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r 40WWU,™ In Br HAJtRY LEON WILSON L- r • 71 i <v V' / ' M: *.*Y> Copyright, hf Lothrop Publishing Company. ©HAPTJ5B X£VI.--COSTINUBD. "No, no--that aia't the way to han­ dle him. Say, I don't expect to quit •cussin' him for another SO days yet. 1 want him to think be ain't got a friend on earth but himself. Why, I'd have made this play Just as I have -done, Mr. Shepler, if there hadn't been 41 chance to get back a cent of it--if we'd had to go plumb broke--back to (the west In an emigrant car, with •bologna and erackers to eat, that's what I'd hare done. No, sir, no help <ur himl" "Aren't you a little hard on himf' i "Not a bit! don't I kiow .the stock, ' ttd know just what he needs? Most : men you couldn't treat as I'm treatin' him; but with him, the harder you . toear down cm him the more you'll get out of Mm. That was the way with | iiis pa--he was a different man after ii -things got to conaln* too easy fur him. j-i This fellow, the way I'm treatin' him, •;! 'will keep his head even after he gets ? things comin' easy again, or I miss my «ue88. He thinks I despise him now, if you told him I was proud of him, I ^2 Almost believe you could get a bet out «f him, sick aa he la of gamblln'." "Has he suspected anything?" "Sure not! Why, he Just thanked «ne about an hour ago fur savin' him-- caade me shake hands with him--and I could see the tears back in hla 49W The old man chuckled. "It was like Len Carey's Nigger Jim. tLen had Jim set apart on the planta­ tion fur his own nigger. They fisned and went huntin' and swlmmln' to­ gether. One day they'd been swim- *nin'; and was lyin' up on the bank, Len got thlnkin' he'd never seen any­ one drown. He knew Jim couldn't swim a lick, so he thought he'd have Jim go drown. He says to him: 'Jim, ago Jump off that rock there!' That was where the deep hole was. Jim •was scar't, but he had to go. After fce'd gone down once, Len says to him: "Drown now, you damn nigger!' and Jim come up and went down twice snore. Then Len begun to think Jim •was worth a good bit of money, and mebbe he d be almighty walloped If the truth come out, so he dives in after Jim and gets him ashore, and after while he brought him to. Anyway, ne «aid, Jim had already sure-enough ^drowned as fur as there was any fun in it. Well. Len Carey is an old man JOOW, and Jim is an old white-headed tiigger still hangin' around the old jplace, and when Len goes back there to visit his relatives, old Nigger Jim bunts him up with tears In his eyes, •v , ••-m ftfSFECTED ANYTHING?" . . . r a n d t h a n k s M i s t e r L e o n a r d f u r s a v i n ' fv'Tll iiis life that time. Say, I felt this ' xnornin' like Len Carey must feel them times when Jim's thankin' him." Shepler laughed. "You're a rare man, Mr. Bines. I'll bope to have your cheerful, easy views of life if I ever lose my hold here in ' the street I hope I'n have the old ° Bines philosophy and the young f t' Bines spirit. That reminds me," he • ;. •. continued, as Uncle Peter rose to go, yj -we've been pretty confidential, Mr. > r, i Bines, and I don't mind telling you I was a bit afraid of that young man until yesterday. Oh, not on the stock proposition. On another matter. You ; • may have noticed that night at toe Oldaker's--well, women, Mr. Bines, are uncertain. I know something about 'y markets and the ways of a dollar, but r, all I know about women is that they're good to have. You can't know any |more about them, because they don't ; v know any more themselves. Just be- <%>Vtween us, now, I never felt any too sure of a certain young woman's state t of mind until copper reached 51 and Union Cordage had been blown up from inside." m They parted with warm expressions of good-will, and Uncle Peter, in high spirits at the success of his machlna- tions, had himself driven up-town. <- •' The only point where his plans had ' ;• failed was in Mrs. Wybert's refusal to n ' consider Mauburn after the birth of the ; Caaselthorpe twins. Yet he felt that .:\i matters, in spite of this happening, must go as he wished them to? The Englishman--Uncle Peter cherished the strong anti-British sentiment pe- f culiar to his generation--would surely never marry a* girl who was all but penniless, and the consideration of an * alliance with Mrs. Wybert, when the 7% tortune »hould be lost, had, after all, ^>®ea an incident--a means showing L ** s^e should prove to be too infatuated with Mauburn for her own peace of mind--how unworthy and mercenary he was; for he had meant, In that event, to disillusion her by disclosing something of Mrs. Wy- . V ' bert's history--the woman Mauburn should prefer to her. He still counted > ̂ confidently on the loss of the fortune (Vf sufficing to break the match. , When he reached the Hlghtower that night for dinner, he found Percival .rs ^ *' '***•-*•» , . A .. ~ & , , . f codcelved to be a funny situation. "Don't ask me, Uncle Peter. X jouldn't get it straight; but as near I could make out, Mauburn came up here afraid the blow of losing. Mm was going to XUI sis with a broken heart; and sis was afraid the blow was going to kill Manburn, because she wouldn't have married him anyway, rich or poor, after he'd lost the title. They found each other out some way, and then Mauburn accused her of be­ ing heartless, of caring only for his title, and she accused him of caring only for her money, and he insisted she ought to marry him anyway,, but she wouldn't have It because of the twins--" c: Uncle Peter rubbed his big brown hands with tne first signs of cheerful­ ness he had permitted Percival to de­ tect in him. "Good fur Pish--that's the way to take down them conceited Britishers--" "But then they went at _matters again from a new standpoint, an^T the result is they've made it up." "What? Has them precfcMS twin Casseltborpes perished?" "Not at all, both doing finely-- haven't even had colic--growing fast- probably learned to say 'fancy, now,' by this time. But Ifauburn's g^ing west with us If we'll take hiauM "Get out!" "Fact! Say, It must have been an awful blow to him when he found sis wouldn't think of him at all without his title, even if she was broke. They hfd a stormy time of it from all I can hear. He said he was strong enough to work and all that, and since he'd cared for her, and not for her money, it was low down of her to throw him over; then she' said she wouldn't leave her mother and us, now that we'might need her, not for him or any other man--and he said that only made him love her all the more, and then he got chesty, and said he was just as good as any American, even if he never would hafe a title; so pretty soon they got kind of interested in each other again, and py the time I camd home it was all over. They ratified the pre­ liminary agreement for a merger." « "Well, I snum!"- "That's right, go ahead and snum. I'd snum myself if I knew how--it knocked me. Better come upstairs and congratulate the happy couple." "Shoo, now! 1 certainly am mighty disappointed in that fellow. Still, he is well spottea, and them freckles mean iron in the blood. Maybe we can de­ velop him along with the other prop­ erties." They found Psyche already radiant, though showing about her eyes traces of the storm's devastations, Mauburn was looking happy; also defiant and stubborn. "Mr. Bines," he said to Uncle Peter, "I hope you'll side with me. I know something about horses, and I've near­ ly a thousand pounds that I'll be glad to put In with you out there if you can make a place for me." The old man looked him over quiz­ zically. Psyche put her arm through Mauburn's. "I'd have to marry some one, you know, Uncle Peter!" "Don't apologize, Pish. There's room for men that can work out there, Mr, Mauburn, but there ain't any vintages or trouserings to speak of. and the hours is long." "Try me, Mr. Bines!" "Well, come on. If you can't skin yourself you can hold a leg while somebody else skins. But you ain't -jnet my expectations, I'll say that!" And he shooa hands cordially with the Englishman. / "I say, you know," said Mauburn later to Psyche, "why should I skin myself? Why should I be skinned at all, you know?" "You shouldn't," she reassured him. "That's only Uncle Peter's way of say­ ing you can help the others, even if you can't do much yourself at first And won't Mrs. Drelmer be delighted to know it's all settled?" "Well," said Uncle Peter.to Perci­ val, later in the evening, "Pish has done better than you have here. It's a pity you didn't pick out some good, sensible girl, and marry her in the midst of your other doings." I couldn't find one that liked cntg I saw a lot that suited every other way, but I always said to myself: 'Remember Uncle Peter's warning!' so I'd go to an animal store and get a basket of kittens and take them around, and not one of the dozen stood your test. Of course I'd never disre­ gard your advice." "Hum," remarked Uncle Peter, in~* tone to be noticed for its extreme dry­ ness. "Too bad, though--you certainly need a wife to take the conceit out of you." "I lost that In the street, along with the rest" "Well, son, 1 ain't no ways alarmed but what you'll soon be on your feat again In that respect--say by next Tuesday or Wednesday. I wish the money wfcs comln' back as easy." "Well, there are girls ia Montana City." "You could do worse. That reminds me--I happened to meet Shepler to­ day and he got kind of confidential-- talkin' over matters. He said he'd never really felt sure about the affec­ tions of a certain young woman, espe­ cially after that night at the Oldakers' --he'd never felt dead sure of her until you went broke. He said you never could know anything about a woman --not really." "He knows something about that one, all right. If he knowa she wouldn't have any use for me how. Shepler's coming on with the ladles. I feel Quite hopeful about him." /£• CHAPTER XXVII. THIS ttKPARTURK OF UNCLE WWP1R The kineses, with the exception of Psyche, were at breakfast a week later. Miss Bines had been missing since the day that Mr. and Mrs. Cecil G. H. Mau­ burn had left for Montana Ci|y to put the Bines home in order. Uncle Peter and Mrs. Bines had now determined to go, leaving Percival to follow when he had closed his busi­ ness affairs. "It's like starting wast again to make our fortune," said Uncle Peter. He had suffered himself to regain something of his old cheerfulness of manner. "I wish you two would wait unul they can get uie car here, and go bade with me," "Wid Percival. ("We can go \ • i.' " 1 1 , - - W*"*-^ »'< . ' Vs *»>, *1 ' * * , * r In style «svwa if we dtda't «av» much more than a get-away stake." But his persuasions were nnavailirg. "I can't Stand it another day," said Mrs. Bines, "and those letters keep coming in from poor suffering people that haven't heard the news." "I'm too restless to stay," declared Uncle Peter. "I declare, with springs all greehin' up this way I'd be found campin' up in Central park some night and took off to the calaboose. I just got to get out again where you can feel the wind blow and see a hundred miles and don't have to dodge horse­ less horse cars every minute. It's a wonder one of 'em aint got me In this town. You come on in the car, and do the style fur the family. One of them common Pullmans is good enough fur Marthy and me. And besides, I got to get Billy Brue back. He's goin* plumb daft lookln* night and day fur that man that got his $30 and his breast- pi He says there'll be an ambulance backed up at the spot where he meets him--makes no difference If it's right on Fifth avenue. Billy's kind of near­ sighted at that, so I'm mortal afraid he ll make a mistake one of these nights and take some honest man's money and trinkets away from him." Parciyal saw them to the train. "Take care of yourself," said Uncle Peter at parting. "You know I ain't any good any more, and you got s whole family, includin' an Englishman, dependin' on you--we'll throw him on the town, though, if he don't take out his first papers the minute I get there." His last shot from the rear platform was: "Change your name back to 'Pete,' son, when you get west of Chicago. 'Tain't anything fancy, but It's a crack- In good business name fur a hustler!" "All right, Uncle Peter--and I hope I'll have a grandson that thinks as mucn of it as I do of yours." When they had gone, he went back to the work of final adjustment. He SPRING?" bad the help of Coplen, whom they bad sent for. With him he was busy Tor a week. By lucky sales of some of the securities that had been hy­ pothecated they managed to save a little; but, on the whole, it was what Percival described it, "a lovely autop­ sy." At last the vexatious work was fin­ ished, and he was free again. At the end of the final day's work he left the office of Fouts In Wall street, and walked up Broadway. He went slow­ ly, enjoying the freedom from care. It was the afternoon of a day when the first summer heat had been felt, and as he loitered before shop windows or walked slowly through that street where all move quickly and most very hurriedly, a welcome little breeze came up from the bay to fan him and sn- encourage his spirit of leisure. At Union square, when he would have taken a car to go the remainder of the distance, he saw Shepler, ac­ companied by Mrs. Van GeUt and Miss Milbrey, alight from a victoria and enter a jeweler's. He would have passed on, but Miss Milbrey had seen him and stood wait­ ing In the doorway, while Shepler and Mrs. Van Gelst went on into the store. "Mr. Bines--I'm so glad!" She stood, flushed with pleasure, radiant in stuff of filmy pink, with lit­ tle flecks at her throat and waist of the first tender green of new leaves. She was unaffectedly delighted to see him. 'You are Miss Spring?" he said when she had given him her hand--* and you've come into all your mother had that was worth inheriting, haven't you?" "Mr. Bines, shall we not Me you now? I wanted so much to talk with; you when I heard everything. Would it be impertinent to say I sympathized w*th you?" He looked over~ her shoulder In where Shepler and Mrs. Van Gelst were inspecting a tray of jewel?. 'Of course not impertinent--very" kind--only I'm really not it need bf' any sympathy at all. You won't uivi derstand it; but we don't cars so much for money in the west--for the loss 0$ it--not so much as you New Yorkers ; would. Besides, we can always make' a plenty more." The situation was, emphatically, not as he had so often dreamed it when she should marvel, perhaps regretful­ ly, over his superiority to her husband as a money-maker. His only relief was to belittle the Importance of fcis (TO BS CONTINUED.) Pit P M i.dfiilj'ft A.RADF0RD EDITOR iiitiuro Mr. William A. Radford will answer «|W>«tions and give advJee FREE OF COST oft all subjects pertaining to th< subject of Jbutlding for the readers of this paper.. On account of his wide expe­ rience as Editor, Author and Manufac­ turer. he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., and oaii enclose two-cent stamp for reply: This house plan appeala to mo as being one of the neatest an<! most in­ teresting low cost houses I ever built. The plan lends itself to a splendid ar­ rangement of rooms, both upstairs and clown, it is easy to arrange the neces­ sary conveniences when the rear of the housfc is wider than the front, and this plan is easily covered with a two section roof on the three-gable plan, one. of the most satisfactory roofs ever built. This style of roof dates back to the earliest American architecture. It originated in the efforts of builders to add a pleasing front to the old-fashioned long houses built with the side to the road, but this plan has been improved upon un­ til the oomfHeted house shows very little resemblance to the original ef­ forts in this direction. While the front part of the house is pleasing and the arrangement is almost perfect, the rear section is given up entirely to the dining-room, kitchen and the accessories to these rooms. While we all like to see a pretty parlor and an attractive hall, we should remember that a house Is built to live In next year, and for a good many years. The work of get­ ting meals is about vthe same day after day and year after year. Meals are manufactured in the kitchen and served in the dining-room three times )a day, and a little saving In work each time amounts to a great deal in the aggregate. A dining-room 12 feet wide and 26 feet 6 inches long is un­ usual even in a large house. This to raise the temperature of the drip iater. For this purpose an open trough is better than a pipe for two 'easons. The water is exposed to the atmosphere and warms up much bet­ ter in summer, and if the ice box is used in cold weather the pipe don't burst when the water freezes. „ An­ other drain for an ice box that came under my observation was carried* to -*<rov«r Second Floor Plan. a poroelain dish for the benefit dt the birds. It kept a constant supply of bath water in a shallow dish that the birds enjoyed every day in warm father, it was amusing to see them splash the water about. This style of house just suits a two* story porch, and the porch seems tct fit the house as though it grew there. It is not always easy to arrange a porch on*ihree sides of a house with­ out making some of the rooms dark, but there is no objection on that score to this plan. This style of porch is a finish to the house, and it is a great protection both to the front J S v c S nV\ , s *\> ̂\!::r (" n VX, J- '•- S. y is not a large house, but there is room enough for a big dining-room without encroaching on anything else. The little square hall in the rear is usually a vestibule. It is the right place for an ice box, away from the beat of the kitchen, but not far enough away to be ineonvenlent. I like to see a refrigerator close to the outside entrance. Ice comes In drip­ ping wet in warm weather, and the man who carries it usually has more or less mud or dirt on his boots. It is a great saving on a woman's tem­ per to have the dirt left outside, or as near the outside of a house, as possible. Then there is a saving of ice by having the refrigerator in a comparatively cool place. If we have our own ice house the work of getting the ice out, washing it and putting it into the ice box Is considerable, so that economy even In this case is ad­ visable, but when ice is bought and psU J^at jwevattiiig sum#**- Wtem (hT^I • IS •-- Ml BMM • Marriage Among Persian Nomad*. An interesting custom prevails among the nomad tribes of Persia. Before becoming eligible for marriage every girl has to prove her skill by weaving two very fine rugs or saddle- SB. It is this class of work which is particularly prized In Europe and America. In 1&04 a law was reenact- ed by the Persian government by which the customs department was In­ structed to seize and burn all carpets in the manufacture of which aniline dyes were used. A total cessation of exports resulted, and owing to the hardship inflicted by this decree the manufacturers were granted a certain period of grace In which to dispose of their rtwktvA Globe. First Floor Plan. the necessity for being carefid !• much greater. » Sometimes it is not convenient to drain the ice box into the sewer. When placed next to the outside wall it Is easy to bore a hole through the floor and put a piece of inch gas pipe with an elbow and run the pipe out­ side. One house that was built like this had the waste water from the melting ice carried outside of the wall and the drip carried to a bed of mint. We all know how to appreciate roast lamb with mint sauce, and when the mint is gathered fresh and clean at the side of the house it is much more of a delicacy than when bought from the market and carted around through the dust for 24 hours before being delivered. Mint will grow fair­ ly well in the garden If lightly shaded, but it is a water loving plant, and does better when it gets a continual supply of moisture. If the pipe from the Ice box Is short, the water 1b likely to be rather cold. It is better to run the water along an open trough Cor a distance of eight or ten feet v.:- , , ̂ - i J door and the side door opening into the dining room. I like an outside entrance to the dining room, especially where the room is large and not overcrowded with furniture. I think most women like it, too. A dining room is not fur nished unusually so expensively as the front parlor. When there is a side entrance the immediate friends of the family usually step right Into the inner ciVcle without the formality of ringing the front door bell. There is an element of sociability in this sort of thing that induces comfort. I don't believe in furnishing up a parlor In such a way that it is too nice to use. I believe In comfort first and show afterward, but at the same time it is considerable work to keep the front part of the house in first-class condition and have every member of the family running through it contin­ ually. A woman don't like to order the children out of the parlor to stay out unless they have some other place to go. and there must be a com­ fortable place for the children in every home. In this house the dining room offers a solution of the difllcul- ty. With a good grate and a cheerful fire in cold weather the youngsters will be found in the dinlpg room every time, unless the old folks are so grouchy that they are obliged to find recreation at one of the neigh­ bors. The else of this house Is 83 feet 6 Inches wide by 34 feet long, exclusive of the porch, which is large enough to make six good rooms, besides the nu­ merous cupboards, bathroom and an alcove which comes in very-handy for a sewing room. A plan of this kind has a great deal to recommend it NOT IN NEED OF COMMODITY. Young Housewife's Reply Probably Caused Seme Astonishment. A story is told of a,young wife whftf* knew little\bf housekeeping. She wal, In consequence^ of that Inexperience, disposed to stand a bit in awe of the butcher, the baker and the candle­ stick maker, for she felt sure they must be aware of the extent of her ignorance In household matters. , She ordered only such things as she wa« absolutely sure of, and she made her Interviews with the tradesmen as brief as possible. One morning there came to her house a collector of ashes. "Ash-ees! ash-ees!" she heard him calling in stentorian tones. As the cry was re-' peated again and again she became more and more perplexed as to what "ash-ees" meant Finally, she went to the gate in the rear and opened it. "Ash-ees?" came In gutteral question from the man. The young wife hesitated for a mo­ ment; then, drawing herself up to a dignified attitude, she replied coldly: "No, I don't think I care for «njr *»> day."--Harper's Weekly. * IAD AN. 1* RAIN WATER 8TORAGE BARRELS. Convenient Arrangement by Which a Supply May Be Kept on Hand. The Town and Country Journal of Australia Illustrates a method of ar­ ranging rain barrels In a series which will appeal to our farmers. Several large barrels are set In a row on a suitable platform and connected with pipes near the top. As the barrel A is filled, the overflow runs into barrel B, and so on until C is also filled. Wa­ ter is used eftch time from the barrel furthest from the eave spout with the Aiitlfjr/ •- Mil*// Rain Water, Storage Barrels. result that space emptied each time is such that it will be filled readily in the case of rain. While this is not important it Is the only method by which a full barrel is assured until the neighboring barrels are emptied. f"' SAND ANQ CLAY ROADS. FARM IMPLEMENTS ;̂ ill Investment That lie * Well Looked After. If you have not gathered up, clean­ ed and properly housed your farm­ ing implements, and protected them from rust and weather, do so at once, before the snows and rains come on. The total amount of the farmer's In­ vestment in machinery is necessarily large, and it is the part of prudence for him to take gpod care of it. In a machine shop or factory, every piece of machinery is in use day after day. The, farmer is obliged to buy and keep in repair a dozen machines which he has use for only a few days out of the year. He runs his mowing machine perhaps two weeks altogeth­ er; his binder half that time, and his hay tedder perhaps not three days all told. The wheat and corn drills come in for only a few days' use, and the potato planter and digger for no longer period. During the remainder of tha year it is necessary to care for and properly house these machines in order to keep them in good condition. A few years ago an ingenious Yan­ kee Invented what is called a "Uni­ versal Tool," consisting of a hollow handle with a Bcrew top and holding a chisel, screw-driver, gimlet, tack puller and many other small handy tools which may be clamped in the small end of the handle as needed. Perhaps, says the Farm Journal, an equally ingenious person will some day invent a "universal machine," which, by an exchange of parts and attachments, may serve the combined purposes which now make necessary many implements. Such an inven­ tion would prove a great benefaction to agriculture. BURNT-CLAY ROADS. J^xperii mint Being Tried by. Agricul­ tural Department. The public roads office of the United States department of agriculture Is ex­ perimenting with a novel method of making roads. The experiments have so far been confined to the clay or "gumbo" roads in Mississippi, and the experiments are altogether new. The roadway selected for treatment is graded to an even width between ditches and then plowed as deeply aa possible. Furrows are then dug across the road from ditch to ditch, four feet apart. Cord wood is then placed in the 'ridges thus formed, the plowed clay is laid thereon In layers, care be­ ing taken to provide fiues in order that the wood will readily burn and bake the clay. When the firing is completed the treated clay is rolled and com­ pacted to eight Inches in thickness. The clay has been changed by the burning into clinkers, which compact Into a solid roadbed, which will not form mud. The cost of such road in a country where wood sells at $1.30 a cord was $1,478 per mile, and while the wearing qualities of the road have not been ascertained, it is believed that it will wear as well as other made roads. In many sections, says Farm Journal, the drawback would doubtless be In the difficulty in obtaining wood. Per­ haps petroleum might be introduced as a substitute. Mixture of Sand Clay, 8and aiiitl Gravel Makes Compact Surface. In the state of Minnesota a deep sand with the road bed out about six Inches deep wi with a load of clay spread out tfc»; width of the wheel track, aSd fibout 1S& feet in length. The same day afr'< amount of fine gravel was"qgfreftA wst^' the clay. Of course this waa » thin covering, but after the first ll rains the heavy loads passing „©rerii churned the gravel, clay and the ua-t' derlying loose sand into a soft which, when it dried out and beeiUBO^J > " J packed, made a hard composite of ' these three material^. This road lMMlC' *f stood the test of nine years of travel' r ^ There were three reasons why tb&l,. yv road was made so cheaply and easily. * ' First, the grade was level. Second. ^ the sides of the road bed retained tho .^1 materials. Third, the sticky nature of; - the clay bound together both th«' gravel and the fine sand already there. '« This road proved to be as good as th0 " ; average eountry dirt road and cost lew than $1 per rod. Last year another road was repaired \ by using double the amount of elay, \ 5 that is, a load for about eight feet, . with half as much gravel. This road had a fair foundation. The result was one of the finest roads in the country.5 -.<4; The cost was iabout |350 per mile. It, will last seven or eight years without ' * much repair. Another very sandy road was re- f paired with a load of loose gravel for every eight feet It was a partial fail­ ure as the gravel did not pack weJL Recently gravel Intermixed with loam has been placed on this road Willi good results, making a hard, durable surface. Of course, where the grade was steep more material was used and'tts road was made more crowning to vent the water from washing out tlM track. A piece of road was tried clay alone. The clay was put on rather' heavily so .that It could not, by heavy loads, cut Into the sand beneath. The ' sequel was after heavy rains an al­ most Impassable road. To remedy this * the sand at the sides was scraped a#4 shoveled on the clay, to the depths ©I several inches where it soon mixed with the clay, producing a surface but not as good as gravel would have made. First, from this we inter that a very small quantity of clay mixed with the sand of the road will greatly im­ prove it. | Second, that it Is a mistake to put a heavy coat of clay over sand unless an abundance of gravel can be procured to mix with it. Third, that heavy clay roads at times having bad mud holes can be improved by adding two or three inches of sand, which will soon become raised with the clay, making it more friable and less liable to become muddy and full of holes. The gravel was hauled at about an average distance of 1 % miles and the clay fibout three-fourths of a mile. The cost of about fotir miles re­ paired this year and last was nearly $1,500, or about $375 per mile. Where the elay is nearby and the gravel at a considerable distance, of the material may be clay, conditions are reversed, be the principal material, 1 clay to bind fihe materials in a hard solid mass. ; , - • •' >81 11 m BUILDING AN 1CB H Small One for the Farm Which Ca* i, Be Easily Built. The illustration shows a handy ice house that needs little explanation, says Farm and Home. It is Itxlf ' feet in size, and will hold 45 team. It is built double boarded on hotii sides and roof and the space between the studs is filled with shavings, saw* duet, charcoal dust or other mate­ rial Inch boards are shown at a .ll® ||reen Manure for Whest. Star an economical and cheap fer­ tiliser for wheat there is nothing, in my opinion, equal to a crop of cow- peas plowed under in the green state late in the fall just before the heavy frosts come to injure the foliage. The cowpea as a fertilizer gives almost as good results on a crop of wheat as stable manure, but the effects are not so lasting in the soil for future crops. A piece of land where cowpeas have been turned over in the fall, topped with a good dressing in the winter makes an ideal piece of land on which to prow a good crop of fine potatoes. Artificial Milk. Artificial milk is sometimes heard of but seldom seen. In Europe such milks are being sold in some localities in a small way. These contain no real milk ingredients. An examination of one kind sold in Germany showed it to be a mixture of syrup and sesame oil emulsified with some proteid sub­ stance. This was to be diluted with nine parts of water before being used. The chief demand for such artificial milk is said to be In bakeries. For cooking purposes It is possible that eome of these substitutes might prove useful, hut why call them artificial milk? There are toJTl. milea toad to Pennsylvania. < Details of Ice House. and f; b is 1x2 inch strips nailed a* Inch boards; c, placed on the stud-' ding; d shows two thicknesses of pa- per. The Inside Is finished in the same way. It is covered with a shingle roof. Ventilators at each end under the roof will take oat the moist air. ' *, -- ^ Give Cows Freeh Air. Do not keep the cows too confined this winter; let them accustomed to remaining out day that is not stormy. Unless rMjfj latlon and sanitation be perfect, caaftfe*' ing cows all the time weakeaa that*- constitution, and their health la HaMtv to be damaged. Cows in t£is OGNMtt> tion, says Farm Journal, are also much more liable to disease by Infection, such as tuberculosis. ; Nature as an Adulterer. \ An Ohio farmer asserts that N*t«* has produced on his farm a tion of pumpkin and tomato, with result that while preeerving usual outward appearance, the kins taste like tcmatoes* mad the toes like pumpkins. How are misguided fruits going to square selves with the pure food asks Rural New Yorker. Weight of Feed for-Maria. It is said that in the army! fed 14 pounds of oats and 15 hay for each 1.000 pounds weight. For the same weight of s nine pounds of oats are fed. about what mule breeders saying that their animals are economical feeders. The drug knows as pink rooti gelia Mar Hand lea) is aaaful as a fug©. The department ef hasteaued a little pamphlet M 2 "... J,*' w.r./isJr.. jet'&e*. ll, ov ^ K' J j, ^ < . . . - , ' v - ' ' ' • • ' ,n. .