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Put plenty of salt where the beetles fre quent, and keep it there for a week. Do not leave any water where the in gects go. When they eat the salt it will dry up their bodies. To prevent milk from boiling ovef place an ordinary pie-chimney in the center of the pan of milk. When it commences to boil it will boil up through the little chimney and not over the side of the saucepan. The popular cabbage is useful for drawing and cleansing a gathered fin fé{ or poisoned hand. Take a cabbage f, roll it out with a bottle until the juice comes, and tie it on the affected part. New potatoes should be placed in boll fng water to which salt and a little milk have been added. The milk prevents them from turning black. ' If anything on which paraffin has been #pilled—hands included—is rubbed with raw potato the smell will immediately disappear. A very easy and quick way to skin sausages is to Immerse them for a sec ond or two in cold water. Common bracken fern laid down in places frequented by cockroaches will drive them away. e ; Those Swburban Homes. , Audrey’s mother had just taken a house in the Garden Suburb, and Au drey was vastly pleased with her ‘‘arty” bedroom. il She was at that moment deep in ‘thought over the knotty problem where to hang a photograph of her own dear ‘Cecil—Cecil, of the white spats, who ‘'was going to be a vaudeville artist one day. Yes; there was the place—between Browning and Richard Harding Davis. ‘Seizing a mighty hammer and a big pail she proceeded to hammer with & big nail she proceeded to hammer with much care and energy. After a while there was a knock at the front door, and the next door neigh bor asked if he might be allowed to see the person working in the top room. Audrey came down. “I'm so sorrv if I am disturbing you,” said she. *‘l know it's rather late, but ] must get the picture hung to-night!” “Oh, you're net-disturbing me!”" an swered the visitor, “I only called to ask if 1 might hang a bookshelf on the other end of the naiil”’ ’ THE GEORGIAN'S NEKEWS BRIEFS With Credit Only. “Did youv occupy your last pulpit with credit?” inquired the church trustees. “I certainly did,” responded the ap plicant; ‘“there was never amy cash cont ected with it” Right. “There is a machine that can be graduated to measure the millionti part of an inch.” “] know,” said the railway passen ger. “They use 'em in the refresh ment rooms on this line when making ham sandwiches.” i Mrs. Smith’s Luck. “Mrs. Smith invariably has abom inable weather for her afternoon teas, hasn’'t she?” said a woman to a man guest, “Yes,” said the man as he reached for his hat and stick, “she never pours but it rains.” , | What He Meant. | Olive and Gerald, while out walk ine met a vicious bulldog, and Ger ‘ald’s conduct in the next few moments ‘left much to be desired. When th-y ‘had safely passed, Olive turned to Gerald and said, reproachfully: “Why, Gerald! And you said you would face death for me.” “l know I did,” answered Gerald, “and I meant it. But that bullduog wasn't dead.” Overdoing It. Messrs. Doolan and Rafferty were examining a fine public building with much interest, “Doolan,” said Raflerty, pointing to an inscription cut in a huge stone, “phwat does thim litters, MDCOCXCVIL’ mane?” “Thot,” replied Mr. Doolan, “manes eighteen hoonderd an’ noinety-sivin.” “Doolan,” said Rafferty after a thoughtful pause, “don’'t yez t'ink they're overdoin’ this sphellin’ reform a bit?” A Tie. The argument grew more heated, and the rival captains persisted in wrangling, heedless of the referee’'s presence and authority. “You're a . fool!” yelled the cap tain of the Wasteground Wanderers. “And you're a liar!” roared the captain of the Sandrut Nomads. The referee saw his chance, and geized it. “Now that the captains have identified each other,” said he, “we will proceed with the game.” | 1 Business Is Business. } The Rev, Dr. Aked has always been known to be very outspoken, and has ‘often been in trouble through ex lpressing his opinions. Not very long ‘ago he shocked many people by de claring that here was such a thing as too much zeal in religious mat iters. | “Neither with the heathen nor with our own people,” he said, “does it do ‘to advocate religion on mercenary grounds. For instance, 1 know a man ‘ufacturer who last Easter told all his Ihands that he would pay them if they ‘went to church. The hands all agreed, and a fine show they made. The man {ul’acturer, gcanning their ranks from ‘hiu pew, swelled with joy and pride. But after the service one of the fore ‘men approached him. ‘Excuse me, gir,” he said, ‘but the fellows want me to ask you if they come to chur:ch again to-night do théy get over time? ™ . y e The Mysteries of Science By GARRETT P. SERVISS ' &' AN and the globe he lives 1 on seem both tg be going the same way, toward a similar end. In the course of time the face of the earth will become a vast sand heap. Already immense re gions ‘in Northern Africa and Central Asia, where vegetation once flourished and States and cities arose, have been turned into desiccated expanses of roli ing, wind-driven sand. Unless tremendous geological upheavals should reshape the surface of the planet, its atmospheric agencies will eventually disintegrate the rocks, wear away the mountains, léevel] down the continents and fill up the sea basins, while at the game - time the oceans will dis appear and little but subterra nean water will remain. b ¢ That is the most logical expla nation of what has overtaken the planet Mars. The moon, too, although the wrecks of its gigantic mountains yet remain, appears to have suf fered a similar fate. ~ Everywhere photography reveals underneath its vast plains the submerged out lines, like half-disinterred skel etons, of its former topographi cal features. If a great tempest should strike the moon, its face would disappear, swallowed up in clouds of blowing sand. A world lives as long as it pos sesses sufficient variety, and dies when uniformity stifles it under the blanket of monotoncus same ness. Sand is the very type of unifor mity and monotony. This mental impression which sand makes is emphasized by some recent ex periments of Dr. Vaughan Cor nish. In sifting desert sand he found that no less than 94 per cent of all it grains are retained by a sieve of 1-48-inch mesh, while only 2 per cent are caught by a 1-24-inch mesh, and not more than 4 per cent are small enough to pass through a 1-96- inch mesh. The explanation lies in the long and constant rubbing together of the grains, which reduces all to one pattern, and has no mercy for individuality. The moral world presents a striking similitude. For centuries mankind. has been slowly tending toward uniformi ty. Conquests, trade and me chanical invention are the winds and waves which gradually tritu rate humanity and reduce it all to a single measure. In our time this tendency has been enormous ly accelerated by the advance of science. Now all the civilized world dresses alike, eats allke, lives alike, looks alike and thinks alike. It is becoming a vast heap of human sand. Some persons think that thls is the manifest destiny of man, and rejoice over it, and make a gospel of it. It is intererting to look a lit tle more closely into the effects of upiformity as revealed by sand. In doing so we may, perhaps, get a more vivid impression of what the gzospel of anti-individualism means. From time immemorial there has been a myster'ous natural phenomenon, manifested in all parts of the world, which has ex cited either abject superstition or puzzled wonder, according to the mental makeup of various ob gervers. It is a phenomenon of sound.. Along the seashore it is called, sometimes the “Barisal guns,” sometimes ‘“‘mistpoeffers,” sometimes “brontidi,” according to the varying languages of the people on whose corasts its boom ing is heard. In Egypt and other sandy regions it is called “sing ing,” or “vocal sands.” This last term betrays the ex planation of the mystery that science has discovered. All these strange sounds, even when they appear to be altogether subterra nean, as in the case of the “Moo dus noises” in Connecticut, are believed to be due to vibrating sand, and they could not exist if the sand were not composed of grains of uniform size and shape. It is the voice of a crowd, which is powerful only because it is multitudinous. One of the clearest accounts of this phenomenon with which | am acquainted comes from a recent tourist of rational mental habits who observed it in Egypt. While descending a slope of sand drift ed against a cliff in the Nile Val ley, his feet started a little rill of sand flowing downward. Pres ently a weird sound thrilled through the air. Quickly it be came magnified, although the quantity of flowing sand was not greatly augmented, until it swelled into a veritable roar that that seemed to issue from the ground. Then a close inspection showed that the entire mass of sand resting upon the slope was vibrating in unison. The puny voice of each particie would have been totally inaudible, but mil lione of such voices, all united and accordant, shook the air as with the bellowing of some im prisoned monster under the earth, This implied, as Professor A, Mallock has remarked in com menting on the story, that each grain of sand was “doing the same thing, at the same time, to a considerable depth,” which could not have happened if they had not all been of very nearly the same magnitude. The same explanation, it is be lieved, applies to the mysterious noises that many travelers have wondered at in the neighborhood of Mount Sina!, and which, for some, have greatly increased the guperstitious awe with which that celebrited mountain is regarded, 7