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A WARM WEATHER MILE ROUSE,

A very convenient milk house for
warm climates, or for summer use in
colder section, is shown in the engrav.
ing herewith. It is six feet square
and six feet high at the caves, which
is large enough for the milk OF two or
three COWS. The house is built under
large grape arbor, about twenty
feet from my kitchen pump. The
milk tank, which is twelve inches
deep and fourteen inches wide at the
top, extends along the north side. 1t
has screen cover, which may be COW
cred with cloth in very hot or dusty
weather. A table with shelf under
meath occupies the southeast corner.
A space just above the level of the
tank. two feet wide and extending on
ali sides of the house, is covered with
wire screen. Shelves above the screen
and below the tank give sufficient
room for milk and butter dishes. The
milk is set in pals. A galvanized
iron pipe leads from small tank al
the side of the pump down eighteen
inches below the surface of the ground,
across the twenty-foot space and up
again to the level of the milk tank.
An overflow pipe at the other end OF
the tank carries off the water after il
has reached the proper hight in the
tank. Another pipe, ut the bottom ol
the tank. is used for emptying it when
desired. The door in the southwest
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VALUE OF TRUsTwoRTHINEss.

The integrity which can be trusted has
always possessed high moral value, and
has been regarded as an important element
in Christian character. The changes in one
social and Industrial condition have tended
to give additional commercial value to
trustworthiness. In former times each
small holder managed his own little estate,
and the character Of his employe was OF
comparatively little Importance because he
wrought under the owners eye. Those
days are gone. Money has to be investedin
new ways and much OF 1t through agents.
Immense sums so into corporations, and the
character of the management becomes an
important matter for the investor. To know
that he has careful. judicious and trusty
agent adds not little to his sense of secu-
rity and happiness. In all the new forms
of Investments the opportunities for dishon-
esty in the agent are much greater than
in the old. Not few have availed them
selves of these opportunities to appro-
pirate large sums which were not their own.
The world is never going back to the old
methods of business, and the character OF
agents who manage the property Of others
must come with each year more important.
The man who proves himself trustworthy
will be more and more in demand, while the
one lacking that element will find himself
discredited in the market.
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a PRAYER.

Forgive US. o Lord. if we have this day
said or done anything to increase the pain
of the world. Pardon the unkind word, the
impatient gesture.the hard and selfish deed,
the failure to show sympathy and kindly
help where We had opportunity. but missed
it and enable us 80 to live that we may
daily do something to lessen the tide OF
human sorrow and add to the sum of human
happiness. We have our own sorrows, o
Father. We wait for footsteps that do not
come; We yearn for sympathy which Is not
given; we knock at doors that do not
open We think of graves that hide oul
dearest treasures. We fear the loneliness,
the changes and chances OF this mortal life
and the mystery OF that unknown future
that stretches away in the dark like a moor
beyond the light Of home. But thou art ours
and we are thine-nothing can ever separate
US from thee Do not leave Us orphans. but
come to us by thy Son and by thy Spirit;
Only let us not miss the lesson Of pain and
sorrow and long waiting, but be made per
feet through suffering. so that there need be
no turned lessons in our life. Amen.
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THE VOICE OF THE PREACHER.

Man has invented many curious wind in
struments. but nothing quite so marvellous
as the human voice. It bears the stamp Of
the Divine. Beside this divine masterpiece
the inventions of man appear cheap and
mean. Mans work Is unimprovable; to
get something better he must invent q
new instrument; but the human voice,
unlike even those Of beast and bird, is
susceptible OF the most wonderful i'm
provement. AS first given, the voice OF
some birds surpass that Of human being |;
but the voice Of the bird Is stationary like q
wind instrument while that Of man Is
capable of indefinite cultivation. In send
ing them forth to disciple the nations, Christ
gave His preachers this silver trumpet The
world can never outgrow its charms. The
printed page can never replace the cunning
of the tongue or voice. There are two things
remarkable about this instrument OF per-
suasion 1t is adapted to embody sentiment
and moral truth; it gives expression
to the spiritual as well as the ma
terial world. The brute can tell only
the bird, in his song, cannot lift himself out
of the mundane sphere but mans voice ID
full OF suggestions Of the invisible and the
spiritual. Again, the improvableness Of the
human voice Is almost incalcuable. White
field would put the whole gospel message
into word and bring tears to the eyes OF
an audience by the repetition Of the word
"Mesopotamia." Words are rubber and
susceptible Of indefinite imitation by the
skillful use of the human voice. Some
voices are naturally better than others, but
even the poorest may be bettered by use and
attention to the laws regulating articulation
and enunciation. The minister should be q
good reader as we'll as speaker, and to keep
himself fresh in this department he should
read aloud each day. The voice, with facil-
ity in its use, is an important part OF his
stock in trade. He must be voice, but
not q mere voice; the voice must have q
man and Gospel behind 1t.
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Had to Wake the Fish.

A. Y. Phillips, an employe of the
Southern Pacific Company, now living
in Tulare, went fishing some time ago
on the Bell River, in Mendocino Coun.
ty. Far up in the hills, where the
trout prevail, the stream courses along
a comparatively level strip of country
for the distance of something like half
a mile. With a friend he drove to
this spot, having previously arranged
bait and lines and hooks. Mr.. Phillips
had thoughtfully collected an oyster
con full of grasshoppers, to be used as
bait in case the trout refused to accept
the fly. He cast in his Ayhook, but
the willy gamesters did not appear to
be hungry. To wake up the fish he
drove the horse into the stream. the
water being about knee deep, ana cast
in his line with live hopper on the
hook. No sooner had the hook struck
the water than a trout seized it and
was quickly landed in the buggy.
The sport was continued, driving
up the stream, landing the trout in
the buggy until the stock of hoppers
was exhausted. When they ceased
fishing they found they had l5O trout
in the buggy, varying in length from
six to ten inches.
This, Mr.. Phillips says, was the best
sport he ever enjoyed, and as the tish'
ing season is at hand again he is going
to take layof and hunt that same
trout spot. San Francisco Call
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THE ropER.s MORAL RESPONSIBILITY.

"Why do men drinkp' is an old question
upon which some savants are seeking TO
throw new light. The London Society for
the Study Of Inebriety has been recently dis
cussing the problem, though with no very
harmonious results Of opinion. DR.. Norman
Kerr for one declares that little progress will
be made in the way Of decreasing drunken
ness until 1t is recognized as disease. and
not merely as moral weakness. It is be-
cause this fact has not been realized, he says,
that no results OF all labors In the line of
legislation have accrued. Evidently DR..
Kerr begs the question In this statement.
Legislation cannot do everything to Offset
the rum evil, but that it has, where invoked,
accomplished something in the way Of the
diminution Of this social curse, Is evident to
every candid observer. II the question be
asked, "Why do men drink?" Of course the
readiest reply Is: "Because they want to-"
But why should they wish to? As the result
OF an appetite, oil would agree, and at the
dtctation Of deprared and diseased ap-
petite must be admitted as DR.. Kerr con-
tends. Rum is an intruder in the physical
frame, and induces an abnormal state. both
morally and physically. But because the
topper becomes at length a walking incarna-
ton Of disease, we are not warranted IN ex-
cusing him from moral responsibility for the
taking Of 'the first glass" and Of all the sue
cessive potions that have proved so madden
ing and destructive. Still, there Is pathol-
ogy Of drink, which may we'll be studied In
connection with the systematic prosecution
of temperance efforts.-New York 1ndepen-
dent.
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maggots are deposited BY the flies in
the pulp of the apple beneath the skin.
80 that the young maggots are secure
within the fruit, from the time the
eggs are laid until they are mature
and emerge from the apple to go into
the ground. The msggot is very
small and honeycombs the fruit with
out material injury TO the skin or ex-
terror appearance, but causes streaks
of rot in the flesh Of the fruit that are
very repugnant to the consumer. The
soil beneath infected trees was exam
ined at the Rhode Island Experiment.
Station last fall (bulletin 81, l. F..
Kinney, and the number Of msggots;
that we're secreted under different
trees was estimated to be from 1900
to over $4,000. When hens were
penned under the trees, they worked
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RELIGIOUS READING.
GODS ovERsHADowING.

The sense of the constant presence OF
God, may be, according to hesoul's attitude
source either OF supremest peace or OF
keenest distress. To the Christian nothing
ts sweeter than the thought of the Divine
overshadowing, the perpetual consciousness
OF the Heavenly Fathers watchfulness and
sympathy and protection. But the sinner
has no JOY in Gods presence. His desire is
to get away from God, to fee from the all
ness Of darkness where he will be
hidden even from Omnipotence. But
it is an imgossibility for any soul to en-
tirely forget God. There may be long peri
DDS Of spiritual anethesia, during which
conscience may be bound and silenced but
sooner or later the normal condition, the
God-consciousness OF the soul, will return,
and even the abandoned sinner will feel the
brooding Of the Divine Spirit, the over
shadowing of the Almightys wings. At
such times the anguish of the sinner must
be unspeakable. No wonder it has been
pronounced by certain school OF modern
religious thought, the only and the utter
most hell which the human soul can know.
Yet it is possible to convert this very hell
into heaven by 30 simple process as a
change Of attitude on the part Of the sin
the human spirit, but the human spirit can
determine whether that overshadowing
shall be sunlight or gloom, Joy or sorrow,
peace or despair.
Even in the throughly Christian life there
are times when the soul needs to remember
that its own attitude determines the nature
of Gods ministration to it. The almighty
wings overshadow in 80 many ways, and
sometimes ways 80 strange There is the
overshadowing Of aff1iction and sorrow. How
many of US can always find the heart Of God
in His bereavements To some 1t seems
almost as If God were brooding over us
then, as He broods over the unrepent-
ant simmer with clouds and darkness
and punitive pain. But II we look
up to Him aright-in the right spirit-we
shall see that it is only the beautiful over
shadcwing Of love, the cloud with the lining
Of gold, the shielding wings OF tenderest
fatherhood. God broods over US lovingly
at all times and in all ways, II we have only
the faith to believe it, and to live on in trust
until we know it. Over all His children
God spreads the wings of His love. To some
the overshadowing may seem grievous, but
they do not understand, as they will
some day. The sinner who has sorrowed
and suffered into repentance; the mourn
er who has escaped through tribu-
lation, the blighting curse Of sell
f1shness and worldliness: the sufferer who
has learned through pain his heavenly les
son Of sympathy and charity-all these de-
clare that the presence Of God has been to
them the supreme good, the final blessing,
of life. For all of US the overshadowing OF
God is the test and the perfecting Of charac-
ter; and according as we look unto Him
shall the meaning of life's experiences be
revealed to us.
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BRAINS REQUIRED IN STOCK RAISING.

BRAINS REQUIRED IN STOCK RAISING.
This season has been one which has
offered little encouragement to beef
producers. Grain has teen very cheap
and grazing has been abundant. The
,hespness of feed has encouraged
holding the stock for great advantages
in weight. The average stockman
,lings to the old theory that a beast
for meat should be ripe. The taste Of
the people who buy meat, however,
has been changing for years, with the
result that there is an almost exclusive
demand for the steaks and roasts that
have been grown on the theory of
early maturity. On the average farm
there is every reason for fattening the
calf to finish by the time it is eight.
cen months to twenty-five months of
age. Usually every pound that is
gained after the calf is twenty months
old costs the feeder fully as much as,
and often more than, he is able to
realize in selling it. Cattle growers
and feeders are living in an age OF
progress, and it is as important that
they use diligent thought and study
as is the same course desirable in any
other business. A dividend cannot be
made on ones investment otherwise.
This is particularly true on farms of
less than 320 acres. It is nearly al.
ways true where farms are worth more
than $50 per acre, regardless of the
size of the farm. There has been for
score of years a feeling that all a
stockman had to do was to buy up any
sort of cattle and put them on the
grass and feed them plenty of corn,
and the profits would take care OF
themselves. It is an accident now
when this policy proves successful.
Close observation of each animal is
required now and careful estimates
must be made Of the expense of feed
ing.
Much that has been said above in
regard to cattle is true of the situa-
ton in the hog trade. The breeder
who does not strive for the best blood
and best quality is back number. In
addition to careful breeding feeding
is now also equally of Importance.
Great care must be exercised to supply
the hog with the proper varieties OF
food from birth to maturity. 1t is no
longer q question of year IN the
growth of hog to profitable finish
Only the large ranches can consider
this policy with any favor. On farms
of half section or less the hog should
be finished for market at from seven
months to ten months of age. Other
conditions being favorable, where
there is clover and other green pas
turage it is ordinarily better policy to
continue the hog on feed till nine
months or ten months of age.-West'
ern Rural.
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A poCToRs's OPINION.

Speaking on the subject lately, before the
Anthropological Society Of Munich, Bavaria,
Dr. Brendel, who said that the present time,
referring to his own land, might be called
the alcoholic period OF man. because Of the
prevalence Of the use Of alcoholic drinks
added:
"Alcohol. which apparently brings SO
much pleasure to its partakers, acts as poison
if even consumed In small doses daily, by
means Of its cumulative active action, as is
strikingly shown here in Munich, the centre
Of beer consumption, by the frequent sudden
cases Of death of apparently healthy men.
Fatty, enfeebled hearts, shriveled kidneys,
fatty or hardened livers, changes in the tex
ture Of blood vessels, which cause paralytic
strokes aud softenine of the brain by burst.
ing in the brain, chronic catarrhs OF the
stomach and bronchial tubes. ETC.. trembling
of the limbs, alterations and diseases OF the
mental faculties. delirium tremens, ETC.
these are some of the consequences OF an
immoderate drinking of alcoholic stimulants.
Professor DR.. Bolliuger, Of this city Mu-
nicb), has in the same manner proved the
prevalence of various diseases OF definite
nature Of the internal orSaps caused by the
universal drinking of beer. normal heart
or kidney is the exception only here In Mu-
mich. This state of affairs also Injuries the
progeny in a most serious manner. DR..
Demme 1ound tnat OF the cnllQren Oh non
drinkers eighty-two per cent. were sound.
while OF those of drinkers only seventeen per
cent. were sound. Although large
quantities Of beverages were drunk formerly,
still only in the last century, and more es-
pecially only in the last decades, In which
the brewers art was perfected, has drinking
become universal. It has spread everywhere
and increased to frightful, most alarming,
extent. It has been introduced even into
country communities, and tho only inevitable
consequence will be the thorough degenera-
tion Of the human race II the evil Is not
checked before it Is too late Although 1t Is
contended that beer contains less alcohol
than either wine or whisky, It is neverthe-
less, as Injurious as either Of them. while its
vaunted nutritive value stands In no proper
tion to its price. When man is required to
perform the greatest Feat Of corporeal e1er-
tion In battle, sport, exploration, ETC., the
baneful effect Of alcohol Is most strikinsly
shown. In spite Of the marvellous
advantage of our present age retrogression
In an ethical sense is undeniable, the chief
cause Of which Is principally due to the in
crease of drunkenness because the beer saloon
has become the centre and focus Of social
life."
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POVERTY AND DRINK,

Destitution and want in this country, in
the vast majority Of cases, are the result OF
profligate patronage of the snloon-keepers'
business. II 80 many toilers Of the land sim.
ply camp in the wilderness of great tene-
ment structures and drag out their lives in
helpless poverty. the lamentable fact Is to an
alarming extent the result Of paying a too
generous patronage to the liquor.sellers'
trade. The practical problem fo- the Amer.
can workman to solve Is not the amount he
may be fortunate in earning. but the sum he
may prudently save to provide for happiness
and plenty In o contented home. Excessive
drinking Is not the only cause OF dependence
an1 poverty, but 1t far outstrips all other
sources OF these misfortunes.-Sacred Heart
Review.
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THEY DON'T BUY BEER.

The Toronto (Ontario) hotel keepers say
bicycling hurts their business, II the follow
ing extract from the Toronto World Is to be
believed:
'The bicycle continues on its way, revolu-
tionidng our modern life in many Of its re-.
spects. The saloon keepers and cigar dealers
are the latest to complain of the new order
of things. The dispensers Of liquid refresh
ments are the chief sufferers, by their own
accounts, for thousands Of young men who
formerly patronized the downtown bars,
spending, many Of them, fifty cents day on
an average, have taken to the wheel and theiI
erstwhile haunts know them no more. The
country hotel keeper, on the other hand. ia
much benefited by the cycle revolution. His
once almost-deser.ed house. II it affords good
accommodation, Is visited daily by dozens OF
wheelmen, whose loose change, given In ex'
change for meals and "soft stuff" replen.
ishes his Golfers and causes broadening OF
the smile on his rubicund countenance."
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THIS BOY SHED HIS SKIN.
A Strange Freak Of Nature Takes Place at
jacksonville. Fla.

a feAk OI NdtuIo 4dht6 Z lhCc ht
Jacksonville. Fla.
Every one knows that snakes shed their
skins, but the only instance known to medi-
cal science Of human being doing the same
thing has just been made public In Florida.
The case is that John Allen. an eight-year-
old boy, Of Jacksonville. A few weeks ago
an orange thorn penetrated the boys hip
Inflammation followed, and the boy was soon
horribly swollen from head to foot. Finally
the swelling subsidized, but the boy immedi.
ately began to shed his skin. That on the
face came off separately, but from the neck
down the cuticle remained intact, and moved
Off by way of the hands and feet without
breaking. The cuticIe was five days In
passing off, and during that time the boy re-
NAMED on the bed. wriggling like snake
at molting time.
The child seemed to be in no pain. but
complained Of a tickling sensation and 8
crawling of the flesh. When the cuticle had
been shed the boy Immediately recovered,
and is now as wcl as ever. The skin that
was shed Is on exhibition ct physicians
office. II is perfect cast of the human form
from the neck down and is about the con-
sistency Of hard glue, which 1t much resem-
hlee
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TEMPERANCE.

coLD.wATER CRANKs.
The modest violets, white and blue,
That quench their thirst with morning dew
The cowslips nodding at the sun
Down where the laughing brooklets run;
The bloodroot blossoms, pure and white.
That keep the bubbling springs IN sight;
The water-lilies, tall and rank.
Each one brave cold-water "cranS;'
Yea, flowers Of every form and hue
Are to the laws of nature true:
They sip the nectar God has given.
Most grateful for this gift Of Heaven:
They meet His smile and own His power
In every welcome summer shower:
They thrive on rain and mist and dew
And all intoxicants eschew.
Sweet flowers, wish all men would hass
Your mute reproof, your simple creedf
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ALCOHOLISM IN PARIS.

Paris is alarmed over the ravages OF aIco.
hoism. From Investigations recently con-
Quoted, Paul Raynaud has learned that the
victims Of the drink habit In Paris-those
seriously injured by it in health, some to the
point of disablement-now number 10000
annually.
ambuances carried TO hospitals 100000
persons last year suffering from alcoholism
in some form. This represents. say ILLUS
tration, an expense of S1S0,000 for treating
diseases due to the effects of intemperanee
in drinking. 1t is sad fact that the pro-
portion Of women among these drunks and
patients is nearly equal to that of men.
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SUBSTITUTES FOR Hay.

Az a hay substitute We at present
have nothing better than corn fodder,
if it has been properly taken care of,
writes N. Wiley, of Indiana. If left
in the field until spring, exposed 20
winds and rain, more than one-half
the original value is lost. It pays to
have the fodder cut OF shredded.
All kinds of stock eat it readily. I
believe the feeding value of tirst.class
corn fodder is ten per cent greater
than that of timothy hay.
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faithfully and seemed~
food from the ground to-
three or four days. It appe,
few of the maggots were likely
overlooked by the hens. It is pfa
able that the apple maggots remain IN
the pupa state in the soil beneath the
trees, in that latitude, from the time
they leave the apple in the fall until
the following spring, so that confning
poultry in the orchard in the fall is
the most practical treatment for this
pest that can now be suggested. 1t is
important to ascertain the distribu-
ton of the pest, and all who observe it
will please report to us. Carefully
feeding all windfalls OF refuse apples
to hogs or the stock is advised. Sheep,
hogs and poultry should be kept in
the orch ard after hsying, if not be-
fore. Clean culture is also advised.
Spraying is no protection against this
pest, because it does not affect the fly
that lays the egg.-New England
Homestead. ...