Supplement to The Messenger, Marion, N. C, Pages o and 6.
LIFE.
Life Is th5 o?ean,
Eroa l and deei;
Billows of emotion
f O'er it pweep;
VTe must battlo boldly
With the tide.
Lest it waft us eoldly
Tar and -wide.
L;fo is bright or dreary
Where we dwell;
Though our Xeet are weary.
Ail is well;
Ever bravely pressing
v On our way,
Fairer is the blessing
Day by day.
Life is like a jewel
In th rough;
Cut it, be. not omH,
Just enough;
I'oli.sb, till its glory,
Full, divine.
Tells a iioble story,
Kven thine.
fora C. Uass, in Loston Transcript.
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8 Octavia's
Housekeeping.
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;HEY are coniiucr.
Viney!"
Miss Nancy
Crowfoot tucked
her ball of blue
yarn into her apron
pocket, and shad
ing her eyes with
one hand, looked
down the lane,
where tall mulberry-trees
threw
their long shadows
on the velvety grass.
"Coming, JIiss Nancy!" echoed a
wc-t voire.
And pretty Viney Mavis hastily
fhoved a gooseberry pie into the oven,
nnd came out on the back porch, with
its drapery of pink and violet-cupped
morning-glory vines.
She, too, gazed eagerly down the
long land, and soon the sapphire-blue
eyes sparkled and the pink-tinted
chcoks broke into dimpling smiles.
"It's them!" she cried. "I could
tell old 1 Apple's jog-trot a mile away."
Viney hud been up since peep of
day, when the first touch of pink
blushed in the eastern sky, and when
the thrush and the cat-bird were
thrilling their earliest morning peans.
She had milked the sleepy-looking
cows, their dew-hps still wet from
contact with dripping grass, and had
breakfast ready just as the crimson
pun was peeping over the cloud-capped
bluffs, lining the shores of the great
Father of Waters.
It was an extraordinary occasion, as
Farmer Mavis was going to the rail
road station, twelve miles distant, to
bring home his only daughter, Oe
tavia, from boarding school.
"Don't you bother yourself about
breakfast, Viney," said tho farmer,
good-naturedly, as he lighted his cob
pipe at the kitchen lire. "I kin eat a
Biiack, and hev breakfast when we git
home. "
Put Viney would not hear to it, and
with her own hands she fried her
uncle's favorite punc-ukes, yellow with
'gs. poured his coffee, and set a
glass of fresh, sweet milk at his plate.
"Dinner will be all ready when you
get back, uncle, so bring a good appe
tite," :;he said, kissing him good-by.
It wns a happy family that dwelt at
the old brown farm-house.
Farmer Mavis was good nature per
Bonitied, and Miss Nancy, tho house
keeper, was a sweet-tempered old
maid; not so very old, either, for
youthful crinkles still lurked in her
Boft brown hair, and her cheeks were
as rosy us a winter pear-main just
touched by the frost. She was a dis
tant connection of Farmer Mavis, and
ba l kept house for him ever since the
t'oath of his wife, six years ago.
Viney was his neice, and was as
dear to him us an own daughter.
Crcat were the preparations which
were made fjr Octavia's home-coming.
Miss Nancy had secured tho w indows
nnd make up tho plump bed, with
fresh., lavender-scented sheets and
pillow-slips, and the best homespun
coverlet.
And Viney had cooked a substantial
dinner roast chicken and cream bis
cuit, new potatoes and green peas and
cauliflower, with custard and goose
berry pie for dessert.
In the meantime. Octavia was on
the cars, speeding along ut the rate of
a mile a minute. She was a sharp
featured, thin-lipped girl, with light
hair, and face as freckled as a turkey's
"I am going home to keep house for
my pa," she had said, affectionately,
to her girl cronies. "To-be-sure, he
lias a sort of relative keeping house
now---and old maid --but I shall poon
ret her adrift. I detest old-maids!"
In due time Octavia reached home.
She bestowed a cool nod on Miss
Nancv and touched Viuev's finger-tips
frigidly.
"Mercy on this!" she cried, in a thin
high voice, a she entered the house.
"Dinner at this hour? How horrid!
What 'does make pa keep such old
fashioned hours'?"
Mis Nancy and Viney stood aghast
at this unlooked-for reception.
"We had it earlier than usnal on
your account, Octavia," ventured her
cousin. "We thought you might need
Something."
"Need something, indeed!" sniffed
Octavia. with a sneer on her thin lips.
"Do you s'pose I've been starved
where I came from? resides, I had
a !u:vn n tne cars. 1 m coins: un to
my room to take a nap now," she
added. "It will be soon enough for
dinner after that." and she swung out
of the room without waiting for a re
ply. "Wal, ef that don't beat all!" grnm
Med Farmer Mavis, his honest blue
ey.'s et ending with surprise. "Ff
Octa'.y thinks we are goin' to wait for
her to nap afore we tat dinner, she
r-
Fetch along
"I shall take the head of the table
myself now, Miss Nancy," declared
Octavia, as she came down to break
fast, in a pink morning-dress, net at
all suitable to her light complexion and
red hair. "Pa can't afford to keep a
hired housekeeper, now I'm at home,
so you had best look out for another
situation. Of course we could give
you references for honesty, ami so
forth," and Octavia, jingled the tea
spoons in the cups, and took her place
at the head of the table with a flourish
of trumpets, as it w ere.
Great was the surprise of Farmer
Mavis when Octavia informed hiu?
that Miss Nancy was going away.
"Going away!" he repeated, staring
half stupidly at his daughter.
"That's what I said, ain't it?"
snapped Octavia, tartly. "Going
away. She knows you don't need
two housekeepers; and now I'm here,
of course it's my place."
So there was no help for it, and
Farmer Mavis harnessed up the horse,
and helped Miss Nancy into the spring
wacon. "That's the last of her. thank good
ness!" mutttred Octavia to herself
when old Dapple had trotted out of
sight; "and I'd give Viney her walk
ing papers, too, if it wasn't that I
really need somebody to do the help
of the kitchen work. IJut I'll teach
her to know her place. She's no bet
ter than a servant-girl, if she is pa's
niece. And when Archie Grey comes
to pay the visit he promised I shall
keep her out of his sight, or of course
she'd be a-setting her cap for him
when she knows how rich he is."
The sun had slipped quite out of
sight in the crimson west, and night
hawks and bats were lettering about
in search of their prey, when the sound
of wheels was heard in the lane, and
old Dapple came trotting into sight as
briskly as if he had been in the pas
ture all day, instead of traveling
twenty-four miles to and from the
railroad station.
"Fa's come!" announced Octavia,
sailing out to the back porch, where
Viney sat, with drooping head and
aching heart, sighing over tho happy
lays that were gone forever. "And
good gracious! he's brought Miss
Nancy back ugain!" she cried, snap
pishly, as two ligures came up tho
walk in the purple gloaming.
"Oh, no, Octavy, I hain't brought
Miss Nancy back!" returned her
father, good naturedly. "This here's
my wife, Mrs. Jeremiah Mavis. I
hadn't no use fur two housekeepers,
you know," he added with a sly
twinkle in his eye, "so I concluded to
keep Nancy.
Octavia tossed her head, and flounced
off to her own room.
"I won't stand it!" she declared to
herself. "I'll marry Archie Grey, and
snap my fingers at pa and all the rest
of them."
She went sulkily down to breakfast
the next morning, without deigning
a glance at her stepmother, who sat
at the head of the table, pouring out
coffee. Her father seemed in high
pirits.
"Wal, Oetavv, if you can't be the
housekeeper, you kin soon hev Viney's
place, I reckon," he remarked, with
twinkling eyes. "Oneweddin makes
many, they say; an' she's a-goin' to be
married afore long.
"Married!"
Octavia was thunderstruck.
"Yes," said Farmer Mavis, while
Viney blushed like a brier-rose.
"Archie Grey has been a-comin' to see
her, off an' on fur a good spell now;
an' yesterday wo met him nigh the
parsonage, uu'he asked me plump out
for Viney. So I said I reckon I could
spare her, seein' you was home now,
to take her place."
Viney made a pretty, dimpled,
blushing little bride, but Octavia is an
old maid still. Saturday Night.
A Color-IIrarer's 3Iedal.
During the war tho color-bearer of
tho Ninety-ninth Illinois Regiment
was Thomas I. Higginson, now of
Hannibal, Mo. In tho assault on
Vicksburg, May 22, 1SC3, the Ninety
ninth Regiment was ordered to charge
without looking back. It was con
fronted by the Second Texas Regi
ment, and sent back in confusion.
Rut Higginson literally obeyed orders.
He did not look back, but bounded
forward, his colors held high and
bravely flying. When he was within
forty yards of the enemy, so great was
their admiration for his bravery that
word was passed along the line that
he was not to be shot, and all firing
ceased. When at length Higginson
realized his predicament, he turned to
retreat, but wa3 ordered inside tho
Confederate breastworks. Ho was
held by tho enemy for several days,
and treated more like a guest than a
prisoner. A short time ago the Sec
retary of War granted him a medal on
the affidavit of several of tho soldiers
of tho Texan regiment. Success.
To Build a Thousand Ilrklce.
The United States capitalists who
have taken from the Ecuador Govern
ment the contract for building a rail
road from Guayaquil to Quito will re
ceive, according to the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, for the work $17,
532,000. At the starting point Quito,
the workmen will be 9350 feet above
the sea level; at Santa Rosa. 9386 feet;
at Tambillo, 8250 feet; San Miguel.
8304 feet; Ambato, 8100 feet. "The
height of Chimborazo will be crossed
at an altitude of 12,300 feet, and there
are other points where 10,400. 11,800
feet are reached. The grades be
tween these points are very steep and
abrupt, and 830 bridges, varving from
j those of 500 feet span downward, will
have to be constructed. The road will
be about 404 miles in length at an
average cost per mile of Si3,39t) in
gold. No other railroad in the world
J so often approaches such great heights,
i over ground so difficult or crosses so
many streams and rivers.
kin think so, that's all!
the coffee, Viney."
OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR.
LAUCHTER-PROVOK1NC STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
Typographical Penetration Had C'asp
Amounted For Cool I'.qually Damp
Kaith Cure Arctic Accuracy l'rojjress
in Domesticity Too Much Snake, Etc.
The removal of the powd-T from .r.v,
His mustache he effects
That is to say, he prints the kiss,
And then the proof corrects.
Li.'e.
Penetration.
"Bindley is a great hustler."
"Yes, but he never has time to get
started right." Chicago Journal.
Had Caw.
"What are you treating me for, doc
tor?" "Loss of memory. Y'ou have owed
me a bill of $S0 for two years." De
troit Free Press.
Accounted For.
Algernon "I've such a deuced cold
in me head, you know."
"William "You must still have that
Boston girl on youah mind, old chax."
Pittsburg Press. ,
Equally Damp.
"You throw cold water on every
thing I undertake."
"Well you wouldn't like it any bet
ter if I threw hot water, would you?"
Detroit Free Press.
Cool.
He (theatrically) "You have re
fused me! To-morrow I go to seek my
fortune ir frfee Klondike."
She "May I have tho refusal of
you when you return?" Puck.
Faitli Cnre.
"You took the doctor's advice?"
"Yes."
"And yon are "
"Much better. I took it instead of
the medicine.'' Cincinnati Times
Star. A Settler.
"Darling, please answer me," he
fairly moaned as he stood in the centre
of the parlor. "I am on the rack."
"So is your hat," shouted the old
gentleman, who had a gallery seat on
tho stairway. Detroit Free Press.
Not to ha Evailcd.
"Foiled!" hissed tho burglar, and
turned and fled away into the night.
For he had evaded the improved
burglar alarm only to discover that
there was an old-fashioned rocking
chair in the front parlor. Puck.
Arctic Accuracy.
"Spitzbevgen is just about skeen
teen miles from Washington as the
crow flies," said 'Morgan.
"Excuse me," remarked the arctic
explorer, "you mean as the carrier
pigeon flies." Philadelphia North
American.
!rade the Alloirancc.
"Oratory is a gift, not an acquire
ment," said the proud politician as ho
sat down after an hour's harangue.
"I understand," said the matter-of-fact
chairman. "We're not blamiu'
you. Y'ou done the best you could."
Detroit Free Press.
I'nsciciitific.
First Arctic Explorer "T have al
ways considered Columbus a some
what over-estimated man."
Second Arctic Explorer "Why?"
First Arctic Explorer "He dis
covered America tho first time he
went to look for it." Puck.
Too Much Snake.
Kisdig "Form three snakes in a
circle, and let each begin swallowing
the other, and what will the result be?"
Slinibig "The result ! My dear boy,
simply this. That if you don't stop
drinking you'll land in a lunatic
asylum. " Philadelphia Call.
1 ncoiisiotcnt.
"I'm afraid of you," said Miss Kit
tish to Mr. Callow, saucily.
"That's strange," replied Mr. Cal
low. "A few minutes ago you aw
said that you were afwaid of nothing,
doncher know.
"Well, what of that?" Detroit Free
Tress.
An Awful Ordeal.
"Now just as soon as you are mar
ried," said the experienced husband,
"the life insurance solicitors will be
after you in droves."
is mammon v so dangerous as
that?" asked the candidate for nuptial
honors, with apprehension in hia voice.
Detroit Free Press.
AYhy He Is a Uachelor.
"No," said the rich old bachelor,
never could rind time to marry."
"Well," replied the young woman
with the sharp tongue, "I am not sur
prised to hear you say so. It certainly
would have taken a good while to per
suade any girl to have you." New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
Modern Improvements.
Perry Patettie "What is these
hore bath-robes they advertise in the
papers?"
Wayworn Watson "I give it up,
unless it's some sort of rubber coat to
keep wotter from gittiu' on a guy
when he takes a bath because it is the
style." Cincinnati En juirer.
In the Illictoric Cla.
"Miss Kerbkr'. in the sentence.
'Daniel Webster stood there lil;-.. a
great oak tree,' point out the idea the
author was trying t; convey. In what
respect could Daniel Web?ter be said
to resemble a 'great oak tree?' "
"Well, he might have been rooted
to the spot." Chicago Tribune.
The Hoy the Father of the Man.
Binson "How do you like married
life?"
Hoblow "Oh, it makes me feel like
a boy again."
Binson "How so?"
Hoblow "Because I have to sav
wood, lug up coal, run errands, and
listen to a course of daily lectures on
my shortcomings. " Roxbury Gazette.
Progress In Domesticity.
"Did you ever," asked the Young
husband, "have vonr wife look you in j
the eye when you came home and ask
you if you had not forgotten some
thing?" "Many a time, me boy," answered
the old married man. "She does yet.
In the early days it used to mean a
kiss; now it is usuallv a reference to
wiping my shoes." Cincinnati En-j
quirer.
Taulty Judsiuent. 1
"Here's an account of a man who
has been arrested for stealing plays,"
said the man with the paper.
"For stealing plays!" exclaimed tho
man who was smoking, in astonish
ment. ;
j- "That's what the paper says."
"Oh, well, the trouble with hira
must have been that he didn't use any
judgment. If he had stolen some of
the plays I've seen they wouldn't ar
rest him; they'd give him a vote of
thanks." Chicago Times.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Any one may do a casual act of good
nature, but a continuation of them
shows it is a part of the temperament.
The man who is ever lamenting,
never rejoicing, is playing a part, for
life if? neither constantly painful nor
constantly gay.
True nobility is shown by gentle
consideration and courtesy to all, and
brings its own reward in the extra
fineness of perception its practice
bestows.
Good resolutions are like vines, a
mass of beauty when supported on a
frame, of good deeds, but very poor
things when allowed to lie unheeded
and untrained on the ground.
My experience leads me to believe
that the supply of poetry, or verse as
sumed to be poetry, in more egregi
ously in excess of the demand than
any other description of literature.
To-morrow you have no business
with. Y'ou steal if you touch to-morrow.
It is God's. Every day ha3
enough to keep every man occupied,
without concerning himself with the
things that lie beyond.
It may be truly said that no man
does any work perfectly, who does not
enjoy his work. Jov in one's work is
the consummate tool without whicn
the work may be done indeed but
without its finest perfection.
Man is Condensed Air.
Liebig, the greatest chemist of tho
century, writes: "Science has de
monstrated the fact that man, the be
ing which performs the great wonders,
is formed of condensed air and solidi
fied and liquid gases, that he live3
upon condensed as well as uncon
densed air, and that by means of the
same mysterious agent ho moves or
causes to be moved, tho heaviest
weights with the velocity of the wind.
But the strangest part of the mutter is
that thousands of millions of these
tabernacles of condensed air are go
ing on two legs, destroying other
forms of condensed air which
they may need to build up their owu
wasted tissues or for shelter or cloth
ing, or, on account of their egotism
and fancied power, destroying each
other in pitched battles, using imple
ments which are but other forms of
condensed air, the material of which
they themselves are formed or com
posed. Chemistry supjdies the clear
est proof that, so far as concerns this,
the ultimate and most minute compo
sition and structure, some of which
are so infinitesimal as to be beyond
the comprehension of our senses, man
is, to all appearances, at least, com
posed of materials identical with those
which compose the structural being of
the ox or the dog, or even the lowest
animal in the scale of creation."
Solomon seems to have entertained
the same idea. See Ecclesiastes iii.,
10: "For that which befalleth tin
sons of men befalleth the beasts; as
the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea,
they have all one breath; so that a man
hath no pre-eminence above a beast."
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Urcedins Snakes For a Living.
The bounty given by the Indian
Government for snakes' heads in order
to exterminate these reptiles, has led
to a few of the dishonest natives breed
ing them for a living.
An Englishman recently traveling
through Central India made a peculiar
discovery. In the heart of a dense
jungle he came across a rude hut, and
close at hand was a large pit, covered
over with a tight-fitting wooden cover,
lie found the occupants of the hut,
two disreputable looking natives, and
asked them the meaning of the peculiar
pit. They informed him that they
were breeders of snakes. They caught
all sorts of snakes and put them in the
pit, the bottom of which was covered
over with dried grass and leaves.
They kept the snakes here some six
months, feeding them on all kinds of
small animals and birds. They then
filled a largo earthern pot with poison
ous herb.-, lighted it, lowered it into
the pit, and secured the tight-fitting
wooden cover, and thus smothered the
reptiles. The cover was allowed to
remain on for a few day-, it wa then
removed, and the snakes taken out by
means of a long pole with a spike a.Z
the end of it. Their heals were then
eut off and one of tl:3 rogues set out
i"T the r.cur ..-! Gov?rnra-nt agency to
obtain t'ue bounty, while the othisr
one caught freh snakes for the pit.
The snake very oftt-n devoured one
another, but the mothers generally
managed to bring up their young,
though it was a marvel thc-y bred at
all in su.i a pl:ve, being, one would
think, contrary to their nature. Pear
sun's Weekly.
Meal on Cvt Corn Stalks.
It is only possible to use meal on
out corn stalks with advantage sfter
they have been steamed enough It?
soften them. It is best done when the
feed is steamed after the meal has
been applied. This partly cooks the
meal and diffuses it through tho pttdks,
so that the whole will be eaten. When
dried stalks are cut and merely wet
with cold water, the meal put on
them will be licked off by cattle, and
this will soon make the unused stalks
very offensive. Cut hay and straw
are much better to feed meal with
than are cut s;alks. It is better to
have the cut hay or ntraw steamed as
the meal is applied to them
Iluyins Feed For Feitllitv.
The question how a farm shall be
best manured is not one that can be
solved in all cases off hand. There
are farms where the best improvement
possible was to run a few underdrains
through a very rich part of the farm
and use the crops grown on this to
feed stock which fdiould manure the
rest of the farm. Wherever this is
possible it should be done in prefer
ence to buying either feed or fertil
izers. But with a farm that is nat
urally underdrained the question how
to increase it fertility must depend
much on its location. If it is where
milch cows may be kept and there is a
good market for milk, it may pay bet
ter to enrich the land by purchasing
and feeding wheat bran, linseed meal
or cotton seed meal, together with
such coarse feed a3 can be grown on
the place, than in any other way. The
milk sold will more than pay for the
feed, and the manure product will be
therefore a free by-product in this
method of manufacturing. It is often
believed that milk takes so largely
from the nitrogenous and mineral sub
stances in food that little is left for
the manure. But experiments with
milch cows shows that when they are
highly fed, fully eighty-live per cent,
of the mineral substauees in their
food and eighty per cent, of its nitro
genous substances goes out in manure.
American Cultivator.
Ilcsj'.ilarity in Suiting the Dairy.
If the cook should conclude that the
trouble of salting our food is all un
necessary, or that if we require it at
all, once each week is sufficiently often,
she would undoubtedly meet with a
vigorous protest from all concerned.
What reason is there, either in theory
or practice, to lead us to suppose that
our dumb animal friends are less sen
sitive to such irregularities?
The writer remembers well that with
every Sunday morning in his boyhood
days came the duty of giviug both cat
tle and horses a handful of salt. As
time went on a cheese factory was
built, and as we became its patrons we
had an excellent opportunity in weigh
ing our milk 1'rom day to day to study
the efi'ect of changing conditions. We
soon learned that ".salt day" wai in
variably followed by a shriukage in
weights at the factory. AVe very nat
urally concluded that such over doses
of salt irritated the stomach of the cow,
causing a teveriu coimuion ot tne en
tire Fyste.-ii, nnd (viusemeut lessening
of the ll 'v of milk. A'e at ouee adop
ted the plan of sprinkling the man
gers with .-;alt before the stabling the
cows, b..h at night and in the morn
ing, and the irregularities noted above
were at an end. The cows seem to en
joy the licking from end to end of r
salted b;x much better than a large
quantity of salt. They come into the
stable as soon as the doors are thrown
open instead of waiting to be driven
in as formerly, and stay each in its ac
customed stanchion much better than
when there is nothing to take up their
attention, and every dairyman knows
that "in contentment there is a great
gain." A D.iiryinau, in Farm, Field
and Fireside.
I!xt m:i porized (.rain iiin.
It is no small job and requires not
a little lumber to make a grain bin for
the stables, haviugfour compartments.
:i:at:
T
en;
s r.u
U'.'C'J
eay way of s.ecnr- j
imoatiotis. Four i
it:-.r trie sam(
em:.Y sugar
Is are set in a row
few narrow strips of
is hinged either t i
tnd secured by a
board. A cover
the wall or to this frame-work and
the bin with f..ur compaf tments is
complete. It may even be made by
suiting the four barrels in a row and
hinging a cover the wall behind
them. A sugar t arred is very com
l.iodious ::iil -a-y from which to dip
meal.
Ko'llKin; ll!;ii
Faliel'S who d
on the road are
vrtttv heavy bills .
Thi-, IS e -: e :ialiy
lics-.Lith' riiii.
much team work
oblige i to make
t the ld-ek:-mith.s.
rue in the winter
t-.e-us -u, wi:en o
ii.ary ,-mooth shoes
r.:e i.'ji e;i :i s..;eiv. io
s.ttetv. To sharpen
and reset a round of shoes tve-rv
two
or three weeks makers an expense that
can only be afforded by farmers who
have a great deal to market on poo 1
1 ri.-es. So ma:.y kinds of implement
are now usf-1 on the farm that every
farmer ought to have eome acquain
tanee xrith some blacksmithing, so
that he can mend what is broken with
out being obliged to go off the farm to
do it. A quantity pf bolts and nuts of
different sizes, with fall set of tools
to go with them, cannon bo purchased
for less than twi or three visits at the
blacksmith's would co?t.
It will be a great convenience if thff'
farmer learns enough about bis horse's
feet so that at a pinch he can reset a
shoe when one has been cast, and the
blacksmith shop cannot be conveni
ently reached. We have known farm
ers who learned ta set a shoe as well
as any blacksmith ceroid do it. As a
good deal of this work vras done dur
ing rainy days, it did not any more
intefero with farm work than it would
to driv? to tho nearest blacksmith's
and wait irhile ho shod perhaps a
dozen horses beforo your turn cuvis.
At this season of the year, horses hav
to be rcshod frequently, so as to keep
the toe crdks sharpened. As the set
ting of a shoe is a comparatively sim-'
pie matter, it ought to be included in
the practical education of every man
who intends to make farming hi life
business. And yet probably, should
this be doue, some intermeddling law
maker ould frame a law to require
all who did any horseshoeing td pas?
an examination and be registered, ami
forbid a farmer even to shoe the
horses on his own farm until he had
been to this trouble and expense.
C rate For moving Swine, Sheep or Calve
It is often desirnblc to ntove a small
animal from one building to another,
or from one pasture enclosure to an
other. Leading or driving' calf,
sheep or pig is attended w it a' difli-
FOR BRIN G I
culties. They will go in company
with others, but decidedly object to
going alone. The cut shows a crate
on wheels, with handles permitting it
to be used as a wheelbarrow. Into
this the small animal can be driven,
the door closed and the crato wheeled
away. It will also bo found a very
useful contrivanco in bringing iu
calves that have been dropped by
their dams in the pasture.
Do Your Own Kepairing.
Too many farmers are given to hir
ing repair work done which, with the
aid of a few tools and a little ingen
uity, they could do themselves at one
teulh the cost, writes E. H. llichard
son, in Orange Judd Farmer. An old
iron and a boll box should be foune1j.ii
every barn. Having these in p!ace,
never pass n piece of old iron or a
bolt, however useless it may look, but
pick it up and put it into its box, and
seven times out of ten you will find
that apparently worthless piece will
answer a useful purpose. Bolts of all
sizes and description?, especially
an I 'i and J inch ure always coming
handy. Every farmer should have a
bench GO inches wide by 10 to 15 feet
long, with a good vise 18 inches frorc
the end on the left-hand side as you
stand facing the side of the bench. A
left-handed man will have the vise o i
the right end instead of the left.
Hanging conveniently over thi t
bench on the wall should be a goo '
rip and crosscut saw, 12 teeth to this
inch, a 12-inch flat bastard file, t
-inch three-cornered faw file, a 10 or
12-inch brace, 'with , , ':, ,' and
1-inch bits and a 1; and 2-inch auger.
Bight here let me say, never file the
bottom side of the cutting e Iges of a
bit or auger, always the top side and
file at quite a sharp angle. A good
heavy hammer, a claw hammer and
ax and light riveting hammer should
also be found, a box of assorted I to J
copper rivets, a cold chisel, punch, a
square, a marking gauge, a screw
driver, uunkey wrench, 12-inch stet
son pipe wrench for twisting bolts-,
plye-rs ?, ;, 1 and H-inch chisels,
mallet, harness punch, ;-inch iron
drill to use in brace, an assortment "f
small wire nails, -inch to 1-inch,
smoother and jack plane, a pair of
compasses and a key-hole saw. .
These tvd -i wiil, of course, cost con
siderable, but if V'jii use them as much
a ; you ought they will pay for them
selves in six months, an you can h
almost anything in the way of rer;i;-r
work. Aa old anvil or block of iron
sh mid be added and if yon get a cheap
diill press and some rainy day buil i
a forge, your blacksmith': bill woulh
indeed, be light; with the above tool
and a little ingenuity almor-t anything
can be repaired. Any man who ba
! brain enough to successfully tn
j ginter a farm should be able to u-o
j tools and do any repair work. To il
lustrate what I mean by using a little
j ingenuity; Lat fall my wagon tire
i get loose. I removed them one rainy
day, railed some strips I had which
i were 1 inch thick by ; inch wide ha.f
way around the wheels, heeled tne
j tires, put them on. The result was as
goo'l a Y a the blaeksmith u"
nave none. ibj cost was aooai
cents. Saved $0.13. Time, two honr.
Wood IJ'iti-Sert.
It is not g-norally kno.vn that sixty
tier cent, of wood may be
nvertcJ
- j into liquid.
K(i IN CALVES.