The Burns Citizen from Burns, Kansas • 5

checks which served to add to her at- i Three Corn Pvoot Pests. About telery. It 13 net larger the head of a pin. It is sometimes fouaa on the roots of the corn to stu-U an extent that the I reels look Often their presencj i is prove! by the arpe-rmm of the portation ot live cattle into the United Kingdom, notwithstanding the rigorous rt.striLtions uudt-r which the trade has been carried on, has greatly surpassed previous records, and has averaged over 500,000 head annually. Imports from Argentina first became of sufficient importance ta be stated separately in the British port receipts in 1S94, and since that date the receipts of foreign tattle in the United Kingdom from the three almost exclusive sources of supply have been as follows: IMPORTS OF CATTLE INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Year ended De- From cember 31. United From From States. Canada. Agtn. "CRANDMITHER," THINK NOT 1 FORGET.

Urandmithcr, think not I forget, when I come back to town. An" wander the old nays again an' tread them up an' down. I never smeil the clover bloom, nor Bie the swallows pass, "Without I nsiiid how fcooi ye were unto a Utile lass. I r.ev hear the wiiUer a-ptlting all msht through. Without I tl.ink and mind me of how cold it on you.

And if 1 not oneu to your bed beneath the thyme. Mayhap 'tis that I'd change wi' ye, and gie my bed for thine. Would like to Bleep In thine. I never hear the summer winds among the roses blow, "Without I wonder why it was ye loved the lassie so. Ye gave me cakes and lollipops and pretty toys a score I never thougnt I should come back and ask ye now for more.

Grandmither, gie me your still, white hands, that Ho upon your breast, For mine do beat the dark all night and never find me rest; They go seekin' in the darkness, an' they beat the cold black air. They go seekin' the darkness, an' they never find him there. An' they never lind him there. Grandmither, gie me your sightless eyes, that 1 may never see Ills own a-burnln' full o' love that must not shine-for me. Grandmither, gie me your peaceful Hps, white as the kirkyard snow.

For mine be red wi' burnin' thirst, an' he must never know. Grandmither, gie me your clay-stopped ears, that I may never hear My lad a-singin' In the night when I am sick wl' fear; A-singin' when the moonlight over a' the land is white Aw God! I'll up an' go to him a-singin' in the night, A-calliu' in the night. Grandmither, gie me your clay-cold heart that has forgot to ache. For mine be fire within my breast and yet it cannot break. It beats an' throbs forever for the things that must nut be tractlveness.

As Zekiel passed tee caught sisht ot bis wile, and smiled to s- fcer looking so fresh and dainty. She tried to return tha Smile, but the attempt was faint, for her heart was pounding away lie a trip-hammer. She heard the men in the pump-room, getting ready for dinner, heard them come iuto the cool dining-room, where the table was dain tily spread with all except food which required cooking, and then heard 'Ze-kiel's exclamation of astonishment. "Aline," he called. "Why, where's the dinner?" "I'm afraid it isn't done yet," she replied, pleasantly.

"Please go and see! You will find it out on the back steps." "On the back steps!" he repeated in vague astonishment, as he turned to do her bidding. There, on the door stone, in the full glare of the hot, blazing sun, stood a large kettle. Lifting the cover, he saw potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips and meat, a regular boiled dinner, but unboiled! He stood with the cover in his hand, the mystified haymakers beside him, when his wife appeared on the scene. "You told me to do the next best thing," she said, quietly, "and this was all I could think of. You know I have no wood." "Outwitted, by Jiminy!" 'Zekiel enjoyed a joke, even though it was on himself, and he burst into a hearty fit of laughter in which the haymakers joined.

"Well, boys," he said. "I guess If we want any dinner, we'll have to chop Borne wood!" An appetizing lunch was soon prepared, which, with good coffee, prevented the men from going back to the field hungry, and in the evening they enjoyed the dinner which they had missed at noon. 'Zekiel lesson did him good, for now he never tells his wife to do the next best thing. The Hduskeeper. Time to Prevent Potato Scab.

Scabby potatoes won't pass in a critical market. In fact the hired man hardly wants to eat them at home, and the hired girl objects to peeling them. It is a good thing not to have scabby potatoes. Potato scab may be prevented by very simple means, according to Bulletin 85 of the Vermont Experiment Station, just now being distributed. Professor Jones says that potatoes should not be planted in soils where scab has been prevalent in previous years.

Changing the potato patch to another field is a good preventive measure in such cases. Scab is often brought in on the seed potatoes, however, and one of the most important means of prevention lies in the disinfection of the seed. This is accomplished by soaking in corrosive sublimate or formalin. To treat potatoes with corrosive sub- Jimate make up 9 solution of 1 punce of the chemical In 7 gallons of water, and soak the seed potatoes 1 hours in this. This solution is more poisonous than town agency whiskey and must be handled with care.

It is best to put the potatoes in a loose gunny sack and let them down into the solution by this means. To treat potatoes with formalin (or formaldehyde, as it is sometimes called), put a half pint of the chemical (which is a liquid) into 15 gallons of water. Soak the potato seed two hours in this. Take the potatoes out of either of these solutions, dry them, and plant as usual. The solutions kill the germs of the scab disease and practically prevent its occurrence unless fresh germs happen to be present in the soil from scabby potatoes formerly grown on the same ground.

Treat the Dairy Cow Kindly. The following is clipped from a recent address of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Dairy Union, which Is very expedient: There is no time or labor expended in the dairy that brings so large a return for the investment as proper use of the card and brush three minutes per day per cow, for that period of the year when they are confined in the stable. The cow that will produce 250 pounds of butter in a year will, as a rule, by the aid of the card and brush kindly well used, increase to 300 pounds on feed and care otherwise the same. I have tried this and speak from personal experiment. The care of cows includes care of stables.

In the dairy business cleanliness is next to Clean bedding, ample absorbents in the gutters, and for this purpose gypsum or land plaster is among the best. 'Two pounds per day put in the drops behind each cow will do away with most of the offensive smell of the stable and absorb most of the liquid droppings. The effect of kind treatment of cows can hardly be overrated. She should know and welcome the voice of her master attendant. If he practices calling her by name and speaking to her when he comes near her she will soon learn to expect and welcome it and will render a rich return for the trouble In the pail.

Of the care of the milk after the cow has delivered it into the pail there is no time or space to speak fully. A reiteration of the thought of cleanliness, thorough cleanliness, is never ill-timed at any point in the progress of the milk from the pall to the butter in the tub. George H. Blake says: "The true dairy cow will continue to increase the flow of milk up to the limit of her digestive capacity. This increase should be gradual, and, as near as pos slble, uniform from day to day, not reaching the limit of her capacity for six weeks or two months from the U.ui of freshening.

i (Condensed from Farmers' Review stenographic report of Illinois Farmers' Institute.) Frof. Forbes spoke on a few insects that injure corn. He said ttut the sub ject of insect injury to corn was so great that 1 would not attompt to cover it, but would confine his remarks to a few insects, one of them at least little known. In part he said: Often, in the spring, you will notice In the corn fields patches that do not stem to be doing well. They seem in fact to be "going back." Sometimes it is not an insect at all that is doing the damage, but some fungous disease.

Frequently, however, this injury is done by an insect of which we knew nothing as a corn pest till last year. It is the Colastis root worm. It was found by reason of a letter that came to us from Mr. Warner, a farmer near Griggsville. I sent an assistant to that place and found that the corn fields near that place were in very bad shape, due to some insects that i are attacking the roots of the con plants there.

They were present as beetles, chrysalides and grubs. You can tell this grub from the white grub by the fact that the white grub has a yellow head, while this grub has a head that is white, like the rest of his body. These grubs do not burrow into the corn root as do the white grubs, but eat off the surface of the roots. We have known this insect before as the strawberry root worm. It was found that this infested land had been in timothy the year before.

This led my assistant to look into the timothy fields near there. He found in them this worm in large quantities. The insect gets into the root of the timothy and makes a bulbous swelling and ruiu3 the plant in hich it works. Ha also attacks clover where it is mixed with timothy. It is probable that this insect lives on the roots of a great variety of plants, for if he eats strawberry roots, clover roots, corn roots and timothy roots, it is likely that he eats a great many others.

Q. What is the remedy? A. I do not know; we have not yet got to that. It is safe to say that there are no remedies for insect injuries to corn. A preventive measure is the only thing we can consider.

After an attack has once begun there are no remedies that you can apply that will be profitable. Q. How would it do to rotate wheat and oats? A. We do not think that the insect attacks wheat and oats, but we do not know yet; we have that to find out. This insect lives in the ground and has little power of locomotion.

So far as we know the injury is found only in Pike county. The corn is injured on top of the hills, but on the low grounds was not affected. This insect was first known as a grape vine beetle, because ft infests and eats the grape leaf. Q. How do you fight it in strawberry culture? A.

Change the location of the strawberry plantation. We will now consider the corn root worm the northern corn root worm. You find the eggs of this insect in old cornfields in the fall nowhere else. As soon as the grubs hatch, they bore into the large roots. A grub spends his life in the root, and as the burrow progresses the root generally dies, unless the weather is very wet When it finishes up one root it goes into another.

There may be twenty grubs in a single hill of corn. This continues till the vorn is in the silk, when the insect deserts the root of the corn and goes Into the chrysalis stage, when it looks like a grain of dirty rice. When the little cocoon breaks up out comes the beetle, dull yellow in color, which later becomes a grass green, and begins to climb up the stalk of corn. At the time the beetles come out of the ground the pollen is falling and is collecting in the points of the leaves and from this nnllen th hpetlea e-er. thplr first mpal xhen they g0 up and eat the llen at tne to of the stalk After that th i feed on the heads of smart weed and other like plants; and also of clover, till the middle of October, when those that have left the corn field come back to it.

They pair; more eggs are laid, and the beetles perish. The effect on the corn, plant of the root worm differs. If attacked very young the corn plant often dies. But if the attack iut the injury will be most seen when a hard wind comes and blows over the corn, which will then not have power enough in its roots to right itself. The roots will look as if they had rotted away.

In a field badly infested it will be noticed that the corn matures less slowly than other corn and will still be green when the stalks In most fields are drying up. From this green corn we get much of the so-called "soft corn," which sometimes reduces our corn yield from 10 to 25 per cent. Now, you know what should be done. If corn is not in that field the next year, the insects will starve to death. When you have a field that is infested, do not plant corn on that field the fol lowing year.

So, if you notice those grass-green beetles feeding in any of your fields, you will know that the orn root worm is with you anyway, though you may not have previously found it out. We have found nothing that will hurt the corn-root worm except rotating the crops. Plowing will not injure them, for they lie so near the ground anyway In winter that they get all the freezing possiDle as it is. The next important insect is the corn-root aphis. This is a small bluish Insect, with a powdery bloom.

It may be found on the corn In the spring, Levil and retentive soil is (rrrferab'e for celery. Savly land will require heavy manuring with well rot-! tf stable manure. It should be ap-I plif.d at the rate of fifty or sixty loads per acre. Stronger and mere reten-I live soil will not need quite so much manure, although the crop will make good use of it if applied. Even land that is considered rich will be rendered better for celery by the free application of manure.

While the crop may be grown on various soils the natural preference of the plant is drained marsh lands, and a deep muck soil. Where celery is to be grown" for profit tne selection of the most suitable soil is an important matter. In the case of a few hundred stalks for home use, or local market, any common good garden may be made to answer. Low, wet land, after being properly cleared and drained with open ditches or tile, to bring the water level some eighteen inches below the surface, will be benefited by a heavy application of lime. A ton of air-slackcd lime per acre will not be too much.

Aside from rotted stable ma-nue, 1,000 pounds of bone meal, and forty or fifty bushels of wood ashes to supply phosphoric acid and potash, ill usually be desirable. Growing the Plants The difficulty in growing celery plants is mainly with seed sown in the open air bed and neglect. An ounce of seed Will produce 5,000 plants or more. About 20,000 to 30,000 plants are required to plant an acre as ordinarily planted. The seed are sown at the rate of about six or eight to the inch.

About 4,000 seedlings may be grown under an ordinary hotbed sash. When transplanted to a cold frame cue and a half inches apart in the row with four inches between the rows, a four by six foot sash will cover about six hundred and fifty plants. One inch apart, same rows, eight hundred and sixty-four plants. Seedlings must be transplanted early, find transplanted plants should never be left longer than can be avoided before final setting. In the case of early summer celery one of the problems is providing room for transplanting.

It requires about three months to grow clery plants large enough for setting out and about two to three months for it to become large enough to bleach. Planting Out. The old system of planting celery in trenches has been long since abandoned. Level culture has taken its place. For the summer crop in this portion of the state, celery plants properly hardened off may be planted out about the first Week of April; for the fall and winter crops from July to September.

In case wet soil is adhering to the roots of the plants, the soil should be pressed but lightly, otherwise quite firmly. A deep opening is made to admit the roots, and after being set, ajittle loose soil is drawn about the plant. Care is taken not to set so deeply as to cover the central bud. Straight rows facilitate cultivation, and render good work with wheel hoes possible. Late celery is usually grown as a second crop following spring cabbage, potatoes, onions, etc.

If land needs deen plowing it is preferably done the preceding fall. A soil mulch maintained from the start by frequent shallow cultivation conserves moisture, stimu lates growth, and has a tendency to cause the roots to run deeper, while keeping weeds in check. Bulletin 64, Arkansas Experiment Station. The Trans-Atlautle Cattle Trade. The United States and Canada now have a virtual monopoly of the world's export-cattle trade to the United King dom, says a report of the Department of Agriculture.

All other important cattle-exporting countries which were formerly shippers to this market have been precluded by the British laws for the prevention of foot-and-mouth disease from landing their cattle on British soil. Argentina, after having carried on a successful and increasing trade with Great Britain since 1890, was last April declared to be infected with the disease and her flourishing trade has ceased, Australia, though non-Infected, has not yet succeeded in establishing a cattle trade to the United Kingdom; her several tentative experiments in transporting live stock on a commercial scale over the vast distances and through the diversities of climate that separate her from the mother country have, as business ven tures, ended in failure. Against vari ous countries of continental Europe declarations of the existence of foot-and-mouth disease have beenr made from time to time during the last quar ter century, and since 1892 exports of cattle to the United Kingdom from that entire continent have almost ceased. Even the thriving export trade of the non-infected United States and Canada has been carried on under other restrictions that would at one time have been regarded as almost prohibitive. In the year 1879 the existence of pleuro-pneumonia In the United States caused the British government to prohibit the landing of cattle from this country except for slaughter with in ten days at the port of landing, and, although this republic was officially de-dared to be free from the disease in 1892, the restrictions were never re moved.

Canadian cattle were placed under the same restraints and for the same cause In 1892. A little later these restrictions were made permanent and of universal application, and since Jan uary 1, 1897, no cattle from any country whatsoever are allowed admission commercially into the United Kingdom. If allowed at all, except for slaughter within ten days at the port of landing. During the past ten years the Im- red ants. The ants cutiier the eggs of these arid cr? fully takt of them.

When tho to turn green the ants take them out and spread them cn the surface of tho ground in the sun to make them incubate more quickly, takins them back into their hills on the approach of night. When the eggs split oiieu and the young lice come out the ants put them at first on the tender roots of smart weed, where they fill themselves with the sap. Later the ants transfer their wards to the stalks of the pigeon grass. Later on still, if the field is planted to corn, the ants place the lice in the hills of corn just as the corn is starting to grow, and sometimes these young shoots of corn are badly injured by an attack so early. These insects breed so rapidly that there may be ten or twelve generations in a single year.

The young lice are en tirely dependent on the ants and help less without them. The Stable. In planning for the erection of a new horse stable there are a number of important things to be taken into consideration in order that the animals may remain healthy and at the same time be ens'jled to perform the most effective work. The best site for the stable is on a strata cf hard gravel. If this cannot be supplied then it will be necessary to drain the ground upon which the stable is to be built.

Dry floors are absolutely necessary. These cannot be expected where the ground is level and the "water is near the surface. The water table is the level to which water rises in the soil after a In a slough the water table is at the surface of the ground the soil being supersaturated. In average farm land the water table is found about two feet from the surface and this is too close for purposes of stable building. By putting in tile drains at a depth of four feet or thereabout the table will be lowered to a sufficient depth to insure dryness of the foundation soil.

On such a foundation the stable will be healthy; where the ground is damp on the other hand the horses stand in an atmosphere full of moisture and suffer from staring coats, swelled legs, lung troubles and kindred ailments. The foundation having been provided the stable should be built so that the windows face to the south and are set in the wall back of the horses. This provides for an ample inlet of sunshine so that when the horses are at work the stable may be given a sun bath which is one way of insuring health. A great many farmers argue that it is best to place the stable with the windows to the north as it will be cooler. Certainly it will be cooer jn summer and aa certainly it will be ice cold in In summer it is possible to shade the horses from the sun when indoors and all the sun possible is wanted in the stable when the horses are at work.

In winter the sun from the south will tend to keep the stable warm and cheerful and certainly will conduce to the health of the animals, Others will argue that the sunlight is hard upon the eyes of the horses and that is very true if the walls of the stable be whitewashed but then it is a bad plan to whitewash the inside of the stable. To protect the eyes of the occupants the stable should be colored neutral tint or gray and this is easily accomplished by mixing a little lamp black In the lime wash. The color should be anything except pure white. After the stable foundation has been properly drained the ground surface should be made impervious to moisture from above and below and this is accomplished by concrete of gravel and It is well to do this as noxious gases and moisture cannot then come up from the ground and at the same time the fluids of the stable cannot get into the soil to fester and breed noxious exhalations. Provision should be made for proper ventilation not only at the roof of the stable but at the floor.

The light gases in a stable are carried off by ridge ventilators but the carbonic acid of the exhaled air from the lungs is heavy and falls upon the floor and should be removed and this is to be accomplished by ventilator bricks or other Inlets for fresh air at the ground surface. This is all the more necessary in hog and sheep barns as the animals mentioned sleep with their heads close to the floor and practically drown in their own carbonic acid gas if the ventilators be not provided. The common ridge ventilator cannot be depended upon. According to the direction of the wind it pumps out air or allows it to enter. It should do one or both at all times and this is insured by providing it with a partition through the center from top to-bottom.

Where this is done it wilt be found that at all times one side is pumping out air and the other side sucking it in. By furnishing the ceiling opening of the ventilator with two slides the ventilator can then be used for either purpose as required. On the Interoceanic railway of Mexico a part of the track has teen laid on ties of jarrah wood imported from Australia for this purpose. The jarrah wood is obtained from one of the largest trees of the forests of Australia, which grows to an average height of 200 feet, and is about four feet in diameter at the trunk. There is usually an interval of 150 feet to the first branch.

These trees furnish timber which is sound In every respect, there being an absence of dry rot, gum veins and other defects that often characterize large trees. In a theater, No. 2 or No. may be considered an A No. 1 seat.

1594 381,932 82,323 1595 95,993 1896 393,119 101,591 1897 416,229 126,495 1898 369,478 108,405 1S99 321,229 94,660 1900 350.209 104,328 Shipments ceased in May. 9,538 30,494 65,699 73,852 89,369 85,365 38,56 The enforced cessation of imports from Argentina is obviously an occur rence of great importance. The ira ports from that country had increased from 2 per cent of the total takings of the United Kingdom In 1894 to 17 per cent in 1S99, and, from being an almost negligible factor in the trade, Argentina had become, as a source of supply, almost equal to Canada. It is significant, too, that the constant in crease in the proportion of cattle sup plied by Argentina has been coincident with a general decrease in the proportion supplied by the United States, the percentage "supplied by Canada meanwhile remaining fairly constant. The trans-Atlantic cattle trade has in a quarter of a century completely revolutionized the export-cattle trade of the United States.

About the time of the inception of trans-Atlantic shipments the 50,000 to 60,000 head of our surplus cattle, worth from $1,000,000 to to $1,500,000, annually found a market in the contiguous countries to the north and south and in tho West Indies. Of recent years our total annual exports have closely approximated head, valued at from $30,000,000 to $37,000,000. Upwards of of this number have annually been transported across the Atlantic, yielding yearly returns of from to The United Kingdom, formerly entirely dependent upon continental Europe for a supply of foreign cattle, now draws that supply almost exclusively from North America. Alfalfa EnUlage. A laie Colorado bulletin gives some tests made of alfalfa as an ensilage plant.

One test, says the bulletin, was made with ine alfalfa put in whole as cut in the field; the other with the alfalfa cut to quarter-inch pieces, as we cut our corn for ensilage. The whole alfalfa showed a spoiled layer three inches thick on he op and an inch layer around the side nearly all the way down. The ensilage of the bottom and middle was excel-lent and was greedily eaten by the cows and calves. Its loss in the total weight was 10.7 per cent, but its loss in Tfeeding value was probably a little larger. The other silo was filled with cut al falfa.

The next day the silo was cov ered with two thickness of building paper and one of boards, and weighted with stone to about fifty-five pounds per square foot. When covered, the ensilage was hotter than the hand could bear. Two days later the temperature had fallen to eighty-three degrees and in two days more it had fallen to that of the air. The ensilage shrank and settled a good deal. When put in it contained 3 per cent of dry matter.

On opening, the silo showed two inches of spoiled ensilage on top and half an inch on the sides. Tha spoiled ensilage was 7.3 per cent of the total weight. The loss in dry matter was approximately 10 per cent. It is fair to presume that with a good tight silo, well made ensilage from cut alfalfa should not make a larger loss than was here given in our experimental silo, or about 10 per cent 1 1 A 1 1 i III I 1 I HI-1 1 1 I VM I MM 111 il 14 trill Ml ensilage from whole alfalfa is a much harder proposition. It requires that the alfalfa be quite green; that the silo be both tight and deep; that the alfalfa be thrown into the silo in small forkfuls and carefully tramped, and that it be weighted by from four to six feet of some heavy, tight-packing material like cut corn fodder.

If the alfalfa is put up in the -middle of summer. In clear, bright weather, it must be raked and loaded just as fast as cut One lot we tried was too dry for ensilage two hours after it was cut. Comparing the three methods of handling alfalfa in the stack, in the barn, and in the form of ensilage, the bulletin says that under the best of ordinary conditions, for every 100 pounds of feeding value as it exists in the green alfalfa at the time It is cut by the mower, seventy-five pounds will be saved if the hay is well cured and put in a stack under good conditions; eighty-six pounds will be saved if put in the barn, and ninety pounds can be expected if made into first-class ensilage. The cost of the ensilage Is so much more than the silo and the barn, there can he. no question unless It is shown that the dry matter of the alfalfa ensilage has a higher feeding value, pound for pound, than that of dry hay.

In the comparison of the ensilage and the stacked hay, the principal advantage of the enBilage must lie in the fact that the alfalfa can be put in the silo, even under bad conditions of weather at time of cutting, and that once siloed it is safe from the worst weather. His work is nearly all up-stares the astronomer. An' can ye not let me creep in sitx' rest' awnne ny ye A little lass afeard o' dark slept by ye years agone, An' she has found what night con hold 'twixt sunset an" the daws Eo when I plant the rose an' ne above your grave for ye, Ye'll know it's under rue an' rose that I would like to be, That 1 would like to be. YVllla Sibert Cather in Critic. The Next Best Thing.

Aline Plummet- had risen with all the aches and pains listed in advertisements of patent medicines or so it seemed to her, for, in addition to her regular duties, she had been sawing what wood she had used for the last days. "Oh, dear," she thought, "can I ever get through this day? Four hired men to feed, a cheese to put in press, those berries to can, and all the regular work besides!" There was a momentary silence, while she flew about the kitchen, and then, as her shoulder gave an extra twinge, her thoughts were again words. "I'll never saw or nother stick of wood! It isn't work, and 'Zekiel has no fit to expect it of me." r.y 1 fpuuereu, ana inai was all hef scolding usually amounted to, she was busy getting breakfast a tRsk made more difficult because she must constantly repienisn tne nre irom a basket of chips which stood near the stove. The coffee was made, the potatoes fried a delicious brown, and the corn bread hot from the oven when 'Zekiel came in with two pails of foaming milk. He washed himself at the long sink in the pump-room, then entered the kitchen, rubbing and glowing, ready to do ample justice to the appetizing breakfast set before him.

Aline was as silent as a graven Image, but her husband did not observe It. He ate steadily and heartily, and finally pushed back his chair with a satisfied "tiere!" exclamation, and reached for his hat. 'Zekiel," said Aline, in sharp, decisive tones, "I have no wood." "Well, you must pick up something, today. I'm off for the hay field." "I've picked up something for so many days that there is nothing left. I've sawed and split wood until my shoulder is so lame I can hardly move my arm.

I shall not do It any more." "Can't you use chips? I'll try to split up some wood for you tonight." "Chips!" The tone was that of a woman who has received the last etraw. 'Zekiel look out In that wood yard! Can you see a chip there the size of a fifty-cent" piece?" "Well. I can't stop now. Aline. The hay is waiting." "What shall I get dinner with?" "I don't know: do the next best thing!" and 'Zekiel took a hasty de parture.

He had faith in his wife's re eources. His dinner had always been ready on time, and he saw no reason why he should worry about It today. Aline eat down utterly discouraged. Her shoulder ached furiously, and for a moment it seemed that life was not worth living. She and 'Zekiel had been married five years.

They had worked hard, and now owned a nice little farm, and were free from debt. But, looking back over the years of her married life, she could see that much more of 'Zekiel's work had been transferred to her than she ought by right to do. She blamed herself. -She had begun to do these things, not because he asked her to, but because she had liked to help him, and after a time, they had both seemed to forget that it was his work, not hers, which he' now required of her." "There will be a change from this day," she said, with sudden determination. "I have been wrong, and so has 'Zekiel; I have learned my lesson, and he must now learn his." Full of this new idea, Aline did all her work that could be done without a fire, then combed her hair prettily, and put on a becoming gown of blue lawn.

"It seems odd to be doing this in the morning," she said, as she fastened a rosebud in her hair, "but it is pleasant." Taking her sewing she found a shady place on the veranda, and there she sat when 'Zekiel came home to din ner, with his four hired men. Her heart beat faster, as she saw them coming and a pink color rose to her did at most any time during the year,.