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-RI W TRI WEEKLY EDITICs WINNSBORO. S.C.. MAY 31, 1900,. ETABLISHEFD 1844. DON'T LET THE SONG C Don't let the song ao out of your life Though it chaneo sometimes to flow In a minor strain, it will blend again With the major tone. you know. What though shadows rise to obscure lifu's skies, And hide for a time the sun; 3y sooner will lift and reveal the rift, It-you let the meiody run. Don't let the song go out of your life; Thouah your voice may have lost its trill. Though the tre:nulous note should die in the throat. Let it sing in your spirit -till. There is never a pain that hides not some gain, And never a cup of rue So bitter to sup but what in the cup Lurks a measure of sweetness too. Honora The strong sunshine which poured through the skylight of the big studio was tempered and diffused by a white mnslin screen painted with blue drag ons, while tall vases, plaster bas re 1%K bits of odd tapestry, a palm tree org a brass tea urn and a luxuri _Ou#ivan with pillows three deep - ve the room an air at once artiuic ALan ' ewinine. Five young women -or standing atlha easele, Vbincharc6il sticks, others pesero'their thumbs, all in natmastering the difficulties of f&e " values" -or "planes," isth, with her hair unbound earing a flowing red robe, rep esented their idea of a Moorish hero ne. Outside the buzz and roar of New York throbbed on the afternoon elevated trains shrieked and street calls rose and fell, gardy on the next corner t a once popular tune, but oticed these noises any more country plowboy notices the hing all day through the ehill. rest, Nora," announced d while the wor- . theirti ewi d ti ongra a '' =. ra's Jace. Goodnes -t in thiatI" she thought, straightening herself. " Dick, Dick! What would you say if knew.?" "You pose: ve-ry well ; you've done Rtbeforeao doubt," observed one of Sgirli-in a tone of serene patron yge, bat Miss Haviland broke in kind ly, before Honora had time to reply: Th, no," she said, "Nora isn't a regular 'model. She just came to oblige us, didn't you, Nora ?" "Pose ! " cried Grace Hunt in a ear, high voice, consulting her th;the captive's diumple disap ared ;she hastily resumed her sta tion and attitude, and the sorrowvful look agai crept over her face. The young ladies returned to their stools, and for some moments nothing was heard but the squeaking of charcoal and the scraping of paillette knives. " The line of the neck is good1, but she's distinctly toothin, and her arms are unsatisfactory," dezlared Mirs. Tremaine, selecting a flat brush and squeezing some raw sienna out of a tube. She was a young widow, ma tronized the apartmzent andl spoke ex actly as if the girl had been a lay fig ure or a block of wood. "Your nose is to' long and you are an ill man~nere1 iceberg also," thought Honora, vindictively, with such a rush of blood to her cheeks that severely heightened the tint of their portraits with a touch of rose-madder. Honora went homne that night with $2 in hey' pocket and insulted pride in her heart. Home for her now was a mere closet under the roof of a neigh boring apartment house. " Who is she, anyway?'" asked Grace, carelessly, as the friends com pared canvases after the model's de parture. " She has a stunning head of hair. You say she is not a profes sional ?" " Oh, no; she's a girl who has done plain sewing for Mrs. Lawvrence, on the fifth floor. I happened to see her there and thought she looked paint able. Sue needed the money, I guess, by the look of her hollow eves," an sw~ered 3Miss Haviland, half remorse fully. A month passed after the pictures were finished, and the fair students of the Iverness did not see Honora --- never thought of her. Early one SJanuary morning, however, the pri vate bell rang and Elizabeth went to the doo:.. "Why, how do you do-ah-Katy, no, Nora, isn't it?" she said, with' her kindly smile. "So you want to pose forn us again, do you ? But you look thin, have you been ill ?" ____ "No, thank you; I'm quite well. I '. would rather not pose, but I thought Uyou might have some sewving for me -- possibly' - one of you ladies," stain iered Honora. -"Well, sit down and I'll speak to b.e others." The girl sank into a chair in the dark little corridor, for her limbs trembled under her. 3Iiss SHavilar d, when she camne back, ap peared somewvhat at a loss for the right word herself. "We don't seem to have much in the way of sewing," she began, but .i suspect that Providence may have sent you to our relief, after all. You know~ four of us girls-the four that you saw-live here with Mr-s. Tre mai in a suite of rooms. and we've8 0 OUT OF YOUR LIFE. !o )on': let the song go out of your life; a Ah: it never would need to go, :f with thought more true and a broader view We looked at this life below. 4 3h, why should we moan that life's spring time ha ilown, Or sigh for the lair summer time? c The autumn hath days filled with pmans of i praise. And the winter hath bells that chime. Don't let the song go out of your life; c Let it ring in the soul while here. And when you go hence it shall follow you thence And sing on in another sphere. C Then do iiot despond and say that the fond, Sweet songs of your life have flown, For if ever you knew a song that was true, c Its music is still your own. t --Kate It. Stiles. in Boston Transcript. 's H it. been housekeeping by turns, getting our breakfast and lunch and taking E dinner at the cafe. But we are all tired of the arrangement, and we've 1 been thinking if we could get some nice" -Miss Haviland hesitated - "refined young woman to cook the meals and keep everything comfort able, it would be a good idea all round. Can you cook ?" "Yes." Honora's tongue really wouldn't say ma'am, so she made it "Miss Haviland " instead. "Then what do you say .to trying it ? We put ont the laundry work, so it would be easy housekeeping," and the young artist went on to speak of t wages and the usual " Saturday after noons." The candidate asked for an hour to f consider the matter. She walked up to the park and sat down on one of. the wooden benches near the Fifty ninth street entrance. Honora thought ow she had come to the city only (dur months ago, fired with the 1 a ms of a larger life, and utterly ig- 2 anrant of its difficulties, disappoint- e nts and perils. She thought of the s ne start she had made, her con troubr-Z.ted rom#I.a&day, f Iwas promptly accepteand the check which came back seemed to open out a dazzling prospect of wealth, fame and a "career." One or two later entures proved equally fortunate, nd then nothing would do but go to New York and try her fortune. Of course her elders remonstrated, but Honora's strong will and abundant relish for adventure carried the day. Dick stormed, protested and implored - but what was a six-rco'm cottage, t even with Dick, to a girl stage struck r for the tr'iunmphs of a world theatre? ' Of the succeeding months Honora 1 did not like to think - their pitiless lessons were still gall to her spirit. Enouigh to say that she had left the I expensive boarding house, and, too prond to confess her straits or ask i hell) from home, taken the poorest r of lodgings. Even so, withi a needle i instead of a pen in her hand, the i stuggle was too hard, the battle was against her. At this point in her meditations Honora jumped upl anid said to her' self, resolutely: "I'll (do it ! It's better than starv ing, better than posing and better than destroying my eyes and ruining my temper by' sewing 14 hours a day.C I'll let them call me Nora and thinkt i's mue Oirish unme," she declared, under her breath, "and I'il give them some first rate Yankee c'ooking and go t to the free lectures and concerts and a the museums, so that my time won't I be all wasted. .I'll take upl my de- c spised diary again, and when I get home in .June I'll make a clean breast to )-ick" t "Nora," said Mrs. Tremaine ono r May morning, shaking out the folds of her gown, "I expect a gentleman from Philadelphia to din ncr tonight, so lay an additional plate and have something a little extra, will you, and pretty flowers'9" for "Elizabeth's pro tegee " was trusted now even to choose the bouquets. " He's the edi tor of 'Pettingill's,' " she said, turn ing to Grace. "A remarkable man!" Nora's heart gave a little flutter, but it died out immediately. The gentleman duly arrived, and between the ice and coffee he observed to his hostess: "Cousin Laura, I came to town today partly to see one of our contributors. Last winter a manu script reached the office which struck I us all as something quite extraordin ay. It was in the form of a diar'y, puporting to have been found in the roomi of an unknown girl who lost her< reason from sheer stat'vation in a I welto-do q1uarter of Gotham. She is I a Down East girl, with literary ambi tions, and in her loneliness keeps one I of those voluminess journals that no 1 one really w-rites nowadays with won derful freshness and country wvit. It might have been written for her mo:her's eyes, or a lover's, perhaps; it reveals her follies and her virtues< both with such perfect spontanec us ness. When literature fails he.r she tries sewing, and even posin'g for art i students, amnd she hits off the fine ladies and sisters of your craft with a i most delicious mixture of satire and enviousness. But through it all runs the tragi.' sense of the rushing power1 of her environment, closing upon her like the remorseless jaws of a tr .p. The last four entries describe her sen at food, after a grand dame fails to av her for the work she has done, nd it breaks off with the first inco erent ravings of coining insanity. I ever read anything more weird or owerful in its way than that last cry >r help." "Tell us who wrote it, quick !" ex laimed Grace, who felt a light break ig in on her. "That's an odd thing about it. 'he sketch was unsigned, and the ac oinpauying slip giving the author's ane and address was accidentally ast. We had it put in type and de ided to publish it, thinking that the criter would see and claim it. I have he advance sheets here, but yester .ay, by good luck, the missing paper urned up and I determined to run in nd explain matters to the presum bly irate lady in person. The ad ress, I believe, is in this neigebor ood ; the name" - Mr. Phillips took mt a memorandum slip and regarded t through his eyeglasses - "Miss lonora Graves. Why, what is it ? )o you know her ? " Fortunately Nora was in the kitchen turing the ensuing conversational cene. She took her laurels very quictly rhen they were placed tumultuously n her brow. Sitting among the girls rho welcomed her now as .a sister 'arti'st," she told them how the idea f transcribing her diary occurred to ier as a last resort in the midst of a tarving week, which came near to nding as tragically in reality as on aper. When no reply was received she ,ave up all literary projects, and ,asped the 3rst op'portunity that hai-ce threw in her way - no other an Miss Elizabeth's offer. But upon being hailed as a promis ag "lion," with a careerpening be re her, 'our Honora very frankly and mphatically disclaimed the idea. "I iight never subceed again,'' she said. 'This wasn't art, but plain truth, hich was forced out of me by the >inch of reality, and I don't want to ave the screw put on a second time. o; if New York. has done nothing Ise for me, at least it has tamed my inbition and taught me my place." "But what shall you do ? You avel incognito Arid sleeve, now that 9ohome a aveY!t ~enth in Manila, Philippine Islands. On a farm in West Virginia there is n apple tree which is eight feet five aches around. In 1880 85 bushels of pples were gathered from it, and sold t the apple house for $60. The tree 5 75 years old, and is still bearing. Some of the wooden churches of orway are fully 700 years old, and are till in an excellent state of preserva ion. Their timbers have successfully esisted the frosty and almost Arctic rinters because they have been re eatedly coated with tar. In Belgium organ grinders are comn elled by law to play each morning efore the police magistrate, who aust be satisfied that their instru 2ents are in tune. An organ which out of tune must be put in order efore a license is issued to the player. The practice of eating arsenic is very revalent amiong the peasautry of the ountainous distriets of Austria, Hun ary and France. They declare that his poison enables them to ascend ith ease heights which they could nly otherwise climb with great (is ress to the chest. People are right or left eyed just as hey are right or- left handed, and just s the right hand is usually the more owerful, so is the right eye. Only ne person in 10 is left sighted. It is ery probable that the use of weapons uring countless ages has had some hing to do with the extra p~ower of the ight eye. Two curiosities in American ship. milding have recently been completed t San Francisco. Tfhey are stern rheel launches for use on the Amoor iver, Siberia, and when loaded they traw but six inc-hes of water. They re :35 feet in length, 12 feet in beam, ud have a hold 24 inches in depth. hev have made seven knots an hour n their trial trips, and the engines re wonderfully light and compact. It is not a common thing to see a hurch bell up a tree, yet there is one a the p)arish of Therfield, Herts, Eng and, which occupies this unique po ition. Rather more than 20 years go the church was rebuilt. There ere not, however, sufficient funds to omplete the rebuilding, and the up. :r portion of the tower and church enaiu untinishied to thbe present time. is there was no belfry in which to lace the bells, one was hung on the irach of a large walnut tree in the etory close. Side views of Life. When a man tires of himself his :sas is hopeless. If a minister aims his remarks at iimself he is prett~y sure to hit nine enths of hir congregationl. Many a true word is spoken when wo women have a quarrel. Wise is the woman who doesnt ex ect a man to love her wvhen he is >lsy. There are many different brands of olishness. A man indulges in one ~ind when he traduees his enemies. ..C hicago News. CHILDREN'S CO.UMN, The Boy of the Family. Now, if anyone has an easy time In this world of push and lull, It is not the boy of the family. For his hands are always full. I'd like to ask who fills the stove? Where is the girl that could? Who brings in water, who lights the fire? And splits the kindling wood? . And who is it that cleans the walks, After hours of snowing? , In summer, who keeps down the weeds By diligently hoeing? And who must harness the faithful horse, When the girls would ride about? And who must clean the carriage? The boy, you'll own, no dbubt. nd who does the many oth~r -things Too numerous to mention'' The boy is the "general utility man," And really deserves a pension! Friends, just praise this boy sometimes, When he does his very best; And don't always want the easy chair When he's taking a little rest. Don't let him always be the last To see the new magazine; And sometimes let the boy be heard, As well as to be seen. That boys are far from perfect, Is understood by all; But they have hearts, remember. For "men are boys grown tall." And when a boy has been working His level best for days, It does him good, I tell you,, To have some hearty praIse. He's not merely a combination Of muddy boots and uoise, And he likes to be'lookeddpon. As one of the family joys. -The Gem. Keep Your Head- Up. One of the best way in the world to keep the shoulders traight is to hold the head up in the air. If you go with your head Io ping forward you look like an enervated apology f6r yourself, and prett oon you will begin to feel as "han dog" as yow look. A long-continued habit of keeping the head beif orward tends to develop the char ties that the attitude implies, you t slouchy in your dress, irreso u e h our habit of I speech, .absent-dack- and likely eqough, fii oor, sneaking counterfeit a. r. So hold up your head and it ivill helpir yet st.spirit ThIj'N,trees, ts'of otk inter high up that you t all unless you ulders and lift up ral and honorable ead tends to make -4he- chest hol low, the gait r tendency is always to be nd so we find that sto. d" persons develop lung trouble, spial tronble and a generally undersirab),3 condition. Hold up your headl Listening for Noisex. There had been a 'ry bedtime romp and the -ent eeper was just wondering how to qiet her little Lodgers for sleep, when Four-Years solved the problem for her by sud denly suggesting, "Let's listen for noises" The windows were open to let in the sweet air of the summer evening, and the Lodgers all settled themselves into comfortable positions to prevent any rustling. The Transient also settled herself with an air of expect ancy to see what was coming. When all were ready, the Homiekeeper gave the word, "Now!" and the mystified Transient sat for three or four long minutes in what seemed to her total silence, wondering if somie spell had been east over the Lodgers and put them all to sleep. The silence was broken at last by the Homekeeper asking, "How many!" and the quick answ, showed that something else thaL sleep had kept the Lodgers quiet. ''Seven!" ''Four!" ''Nine!" ''Six!" were the various answers given, and the Transient was astonished at the list of sounds heard when she had heard nothing. The ticking of the clock, the night call of a bird, the chirp of a cricket, the distant barking of a dog, the far-away rumble of an electric car, a long breath from Fou Years, who had found it hard to keep quite still so long. he far-off rattle of a wagon, the shutting of a door in the next house and the rustle of the Transient's dress were all noted. The advantages of this simple game are obvious. The Tater Baby. There was once a little girl named Ruth who had a great many dolls. One day her father brought her a new one, the funniest of thema all. It was a big potato that had a head, a neck and a body. In the head were two Byes, and a little hump between for a nose. Wasn't Ruth delighted? She be gan right away to dress her "tater abv." First she stuck in sticks for arms, then she put on a blue check dress, and tied on a blue knit cape and a blue bonnet. She found a shoe box, and brother Ned helped her make a carriage out of it. He tied a string to it and put spools underneath. Then the new dolly went to ride. Every night Ruth put her baby into the closet in her bedroom. Sometimes she put it out on the piazza roof to get an airing and tied the string to a blind so that the car riage could not slip down. Once she forgot and left her baby out on the roof all night. When morningcame she went to the window and looked out but there was no car riage, and uo dolly. Then she ran downstairs and out of-doors as quickly as she could. There, on the ground, lay the poor aby, but itn had wa hroken quite Ruth caught it up and ran in cry ing. She did not stop crying until Ned stuck the head on with a stick, and tied it with a string to hold it on tight. Then "the tater baby" looked almost as good as new. But one day a still worse thing hap pened. Ruth was taken sick, and the new dolly was put into the closet and left there a long, long time. When Ruth got better she thought of her baby, and went to get it. Her mother heard a loud scream and hurried upstairs to see what was the matter. There stood Ruth, sob bing as if her heart would break. "What has happened, my child?" said her mother. "Oh, oh," sobbed Ruth, "Ned has spoiled my baby'" "Where is it? And what has he done?" "In the closet. He stuck sticks all over it, and it is spoiled?" Her mother went to the closet, took up the dolly, and at the funny sight that met her eyes, she could not help laughing. Ruth looked at her in wonder, and stopped crying. "Why, Ruthie,Ned has not touched your dolly! It has sprouted!" said her mother. And sure enough it had. There was a long sprout on the end of its nose, and two coming out of the eyes. They were sticking out of the holes in the bonnet and the cape, and hanging down below the dress. Ruth did not like it at all. She de clared that she did not want a dolly that would do like that, so one day "the 'tater baby" was taken out-of doors and put into the ground, where it grew, and in time became a big green potato plant. -The Favorite. Billie Fairfield's Promise. When Billie took the milk to Mrs. Seldn one morning, and she asked him if he would bring another quart that night,he said "Yes'm" promptly, and then never thought of it again until he was in bed. ''Well, I can't take it now," said Billie; but he could not go to sleep, though he turned . and tossed and twisted.till he was tired. At last he went to thea head of. the stairs and shouted, gNother!" Mrs. Fairfield had just threaded her needl and stretched a stocking ith*b.k hole in it over her hand. Oh, dear!" but sife went to we fh illie wanted. "ou'l have to go now," she said quietly, -en he had told her. "O ther! I can't go away up there a ne." Mrs. Fair~eld knew that, for Billie was never out alone at night. His father had gone to bed downstairs with the baby, andif they waked him, baby would wnike too. So Mrs. Fairfield thought.a minute. Then she said, "We'll see. I'll have the milk ready when you come down." heR i ot into the kitchen, is ther stoots r witt at and shawl -on. Billie began to feel ashamed.- He wished he dared to go alone, but he did not, for it was a lonesome road. He took the milk and they tramped over the snow up the long hill without a word. The wind blew in their faces and Billie's ears were cold, but he had the milk can in one hand and pulled his sled with the other, so there was no way to warm them. He was ashamed to ask his mother to take the milk. Mrs. Selden exclaimed when she opened the door:, "Why, what made you come away up here tonight? And you, too, Mrs. Fairfield. It's too badi I could have got along somehow with out the milk." "Billie promised you," Mris. Fair field answered. And Billie wished nobody would look at him. "'Twasn't any matter, she said, mother," he urged, when they had started for home again. The wind was in their backs now, and Billie's ears were warm. sBuy the truth, and sell it out," sahis mother. "The matter was your promise, Billie. Would you sell the truth just to get rid of walking up to Mrs. Selden's!" Billie made no answer. He was ashamed again. Presently he asked his mother if she would slide down hill. Mrs. Fairfield laughed, but she was a small woman, and she tucked herself up on the front of the sled, while Billie stuck on be hind, and they slid down the long hill to their own yard, where Billie skill fully steered in. His mother praised the way he managed his sled, but Billie was still uncomfortable. "Why doa't you do something to me, mother?" he said, while they were. warming themselves at the big coal stove in the sitt'ag room. "I b'lieve I'd feel better to have a good whip ping." His mother smiled at him. "'Twould be prietty hard work for me to whip such a big boy as you are. Don't you want to help instead of making me do more? I'll tell you how you will be punished, Billie," she continued. "It's too late to finish mending these stockings tonight, so I shall mend thenm tomorrow when I was going to make a cottage pudding and therell be no pudding for dinner." Cottage pudding was Eiillie's favor ite desert, and this was a blow that he laid to heart. He and his father would say "cot tage pudding" to each other for a long time afterward, if anything was in danger of being neglected or forgotten. And when Billie had grown to be 3 man, and people said, ".Just give me Billie Fairfield's word: that's all I want," Billie would smile and say, "Yes, my mother taught me to keep a promise."-Sunday School Times. Fundamental P'rinciples. She-Yes, a woman's first duty is to her husband. He-What's a man's first duty? She-Why, to become the husband of some nice girl, of course. FOR FARM AND GARDEN. Holding San Jose Scle in Check. The San Jose scale is widely dis tributed and can never be extermin ated. For many years it will remain a coutant meance to fruit growing. We believe that the weight of evidence shows that it can be held in check as thoroughly as is the plum curculio or the codling moth. Those who set fruit of any kind in the future should insist upon all the stock being fumi gated, thus greatly checking the spread of this dreaded pest on nursery stock. Crasshoppera Riefuse Clover. A Kansas farmer makes the state ment thatlast year he sowed his rye field about the middle of March,using equal parts of clover and timothy seed. He obtained a fair stand, but during the month of June the grass hoppers came along and cleaned out the timothy but did not touch the clover. If this is the case throughout t" West, that grasshoppers don't care for clover, it will be a big thing for those located in the sections where grass hoppers are abundant. It is earnestly hoped that it is so, though no doubt the grasshoppers would take the clover upon being deprived of other food. . Fall Calves the Beit. Fall calves subsist largely upon milk, and take but little room in the shed; and there is more time in the winter to give them attention. They will be ready for the spring pastures, and make good progress from the start, and enter the barn in the fall again to get full benefit of solia rations there provided for them. Spring calves are incapable' of re ceiving much benetit, from grass the first season, because for some time after birth the ruminating stomach is undeveloped, and, between summer heat and the pestiferous flies, the thin-skinned creature has a sorry time of it; but under natural conditions most of them come in the spring. Starting a Strawberry Patch. When starting a strawberry patch select only young, red-rooted plants for setting. For a family garden two first earlies, two medinur and two late varieties are sufficIM t and one of each season would prfbibly be better. It is best to set strawberries in the. spring. Early setting .is not impor tant, but they. should be planted when the gronuaic.n, i p1 in good condition and given clean culture until late in autumn. Care should be taken to remove all blossoms the first season. Place the'plants in rows four feet wide and 20 to 24 inch the row. rs along t e ' e rows so as to fill up a matted row about one foot wide. It is well to prevent the plants from set ting in a tight mat. This can be ac complished by pulling off runners after the plants have set sufficiently heavy. Control of Asparagus Rust. Asparagus rust first came into no tice iu August, 1896, and at that time was confined to New England, New York, New Jersey and Delaware. In 1897 it spread into the southern states. By 1898 it had spread westward as far as Michigan, and inchuled Ohio, In diana and Illinois, and recently it a been reported found in North T).kota. This example shows the extremely rapid growth and advance of the dis ease, and also that it can be carried long distances by the wind. Fields in closed bv forests and hills are not so exposed to rust as those in the open. Rust of this form cannot be treated like superficial fungi su ch~ as mnil'dew. Spraying has not been found satijsfactory as a cuire for aspara gas rust, as has bacen shown by ex perimnent on six kinds of asparagus with 10 applications. As a result, asparagus growers are cultivating a shorter and stronger gro)wth. In some cases insects are found to feed upon01 the spores and are quite a substantial check upon rust. No treatment of soil can he relied upon, and, in fact, little can be donie when plants are once infected. The last resort is to furnish the very best conditions for the growth of the plant. Advantaze of Farmner' Institutes. Farmers' institutes are gradually growing in favor with the peoule. Their usefulness is no longer doubted by the progressive farmer. It brings men and women from different parts of the county and state together with their experience and store of infor mation upon the various branches of agriculture, horticulture, stock rais ing, dairying, etc. This information is freely given for the benefit of alL The information received at these in stitutes furnishes a short cut to many useful reforms on the farm. Some of the most progressive farmers of the state are thiere as instructors. They teach us many things of value that might take us years to find out by ex perience. We can hardly estimate the advantages derived at .these in stitutes by those who attend and then put in practice what they learn. We get valuable information along the line of breeding and raising stocks of all kind-how to rotate our crops so as to keep up the fertility of the soil and to secure best results, how to dispose of or utilize the crops grown to realiza most money. In addition to all valuable informia tion brought out by discussion and an interchange of thought at these far mers' institutes, they have a tendency to broaden the views of the farmer. It makes him more intelligent, more social, a better farmer in every sense of the word. It teaches him that brains, intelligence and refine ment areas necea-r upon the farm, in the kitchen, the parlor, as in the merchant's counting room, the law yer's office, or at the banker's till; that the farmer has brains to feed, a mind to cultivate, as well as stock -and fields. They are calculated to give a man confidence in himself which en able him to get on his feet and ex press himself freely and intelligently upon the various questions brought before the institute for discussion. Farmers' Guide. High Platforms for Cleanliness. The first and most essential item in order to produce milk that will be clean and free from stable odors is the stable and platform on which the cows stand. When I built my new barn last year, I put the platform eight inches above the gutter, and the planks were sawed just fohr feet four inches from the stanchions to the gutter, with only one inch slant. The gutter is 20 inches wide and slants back the thickness of a shingle under it on the sleepers. The scuttles are back of it in the main floor between every other sleeper. My stable is on the south side of the barn and has a six-pane 9xI3 glass window every five feet. For several hours in the middle of the day, the sun shines directly on the cows' hind quarters. The droppings are hoed down three times a day, and the cows are carded and cleaned off once a week. There is no manure . on tle platform or cows, and I hear.o com plaint of "cowy" milk among my cas, tomers. A two-inch plank platform is no good at all, a four-inch one not enough, a six-inch one- is bell but one eight inches high isju t and it should not be over feI six inches long' for a Iarge this height, keep it nearly have seen no trouble in co of.-S. A. T., inATewn Every farmer'shi something about at least to,enable Jim whether ornot his hers ^ correctly shod. In th shdeing there are maiy as is true of every t r ness. The farmerk nothing about this iwyrtaa i really lacks the power of proW . his - teams against i too, of a very serious nature. of- e bad cases of lamenestam horse are due to bad shoein ud is no. imon thing-fou the inarian o look after N* horse to or i foot removed. wn one veterinarian th* from a lame horse re the sole causeo more than a of'an on one ' The resuit.was that the at every step a&ftmed his cords till they were reduced to sucht-'... condition that every step ot even movement of the leg meant intense pain. How long do some of, our horses suffer before we find it out? The owner should see-to it that the shoes are made to fit the feet of tho horses and tbt the feet be not trimmed down to fit the shoe. . It often happens that the .blacksmith puts a red-hot shoe onto the foot,. burning away the horn of the foot and insuring the quality of the foot beyond the part burned. If the shoe is too small he nails it on and thou cuts and pares and hasps the foot down to it. Corns on the horses' feet are too fre quently due to bad shoeing, and the same may be said of interfering. The sale price of many a horse is lowered because of the appearance of some trouble that is, unknown to the owner, due only to ignorance on the part of the man thatplut on the last set of shoes. Unfortunately, it is not al ways easy to effect a cnre of the de fects that are so easily produced. Furthermore some of the things that have been brought on by bad shoeing can only be got rid of by skillful shoe ing to offset them. We are sometimes led to the conclusion that we need qualified horseshoeis about as badly as we need more qualified veterina rians. -Farm, Field and Fireside. Farm an~d Garden Notes. -Everyon% who has a taste for en tomology onuht to keel) bees. The farmer has many good friends, but none so faithful as 'clover. Mold from the woods is a big thing for house plants. Give it a triaL. Earthworms can be got rid of by giving the ground a liberal salting. The increased value of meat ought to be an ene-ouragement to those who raise stock. It can never be expected that any animal will thrive without a proper amount of food. The farmer himself should attend to all matters pertaining to the packing and shipping of his produce. In putting up a building in which to keel) cows or milk special attention should be paid to ventilation. The average yield of potatoes is not half what it would be if proper methods were practiced by the farmers. A great deal of the trouble experi ened in churning can be overcome by having the cream properly ripened. Strawberries will do well on almost any well-drained soil, so don't deny yourself or your family this luxury. The man who does not make it a point to see the sun rise every day is not the man for the farming business.. When there is a deficiency in the. hay crop it should be supplied by one or more of the numerous fodder rops. _________ __ Pay, Pay, Pay. Collector-This is three times have asked you to pay. Betem - You're another of "Absent-Minded Beggar" el sts, aren ..--Batihr e A