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MODERN chicken coops.
The Onoe nmUtorUth. H.t.Gltm Way
to Win* Netting*
Men whose memories go bock, say,
40 years will remember that in those
days when a man wanted to build a
chicken ooop he bought a bundle or two
of laths and built it There are mighty
few lath chicken coops built nowadays,
gven the smallest chicken raiser, who
keeps in his back yard, makes his
coop or runway of poultry netting. The
chicken house, or shelter, is made of
boards, often of two thicknesses and
with tarred paper between, for better
protection from the weather, and with
openings at the bottom and under the
projecting roof lor ventilation.
Laths ware cheap; poultry netting is
still cheaper. It is made of steel wire,
galvanized, in various widths and in
varirns sizes of mesh. The netting moat
commonly used is six feet wide, with a
two inch mesh. The chicken raiser sets
up a frame and tacks the netting to it
Narrow nettings of smaller mesh are
used in various ways to keep in little
~ chicks —sometimes a foot wide small
mesh netting to run around at the base
of the inolosure, the regular netting
being set above it, thus increasing the
total height of the netting. Sometimes
the small mesh netting is run around
inside of the regular netting, thus mak
ing die lower part of the netting double.
Sometimes it is used to make separate
small inclosures within the large run
way and perhaps to make a number of
small inclosures to keep separate broods
of ehicks apart. The narrow, small
mesh netting is made up to three and a
half feet in width.
There is nowadays a use for wire net
ting in chicken houses. A netting with
a square mesh is laid on the jioor of
chicken houses to keep out rats and
mice. , ,
There are now many largo establish
ments in this country for the raising of
chickens for commercial purposes, for
market and for breeding, and there arc
as many men as ever who raise chickent
at home, from the many who keep a
few in the back yard, with a simple
chicken house and ooop, to men whd
raise many chickens and maintain an
elaborate .plant for their breeding and
keeping. But under whatever conditions
they are raised, chickens are rarely seen
nowadays in coops made of laths, such,
as were familiar 40 years ago.—New
AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.
Somber and Terrible Was the Scene at
the Moment of Totality.
Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, writing in
The Atlantic of an eclipse seen in Ja
pan, says: “Just before totality, to oc
cur at 2 minutes after 8 o’clock, I went
over to the little lighthouse, taking
up my appointed station on the sum
mit, an ideal vantage ground for a spec
tacle beyond anything else I ever wit
nessed. Grayer and grayer grew ths
day, narrower and narrower the cres
cent of shining sunlight The sea faded
to leaden nothingness. Armies of crows,
which had pretended entire indiffer
ence, fighting and flapping as usual on
gables and flagpoles with unabated fer
_ vor, finally succumbed, and flew oft
with heavy haste to the pine forest on
the mountain side. The French man-of
war disappeared in the gloom, the
junks Headed in colorlessness, but
grass and verdure suddenly turned
strangely, vividly yellow green.
“It was a moment of appalling sus
pense. Something was being waited for.
The very air was portentous. The flocks
of circling sea gulls disappeared with
strange cries. One white butterfly flut
tered by vaguely.
“Then an instantaneous darkness
leaped upon the world. Unearthly night
enveloped all things.- With an inde
scribable outflashing at the same sec
ond, the corona burst forth in wonder
ful radiance. But dimly seen through
thinly drifting cloud, it was neverthe
less beautiful, a celestial flame beyond
description. Simultaneously the whole
northwestern sky was instantly flooded
with a lurid and startlingly brilliant
orange, across which floated clouds
slightly darker, like flecks of liquid
flame, while the .west and southwest
gleamed in shining lemon yeUow. It
was not like a sunset; it waatoo som
ber and terrible. ”
Sane Advice to Young Artists.
“Don’t give in” was about the gist
of what Sir Wyke Bayliss said to the
English art students in a lecture at the
South Kensington museum. He told
them what ought to be their watchword:
“Do not believe, he said, in the in
sidious lie that the devil is always
whispering to the soul of the artist
that the golden age of art is past and
that what was done yesterday cannot be
done today, for art is in its decadence.
Such an assertion was the danger of the
time, and he would have them track it
to its source and kill it there. It had
two forms—despondency and tempta
tion—bnt he urged them not to be in
fluenced by either. Let their study be
based upon knowledge, the knowledge
that had accumulated during the ages
and was formulated ip what was known
as academic trailing, and let their
knowledge in turn be based upon their
own study. ” i. >
Certainly that is the best of advice,
for what has been done before can be
done again.
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No Need to Cry.
“Don’t cry, Buster, ” said Jimmieboy
after the catastrophe. “Napoleon didn’t
cry every time his brother hit him acci
dentally on the eye. ”
“I know that, “retorted Buster. “Na
poleon did all the hittin on the eye his
*lt ’ ’—Harper’s Bazar.
Rare Felicity.
lovely bargains as there
are at that new place!
He—AM ■
She—Yea, silks at 18 cents, and in a
■tore so small that a hundred persons
crewd it to suffocation!—Detroit Jour
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A DUEL IN THE SNOW.
, The Incident Upon Which Wn Fosadt-l
Gerome’s Beautiful Picture.
Every one has seen the engraving of
> Gerome’s beautiful but sadly effective
i picture, “A Duel In the Snow.”
> Through the mist of early morning one
r antagonist is lying on his back on the
sward, while his adversary, leaning
t on a friend’s arm, is slowly walking
i away from the scene of the encounter.
> Both are Wearing the masquerading oos
’ tume of a Pierrot. In a thicket a car
[ riage waits to drive off with the suo
• cessful opponent.
i .. There is every reason to believe, from
> recently disclosed information by M.
Alfred Darimon, that in portraying on
! canvas that impressive episode the
artist was not influenced by solely im
j aginative caprice, but that he has repro
) duced a scene in real life.
i The facts are as follows: The duelists
I were M. Jules Brame, a former minis
ter of public instruction under the sec-
i ond empire, and M. D. D., a well
, known journalist on the staff of one of
I the most influential newspapers in the
i north of France. When the duel occur
j red, both were studying for the bar.
j One Shrove Tuesday they, in company
I with friends, had repaired to a restau-
I rant on the Boulevard with a view of
. enjoying a good dinner aqd afterward
of going to the masquerade ball at the
i Opera. They alt ‘agreed to go as Pler
, rots. As they all wore masks some one
[ suggested that they should adopt some
i distinctive sign by which they could
I recognize one another in the crowd, D.
, D. suggested that they should pin a la
bel bearing a number to their backs.
, The idea was unanimously adopted, and
i D. D. prepared the labels accordingly.
[ While so doing a. diabolical idea dime
I into his head. It was carnival time.
Why should he not have his little joke!
. When it was Jqles frame’s turn to
[ .have a ticket pinned to his back, his
. friend D. D. had written in large letters
i beneath the number, “I am Jules
I Brame.” One can easily imagine what
i was the result. No sooner had Brame
I set foot in the main passage to the pre-
I miere galerie than he was followed by a
i lady wearing a mask, who, on his pre-
I paring to enter a private box, cried out,
i “I wish you success, Jules Brame.”
I Later on, on re-entering the passage, he
i was surrounded by a group of masquer
ader?, who with one voice shouted out,
“Good day, my dear Brame.” That
proved to him that he was known to
ever one, although he was puzzled to
understand how it could be.
Passing in front of a bets Opener, the
girl burst out laughing. He inquired
angrily what she was laughing at.
“Why,” she replied, “I am laughing
at the funny idea which led you to pin
a label on your . back with your name
on it. ” And, suiting the action to the
word, she unpinned the label and hand
ed it to him.
Jules Brame considered the joke not
only in bad taste, but insulting. He
sought out his comrade, and, finding
him in the saloon, he reproached him
angrily in the hearing of the crowd, in
sisting that he should apologize openly
then and there. D. D.’, resenting his
friend’s attitude toward him, declined
to apologize. A duel therefore, in ac
cordance with French habits and cus
toms, was inevitable. Seconds were at
once chosen. Short swords were pro
cured, and in their Pierrot costumes the
antagonists started for the Bois de
Boulogne. Fortunately the duel did not
end fatally, as seems to be the case in
Gerome’s picture, for, although Brame
ran his sword right through D. D.’s
body, no vital organ was touched. He
recovered very quickly, and the two an
tagonists became fast friends again.—
Westminster Gazette.
NECESSITIES COSTLY.
In Paris Water Is the Moat Precious and
Kxelusive Drink.
“Water is the most precious and ex
clusive drink you can order in Paris, ’ ’
writes Lilian Bell in a letter from the
French capital to The Ladies* Home
Journal. “Imagine that, you who let
the water run to cool it 1 In Paris they
actually pay for water in their houses
by the quart. Artichokes and truffles
and mushrooms and silk stockings and
kid gloves are so cheap here that it
makes you blink your eyes, but eggs
. and cream and milk are luxuries. Silks
and velvets are bewilderingly inexpen
sive, but cotton stuffs axe from America
and are extravagances. They make them
up into ‘costumes’ and trim them with
velvet ribbon. Never by any chance
could you be supposed to send cotton
frocks to be washed every week. The
luxury of fresh, starched muslin dresses
and plenty of shirt waists is unknown.
“I never shall overcome the ecstasies
of laughter Which assail me when I see
varieties of coal exhibited in tiny shop
windows, set forth in high glass dishes,
as we exploit chocolates at home. But
well they may respect it, for it is really
very much cheaper to freeze to death
than io buy coal in Paris. The reason
of all this is the city tax on every chicx ;
en, every carrot, every egg brought Into
Paris. Every mouthful of food is taxed.
This produces an enormous revenue, and
thia is why the streets are so clean. It
is why the asphalt is aa smooth as a
ballroom floor. IS is why the whole of
Paris is as beautiful as a dream.”
Too Mach Like » Pun.
“No, sir,” said the Kansas editor,
“your services are no longer required. ”
“May I venture to ask why I’m dis
charged?”
“You’re too blamed funny. That
style may do in the blase and heartless
east, but when yon refer to a death in a
*a tesrlble blow’ to the fam
ily you overdo it out here.”—Detroit
News.
It is estimated that the United King
dom produces something like 1,500,000,-
000 gallons of milk every year over and
above what is used on the farms for
rearing calves, etc.
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London has an army cf 100,000 pick-.
pockets. "
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BETRAYED BY FLAPJACKS.
A Waiter Who o<u> Tell a Man’* Oeen
patten by the Way He Kata.
There is a waiter in a Dearborn street
restaurant who has discovered the sci
ence of reading a man’s occupation by
his manner of eating. He can look into
the calm eye of a customer engaged in
disarticulating a “ham and” and de
termine with wonderful accuracy
whether the man is a scissors grinder or
a State street merchant.
Os course one must be a close observer
to do all this, and it isn’t everybody i
that is afforded a lunch counter for a
field of study. Yet if the student will
avail himself of opportunities while
seated at the mahogany board he will
find that when the business man is at
the table some habit acquired in the
daily pursuance of his profession will
be sure to show itself.
For an instance, the banker may come
in and order wheat cakes. If he does,
the waiter declares he will Invariably
dip his fingers in the water and ran
over the cakes to see if there is a mis
count.
The gambler will look around to see
if any one is watching and then palm a
slice of bread. If he orders flapjacks, he
is sure to slip them one by one from the
bottom as he eats them. The clothing
salesman will hold his flapjacks up to
the light and feel the texture, while the
keen observer will notice that the jew
eler, upon ordering pie, will hold it to
his ear, shake it and then listen, after
which he will lift off the top crust with
the point of his knife and examine the
insides.
During an interivew the other day
the waiter stated that he called bis new
science “eatistry. ”
.“I have not mastered, my science
yet,” said he, “and seldom a day passes
but that I learn some hew point. Ob,
it’s a great study, and I think in time
it win take ita place along with palm
istry and phrenology and other kindred
sciences.
“Have you ever made a mistake in
judging a man’s occupation?”
“Ohly once, and that could hardly be
called a mistake, for I made no decision
as to the man’s business. I confess I
was stumped. The fellow came in and
ordered his dinner. Os course I gave
him a glass of water. He looked at it
With some surprise and said, ‘I didn’t
order that.’
“ ‘lt costs you nothing,’ says I, ‘and
you don’t need to drink it unless you
want to. ’
“He thanked me, and what de you
think—&e broke his bread into it and
then ate it with a spoon. I didn’t know
what to make of it, and for the life of
me I couldn’t determine what his busi
ness was. When he was leaving, I tap
ped him on the shoulder and asked him
outright What he did for a living.
“ ‘Why,’ says he, ‘l’m a milkman.’ ”
—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
AN OLD GOVERNMENT DIE.
Used by • Lawyer as a Paperweight For
Year*.
In the course of a lecture at the Ap
prentices’ library A. E. Outerbridge,
Jr., related an interesting incident that
serves to show how much more careful
Uncle Bam is in the destruction of old
dies for coins than he used to be. “Some
time ago,” said Mr. Outerbridge, “I
was visiting the office of a friend who is
a lawyer, when I noticed upon bis desk
a little metal object, cohered with three
or four coats of red paint, which was
apparently in use as a paperweight. It
• was a government die for a silver dollar
of 1809, and for my friend to have it in
his possession was a penal offense. He
did not know what it was until I told
him, and he informed me that it had
been around the office a» a paperweight
as long as he could remember—4o years
at least. I gave him a silver weight in
its place and informed the authorities
at Washington of the circumstance, also
forwarding my friend’s affidavit as to
what he knew about it.
“At that time, though all dies were
supposed to be destroyed when discard
ed, the system was rather lax, and they
sometimes found their way into the pos
session of junk dealers. l agreed to turn
over the die upon condition that it
should not be destroyed, but kept iu the
numismatic collection at the Philadel
phia mint, and that I might borrow it
at a futurt time to illustrate a lecture.
The conditions were agreed to, and I
have brought the die with me tonight
to show to you. I bad to write' a very
formal letter to get it, stating the pur
pose for which it was to be used, and it
must be returned tomorrow morning. ”
—Philadelphia Record.
Meltln* Metal*.
A note concerning the peculiar phe
nomenon noticed in the melting of met
als when under extended pressure has
recently been published by H. Bischof
of Wiesbaden. When a metal is bedded
in a mortar of chemically pure alumin
ium oxide, thoroughly dried and then
subjected to the necessary heat, a con
siderable retardation in melting is no
ticed. For instance, a- rod of silver,
which should melt at 1,880 degrees F.,
when thus treated will not change its
> form and melt together until 5,730 de
grees F. Palladium, which should melt
1 at 2,780 degrees F., shows no sign of
yielding at 2,900 degrees F- It would
seem that these rods of metal, unable to
expand while in the powerful grip of
the aluminium oxide, which contracts
on heating, simply cannot melt as they
would under normal conditions.
Boy Wanted.
1 Merchant (to applicant for position)
1 --Are you a good penman and a good
speller?
Applicant (who has recently graduat
ed from public schools with high hon
ors)—No, sir. I cannot spell well, nei
ther can I write legibly, but in physiol
ogy, astronomy, geology and zoology I
■ am an expert.
Merchant (testily to clerk in next
room) —John, send in some one with a
* jgraqtical education —Minneapolis I| ib-
STORY OF A WAR BONG
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The Maa Who Contpoaed the Mule to
"W* Are Comlac, Father Abraham ,**
jThe man who composed the mute
for Whittier’s song, “We Are Coming,
Father Abraham, Three Hundred Thou
sand Strong,” is an old and somewhat
decrepit piano tuner, who carries on bis
business near Windom, Minn. His
game 11 A. B. Irving.
One day soon after Lincoln’s call for
' 800,000 more men, Irving, then a young
man, was on his way to Defiance, 0.,
from Fort Wayne for the purpose of
singing at a political and loyal meeting.
He had considerable reputation as a
composer and singer and the Republic
ans bad asked him to come and help
them. On the way he read the poem,
which had just been published. Irving
studied it, formulated a tune, hummed
it and got the rhythm, and that even
ing at the Defiance meeting he sang
the song for the first time. When he
had finished, and the last echoes had
died away, men mounted their chairs
with wild enthusiasm, swung their
hats and broke loose in cheers that rang
with feeling. He sang it again and
and they would scarcely let him
The next night he sang the song at
Fort Wayne, and again aroused the
same enthusiasm. He wrote out the
music and sent it to the publisher who
had handled what he had oomposed,
with instructions to publish it on his
usual terms of royalty. It was publish
ed, and inside of a month more than
40,000 copies had been sold. In a few
days the publisher failed and Irving
never received a dollar for the music.—
New York Sun.
CLOSED THE ROOM.
Does the Ghost of Washinctea Btttl Stalk
. Through the Old Manstoaf
It was customary in the family of
George Washington to shut up unused
for two years a room in which death
had occurred, says an exchange* So,
after the death of the first president in
the stately chamber with the great four
poster bed which is still shown to visit
ors, Martha Washington, with her lone
ly heart, nightly climbed the attic stairs
to lie in a low ceiled, sloping roofed
room with one. window—a room intol
erably hot in summer, with little or no
means of securing a draft except by •
triangular opening where the lower cor
ner of the door had been cutoff to make
room for the passage of the cat Martha
Washington died before the two yeuc
period had ended.
If she had occupied the death cham
' her, would she have seen the ghost of
her dead husband? They say that the
stalwart, stately figure of the brave
general stalks through the passage with
martial tread and clank of astral sword
in spectral scabbard.
Again and again it has happened that
people detained at Mount Vernon <m the
business of the Mount Vernon associa
tion have declared, on “waking from a
sleepless night,” that they had beard
tiie ghost’s sword and stride and seen
its tall, commanding figure, dressed in
the old uniform that in life it wore.
No lights are permitted in the old
house, for fear of fire, except during the
meeting of the regents, and then only
candles. Ghosts are said to love dark
or ill lighted houses.
Most Wonderful Cave la the World.
The most wonderful cave in the
world is in the island of Tonga, in the
south Pacific. Byron called it “a chapel
of the seas. ” It is formed in a rock that
is almost surrounded by the ocean. This
rock is about 60 feet high and broad
proportionately.
Many years ago a boy, the son of a
native chief, was chasing a huge turtle,
when, his game seemed to sink into the
rock. The lad watched and waited until
the tide fell, disclosing a small bpenifig
in the rock about six feet under low
water marie.
Diving boldly, the young hunter en
tered the aperture, and, to his surprise,
came to the surface inside the rock. The
sock was hollow, and its interior yvte
found afterward, when the natives ex
plored it with torches, to contain many
beautiful stalactites. _ .
When attacked and followed by ene
mies, the natives, who know the secret,
leave their canoes, plunge into the water
and disappear. Their foes linger, aston
ished at their disappearance, for no per
son not acquainted with-it would sus
pect that the rock was hollow.—London
Telegraph.
Costly Flavin* Cards.
A pack of cards was recently sold at
a London stationer’s for S6OO. It was
one of the handsomest Italian copper
plate card games called “tarocchi di
Mantegna, ” made during the fifteenth
century. Another pack of cards recently
sold at Paris for almost S4OO. Each of
the cards in this pack is a master work
of the engraver’s art, and all the fig
ures in the game were historical por
traits. The queen of hearts, for instance,
represented Queen Anne of England,
the king of hearts being her husband,
Prince George of Denmark. The queen
of diamonds was Queen Anne Sophia of
Denmark, the queenjof clubs the then
crown princess of Prussia, the wife of
Frederick William L and the queen of
spades Princess Anna of Russia, later
on the czarina. The jacksTn this deck
of cards represent the most prominent
diplomats of Europe at the sama time.
—Philadelphia. Record.
MeiUM*** Advlea.
Somebody once wrote to the late
Henri Meilhac to ask his advice as to
how to become a dramatic author. ‘'lt
is a difficult career, and the trade is not
easy,” wrote back Meilhac. “Above
all, it needs success. Yes, success is
the thing if you want to have talent” j
It is claimed in behalf of the Bermu
das that the comptexions of the natives
are the finest in the world. This seems
to be a clever advertisement of the Ber
muda onion, of which 17,000,000
pounds are exported annually.
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AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ C ▲STORLA, 0 AN”
“FITOHZB’S CASTOBLA,” AS OUR TRADE MARX.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, MassaehusetU,
908 the originator of “PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne anil does now on
bear the facsimile signature of loragper.
This is the original M PITCHERS CASTORIA,'* which has been
used in the homes qf the Mothers of America for over thirty
years, LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought on the
and has the signature of wrap-
per, Ho one has authority from me to use name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. K Fletcher is
A < Do Not Be. Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo“
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF
Insist on Having
1 The Kind That Never Failed lon.
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