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o tugE e CHAPTER V.—(Continued.) He turned and strode out of the doorway, smoking carelessly, leaped over the low fence, and went slowly back along the track. “She knows,” he thought, “and will eall me back directly. Bit put out. Well, I have negiected her, but—" ~ He laughed to himself, and went on, ~ longing to look back, but no voice "e- --~~ Had he turned his head he would have ~ watched him from there. . “Why does he want that?" she said, thoughtfully, and she shook her head, as she watched till Saintone was out of sight, nothing being farther from her thoughts than the intention of caliing him back. Meanwhile Saintone walked slowly on, with an angry feeling growing in his breast. “She is one of them. She as good as owned to it one day. Then she has a reason for refusing and for being so cold. Well, perhaps [ can manage without her after ali: but what does she mean?” He went thoughtfully back to the towny | making the discovery suddenly that he | was hot and thivsty, and on the strength i of this be turned off and went straight to | his friend’s house in search of the refresh- ‘ ment he needed. Defirard was lying asleep in the shad- { 5 | ed room when Saintone euntered, and | started up on being rudely shaken. ‘ “Ram and some water,” said Saintone, | throwing himself into a chair, and as| soon as he had partaken of a hearty | drink from the glass brought in by a grin- i ning negress, he lit a fresh green cigar. | “Well,” said Deffrard, drowsily; “found ; out all you wanted ?” ! “No.” ! “Wouldn't she take you?" { “Purned sulky beeause I hadn't been | to see her. Pretended she knew nothing. } I'm sure she goes to their meetings, and | T'll find out somchow if it's only to mest z her. Now, what shall I do? They keep | it all so quiet among them that it's harder | than I thougit.” i “Pay one of the nigger priests, he'll let ; you into it."” “T don’t know,” said Saintone, thoughtfully; “besides how am 1 to find out one? ~ 'Their meetings are forbidden by the law, | ~ and as soon as I begin 1o make inguiries __they'll grow suspicious.™ "‘ T e SRR P PRI ¥ TR hat does she know “More than you think. She's mixed up with them. Finds them in rum for t!wirk feasts. I believe that, quiet as she is, | ghe is one of them —sort of priestess, At | any rate, she's a regular confidante of | all the blacks about here. They go to | her and meet at her place, and hatch half ! their schemes there. 1 believe nearly all | the bits of deviliry started under her| roof."” i “Np harm in trving her,” said Sain- | tone thoughtfully. *“She must know at all events where they meet, Yes, 1 think vou are right, but she wouldn't speak. | Too much mixed up with them.” “Open her mouth with the golden key.” “Right, T will. Come alonz.” 17’ said Deffrard, shrinking. “Yes: come on at once. She shall take as to one of their feasts, and we'll see what it's like. I'm told that it’s worth | the trouble.” : “But——"' began Deffrard. . i “Come on,” cried Saintone;: and tossing | off the remainder of his refreshing | draught, he literally dragged his host into i the road, down which they walked, away ' into a suburb of cettages which had | sprung up, and was continuned to where | Dulau’s home had once stood, the pretty erection being superseded now by a plain, | business-locking building, about which, ! and under ihe sbade of the trees, quite | a little erowd of blacks were lolling and | idling about, some smoking, some drink- | ing. and all the rest doing nothing .qft-,\ré the fashion of a free negro with all his | might. % To a elose chserver the result of their | appearance was amusing. The negroes, ‘ who had been laughing and vhattering; together like so many children, became | silent, their faces grew stolid and sleepy, | and all appeared to be utterly ignorant-of the approach of the two creoles. ; oo Baintone knew their ways too well to | _this more thag to feel convineed for something«they wished to hide. e ! walked rizhit on up toward the open door, | from which a showy-looking negress of WO oOr inree lel-1 Tty me to meet them. and pointed to sents in the broad verandah, by a long, rough table. “No." said Saintone, carelessly. “Too | hot out here. We'll caome inside.” Ite walked into a low, long room, half seneral shop, half cabaret, where a broad counter streteched across one end in clumsy imitation of the I‘rench sash ion. RBehind it, seated on a raised « 18h toned chair, was a stout, good-looking middle-aged woman, fair enough for a ﬁ"l':":"'“‘”' She was 1‘%1?1\“'“y dressed, and ‘ wore, half hidden in the thick folds of | her neck, a great necklace; several rings were embeddad in her fat fingers, and | rather tastily twisted turban fashion | about h(‘(’ H‘x‘..!hil).' sray locks was a gor- i geous ved and yvellow silk kerchief, ‘ As the two young men entered, she felt | herself bound to rise from her seat Il‘!i welcome guests of a better class than | those to which she was accustomed, smil- | ing and bowing as they both raised their | straw hats; but she sat down again di- | rectly, an example followed by the visit- | ors at a table close to the end of the bus- ’ set, a glance around showing them that | place was quite empty, save that a l»iu‘ bres -shouldered negro sat in one corner with his arms upon the table and his! Lead down, apparently asleep. In I'.'u'tl his hue harmonized so well with the gloom as tho place, with its two small windows, 1

shaded by blinds that Deffrard did not realize his presence, s “Hot day for walking, madame,” said Saintone. “Give us two cool drinks.” *“Yes; too hot for gentlemen to walk,” was the reply, as the two plump hnnds busied themselves with a bottle, glasses and a great pitcher of cold water. “Here! where is that girl?" e - _“Ng, no, don’t eall her,” said Saintone, | “‘Wﬁh thew. Mndnis 6 4ylvs | ] "~~_£‘.r-:. T e SRR L Rt % i‘im,,myr * ..s?‘f'«;?? &ﬂﬁw%ﬁ‘f’g&% P *«A@W : quickly enough, as she replied with po- | litencss that she was never better than she was now, when a real gentleman condescended to honor her house with a visit to rest and refresh himself. Then she looked shavply toward the corner and said a few words sharply in one of the West African dialects, The result was that the negro grew suddenly wide awake, there was a gleam of white teeth, the flash of a pair of opal ! eycballg, and then a big, slonching broadshouldered figure was seen framed in the doorway, and they were alone, l “Monsienr Saintone hos had something stolen, and he wants Mahme to try and | get it back ™" said the woman. | “Hah! delicious!” gaid Saintane, setting | down his glass half empty, Deffrard, ot | tering a sigh of satisfaction over hi%, as | ke sat holding it in his hand, 4 “The water is just cold and fresh from | the speing,” said the woman, offering | cigars. Then, as they were taken, and i she struck a light to offer it in turn, she | continued, “Monsieur may =peak now, } There is no one to hear. Is it money or a | watch?” { “Neither, Mahme,” said Saintone, low. ! ering his voice. “Look here: my friemd | and I want to attend one of the Vandoux | meetings-—a feast or whatever it js” ; “Vaudoux? Ah, yen," said the woman, | in the most unmoved way., “Vandoux? | Yes, I have heard of them. In the middle | i of the island, are they not¥” ; “You know best about that.” “17" sald the woman, raising her be- | ringed hands: and her ways and manners | were strikingly French, I sit hore al- | ways, only leave my chair to go to my | rest." : “But the people come to see you,"” : L “Yoes, as you have,” she soid, smiling | and showing her regunlar teeth. “And youn will take us to one ' “’l?’lﬁ& m"L Wﬁh! m A & b; b‘;} , "Come,” said Saintoue, laying his hend | upon her plump ingers: “we are fencing. | You know all we want to know.” “Oh, no, vo, no, no,” she said quickle; | “nothing. nothing.” : ! “That will do.” said Salntone, mock ingly. *1 don’t wesn you to do it for innths!\';. I want to attend one of th E meetings lrst,. and then 1 wmean to 111 : them.” § “You! You mean it?" she whispered f v:u:x‘l‘l}'. I “Yes, and my friensd hore, toa. Ab van § 809 you do know " i "Why? Why does Monsienr Deftrand. [ too, want to know of such things*'' sho i #sald eagerly, and with a very intenss | | from one to the other I “Faor the same reason that hundeeds of j others do.”" replied Saintone guietly, i “Come, what shall 1 pay you to see us i through it all.” | “No, no. It is impossible. There are | no such things.” 4 , “Yes, thege are. Come, po nonse nee,” % “And if there are they must be daneoer i ous. Fine gentlemen cannot jain with { these people. It is some spying trick. | Vha sent you here ¥ é It is no spring trick, Mahme. 1 toll { you 1 mean to join them for the change I and excitement of the thing. Come, now, s what will it cost?" { “Perbaps your life—aud his” said the { waman in a low whisper, that was start | ling in its intensity. | Deffrard started, and looked aghast, l but Saintone laughed. ] “Nonsense!” he said. lam not afraid. Come, don't let us waste time. Tell me | what it will cost to see the whole business of one of their meetings. You see | you know all about it.” i “Perhaps,” said the hostess; and her | looks and ways were so intense that Sain- ‘ tone forgot her half ludicrous form and | | dress, as he felt that this was no common | woman with whom he had to deal. *But | ‘risks are terrible. I tell you that if they | ‘thought strangers were among them those strangers would never come away | alive.” ! “@Give it up,” whispered Defirard. 'She is right, I've heard that before.” | “The very reason why I shall go.” said | Saintone, coolly, *‘only they had better not begin. But there will be nothing of | that. I tell you 1 mean to ioin them—to ' be oné of them.” “What for?"’ said the woman. with hLor eyes lighting up and gazing into his searchingly. { | “Beeause I feel that the black party are ] being oppressed and trampled down, both | ; ])\ ”!l' \\’:’lill'.\ and the colored 1::1,;)11-; bo- ' | cause I consider we ought here to be all : i equal under one good government.” | | “And because Monsieur Etienne Sain- ’ | tone wants to be that government. and ; ! to be a great leader, as his father did be- | fore him,” said the woman, in a quick, ] | sharp whisper. { l Saintone stared at her, sv sudden had | been the change. | “Nonsense!” he said; “but what do you i know about my father?” t I “That he was shot—perhaps in I;'3‘in;.ri { to do what his son wishes.” | “Look here,” began Saintone, angrily. { ‘“There are people outside, and they have big ears,” said the woman, quietly. “Yes, I know. Well, then, I'll be frank with you."” “Better so.” “I do want to try and tale some position among my people.”

e —————————’: e e Bl T “And stand up on the shoulders of N k. blacks? Well, they are very hard.” ICS FOR FARMERb “You take an unfair view of the m¢ = ter, Mahme. My father wasa braysmgeee ™ and one of the great patriots of the co iibﬁéARTMENT PREPARED FOR ¥So : | The woman half closed her eyes, a_,f{‘ OUR RURAL FRIENDS. nodded her head slowly. E . assesse “And I, his son, wish to tread in I§s, B her Who Will Use Corn Fodsteps.” ¢ - . “Ah?%” said the woman, wrinkiig A ssstesd of Hay—Formula for brow, and gazing at him strangely. {Preventing Hogz Cholcra—When to “I shall join the Vaudoux, and stud Sell Pigs—Wecds Among Potatoes. the. position and wants of the black rad —p —fight for them, in '““"' - The Handling of Cornfodder. “And go to their feasts and drink youllyy 3865 | yrehased a corn harvester If drunk, and join in all their strangg e T . e ,S.:\\-’,.111-,““ o sl ? plieving they were better than the “Mahme, lam 2 gentleman, the son o knite. I cut twenty-five acres, i a gentleman,” said the young man prougdd put twelve hills square in a shock. | Iy. i ‘knn\\' myseit. Now, then, yofe cut the {ifth and sixth rows first; { stand high among the people—the blagghen we had cut twelve hills we step-

i A vivid color came into the womani. | face, and her eyes tlashed, but she madd | no sign, and Saintone did not note thg® I change in the obscurity of the long, lowe¥ I shadowy room as e went on. i { *“Now, then, will you take me to thip E first of these feasts and let me see all 75} NG o | Saintone laughed to himself, an¢; (i thrusting his hand into his pocket, k - took out a gold picce and placed it in hisg | palm, holding it out over the bus ot i counter, “There,” he said, “1 told sl did nés want you to do it for not "*‘é‘% Take U 8 both, and™® will give you that.” . The woman shook her hend and Ggs® back. e Saintone lnughed again, ?' “Be guiet, I won't,” he said, in reply to a whispered prayer from his companion to give up. Then, taking out a second pieco he placed it en the first. *“Now

will you?” he whispered. . 28 The woman's eves glistened with a sin-| gular look of groed, bat abemf‘ head. : e ~ Baintone placed a third piece on the ! ~others without avail. Then a fourth-- 8 Mifth-and on and on till sine glistening | coins were lying in a littie pile; and the woman shrank from them, and tried to l avert her exes, which kept o returning | as if by the strong atiraction of the bright metal, A - “Give it up,” whispered Defirand againg but, with his teeth hard set, and a look of stubborn determination lncrensing in his k eountenanee, Saintune ook out another eoin and added it to the Bitie pile still | held et sipou the bar - “There,” he whispered, “ten. More than - you will make bere in this wretehed place i weeks, now will you teke us?? % A sndden spagsm sermad o eonvalse ﬂiq C woman's face, and in spite of her heavle ! ness, her noetion was guick ss lightning. | The coins had bardly rested there till he Chiad speken, whea Male's hand darted

L down upon his and clesed upon the coin pinning bis upen the connter as she sl i haea reclhy § L "1 take ne risk of whst happens o | they kill you, your Wood be upon youi Fown head. 1 have warned you” 2 L “You will take us both to the fin | feaxt or meeting theas poople have ™ sal | Baintone, coolly, “cuntrive that we everything” v | “Bverything?" she Whispersd, wiily Z look of awe in her ores “Peervtbing, even to the saepifice' | said, with a mecking look at he, . 8 Bhe wmdded. o “And If 1 want your uid to hurry on §el o o SR SRR R

T To-uight.” she whispered: “two houdky after it is dark” e . “So soon? Am 1 to swear secrocy P i Saintone, with a mocking langh. | “There will be no peed,” replied the ) L womsn meaningiy, “You will net te | tales after, for you will be one of them pnd it wonkl be betraying yourself” 1 I "Bariftldet . [ “Those whe fght aguiost the serpent Edie, Now g ¥ L “Yeu, we will go tew.” said Ssintons B ; aratuing his gless ansd relighting the eigar 3 i which had gone eut. “Come, Jules, 0]; | fellow, we are refreshed und ready to P continue onr walk,” he meikl alond “Adivn, nadame--Maloae, 1 mean.” £ i Hv raised kie bot, Deffeard followed his L examiple, and followed him out into the i sunshine, and past the smiling negress poand one group of blacks, whoe once more fwent through their scene of assumed ignorance of their presence. ; {Ta be continued.) ; Japen's First Quens Cuatter. | At “Hifin” here a few days ago 2 fmetr a remarkable Chinese gentleman, ‘a Mr. Yano Jiro. In his early life Mr. ' Yano was attached as a samural to the i honse of the tyeoon. As a youth he Ceoncelves] a ostrong desive (0 see s yme- | thing of the western world, He had ey WL wiabentiy selilal @i dis . e

SUCTIS L 0 AYU WAU LU OBINY JOUNS Perry presented to Japan in 1854, !‘.nd‘ he wishied to see more. He went traveling. lile visited France, and return- ' ed home byway of the United States. | At that time he wore a complete Jap§fmwsv dress, the old queue and two éswurds. He was an object of great | Interest wherever he weat, On his re- | | turn home he was so stocked with westCern ideas that he m\’mﬁﬁf Buropean-Jepanese dress which gavey hini g f‘tﬁ‘fﬁ%ms the first malo | dress reformer in Japan, and vaﬂ | which bhe introduced was suhsequently P followed by the full European costume in some quarters, ‘Not only this, but | | one of the first things that Mr. Y.-‘.noi did on reaching home was to cut off his | Cquens, He thinks that he was the | i pioneer in this direction, for the govs ernment caussd him to be at once punished by confinement in his own house for guite a period. Te-day the queue t has no place in Japan., 1 have only | | seen about a half-dozen in use in :111[ { my travels here.-—Col, Cockerill's Japan | letter to New York Herald. : ’ By the Aid of Electricity. { i lixperiments have been tried with | { the object of ascertaining the effects | of the electrie current on cane juice. ’ A German scientist reports that a better product is obtained at much less t cost and labor. The precise method f is not given, further than the statement l that a current of electricity is passed through the cane-juice, purifying and cleansing it far better than any known process of clarifying has hitherto done. Happiness s nothing but that sweet delight which will arise from the harmonious agreement between our willg and the will of God.—Cudworth

d off behind the machine and set our | dder tocether, and one of us held it ‘ hile the other tied the top with a i vine string, and after we had cut | irough to the end of the row we cut | ound until the row of shocks was fin- \ hed, and then cut ancther in like man- i ?l’. ete. Toward evening, said Josh- | g Jester, at the Rippey (lowa) Farm- | bs" Institute, we would stop cutting, | %l tie the shocks already cut with ding twine. One hundred shocks e thought was o day's work, & bullt a platform 10x16 feet on my S i gon to haul it in with, then aELe sulky plow wheels and built 11 kon them, with a lever to hoist tßhocks on the wagon, We used th ier part of the time on one side ofavagon and then on the other. 1 I e derrick works better with

e %: ‘w* elghteen feet square than %,?%F hinevu feet square. I securg,; W ter and shredder, and by this ! i 3 ~;igsked my corn and stacked | I gde.. The live stock eats this | 8@ « fodder up clean. The shred- § s s run by horse power. My neigh- : sed o threshing machine with en- | g and made better time, but had | i help. *{ think the shradder is the { affﬂs it leaves the corn on the ear, | Awnd of shelling it {i - h two years' experience and re- | gt I shall nse corn fodder instead of | "»ﬁ“ s eheaper aund better feed, 1] (4l the barn is the place to put the foer. but it must be well cured or it w’-!}h‘:ﬂ. It will keep well in the | gt If properly opped out with wild h‘;" some material that will turn | i hie cost to shred and husk corn | 18 abit 81 per acre {

-BBee e N e T 4. fog Cholera and Tts Cure, ; :T\l?,: farmers have given a condition ¢ipow composed of intestinal stimn. | e { langend antiseptios to hogs sick with | lew. The National Bureau of Ani- | § | ma ndusiry has recently recommend--4 w.}w following formula as a preven- | : u‘ and palliative remedy in swine dptases, especially in cholera and ipague: Take one pound each of wood charcoal, sulphur, sodinm sulphate and’ { antimony sulphid, combined with two { pounds each of sodium cilorid, sodium { blearbonate and sodivm hyposniphite. | Bach logredient is to be fully pulverey ik ) eto be thoroughly mix-

i For each two hundred pounds live’| felght of animal, give one daily dose § ® & large tablespoonful, mixed with | pe drinking waler or with soft, molst i sod. BSmail pigs peed about a tea- | Boonful of the powder, and ghoats | T.m two to three teaspoonfuls, Hogs i :, sald 1o like the tasie of this medie Shonld the digeased swine refuse | Bhoer. to eat or drink, it will be neces- | fgy to turn them on their bhacks, and | 8 the drr powdersd miedleine down | r throats with a long-handled | poon. The cn!plmrx-).!unu:inmnyZ ondition powiler seems to kill and re- ‘ jove the disease germs and their ace | év;tmlawd puisons. As a prm’rn:i\‘(‘.% he powder may be fed in smaller doses | j ghe healthy animals during an epii#mic. and it will act as an appetizer. Sie drinking water should be as pure 3 clean as possible, and the anhmals fould not be fed in or confined to shy mud, but should have free access idry, clean eating spaces and slecp'f‘i]“artem. Green food, roots or shge should be fed occasionally, with gne decayed wood, sods of fresh soil s;gan abundance of charcoal. It is gdlifficult to cure hog cholera that the g atest precautions should be taken gevent infection.

i J Selling Young Pigs. éﬁ 1 Thichief obstacle to suceess in grow- i ing is the danger of Dbecoming over cked. There is always a profit | i are sold while young. But many fagags Who have a fine lot of zrowing Bigs will not seil them, thinking e"._f ke greater profit by feeding unT B have attained full growth., In o 1 208 this Is a mistake. The old ; 800 ee crows the smaller is usually | 1 (geptit from fecding it. Besides, it 1 rSnat policy for any class of men to aiw fpget all the prolt there is in a } tra gw have known men so close at ®hargain that they could finally !ﬁnd body to trade with them. To 'Tive @a let live should be the aim of | all. good rule is when breeding anil malsfiot to refuse a reasounable offer that §ould leave a fair profit and not l stop firther breeding. With stock that i Eil{‘l’(:ie so rapidly as do pigs, & ver) | sow reeding sows will quickly re place i ”l').\‘(}?ﬁh;{t are sold. 1f this is done rei peategly through the year, the pront % each tme amounts to more {han could i be midie by feeding animais until they ‘ :i’.t:li[; fall growth. ; s | Eptayving for Funzi and Insccis, ' Thad paris green and kerosene emulsion §ill remain the leading insectiI cides, and that bordeaux mixture is the |bo.~:t i‘inwdy for plant diseases, is the experinee of the New York station at Geneva, as given in The Agriculturist. The kiapsack sprayer is generally useful, though extensive growers need a machite of greater capacity. The suction pipe should always enter the tank at the top, and the pumbp should be made 6f brass or be brass-lined. Hand pumps should allow the weight of the body to be use” on the bhandle while at

T R TR RN IR "work, Vermorel nozzles give a betteg ; spray than the disk machines. ¥or spraying potatoes and tomatoes a nozzle is needed which can be lowered between the rows, and directed so as to | force the spray up through the vines. l The agitator is needed to keep the pol- | sons in solution. The best forms work | \up and down in an upright tank, lika | | the dash in the old churn. Where the ‘ pump piston has a packing this should be often renewed, lor killing cabbage worms and insects, no liquid has been found 2qual to dry paris green applied with a hand sifter. Powder guns are ‘ '!usul'ul for applying dry powdered pois | sons, pyrethirum, tobacco dust and sul- | phur. Bamboo extensions should be i \ used in spraying large trees.

oOld and Young Farmers. \ , L Waldo IY. Brown, of Ohio, the well- ¥ ‘ known agricultural writer, tells in the | following how he would manage if he were a young man on a dairy farm: \ “If T were a young man and able to | work hard I showd run as large a dairy ¢ as the farm would furnish rough feed for, and buy most of my grain, and I ! \ would try to dispose of the cream, or | engage butter at paying prices, so as to | keep the milk at home to be fed to calves and pigs, and I am satisfied that ' 1 could double the profits from my farm 1 and improve it rapidly, for we should ! have large quantities of the richest I manure and could make all the land | that we cultivate very rich. But it ! seems to me that a man of my age (63) 'unt of debt and able to live comfort- ; ably, with a reasonable degree of econ- ® 4 B My (YO RSN A SReS s S

omy, owes it to_ himself not to be oblized to work hard every day and be tied up at home as I should be with a dairy, and so I am satisfied with moderite suecess on the farm and to leave the young men the privilege of pushing out and showing what the farm is capable of even in hard times. ! “There are so many specialties in; farming nowadays that there is a place | for energetic men on the farm and a.l botter chance for success than in most ‘ other callings. The farmer is not likely to become a rich man, but, on the oiher hand. he is in very little danger of bankruptey.” ! Weeds Amonag Potatoes. | . Late in the scason some potato growers think they can allow weeds to grow | without injury to the crop. his is a great mistake. Until the plant natural;l)' dies down from the ripening of ilsi | tubers it needs all the moisture that' | the soll can furnish. We have often seen i potato patehes weeds that were overlooked in the early hoeing, and ' after the crop has been hoed by growLing eighteen inches or more tall, and evaporating every day more moisture than the potito plant itself reecives, Their roots are then so intertwined with those of the potaro that the weeds cannot be pulled up., The only remedy % then is to eunt down the weed as close to | the ground as possible. This will stop | ihe evaporation of molsture from its Cleaves and the root will consequently | take less from the soil. But it would g have been muuch cheaper to brush this

" weed with a hoe while still small and - when the slightest brush would destroy l ! it.—~American Cultivator. ; i Mores Sweet Applea Wanted, | i The attention of apple growers has' | yeon too exvlusively directed to the cultivation of tart varieties, as these are best for couking in ples. But for haking without the crust apples are beiter to be sweet, and there are nnti enongh varieties to furnish a supply during the season. The Sweet Bough, | which will soon be in condition, is an ‘ excellent baking apple, and so, too, is | i the (Golden Sweet, which ripens a little l |later. For winter use the Talman | Syweet is the kind most frequently put up, but it does not bake so well as some s | others. The I'ound Sweet 13 a much | better apple when not overgrown, but { it will not keep later than Fobmary.\ ' We peed some sweet apples that wHI | keep until April or May. Many per | «ons whose digestion is weak cannol eat pie, and if there were more good | baking apples the pie could be generaljl | Iy dispensed with. : ' Shade for “hickens. | July and August are the two trying , ' months for fowls, old and young, and | the true poultry keeper will have an 1 syve to their comfort. Shade is one of

ith{; things essential to the comfort of i pouliry. IHens that suffer from the { heat will not lay; the young chicks that | i have no shady retreat will not thrive. | | Natural shade of trees and bushes is the ilwst. because such shady spots are us- | ually open and free in the breeze. Bus, [ if such shade cannot be had, then a] flow shed is the next best thing. Build 1 { it so that the air can circulate freely beneata bt S ———. * ¥ - Silver Hnll Buckwheat. . This new variety of buckwheat has the advantage of being earlier than the old-fashioned kind, and its grain will !tm'n out more flour to the bushel it { may be sown earlier on acceunt of its { earlier vipening, but it has the habit | of setting its bloom over a longer pe- | riod, some of the first flowers forming | seod and shelling while the latest are in { bloom. It requii.s judgment to cut the | crop when the largest proportion of the | grain iz ready for harvest It will | never do to leave it till all has ripened, | for some of iis later shoots are in blos- I | som until time for iall frosts. ' ! Ripening Creamcry Cream ! The souring of cream, which is neec- | ossary to make butier that will keep | woll. must be nceomplished with creami ery cream after it has been taken from l the creamer. 1t is well to keep it twen-ty-four hours after being gathered be- ‘ \ fore it is churned. Then, if the cream has been gathered through several | days, the whole should be stirred well together each day so as to mix the old | and the new. If this is not done mould | may form on the eream earliest gath- l | ered, because it is not brought in con- | tact with oxygen. Cream should, in all , | cases, be kept where it will be treq! { from contact with unpleasant odors. |

TTR T Lee PPR L g ge o o i 3 "THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY | CONSIDERED. ! eaheny | A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson ‘ —Thoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection—Half an Hour's Study of the \ Scriptures—Time Well Spent. | Lesson for Oct. 135, { Golden Text—"“Though a host should ' encamp against me, my heart shall not l fear.”—Ps. 27: 3. 't The lesson this week is found in Judges f\T: 13-23 and has for its subject *The ‘ Triumph of Gideon.” u s = ST . SR - OOn R WS > e SR Lt

Lamps, pitchers and trumpets. Thoe right use of means. Trumpets, but they must be bloewn; lamps. but they must be flared forth. T’ut the trampet to the mouth and sound the note, “ye arve witnesses.” Break the pitchers and let the radiance gleam forth. *“let your light shine.” Use the instruments that God has given, to his glory and to the over- | throw of the enemies of the Lord. Con- ' secration. This is the thouglit of the les- | son in a nutshell. *Ye are not your own, i for ye are brought with a price; therei fore glorify God in your body, and in ! your spirit, which are God's.” Take ihe . lesson into the personal relations of life and apply it there, ; Gideon means he that cuts down. | Wood-chopper, we may say. Like unto ~‘that rail-splitter, Abraham Lincoln, who " brought us through the stress of the six- . ties. God has his men for the time, his ' judges and saviors still. What Gideon had passed through well prepared him for

this mightiest test, On one side, badgered and driven of the Arab hordes, until compelled to thresh his wheat in the hiding of the wine press to keep it from their lustful hands. On the other hand met and instructed of God in a vision of his ordainment for great and gricious service in Israel’'s behalf, and still later assured by the tests by thie well of Hlarcd and by the water side that God was about to intervene with his sovereign arm. ~ One other assurance or reassurance God sends to Gideon as a kind of concession to his human way of thinking. He sends him a dream, not his own. but one the relations and interpretation of which he - overhears while spying the edge of the i enemies’ camp. From it he gathers cour- | age and hope of suceess, not simply or ~ perhaps at all as being 2 revelation from on high, but as, in its timid interpretation. disclosing the real terror of the God of Israel that was in the heart of the ene- . mies of the Lord. | “He divided the taree hundred men into three companies:” i. e.. a hundred in cach. Here was where the test came for Gideon. It was in lining up his men ' against such an army. What eriticism, ' what silent locks of vionderment he must " have faced at that moement; 300 against 120,000. There is only one way to ac- | count for it. Gideon bslieved that he was ' God’s man for the conflict, and his thres hundred must have ceme to agree with i him. “As I do, co shall ye do.”” The wise ‘ general now. He is setting the right pat- | 'I tern for battle and teaching the method of | eonquest. It is not now so much the man ‘ ‘ of faith and prayer as the man of prowess | and action; or it is rather faith at work. i Trumpets, pitchers, lamps—these were , | the implements of warfare used at the TRRE a9 - . a S TR 2, ST

outset. They were well ealculated under the powerful hand of the Lord, acting through Gideon, to produce the effect determincd. Three hendred trompets sound- | ing simultaneously frem opposite diree- ; tions, torches hid fer a moment in pots, I such as watchmen scmetimes use in the | cast, but taken out and flung about the head, blazing forth like the flambeau of the torch-lighters, the voice and vision of [ the mountain side to the superstitious and i apprehicnsive nomads, out of their or- . dinary surrcundings, must have seemed | terribly unecanny and {irightful. Then ‘ came the mighty panic, the riot of flight, | self-destruction and virtual annthilation. l There ix 1o more moving scene in all history and none more significant or sugges- § tive of wholesome lessons. ‘ Illustrations. | A united nation has recently been re- ‘ viewing the battle field es Chickamauga and honoring the memory of the brave men who fell there: “On famne's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread; While clory guards with solemn round The bivenac of the dead.” ! The prevailing tone of addresses delivered was one of loyalty to the flag that floats above us and the look was not back- | ward, but forward. It wasovera similar 'iibaulcﬁ('ld that Lincoln utiered the me- { morable words: < L | “The world will little note or long ref!n‘.rm\wr what we say here, but it can oy ‘i & ol -e - - - 2 Ao

never forget what they did here. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the task before us—that from these honored | dead we take increased devotion to that canse for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.” , Lamps and pitchers, shronded light, but i only that the pitchers mizht presently be ‘ broken, and the light shine out all the more brilliantly and effectively. O, the lights kept covered all about us., the bushel never lifted, the pitchers never broken! A Catholic town's woman died the other day, and left the bulk of her property to the priests to pray her soul and the souls of some others out of purgatory. 1f there was any money left, it was to be given to the poor. But in such hands there would be nothing left; like the boyx's apple anxiously watched by his Immr:n]--s-»——"'l‘his apple hain’t goin’ to have no cor2.” Blind leaders of the blind. Lamps hid and kept hid. And trumpets. Let them give forth no uancertain sound. Give them the ring of i battle. A small trumpet may sound torth a very large note. A weak instru- ] ment gives glory by letting out the right i ring. Break the pitchers, blow the trumpet and then—go at it. Next Lesson—*“Ruth’s Choice.” Ruth 1: 14-22, Sccretary Carlisle has reversed the ruling of the Auditor of the Treasury for the State Department and decided that M. W. Ranscm, Minister to Mexico, may draw his salary as such under his present appointment. A draft of $525 on thissalary account drawn by the State Department on the treasury has been henored by order of Secretary Carlisle. Sl ‘ Mrs. Col. Badie, wife of William Eadie, socond in command of the Salvation Army of the United States, died at hep (home in Jersey City, ¢f pulmonary cobs * sumption. ;