to speak his mind, and defend {THE WAITER | = tO In the bay-window of the board- ing-house sitting-room a little aprore was discussing the girl who just passed down the front steps, "The airs she puts on!' "And the money she spends !"" "It's a pity she hasn't someone to look after her, If she were my ughter----" They paid ne attention to George Hurstaway. who longed for courage . Byl- via Grex in her absence. To has, she seemed all that was perfect. He had thought himself lucky just to spend a week under the same roof. Their fellow-guests would have said that Miss Grex had snubbed wm On every possible occasion. Ot course, Hurstaway reflected omily, she could not possibly be nterested in a very ordinary fellow, plain and by no means smart--just a city clerk on his annual vacation, who was not accustomed to femi. Elne society. He Wished: that he could approach her dashingly as the other men did --wonderful dandies, with the latest thing in waistcoats, socks, and slang. But in the boarding-house society he was of no account what- ever. This was, in some ways, the most 'miserable holiday oi had ever spent. Presently he must go back to town and the office. He would never see her again. _ With an angry glance at the gos- siping party in the window, he walked moodily upstairs. From his seat at dinner that night he could observe Miss Grex across the table. She seemed sven more excitable and high-spirited than usual, and, with pangs of jealousy, George Hurstaway noted the evident ad- miration of her masculine neigh- rs. When the meal was over, he won- dered listlessly how he should spend the evening. Finally he was left = in an alcove adjoining the all. There he must have closed his eyes. He roused himself with a start, to hear Mrs. Beatson's voice raised shrilly: "So that's your little game, is it, Miss! To pack up your luggage and sneak off a day beforehand, without settling your bill!" "T didn't know you were in. I've left a note to explain. Id have written again directly I got home." "Oh, of course! Nice goings-on ! My word!" ; "T meant to send you the money. You can't think I intended----" "You'll pay me to-morrow," de- clared. the proprietress thickly, 'hefSore you leave this house, or Tl know the reason why !"' She stamped off. Sylvia Grex sank down on a basket-chair, quite close to Hurstaway. She was cry- ing a little. He reached out and touched her arm. "T heard,' he stammered. "I couldn't help hearing." She lifted her face, away. "What must you think of me!" ~ "T have to apologize----" "Do let me explain, please." He could hardly realize that this was the vivacious and haughty Miss Grex he had admired from afar "T quite thought I should have some extra money this morning. It was my birthday yesterday, and an uncle of mine has always sent me a " present--five pounds. I counted on it this year, too, but perhaps he has forgotten." : She bent her head again. "You see why I spent all I had with me. I thought I could easily pay. Mrs. Beatson's bill to-day. Pve been extravagant--having a good time." "Vm not one of the fellows you've been friendly with. I haven't taken u about anywhere,' observed rsfaway slowly. "No one else need know. When you get home you can pay me back. I'm just a stranger, that's all; but I'd like to remember that I'd helped you, even in such a little way." "Yes--you"d lend----' . "Please let me!" "But you mustn't! I couldn't take it!" He turned. away. "There's no time to ask my father or mother, though." A few minutes later Hurstaway was walking along the promenade, happier than he had been since his holiday started. Next morning Miss Grex went away. Everyone in the house was astonished to hear of her departure before breakfast. On the stairs George Hurstaway found one of his own yisiting-cards. "She dropped it! Now she won't know my address! But she's com- ing back here'in September. If I could manage to run down for a week-end. I wonder if she'd mind." He was occupied during the next few days mainly in thinking of her. Ordinary amusements were out of the question. : "Vve only just about enough for Wirs. Beatson," he reflected: but he did not-regret the fact at all. When asked to join in different excursions he pleaded engagements, and went for solitary walks. On the Sunday, however, he made a discovery which appalled him. The return-half of his ticket shrinking ? ~ wasgone ! 'He Yemembered that. once his-let- ter-case had slipped from his pock- et, and all the afternoon he spent in searching the beach, without suc- cess. There was no one available from whom he could possibly borrow. There was no time to wire to friends even if the post-office had been open. Mrs. Beatson, he deliberat- ed, would never consent to retain his belongings as security for part of her bill, and he was due back at ' the office the following morning! At an early hour. desperate, "he [reached him. He stiffened as hel read it: "Excuse not accepted. Biay awey for good. Week's salary follows by post." The manager had always disliked , and, after recent reprimands, had thrown out the broadest of hints that he should seek another | situation. Hurstaway hardly grasped the truth until he had actually left the boarding-house. Dully he reviewed his position. He was left I with a few copper coins. The waiter in the rather dingy restaurant in the side-street was snatching a few minutes' rest. A big party of excursionists had just left after a late luneh, and it was not likely that there would be any further customers yet awhile. He was rather surprised, there- fore, when the swing-doors opened. "It's raining fast now !"' remark- ed the elder lady audibly. "This a place, but we can isn't much of shelter till the shower's over.'? Miss Sylvia Grex glanced round as they sat at a small table, but al- most before her gaze could rest on the waiter, he had turned his back. She saw a stout man approach him, and overheard a sharp command : "Attend to those ladies at once! What is wrong with you??? But the waiter vanished through a curtained doorway. The stout, foreign-looking person came for. ward. . "T am sorry, but my waiter--he is ill. Kindly excuse him. T myself will take your order,' : "Coffee for two, please."' The proprietor presently, with mueh condescension, set the cups before them. A quarter of an hour went by. "Ready, dear? I think the rain's over for the present. Shall we move ?"? . Miss Grex roused herself, seem- ingly with an effort, and assented. A minute later the waiter had ap- parently recovered. He reappear- ed, and began to clear the table. Beneath one of the chairs lay a glove. As he picked it up, he no- ticed that the proprietor was occu- pled. He held it tightly for a mo- ment between his two hands. There was a curious, strained ex. pression on his face. As he retired with the tray, the door was pushed open again--very softly this time. Miss Grex had re- turned alone. She stood looking awkwardly round. The stont man suddenly became aware of her pre- sence. "T believe I--TI left something be- hind just now,'? "Certainly! I will once. Yes." He rang a bell, and the waiter stepped out. "Have you picked up anything from that small table by the win- dow? Come, come! Are you deaf?' Slowly the waiter's hand sought his breast pocket. "The lady's glove! You have it. Why did you not tell me, George? Why?' The stout man was growing angry. "T was keeping it, sir, until--un- so] ee "Yes, yes; of course !"' Miss Grex drew the proprietor aside, In the big mirror before her ghe saw the waiter's reflection. With rapid movement he carried the glove to his lips. When they swung round to face him he bowed and oe it out, impassive and respect- ful. 'Very well, miss; I will not re- primand him, since you wish. George, the door for:the lady !? As she passed, the girl's eyes sought the waiter's face. He was looking down, with head bent. "Eight o'clock, outside the pier !"' He heard the whisper, and flush- ed suddenly, with a quick gasp. "N-nine o'clock is when I'm free." 'Nine, then!" She disappeared. "Do not loiter there all day, George ! Write these menus-- quick! Techah! I will do them my- self. Your hand shakes. You are ill yet?' NS ar answered quickly. erably better now." inquire at George Hurstaway "T feel consid- "Shall we go through?' Miss Grex asked, indicating the turn- stile. "Tf you don't mind being seen about with me. I'm not known in the town much, after all, because I'm kept indoors a lot." "And you think I'd care if----" "My position, you see," Hursta- way reminded her quietly. 'People would think you--you'd lost your senses !" "T choose my own friends.'"' The girl swung round to him as they walked along the pier. "And J don't consider what they do for a living !'? Hurstaway was silent for a mom- ent. "You said you'd come down here again." "You've stopped here all the jsummer? I never expected to meet Von, |' "Tn there least of all, T suppose." He waved towards the distant cafe. "Why did you take up that WOT Go" é "Tt was all T could get, when T found IT'd lost my situation in the city. The day after you left I--I went in for a meal just as the pro- prietor was discharging his waiter in a fit of temper. He offered me the job. I wasin rather a hole." He bit his lips as Miss Grex gave a cry. "Explain it all. Yes, tell me." She listened to his few faltered sentences, and guessed the remain- der of the story. "Then it was all through helping me that your troubles came!'" Her voice was unsteady. 'I lost your card somehow, but I remembered the name of your road. TI returned that money next day to your lodg- you must 'if I waited till the rent I owed her.' "T wondered why you'd never written even a line. So you didn't know my address.' "But I hoped I'd see you again September. That was one of the reasons----" "The reasons why you stayed !" she echoed softly. The look on her face made Hurstaway catch his breath. 'I imagined you'd quite | forgotten me." , "You'd have cared? But at the boarding-house you avoided me-- hardly ever spoke !"' "Oh, you're very foolish!' He could just catch the words. 'You were so different from those others! I--I liked you all along. I was so alraid I'd show it, though. Now I you this afterneon."' "In the restaurant?' he queried, puzzled. "IT recognized you directly, al- though you tried to hide. I left my 'glove on purpose. You--you kissed it. That shows----" Hurstaway drew back from her. 'Tm poor, though--a waiter-- together. 'You can't think what you're saying." hand. But the girl langhed shakily. "T'm going to do the waiting now. You'll rise in the world. Wont you--if I believe in you?" George Hurstaway. caught her hand. A new confidence came to him. He threw back his head. "Yes, in spite of everything." "T, too, feel perfectly sure of that," Hurstaway leaned over the pier railings, and stared across the sea into the darkness. 'Dreams,' he "dreams are sweet. !?? And one day his @reams came true.--London Answers. Shon "aces Eee INVENTOR OF GOOD ROADS. John Louden McAdam, Who Gave His Name to a System. John Loudon McAdam, the road builder, an article which appears in the current issue of Good Roads, is one of considerable interest to the Jay reader, as well as to the man whose business is the building of roads. The article was written by Maur- ice O. Eldridge, Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. E., assistant in charge of road management investigations in the United States office of public roads. John Loudon McAdam was born at Ayr, Scotland, on September 21, 1756. He was the son of James Mc- Adam, a descendant of Adam Mc- Gregor, the first baron of Water- head and one of the Highland clan of McGregor. When James II of Scotland outlawed the MeGregors, Adam settled in the lowlands and changed his name to McAdam. John Loudon McAdam's mother was Susana Cochrane, daughter of John Cochrane of Waterhead, a rel- ative of the Earl of Dundonald. When John was fourteen years old his father died and he was in- trusted to the care of his uncle, William McAdam, a merchant liv. ing in New York. He received his business training with his uncle and accumulated a considerable fortune during the revolutionary war as an agent for the sale of prizes. When the war was over, McAdam had lost most of his property, but had enough left to enable him to return to Scotland in 1788, and purchase Sambrie, an estate in Ayrshire, where he lived for thirteen years. He was married twice, his first wife being the daughter of an American by descent, named De- Lancey. He had seven children. four sons and three daughters, all by his first wife. In Ayrshire, McAdam was magis- trate deputy lieutenant of the county and road trustee. At that time the roads throughout Great Britain, especially in Scotland, were very bad, and McAdam inter- ested himself in investigating con- ditions and conducting experiments in road building. As a result of his investigations and experiments, he arrived at the conclusion that roads should be constructed of small broken stone. He contended that the earth foun- dation should be raised slightly above the adjacent land and that suitable ditches should be built at the sides to provide drainage: that the earth foundation should be cov- ered by a series of thin lavers of hard stone broken into small angu- lar fragments of a nearly cubical shape, and so nearly as possible of the same size. A piece to weigh over six ounces. The layers of bro- ken stone were to be consolidated gradually by the traffic and would ultimately form a smooth hard crust impervious to water and durable in proportion to the hardness of the stone and the density of trafic. He laid down this principle: That the natural soil really supports the traffic. and that while it is pre- served in a drv state it will sustain any weight without sinking. The two essential requisites; therefore. were drainage and a waterproof covering. "Ss e RUSSIA'VS HUNTING BAG. The hunting season in Russia has come toan end, and the following particulars, says a St. Petersburg correspondent, relate to the booty, which has far surpassed that of the preceding year. The largest num- ber of animals killed are squirrels, which: head the list with 4,595,300 victims. The most sought-after fur is, of course, black sable, of which 12,250 were caught. Last year a clear profit of 2,500,000 frances was made on sables, which fetched as much as 1,000 francs apiece. The remainder of the "bag"? was com- posed of 200,000 ermine, 1,500 brown bears, 180,000 skunk, 100 blue foxes and 16,500 grey wolves. VS Next to getting the man she wants, a girl enjoys getting the man muttered _ pent a telegram. The answer soon ings in town." some other girl wants. 'My landlady kept it, then, for] don't seem to mind, after meeting | shabby clothes.'? . He set his lips | He held out his' MOROCCO'S SLAVE MARKET VIVID DESCRIPTION OF LIFE AT MARAKESH. ---- Auctions Opened With "A Word of Prayer"--French Will Step Traffic. 8.55, Benensan writing to the ondon Daily Mirror, regarding the slave trade in Morocco, says :-- As soon as the tricolor is hoisted permanently over Marakesh, the southern capital of the Moorish Empire, the French will put an end to the operations of the slave mar-. | ket, which is to-day the largest in Africa. It has been the caravan traffic that came from Timbuctoo and the banks of the Ni- ger across the Sahara desert. These caravans used to leave Mara- -kesh and go for a considerable journey through the Sahara to a place where there are great salt de- posits. There the camels used to be loaded with salt, and the jour- ney would be resumed across the desert to Timbuctoo and the lesser towns along the Niger, where there 18 an enormous demand for salt. It was paid for in gold dust, ostrich feathers, and slaves, and these un- fortunate human beings, many of them of tender years, were carried back on camels across the Sahara under conditions that frequently resulted in the death of 30 or 40 per cent. DRESSED FOR AUCTION. Since the French occupied Tim- buctoo the value of the slave traf- fic has dwindled very considerably, but to this day a few caravans manage to struggle through. In the great southern capital there are many Kaids who own a great num- ber of slaves and sell those they do not want; and I heard when T was in Marakesh some years ago that one or two men ran institutions on the lines of stud farms and used to rear child slaves for the market. The business ig in the hands of a group of auctioneers called dilals. They receive the slaves either from their owners or from the masters of the caravans, in which case they are given two or three days' rest and some special feeding, and be- fore the sales they are dressed in bright and attractive garments, generally of calico, which are only worn during the sale, and must be returned to the auctioneers by the purchasers. When I was in Marakesh about ten or twelve of these men were engaged in the sale of slaves, and each had his own enclosure in which the slaves he proposed to sell were herded. The markets are held two or three times a week. OFFER UP A PRAYER. Before the sale the auctioneers ranged themselves in line, and on behalf of all of them the senior auctioneer offered up a. prayer aloud. He called upon the patron saint of the city to bless those who bought and those who sold the slaves, and his utterances, which did not err on the side of brevity, were met with a frequent response, not only from his brother auction- eers but from the assembled. buy- ers. As soon as the prayer was over each auctioneer hurried to his pen, sorted out his slaves, and led them slowly round the market while the intending buyers scanned the slaves as they passed and lis- tened to the extravagant praise each auctioneer gave to the mem- bers of his company. ALL BLACKS. The slaves, without exception black, were of all ages and phy- sique, from old men and women who could command only a few dol- lars, down to little children, who were sometimes offered with their mothers, but tould be separated if necessary. This separation led from time to time to scenes too painful for description here. When a purchaser had selected the slave likely to suit his require- ments there would be some exami- nation, consisting generally of feel- ing the muscles and examining the teeth, for the Moors attach great importance to the condition of a slave's teeth, and one whose mouth is in a bad plight can find no pur- chaser gave at a very low figure. FRIGHTENED CHILDREN. The middle-aged and the young would probably be purchased for work in the fields, while the young | girls were bought for the harem, and the boys were often bought to be companions to the sons of the buyer, it being the custom™in Mor- rocco to give a lad a slave-compan- fed for centuries by. ion about his own age who grows up with him and becomes his confi- dential servant, often reaching a os of importance in the house- N\ When a buyer had selected his slave he would make an offer for him, and the dilal would then re- sume his tramp round the market- place, leading the slave or slaves selected and naming the price that had been offered. Tf after two or three promenades nobody bettered this price the sale would be con- cluded. HIGHEST BID $300. The behavior of the slaves varied very considerably. The old people for the most part were not going into slavery for the first time, and were consequently indifferent. Some of the younger ones were ob- viously keenly interested, doubt- less wondering whether fate would send them a good or a bad master. The children were clearly frighten- ed, some of them clinging passion- ately to their mothers and: needing force before they could be sepa- rated, while a few who were sus- pected of having an untractable dis- position were led through the mar- ket with their arms tied behind their backs. Sometimes two un- tuly slaves are tied together. The strong men and the attractive women and girls are always sold first, and the prices in' some cases rise to hundreds of dollars, though T never saw more than the equiva- lent of £60 in English money paid for anybody, and this was excep- tional. DEPOSED RULER IS HAPPY. |Ex-King Maauel Gets Enjoyment Out of Private Life. It is reported in London that Manuel, formerly King of Portugal, likes English social life so well that he does not wish to return to Lis- bon and is not greatly interested in the schemes of the royalists who have been hanging around Galicia for the last year or two, giving the correspondents at Badajoz a good deal to write about. If Manuel is content with the compensations of private life, his judgment cannot be questioned, Better a throneless king in clover than a king in constant danger of assassination and in hot water con- stantly about the tangled affairs of a kingdom almost bankrupted «by the extravagance and incompetence of his dynasty. The murder of Manuel's father, Dom Carlos, was a eruel and use- less crime, but the ousting of Man- uel was a good example of human- ity toward an undesirable. Man- uel was in the reyal carriage when his father and his elder brother, the Crown Prince, were killed by the bomb throwers, and he was wounded. In the "Phantom de los Reynes" in Lisbon all of the dead Braganza Kings are kept upon exhibition. "The Braganza," say the Lisbon upholders of the republic, 'are dwindling away there upon the hill as they allowed Portugal to rot when they ruled it." The smile that accompanies the statement reveals no sympathy for the Braganzas who were murdered and sent to the "Panteon de los Reynes" to join their predecessors, festering in the purple beneath the banners of a weaker little country that was once a mighty empire and the leader of all nations in mari- time strength. To a young man who is fairly well to do, thanks to the liberality of revolutionists who left the royal family in possession of their estates when they exiled them from Portu- gal. English social life, plus the prospect of marrying a fortune without having to ask permission of family, Church or State, should be more agreeable than sitting upon a tottering throne in an out-of-the- way, and rather dull, capital and looking forward to being sent by a bomb-thrower to. join the rest of the family in the royal mausoleum. ie Eleven Pharisees. ""Bobby," asked his Sunday school teacher, '"'do you know how many Apostles there were?' The little boy promptly answered-- 'Pwelve.'? Then he went on--"And I know how many Pharisees there were, too."' 'Indeed?' 'Yes'm. There was just one less than the Apostles.'?. 'Why, how do you know that? It is nowhere stated how many Pharisees there were." "JT thought everybody knew it," said Bobby. "The Bible says. 'Be- ware of the-*leven of the Phari- sees,' doesn't it?' Arbitration is always satisfactory --to the arbitrator. Bae wort €3 08 spam ee Bite err LEARNING -- The Visitor--'Have you any of you last time ?"' The Old Lady--"No, sir, I 'aven't; SOMETHING, that delicious porkpie we had from you see the little pigs have been so 'ealthy this year that we haven't 'ad to kill none--and none of 'em's died !"'--English paper. : RADIUM $100,000,000 A POUND. Banks Rent Out Tubes to Doctors at $50 Per Day. There are no very exact statistics of radium available, but the whole quantity in the world probably is not over two or three ounces, and its value, like that of the big dia- -- of the world, is purely nomi- nal, It is worth whatever the posses- sors can get for it. The head of the English corporation producing rad- jium claims that it is worth approxi- mately $100,000,000 a pound. A year ago this same person had esti- mated the value of radium at one- third more. However, a little vari- ation of $500,000,000 is not thought to matter where there is no ap- preciable fraction of a pound of the precious stuff in sight. The fact that has more than any- thing else to do with fixin ig the price is the existence of several radium banks in the world where tubes containing a microscopic speck of radium are rented out to doctors at something like $50 a day. While it is known to be of some value in treating lupus, a form of tuberculosis, there is little else known about its medical value. A short time ago it was reported that the Austrian Government had purchased the only two mines un- der private ownership producing the ores from which radium is made, and thereby gained a monopoly in its manufacture. This report, how- ever, turned out inaccurate. It is true that the Austrian mines and the Austrian Government hereto- fore have supplied the bulk of the radium salts existing in the world, but at the present time radium is being manufactured in three other countries, the United States in- cluded. Sweden is producing radi- um from kolm, the English are get- ting it from the mines in Wales, where there is a large deposit of radium producing ore. These deposits produce also uran- ium and vanadium, the latter being used for making some of the high- grade steel alloys. While, the min- ing pays in vanadium alone the ore produces a certain per cent. of rad- ium. Ten tons of it procure only between 20 and. 30 milligrams of radium. i POISONOUS SNAKES. Took Over Twenty-Four Thousand Lives in India Last Year. According to a report just pub- lished in Simla, India, the number of wild animals-destroyed in India in 1911 was 25,840, as compared with 19,282 in 1910. This total included 1,426 tigers, 5,352 leopards, and 4,251 wolves. Nearly 172,000 snakes were destroyrd, as against 91,100. This increase is largely accounted for by the offering of rewards by the Burma Government. That this action was necessary is proved by the fact that in one area the paddy fields were so snake infested that their cultivation was impossible. Altogether 1,947 persons were killed by wild animals and 24,264 by snakes, the figures for 1910 being 2,382 and 22,478 respectively. The number of cattle killed by wild ani- mals was 91,709, against 93,070, and by snakes 10,533, as against 10,990. With regard to snake bite of hu- man beings it is said that in the Bombay Presidency, the United Provinees and Fastern Bengal and Assam the use of Sir Lander Brun- ton's lancets is reported in a num- ber of cases to have resulted in a high proportion of cures. As in previous years, however, the statis- tics relative to the successful use of this instrument can only be accept- ed with reservations. Cy REASON TEETH DROP OUT. Norwegian Chemist Said To Have Discovered the Cause. "One of the most prevalent dis- eases of the teeth," said the secre- tary of the Royal Dental Hospital to a London Standard representa- tive recently, "is that which at- tacks the roots of the tooth and causes the tooth sooner or later to loosen itself from the gum and drop out,"' Dentists have been engaged for years upon the endeavor to find out the cause of this disease, knowing that if the cause could be discovered a remedy could soon be found. Pa- tent medicine vendors have placed scores of remedies upon the market, but nothing has yet been found suc- cessful in preventing the disease. A Norwegian chemist, Herr Hol- back Hansen, now claims to have found the bacillus which is the cause of the disease. He is not prepared to publish the details of his discov- ery until several Norwegian medi- cal men and surgeons of standing, whom he has taken into his confi- dence, have issued their report, and satisfied themselves that the diseovery rests upon a_ strictly scientific basis, and that the remedy suggested is able hoth to prevent and cure the disease. he rages, Katharine's Interest. | Katharine is two and a half vears | old. i ternoon, after workiag three « and three nights at hich pre with almost no steep. He Is with the feeling that le 1 ye want to wake up for a week. Halt | an hour later, from the depths of | his dreams, he heard a small, clear | voice, "Father!" The sleeper stirred, and turned his head on the pillow. "Father! father !"' He stirred again, and moaned. "Father ! father!'? : He struggled and -- resixted- and floundered, and finally raised his eyelids like a man lifting heavy weights. He saw Katharine sminiling divinely beside his couch. "Father! father |"? "What is it, daughter?' "Father, are you having a nice nap?" Her father came home one af- | On the Farm To Feed Hens Properly. It takes considerable studying and experimenting to find out just what the hens need, and how much they ought to have, but we must learn as soon as we can, or we will find our poultry is not so profitable as it ought to be. The feeding question is one of the most import- ant in the whole poultry business, writes Mr. K. A. Grimes. Experts tell us that a hen needs about six ounces of food per day. A flock of ten, then, will need about 3% pounds per day, or a trifle over 26 pounds a week. Of this amount, two-thirds by weight should consist of grains. The grain should be a mixture of equal parts wheat, cracked corn and oats. A few handfuls of sunflower-seed, cane-seed or buckwheat should be added for variety. They are to the hen what pie is to the boy, and you The other third should be mash, which is a mixture of bran and other finely ground feeds, usually fed dry. Some poultrymen moisten the mash, but the majority claim that it is better to feed it dry and let the hen moisten it in her erop by drinking what water she wz.ts. If fed dry there is less danger from certain kinds of disease. A good formula for a mash is as follows: One-half bushel of bran, four quarts of alfalfa meal, two quarts each of ground oats and cornmeal, one tablespoonful of salt and one tablespoonful of pepper. A good way to give green food for a change is to hang a head of cab- bage by a string so the fowls can just reach it. for them, and they will thoroughly enjoy the feast. Or a large beet, carrot or turnip may be stuck on @ nail driven about a foot from the ground, for them to pick at. Such food should never be thrown down in the dirt. Now, as to the time of feeding. | know what that is, of grain should be scattered in the litter on the floor of the coop. The hens get off the roost hungry, and should find something ready for them. Some scatter the grain in the straw after the fowls have gone early in the morning. In the middle of the forenoon, the green food, if it is in the form of vegetables, should be given. At noon it is a good plan to throw in a few handsful of table-scraps to keep them busy. . Late in the afternoon, so that they will have plenty of time before dark, the heavy grain feed of the day should be given. There should be all they will clean up of this, enough so they will go to bed with full crops. Water, lots of it, clean and fresh, is a great item in the hen's diet. An egg is 60 per cent water. If they are stinted in this respect it will tell in the ege-basket in a hurry. Just one day's neglect to furnish plenty of water has been known to cut off the egg-yield near- ly half. Grit and lime, usually given in the form of oyster-shells, are two other necessary elements. They should be kept before the fowls all the time. Orchard Notes. A well selected apple orchard of fifteen acres in a good location next to a big market will, in ten years produce a large, permanent in- come. It is a mistake to cultivate an orchard on a hillside, Nothing but the sod will hold the soil there. We believe that no part of farm work is 50 thoroughly misunder- stood and neglected as the raising and selling of fruit. Do not prune your trees until the sap has gone out of them and then prune very sparingly. Neglected fruit trees are not worth the ground they occupy, and besides they are an eyesore to ev- erybody and when infested with worms and insects a constant me- nace to the neighborhood. There ought to be a law prohibiting and man from allowing trees of this kind to remain on the farm. o--------- MUSHROOMS KILL SIXTEEN, Other French People I From Kat. ing Poisonous Fungi. Deaths from ~ poisonous mush- rooms are reported in France daily. The roll for last month, for in- stance, is fourteen workmen dead and three dying in the Vosges, One jate dangerously ill, yet } Mushrooms, workman is dead at Nancy, three A family" 9: five has been poisoned at Versailles one having died, while the fou others are ina hospital. The extraordinarly thing is that jexperts in fungi every year warn against the deadly danger of certain but without avail, 'y repeat yearly that the time- é | homered tests. such as boiling the mushrooms with a silver spoon, gre of no use whatever: for in this par- ticular case the most deadly of al? fungi, it seems, do not turn the spoon black, _ Another remarkable circumstance is that only one species of mush- room is really deadly, but then it is so deadly that one fragment in a dish will suffice. Other bad kinds of mushrooms merely make the eat er feel queer, and he generally re« covers. 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