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SUNDAY MORNING.
GOOD ft
• ROAD S.
President KooneTeit’e Adtlreu.
THE fact that the nation's
Chief Executive attended the
National Convention at St.
Louis aud participated in
the proceedings indicates the impor
tance which the good roads movement
lias attained. The fact that the con
vention unanimously indorsed the na
tional aid plan also indicates the trend
of sentiment in that direction.
The President's entrance was sig
nalled by cheers front the assembled
delegates. He was introduced by Presi
dent Moore, of the National Good
Roads Association, and spoke as fol
lows:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men-'-Wlien we wish to use descript
ive adjectives tit to characterize great
empires and the men who made these
empires great, invariably one of the
adjectives used is to signify that that
empire built good roads. (Applause.)
When we speak of the Romans, we
speak of them as rulers, as conquer
ors, as administrators, as road
builders.
There were empires that rose over
night and fell overnight; empires whose
influence was absolutely evanescent,
which passed away without leaving a
trace of their former existence; but
wherever the Roman established his
rule, the traces of that rule remain
deep to-day, stamped on the language
and customs of the people, and stamped
in tangible form upon the soil Itself.
Passing through Britain fifteen cen
turies after the dominion of Rome
has passed away, the Roman roads
as features still remain. Going through
Italy, where power after power has
risen and flowered and vanished since
tlie days when the temporal dominion
of the Roman emperors transferred its
seat from Rome to Constantinople;
going through Italy after the Lombard,
the Goth, the Byzantine and all Hie
peoples of tlie middle ages have ruled
that, country—it is the imperishable
Roman road that reappears. Tlie habit
of road building marks in a nation
those solid stable qualities which tell
for permanent greatness.
Merely from the standpoint of his
torical analogy, we should have a
right to ask that this people which has
lamed a continent, which lias built
tip a country with a continent for its
base, which boasts itself with truth
ns the mightiest republic that the world
has ever seen, which we llrmly believe
will in the century now opening vise
to a position of headship and leader
ship such as no other nation has
ever yet attained (applause) merely
from historical analogy, I say, we
should have a rigid to demand that
such a nation build good roads. (Ap
plause.)
Much more iiave we a right to de
mand it from tile practical standpoint.
Tlie difference between the seml-bnr
harism of the middle ages and' (lie
civilization which succeeded il, was
the difference between poor and good
means of communication. And we,
to whom space is less of an obstacle
than ever before in the history of any
> *‘~Hpll pn "'hr have spanned a conti
nent, who have thrust our border
westward In the course of a century
and a qunrtcr, until It has gone from
the Atlantic over the Alleganies. down
Into the valley of the Mississippi,
across the great plains, over the Rock-
ies, to where the (lolden Gale lets
through th" long heaving waters of the
Pacific, and finally to Alaska and Ihe
Arctic regions, to the islands of 1 lip
.Orient, the tropic isles of the sen—we,
who take so little account of mere
space, must sec to it 1 lint the best
means of nullifying ihe existence of
space arc at our command.
Of course, during the hist century
there has been altogether phenomenal
growth in one kind of road, wholly
unknown to the people of old the
Iron road. The railway is, of course,
something purely modern. Now, a
great many excellent people have pro
ceeded upon the assumption that, some
how or other, having good railways
are a Substitute for having good high
ways—good ordinary roads. A more
untenable position cannot lie imagined.
(Applause.) What the railroad does is
to develop Ihe country, and, of course,
its development implies that the conn
try will need more and better roads.
(Applause.)'
A few years ago it was a matter. 1
am tempted to say, of national humilia
tion that there should he so little at
tion paid to our roads —tha 1 then'
should lie a willingness not merely
to refrain from making good roads,
hut to let tile roads that were in ex
istence heroine worse: and 1 cannot
too heartily congratulate our people
upon the existence of a hod.v such as
this, ramifying into every section of
the country, having its communica
tions in every State of the country,
and bent upon this eminently practical
work of making the conditions of life
easier and better for the people who
of all others we can least afford to see
grow discontented with their lot in
life—the people who live in the conn
try districts. (Applause.)
The excessive, the wholly unheard
of rate of our industrial development
during the past seventy live years, to
gether with the good sides, has had
some evil sides. It is a tine tiling to
see our cities built up, hut not at the
expense of the country districts. (Ap
plause.) The healthy thing is to see the
building tip of both the city and the
country. But we cannot expect the
best, the most eager, the most ambi
tions young men to stay in the coun
try. to stay on the farm, unless they
jinyr oertn.l’i jiflvaiitfisjc*. If farm life
is a life of isolation and mental pov
erty. a life in which it is a matter of
great difficulty for one man to com
municate with his neighbor, you can
rest assured that there will he a ten
dency to leave It on the part of those
very people whom we should most
wish to see stay on the farm.
It is a good thing to encourage In
every way any tendency to cheek an
unhealthy flow from the country to the
city. (Applause.l There arc several
tendencies in evidence. The growth
of electricity as applied to means of
transportation tends to a certain de
gree to exercise a centrifugal force
to offset the centripetal force of
steam. Exactly as the uses of steam
have tended to gather men into masses,
•o wow electricity, a* applied to tntne
portation, has tended to scatter them
out again. Trolley lines running out
into tlie country are doing a great deai
to render it possible to live in the coun
try. and yet not lose the advantage*
of the town. The telephone is not to
be minimized as an instrument with a
tendency in the same direction. Rural
free delivery is playing its part along
the same lines. Rut no one thing can
do as much to offset tlie tendency to
ward an unhealthy trend from tli
country into the city as the making and
keeping of good roads.
They are needed for the sake of their
effects upon the Industrial conditions
of the country districts, and I am
almost tempted to say that they are
needed even more for their effect
upon tlie social conditions of the coun
try. If winter means to the average
farmer the existence of a long line of
liquid morasses, through which he has
to move his gootls if bent on business,
to wade and swim if bent on pleas
ure; if winter means that, if an ordi
nary rain comes, the farmer’s girl or
boy cannot use his or her bicycle, if a
little heavy water means a stoppage of
all communication, why you have got
to expect that there will be a great
many ytonng people of both sexes who
won’t find form life attractive.
It is for this reason, among many
others, that I feel the work you are
doing Is so pre-eminently one for the
interest of the nation as a whole. I
congratulate you upon the fact that
you are doing it. In our American life
it would be hard to overestimate tlie
amount of good that lias been accom
plished by associations of Individuals
who have gathered together to work
for a common object which was to lie
of benefit to the community as a whole.
And among nil the excellent objects
for which men and women combine
to work to-day, there are few indeed
who have a better right to command
lite energies of those engaged in tlie
movement, and (lie hearty sympathy
and support of those outside, than this
movement in which you are engaged.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
All men are fools, but only the Wise
stop being so.
Truth is with ourselves; It takes no
rise from outward tilings, whate’er you
may believe.
The mother who sees all the virtues
in hei own child is blind to those in
other children.
It is by presence of mind in untried
emergencies that the native metal of
a man is tested.
Tlie thoughts will turn to the future
when one comes to reckon the rapidity
of Time’s flight.
There is any quantity of gold in the
land, but we enjoy it most when the
other fellow digs for it.
Few men are wise enough to prefer
tlie blante that is useful for them to
the praise that betrays them.
The pleasures of dissipation are like
gaudy colors—they attract for a mo
ment. hut afterwards they oppress the
senses.
Be not disturbed about the future,
for if ever you come to it you will have
tHo same reason for your guide which
preserves you at present.
Patience and strength are what we
need; an earnest use of what vve have
now; and all tlie time an earnest dis
content until we come to what wo
ought to he.
Were we to believe nothing but what
we could perfectly comprehend, not
only our stock of knowledge in ail tho
branches of learning would lie shrunk
to nothing, but even tlie affairs f
common life could not bo carried on.
An Every-Day Type.
Let us name Him Coppazine, because
he is all brass. He has been striking
you for small sums, ones, twos, fives
and an occasional ten, until in your
debt SSO or SOO. This, of course, ho
never intends to pay. Believing that
lie has about reached your limit of
patience, he leaves you for other vic
tims. Six months pass. You meet him
when down to your lasi cent of change.
You say: “My dear Coppazine, please
lend me Half a dollar.” “Certainly."
You hope lo credit it to ills account,
but the next time lie meets you he re
minds you of the loan and asks for
the return of the fifty cents. Yon give
it to Him with a queer feeling in your
heart, yet have not tlie courage to men
tion the SSO or SGO lie owes you. There
are thousands of Coppazincs tints beat
ing their journey through life, always
borrowing, never paying, treating lib
erally with other men’s money and
supporting numerous barrooms. There’s
one of him talking to you now. Make
him settle up!—New York Press.
The liOfit Diamond.
While feeding a flock of fowls a
Doylestown woman dropped a valuable
earring, for which tho chickens itmno
mediately made a dive. The earring
was missing after the scramble was
over, ami, believing that it had been
swallowed by one of the chickens an
axe was brought into service and one
by one the flock of twenty-seven was
decapitated and a post-moster exam
ination held, with no results. Later,
in looking over the ground, the earring
was found.
Tlte story abounds with morals, as it
does with feathers.
First People with diamonds should
not keep chickens.
Second— People with chickens should
not wear diamonds.
Third—lf you keep chickens keep an
axe.
Fourth—Don't keep chickens. Oil
City Derrick.
Mttktng Saltpeter From Air,
For ages whenever persons wished
to make a particularly streng state
ment about the impossibility of doing
anything, they were more likely than
not to say. "1 can't pull it out of the
air, can 1?”
Now Professor Mutlimann, of the
Pelyfechnieal Academy in Munich, has
found a way by which many things
can tie nulled out of the air. He has
demonstrated that liy passing high elec
tric currents through moist air from
one platinum point to another, nitric
acid is formed and can be gatheerd
h.v the use of suitable apparatus. He
has shown that saltpeter can lie “pulled
out of Uio air" at less than one-fourth
of its present cost. New York Press.
XI ties of riililni; I.te*.
A North Sea eodtishiug boat usually
carries eight miles of lines, with very
uvtU'ijr mm hooks upon them,
AgßiniL
■sr HNTS^
The Milk Tester.
Any sort of a milk tester Is better
than none at all. lake as many glass
tumblers of equal E'ize as you have
cows, and fill each to the brim with
milk from one of the cows. Let these
stand for 12 hours and you will get a
very fair idea of the cream or butter
producing capacity of your several
cows. This is not equal to a Babcock
tester, nor a churn, but the butter
will soon follow.
Shelter for the Hay.
Hay stacks should never be used if
the hay can be put under shelter. Hay
sheds, which are simply roofs on pools,
cost hut little, and will save much val
uable food in a year. Clover hay does
not retain its quality when closely
packed, being liable to heat, which is
also an objection to hailing it. The best
prices for hay are obtained only when
the hay is bright and clean, and when
exposed to the weather it is liable to
Injury unless stack are made by ex
perts. The best hay is that which has
received careful attention in both cur
ing and storing.
Ensilage.
Ensilage should not cost the farmer
over a dollar per ton, and 50 pounds a
day is a large ration for a cow. This is
40 rations per ton, at two and a half
cents per ration, and hence will pro
vide for one cow forty days. There is
no food fhat can be produced at a low
er cost. The ensilage is not of itself a
complete food, as the best results are
derived when grain and hay are also
allowed, but it cheapens the cost of
tho whole and provides succulent food
in the winter when there is a change
from grass to the regulation dry ra
tion of that season.
Cows on Pasture.
It may surprise the inexperienced
that although the cows can be put on
pasture after grass appears, the supply
of milk is then usually reduced. This
is frequently the rase when any kind
of change in the fo’od is made, but
more especially very early in the
spring, as the grass is then more large
ly composed of water than at any oth
er season of the year, und consequent
ly is also more laxative than when It
approaches maturity. To offset these
conditions give the cows a full supply
of ground grain mixed with cut hay at
night, and do not keep them on the
pasture but a short while each day at
the beginning. Always give a full
nteal of grain and hay at night, and al
so an allowance of grain in the morn
ing, bran, middlings, ground oats and
cornmeal being an excellent mixture.
The Manure Spreader.
I have used a manure spreader the
bast two years and am very much
pleased with It. I think it the greatest
labor saving machine I have on my
farm. I spread all my manure with it.
For hoed crops I use twenty-six loads
per acre and have as good results as
when 1 used 30 or 35 loads the old way.
I lay that to spreading it so evenly
over the land. When we come to har
rowing, can work It into the ground so
nicely.
When I get to the field It takes from
three to four minutes to unload, while
by hand it would take 30 minutes, and
the spreader does it much nicer. Some
say it draws so hard they cannot use
it. I have no trouble about it and use
it on ail my land. For grass I use ten
to 15 loads per acre. It is the nicest
tiling to spread ashes with I ever saw
and is worth all its cost just for that.
You can put on any amount you want
per acre.—A. E. Hobart, in New Eng
land Homestead.
Temperature ct Soils.
Everybody has observed that on a
summer evening when the air comes
in contact with the rapidly cooling
grass and leaves of growing vegeta
tion, It begins to deposit moisture on
them, and tilts increases as the night
advances and vegetation cools down
still more, until by morning a large
amount of water has been precipitated.
By this we learn that the air at a cer
tain temperature is able to hold a giv
en amount of water, but if the temper
ature tie reduced it will hold less, and
the surplus water will he precipitated.
It the air that enters a drain tile, and
is distributed through the porous earth
along its coure, is reduced to a lower
temperature, by contact with a soil
cooler than the air, it will deposit
moisture in the soil. A tile laid three
or four feet deep will keep the ground
moist in its vicinity as long as the
air contains moisture enough to make
a dew point at a reasonable tempera
ture, but a shallow drain gives com
paratively few favotable results in
drought.
Poison for Farm Pest*.
Avery successful strychnine poison
has been used against the prairie dog
and gopher pest in Kansas and Ne
braska, and the demand for the mix
ture would prove effective against the
tats and woodchucks which make so
much trouble for Eastern farmers. Dis
solve 1 1-2 ounces of strychnia sulphate
In a quart of hot water. Add quart of
syrup—molasses, sorghum, or thick
Sugar and water —and a teaspoonful of
oil of anise. Thoroughly heat and mix
the liquid. While hot pour it over a
bushel of clean wheat and mix com
pletely. Then stir in two or more
pounds of line corn meal. The quantity
of corn meal will depend upon the
amount of extra moisture present.
There should be enough to wet every
grain of the wheat and no more. Care
should be taken that there is no leak
age from the vessel in which the wheat
Is mixed. Let the poisoned grain stand
over night, and distribute it in the
early morning of a bright day. An ex
cellent substitute for the oil of anise
in the above formula ran be made by
soaking two ounces of green coffee
berries in the whites of three eggs. Let
this stand tor about twelve hours aud
use the liquid instead of anise oij. In
making this mixture ror rats, oil of
rhodium, although a very costly drug,
would prove more attractive than any
other odor. Poison for rats should he
put in a plate, then sprinkled over with
com meal and set where they can get
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
it during the night, other animals bo
ing shut away. During the day it may
be put one side for safety. Some far
mers claim to have poisoned wood
chucks by using paris green water on
cabbage plants. Possibly this strych
nine mixture, with the grain left out,
would prove equally effective applied
to plants in the woodchucks’ feeding
ground.—The Cultivator.
Important Disease of Currant.
Anthracnose of currants is a fungous
disease which attacks chiefly the
leaves, causing them to fall premature
ly. Multitudes of brown spots of pin
head size make their appearance on
the leaves which soon after turn yel
low and fall. Anthracnose is not often
destructive, but in 1901 it caused great
damage in the Hudson River Valley.
The disease appeared early in June
and by the time the fruit was ripe
many plantations were almost entirely
bare of foliage. Asa consequence, the
berries shriveled and some of the new
wood was not properly matured. From
this cause some of the new biiools died
and it is probable that a part of the
unusually large amount of dead wood
in curjant plantations the past spring
resulted from the severe attack of an
thracnose last season. The greater
part, however, was due to cane blight.
Should it become necessary to fight
grain of the wheat and no more. Care
anthracnose it could doubtless be con
trolled by spraying with bordeaux
mixture, commencing before the leaves
appear and repeating the treatment at
intervals of ten to fourteen days until
the fruit is two-tnirds grown. Thor
ough spraying will also have a ten
dency to check the ravages of cane
blight and by the addition of paris
green to the mixture, currant worms
may be readily controlled without ex
tra labor.—Professor F. C. Stewart, of
the New York .Experiment Station.
Raising Calves.
To keep up the supply of stock,
which should be constantly on the in
crease in this country, large numbers
of calves must he raised. A great many
of these young animals are now sold
to the butchers, and this detracts large
ly from the supply that is needed to
keep the number good on the farm.
And in some instances it is feared
that the best, or those that will bring
the most money, are disposed of in this
way. The farmer should make no mis
take in this matter, and injure future
prospects for a little present gain. Tits
best for the purpose needed should 1)0
retained on the farm. Particularly
should this be the case where dairying
is the leading industry, and indeed the
same rule will apply where beef pro
duction is followed, or both combined.
The best are none too good for the
purpose.
But I wish now to speak more par
ticularly of the dairy. The farmer as
a general thing should raise his own
stock, —that is, the heifers. Of course
he should get the best males he can
from the most approved families or
breeds, and then select the most prom
ising heifer calves from the best cows.
A considerable proportion of our most
enterprising dairymen, those who are
in a condition to do so, have their
cows fresh in milk from September on
during the four succeeding months.
This affords a good opportunity for
raising a fine lot of fall and winter
calves that, if well cared for, will be
come large, thrifty animals, which an
other spring, as the postures become
good, will be fully able to care for
themselves. The raising of calves in
this manner is becoming quite an in
dustry of itself where winter dairying
is practised. It comes at a time of the
year when the work can be readily
performed and in the best manner.
To be the most successful in this
business there are some necessary con
ditions. These are comfortable quar
ters, where the young animals can be
kept dry and warm. This is very im
portant, as they can hardly be ex
pected to thrive or to do well in cold,
dark, wet pens. Plenty of bedding to
keep them dry is one of the requisites,
and they should be fed regularly with
sweet, warm milk, it may he skimmilk
after the first few weeks or days even,
with neither too little nor too much at
a time. Where separators are used on
the farm, or cold, deep setting of milk
precticed these conditions can be suc
cessfully carried out. Where calves are
thus kept in a comfortable stable and
fed milk until the following spring,
tuey should become such animals that
the owner may well be proud of. But
milk should not form the entire ra
tion. After a few weeks they will com
mence to eat a little hay and it should
he fed to them regularly, and that of
the best quality. If there is a silo on
the premises the ensilage will be rel
ished and help to make a better ration.
Not much grain need be fed, as it is
essential to develop the milking qual
ities rather than those of a beef ten
dency. A little bran or oats will not
come amiss. The idea should be to
keep them healthy, thrifty anu grow
ing all through the winter, the begin
ning of just such animals as the far
mer will be delighted with a little time
hence, when they shall take their
places in his own dairy or go to make
a profitable addition to some other
herd.—E. R. Towle, in American Culti
vator.
The Kangaroo Kicks.
The porters and cabmen at Euston
were wiser than they knew when they
rapidly retreated on observing that
the escaping kangaroo was assuming
a belligerent attitude. When a big
"eld man'' kangaroo stiffens his tail
and converts it into a sort of revolv
ing pivot, bearing the whole weight of
his body, leaving his tremendously
powerful legs free for attack and de
fense, everybody does not want to be
ripped up or thrown in a heap for a
considerable distance, will give the
marsupial a wide berth. Only those
who have seen the full grown kanga
roo in his native Australian bush with
his back to a tree, scattering dogs,
bleeding and torn, right and left, can
form any adequate idea of the pro
digous strength the animal is capable
of exerting when he finds himself li
a tight corner. Kangaroos are nov
getting scarce in the southern parts
of Australia, but they are still pretty
numerous in the thinly-peopled norP.i
—London Chronicle.
A chimney of 115 feet high will with
out danger, sway ten Inches in ft wind
A TIGER YARN.
A Tale Even Stranger Than That
About a Certain Tommy.
There is no tiger story in India more
hallowed by custom and unstaled by
variety than that of the Tommy who
hung on to the tiger’s tail till it came
off. I suppose it is to be reckoned
among the beneficent effects of our
education of the native, says the Lon
don Tatler, that this fine old chestnut
has recently been appropriated and
served up by the baboo in his native
papers. We are told how the animal,
“infuriated" at having the door of the
baboo’s sitting-room shut in his face,
tried to get in through the roof. “He
pushed up the thatch with his head
and just got well in, when down came
the thatch upon him, preventing him
from moving either way. Master
Stripes was now an object of derision
to the assembled villagers. One brave
youth got hold of his tail and there
was a regular tug-of-war between man
and tiger. But a still stranger thing
happened. The tail gave way under
severe tension and a considerable por
tion of it was left in the hands of the
plucky youth, to the delight of the by
standers.”
After this sort of tiling a plain, un
varnished fact is what you begin to
think refreshing. But the plain, un
varnished fact which has just taken
place in Rangoon is really more as
tonishing. A man-eating tigress, which
had recently been reported in the vici
nity of Rangoon, was suddenly discov
ered early the other morning to be ly
ing fast asleep on the platform of the
famous Schwe Dagon pagoda, which
stands almost in the centre of Ran
goon and is thechief place of Buddhist
worship in lower Burmah. The pagoda
is thronged night and day with monks
and devotees, and it would be almost
incredible if it were not true that a
tigress should choose such a place for
a night’s rest. Perhaps the monks will
explain that she was in a former exist
ence a wicked nun who had now come
to do penance before the shrine of
Buddha, or perhaps she remembered
the spot as one where she might easily
pick out a fat devotee for dinner. At
any rate, there on the gilded platform
she was seen to be sleeping in the
early morning sunshine, and the ex
citement and panic of the holy men
may be imagined. They rushed across
to the arsenal just below and called
upon the sahibs to save them. Some
of the officers and “the sons of the
military” came to their aid.
It is rumored that a firing party was
drawn up which shot at the tigress by
sections and half sections; but the tig
ress wisely refused to be frightened—
she was, of course, secure from being
hit—by the British army. At any rate,
in the end, Major Jennings climbed on
to the roof of a pyathat and Mr. Chris
topher on to the scaffolding of one of
the small pagodas. Thence they fired.
The tigress was hit, but did not move.
After another shot to make sure, Major
Jennings, followed by some Burmans
armed with spears, gave the beast the
coup de grace. It proved to be a tig
ress in fine condition, measuring be
tween seven and eight feet.
Man Told to be a Woman.
“We men are frequently called cow
ards when it comes to enduring physi
cal pain, and it may be we deserve
it,” said a treasury official, “but I
never had the fact so forcibly present
ed to me as one morning last week. I
bad been suffering from my head for
a few days and on my way to office
one morning last week determined to
see the doctor about it, and did so.
Contrary to all rules concerning a vis
it to the doctor, the pain became more
intense instead of stopping or even
getting better.
“It may have been that my groans
disturbed the patient for whom the
doctor was preseribing in an adjoining
room. At any rate, in a snort while
the doer ilew open and I prepared to
pour my woes into his sympathetic
ear. Instead I was greeted with ‘What
in heaven’s name is the matter with
you, Jack? Wnat are you groaning
about?’ I tried to tell him, and, feel
ing rather ashamed of myself, made it
a little worse than it already was. Ts
that all?’ he came back at me; ‘welt,
I'll get to you after a while; you have
a little cold, and for heaven's sake
stop your moaning, brace up and be a
woman for once in your life.’
"After that blow I remained quiet
until it came my turn to seek his med
ical advice. I then agreed with him
that it was nothing but a slight cola,
and he laughingly told me as I went
out that he hoped the last dose would
be as beneficial as the first.” —Wash-
ington Post.
Self-Made Copper King of Japan.
We regret to announce the death of
Mr. Furukawa Ichibel, owner' of the
Asliiwo copper mines. He was a self
made man, having originally been a
hawker of beancurd cakes in Kyoto.
Fortune took him by the hand when
at 22 he entered the service of the
Kcyioike house in Kyoto, whereafter
he was adopted into the family of Fur
ukawa Tarozayemcn and initiated in
to the mysteries of the foreign silk
trade under the auspices of the Ouo
gumi.
It appears that from the year 1874,
after the bankruptcy of the Ono firm,
he conceived the idea that Japan’s
future lay in the development of
mines, and following that inspiration,
he devoted himself to getting posses
sion, wholly or in part, of various min
ing properties, first that of Kusakura
(copper) and then those of Ashiwo,
Irnai and Sui. No difficulties seem to
have daunted him, and at the time of
his death he had a proprietary inter
est in 69 mines, measuring twenty-five
millions of tsubo, employing 30,000
men; having machinery of 7000 horse
power, and producing 20 kwamme of
gold, 3000 kwan of silver, 16 million
pounds of copper, and 400,000 tons of
coal. These figures represent 20 per
cent of the whole production of silver
in Japan and 40 percent of that of
copper. Mr. Furukawa was 79 years
of age at the time of his death, and
his malady was cancer of the stomacn.
-The Japan Mail.
A Bacteria Lamp.
A professor at Prague has construct
ed a lamp which is lighted by means
of bacteria. He believes that it will
be of special use to miners.
HOUSEHOLD * *
* * * * MATTERS
Care of Children’s Hair.
Mothers should teach their children
to care for their hair as early as pos
sible. If the little girl is coaxed into
the habit of giving her locks a hundred
strokes with a stiff brush every morn
iug and evening nud braiding them
loosely for lied the foundation for a
future beautiful head of hair will be
laid. Counting the strokes will lighten
♦he task for her. and she will soon be
come accustomed to it and make it
part of her daily toilet. Too many
children are allowed to go to bed
with their hair in a tousled condition,
only to have it jerked and tangled
Hastily when school time comeß around.
Such a practice is disastrous to the
nerves of a sensitive child and ruinous
to tlie hair. Teach the little daughter
to take care of her hair, and at the
light time, and also to keep her
brushes and comb in the proper state
of cleanliness. These articles should
lie as strictly personal property as the
tooth brush. Never alloNv one child
to use the other’s hair brush. Dis
eases of the scalp are most contagious,
and the brush is the surest germ agent.
—Washington Star.
Cake>Making Axioms.
To get a fine grained cake beat thor
oughly after tlie flour is added.
...
Sweet milk makes cake that cuts like
pound cake. Sour milk makes spongy
light cake.
* * *
Always sift flour before measuring,
then it may be sifted again with the
baking powder to insure their being
thoroughly blended.
* •
In making fruit cakes add the fruit
before putting in the flour, as this will
prevent it falling to the bottom of
the cake. Flouring the fruit Is un
necessary, unless the fruit is damp.
* * *
If a cake cracks open while baking,
the recipe contains too much flour.
...
In creaming butter and sugar, when
the butter is too hard to blend easily,
warm the howl, and, if necessary,
warm tho sugar, but never warm the
buttei, as tills will change both text
ure and flavor of the cake.
...
The smaller the cake the hotter
should be the oven. Large, rich cakes
require very slow baking.
-
Grease cake pans with lard or drip
pings, as butter will be likely to make
tlie cake stick, owing to the salt in
it.—Philadelphia Telegraph.
'V
Shrinking Wash Fabrics,
There is one little bit of work the
home dressmaker should never try to
avoid. If she does, her efforts to have
a pretty summer wardrobe are going
to spell failure. She should never, un
der any circumstances—no matter how
work presses nor how limited her time
—fail to shrink her wash fabrics be
fore making up. Ail such materials ns
linen, madras, duck and the like will
shrink an Inch for every yard the first
time they are washed. This means
skirts will be too short, waistbands
not able to meet, the skirt will ride up
over the Hips, and bodices get all out
of proportion. And it is quite likely
that every time they are washed there
after the shrinking will continue to
some extent.
Neither depend upon the laundress
to do your shrinking. She will proba
bly do it the wrong way—that is, dip it
in water, wring it out, and then iron
it. Done this way, the material will
go on cheerfully shrinking at the next
washing.
The proper way Is very simple and
easy, and any one can do it. The re
sults are very satisfactory, >for it has
been done by the writer many times.
Fill a bathtub quarter full of clear
filtered water. Be sure to filter the
water, otherwise the material, if white
or light colored, is liable to have a
darkish hue when dried. Then fold
youi material in a clean towel to pre
vent dust from settling on it, put it-in
tlie water, and let it remain there all
day or over night. On taking it out
of tlie water do not unwrap the folds
or wring it out, but hand it up drip
ping. It will lake some time, but it
will eventually dry, and be smooth
enough to make up without ironing.
When the skirt, or whatever tlie ar
ticle is, inis been finished, it should
then he dampened and pressed. If any
one will try this method, they will lie
sure to find it very satisfactory, and
well worth the little extra trouble.—
Philadelphia Telegraph.
RECIPES f
Boiled Salad Dressing—Stir one tea
spoonful of oil or melted butter, one
teaspoonful each of mustard, salt and
sugar together; add three beaten eggs;
then ono cupful of vinegar and one
cupful of milk; cook In a double boiler
until as thick as boiled custard.
liice Bannocks—One cup of rice, set
over lire in a little water until swelled
thoroughly; add one cup milk and piece
of butter size of walnut. Let stand un
til morning, add one-half pint Indian
me.-l, two well beaten eggs, two table
spoonfuls of floor, a liberal pint of
milk, a half teaspoonful of salt. Bake
one hour in shallow pans.
Buttermilk Dumplings—Rent two
egge togetlier and mix them with two
and one-half cupfuls of buttermilk.
Dissolve a teaspoonful of baking soda
in a very little boiling water; mix it
with the milk and Immediately mix
with enough flour to make a dough
soft enough to drop from a spoon.
Drop into boiling water, cover closely
and boil steadily, but not too rapidly,
for ten minutes.
New Rice Pudding—Wash one-fourth
cup of uncooked rice in three waters,
put into a deep baking dish with one-
Ihird cup of sugar, four cups of milk
aud a rounded teaspoouful of butter.
Bake slowly two hours, stirring occa
sionally at first. A rich brown ertmt
should form on top. It may be eaten
with or without cream. It has an alto
gethei different toiro and flavor from
tfee pudOing ac witb cooked tie*.
EVENING ON THE PORCH*
■When work is over for the day
And twilight gathers ’round
And Lucy takes iho garden hose
And wets the dusty ground,
When through the dusk
Where scents ot innsk
Are borne upon the breeze,
A voice says, “Law!
1 never saw
Rose bushes grow like these!
That’s when the world
Is brighter than
The firefly’s tickle torch,
When kids roll on
The level lawn
And chairs are on the porch.
When darkness finally settles down
And drives away the heat,
And ends ihs bail game which the boyi
Are playing In the street.
Oh, then's the time
When half in rhyme
The dreams go to and fro,
With oceans of
Bright stars above
And seas of love below.
Till reason says
It’s time to leave
The night, the damp, the air,
But with the dreams
A something seems
To Chain one to the cha'r.
—lndianapolis Bun.
HUMOROUS.
Wigg—Did he inherit his money or
did he make it? Wagg—Worse than
either. He married lor it.
“Your face is very familiar to me,”
remarked the barber. “Not half so
familiar as your manner to me,” re
plied the crusty man in the chair.
Billings—How did you know Pottel
took tho elevator coming up? Bert —
Oh, I know Pottel’s nature. He takes
everything he can lay his hands on-
Miss Gushing—Which do you pre
fer, Mr. Dashing, blondes or bru
nettes? Jack Dashing—Oh, it ail de
pends on the girl I am with. —Chicago
News.
Silllcus—How did he acquire his
reputation for such great wisdom?
Cynicus—Why, there isn’t a subject
under the sun that he can’t remain si
lent about.
Growler—When ’ I was younger,
madam, I was a lion. Mrs. Growler —
I agree with you. Growler —You do?
Mrs. Growler —X°s; you are still the
king of beasts.
“That old lady,” said the fish deal
er’s assitant, “wants a black bass, and
we haven’t any.” “Oh, well, give hei
a bluefish,” replied the dealer. “She’s
colorblind, anyhow.”
Manager —Yes, mum; this is the Os
sifiecf'Man. He stands like a statue
all day and does not move an inch.
Mrs. Van Albert —Goodness! Wouldn’t
he make an ideal butler?
Pete —When yer dad was lickin’ yer
I heard him say it pained him more
than it did you. Ain’t data chestnut?
Jimmy—Naw; ’twas de truth dis time.
De switch urolte an flew in his eye.
“Yes,” remarked the loud-voiced
man with the diamond stud, “i am out
of politics for good.” “Ah,” mur
mured tho sedate little fellow in the
corner, “May I ask for whose good?”
Blcbbs —There goes a fellow whose
name is in everybody’s month. Slobbs
—A famous character, eh? Biobits—
Not at all. He is quite unknown to
fame, but his name happens to be
Tongue.
The Smart Architect. —Wealthy Pa
tron —Remember, that in making plans
for my house, bay windows are
barred. Smart Architect —I thought
only prison windows were barred. —
Express.
Ascum —If “brethren” is a synonym
for “brothers,” why not “sistern” for
"sisters?” Henpeck—Nonsense! I’ve
often heard of a cistern that would dry
up occasionally.—Catholic Standard
and Times.
Rollingston Nomoss—Here’s a piece
in de paper wot says de great trouble
wid de American people is dat dey eat
too much. Hungry Hawkins —Hully,
gee! An’ people gits paid fer writin’
t’ings like dat!
“Tommy,” said the surprised moth
er as she caught him in the act of tak
ing too Sfili slice of cake, uren t you
forgetting yourself?” “No, ma,”
chuckled Tommy; “I am remembering
myself pretty well.”
Mrs. Briggs—Funny about men.
Mrs. Fitts —What’s funny? Mrs.
Briggs—When we were married John
was mad because the people threw
rice at me, and now he thinks nothing
of flinging at me any bit of ironmon
gery that happens to be near his hand.
"That is Prof. Dygge, is it? He
seems to be the lion of the evening.
What has he ever done to make him
famous?” "Haven’t you heard about
him? He’s the man that succeeded in
supplying a Manx cat with a tail by
gratting the latter half of a snake on
ine animal. —Chicago News.
\ Mystery of the “Dowser.”
In an interesting letter published in
last week’s Speaker, Lord rarrar calls
attention to the mystery in which the
time-honored calling of the “dowser”
is still enveloped. The “dowser” is,
of course, a person endowed with the
rare sense'of being abl.e to detect the
presence and locality of underground
streams of water, and the illustra
tions supplied y Lord Farrer of tho
practical value c.f this accomplish
ment fully corroborate the mass ot
testimony that has been collected from
time to time.
The inference to be drawn from
Lord Farrer’s observations is that the
hazel twig usually employed as an in
dex is by no means a necessary part
of the dowser’s equipment, and that
the sense which warns him cf the
presence of water is most probably
equivalent to the instinct that guides
the birds and animats of the desert to
their drinking places.
Asa matter of fact, the hazel twig
has been tested as often as planchette,
and will “dip" in the hands of the
merest novice Jf persevered with lor
a time. The results, too, are usually
as misleading as those obtained by tho
m o of the heart-shaped board. But
th * instinct of the born "dowser"
would appear to be a most valuable
one, and capable of further develop
ment if properly understood and di
rected. —Black and White.
All About Metaphysics,
A Scotchman thus defin.ru meta
physics: “When a mon wha’ kens
naething aboot any subject takes a
subject that nae mon kens anything
aboot and explains it to anither mo
still more ignorant than himself-*
that'* metaphysics."—The Lyre.