it round. At each pin she made a
loop, or what sailors call a half-hitch,
to steady the worsted.
The little girls looked on in delight,
while the parasol grew under grand
ma’s skillful fingers, and when the
Prediction Made That It Will Be
blue worsted covered a little more than
Capable of Traveling 75
half of the pins, she threaded a wor
sted-needle with the end of it, and fas
Miles an Hour.
tened it off neatly on the under side.
“Now for my pink!” cried Lucy.
And dear grandma tied it to the same
The Crow and the Owl.
WILL BE LIKE A FLYING FISH.
Said a crow to an owl: “Well, I may pin where she had finished off the blue,
and began to wind it, the two pretty
Keeping the Cow.
To Hold Milk Cans in a Cooling; Box*.
be obtuse,
colors making a charming contrast.
But I never can see any real excuse
The cost of keeping a cow varies
The usual practice of small dairy*
For the silly demeanor and ways of a
At last every bit of the pins was cov ’ considerably according to the cost of men to keep their milk cool is to put-
Dream of Magazine Writer, the Ful
goose.”
ered except their heads, and after fin ‘ producing the roughage from hay, the milk cans under running water in
Said the owl: “I agree, so you are not ishing off the pink as she had done 1 grain and corn feeds, but figures from ft box. The cans are usually kept be*
fillment of Which Is Not Be
obtuse,
the blue, grandma took the small hat
yond Realm of Possibility.
And of course we intend not a word pin and stuck it firmly on the under • dairy associations place the average neath the water by slipping strips of
cost at $30 or $35 a year. To pay a board, of proper length, over the tops'
of abuse,
But I’ve heard it declared as the only side of the cork. “This is for a han- profit, it follows that the cow must of the cans and under ledges at the
die,” she said.
produce more than $30 or $35 a year, side of the box. In using this method
excuse
It was a lovely dolly’s parasol, and It pays to keep an accurate account one runs the risk of upsetting the
The goose acts that way just because
From the standard of present devel-
of course there had to be another just with all the cows. There are many cans when putting the strips in post*
it’s a goose.1
opment the airship of 1915 may be
like it, for’ Daisy and Lucy always that do not near pay up. Apply the tion.
conceived as having a hull of rigid
Heartsease.
had things alike, and Seraphina and test of scales and Babcock tester then
An Improvement over this method
construction, 1,000 feet long and 80
Once upon a time, in a rich man’s Araminta, their two dolls, were beau and get rid of those that do not come is shown in the accompanying sketch,
feet beam, with accommodations for
garden the trees and flowers began to tifully sheltered from the sun, and up to the mark.
from Popular Mechanics, which is
125 to 150 passengers, with a crew of
wither away. The oak, because it the adminration of every child in the
In buying new cOws, procure those self-explanatory.
The apparatus is
forty-two men.
could not yield any fair flowers; the street.
that freshen in the fall. You will
The new air liner will resemble
rose bush, because it could not bear
A word just here to the mammas and have the butterfat at the time when
submarine, or rather a flying fish,
any fruit; the vine, because it had to aunties who may help you to make prices rule higher an,d the cow will
writer in the Century says. All its
cling to the wall and could cast no one of these parasols some rainy day. continue in good flow all through the
parts will be compactly built into the
cool shadow.
If you have no gilt paint handy for the spring if you treat her well through
hull. Its under body, 800 feet long,
“I am of no use in the world,” said cork and the head of the hatpin, ink, the winter. Increase the feeding as
12 feet wide and 9 feet high, will ex
the Oak.
ordinary paint or eVen shoe-dressing is the pastures decrease. Extra care and
tend between the elbows fore and aft
“I might as well die!” cried the just as good, only a trifle less effective. feed in the fall will /keep the milk
where the hull begins to curve toward
A new method of producing thin me Rose Bush. .
The parasol has a better shape if the flow up and allow of good sales as the
its pointed bow and stern. The un tallic films by volatilization in a vac
“What good can I do?” murmured pins are bent slightly and the worsted prices increase.
derbody will hold seven passengers uum was described at a recent meeting the Vine.
held firmly.—-Youth’s Companion.
After years of observation the Cor
and eight operating sections, after the of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, by
Then the man,
walking sadly
nell University reaches these conclu
Drawing Room Blizzard.
fashion of a compartment sleeping Prof. L. Houllevigue. The metal to be through his depleted garden, noticed a
To enjoy this game best, go into the sions: (1) With a fairly good herd
car. A continuous passageway will ex deposited is first disposed in a layer little heartsease, which all ihe while
hall or longest room in the house. carefully fed and kept, milk can be
tend from end to end.
on a platinum wire, which is then held up its cheerful face to the sun.
Sometimes
the door between two small produced for 65 cents a cwt., and fat
The prow, glased with artificial heated in a high vacuum. The film
The man stooped and asked: “What
rooms
may
be opened and thus give for 16 cents a pound, for the cost of
mica, will furnish an aerial observa- forms on a plate of glass, which is kept makes you so bright and blooming
food consumed. Large animals con
plenty of space.
tory. Its interior will be a series of in rotation near the heated wire. In when all the rest are fading?”
sume less pounds of dry material per
Divide
the
players,
Send
half
to
grill galleries, connected by steps, this manner thin films have been pro
“I thought,” answered the little
1,000 lb. live weight each day than the
Here will be the “bridge,” the air duced of gold, silver, platinum, iron, flower, “you wanted me here because one end, half to the other. Fasten two
smaller
animals do. The best yields of made of strips of board, 1 inch thick»
liner’s nerve center, with signal radia copper, zine, tin and cadmium.
it was here you planted me, and so I extra wide tapes near each end for fat are obtained from cows that give the lower sketch shows how the de*
tion to all parts of the ship. A nar
Up to the present time, says F. L. thought I would try to be the best and goals. For a ball make a large one a fairly large flow of milk. Pasture vice is put into the milk box, B is a
row gallery will reach the extreme Hess, the most important use of tungs prettiest little heartsease that could of tissue paper. Place this ball in the
hinge, and A a button to lock the
middle of the room, and at a given grass is the cheapest milk and fat pro tongue C in place when the device ia
nose, where a small exploring gun, ten is as an alloy for steel tools. From be.”
ducing food. (From this it seems that i
swung on a universal joint, can be 16 to 20 per cent of tungsten is ordi
The man pressed the dear little signal let each player, previously those who neglect their pastures or straightened out. Boards for holding
armed with a small fan, try to blow
fired toward most points in space. On narily used for tools. It enables the flower to his heart.
make little effort to start new ones, are the grain in bins can be made in the
its several platforms will be the navi steel to hold temper in a much higher
Are you, reader, like the oak and the ball over the opposite goal. The in a losing game.) The cow consum same manner.
gating deck, the helm, the “wireless,” temperature than ordinary carbon the rose bush and the vine, unhappy number of goals to a game must be ing the most food produce both fat
Most Profitable Farm Animal.
the chartroom and both meterological steel. A lathe may be speeded up until because you are not something else? planned beforehand, and each success and milk at lowest rate. A good cow
Opinion is divided and probably al*
is
scored
to
the
winning
side.
and astronomical “observatories.”
Or
are
you,
like
the
heartsease,
do
the chips flying from the tool are so
must be a hearty eater. Individuals ways will be on the question which is*
This game makes a wonderful lot
Below the “bridge” will be a hatch hot that they turn blue. It is esti ing your best, and happy because you
of the same breed vary more widely the most profitable farm animal to
of
fun
and
soon
a
gray-haired
man
and
way to the main passage in the for mated that about five times as much are what you are?
in milk and butter production than raise. Many believe the horse bring»
woman can start as earnestly, blow
ward underbody of the ship, where w’ork can be done with such a tool as
do the breeds themselves.—The Ohio the greatest profit, others tie their
Poor Mr. Bellows.
ing away to get the ball over the other
there is a companion way which is the with one made of ordinary steel.
Farmer.
faith to the beef breeds, and still oth*
goal
as
the
children
are.
ship’s portal. Abaft of this will be the
In scientific annals the Beagle, in
ers to the dairy breeds of cattle, but
To Straighten Young Trees.
captain’s cabin.
which Darwin made his first exploring
This device can be easily attached it seems that the friends of the hog:
The sides of the “hold,” or tunnel,
NOT ALTOGETHER BAD.
expedition, is almost as sacredly re
to a tree which is Inclined to grow are in the majority, A hog requires-
five feet high and eight1 feet wide, will
membered as “Old Ironsides” in Amer
crooked. Make a framework of nar more care at times than do soma
be lined with continuous tanking, con
Good Thing-« About the Street Car
1
ican history. This ship has long been
row boards sharpened at the end other animals, but it is wonderfully
That Are Worth Considering.
taining gasoline fuel, to be forced up
lost from sight, and nobody knew ex
ward into the engine rooms, as needed.
It is time the sleeping car woke up. where the frame pieces come together prolific, and if the quality and breed*
actly what had become of it. Toyozi
The outside of the “hold” will serve
Muckrakers are upon it. They accuse and attach the frame to the tree with ing are right it is easy to make a
market for the animals produced, and
as the airship’s rounded keel, and will Noda now writes to Nature that the
it of extortion and Inquire why the a wire.
Beagle was broken up in Japan, where
the farmer has the advantage of turn*
This
should
be
attached
at
just
the
enable the craft to float on water;
dickens we must pay as much to sleep
it was used as a training ship until
ing his money over more rapidly and
elastic buffers for landing will be fixed
in a cofiin—called a berth since oppo
1899, and that a part of its ribs has
more profitably in hog breeding than
under each engine section.
sites suggest each other—as in a com
recently been found in use as a stand
in perhaps any other kind of animal
The eight motor compartments will
modious hotel bedroom. They think
for stones piled up near the temple
production. Of course, there are-
that when a sleeping car can pick up
each bo equipped with one 200-horse-
of Suitengu, near the Oaki shipbuild
many risks to assume, as the modern
a profit of 500 per cent just by bump
power motor. z . The electric power
ing yard.
hog is a purely artificial product and.
ing around the country somebody is
plants, for lighting, cooking and oper
subject to humors and diseases which,
The predaceous beetle, Clerus formi-
being fleeced.
ating the escalator, will be in the en
would not come to it in its wild state..
carius, which has been found useful
Still, there are many kind words
gine compartments.
The investment of a moderate sum of
in
the
United
States
as
an
enemy
of
due the sleeping car, the “Clerk” in
The top of the hull, now the Zeppe
money in a few brood sows in the-
the Boston Evening Transcript thinks.
lin’s observatory, will become a long the pine-boring Scolytidse, is to be in
spring will make a man a hog breeder
troduced
in
Ceylon
to
make
war
upon
For
one
thing,
it
teaches
us
the
falla
“hurricane deck” of thin, light plank
within a year; whether bred as a spe*
cy of the germ theory, since, if germs
ing, with side rails. Here will be kept the “shot-hole borers” which are rav
cialty or as a side line, the hog always-
“Oh, dear, it’s no use trying to wear were injurious, those that teem by
aging
the
tea
plants
in
that
island.
service implements; two slender masts,
gives a good account of himself.—
a new spring hat! Every time I take
carrying the “wirelesss” atennee and The experimenters are only doubtful as a step my headdress blows off. Poor millions in the stuffy curtains and de
Kansas Farmer.
to
whether
the
imported
insects
will
testable cushions would have killed
the yellow “top lights”; observatories-
me! I’d like to bellow!”
thrive
in
the
tropical
climate
of
Cey
Animals Need Juicy Feed.
us
off
long
before
this.
In
the
next
for cloud triangulation and taking the
The digestive organs of animals that
place, the sleeping car proves the
altitude of stars; searchlights, kite lon. The need of a foe capable of
Writing Tricks«
chew their cud are so formed as to*
winch and the airship’s “boats,” two dealing effectually with the borers is . Can you write your name with your beneficence of carbonic acid gas. Why
require comparatively juicy and bulky
small, swift aeroplane “scouts”—one emphasized by the fact that an allied left hand? It is a good thing to know do you burst with vitality after a
food. The cow can not thrive on dry
fore, the other aft, with ample space species of borers is attacking the cam how, in case you eVer hurt your right night on the rail? Simply because
as well as the horse. The ideal,
you have breathed the same air 7,000
Tor launching and alighting. Along the phor plants also.
hand.
for the dairy cow is good pas-
times over. Besides, think of the edu
On the night of Jan. 21 some of the
port and starboard sides five sets of
Can you write a looking-glass let
ture, but for a large part of the yeair
curved aeroplane surfaces will help to residents of Lake avenue, Chicago, ter? That always amuses children, so cational advantages. Where but in
green i pasture is not available. The
lift and support the airship or steer were alarmed by what seemed to be if you have a friend who is ill send the sleeping car do we acquire the
best substitutes to furnish this succu*
it up and down.
They will be a long-continuing earthquake, which her a looking-glass letter to cheer her arts of ladder-climbing, of parading
lent feed during this period are root
“stopped” to avoid interference. Be jarred tables, shook curtains and up. Practice by writing on a piece of half-clad and of keeping our tempers
crops and corn silage. Corn yields^
tween them will be eight small propell moved pictures on the walls. It was paper held in front of a mirror, and when the train men outside wakes us
about twice as much dry matter per*
ers, four on each side, at alternating found that these startling effects had soon you will find it is quite easy to at every stop by loud swearing?
acre as do root crops. As root crop»
been produced by the pounding of the do looking-glass writing.^ Looking nally consider the employment
levels along the hull.
require
mu^.h more labor, silage is by
forded
to
the
unhappy
lunatics
who,
waves
on
the
shore
of
the
lake
where
It is believed that within five years
glass writing is done backwards so
such an air liner will be capable of the ice had suddenly gone out, thus that it looks all right when it is held but for the occupation of inventing right point to correct the crookedness ter the most economical for those
traveling seventy-five miles an hour, permitting the impact of the waves to £he mirror, , Also see if you can names for sleeping cars, might die of in the tree. The tree should be pro where corn can not be grown.
tected from the wire by a Cloth. The
ordinarily, and often 120 miles, in the to come direct against the frozen soil. write your name backwards—that is, boredom.
Salt Box«.
Well, there is some merit in the constant bearing down of the weights
In that condition the ground was ren begin at the last stroke and go back
upper levels.
The salt box is made out of two-inclM
muckrakers
’
investigations,
neverthe
will in a very short time bring the stuff so it will withstand the pranka
In ten years an airship driven fifty dered more elastic and the force of to the first-r-and as a last trick to
miles an hour may perchance make the blows was transmitted to a consid write your name upside down. That less, and the clerk honors" them for tree to its proper position without in- of horses and other stock crowding
showing us a way to get even with jury.
that trip in eight days, flying at a erable distance from the shore.
An ordinary
about the salt place.
is not at all easy, but copy your sig
speed of 120 miles an hour, or 3,000
bunk is made about three feet wide-
During his recent expedition in the nature upside down and you will 'be the porter. Porters, it seems, are re-,
Pig;« Need Phosphate,
a day. Is it all a dream? Ten years Himalayas, Dr. T. G. Longstaff discov able to do it quite well after a little quired to pay for toilet articles ab
The relation of phosphate to the by four long and the salt receptacle
ago a prophecy of the present achieve ered a new chain of the Karakoram practice. After you can do all these stracted from the car. Beloved, let ut animal economy was finely worked out made so as to fit inside the bunk end*
remember
this.
When
the
Ethiopian
ments of German air navigators would range, containing a group of immense things learn to write a good clear
by the Wisconsin Experiment station.
have been received with incredulity.
peaks, one of which, Teram Kangri, hand in the proper way, like a sensi- shuts up the bunk with us inside it, Three pens of pigs of three each were
to
though
we
piteously
implored
him
situated in about latitude 35' degrees, ble person.—Chicago News.
“put us off at Buffalo,” let,us not de kept for several months. -To one was
SLEEP OF HIBERNATION.
30 minutes, longitude 77 degrees, rises,
»part
empty handed, Rather let us fed the ordinary fattening ration; to
Grandma
’
s
Parasola«
according to his measurements, to the
Different
from
Ordinary
Repose
take
with
qs the soap, the towels, the another a little phosphate was added
stupendous height of 27,610 feet. Only | “Children,” said grandma one rainy
and Near Complete Insensibility.
brush and the comb, Thus shall we to their food; with the third'all the
phosphate was extracted from their
The sleep of hibernation is a very Mount Everest, Kinchinjunga, K2 and: afternoon, ‘how would you like me to render both justice to the porter and
;
feed. The effect was astonishing. The
different matter from the sleep of re Makalu are known to have a greater show you how to make dolly a para a service to public hygiene.
pigs to which was given an increased
pose. If it be complete, respiration height than this. The newly-discov sol? A good many years ago your
portion, though small, of phosphate,
can no longer be detected. A torpid ered peak is said to be the culminat mother used to love to see me make
Ancient Iceland.
bat when disturbed will heave a sigh ing point of a totally distinct massif, them, and if you will draw your little f Iceland was founded A. D. 874 by were wonderfully thrifty and vigorous,
or two and, being left alone, again which has hitherto appeared on no chairs up to the table I will begin men from Norway. In the words of while these that ate the ration from wise, but much narrower on. the sides..
map. Dr. Longstaff has also discov right away.”
which the phosphate had been extract
to all appearances cease to breathe.
Two dismal little faces brightened John Fiske, “it was such a wholesale ed were dumpish, and not able to The sides come down, to within art
Submerged in water of a tempera ered that the Siachen (Saichar) gla
up, and Daisy and I^ucy ran for the colonization of picked men as had not stand on their feet for a minute’s inch of the bottom. sd* that stock can
ture slightly higher than his own, the cier is the longest in the Himalayas,
chairs,
and soon grandma was ready been seen since ancient Greek times time. • Their growth and weight was lick the salt.
and
probably
the
largest
outside
Alas
hedgehog not only continues to live,
and was not to se seen again until also greatly retarded. Our soil, ani
to
begin.
ka
and
the
polar
regions.
Its
length
Correcting; Acidity in Soils.
but appears to suffer neither inconven
On her table lay the materials—a Winthrop sailed into Massachusetts mals and crops need this important
is
more
than
forty-four
miles.
Acidity in soils, while not directly
ience nor harm. Inclosed in an air
long
before
the
pop-
bay.
It
was
not
small, flat cork about half an inch
agent constantly.—-Hoard’s Dairyman. injurious itself to most crops, is not a.
tight receptacle his atmosphere under-
He Doubted Her Sincerity.
thick, eight large pins, each of them ulation of Iceland was 50,000. Their
condition of fertility and usually in
goes a change so slight that it af-
“I cannot give you a favorable an- two inches long, some balls of gay sheep and cattle flourished, hay crops
Bacteria in Milk.
dicates a need of phosphates.
fects hlm slightly, if at all.
swer until you have talked with my worsted, and a short hatpin with a were heavy, a lively trade—with fish,
Undesirable bacteria in milk come
Especially is it detrimental to the
But circulation does not cease, Har father.”
glass head. This head and the cork oil, butter and skins in exchange for from uncleanly condition about the growth of clovers, in that it does not
per’s Weekly says. As respiration di
The young man seized his hat.
she had already gilded, as it took some meal and malt—was kept up with cow, and from contact with contagious favor the development of bacteria*
minishes, the irritability of the mus
“What’s your hurry?” the fair girl time for the gilt 10 dry, and she did Norway4, Denmark and the British diseases. The chief source of contami
forming nodules on their roots, which
cles of the heart increases; and thus, asked.
not wish to be hindered by waiting. isles. Political freedom was unim nation are dirty cows, dirty stables, fix the nitrogen from the air. Clay
wtihout the stimulation of oxygen, al
“I take no chances,” replied the Daisy and Lucy watched with eager paired, justice was fairly* well admin
though much more slowly, the heart youth. “I am going to see your father eyes while grandma took up the cork istered, naval superiority kept all foes dirty milkers, dairy utensils which io am soils, the organic matter of which
have cracks for the lodgment of dirt has been to a considerable extent ex
continues to beat. In the absence of before yot! can get to him. >» ’
and carefully stuck the pins all round at a distance, and under such condi and which are not properly sterilized, hausted, should be kept in as favorable
the fresh air drawn into the lungs In
And he hustled from the room.-
it at equal distances, bending them tions the growth of the new com mudholes in the barnyard, impure wa
a condition for the growth of clover
times of activity, uncleansed and un- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
downward slightly. These were for the munity in wealth and culture was sur ter, bedding and feed, and from milk- as possible, and the neutralizing of any
revigorated and venous blood passes
prisingly
rapid.
”
ribs of the parasol. Then she asked
eis and attendants who come in con- acidity is one of the most important
on to fill the whole system of circula
Unprecedented«
the little girls to choose each of them
tact with a contagious disease.
factors.
tion.
“I couldn’t believe my ears.”
Not Inquisitive«
a color from the pretty balls of wor
A profound lethargy ensues, distin
‘What’s up?”
“
Are
you
a
recent
arrival
in
this
sted.
Legume Growth Good Omen.
Straining the Auto Motor.
guishable from death only by the
“My wife told me yesterday that sht,
Daisy seized on a pale blue, and Lucy town?”
The man who is looking for a new
Very many amateur .motorists de-
slight beating of the heart. The waste discovered a flat that she likes better a bright pink.
. “Sir, I am indigenous.”
light in always taking a hill on the location agriculturally can hardly go
is very small. The fat accumulated than the one we’te in now, and the
“Oh, well; no harm meant; I didn’t high speed, not realizing that this astray if he picks out a piece of land
“Yes, those will go well together,
during the plenty of summer and au rent isn’t a cent higher.”—Detroit Baid grandma, “Now watch me closely particularly want to know.”—Birm-
often strains a motor or requires the in a section where either clover or al
tumn supplies all expenditure until Free Press.
while I show you how to cover your Ingham Age-Herald.
car
to go too fast upgrade over rough falfa will grow, and this holds whether
the coming spring, when earlier or
parasol.”
places
that could be taken with less the district is under ditch or has its-
later the hibernating animal, having
It takes the grappling hooks of con
She took the end of the blue wor-
Nearly every time a man approaches strain and slower on the intermediate 1 moisture supplied in the shape of snow
no capital in reserve, begins to suffer fidence to remove truth from the bot sied and tied it around one of the pins, a new field of pleasure he bumps up
and rain.
speed.
the pangs of hunger. In response to tom of a wel»
close to the cork, and began winding against a “keep off the grass” sign.
the demand respiration very slowly
increases. His oxidized blood flows
more quickly and his energy returns.
Then the bat flies forth once more
from the hollow tree in the wood to
find the warm dusk teeming with in
sect life and the hedgehog comes, it
may be, from the cavity under the
gnarled roots below, to find beetles
worms and slugs once more among
the spring grass.
Hibernation has saved both from
death by starvation, but if their nooks
had not been snug and wisely chosen
they would not have been preserved
from death by frost.
The hiding place also must be secret
•and free from intrusion, for the hiber-
nating animal cannot bear to be sud-
denly roused, Even the little dor-
mouse, which comes out at intervals
to feed, when in deep sleep must be
carried indoors to the warmer tern
perature of a room or revived by the
heat of the hand passing through the
nest He then wakes refreshed and
full of activity. But he does not sur-
vive too hasty an awakening.