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FEEDING THE LONDON ZOO.

Variety and Quantity Of the Provlslons
Required By its Denisens Annually.
The London Zoo is. perhaps, the most
popular scientific Institution in Eu-
rope, and its expenses are heavy. A
recent report says that the death rate
of its denizens is high. about 379 per
1000, and about 200 animals are added
every year. of which one-sixth are pur>
chased. The provision bill comes to
over 1000 a year, which means that
it costs only little more than penny
a day per capita to feed $500 animals.
The flesh-eating animals are not sup
piled with prime joints of beef at this
rate. Their fare is horsefesh and goat
flesh. Hay, clover, bran, oats. maize.
wheat and barley for grass and grain
eaters form large item, and 244 bush
els Of canary, hemp and millet seed
are demanded by the birds. The fish,
eaters consume II tons of fish annually.
There are some odd items in the COM
missariat. One can understand the is
tons of biscuits, the four tons of rice,
and the three tons of potatoes, but the
3, 400 punches of watercress, the 200
quarts Of shrimp. the $500 fowls heads
are among the unexpected. Carrots and
greens are popular. The latter include
500 dozen of cabbages. And there are
epicures who demand $4,000 eggs. The
nuts dispensed by visitors are far from
supplying the needs of the animals,
429 cwt. Of monkey nuts figure in the
annual consumption. Dates. grapes
and raisins have place in the menu.
Oranges are eaten to the tune Of IT.
600. to say nothing Of $4,000 bananas,
The children's buns are cloying, but
they are supplemented officially by $500
quartcrn loaves and 500 quarts Of
milk. There is also the hideous item
Of the living food of the snakes, who
are not held by ancient wisdom to be
symbols Of evil for nothing.-N. Y.
Sun.
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The timber wealth of the. United
States gives . yearly product Of over
81 ,000, ,OOO, ,OO0, or twice the value Of the
entire output of all the mines put to-
gether-gold. silver. coal. iron, copper.
zinc and the rest. This is resource
worth keeping. and yet we are cutting
nto our capital At the fearful rate Of Is
per cent. each year, as only about y
per cent. of the timber market 10 repre-
scnted by new growth. A for Losses
from the fires that are started by loco
motives, cattlemen, berry pickerx hunt
ers and iucensliaries, il gives sum
lent idea of what they cost u to Be-
told BY the forestry commissioner of
Pennsylvania that his state alone prob
ably suffers to the extent Ct $4,000, 90
annually from this one cause. otoaly
The trees afe lost in these mightycon-
flagratjons; the vegetable mold which
would supply fertility to the soil for
future agricultural purposes or food for
IL RIOTS Of the secoad growth Of forest
30 burnt, ard The first step b taken %
that eaey deseert to . k1delide e 1eq1
hs1~eWjeoes
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'tOther. Her lips was red as a ripe quar-
render apple an allus just a tho. open.
You'd q swOred she was French fur
riner or some sich thing; but 'tweer't so
at all.
''She an Bill got so thick as thieves
afore the picter was out o. hand, an he
dawdled that cunnin' an CRAFTY awver
the paintin' that twas best part OF .
month fore he allowed the thing was
done. An. poor fules. just cause auld
Applebird weer mazin' pleased wi the
sign-board, they must think as he'd be
maxin' pleased with the painter. tu; an
they kept comp'ny anbeknawnst to un
for . matter o. three months or more.
Then twas that bent, crooked limb o.
Satan, by name Benjamin Yole, what
spied theer little game, an bro't the
climax to the courtin'. Yole hadn't no
business Of his avn, being pensioned
from the clay-works awin' to breakin'
his legs in an accident. But he crept
about Merivale wi his wicked ears
Aappin' for every coorious thing as
might happen. He knawed some harm
bout every man, wummon, cheel an
cat in the village, an hadn't no kind
word to say for anybody on Gods airth
but hisself. This here Yole soon spied
how Polly Applebird an Bill vogwell
would 60 ont o Merivale differn't ways,
~ innercent as bees, an yet somehow
get drawed together arter. Full of this
noos he clattered, all crutches an spite,
into the 'Huntsman's Rest an axed to
oee landlord theer an then. Mind YOU.
Applebird had thot kind enough of the
young chap. for Bill was well set up
an gray in the eye, and looked folks
straight In the faace; but when he
heard thssr; was courtin' gwaine be-
tween the two, an as Yole hisself had
ueen sem morc'n vance together in the
cwl-light, then Applebird let 60 awful.
an Polly got = dre1sin' down that night
= made her creem 70 think on for years
arter. ThDA wAel be knawed the cot
uas ont 11nE1ae. Bill went straight
s1ong an.moDW!ar the auld man, an
4heer was ferocious words. Applebird
- right ON his side when he said no.
eoauoe HIS gal was under age; but for NIL
ct, Bill stuck to Il. m swore be
la't gwaine 70 take mo- for m an
- ~ nassllR ~, yoau s. p
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with as guide a nerve in un as you might
see teen Exeter an Plymouth. Aud
Applebird thanked Bill for what he'd
done, wi face same as though he was
chewin' of a lemon all the time. Then
days passed an twas known that Polly
Applebird weer gwaine up to her aunt
as lived to Exeter. An SO she wecr;
but theer was more in the trip than met
the eye, cause Bill he'd ordained tc
meet her theer quiet and marry he1
fore the registrar. The plan was her'n
an what was to follow coined out o
Bills own noddle-a purity darned silly
notion, tn, for Bill, you see, was hall
a janious and half a idiot, an them two
halves got mixed now an again.
"Of went Polly, inherent seem.
inly as a gusechick; and Bill had q
job that tuke him out o. Merivale same
day.
"All went merry as need lie. They
met as planned the next day, an OF they
traapsed, an thcer weern't no sort q
difficulty about the job, for marryin's
easy A. lyin' il you get two of = mind.
Then coined the darn rum thing what
Bill done. He and the gal, as was his
lawful wife, walked straight away to
the prison, an as they went her grawed
fearful an cuddled Of his arm closer'n
closer. an shivered all over when sine
seed the CART walls o. chink a.towerin'
afore 'em
They won't hurt 'e?' she said, sob
bin quiet.
"Not Them he said. The timeu
psss like q dream along o thinkin'
you'm my avn wife by law, what none
short o God Almighty couldn't take
from me- :?
"Wf that he ringed the goal bell, an
BRAVE noise it made; an . chap opes
little bit of gate in the middle Of .
big wan, an axes Bill his business.
! wants to zee the head p'liceman,'
ser Bill.
-'Well. you CANT. for hem away to-
day; but p'raps, when all's said, I might
sarve se?' sea the man.
And vogwell. seein' the chan WAS ,
officer of some sort, reckoned he would
do. an get out his businees abort and
plain.
lis like the iere,' he aid. Tbe nev
come from marryin' this maiden against
the wish ot her lswtul 1atAes, ~ belu'
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tcoPYRIoHr. 1881

'-ns to te1lin' a story Of moor men an
Eich-like, things happen out pom this
anld gray an brown world same as is
ether places, but they bant O. much ac-
count 'cept to ourselves. can call home
wan tale, though as I'll tell e, if you
mind to hear it. 'Tis bout the courtin'
of chap by the name O. Vogwell.
bill was writer of signs an SIGH
like. an chap of his hands most ways
wi a general sense in gwuine through
the world which doan come to many as
young as it coined to him. He was al
ways surprisin' clever or else mazin full
ish. Theer wern't no half measures
bout un. He lived wi his father in the
last house O. Merivale, an because sign
writin' wasn't enough to keep him. he
built ten bee-butts, an strawed 'em so
clever as a reg'lar catcher an sawled
pure heather honey at a shillin' a pound
an did braave pom it. His father
wcern't o. no account, though a guide
IMAM. Fuzz-cuttin' was his job-fuzz-
cuttin' an fern-cuttin' in autumn time
Then coined the matter o. paintin'
that sign,-an' Master Applebini, who
could hing's money about like duke
when he'd q mind to, which was bout
vance ina month o. Sundays, gived Billy
the offer to paint a CERT picter on wood,
an frame it an hang it awyr the inn
faace. I mind just what Applebird said
for was theer and heard: I'll give
e ten shillin' for the job, if 'tis done so
as all folks can see what's meant BY un'
Applebird done it really cause he
kEawed John Conner, of the Red Heifer'
inn, Princeton, had just got fine
sign drawed by q Plymouth chap; an
Applebird would have sooner gived up
business altogether than let Conner best
him anywheer.
so Bill Vogwell got his brushes an
psints an lies together an made a
square o. boards, an done out the hunts
anan. WI a carpenters pencil. copyin' the
same from-a butivul almanac what a
grocer to Travistock had gived away to's
customers the winter previous. Master
Applebird ordained rs the picter should
be done in a tallet outside the inn; an
theer Bill worked day by day till the
thing was done. An Polly Applebird
watched un' drawin' an paintin'; which
b wheer this tale starts proper. She
was q maiden of sebenteen year old, so
brown as the moor in autumn, wi eyes
wheer you cude 'ardly see the pupils sep
arate from the blackness of the paart
which is brown or blue or gray in differ
ent folks. Her hair was jack-daw color,
If you knaws that. Ted'n zactly black,
nor yet blue, but betwix' an between,
WI . dancin' light as gaws from wan to
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prison fort, though pay every lawyer
in Exeter to send e. said the landlord
o the 'Huntsman's Rest dancin' wi
wrath. ''Tis against the law, an you'll
suffer for it; an whites you'm in clink
the gal shall starve for me; SO now yOl
knaws wheer you stand. An never YOU
darken my door agin. or Ill wiring your
damn neck myself
But Bill didn't take much stock in
him. ! bant feared o. prison. he sez
an I'd gaw tomorrow an do ten years
for Polly SO cheerful as tadpole. Dt
e thinL us loves one another like two
ornery folks? Why, she'd cut her hand
off for me, an I'd do no less for her
An us be gwaine to marry, Master Ap
plebird, sir, SO wheer's the use O. talk
IMP
''Then the auld man, who'd never
heard the likes o. sich sarce since hi.
own son went soldierin'. failed back
be'ind the bar wheer he stood, an
'peared doubtful whether he should
let fly a pint pot at Bill, or keep hisseli
dignified.
"'You poor bee-kcepin' twoad of q
bwoy,' he says, scornful, you CERT silly
gaby, to dare an think my darter guide
enough for the likes of you.'
"'I never did think so, an doan't
now. Master Applebird, but facts be
facts; she'm gwaine to marry me, an
I'll bear the punishment like q man,
an SO alrs said
''In coourse all weern't said, by q
darned long way, but the rest o the dis
cooursc fell pom the ears of them in
the bar; for Bill he went of SO naughty
as q turkey cock WI his nose tip-tilted
an his lips curlin' like peel's.
Not even that snake, Yole, though he
limped many a guide mile for no other
purpose, ever seed them two together
again, but they met purity continuous
for all that. An Bill axed her if she'd
judge il a terrible evil circumstance il
he done six weeks in clink (for six
weeks it was, an no more, as Blanch-
ard. the policeman, tawld UNI, an Polly
said that SO long as they was married
fust, and she knawed she couldn't be
tokened by her father to no other.
she'd let him 60 and think it no shame
Meantime, arter the trouble wi her
father an before the final coorious
happening. there was fire in croft Of
auld Applebird's, an linhay, as didn't
matter. was burned down. and a huge
CERT wheat-stack, rs did matter a lot.
was saved by Bill Vogwell and two
other chaps-chiefly through Bills
long-headedness. For Bill, though a
hot-headed fule of lad in some ways,
yet had q braave sight o. common sense,
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FARMER AND PLANTER.
ABOUT HAY.

K UUU10Gg EuWg UWOUyU A08V
the Asssstisa q tAs ssashesn Esross.
It is the hay season. Let NJ talk .
little about hay. There II hay and
there is hay. The quality OF feeding
value Of hay win depend not only upon
the special kind Of plant grown, but
also at what stage of growth Il II
moved, how cured, and 70 . greater
or less extent ~ to the character Of
soil It Il grown upon. Az rule, when
the plant Is cut as IN early stage. b.
fore the seed have well formed, the
crop i not only less exhaustive to the
soil, but will possess more value -
feed BY reason Of palstsbility and d.
gestibility. 1t 10 when the seed are
matured that the greatest drain II
made upon the soil, and ~ maturity
advances the woody element increases
In proportion, and the more woody
the plant the greater the difficulty and
labor Of the animal In digssting the
food. A hay plant at certain degree
Of maturity may show greater chem
ical value ~ stock food, yet when test
ed in practice BY the animal itself. the
immatue and lees chemically rich plaat
may result In far better profit than
the other. Oxen and mature dry eat
tie may thrive better on hay we'll Cd
vanced in maturity than milch COWS
and younger stock. For calves very
young and tender grass II best
Much care and experience b neess-
sary to know st Just what stage Of
growth IL II hest TO cut hay and the
best manner of caring. The eonditioa
Of the weather snd the individual
character Of the plant itsslf, and The
special purpose for which the feed h
designed-must each b considered IN
reaching conclusionA The best quail
ity Of hay u secured BY curing par.
TALLY In the shade, or In the cock. II
Is diaicult, II not impossible. TO make
the best possible quality Of hay when
the grass II cured in the sun entirely.
Exclusive sun curing leaves the hay
dry and brittle and lifeleas. and ex-
tracts color aud aroma from t. The
hay ought TO be cured ut least par
TALLY In the cock. whore Il may m
derRo sweating process to . greater
or less extent Hay that has gone
through . sweating in the cock h not
% near likely 20 spoil when put In the
barn ~ that which IL even les green
In appearance undergoing the sum
curing process. In the case Of Tie
legumes, clover. COW peas, vetehsa.
etc, when exposed to any considsr-
able extent TO the sun. the leaves fall
OF. This character Of plants must b
cured in the cock, or under shade, IN
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THE FAsMea's HOPE.


Right Living - tho Earn tAo DasSs -
Iee 1Hult1o0.
The condition of the farmer and his
home interests h the basis Of the
thought Of the present day. It b the
subject Of conversation. Of discussioa
and Of earnest work. In the very na-
ture Of things. this u right. Asa con-
sumsr and producer. the farmer - oss
most important eitisen. To the farm
we look for everything that makes -
comfortable and happy. It supplies
NJ with the noblest types Of manhood
and womanhood. and has given 70 tie
world men who have magniAed every
position in life and adorned every pro-
fession.
There II . power and charm IN fara
life that tends TO develop the pare,
noble and good In human chsractes.
The mind II broadened and the dispo-
sition made sympathetic and tender.
There softening power in the exer-
else Of care for . tender plant or .
helpless animal. There II . great deai
in all these natural sdvantages which
render farm life enviable and enjoya-
BILE; and yet there b much sbo1t farm
homes which could b greatly in
proved upon.
The hope Of the farmer II In his
home and in his household The
farmers home II - place whore b
and his household should live and love.
Too often does the farmer. while sup
plying his farm with al the latest -
bor-saving implements. wholly nag-
lect 70 provide helps to tighten the -
Dor in the household.
Generally the most important part
Of the household, the kitchen, II scsnt-
lily supplied With utsnsila, and the
meals are served and eaten like they
were . necessary evil" 70 b gotten
through with - rapidly - possible.
A. . matter Of fact the kitehea Of
the farmer II capable II the greatest
possibilities Materials necessary 70
the preparstioa Of all articles are n
abundance. The farmer can have the
best Of evsrythise and Il = his de-.
He shoald not oaly have the best aTti-
clss Of food, bat prepared for his ape
lite IN the boat a1d most whooeoo0o
nanner.
Farmers ought Dot 70 - b too busy
20 live the best lives that ean b lived
In the best possible way. A great
deal depsnds upoa ths developosnt ol
tie home, and e depends alnast g.
tirsly upon ooe who follows Tie high
est and noblsst psofsssioa Of A00e
makiug, The wife anA mother.
The hops q ~ farnsf Il 70 attain
. higher standard e living and . no
bier, better lifA The hops of ~
farmer = II NJ soos aaA das9htsrs,
beeanss thsv ean b sdnestsd aaA -
eons III thst thsy - eaSsh's q -
eooinG.
Right living q - faEn = IN itsslf
N edueotiooel 1oeee The hossst III
lar of IL seG, o1the1gA sttirsd II ~
ho0sly earb e ~ fas1sr. : = ts11y
. kine = - eloquent esaAss = ~
aifted lawyer q pesaeAsE. Ihe fhsu
1b wiSe anA 1angAAR Who Wo1hes ~
dishee anA eeean - DenlA = . qposa
anoae woaea Tit work + GHsel.
INT weee Train = u6o1, anA healn +
good . lar . - psopeR 1ond II -
nsuzfGAneot = ntvsa 1vea ~ -
nenial Anesss seqalse - eDsss1se =
~ Noie - yee(Qn 49, 9oe1onl
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put into wort givss aignity - pow.
Or 70 The loboror.
To attoia The ful1llmeat Of 6is hopeos
the farmer ohOuld at ones ooGtA tho
peogramme Of living really ed truly
st hone. While ksepiD9 sbssast g
IL times with III tAs nedssn sRpass
s1ces for operations - Tie hxA ~
him supply his hsass. ssPseasIly -
kiteheu, with The bost produees q ~
farm, garden aad orchard 1or hlo OWn
t16le. In doing this - win noe Only
advanoo his own interests. b0t that =
Tie whole eo1ntsy.-eouthsFa Cuase
vatoF.
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PASSING or THE saoNcHo.
In . Few Years He VIII Have Dieop'
peafcd Bntlroly.

In Q Few Years He VIII Hovo Onoop
Pearcd Bntlrsly.
It is q fact, and in some respects not
to be regretted, that the broncho is fast
disappearing. He has served his pur-
pose as no other horse in the world
could do. But changed conditions OF
the country have done away with this
once necessary evil. For evil. in many
ways. he was; in evil and good he never
has had and never will have an equal.
But the broncho to-day is not what he
was, for into almost every nook and
corner has been carried new blood to
cross with this tough and evil-minded
little warrior and more often to his Oct
riment than to his betterment.
Crosses Of all kinds have been tried,
but in nearly all cases. for two ar three
generations, the evil Of bad temper and
''cussedness" comes to stay, and at the
same time the half-breed loses the
staying qualities Of the genuine bron-
cho. Crosses with Clyde. coach. Nor
man. hackney and thoroughbred have
proven q failure. With all the fore
going, except the thoroughbred, al
most q total failure. From actual OBJ
servation the first cross to Clyde. coach.
Norman and hackney are almost en-
tirely worthless. 1t makes them in
size between the bronchO and the sire.
Not big enough for draft. not fit
for drivers on account of temper, lack
of speed and homely conformation.
For saddlers and cow horses they have
lost the sure-footedness, staying quail
ties and indomitable courage that the
genuine broncho, nine times out Of ten,
has. The cross from the thoroughbred
is better. In many cases it gives them
more speed, but the distance must be
shortened. The broncho-thoroughbred
cross is not, as q class, 50 teachable as
the broncho proper.
Taken all in all. in my mind, for the
work cut out for him, no cross has
ever been an improvement in the first
generation. Seventy-five, 90 or l0C
miles in ten or twelve hours has NOT
been a very unusual ride for me on the
good, old-fashioned little 6ero of the
plains. 1 had need, during the trouble
among the Creeks in 1882 and 1883,
to 60 from Muskogee, l. T., to Oak
mulgee, I. T., the distance being As
miles. had just ~ hours to do the
trick If accomplished what wished.
I did it, and with no apparent hurt to
my mount, for the next morning he was
as willing and ready, as the horseman
says, to go "high. wide and handsome"
as ever.
Show me any. other kind Of horse
that can do such work on scout fare
and plenty of abuse and will take my
hat of to him, be he of what breed he
may. They are fast passing away. but
they were the pioneers of new coun-
try. and their footprints show in every
wild place where the white man first
showed his face in the western part of
the United States. Good-by. old friend
and enemy of the past. You have
served me well in both good and evil.
and many aches and pains that I still
here make me remember the evil, but
'their good deeds shall live after them" :"
American Sportsman.
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CAMPING OUT IN A TREE.

A Man Who Tried It says IT'S . Oreas
Success.
Everybody who has ever camped out
in Niles canyon knows that there is q
number of things to be considered in
selecting desirable site. II you pitch
your tent near the water the ai- is like
" to be close on warm days. to say
nothing of the numerous mosquitoes.
On the other hand. II your tent Is
pitched on hillside, it is difficult to
find level place to build a fire and all
the water has to be carried up from the
stream below. OF course it is more con-
venient to be near the water, but under
ordinary circumstances not SO CON-
Portable as being few feet above it.
Henry Gibson thinks that he has
solved the problem and at the same
time procured q number of advantages
he had not looked for. He is one Of the
first campers in the canyon and intends
to remain all sVnlner, 30 that it il likely
that many of the later arrivals will take
advantage Of his way of pitching tent.
Gibsoa's scheme consists of utilizing
a big cottonwood tree. He selected one
with spreading branches, and in the
space between them he constructed
platform Of flooring similar to those
generally used under tents when they
are placed on the ground. One Of the
branches had to be sawed on. but the
platform was made to At in between
the others as nicely ~ could be. On
this platform he has pitched his tent
the same NJ he would on the ground.
BY the use Of . ladder it is easy to ge,
up or down. There are numerous ad-
vantages in pitching . tent this way,
the principal one Of which u that It is
Ligh and dry and the occupants run lit
tie danger Of taking cold. Besides this,
Il can be located close to good water
and near . level place for the campfire.
Another advantage is that grub"
and cooking utensils can be placed out
Of the reach of prowling animals by
putting them in basket and hauling
them up to the platform. At night the
ladder can be hauled mp and the occu-
pants Of the tent will be - secure from
intrusion ~ II At home in their bed
rooms.
The tent in . tree has already at
trscted the attention Of . number Of
prospective campers. Gibson says IT
doesn't cost . cent more than It does to
put . tent In the ordinary way. It only
takes . little more time, but when you
ase there you are hxed.-San Francisco
Cell.