat and burn the straw in the stack as is done by some readers of The Journal of Agriculture in the Southwest, would mean a loss to the soil of no less than $250 worth of fertility, while if $500 worth of butter is sold from the farm no more than $2 worth of fertility is taken to market with the butter. If $500 worth of fat cattle are sold, the amount of fertility removed will, of course, tie more than that by butter, but in no case will it be as great as that removed the grains. " . "T ? Ttf- - . V - - ^ TV "AFTER OIL WAS STRUCK ! USES TO WHICH NEWLY RICH PUT THEIR MONEY. A $1,500 Bull the Purchase of One West Virginia Farmer?Patent Leather Shoes the Desire of Another Grateful Father and Sons Bought an Axe for "Mother." In West Virginia many persons have suddenly become well to do through the finding of oil on their barren farm land, says the New York Sun. The effects of wealth on these newly rich ones have been curious. One old section nana living neai Mannington owned a little house and a very small plot of ground. A firm of drillers made the customary bargain with him; and planted their derrick right alongside his house. They struck oil, and they struck it rich. The well developed an output of about 200 barrels a day. The old section hand's share ammounted to something like $37.50 a day. This is not so bad for a man who had never earned more than $1.25 a day in his life. He threw up his job on the railroad and now he just sits on his porch day in and day out and watches the slow movements of the great wooden walking beam of the pump that is drawing for him from nature's wealth a sum each day totally beyond his capacity to spend. At this time of life there is little likelihood of his ac?tVint urnnl/T mnITP quiring new ladies iuui, his money of use. An old farmer living near Volcano, on the Parkersburg branch of the Baltimore and Ohio, had a few acres of barren land, and he willingly allowed some prospectors to put down a well on his property. A gusher was struck, and the farmer's share of the oil soon amounted to $2,000, which sum all in cash was turned over to him. A dollar in cash had been an unusual sum for him to hate at one time, and the sudden possession of so much money filled him with a desire to spend some of it. He donned his best suit of jeans and took the next morning's accommodation train for Parkersburg. After wandering about that city all day looking for a suitable investment he finally pafd $1,500 for a finely bred bull! There was just about as much use on his farm for a bull as there would be In the proverbial china shop. The sterile soil of his farm did not produce enough blades of grass to furnish the bull with one good feed, and the farmer had no other food fit for his purchase. When asked by his neighbors why in the world he had made such a use of his money he simply replied: "Well, I had to spend the money somehow!" At the bottom of a piece of farm land on the side of . a mountain lived J il- - T a snaKe nunter, as me ncsi iutu mountain farmer is nicknamed, in a little log hut. The daily far? of this man and his family has never been anything other than the {far-famed) "combread and sow belly." In summer he went barefooted, while heavy rawhide boots covered his feet when cold weather came. Oil was struck on his farm in suchquantities that the farmer's share promised soon to make him the wealthiest man for miles around. As soon as the Urst installment of cash was paid over to him he was seized with the desire to spend. He made arrangements to pay the town a visit Using shank's mare, his sole means of conveyance, by the way, he took a short cut across the mountains uqtil he reached the small railroad town that meant metropolis to him, and the very first thing he bought was a pair of patent leather shoes! Perhaps the best example of all the embarrassment caused these folk by the sudden acquisition of wealth was the case of a family of mountaineers back in Calhoun county. This family consisted of father, mother and four grown sons. Every member of the household burdens, but the work of chopping all the wood as well. This latter duty is not a light task by any means. I Tha father and his sons were good examples of the West Virginia sengdiggers?that is, diggers of ginseng roots. Between times they would hunt with rifles sixty years old, with barrels six feet in length and weighing from fifteen to twenty pounds, with which all of them were dead shots; any one of the men could easily knock out the eye of a skuirrel at the top of the highest tree. - But very little work of any kind did they condescend to do, and year after year they spent their time thus, living in their old log house of one room, without seeing $10 in cash from one year's end to the other. Then wealth came. Prospectors traced oil until it led to the neighborhood of the old log house, and a well was driven on the place, upon the usual terms. A gusher resulted, and when the money for the first month's output was placed in the - .1 -LU - hands or tne iamer me vcijr ui0i> thing he and the boys thought of was that something must be bought for "Mother." So, after a long consultation, they finally decided to buy her a new axe. But there are a few cases of hard luck amid this good fortune. One of these fell to the lot of some railroad engineers the other day. Fifty of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad engineers on the fifth division, which runs through the oil country from Grafton to Parkersburg, formed a pool, into which each paid a certain sum, and then sent out a crew to prospect for oil. Several wells were sunk but no oil came to the surface. It is true that \ '' \ one of the wells developed Into a "gasser"?that is, natural gas poured forth with a roar that could be heard a mile away, wasting daily enough gas to illuminate a small village and at the same time furnish heat sufficient to do the cooking for all its inhabitants?a well which, if placed within the limits of a town, would be worth a fortune to its owner, but down in that country of little value. Discouraged, thirty of the fifty engineers dropped out of the pool. They thought it would be too much like sending good money after bad to continue. The other twenty men resolved to give it one more trial and the very wrt.ll tnrA nr tVirOP WP^lv'5 11CAU WCilj liuiou^u inv v/* *.**? v-w " - ago, proved to be a bonanza yielding three hundred barrels a day. X-RAYS DYED THE HAIR. Odd Results of Light Used to Cure Disease. Dr. Imbert, professor in the medical faculty at Montpelier, and Dr. Marques, his head laboratory assistant, according, to L'lllustration, have been busying themselves daily with medical applications of X-rays. They were tolerably surprised, to find that the beard and hair (Which were almost white) of one of them were progressively becoming colored, to the point even of shortly assuming a hue deeper than the original one. On the other hand, in the case of a man of 55 whom the two professors treated with X-rays for a lupus affecting the left cheek, the hair turned strongly gray. During the first months of treatment they had refrained from limiting by a screen 4-VyN <"*? ? IO AA +A Kft T]lO hOlT* liiU OUliauc CU UU mauiaiou. xuv mvm* for several centimeters around the left ear fell; of the hairs of the moustache, further withdrawn from the blister, no appreciable irradiation was noticed. The hair grew almost black again near the ear, its color plainlyweakening in proportion to the distance from it. Likewise the left half of the mustache had assumed a hue less white than the right half. The hair has not been subjected to the Xrays for several months, and it is frequently cut, but it remains black. Other observations authorize Messrs. Imbert and Marques to declare that under the influence of X-rays light hair assumes a deeper shade. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. In Italy you can tell where the peasant women come from by the size of their earrings. The southerners wear the longest. A singular birth custom prevailing In Yorkshire is mentioned by, a contributor. In parts of th9 West Riding, he says, it is quite common for visitors to a house in which a new baby has appeared to carry with them as an offering to the infant a new laid egg, some salt, a piece of bread and in some cases a penny. . ? Potatoes are dug by machinery. They are sorted and sacked by a new asppliance. Spreading manure by improved machinery is no new thing in the great west Only a few years, and the western farmer will have all the modern conveniences of the city home, and can operate his farm and care for his stock with as much preciseness and system as is required in the best regulated business house. The tortoise is a great sleeper. One was a domestic pet in an English house, and* when his time for hibernating came he selected a corner of the dim coal cellar for his winter quarters. A new cook was engaged soon after who knew nothing of tortoises. In a few months the tortoise woke up and sallied forth. Screams soon broke the kitchen's calm. On entering that department the lady of the house found the cook gazing in awestruck wonder and exclaiming, as with un steady hand she pointed to the tortoise: "My conscience! Look at the stone which I've broken the coal wi' a' winter!" . At the close of a banquet given by the Maharajah of Gwallor to the Prince of Wales a centrepiece in the form of a temple and decorated with electric lamps and flowers was hoisted in the ceiling by pulleys, and revealed a perfect model railway on the table underneath. The locomotive' and train was eight feet long, and carried decanters, cigars, cigarettes and matches. The train was started by closing an electrical circuit. As long as this was closed by a spring the train moved, but the lifting of a decanter or box of cigars resting on the spring allowed it to act, thus breaking the circuit and stopping the train. Capt. John Smith, the founder of Virginia, at different times, made expeditions along the coast as far as Maine. He visited the Isles of Shoals in New Hampshire, which were formerly called "Smith's Isles," and on which a monument is now erected to his memory. It was he who first gave the name of "New England" to that part of the country; and the names of "Plymouth" and "Cape Ann" and "Charles River" apipear first on a map made by him. He also made expeditions into the interior of the country. On one of these he was made prisoner by the Indians, and his few comipanions were killed. He, however, amused his captors by showing them hia compass, and by explaining to them the movements of the earth and sun, so that they spared him. On the day of the production of his new play, "The Bondman," Hall Caine said to an interviewer: "Think of me worn with anxiety, rambling about the streets and praying for the fall of the curtain!" v . . * - ' : ' S I Wonder. I wonder if the dead, the dear loved dead, Unto T\hose memories we unchanging cling, Return to us, that we be comforted, And a sweet healing bring. Ah! Who can answer? But, when twilight falls, And. a great hush drops on the world and me A sound of air, a-stir, my soul enthralls, And?almost?wings I. see. ?Annie G. Murray. The Earth's Surface. Two sisters, one tipping the scales at two hundred pounds or more, and the other slight to extreme slimness, but very beautiful, were being introduced at a reception. "What's her name?" whispered one young man to a friend, referred to the slim sister. "I didn't catch it." "Virginia," answered the friend. "Virginia!" repeated the young mar in apparent surprise. "Then her sister must be the whole United States!" ?Irippincott's Magazine. Wrongfully Accused. The principal of the school was talking with him about his boy. "By the way, Mr. Wipedunks," he said: "I have made a discovery aboul Jerry. He's ambidextrous." "I don't see how that can be." re plied Mr. Wipedunks, with rising in dignation: "he hain't never been ex posed to it. Besides, he was vaccinal ed lasf year, . we bathe him reg'lai every weey, and his mother always has him wear a little bag of assafldditj tied around his neck. Some of ths older boys has been lyin' on him,"? Home Magazine. Italy's Young King. The young king Victor Emmanuel DI. has been a revelation to his peo pie. Long before King Humbert wai cruelly assassinated, reports wen circulated that the heir to the thront was intellectually a weak man, i know-nothing, and it was commoi talk that he would never be allowed bj the Italians to reign over them. The unexpected happened, as it so oftei does. King Humbert was murderec on the 29th of July, 1900. His son as sumed his rights without the slightesi hint of trouble, and he has proved U be as intelligent, conscientious ant judicious a sovereign as United Italj has had.?St Nicholas. Animals That Weep. Travelers through the Syrian deser have seen horses weep from thirst, i mule has been seen to cry from th( pain of an injured foot, and camels, i is said, shed tears in streams. A cov sold by its mistress who had tendet it from calfhood wept pitifully. A young soko ape used to cry from vex ation if Livingstone didn't nurse it ii his arms when it asked him to a 1 JI-J an/ wounaea apes nave uieu uvuis, apes wept over their young ones slaii by hunters. A chimpanzee trainee to carry water jugs broke one, anc fell a-crying, which proved sorrow though it wouldn't mend the jug Rats, discovering their ' younj drowned, have been movee} to teari of grief. A giraffe which a hunts man's rifle had injured, began to cr: when approached. Sea lions oftei weep over the loss of their young Gordon Cummings observed tear trickling down the face of a dying ele phant And even an orang-outang when deprived of its mango was s< vexed that it took to weeping. Ther< is little doubt, therefore, that animals do cry from grief or weep from paii or annoyance.?Harper's Weekly. * The Artful Squirrel. You may find many a squirrel ii the course of your tramp, but no tw< alike exactly in their method of at tempted escape or concealment Th< ways and means of the little rascali are legion. One may flatten himsel out against a gray patch on the bad of a tree trunk, absolutely motionless and unless in your earnest, steadfas looking you can detect an ear or i rnllaf ggrolnst tho flltV Vfll DiiUUlUCl XXX iCiUVl ^ might as well abandon search. An other may lie along a bough Hattene< . at full length, but here the telltal< ears are more easily silhouetted. Stil another may crouch drawn up in i fork, and here the thing to look for li the fluffy tip of that little signal flaj which always works and waves an< jerks and signals so bravely whei danger is not in the air. Or one ma: gather himself up in a bunch to imi tate a knot or a knob, and here he cai very well tell when you have spie< him out. He will catch your eye even as you catch the eye of an ac quaintance in a crowd, and will. in stantly limber up for headlong flight leaping from tree to tree, till he van ishes over the ridge.?Field an< Stream. The Poodle Howled. Bonnie lived in a boarding house - - ~ - - - ? J fix and IT you nave never oeen a uem m tie white poodle In a boarding housi you can hardly understand how ver: hard it is to love all the boarders jus alike. Bonnie was a gentie, loving lit tie fellow, and nearly every one love< him, but there was one woman wh< did not love Bonnie, and Bonnie sweet tempered as he was, could no love that woman. It may have beei because Miss Benedict was very near sighted,and could not see how ver: canning Bonnie looked curled up in i little while ball on the stairs. In fac she didn't see him at all, and almos steeped on him. and when he barke( r> " . 1 was so frightened that she almost ; *;: ,; slipped the rest of the ^way down- .'" to stairs. After that time' Bonnie at _ ways howled whenever Miss Bene* diet?which was the lady's name? rcame in sight. More than that he it ways howled mournfully every time her name was mentioned, and if he heard a caller in the hall inquire for ' ^Miss Benedict he would set up a heart-rending howl, which he would v ^|| keep up until the caller wa^ gone. Bonnie's mistress told Bonnie that ~\M something must be done/ for she- J?%} could not have him annoying Missi'' Benedict so. Finally Bonnie agreed to run into a far corner of a clr set Inr ! the hall every time he heard. -Miss & > Benedict step or heard her name men- > tioned. It was a funny sight to see Bonnie run for the closet every time t a caller came to see Miss Benedict or . he heard her step. The closet had a ' swing door, and the minute the hated ' name was heard he would shoot lor the closet, and there in a comer he would sit and howl softly till Miss , Benedict was gone. / ; Eating His Way. ' ,V ; Freddie despised the multiplication " table. It made you ache all over to ^ - ^ . say your tables. And you couldn't ' :/.j? . remember. Mamma got up and went out of the ? ' > . room. When she came back, she had a glass jar of tiny candles. She was ' ; opening it, and pouring out a splen^"vV? $ r did heap on the tablecloth. , v > "Now," said she, brightly, "here . five little candy dots in a row. Here , . are eight rows. How many candy j "Yes. Now make seven times, five Jl and four times five and the rest t, \ 5 When you have made the whole table, ti'K 0] j learn it. When you have learned It, ^ . y | It was the most splendid way to ' r learn your table. Freddie went to ' . ; ; i work with a will, and when the teach' V. 1 er?that is, mamma?said "Schools . " V:;; . out" he had learned his five table. He v, - .y didn't"eat It till after school. > rt The next day they went back; jjj j reviewed the two tables, and the next I day after the three, and the next day " t'tt r after, that the four. > 3 ^ One day the next door twins' teach* ; - v) er-was making their mother a call, > Freddie was making one on the next^ p > "Don't you go to school, little boy?" ; j( 1 the teacher asked him. ? "Oh. yes'm," politely. "Oh, you do? Well, I suppose you _ It ^ r think the multiplication ?table Is per- -~ ^. * fectly dreadful, too?" she asked, smfl* '; J ? "Oh, no'm," eagerly. "I'm very fond ; ui mine. ,.; : indeed! How far along are i "I've only eaten as far as s^vwav - ^ J times seven yet," said Freddie. And. . he went home wondering why the ; / v next door twins' teacher had opened f ' her eyes so wide.?Annie H. DonneU* vj * in Youth's Companion. ~ 3|| 3 Mrs. Betty's Singing Class. Mrs. Betty was an Important ow 7 sonage in Miss Hunter's out-of-town . ,* 1 "Establishment for Young Ladies," J * and when it became known that she'" ' 3 was falling off in b.er special line, " there was much anxiety. Even Miss ' Hunter, who knew everything, was at , : c; * at her wits' end. Mrs. Betty was ajp3 parently well, and seemed to havw 3 nothing on her mind, but she waanot'. - .$"'M 1 doing her duty, and neither argument nor persuasion oouio iwvo uct. had one virtue, however?she was fond of young people, always looking i around and nodding wheh the girls \%} 5 came in to inquire how she was,-and, . - it was during Mildred's visit early one 7,; ?: - morning that u, stidden discovery 3 made, which wrought a strange aid' 4 f speedy cure. Indeed, Mrs. Betty has ^8 c Mildred to thank, for otherwise she . might have lost a good position?a ae< , -t t rious thing to a lady of her limited .. :v/ i On this particular day she heard ^ : : - Mildred singing, and the sweet, child1 is voice had a remarkable effect on 3 her; she turned her head and gazedi at" 1 the visitor with a pleased expression i * in her mild eyes. It was evident 3 she had an ear for music; the much-. ; y I enduring maid grew quite excited, for i Mrs. Betty seemed more like her old, , ~ t \ i docile self. f "Go on with your singing, Miss Mil-' - dred," she cried; "It's like old times? * it is. See!" 'She pointed to the pail " 1 now rapidly filling with the rich milk, which up to this moment, Mrs. Betty had refused to yield in any but the - smallest quantities. Much elated, <, Mildred sang on. Mrs. Betty's dun- . ; * colored head moving rhythmically to :J?' 1 the music, as she stood patiently der the maid's skilful hand. By this time a crowd of girls and teachers had gathered in the cowshed to won[ der at the result. "It Is certainly strange," said MlS8-v'-^^^ 5 Hunter. "I've heard that in Switseivr^^^p f land this pecnliarity. among cows J?^\ t well known; all the milkmaids aregood singers. We shall have to teach W :; I you, Bridget," she added with' a*' ^ 53 > smile. f, "-Shure, an' the young leddles can t do me job," answered Bridget, with a -; i grin, and her suggestion was followed - enthusiastically, the girls begging to j .take turns, and thus It was proven bei yond a doubt that music had a melt- 4 t ing influence and filled the milk pali ; t So It was decided to give Mrs. Better. K-; 1 the singing class.