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A darning needle was removed from
ttie ankle of an Ohio girl. She ought
to have taken them ofT before using
the needle, contends the Atlanta
Georgian.
In spite of the limitation caused by
toy absence of pedestrians on the
water, notes the New York Sun, the
power boat speeders are trying to
live up to the record of the motor
car scorchers.
It's the idea of E. E. Hall of Spo
kane, Wash., that the man who drinks
liquor (and not the man who sells it)
should be required by law to take out
a license. He would make the yearly
drinking license fee $1 to $3 for the
city and $5 for. the county, and make
it a misdemeanor for any saloon keep
er to sell liquor to an unlicensed cus
tomer. He would have a phootgraph of
the holder attached to every license,
The wage-earners, of whom we hear
so much, are mainly concerned in the
secondary processes of manufacture.
They really produce nothing, urges the
Christian Register. They transform
raw materials into manufactured arti
cles. But their work and their wages
would vanish if there were not mil
lions of people engaged in the cultiva
tion of the soil. Out of the soil comes
everything that we eat and wear and
everything which is wrought into the
habitations of the people and the com
modities with which commerce deals.
The English Law Journal referring
to the dinner to Mr. Asquith, K. C.,
says: Only once before has the bar
played the part of host to one of its
own members. M. Berryer and Mr.
Choate, two distinguished advocates
belonging to other countries, have
been entertained by the bar; Sir John
Hollams, the doyen of the other
branch of the profession, has been
feted in the hall of one of the inns;
Lord Bramwell received a similar trib
ute from the bar when he retired from
the bench; but Mr. Benjamin is, so far
the only member of the bar itself
who has been so honored.
The United States cannot be ex
pected to remain in Cuba indefinitely,
protests the New York Tribune. If it
is under an obligation to organize Cu
ba for good self-government . Cuba
is under at least as strong an obliga
tion to facilitate and expedite that or
ganization as much as possible. We
are inclined to think that the ordering
of these elections is the best possible
way of moving Cuba to fulfil that ob
ligation. There have been those in
that island who have desired Ameri
can occupation to endure as long as
possible, and who, therefore, have ac
tually discouraged and delayed prep
arations for renewed autonomy. It is
well that they, should be reminded
that such tactics will not permanently
work. The proverbial postponement
until “manana” cannot be indefinitely
repeated in dealing with the United
States.
The medicine of the future for the
more serious diseases may be given
through the veins rather than by the
mouth, and would consist not of
drugs, but of fluids obtained as a by
product of the disease itself, or from
animals that are naturally or artifi
cially proof against the disease, pro
phesies the American Cultivator. Very
interesting results are already being
obtained with animals and birds, but
doctors are wisely cautious in ex
tending the system to treatment of
human patients. There is fair promise
of control of such destructive diseases
as hog cholera, tuberculosis and glan
ders. With human beings the method
has long been successful with diph
theria. rabies, small pox. and perhaps
with some other maladies. Less con
fidence is placed in drugs, and more in
general health measures, with a resort
to inoculation for an increasing mtm.
ber of the most dangerous disease*.
The Anarchists of the
Caucasus Oil-Fields
By H. tV. J\fevinson.
SI is not only the unending feud that divides Tartars and
Armenians into hostile armies which devastate the oil
fields from time to time, and are constantly preparing each
other's destruction—with batteries of quick-firing guns, as
they boast. Besides this central feud, there are numerous
fighting groups organized among the workmen and the un
employed. Asa rule, they take some political title, such as
“Social Democrats,” or “Anarchist Communists,” in the
hope of securing popular favor, and in some cases their
origin may have been political and their aims may still be revolutionary.
But their methods are so simple and so lucrative that perhaps it would be
a mistake to attribute the zeal of all their members entirely to enthusiasm
(or social reform. The manager of an oil-field receives a letter briefly ad
dressing him as “Parasite!” It bears the stamp of a group, and it demands
a definite sum of money on pain of death. At an hour mentioned, the agents
of the group call, and the manager almost invariably pays, entering the sum
in his ledger pnder the heading “office expenses.” If he refuses to pay, he
is quite sure to be shot, stabbed, or disembowelled within a day or two. If
he attempts to betray the agents, all his family share his fate.
This pursuit of wealth on a basis of murder is conducted with such
businesslike accuracy that the manager in due course receives a stamped
balance-sheet showing the expenditure of his contribution. The items en
tered in the cash account are generally the purchase of arms and an assas
sination, übt no vouchers are possible in such cases, and it is generally sup
posed that champagne and ather carnal delights ought to figure in the outlay.
I am not sure whether such charges as to the misappropriation of involuntary
contributions are true or not, but where money is so easily obtained the temp
tation must be considerable. In self-protection most of the richer managers
and owners have mustered gangs of hired assassins, each of whom is pledged
to murder at least one person named, if anything happens to his employer.
Some go further, and publish in the morning papers the names and addresses
of those who will be immediately slain if they are murdered themselves, and
such advertisements give a new and varied Interest to the local “agony col
umn.” —Harper’s Magazine.
Place for Business Cares
By H. J. Hapgood
<*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦# ON’T carry your office in your hat, and if you do, take your
J hat off in the house. The man who brings his business
♦ liffi £ home with him is apt to find himself the inescapable victim
£ I B £ of the demon called Worry. He will worry and fret through
♦ ♦ his meals, and is liable to suffer from the disagreeable habit
>»»»»»»#♦» of lying awake at night. His wife and children —if there be
♦ * any children in the world unfortunate enough to have snch
a father —will find him more and more of a bore every day.
If a man carries his business in his hat when he goes
to the club his friends will soon steer clear of him. He will find himeslf
lunching alone, with no companions other than his papers and memoranda.
To say the least, such companions by no means aid digestion. Business is
a poor partner for a man’s leisure hours.
You will see this workaday-all-the-time-man in the theatre scratching busi
ness memoranda on the back of his program, or figuring up his bad accounts
on the table-cloth in a public restaurant. He will be dragged off to the
country by his family, who fully determine he shall have two weeks’ vacation.
He no more than gets off the train than he seeks a long distance telephone
station and calls up the office. He spends the evening writing letters to his
employes, and telling them a thousand and one things to do which they
would have brains enough to do anyway. The next day he sends a couple of
telegrams, and calls up the office again. The third day, afraid that the busi
ness by this time has gone to smash, he takes the first train to the city.
There is no rest for such a man. Just so long as he carries his office
in his hat he will keep his hat on all the time, and the cares of his business
press heavily on his mind. Some one ought to search him body and soul
when he leaves his office every night, and snatch from him every detail of
business worry.
The Minister
* and
The Banker
By the Rev. William E. Barton, of the Oak Park
{III.) Congregational Church *~*^^*«
UDGED by commercial standards, these two men have little
♦ *♦♦♦<>♦♦♦«• enough in common. They appear in different columns, if at
V w + all, in the lists of Dun and Bradstreet. And it would be idle
♦ | X to (leny tliat the contrast goes further. Yet each is, in a
% ,1 ♦ way, a priest. For has not every, one noticed that solem
£ ♦ nity, that sense of awe and mystery, with which men enter
<>*«o**>**6* a bank? It is as if they said: "We are standing in the
***«♦♦««««« outer court of the temple of the great god, money. Behind
this curtain of iron bars and plate glass and mahogany are
those who receive our offeiings, and lay them on his altar, and who deign to
intercede with him for measured blessing in answer to our prayers and col
lateral.” Bankers and ministers have very much in common. They stand
apart from all other professions as representing public confidence. If a bank
fails it shakes public confidence more than if a dry-goods firm assigns, the
amount of liaiblities being equal. If a minister goes wrong it shakes public
confidence as the fall of a lawyer or doctor does not. In the world of com
merce the banker represents what the minister stands for in the realm of
ethics. Each is the exponent of an ideal, and each either exalts or degrades
that ideal. The banker who has held other'men to strict account in the mat
ter of their financial obligations, the minister who proclaims honesty and
virtue and spirituality, have need to tremble lest, having preached to others,
they themselves should become castaways.
Just Filler.
“What did you mean by this poem?”
inquired a delegation of admirers.
"I didn’t mean anything,” answered
the great poet, frankly. "I wrote that
poem for a monthly magazine. I did
not expect it to be published in a
book collection.” —Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Government experts are investi
gating seaweed with the object of de
termining its economic value.
Everything Else.
Yeast —Have you ever seen the sun
come up at sea?
Crimsonbeak—No; but I guess I've
seen everything else come up!
Yonkers Statesman.
Since its establishment the Depart
ment of Agriculture has cost the
United States more than $200,000,000.
It has given employment at different
times to 58,000 experts and profess
ors, and issued 17,675 publications.
Southern Agricuitural Topics.
Modern Method* That Are Helpful to
Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman.
A Scheme For Testing Seeds.
For the ordinary planter the well
known “dinner plate” tester, made
with two soup or dinner plates and
one or more moist strips of sterilized
cotton goods, preferably cotton flan
nel, will be found to answer all pur
poses. The cotton strips are steri
lized in boiling water to destroy
spores of molds and other fungi pres
ent, folded twice upon themselves
and placed in one of the plates. The
seeds are now laid between the folds
For testing several varieties a/once,
of cloth so as not to touch each other,
and the second plate is inverted over
the first, this forming a moist, aerat
ed and more or less sterile chamber.
The cotton strips must be kept well
moistened, but not saturated, prefer
ably with water that has been steri
lized by boiling, and allowed to cool
before using. Two or three lots of
seeds may be tested in the generator
at one tin;e, but each should be con
tinued in a separate cotton strip and
numbered to avoid error.
When, however, it is desirable to
make several germinating tests at one
time or when many varieties are to
be tested, instead of duplicating the
plate germinators already described
the writer found the following ger
minator, suggested by Dr. Volney
Spaulding, formerly of the Univer
sity of Michigan, to be superior: A
deep granite bread pan six or eight
inches wide was obtained in which
was kept about one-fourth inch of
water. Cotton flannel strips of any
convenient length, tw'o or three yards,
and of the width of the pan, were
tucked crosswise at intervals of five
inches. Short galvanized wires
about an inch longer than the width
of the pan were inserted through
A.
Pan Germinator.
these tucks and gathered together,
thus forming the cotton strips into
numerous folds or loops which were
suspended in the pan above the water
by means of the supporting wires.
The ends of the strips being left
sufficiently long to touch the water
in the pan, the entire piece of cloth
composing the loops, in which the
seeds are placed, is kept uniformly
moist.
The cloth should be moistened be
fore beginning the experiment and,
it is needless to add, sterilized.
A definite number of seeds taken
as they come from an average sample
are counted out for each germination.
For seeds in rather small lots, as
garden seeds, fifty to a hundred will
answer, while for the cereals, grasses,
clover and others used in exten
sive cultural operations about 200
should be used and the tests dupli
cated when any doubt exists about
the results. The tests should be ex
amined from day to day and the
sprouted ones removed and counted,
the number being recorded on a
sheet of paper.
The length of time required for
germination is dependent upon sev
eral factors, chief of which are mois
ture, temperature, vitality and vari
etal differences, six to ten days being
sufficient for most kinds. When tests
are made during the winter or early
spring months, at which time it is
usually most convenient, the germi
nation should be conducted in a mod
erately warm room so that the tem
perature will not fall below fifty de
grees F. at night and remain between
seventy and eighty degrees F. dur
ing the day. Il> the case of alfalfa
and certain other of the clover fam
ily a small percentage of the seeds
will remain apparently sound at the
close of the germination test. Allow
ance is usuallly made for these, one
third being counted as viable— 1. e.,
capable of growth. Cauliflower, cab
bage, turnip and beet seeds of poor
stock—i. e., run out—are just as
viable as those of good stock. The
only means of remedying this defect
is to use selected home grown seeds
or to buy the best stock of reliable
seed houses. —J. J. Thornber, in New
York Witness.
To Keep Out of Brood.
Barring accident, or destruction by
force, nature intended every little
chicken hatched to live and grow.
There is no reason why we should as
sume that a certain per cent, of each
brood shall sicken and die. It would
not be so, if we knew nature's way,
and managed them altogether natur
ally. It is not so with the young of
the wild birds or the wild fowl; they
live in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred; and yet, they are more ex
posed to the elements than any brood
of young chickens. They are as na
fure placed them, and thence, with a
natural mother, and natural food,
they thrive.
And now, with these thoughts in
mind, and in looking back over the
past, and gathering together the data
—whether of success or failure, we
can see in such a review, that our
best luck, as" it is termed, or, our
greater success, has been attained
when w r e kept most in line with na
ture in the feeding and the care of
our young chickens. And, in this
vista of the past, we see standing out
like mile posts to our ignorant man
agement, the long series of broods,
and the hundreds and hundreds of
little down innocents that were sac
rificed to warm, soft, sloppy mixed
foods. We £an recall the dysentery
and the other forms of bowel trouble
that carried them off, until from a
brod of ten to fifteen, we would raise
only two or three.
This was killing chickens with
kindness, coupled with inexperience.
We cooked for them, and we made
hot mashes, and we succeeded in
making some of them sick, and the
disease spread and we lost them by
the tens and scores—and nature out
raged. And then we tried another
way, and it w r as a more natural way.
It was less troublesome and more
expeditious. We stopped feeding soft
mashes, and resorted to cracked
grain, small seeds, and coarse dry
meal, and we put this sort of food
where the chickens had to work to
get it out. Now, this is an old story
—this “scratching for a living"—it is
almost threadbare, you know, and yet
it is really the basis for keeping the
chicks healthy'—of keeping disease
out of the brood. For, the little
chick that has nothing but dry food
to eat, and has to scratch it out of
litter, or trash—the chick that has to
wander about and pry in here and
there for the stray insect or worm—
this is the chicken. The hen
that scratches with her chickens—
that dusts and wallows with them, is
the healthy hen, and the hen with the
healthy brood. That's the key to the
thought. We need to keep close to
nature in raising the chickens, to
have good success.
Practically, and to a definite plan
—put each hen in a small run, with
a coop to herself, so as to individual
ize her and her particular little fam
ily. Then feed her and her chicks
dry food only; small seeds, cracked
grain, oat meal, a little rye, corn
meal, and let them work it out of a
litter which has a sandy, grawelly
base. This is a natural combination,
and it will not be taken up at a gulp,
but the mixture will be worked out
gradually and in different parts at
different times. This will take the
greater part of the day and it will be
all the better for it. It will result, in
keen-eyed, alert, active and fast
growing chicks, and a healthy, active
mother. It will keep off disease, and
it will lead to a greater per cent, of
matured chickens per brood than any
other system. It’s a good plan to
have and to follow early in the season,
and it is equally practicable and
available for best results all summer
and far into the fall. In fact, by
keeping the hot mashes from our
little chicks, and in working them as
suggested, we may raise from thirty
to fifty per cent, more than under
the old system of coddling, and stuf
fing with mixtures that are more or
less injurious in their effects.—By H.
B. Geer.
A Word to the Wise.
With the cotton crop 2,000,000
bales short of the previous year, cot
ton is selling at only nine cents.
Suppose the crop had been a full
0ne —13,000,000 bales instead of 11-,
000,000 —would not cotton to-day be
seven cents?
Suppose, moreover, we raise an
other bumper crop this year—where
will prices go next fall?
And what is going to become of the
all-cotton farmer who has his smoke
house and corn-crib in the West if the
crash comes?
Centuries ago a wise man said:
“The prudent man foreseeth the evil
and hideth himself, but the simple
pass on and are punished.’’
Will you play the part of the pru
dent man or the simpleton? Pro
gressive Farmer.
Fertilizer For Peanuts.
Peanuts, like cowpeas, can get ni
trogen from the air, and do not need
much, if any, nitrogen. But it will
be well to give a little nitrate of soda
for a start. Then for peanuts I would
make the ton 1500 pounds of acid
phosphate, 100 pounds of nitrate of
soda and 400 pounds of sulphate of
potash. In the 1500 pounds of acid
phosphate you will get about 600
pounds of plaster, which many pea
nut growers think essential to the
crop. Of this ton I would use 500
pounds per acre for peanuts. W. F.
Massey.
