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THE DREAM.
At noon, in the valley of far Duah(-stan,
With a ball in my breast I lay silent and stark,
While %mp h{ drg;l)(, slowly, the red life-blood ran
From the still smoking wound that showed hollow and dark.
Alone T lay there on the bare sandy ground,
The fierce sun of noontide was scorching the gteep.
Brown crests of the mountains that hemmed me around,
And it fell on me, too—-but I slept the death-sieep,
BLGPRT T A N b
And 1 dreamt of my country; of revels by night,
g halls that were brilliant with cressets aflame;
Of maiders whq;w chaplets of roses gleamed bright,
And amid their gay gossip I heard my own name,
But one of the maidens sits pensive apart, 5
Nor Joing in the laughter: and God alone knows |
What sinfster fancies engulf her young heart,
8o silent she sits while the revelry girows,
Does she sce in her vigion the corpsc of a man
With a ball in hig breast, lying sllent and stark
At noon, in the valley of far Dakhestan,
While the still smoking wound with his life-blood is Aark?
~Michae¥ Yourievich Lermontov, translated by Rosga Newmarch,
KS&WJWJQ-E?J[WOJCOJC?J@JC?JF?JEOJV’ ][ V,yr-j[pj[nf.[f ]Cn fl)f'%]
& The Son of Big Mountain &
By Fra;k_ll;l -\;/»el!;s_‘Ca:kl:s g?
D O A o o o
“My boy, I am going to leave you
now to go on the other side of this
hill. Look well to Plenty Boy till 1
I get back, Remember. you are a
Sans Arc and the gqn of Big Moun
tain,”
Such, or something like it, was the
dialy admcnition of Yellow Belt's
mother during the berry-picking sea
son. Among the rough lands of the
Powderhorn, the red raspberry was
wonderfully plenty. The Sans Arc
women gathered great quantities, not
only to meet the enormous dzily ca
pacity of their families, but to dry for
future use.
The berry range extended on all
sides of their village, so the women
beecame scattered in all directions.
The children were usually taken with
their mothers, because a herd of
them, left at the deserted teepees,
were too likely to get into mischief,
And older children were put to guard
younger children, because they were
of no account in picking berries.
Yellow Belt's case was very trying
to a twelve-year-old boy. He had no
sisters to relieve him, and his charge
was a mischievous and freakish three
year-old child. However, the older
brother was very faithful for a num
ber of days. He kept one eye on
Plenty Boy and the other on the look
out for small game.
Sonietimes a chipmunk or a small
bird came within reach of his blunt
end arrows, and the excitement of the
affair would occupy his mind for a
long time. And when a bush rabbit
ran by, and was actually hit by one
of two arrows, the lad elaborated a
. story which he carried home to his
playfellows.
- When there was no game to be seen
Yellow Belt would divide his time in
admiration of two war arrows which
his uncle, Gray Bgll. had giwen him;
and which he did not trust himself to
shoot among the bushes. One of these
was somewhat worm-eaten in the
shaft, and its iron teeth played loose
on its rivet for want of real sinews to
bind. The other had a bone tooth,
and was not a weapon for the buffalo,
Yet these arrows and his confidence
in them were to bring him out of the
greatest adventure of his life, one
which, after forty years, furnished
him with his most thrilling tale of
personal encounter.
On the day when his mother left
him to go behind the big hill, she
had spread her blanket for Plenty
Boy, whe was sound asleep. Yellow
Belt did not mean to go to sleep when
he lay beside the young one, but he
had eaten to repletion, and despite
some fighting, his drowsy eyes closed.
He awoke because the sun had shift
ed so that its hot rays were beating
directly upon his face. He rose, dig
ging at his heavy, burning lids, and
was reminded of hig charge by hear
ing the voice of Plenty Boy, sounding
faint and far away, but with a fierce
accent which spoke of infantile wrath.
At first Yellow Belt believed that
his mother had come and had carried
Plenty Boy away as a rebuke to his
own remissness, and that the child
was angry at leaving him behind.
Feeling very crestfallen, he gathered
his bow and arrows and made his
way among bushes and rocks at the
foot of the ledge, toward the sound
of Plenty Boy's scolding,
For some hundred steps or more he
heard nothing of the small brother;
then, nearer than he had expected, he
heard the young veice in an explo- |
sive shout, repeated two or three
times. Plenty Boy had evidently wan
dered off alone, and was shouting—as
he often did at the village—at -some
crow, buzzard, or other live object
which had attracted his attention,
Yellow Belt hurriea along the face
of the ledge, not daring to call, for
it was a trick of the mischievous lad
to scamper off and hide when any
one was thus seeking him. So the
elder boy ran softly forward, and
turning an angle of the rocks, again
heard the volce of the youngster
geolding in sharp tones of infantile
bravado:
“He-e-e! Ya-dra! Come-—come down
here, sunkila!™
So! the young brother was calling,
and to a “little dog.” Yellow Belt
‘climbed to the top of a boulder, and
looked about among wne rocks and
juniper bushes. The voice seemed to
be coming out of the lace of the ledge,
and for a moment the lad stared in
bewilderment at the bare rock walls,
... Then a protrduding bhugh betrayed
a cleft near at hand, and its ledges,
of seeming jointure, were, he knew,
some steps apart. He hasiened to
ward the half hidden opening, imag
ing that the small hunter must have
cornered a rabbit in that nichs. . To
Plenty Boy's mind all animals smaller
than horses were dogs, and the horse,
as to his elders, was a big, “mysteri
ous dog,” a sunka wakan tanka.
Yellow Belt hastened to peer in at
the crevasse, and as he approached,
his ears were ctartled by a rumbling
growl that set his stiff black hair on
end. He knew that voice—the threat
of ignu hanska, the long yellow cat of
the mountains,—knew it for the good
}reasml that there was, at that mo
ment, one pa:tly tamed, a pricorer at
the Sang Arc village.
“Ho,* gond-for-nothing! Bad—bad—
bad!” yelled the small brother, an
grily.
With his knees knocking, Yellow
Belt strung his bow, fitted an arrow,
and stepped softly into the crevasse.
The sight which met his eyes
might ‘well have appalled the heart
even of his father, the chief, Big
Mountain.
The youngest scion of the family,
breech-clouted, but otherwise naked,
was standing erect and defiant, sturd
ily confronting a big cougar and her
‘young, insisting, as he angrily stamp
ed his feet, that the sunkilas come
down and play with him!
As he ghook his fist at them, he
leaned backward—so close he was to
the face of rock upon which they were
perching—and the belt of his clout
leggings ereased his fat sides in
double folds. 3
Yellow Belt saw all this at a glance,
and by his native instinct fully undger
stood what had happened. .
The little brother, wandering along
the face of the ledge, had come upon
the tiny spotted kits, got accidentally
between them and the mouth of their
lair, and had followed them into this
notch.
The old one, prowling upon the top
of }?e ledge, had heard her young
ones’ distressed miauifigs, and had ‘de
scenlled @’ scarp which they Were un:.
Sy v b ey
- The snarling cld beast, her Kits al
most within reach of Plenty Boy, was
waiting’ to pounce upon the intruder
should it become necessary to protect
her young.
Yellow Belt was frightened enough;
for the moment his legs shook go that
he could hardly stand. He called
softly to Plenty Boy, hoping to coax
him away. But his words were of no
avail. The little lad had his eyes
glued upon the spotted kits, and the
desire to play with tnem was the
only emetion his infantile mind could
hold, j
He answered the brother’s entreaty
by a forward movement and angry
whoops at the Kkits,
And why was this tiny Sans Arc
not afraid of the mother?
Yellow Belt knew too well it was
because of the big mountain-cat
which Lone Elk kept in a stake tee
pee, fastened with a white man’s iron
rope, and at which creature, snarling
impatiently, little villagers at home
were wont to launch their puerile de
flances.
Yellow Belt's legs were yet weak
and his teeth clicked with fear, as he
stepped cautiously toward the fierce
old cat, now snarling down, her muz
zle within three arms' length of Plen
ty Boy's face. He knew better than
to call again to the sturdy urchin.
He sought to attract the angry
beast's attention to himself, He re
membered his . mother's parting
charge, and grew Dbraver. Heolding
bow and fixed arrow in one hand, he
clenched the other and beat his breast
as he advanced.
“Ho! Look at me, igmu hanska!"
he shouted. *“1 am the son of a chief,
Big Mountain. 1 do not fear you!”
Then, as the old *cat seemed to draw
back against the rocks, he took fresh
courage., “Ho! ho!” he whooped.
“See, I will send an arrow through
your body!"
The sound of his own voice greatly
heartened him, but so also it embold
ened Plenty Boy, who now tiptoed
agalnst the rocks and beat his tiny
ficts against their hard surface as he
renewed his shouts to the “little dozs”
to come down,
Within &ix paces of the glaring
cougar Yellow Belt halted. Should he
drop his weapons, leap forward,
snatch Plenty Boy and run? This he
was about (0 do, when the remem
bered gounsel of old hunters re
strained him. “When in close quar
ters you mmust never run from igmu
hanska or from mato-hota, the griz
zly, for then they a.e sure to attack.
You must always face them warily,
weapons in hand.,” Such was the wis
dom of the elder hunters, and the boy
heeded.
He took another step forward, and
now the two lower kits, with barely
space to cling against the rock, began
to crowd each other for safer and
higher footing. One of them shoved
the other nearly off its perch, and this
ong made a desperate scramble to
reach the dam above. For a moment
the kit fought, then lost its‘?:)othtg,
and rolled to the feet of Plenty‘{.%‘
Who pounced upon it with a cry of de
light. : 7 »
And now the big cat, glaring fi@'
open mouth, crouched for a fin'ing,
2nd Yellow Belt leaped toward her
and let fly his arrew with the iron:
tooth: Etraight at, the muzzle of :the
beasi he ghot, and his shaft m.riw:g
her red and gaping maw and stuck in?
the cougar’s threat. With a growl of
rage, igmu hanska leaped from her
perch, o e
She launched herself at the daring
boy, striking him upon the chest, and
together they rclled uposn the rocks.
Thinking his last moment was at
hand, Yellow Belt fought desperately.
He somehow got to his feet, and
his surprise was equal to his‘f‘rlghti
when he gaw the great yellow beast
rolling in agony. At a glance he gaw
that his arrow had entered her throat.
and stack, that a blow from her paw
had gnapped the chaft, and the iron
tcoth was wedged fast, holding her
jaws wide apart. In vain che strove
to tear out the offending weapon.
She rolled to and fro, uitering hoarse
chest nctes and tearing at her mouth.
until her jaws ran red with blood.
The animal was crazed with pain,
oblivious of everything else as she
fought to rid herself of the weapon.
Plenty Boy, ¢prawling at the foot of
the ledge, fiercely scratched by the
small Dbeast, which had already fled,
was howling lustily,
Yellow Belt gave the youngster but
a glance tc note that he was not seri- I
ously hurt; then, fitting his bone-’
toothed arrow, he circled warily about f
the fighting cat, watching his oppor-]
tunity for a deadly shot.
It came at last. At three paces he
launched his arrow, burying its tooth
behind the old beast’s shoulder,
iA truer shot and straighter to the
iheart no hunter could have made. In
a moment all was over, and the long{
cat lay stricken dead at his feet; and
for several minutes thereafter thel
rocks rang with his exultant whoops;
of victory.
- While he was still shouting, his
‘mother found him and saw what he
had done. She caught her youngest,
still screaming with pain, into her
arms and examined his hurts.
Finding nothing to alarm, she
turned to the exulting son c¢f Big
Mountain and said: l
“My boy, you have indeed done
well.”—Youth’s Companion. - |
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QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The ostrich has been known to trav
el as fast as a mile a minute.
s % ;
In the seventeenth century, absence |
from church was a punishable offense |
in England, e O
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¢ fl‘? Wrgest” park in- Euroge is the
square milege et T L
Seven tons of bad eggs seized in
Detroit ‘were destined for use in a ;
cookie factory. !
Manhattan borough of New Yorki
city has a population of 161 persons |
to each acre. l
Alfred Soderman, of Worcester,|
Mass., has succeeded in growing pola. |
toes and tomatoes on the same vine, I
Cigarette smoking is greatly on the ,
increase, and New York city consumed |
2,775,000,000 of them during the last!
yvear. 1
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Ptz |
An Italian nobleman, who is a wid-;
ower for the seventh time, has erect- |
ed a castle with seven towers at Biar- ;
ritz, one in memory of each of his |
wives. i
Mrs. Mary McGeehan, 106 years old, ‘
has lived on oatmeal all her life, and}
works about the farm at Brockagh, !
Donegal, Ire., with her children and |
grand-children. i
The decline of Canada's shipping, !
which has been in progress for thir-i
ty years, apparently has been arrested, l
for last year's shipping register shows |
the first net gain since 1878. ’
In the county jail at Lincoln, Neb., |
Dr, Earl Truell, a dentist, forcibly'
took three gold teeth from the mouth
of Edward J. Reed, a prisoner, who
had given a bogus check to the de/fi
--tist.
A cheap yet durable pavement has
been laid by the city of Mankato,
Mich.,, consisting of a mixture of'
crushed fine stone, gravel and tar,
top-dressed with cement and sand. It
cost but 80 cents a linear foot, thirty
feet wide.
Though the wild American bison
has practically become extinct there is
ia promise that the race may be pre
served by domestication. The New
} York Bronx Zoological Garden added
twelve to its herd during the last
1,\'0:1:- by births.
| Many of the Japanese porcgiain fac
tories, it is said, are not paying ex
penses, and production has been re
‘duced by 20 to 40 percent. In Tsu
Maki-Mura twenty-eight of the eighty|
porcelain factories have suspended, |
owing to the decrease in American
and Chinese imports. i
Under the law not one of the million
and a qearter immigrants who entey
tue port of New York each year, is!
fully admitted to this country,. for!
each euters only under parole and|
the government has the right to return |
bler to the port from which he ecam: |
at any time within three years afte: |
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- GOLCONDA FOUND IN THE CANAL ZONE.
Commissioner Coljlins, of Washington‘, D. C., Says Life
is Pleasant and Living Economical at Colon--Indians
__Trade in Geld Nuggets--Gambling Not Populare
L { ; Ali American Games Pursued as '| - | '
$ ! \"‘; & Q.,mf Outdoor Sports. gujw sl ¥ “-35 z
New York City.—After spending
fourteen months on an investigation
along the canal zone regarding the
allegations that have been brought
against certain officials in the employ
of the Canal Commission, J. H. Col
lins returned from Colon, en route
for Washington, D. C., to make his
report. He declined to discuss it be
fore submitting it to the authorities.
Mr. Collins said Yast month was a
record one for the amount of money
gsent to the United States by men em
ployed along the canal. He found
them ail in good spirits and fond of
bageball, bowling, tennis, rowing,
and all kinds of healthy outdoor
sports. Gambling is not popular nox
drinking to any estent, Mr. Collins
found, and this had been so marked
during the last year that many of
tl:f‘ saloon and gambling house pro
prietors in Colon and Panama have
lefid up and gone to pastuies new.
;; ie. héalth of the employes as a
, o'r‘?‘*was good, he said, and the
labor conditions at the present time
.flac&on. Exeellent food at cost
PECE isPwent-down by the Canal Com
mission twice a weask for the em
ployes and their families.
- ‘“Just Dbefore leaving Panama,”
oseld Mr. Collins, “I met Baron von
Tuber. He was ‘sent out by the
Smithsonian Institution to study the
conditions of the San Blas Indiang,
who live in the interior of the Re
public of Panama, about seventy
miles up the coast on thes Pacific
side. He told some of the most
JAPAN’S CORDIAL WELCOME,
The Reception of the American Fleet Was Ciaborate
! and Perfectly Carsried Out.
Tokio, Japan.—The reception ac
corded the American Atlantic fleet by
the Government and people of Japan
is conceded by the American naval
officers to be the heartiest and most
perfectly carried out of the maay re
ceptions received by the fleet since it
sailed from Hampton Roads. Rear-
Admiral Sperry said that he was ut
terly unable to say how it had been
accomplished, but that the welcome
given the fleet and its officers and
men here had been so carefully
planned and carried out to the most
minute details that lasting impression
has been stamped upon the mind of
;avery American who has witnessed
R
It is impossible to doubt the sin
cerity of the Japanese. The Ameri
can officers and sailors are already
beginning to understand the fact that
the evident desire on the part of the
Japanese for the friendshir of Amer
ica is not founded upon opportunism,
but finds its sourcé in a sincere wish
to show that such friendship, at least
on the part of the Japanese, has ex
isted always, and that this visit of the
* FORTY FOOT FOSSIL FOUND. & /
Complete Tyrannosaurus Rex Now For Alllex-ifian
Natural History Musecum.
New York City.—Dr. Henry Fair
fleld Osborn, president of the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History, re
ceived word from Great Falls, Mon.,
that a research party from the mu
seum, headed by Barnum Brown, had
discovered part of the skeleton of the
Tyrannosaurus rex, a prehistoric ani-l
mal, in the Bad Lands several miles
gouth of Glasgow, Mon.
The fossil, which is forty feet long
and twenty-two feet high, has a per-t
sect skull, an entire set of ribs, back
bono and hip girdle and practically |
supplements the specimen discovered
in the same section in 1902,
Ever since the first fossil of the
“king of the reptiles,” as the Tyran- |
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Nebraska University Orders |
el Girls to Go Bareheaded. |
Lincoln, Neb.—The State Uni\'er-l
sity senate adopted a rule forbidding |
young women students to wear hatsi
in classrooms. . The order was made |
necessary by feminine headgzear which |
had grown so large that it not only !
tested the capacity of the ('iassroomsl
‘but interfered with recitations, An-|
other rule adopted prohibits students |
indulging in shirt-tail parades or Lid
naping class officers to break up so
m gatherings, on penalty of imme- ;
diate expulsion. . i
thrilling adventures I have ever
heard. His companions, two Ameri
can boys, were killed by the Indians
last January.
‘““The Baron described the San Blas
country as being very rich and the
natives warlike. He was certain
there is plenty of gold back in the
mountains, as the Indians traded for
merchandise in gold nuggets, which
had evidently been washed down
some mountain stream. He said that
the difficulties to be encountered in
the San Blas country were very great,
as there were no roads at all, the only
means of travel being by canoes
and navigating tortuous waterways,
where an exploring party could be
easily ambushed. In addition to the
Indiang there was the malignant
black-water fever to be contended
with.
“The Baron is making monthly ex
peditions into the San Blas country
on behalf of the Panama Govern
ment to teach the natives how to get
rid of the swarms of locusis that de
stroy ‘their crops. He stays in as
‘i long as his provisions last. He is ac
~conipanied by Ms brother, a Heidel
berg student. The baron said it
would be perilous for any white man
' to attempt to reach the mountains in
search of the gold, as the natives
have never allowed any strangers to
penetrate into the interior. He was
only there on suffrance, and had to
be always on the alert. Their coun
try is rich in ccal and all kinds of
minerals.” e
fieet has merely afforded the Japan
ese an opportunity for that expres
sion.
Admiral Speiry was received at
the imperial palace. On the next day
the admirals and captains of the fleet
wers the guests of the Emperor at
the palace. Admiral Sperry conveyed
to the Emperor a message from Pres
ident Roosevelt, This message
breathes a spirit of friendship and
svmpathy and expresses keen expres
sions of the traditional friendship be
tween the two nations and an earnest
wish for the sirengthening and con
tinuance of the friendly relations of
the nast.
Three thousand sailors from the
American fleet were granted shore
liberty deaily, and it ig remarkable
that notwithstanding their long con
finement aboard ship not a single dif
ficulty has bzen reported, bearing out
the statement of Admiral Sperry,
made in one of his speeches here, that
the American sailor of to-day is the
result of that development and edu
catlon which Japan is seeking .in
every department of her national life,
nosaurus rex is called, was found, re
search parties from the American
Mugeum have been searching through
the Bad Lands for a specimen that
would compiete the missing parts.
The first fossil had good hind limbs
but incompiete back bones. Dr. Os
born said that he believed the two
specimens are about the £ame size
and that the museum will now be
enabled to mount the animal com
plete,
During the five vears of search
fragments of Tyrannosaurus rex have
been found from time to time, Dr.
Osborn said zoologists would be
highly elated over this second dis
covery,
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Shirt Sleeves For Church, Says
Bishop Mamilton to Ministers,
Boston, Mass. — Bishop John W,
Hamilton, formerly of California,
speaking to Methodist ministers of
the immigrant and how he chould be
assimilated, said: “1 reiurn to New
England and I find a new New Eng
land. I tell you to gather them into
the churches. Break down your preje
udices, social barriors, They will
come in if you want them, Get down
to shirt sleeves ang make a pair of
them tle Methcdist church’s coat of
arms.”
SFEI DD ROADE
| il T ANy
' “ Roads Doomed by Autos,
Logan Waller Page, director of the
Office of Public Roads of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, commissioned
by President Roosevelt, is on his way
to France to tell the highway engi
neers of the world what, in his opin
ion, the automobile is doing to mac
adam thoroughfores and what should
be done to counteract its destructive
effects.
President Roosevelt summoned Di
rector Page to the White House and
conferred with him about this high
way problem. He learned that an al
most incalculable amcunt of damage
was being done daily, and then he
informed the director that it was his
wish that the United States be strong
ly represented at the coming interna
tional road congress in Paris, aud
asked for the names of two other ex
perts. Mr. Page named Colonel
Charles S. Bromwell, superintendent
of buildings and grounds of the Dis
trict, and Cilifford Richardson; an
| authority on bituminous road ma
i terial. They were appointed, and Mr.
‘ Page was made chairman of the dele
| gation.
Although this congress will not as
semble at Paris until October 11, Di
rector Page decided to sail somewhat
early to inspect some of the roads of
England, Germany and France before
the congress is called to order. He
wished to see if the speeding automo
biles worked the same damage there
as they do here and study the rem
edjal work that is being done. Here
he has learned that by the tractive
force of the rubber tires of the speed
ing motor cars the surface binding
dust of rock roads is drawn from its
resting place and is sent swirling io
the adjacent fields.
Inasmuch as the integrity of the
macadam road rests absolutely in
this rock dust, which acts as a bind
' ing and surfacing crust, a dissipating
{ of the surface leaves the road nothing
'but a mass of loose, round stongs.
The tests on the Conduit road, near
! Washington, D. C., prove this conten
i tion absolutely, and he carries with
' him a collection of photographs taken
| during the progress of those tests.
' These pictures will be submitted to
. the congress. .
! The greater question that will arise
i will be how to overcome the effect of
. automobile traffic on hard roads with
! out restricting the automobile or Pre
| venting its development.
‘ Two solutions there are to that
question: One, to find a material of
which roads may be made which cre
l ates no dugs, oly secondly, to so treat
! the roads aiready constructed that
. the dust will be retained upon them.
That, of course, is now being done
in many parts of the country by
spraying with calcium chloride and
by the wuse of various bituminous
I preparations.
.. Director Page and- his assgociates
{ will have much interesting informa
tion to contribute along those lines,
for within the past few months many,
miles of America’s roads have been
treated with these various prepara
| tions, many of the tests under the di
| rection of some expert from the Fed
eral Office of Public Roads.—Washe
‘ ington Star.
The Split Log Road Drag.
There are thousands of highways
in the rural distriets, which while
only being excuses for roads, may be
put into shape by the use of the road
drag, and it is important to know,
that farmers’ bulletin, just issued by
the Depariment of Agriculture, gives
a description of the split log road
drag for use on earth roads. The
split log road drag is by no means a
new institution, but this fifteen-page
pamphlet tells why it is sometimes a
failure. For one thing, it is often
made too heavy; it should be light
enough for one man to lift easily.
A dry cedar, elm or walnut log is the
best material for a drag—far hetter
than opk or hickory. Another mis
take is in the use of squared timbers
instead of those with sharp edges,
whereby the cutting efiect of sharp
edges is lost and the drag glides over
instead of equalizing the irregular
ities inethe surface of the road.
. By the ordinary process of ditch
cleaning, scraping, ete., it is estimated
that road improvement costs from
S2O to SSO per mile, while by the use
oi the split log drag and plank ditch
cleaner, ranges from $1.50 to $5
per mile, and a far better road is the
result. '
The advantagss to be gained from
the use of a road drag are emphasized
in the bulletin thus: First, the main
tenance of a smooth, serviceable earth
road, free from ruts and mudheles.
Second, obtaining such road surface
with the expenditure of little money
and labor in comparison with the
raoney and labor required for other
methods. Third, the reduction of
mud in wet weather and of dust in
dry weather, This publication
(Farmers’ Bulletin 321) can be had
free upon application to the Secretary
of Agriculture or to your member of
Congress.—lndiana Farmer,
Sh TR A
How Maine Fishers Caught Sulmon.
Mr. and Mrs. Gross had a funny
experience with an eight pound sal
mon at Green Lake recently.
After being hooked the salmon
Jjumped right into the arms of Mrs.
Gross and slid through to the bottom
of the hoat. Mrs. Gross promptly
sat on the fish and made good iis
capture.—Kennebec Journal.
: An Qld Story,
“She tells me that theirs is a pla
tonic love. What does that mean,
hubby?” “Means that we'll have to
dig up for a wedding present in about
two monthbs.,"—Louisville Courler=
Jaoutanal. gL E
