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SUNDAY MORNING.
The Cow'. Fond.
It Is claimed that on an ave rage the
food of a cow should yield two and
one-half percent in dry food natter
of her own weight, but this depends
open many conditions. A small cow
will sometimes eat a larger quantity
and produce more than u larger one.
A Chsp Nutrition* Food.
Bousaingault, the distinguished
Wench agricultural chemist, esti
mates the nutriment of 100 pounds of
linseed meal as equal to 300 pounds
of oats, or to 318 pounds of ';orn, or
to 767 pounds of wheat bran. If such
be the case, It Is the cheapest food
that can be used now at the present
prices of food.
Improving Pnvtiir* Lund.
It is claimed that pasture land that
Is run down will be Improved If a
crop of corn is grown upon the field,
but the beneficial effects upon the corn
are, no doubt, more apparent than real.
All poor soils that are allowed to re
main uncultivated until rfome kind of
volunteer crop (If only weeds) lakes
possession will gain in fertility to a
certain extent. Such a system is
known as “fallowing" or resting the
soil. Growing a crop of corn simply
induces cultivation and puts the soil
in better condition, although the land
will have already been improved by
the fallowing.
A Valuable Crop.
Rye should be used to cover nak'ul
land by sowing the seed In the fall.
It Is a valuable crop In many ways. It
will prove beneficial In some manner,
even If never harvested. Seeded in
September or October It provides late
pasturage after grass is gone and It
also produces the earliest pasturage
in the spring. The catttlc will not
injure It as a green manurlal crop, and
It can be plowed under iu the spring
for corn. The covering of ryo on the
ground during the winter prevents the
loss of soluble matter from the soil,
and as it grows when no other crop is
desired on the land there is no loss
off time with rye.
Handling Mnwberry Runners.
As soon as the leaf Is well formed
on the new runners we pass along
rapidly and layer them in a straight
line between the mother plants, about
six to 10 inches apart. After that the
rolling runner-cutter clips off the sub
sequent runners and no others are al
lowed to root. This tool Is not per
fect, but the best device 1 have yet
seen, and with a little hard work It
does nicely. It permits the cultiva
tor to stir and maintain the loose
earth mulch over nearly the entire
surface, conserving moisture perfect
ly and reducing the hard work to the
minimum. It allows the foliage of
each plant to adjust itself so as to give
fall exposure to sunshine and have
a free circulation of air to each crown
where the fruit buds are forming. The
plants stood up beautifully, often ex
ceeding the size of a bushel basket,
yielding over four quarts large, even
sized berries.
The plant hnving abundant, re
sources Moos not become exhausted
and will produce throe or four large
crops withput resetting. It permits
a thick mulch to be put on in the
fall between thb rows close around
the plant. This holds the winter and
spring rain for the use of tlio plant,
while it is completing Its great loads
of berries. It also settles the ques
tion of a market. Such berres are
always rich in flavor, fine In texture
and bright In. color. Consumer's en
joy eating them and are never satis- '
fied with one dish. Keeping people
everlastingly eating is what maVea
the market and high prices.—R. AT.
Kellogg in New England Homestead.
Tli 1.011 in Poor (iran.
A poor grass lot Is about the most
unprofitable investment that a farmer
can have cn his place, and the poorer
it is the greater is the loss. The great
amount of poor grass in the farming
part of our country makes one won
der at the carelessness of the owners.
The loss in this way must amount to
millions of dollars alone. We see this
in the hay markets of the large cities.
By ail odds the largest proportion of
the hay received there for sale consists
of poor and inferior stock. Some ot
it is made inferior by lark of care and
intelligence in curing, but most of it is
made from poor, short -and mixed
grass. The gvass was so i.neea in
length and quality that it made a very
inferior grade of hay. In these markets
the prime grades of hay sell from 95
ctp.tg to fl per 100 pounds, but the
low grades down to 50 and 60 cents per
100 pounds. When the cost of cutting,
curing, packing and shipping is deduct
ed, how much profit can there be left
for the shipper? In many cases it
must he sent to market at a distinct
loss.
Another item of loss in poor grass is
in the pasture. A good many farmers
appear to reason that if the grass
Is too poor to make hay it will still
pay for pasture. So year by year the
run-out pasture lot is used in this way
and it becomes thinner and poorer
each successive season. In time the
tows can bearly find sufficient food to
sustain life. They either gradually
dry up In their milk or the owner must
feed them with such extra amount
of grain that there is no profit in them.
Under such circumstances the loss
from the poor grass is just as great
aad sure, only in a more Indirect way.
In order to appreciate the toss, one
should have another grass §eld for
pasture where the cows c*p get all
the grean food they need. Then If
the difference is noted In tiie cost Of
the grain feed, and the amount of milk
and butter produced, a correct Idea of
the loss can be obtained.—S. W.
Chamber*, in American Cultiator.
or.
Way to Protect Itonen,
Roses are generally considered hardy
plants, except In the extreme north,
but the fact Is, few varieties are suf
ficiently hardy to stand the severity
of winter north of Philadelphia with
out protection. They may come
through safely for some years in suc
cession. Then a peculiar season hap
pens along and our bushes are almost
ruined by it. In order to make sure o„
wintering them well it is quite neces
sary to protect them in some way.
Some persons gather the stalks to
gether and wrap them in straw from
the ground up. The best system of
protection for the rose of which I
have any knowledge is that of bend
ing the bushes down upon the ground
and covering them with soil to the
depth of five or six Inches. This plan,
however is adapted only to locations
where surface water will run away
readily. Stagnant water about rose
bushes in spring, before It is safe to
uncover ibem, will always severely in
jure them, great care should be taken
not to break or crack the stiff and
somewhat brittle stalks. Make your
bends slowly and gently in order to
allow the branches to accommodate
themselves to the strain put upon them.
When you have them flat upon the
ground, lay a piece of sod upon them to
hold tnem In proper position until you
can give them their final covering.
Pay them all in the same direction
and as close together as possible to
economize In covering material. Old
and large stocks and the great canes
of the climbing roses are exceedingly
difficult to manage without injuring
them. To avoid the risk ot breaking
them, as the result of too abrupt a
bend, 1 would advise heaping earth
against the base of the plant, on the
side towards which the stalks are to
he bent, and bending the bushes over
it carefully and slowly. This Substi
tutes curves for sharp bends and great
ly simplifies the work of (tying for
stubborn plants. If soil ii: used as
covering, let it be as light an i porus
as possible. Leaves are excellent, if
one can get enough of them. Lay
hoards of evergreen branches or wire
netting over them, to prevent their
being blown away. The hardier sorts
of hybrid tea-roses should have their
tops cut ofi close to the ground and be
covered with at least a foot of leaves,
confined within a pen of boards or an
old box Eben E. Rexford, in Lippin
cctt's Magazine.
I'nrm Mnninrution,
It Is surprising to note how many
farmers do not know that the shape
ot any field has a great deal to do
with the amount of fencing It. takes
to enclose it. A square ten-acre field,
is 40 rods each way, and will there
fore require half a mile of fence, a
ten-acre field four times as long as
wide is 80x20 rods, and will there
fore require 200 rods of fence, or 40
rods more than before; so that a
square field needs less fencing than
an oblong one of the same size. If
this field were in the shape of a cir
cle, It would take still less fencing
than in the square form, and although
this would be a silly idea for a field,
tne law is worth rememoering when
wells are dug, for the circular hole
takes less materal for a curb or a wall
than the square one of the same ca
pacity.
If a swamp or wood or a dodging
line fence makes it awkward to have
compact fields, an effort should be
made so as to map out the farm thal
no long, narrow strip or wedge Is left
lying to bo fenced in by Itself. Long
rounds are more agreeable In plowing,
it is true, than shorter ones, but this
is not 'mportant. Anew settler in the
Canadian northwest broke up 10 acres
quite across his quarter section be
cause he liked furrows half a mile
long; but when he came to build his
340 rods of wire fence around them,
at 5.75 per 100 for wire, he thought he
would like shorter rounds better. In
buildings, (00. oblong shapes some
times rob the purse. Take the house.
Every inch of wall costs nearly a dol
lar; and we see by the foregoing illus
trations what is lost by-making a rec
tangle unnecessarily long and narrow,
without gaining any space. Of course,
some farm buildings must be long and
narrow, the driving houses and imple
ment shed, for example; but some
houses and barns could be built just
as roomy and with just as much con
venience in the laying out of their
apartments, with less expense, simply
by keeping them in compactor propor
tions. When the number and size of
buildings end fences on a large farm
are considered, it is seen how easily a
year’s profit can be squandered by
forgetting this simple sum.
One mensuration problem more. Let
us go into the granary. If you have a
table of contents, marked on each bin
you could tell at once how much grain
would be in each at any time, simply
by leveling it; the figures on opposite
sides of but would indicate the num
ber of bushels. You know the size of
a bushel in cubic feet, and the dimen
sions of the bin; now figure it out and
record the scale on a vertical smooth
board or two fastened to opposite
sides of each bin. Suppose you find
that a bushel fills the bin a quarter of
an inch; then each quarter inch mark
on the record boards means a bushel.
It will often be handy to know. Do the
same in your hay-mow. You know
how much space a ton of pressed hay
takes, and the dimensions of your mow.
It you have accurate habits you can
j tell within a bag of oats and a ton of
j bay.—Ephraim Weber, in Agricul
[ tural Epitomist
lUilter Luck Anollmr Time.
As life’s road you journey through,
Keep some purpoie well In view.
Youth must ever have an aim,
If at last success you’d claim;
lie that good then Lend the t>o\f;
Kutber aim too high than low;
Make allowance for the wind,
Firm In band and heart and mind,
(Should you fail, It is no crime—
“ Better luck another lime! ’
Failure once should be a spur
That should all ambition stir;
That should wake you to the truth,
Maught so fleeting is as youth,
Make the best of time you may—
Take It in its opening day!
What you will is yours to do;
Once begun, then put it through!
Should you fail, it Is no crime—
“ Better luck another time!”
—Golden Days.
The Squirrel* end Uli***tnut liar.
Four little gray squirrels saw a
chestnut bur growing on a chestnut j
tree. They were very anxious to get i
the chestnut in the bur. Squir- ]
rels dearly love all kinds of nuts, and it
is said they are very provident. If it
is to be a severe winter they will fill
tbeir nest full of nuts. The little
squirrels were afraid to approach the
burs because they are full of sharp
points. Just then a flying squirrel
came along. “I will tefl you what von
must do, * said he; “wait until the bur
opens and tne chestnuts fall out. The
bur always opens when the right time
comes.” So they waited and got the
chestnuts.
It Is a good thing to wait, until things
are ready for us.
Tli Ungrateful Hyena.
An English missionary in Africa,
writing to the London Standard about
the stories that the natives tell around
their campfires, says that, this one
about the hyena never fails to bring
out many grunts of satisfaction.
Long ago there lived a man named
Nemi, who was very kind to all the
animals. All through the winter, when
lood was s<arce, he feasted them from
his well fil'ed barns. The sound of the
great drum in Nemi's courtyard was
the signal for the gathering of ani
mals of almost every species. The ele
phant came with the buffalo, the lion
and the antelope, the hyena and the
rabbit —all for the time laying aside
their mutual hatred of one another
and joining in honoring Ncmi with a
( horns of praise as they partook of ills ;
bounty. On day Nemi said to his wife:
‘ 1 should like to put the affection of
these animals to the test. I often won
der whether there is any real grati
tude In their hearts for all my kind
ness, and whether, after my death,
they will any longer hold me in honor.
Let it be given out that Nemi is dead;
then I will 11c upon my mat, In front
of my house, simulating a corpse ready j
for burial, and will sec whether they
w ill come to mourn over me. " So u
was repotted that Nemt was dead, and
scon froin all directions all the ani
mals came to mourn over their bene
factor. Among them came me hyena,
who, when he saw the corpse of Nemi,
was seized with an overmastering de
sire to devour it. So after the other
animals had all taken tneir departure
he returned to the courtyard, and, with
a growl of satisfaction, run to the !
body, and was just about to commence j
his horrid feast, when Ncmi sprang j
to his feet, and, seizing a heavy wood- j
en pestle, hit the hyena such a blow on
tfce hack that it was almost bent dou
ble. The hyena never fully recov
ered from the effects of the blow, and
the deformity which bears record to
Ills ingratitude and greed has been
transmitted to all his children. —New
York Tribune.
Hen 1 ranklin'* Swimming Kite.
When Benjamin Franklin was a boy
he, like other boys, took to water as
naturally as a Newfoundland dog. Ben
jamin Franklin, you remember, was
one of the greatest journalists, states
men and philosophers in our country
at the time of the revolution. Ben was
an expert swimmer, and he was, too,
very strong and clever in sailing and
rowing a boat. He lived in Boston,
upon one side of which is a fine riv
er and upon another side the sea; so
ll happened that water to Ben was easy
of access.
Even as a boy he was always patch
ing up some invention, trving all t..e
time to improve upon and make things
more handy. This habit lasted him
all his life. But as a boy swimmer j
he devised two methods of increasing !
swimming speed which are of interest !
to boys of today. When he came to
be an old man he told about his de- i
vices in the following words:
"1 made two oval pallets,” Franklin
said, "each about 10 inches long and
six broad, with a hole for the thumb,
in order tc retain it fast in the palm
of my hand. They much resembled
a painter's pallet. In swimming I
pushed dte edges of these forward, and
I struck the water with their fiat sur
faces as I drew them back. I remem
ber I swam faster by means of these
pallets, hut they fatigued my wrists.
1 also fitted to the soles of my feet a
kind of sandals; but,! was not satis
fied with them, because I observed
that the stroke is partly given by the
inside of the feet and ankles, and not
entirely with the soles of the feet"
The other device Franklin told of
in this fashion: "I amused myself one
day in flying a paper kite, and, ap
proaching the bank of a pond which
v.as nearly a mile broad. I tied the
strings to a stake, and the kite as
cended to a very considerable height
above the pond while I was swimming.
THE BRUNSWICK -DAILY NEWS.
lit a little time, being desirous of amus
ing myself with my kite and enjoy at
the same time the pleasure of swim
ming, I returned, and, loosing from
the stake the string with the little
stick which was fastened to it, went
again into the water, where I found
that, lying on my back and holding the
stick in my hands, I was drawn along
the surface of the water in a very
agreeable manner. Having then en
gaged another boy to carry my clothes
around tne pond to a place which [
pointed out to him on the other side,
I began to cross the pond with my
kite, which carried me quite over with
out the least fatigue and wdth the
greatest pleasure imaginable. I was
only obliged occasionally to halt a
little in my course and resist its pro
gress when it appeared that by fol
lowing too quickly 1 lowered the lute
too much, by doing which occasionally
I made it rise again.
Thu other boys of the neighborhood
soon copied Franklin’s invention, and
it was not long before whole fleets of
young fellows were cruising about the
pond. However, Franklin excelled
tnem all, lor he so manipulated uis
kite as to get the full force of what
ever wind there was, much to the cha
grin and astonishment of his play
mates, who could not see why tney
never won the impromptu races which
took plnce almost daily.
It Is not recorded what the neigh
bors thought of this odd flotilla, but
they must have looked very queer, in
deed; an odd combination of boy, bird
and fish. It can hardly be recommend
ed at a popular sport, but boys of those
days did not have nearly so many aids
to playtime as our readers of today.—
Chicago Record-Herald.
Alice** ( I*ib.
“Father, father, please wait for
me!” called Alice Mead, all out of
breath with running to meet her father.
Father beard and stopped just at he
reached the piazza steps, saying,
“Good afternoon, little lady! Why
didn't you make father hear before,
so we might have walked up the
street together?"
"I did try very hard," said Alice.
Then she took his outstretched hand,
ar.d they climbed the steps and sat
down beside mother.
"Back again, girlie?" asked mother.
"Did you have a nice time.'"
“Where have you been?” inquired
father.
"Down tc Bertha Kobbes. Our club
held the first meeting there today, and
we had a lovely time, mother," an
swered the little girl, with a smile.
"Your club? My dear little girl, uo
you mean to tell me you belong to a
club?” exclaimed father, with the mer
ry look in his eyes that Alice loved to
see.
"Why, yes. father, 1 thought every
body did." Mother and father both
laughed as Alice continued; "You do,
and mother has two or three, haven’t
you mother?"
“Yes, dear, fully as many as that.”
answered mother, and she smiled as
she thought of the many societies of
which she was a member.
"I thought you did; theu Rob be
longs to a baseball club, and sister is
going to join a ping-pong club. So
somebody is always going to some
thing, and I just wished I could have
a club, foo. One day 1 told teacher so,
and she said Moyou? That's the very
tiling: we will have a Good Manners
club.’ ”
Father was listening hard now. “A
Good Manners club! What is that?"
"Don't you know, father, lots of
girls and boys in our school forget to
say thank you and please when we
ought. And sometimes we just say
plain what, instead of what, father."
"Yes," little maid. 1 have notified
that," answered father; "and it. is the
same way with yes and no.”
“Yes,” said the young club member,
adding, as she remembered her club,
"Yes, father, 1 mean. Miss Knox is
always telling us about those things,
and the boys about lifting their liata
anil about being polite to the girls,
and, oh, over so many tilings! So she
said we would have a club "
"To whip you with when you were
not polite?" quizzed father.
"No. lather." laughed Alice. ' You
know 1 didn't mean shat. I mean a
real, truly club, with members, like
yours and mother’s; only all we have
to do to join ours is to sign a little
pledge like this: I promise to try to be
polite.' And once a w eek we meet and
tel! how we have done."
"Of course you all succeed, don't
you?" inquired mother.
"No, mother, we don't!”' sighed the
little girl,
"How do you know about the oth
ers?” was the next question.
"I'll tell you how it is. father. Miss
Knox told us that everyone, who had
failed on* e or twice, or oven a great
many times, through the week, couid
bring a penny to the next meeting if
he wanted to. The pennies are to help
buy something more for our Christmas
box. And what do you s'pose? Today
every boy and girl there brought one!
And Henry Paget—you know him
don’t you father?”
"Oh, yes, I know Henry. What hap
pened to him? Did he forget his pen
ny?”
Oh. no, he brought his penny, but he
asked Miss Knox what it means to be
polite, and said he couldn ( be, be
et use he didn't know what it means.
What did Miss Knox tell him,
dear?”
"She said the best definition she
knew is the cld rhyme—shall I speak
it for you?
’ True politeness is to say
The kindest thing in the kindest
w ay.' ’’
Father kissed her as he said, “I
think your club is better than some of
the grown-up ones.”
And mother added, ‘So do I,”
Youth's Companion.
WORK OF THE SHADOW.
MEN WHO ARE EMPLOYED TO WATCH
EMPLOYES OF BANKS.
There Are About 500 of The n in New
York City Alone—Mae of Them Tell* of
Hi* Method* The Story of One too 1 -
l*h Young M*n—l)lacharj;(l Kmploye*.
In the borough of Manhattan every
day there are somewhere in the neigh
borhood of 500 persons shadowed,
none of whom knows as he goes his
way that ho is being watched. Nor
does he know that the sword hangs
over bis head suspended by a thread
that may be cut at any moment by
his shadower. These men whose fate
is held ia the palm of the hand of a
private detective are all employed in
banks, national, state and savings.
There are also other big corporations
which employ detectives to follow
their employes after hours, "so as to
get a line on the life: that they lead
after hours,” a detective employed ia
this particular line put it to-day. Many
bank presidents believe that by em
ploying a detective to shadow every
body employed in the institution the
chances for a defaulter are reduced to
a minimum. And yet the case of Sam
uel C. Seeley, employed for eleven
years as bookkeeper in the Shoe and
Leather National Bank, might be cited
to demonstrate that this method of
vigilance is not infallible. Through
Seeley the bank in eleven years lost
$354,000. He was a model bookkeeper,
the real kind of a home man. That was
shown by the fact that he got for his
share in actual cash only SII,OOO and
most of this he spent in doctors’ hills
for his family.
Seeley, like every other employe in
the Shoe and Leather Bank, was sha
dowed; his home life was known; he
was reported as a model man. Where
the vigilance of the hank's manage
ment went astray was in not shadow
ing Seeley's accomplice, a lawyer who
had many real estate transactions. The
accomplice one day overdrew his ac
count. Seeley knew that if he notified
the cashier he would be discharged,
so he called on the lawer and asked
him to refund the money (it was only
$100). The lawyer explained that he
had a big real estate deal on and he
could not put it through in time to
save Seeley unless he aad more money
—55,000. That was the beginning of
Seeleys' downfall. The model home
man consented. When the lawyer on
the following day presented a cheek
for $5,200, the paying teller asked See
ley how the account stood. Seeley said
that the check was all right and the
lawyer got the money.
To cover up his tracks, Seeley de
detucted from accounts that never
were touched, so that at night his ac
counts balanced. He never took a vaca
tion, not even a day off in eleven
years. To ail appearances he was a mo
de! man. No one knew that he had an
accomplice who was drawing any
where from SIOO to SSOO a day out of
the hank. They might shadow Seeley,
but that would not reveal the true
state of affairs. He was with his family
every night: he was a Sunday school
superintendent; lie never bet on the
races.
And so even wih (he precautions
that are taken by all financial institu
tions and big corporations to prevent
defalcations-it is impossible to tell
where the next man will get a million
or more dishonestly. In the system that
the banks have to-day there is a
chance to learn where to look for a
possible defalcation, no matter how
cleverly the man’s tracks are covered
up. and there is also an opportuniy to
find out all about employes. A man
who has been at this work in the de
tective line for more than twelve years
talked about his work the other day.
"1 sm employed." he said, “by the
president of about the biggest batik
in this city, and that means Lie biggest
bank in the United States. Every day
in the year, neither Sundays nor holi
days excluded, i shadow comebody in
employ of the bank. No one knows
about my work except the president. 1
am not on the bank payroll. I receive
ray salary In a roundabout way. I
have not seen the president in all the
years that I have been in his employ.
"On the ordinary work days I begin
my labor at 3 o'clock, the time of clos
ing the bank. I have a list of all the
employes and 1 know every one by
sight. 1 select each day the man that
I am going to shadow. For five years
I used to wait for my man. rain or
shine, on the street near the bank
building, but now I go to an office a
cross the street. It's pleasanter, be
cause there's no telling when my man
will quit work. Take the ease of the
cashier. He may stay until 7 o’clock
sometimes. V. hen he leaves the office
I must be on his trail. I watch him
come out, and from then until he is
sound asleep 1 keep on his trail.. If he
goes directly 1 trail him tb the
door. Then I wait outside until about
JO o'clock, and if he doesn't come
I at that hour leave. If on the other
hand he goes out for a eight I record
very carefully everything he does.
"I remember about four years ago
the president notified me that I hadn't
made a report to him on an assistant
teller in three months. Asa matter of
fact. 1 had been so busy looking after
man who led a mode! life, but who.
1 was cenain. was speculating in the
r # tock market, that I had forgotten the
young man. I picked him up one after
noon as he came out of the office, and
he did lead me a chase. He met a
young woman and drove to the Wal
dorf. where they had dinner. So
did I. From the restaurant they went
to the theatre and afterward had a din
net. So far the night had not cost him
a cent less than S2O or S3O. He drove
the girl home, stayed a half hour and
kept the hansom waiting. From the
young woman's house that man drove
straight to Dick Canfield’s gambling
house. I was after him. I had to ‘hitch’
on behind his hansom. When he went
info Canfield’s I was up against a stone
wall at first, but I finally got hold of
the bald-headed man who usually looks
after everything when he is not In the
chair watching the dealer. I explained
my mission to him and he iet me in,
having had his conscience greased
with a SSO bill.
"I found my man at the crazy wheel,
playing hard and fast. It did not take
him long to get rid of S3O0 —I forgot
tc say that it was the day before pay
day, a time when most workers are
broke. Well, from Canfields’ my quar
ry went to the tenderloin, and there
blew in SIOO. I dropped him at his
home at 5:30 A. M. He was discharged
immediately after my report was re
ceived.
"Now there was a foolish young man
as I afterward found out. He was not
short in his accounts. He had plenty of
money of his own, but he was dis
charged just because of his high roller
tendency. However, the president
would take no chances with him. I sup
pose that in all the while that I have
been in the bank’s employ fifteen or
twenty men have been discharged be
cause of my reports on their lives out
side the bank.” —New Y'ork Sun.
GUAINT AND CURIOUS.
A whistling moth is an Australian
rarity. There is a glassy space on the
wings crossed with ribs. When tile
moth wants to whistle it strikes these
libs with its antennal, which have a
knob at the end. The sound is a love
eall from the male to the female.
The Hungarian minister of the inte
rior has issued a decree ordaining that
all waitresses in cafes, restaurants,
iea shops and so forth must be at least
40 years of age. The decree came into
force on Sept. 1, and threw many
young women out of employment.
Judge Henry Redwine the other day
took to Phoenix, Ariz.. a story of an
active volcano in a smoking lake 21
miles from Trxica at the base of the
mountains across the Mexican line.
The Indians who.formerly lived in the
m ighborhoou have moved away since
the lake ! egan spouting columns of
mud and fire. The white settlers are
seriously considering the same course.
The lake is 14 miles long and three
miles broad. The water is almost con-
Siantly boiling and at times gigantic
columns aie thrown up amid which
fire plays.
Hogs have a strange habit which
those win have noticed them at rfight
are acquainted with. If you pass a
1 og bed cn the side of the road or in
an old covered bridge, sometimes one
will follow or trail you for miles. It.
Coes not seem vicious, but just keeps
mar. Perhaps it is a lingering instinct
of its wild nature, follc.wing as a kind
of sentinel to see that the other hogs
are not threatened, just as the wild
horses in South AnOMca, when a foe
appears, will wheel into a semi-circle
and present to their enemy an un
lit oken phalanx of heels.
One of the novelties of design in a
Chicago power station is the white
enameling ol all the motive power
equipment The engine room is finished
with a white enamel wainscoting, and
with the v hlte engines, switchboard,
generators and motors it makes a very
striking and unusual picture. The pip
ing is necessarily covered with asbes
tos. so t .iat the whole room presents
a clean and pleasant aspect. The only
parts of the machinery which are not
pure white are those in direct contact
with steam, such as heads of cylinders,
etc., which are painted with aluminum
bronze.
A London physician of large prac
tice asserts that owing to his extreme
ly sensitive sense of smell, he can
foretell the coming of death 48 hours.
He says that wuen a patient comes
within two days of death a peculiar
earthy smell is emitted from the body.
When the latal disease is slow in its
progress Ihc odor makes its appearance
as much as tnree days beforehand;
but when the disease is of the gal
loping kind the doctor says he re
ceives much shorter warning. He at
tributes the smell to mortification
which begins within the body before
life is extinct. Dogs are thought to
have this sense, for hunting hounds
have been observed to begin a mourn
ful baying a day or two before their
masters died.
Strenuous Ain tif>tnut*.
To what infinite pains people often
go. simply to ''amuse" ilfmselves.
They far surpass the limits of childish
“make believe” and device in stenu
ous efforts to pass the time. For in
stance. at some of the seaside places in
France this year those stopping there
in quest of health or pleasure con
ceived the idea of some unique bicycle
games. One consisted in thr arrange
ment of large numbers of empty
flower pocs in all sorts of zizzag figures,
among which bicyclists of both sexes
were to wheel, throwing a potato into
each pot. without losing balance or
smashing croc,erv. It was said to be
intensely exciting, and had great
vogue for a time. Then there were
the hurdle races for bicyclists—the
hurdles consisting of sawdust filled
sacks—zigzag wheel runs between rows
of tennis balls, and glove and parasol
contests, in which prizes were given
for the most rapid pulling on and off
of gloves and opening and closing of
parasols Besides these was the “mu
sical chair" game, where the players
ride around the rows of waiting chairs
while the music continued, and on its
sudden cessation they made a rush for
seats, repeating this either until all the
chairs were occupied or all the wheels
smashed. —New Y'ork Tribune.
NOVEMBER 16
A MATTER OF SELECTION.
Said a vulgar little girl, who was sneering
at another
In accents that were very far from mild,
"You ain’t got no father, you ain’t got no
mother —
You ain't nothin* but a horrid 'dopted
child !”
“I’m quite as good as you,” came the an
swer from the other,
“I was carefully selected from a lot;
Eut only look at you—your father and your
mother
Had to keep you if they wanted to or not!"
—Boston Globe.
HUMOROUS
♦
Wigwag—Success merely depends up
on how herd you work. Borrewcll —
And also whom you work.
#He— She holds her age well, doesn’t
she? She—Yes. She doesn’t look a
day older than she says she is.
“He got soft and I sat all over him,"
remarked the slangy girl. “Did you
make an impression?” asked her dear
est friend.
Muggins—Are you going to send
your son to college? Buggins— 1 sup
pose so. He doesn’t seem to be good
for anything else.
"Freddie, why did you dro&the baby
on the floor?” “Ah, I just wanted to
test the kid. Heard everybody say
that it was a bouncing baby."
Nell—l cion t believe Harold has ever
been in love before. Belle—Why do
you think that? Nell —He actually
asked me if he might kiss me?
Benham—l believe our hoy is going
tc be the fool of the family. Mrs.
Benham—lt’s quite probable; it’s very
l'kely that he will outlive you.
Wigg—Every one thought he was a
; millionaire, and now it appears he
! died insolvent. Wagg —Maybe he paid
his doctors' bills before he died.
Mrs. Newlywed was doing her mar
keting. "How are your kidneys this
morning?” she asked the butcher’s
boy. "Fine,” replied the boy. “How’s
yourn?”
"My boy, you take after your fath
er,” said the old friend of the fam
ily. "Huh!” replied the boy. "You
ought to see tae way mother takes
efter him."
Manager—What is the matter with
the glass cater? Assistant —He is get
ting 100 tony. Manager—How so? As
sistant—He refuses to eat anything
but cut glass.
First Small Boy—Did you throw any
old shoes after your sister when she
got married? Second Small Boy—Not
, much. 1 threw all my mother's slip
pers.
Hook—That chap with the smooth
face is on the stage. He does the
heavy work. Nye—Flays ihe villains.
I suppose. Hook—Yes; and shifts
scenery.
Biobbs—Why doesn't Scribbler
write one of those historical novels?
Slobbs—He says he's handicapped.
Biobbs —In what way? Slobbs—He
knows too much about history.
Policeman—Come along now. quietly.
: or it will be worse for you. O’Toole —
,Gi ll not! The magistrate told me last
; Time niver to be brought befoor him
I again, an' begorra. I’m going to obey
j his instructions.
“Then you don't consider him
i smart?" • Him? Why, what he doesn't
j know would till a book; in fact —”
"Ah! then he's pretty likely to make
Ia success of what he is at now. He’s
writing a society novel."
I "I never saved a cent before I was
, married," said the sad-eyed man who
was surrounded by a group of women.
: They beamed upon aim gratefully.
"And yet I always managed to keep
| out of debt," he sighed.
"I hear you hope to make a great
j musician of your son." "Yes.” “Whom
; liave you selected to teach him?" "Oh.
iwe haven't got that far yet. He’s
i giving all his time now to the doctor,
who guarantees io make his hair thick
I and luxuriant.”
The Unique C ity „f Rainy.
, At present there is being founded
I on the shores of the Pacific ocean in
! Siberia the Russian city of Dalny-
This city will form the terminus of
| ike new Siberian and Manchurian
railway, and its sit.? has hitherto been
| known as Talienwan.
The unique thing about this new
city is that it begins its municipal
life with all modern improvements.
There are piers of stone and cement:
a large breakwater with no ships to
| seek refuge behind it. The streets are
| graded and paved, although there is
|no traffic for them as yet. The dif
: ferent quarters of the town have been
laid out. space provided for parks,
schools, churches, etc. Gardeners are
already beautifying the parks. Elec
tiic lights and electric railways are
already in operations. As yet not a
foot of land has been sold, although
over $6,000 000 have been expended for
improvements and public buildings.
The population now exceeds $50,000.
S2OOO of which are employed in build
ing the railroad, which is to be owned
by the Russian government.
It is calculated that the citv will
cost $18,000,000 before the present
plans are completed. It is provided
that when lands are sold taxation will
begin, and the city's government will
be placed in the hands of a council,
elected by the taxpayers, of which two
members must be Russian subjects and
not more than two Chinese or Jap
anese. The port will be an absolutely
free one, as the government wishs to
encourage traffic.—Municipal Journal.
A Friend In Nrd.
Beotcm—Pshaw! I must have S2O
by noon today, and I left all my money
at home in my other clothes. Can't
you help me out?
Y\ ieeman—Sure. I'll lend you car
fare to go home for it.—Philadelphia
Press.