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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.