come in, but the hole in the fence was too 
small for him, and then the chickens went 
out in the alley, and the hen followed them 
out, so she would have an excuse to go 
after them, and flirt with the rooster, and 
I think it is a perfect shame. She is out in 
the alley half the time, and I could cuff 
her. It seems to me wrong to so soon for¬ 
get a deceased rooster, but I suppose a hen 
can’t be any more than human. Say, you 
don’t want to buy a good dead rooster, 
do you? You could pick it and sell it to 
somebody that owes you, for a spring 
chicken.” 
“No, I don’t want any deceased poultry, 
that died of grief, and you better go home 
and watch your hen, or you will be bereaved 
some more,” and the grocery man went out 
in the shed to see if the cat was over 'its 
fit, and when he came back the boy was 
gone, and after a while the grocery man 
saw a crowd in front of the store and he 
went out and found the dead rooster lying 
on the vegetable stand, with a paper pinned 
on its breast on which was a sign, “This 
raster dide of colix. For sale cheep to 
hording house only.” He took the dead 
rooster and threw it out in the street, and 
looked up and down the street for the bad 
boy, and went in and hid a raw hide where 
he could reach it handy. 
-*^ 225 *- 
Wliat Kills Fruit Trees. 
Deep planting is one error—to plant a tree 
rather shallower than it formerly stood is 
really the right way, whilst many plant a 
tree as they would a post. Roots are of two 
kinds—the young and tender rootlets, com¬ 
posed entirely of cells, the feeders of the 
of the trees, always found near the surface 
getting air and moisture; and roots of over 
one year old, which serve only as supporters 
of the tree and conductors of its food. Hence 
the injury that ensues when the delicate 
rootlets are so deeply buried in the earth, 
Placing fresh or green manure in contact 
with the young roots is another great error. 
The place to put manure is on the surface, 
where the elements disintegrate, dissolve 
and carry it downward. Numerous forms 
of fungi are generated and reproduced by 
the application of such manures directly to 
the roots, and they immediately attack the 
tree. It is very well to enrich the soil at 
transplanting the tree, but the manure, if 
to be in contact with or very near the roots, 
should be thoroughly decomposed. -Plough¬ 
man. 
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THE ©EVlIi. 
Men don’t believe in a devil now, as their fathers 
used to do; 
They’ve forced the door of the broadest creed to let 
His Majesty through. 
There isn’t a print of his cloven foot or a fiery dart 
from his bow 
To be found on earth or air to-day for the world has 
voted so. 
But who was it mixing the fatal draught that palsies 
heart and brain, 
And loads the bier of each passing year with ten 
hundred thousand slain ? 
Who blights the bloom of the land to-day with the 
fiery breath of hell, 
If the devil isn’t and never was? Won’t somebody 
rise and tell? 
Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint and digs the 
pit for his feet? 
Who sows the tares in the field of time wherever 
God sows his wheat? 
The Devil is voted not to be, and, of course, the thing 
is true; 
But who is doing the kind of work the Devil alone 
should do? 
Y\ t e are told he doesn’t go about as a roaring lion 
now; 
But whom shall we hold responsible for the everlast¬ 
ing row 
To be heard in church, in home, and state, to earth’s 
remotest bound, 
If the Devil by a unanimous vote is nowhere to be 
found? 
Won’t somebody step to the front forthwith, and 
make their bow, and show 
How the frauds and crimes of a single day spring up ? 
We want to know. 
The Devil was fairly voted out, and, of course, the 
Devil’s gone; 
But simple people would like to know who carries 
his business on? —Alfred J. Hough. 
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