Malheur enterprise., August 13, 1910, Image 3

IfALtTKUB ENTERPBISE.
Round Dalrr B
The Illinois Agricultural Kxperlmenl
Station has sent to press a bulletin In
which the economy of the round dairy
barn Is discussed at considerable
length. Comparison of the cost of
round dairy barns Is discussed at con
siderable length. Comparisons of the
cost of round barns with rectangular
ones, Including the amount and cost
cf material, the cost of construction,
the amount of stock that can be shel
tered, the convenience In storing, han
dling, and distributing the feed, etc.,
are brought out very clearly.
The bulletins Include cuts and plans
of several round barns In actual use,
an Itemized statement of the cost of a
60-foot round barn, and cuts showing
how the round barn at the agricultural
college was built, etc. The conclusions
arrived at by the author of the bulletin
are that the round barn has a great
advantage over a rectangular barn In
convenience, strength and cheapness.
It Is found that the round barn is
more convenient because of the com
pactness wtlh which it Is built and the
ease of getting the feed to the cows.
Investigations show that the round
barn costs from 34 to 68 per cent less
'"than the rectangular barn containing
the same amount of space and built
of the same grade of material.
Paatearlainar Milk at Home.
If milk Is not drawn under the most
ianltary conditions it is not advisable
'to feed It to children without being
iollapalble Chlekea Coop.
The average chicken coop made ot
a soap box or some other small box Is
not always convenient for carrying
around, and use in different places. An
A-shaped coop Is little better than an
ordinary box. The accompanying
sketch, says a Georgia writer in Popu
lar Mechanics, shows a collapsible A
shaped coop that can be folded and
stored away or carried set up for use
anywhere.
The main frame is made In four
4P ,
parts and joined together with hinges
as shown In Figure 1. The frame can
be covered with wire netting or boards
on top part with netting on the ends.
The hinged frames provide a way to
open either end. A small hook and eye
sholud be provided at each end to hold
the parts In place.
Alfalfa Need Pood.
It Is Important to know that there is
little difference between successful al
falfa growing and the successful grow
ing of other crops. Poor farming never
brings big crops, nor will poor land
produce as big yields as the more fer
tile. Failure to restore to the soil the
necessary elements of which it has
been robbed means the same In New
York, Kansas, Virginia or anywhere
else. Every farm plant, to prosper,
must find In tbe'soll, readily available
BEST TIME TO CUT HAY.
Try-
To get the best quality of hay the timothy plants require to be cut
when in full bloom. In an experiment made by Prof. Waters of Missouri
racks were filled with hay cut In different stages of ripeness. As shown In
the illustration, all the early-cut hay was eaten before the late-cut was
touched. The largest yield of dry matter was obtained by cutting at the
dough stage.
pasteurized. It Is very easy to av
compllsh this wtihout any special ap
paratus. Put the milk In a milk bottle. Take
tin pie plate and punch the bottom
full of holes. Turn this upside down
"In the bottom or the kettle and set the
bottle on It. This will prevent bump
ing when the water Is heated.
Punch a hole through a piece of
cardboard and insert in the top of the
bottle. Through this hole suspend a
thermometer. A good thermometer
the elements needed for Its develop
ment. If a farmer finds the soil lack
ing In elements needed for certain
crops he should either supply the de
ficiency or not attempt their raising.
This Is true of corn or wheat, cotton
or tobacco, no less than alfalfa.
To Control Gray Rot.
For the prevention of gray rot of
grapes one Investigator recommends a
treatment which he claims Is very sim
ple and efficient. This consists of thin
ning the leaves on the north side of
the vines and spraying with Bordeaux
mixture, to which soap Is added to
make it more adherent The treatment
should be made about July 25, or at the
' stage when the grapes have Just about
reached their full size. If the fungi
cide Is thoroughly applied at this time
no further trouble may be anticipated
from this disease.
with the Bcale etched on the glass
should be used. Heat the water until
the thermometer registers .155 de
grees. The bottle should be then removed
and allowed to stand for twenty or
thirty minutes.. Cover the bottles with
a towel to make them cool off slowly.
After twenty or thirty minutes cool the
milk as quickly as possible by setting
It In cold water.
Tree Ventilation.
The people of the New England
States are proverbial for their venera
tion of trees, and In these days of
ruthless destruction ot woods It Is re
freshing In the extreme to hear of a
case like the resident of Kennebunk
port. Me., who, rather than to disturb
an old tree which grew on his farm
upon a site desired for the location of
a barn, built the structure around the
tree. The barn wall completely cir
cumscribes the tree, but lies at suffi
cient distance to give the tree plenty
of air. The age of this particular tree
Is not accurately known, but it Is one
of a pair which Is said to have been
full-grown trees at the time of the
American revolution.
Tore Kind of Coras.
Three kinds of corns to which horsos
are subject are generally recognised:
The dry, moist and suppurating. The
dry corn is recognized by the blood
stained horn and Is not attended with
excessive Inflammation. Moist corns
are recognized by the large amount of
Inflammation, shown by the fluid ac
cumulating in the region of the corn.
Suppurating corns are the moist corns
which have become Infected wtlh pus
.eras.
Weight of a Qaart of Foot.
According to figures furnished by
the Connecticut Experiment 8tatlon,
the weight of one quart of feed Is as
follows:
rounds.
Cotton-seed meal 1.1
Linseed meal, old process .....1.1
Gluten meal LT
Wheat bran, coarse .......0 1
"Wheat middling, coarse ........0.1
Wheat middlings, fine 1.1
HUed wheat feed
Corn meal LI
Oats tl
fte raa , .M
Taper Milk Iiottles.
The new paper bottle for milk is
attracting some attention. It Is shaped
something like a large Jolly glass and
made of stiff paper paraftned and
water proof, and folded In such a way
as to protect parts through which
leakage could occur. Cost. is expected
to be small and the bottles are to be
thrown away after once being used,
thus saving labor of cleaning and In
suring a fresh bottle each time.
Wide Wagon Tire..
As to the desirability of the use of
the wide tires there can be no ques
tion. The moat casual observation
will suffice to convince any one of the
damage which a heavily laden wagon,
equipped with the ordinary sharp,
I rounded, narrow tires, will produce on
any road. There Is also another, and
perhaps even greater advantage to be
gained by the use of the wide tires
viz., the Increased hauling capacity
attained.
Forecaata for Faruiera,
The Weather Bureau has arranged
to give dally weather forecasts by tele
phone to farmers In Texas. At noon
each day rural subscribers are called
up, and the weather forecast Is an
nounced to all simultaneous. Sub
scribers In towns and cities can obtain
the weather forecast at any time of
the day after 11 a. m. by calling up
central.
Rnral 'Phone la tbo Boath.
Merchants In the South have awak
ened to the value of rural telephone
lines, and are seeking to develop them,
with a rlew to Increasing their trade
among the rural population. In cer
tain sections they have made large
contributions to aid the farmers In
building their lines.
CoIIeetlaa- Mtroaea From tbo Air.
Nitrogen Is contained In great quan
tities In the air above us, but It can
not be purchased and used with profit
In farming, except under special con
ditions. Clover and other leguminous
plants can draw all they require from
the aUmoBphere by means of bacteria
that live on their roots.
Serviceable Draft More.
A heavy draft bone should be long
ribbed. If a bone Is short-ribbed be
is light In bis middle and nearly al
ways a poor feeder. Ills stomach is
too small to contain enough feed to
servs blin from ons meal to another.
When put Into bard work be gener
ally has a fagged-out appearance. A
light-centered bone seldom weighs
well, and weight ta a draft horse. If
it comes from bone, sinew and muscle,
goes a long way toward determining
hi commercial vals
IRON IN TRADITION
FROM ITS DISCOVERY IT HAS
BEEN A SYMBOL,
Instance In Point Is Recorded In Eng
lish History of the Year 1235
and Custom Still Is
Observed.
Henry III. in the year 1235, on the
occasion of a tournament on ground
belonging to the Knights Templar,
the site of what is now the Victoria
embankment, In London, England, was
delighted with the dexterity shown by
one Walter le Brun, a blacksmith who
had a hovel on the ground, and was
employed to shoe the knights' horses
and repair their armor. In recognition
of his skill he gave him a piece of
land on which to erect a forge, and
fixed the quit-rent six horseshoes with
nails complete; and these horseshoes
and 61 nails were duly counted out on
Monday afternoon by the city solicitor,
as they had been counted out since the
year when the rent was fixed.
In the other of the . ceremonies
which took place In the law courts on
Monday, the rendering of the quit
rent of the sharp and blunt knives,
the noticeable point Is that the knives,
sharp or blunt, were of Iron. Iron,
with its wonderful powers of cutting,
molding and striking, became from the
day when It first began to be dimly
understood as a new force In the
world, at once a symbol and an Influ
ence. Presents or Iron, purchases of
Iron, debts paid In Iron, became sig
nificant and notable events. The tra
dition and the belief remain with us.'
Still, when we deal in Iron with each
other, we demand certain formalities
to appease the latent powers In the
obscure and potent metal. When we
give presents of knives and pairs of
scissors we ask In return, not even
now shamefacedly, but In a spirit of
acquiescence in the thought of a thou
sand generations, that the receiver
shall return to us a piece of an older
easier metal. We present a school
boy with a pocketknlfe, and ask him
for a halfpenny back, "or else we
shall quarrel." Knives "sever friend
ships." The power of the wonderful
metal survives in a dozen different
ways in the ordinary life of the. town
and the country side of to-day. The
story which Is still one of the most
popular of all nursery fairy-tales is
of the princess who must be guarded
from childhood from the prick of a
needle. The custom still survives in
Scottish households, when a death
has occurred in the house, of thrust
ing a needle or a nail Into butter or
meat or whisky, to prevent death from
entering the provisions.
Our Underworked Acres.
The United States has the most fer
tile soil and most favorable climate in
the world, but by careless methods
produces an annual average yield of
less than fourteen bushels of wheat
an acre, while England produces more
than thirty-two, Germany about twen
ty-eight, the Netherlands thirty-four
and France 20.
Of oats the United States produces
an overage yield an acre of 23 bush
els, England 42, Germany 46 and Hol
land 53. In potatoes the United
States produces 85 bushels an acre,
Germany. Belgium and Great Britain
average 250 each.
Germany, with an arable area no
greater than some of our largest
states, produces approximately two
billion bushels of potatoes annually,
while the annual crop of the United
States averages 275,000,000 bushels
per annum. In the year ending June
30 we imported 8,384,000 bushels.
In the ten years since 1898 the acre
age In the United States increased 22
per cent., while our exports decreased
67 per cent., showing that In a few
years we shall be obliged to Import
the necessaries of life. The annual
average yield of wheat an acre Is less
In the United States to-day than It
was 30 years ago.
Unmapped Portions of the Earth.
The international conference at tht
British foreign office to dis
cuss the desirability of Joint
action In map making Is a
reminder that only about one-quarter
of the land area in our globe Is ac
curately surveyed, and that outside
Europe the United States and our
overseas possessions there are prac
tically no maps existing based on ex
act trigonometrical surveys. Should
the conference agree to commence an
International map of the world, the
scale chosen will In all probability be
slightly less than sixteen miles to
the inch. A good part of Africa, China
and south America has already been
mapped on this scale, and any smaller
scale would be of little use. The In
dian survey, indeed, has mapped the
whole of India, with the exception of
a portion of the Rajputana desert, on
the generous scale of one mile to the
Inch, and with an exactitude compara
ble with the best European surveys.
Where She Put the Notice.
Great are the mysteries of a New
York apartment to an upstate bride.
Particularly Is this true of the kind of
flat where push button and "clicker"
latch In the door take the place of a
ballboy. One couple who are Just get
ting settled haven't found a "treasure
of a maid" yet. They were going out
the other evening, and as they were
expecting some furniture to be deliv
ered they left the key with the Jani
tor. "Better put a note, 'Ring janitor's
bell' over our bell button," suggested
hubby. Wlfey attended to It. The fur
niture came, found no admission and
went. "Didn't you put up a notice?"
asked the annoyed husband. "Why,
yes," she replied, "I put it right in
plain sight on our own ball door. They
must be stupid!" And he's so well
trained be never even laughed.
Is Orsduate of Vastsr.
Baroness Ucbltla, wife of the newly
appointed ambassador from Japan, Is
a graduate of Vasssr, and Is said to
be one of the most distinguished wo
men In her country. She took the
highest honors In her class at Vassar,
and then studied In Berlin and Paris.
She Is a member of a society In To
kyo for the education of Japanese wo
men along modern lines of education.
She speaks English perfectly and Is
always gowned after the most ap
proved fashions.
LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING.
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Be happy and perhaps you'll be good.
No man is as mean as his wife some
times thinks he la.
It Is human nature to want to abuse
some one occasionally.
Are the belles In society for the pur
pose of giving It tone? ...
The favors you get for nothing are
often worth that much. '"
Trying to get back at backbiters is
hardly worth the effort.
A woman's Idea of an easy mark la
from a dollar to 08 cents.
Silence sometimes gives consent and
sometimes It gives offense.
A woman says it's easy to flatter a
man, but hard to keep him flattered.
Women are like babies; they have to
cry tor nearly everything they want.
Isn't it better to be a chicken-hearted
bachelor than a hen-pecked husband?
A person who uses his brain has an
excellent excuse for keeping his face
closed.
All men think they are manly, but
the majority are entitled to another
estimate.
Nearly every little man has a doc
trine that he ."believes the world will
finally accept
Some men enjoy a show only when
there Is fifteen minutes' Intermission
between the acts.
There are too many real troubles In
the world, so don't worry about the
Imaginary ones.
When the world begins to applaud a
man for his actions his head gets too
large for his hat.
The heart of a coquette is like a
street car, inasmuch as there Is always
room for one more.
And many a man will go out of his
way to avoid saying a good word In
behalf of his neighbor.
Adam fell In love with Eve and the
fall of man has been a continuous per
formance from that day to this.
When a man bands you a "come-any-old-time"
invitation It Is equivalent to
an invitation to remain away.
There seems to be a good deal ol
human nature In a motorcycle that
makes more noise than an automobile.
After a woman has been married
about a year she Is willing to : admit
that her husband doesn't know It all.
When Jealousy flies out of the win
dow it usually takes love along If for
no other reason than to keep from get
ting lonesome. '
If men and women would forgive
each other as readily as they forgive
themselves this wouldn't be a bad old
world to live in.
Some men get more pleasure out ot
losing $5 on a game of chance than
they do from earning $10 by the sweat
of their brows.
After the average man has reached
the three score and ten mark he can
sum his life up In these few words:
"What a fool I've been!"
Every man knows, himself better
than other people know him,, therefore
every man ought to swallow flattery
with several grains of sodium chloride.
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.
A shiftless man's favorite saying:
"O, we'll get along somehow."
Women are modest enough until a
doctor begins asking them questions.
The fact that you don't believe It,
Isn't particularly convincing to others.
We don't believe the men look for
second wives as Industriously as they
used to.
When your wife buys a new hat, how
much attention does she pay to your
taste'
The man who "talks things over"
frequently, Is apt to waste a great deal
of time.
You can usually tell the difference
between a renting farmer and an own
ing farmer.
There Is such a thing as luck. If
you are a small eater, and a slow eat
er, you are lucky.
Every man who gets up picnics
thinks that really he should be known
as "The Rain Maker." ,
Women think one of the best things
that can be said about a man Is, "He
Isn't hard to cook for."
If a man has only two dogs, his
neighbors, when speaking of him, say
be has a "pack of dogs."
You can't judge a family happiness
by the fine sentiments worked into the
cardboard mottoes on the wall.
Don't grow old: If you are not In
vited to picnics any more take your
fried egg out near the well and eat It
there.
Walk toward a big mirror, and ten
to one you will remark that you have
a more awkward walk than you Im
agined. If you are as unselfish as you expect
others to be, you feel as badly when
it rains on someone else's picnic at
when it rains on yours.
WHEN NO MAN'S A FAILURE.
When he loves his work for itself
as well as for what It brings.
When be puts Ideas and ideals Into
bis work.
When he can put a little humor into
his work.
When he Is more anxious to do fa
vors than to ak them.
When he gets on by helping others
up Instead of pulling them down.
When the harder he Is knocked
down the quicker be can pick himself
op.
When he Is willing to admit that
be Is In the wrong and unwilling to
worry about It. .
Tboaabtleea,
Tes. George," said Mrs. Collghtly,
argumentatlvely, "but If, as you say,
It's so dlfflcult to get food to the men
la lighthouses In the winter why. do
they bnlld tbem In such out-of-tbs
ray, dangerous places?" Tlt-BlU.
Lettta Ilia Knew.
Fortune Hunter I'd llko to make
the acquaintance of Uiat Miss Oold
bag. I'm told she's got 15,000 a year
and no Incumbrance.
Candid Friend And, what's tnnro,
he's ot looking for on Sorsfo,
USE HOTEL SAFES
MANY SEEM TO PREFER THEM TO
DEPOSIT VAULTS,
Valuables Are Kept In .These Recep
tacles by Quests for Years at
a Time Some Notable In-
stances of Fact
A woman walked up to the counter
of a fashionable hotel and asked for a
package ot valuables which was In the
safe. . - '
"If I had not wanted one particular
thing I suppose I should have left the
paokage where it was ' for another
three years," she said to the clerk.
"Yes," said the clerk in answer to a
question after the Woman left, "that
packet had really been In our safe for
three years. . Why, we have itl sorts
of valuable papers, jewelry and even
money that are entrusted to our keep
ing for years at a time. People seem
to prefer a hotel safe to a safety de
posit vault One reason, perhaps, is
that it cost nothing. Another is that
the standard of hotel clerks has im
proved. "It is astonishing the amount of
jewelry that people keep in hotel
safes. Of course, the owners have
originally stopped In the hotel, but
they go away, leaving their valuables,
and I have known such persons to be
gone as much ss two years and never
make an inquiry about their property
In that time.
"To show you how much confldence
people have In hotels and their em
ployes, I might mention that the other
day a man came In here and put four
f 1,000 bills In an envelope, wrote bis
name on te latter and asked- me to
put It in the safe. Not long ago a
man actually did the same thing with
seven (10,000 bills." -
The clerks of several other hotels
talked in a similar strain without any
outside suggestion.
'I'll bet I have handled more than a
million dollars' worth of Jewelry to
day," said one. "Look here," and he
opened the safe and piled six or eight
big jewelry cases on the counter, but
huriedly put them back. "In one of
those' I know there Is over $200,000
worth, and what .1 showed you was
only a few of what' the safe contains."
Up at a big hotel near the park the
employes are greatly concerned about
the freedom with which a wealthy for
eign woman who is stopping there dis
plays her Jewels. Every evening she
wears a- rope of pearls that goes once
around her neck and then falls to her
knees, to which is attached a lorg
nette. .
Everybody who. has seen the Jewels
has exclaimed at their size and perfect
matching, and wealthy patrons of the
house who have sold as well as bought
Jewels say the necklace Is worth not a
cent less than $200,000. The owner
went the other day into one of the
big jewelry houses and business was
immediately suspended while every
body crowded about to admire the
necklace.
How It Started.
- Now, . when Jacob had given the
"savory kid soup" to Isaac, and the
latter, pleased with the gift, had given
to his son the much-sought-after pater
nal blessing, lo, Esau stuck his head
through the tent flap and did pour
molten words upon the trick which
had scabbed him of his birthright
And after some hours, when his an
ger was well-nigh spent, he shot the
toplo sentence straight:
"Why did you do It?"
Then did Isaac call him near and
look Into his face. Also did Isaao
smack his Hps and point to the re
mains of the repast and say:
"I love my Esau, but oh, you kid!"
. Whereupon Noah, who happened to
be strolling by, . carefully tucked the
jest into oiled paper and did put it
into the ark. whence, with much odor
and more odium, It was brought forth
by humorists some 4,000 years later.
St Louis Republic.
' Not Fair Game..
The citizens of Caribou are enraged
over the actions of a hunter who re
cently shot a pet deer of the neigh
borhood. During the forest Cres last
summer an' employe of the Portage
Mill company captured a fawn, which
he brought to hlB home and had cared
for since. The fawa grew up around
the dooryard and became thoroughly
tame. It would travel about the town,
calling on the neighbors, always re
turning to Its home for the "night It
was the pet of the community. One
day a hunter driving through the
town saw the deer In the streot and
shot It. The Indignation of the cltl
ens vat something fierce, and it was
only through the counsel of the wiser
ones that the slayer escaped bodily
harm. Houlton Pioneer.
Old Enough to Have Sense.
.That a man Is never too old to get
into trouble was Illustrated the other
day In the Columbia county court,
Pennsylvania, when William Moser,
aged 95 years and looking every day
of bis age, a veteran of both the Mexi
can and civil wars, was tried before
Judge Evans on a surety of peace
charge. Mrs. Clara Ball, an elderly
lady, and a neighbor, accused him of
threatening to burn ber house, and
with throwing stones at her. The vet
eran had Mrs. Ball arrested on the
charge of threatening to kill him.
Tbelr homes were but six feet apart,
and Moser was a tenant of Mrs. Ball.
Judge Evans told the litigants that
they were both too old to get mixed
up In court and directed tbem to go
back home and live peaceably.
Museum In a Prison.
Paris Is to have-yet. another rru
seum of the revolution. It is to be
fitted up. In the Conclergerle prison,
and the two apartments devoted to It
are to be the Salle des Olrondlns and
the cell occupied by Marie Anllonette.
This cell Is to be fitted and furnished
exactly as It was when the unhappy
quees awaited' her fate Mn It, and a
number of authentic relics are avail
able. Among them are Included the
queen's velvetseated armchair, the
lamp by the light of which she wrote
her last letter, and the simple black
wooden crucifix wblcb she kissed on
ber departure to the piece of execu
tion. A cfOdlt of 1,000 francs has been
voted for the purposes pt the mutenm
f the Paris municipal council ,
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CONCENTRATION'.
4. Little Dlaotpllne for the Write
la,, of Courae, a Good Thin.
Concentration Is the liking other
people should have for the noise you
are making. It they find it dlfflcult
to write while you are making Jokes
and knocking over tables and things,
it is because they have no concentra
tion, and they should be upbraided
and admonished, and by cries of
"Enamel " helped to acquire a virtue
you are shocked to find them lacking
In. If they mildly ask you to talk a
little less loudly, you say, in surprised
tones: "Do you mean to say that you
hear us? You should be unconscious
of our presence!" and the noises are
slightly Increased out of a friendly de
sire to help them to learn to do what
at any moment they may find it ex
tremely useful to be capable of. Who
knows, some time It may he impera
tive that they write a masterpiece
while waiting at a railway statlonl
And without this former experience
they would find themselves utterly dis
tracted. This is Just the discipline
they need, and you are only too glad
to be of service. A little muslo will
be added, though you do not feel in
the mood for playing, when they have
learned to write through talking and
are equal to a slightly more dlfflcult
task In concentration. At this point
the writer is very apt to become vio
lent, and may even attempt to leave
the room; but remind him that some
ot the greatest composers and authors
have worked with their babies crawl
ing over the desk and their wives cut
ting bread and butter at their elbows.
If this does not bring him slinking
back. It is regrettable; but the con
clusion is pretty obvious that he le
not a writer of the first water and
would probably have done much' bet
ter at something else.
GETTING MORE UP-TO-DATE.
Inperatltlona Tnrkiah Women Sab-
mlt Calmly to the Stetboacope.
The attitude of the hanouma to med
ical practitioners has changed much of
recent years, writes an English reel
dent of Constantinople. Twenty or
thirty years ago no Turkish woman
would ever have submitted to a phy
sical examination by a doctor. All he
could have persuaded her to do would
be to show him her tongue through
a rent in the yashmak or let him
touch her pulse from behind a heavy
curtain and in presence of course of
an Argus-eyed eunuch or old female
slave.
Any attempt to apply a stethoscope
to the chest would have been spurned
as an impertinent presumption of
western "barbarism." No matter how
severe the Illness the medical man
could not go beyond certain strict lim
its of Islamatlo usage and traditional
custom. Even in cases of imminent
danger to life these scanty limits were
never allowed to be overstepped, and
the belief in the incantations of a
priest and the house remedies ot old,
Ignorant and superstitious women held
unlimited sway and was always
greater than the faith in the efficacy
of medical skill and science.
This is now changing, and changing
rapidly. There are, of course, still
many exceptions where antiquated
views and conceptions are fanatically
adhered to and practiced, but these
become rarer and rarer with each ad'
vanclng year. Many Turkish women
will now when 111 voluntarily call on
a medical practitioner and never hes
itate to submit themselves to a thor
ough physical examination.
The general public opinion on these
matters among the Turks is fast alter
ing for the better and only In very rare
cases Is there now any difficulty at all
raised as to letting the hanoum sub
mit to an examination with stetho
cope or other Instrument.
CHIROPODY FOR CONDUCTORS.
Havana Street Hallway Han Ile-
porta the Laleat Improvements.
Frank Stelnbart, who used to be con
sul-general for the United States at
Havana, but who is now general man
ager of the Havana Electric railway,
an American concern, came up recently
from Havana by the Florida' route and
reported that the street railway bus!
ness down there Is flourishing and that
the company Is building thirty-six
miles of new road.
"We are operating now fifty-eight
miles," Mr. Stalnhart said at the Im
perial hotel, according to the New
York Bun, "and we are now running
a line out of Mariano, nine miles, bo
sides extending our other lines. The
Cubans are great users of the trolley
cars. Travel of that kind Is greater
In Havana thau In an American city
of the same size. There are no Coney
Islands ns yet, but there are the basu-
ball park and the racetrack, and they
are very popular. We operate five sep
arate lines, with a complete transfer
system.
"We are now building two new power
stations, one at Aguadolce and the
other at Mariano, and we are also
building a new home for employes at
Jesus del Monte. Our Idea Is to pro
vide the men with comfortable quar
ters, Including baths, and with perfect
sanitary arrangements at a moderate
coat We keep three doctors, an ocu
list, a dentist and a chiropodist, whose
services are free to every man who be
longs to the society of the employes.
"The last was the best tourist sea
son Havana ever had. With the three
big new hotels which had been opened
adequate accommodation was provided.
I do not think any more hotels will be
put up next year. Business of every
kind Is Improving and the Island gen-
eraly Is enjoying prosperity.
"There Is still a great opportunity
la Cuba for Americans who are will
Ins to bustle."
Webater Made Neat ltetort.
A Judge made law Is now so much
discussed, we may recall one of the
neatest answers In history, as far, at
least, as our own reading goes:
Judge (Interrupting Webster's argu
ment) That is not law.
Webster It was law until your hon
or spoke. Collier's Weekly.
roet'e Mall.
"We get lots of Utters." says Poet
Wells, of the Buffalo News. Host posts
do. They usually iai "A romlttaaoo
would he socspUblf
TO FIND THE BOOK"
K
CANADIAN INDIANS WOULD HCAff
THE WORD.
Struck the Long Trail to Oo to thst
. Missionaries, Until Teachers
and Preachers Were Sent
from England.
About twenty miles north of Laks
Winnipeg is a place called Norway
House. This was a shipping center
In the fur trade in the great days of
the Hudson's Bay Company.
Dog and canoe trains . of Indians,
some of them from points 1,000. miles
Inland, came bringing their loads ot
priceless furs, and from this point the
supplies brought from England to
York Factory on Hudson bay were
attributed to all the interior posts ot
the company. . v
For 200 years thla great trading
company had Its agents scattered over
the remote wilderness to gather furs
for the markets of London. About
eighty years ago, says Everyland, ths
ageats of the company began to be
troubled; fewer furs were brought in,
the Indians seemed to be disappear
ing. "What's the trouble. Lone Wolf?"
said the agent one morning to a tall
hunter who had thrown his bundle of
pelts down sullenly. "Where is Man-Not-Afraid,
and Three Feathers, and
Kicking Horse, and all the men who
used to come from the west many
moons?"
"Ugh," grunted Lone Wolf, "far, far
south they with the papooses - and
the women strike the long trail.1 -
"Why?" persisted the agent "Do
the buffalo fall them? Are tha foxes
and otters gone? Why?"
Lone Wolf stood silent At last,
raising his eyes, he said: "They go
to find the book?"
"To find the book? Tour word
are dark to me!"
"Ugh," said Lone Wolf; "white man
have Book about Great Spirit Whits
man learn strong medicine. Book tells
good words. Far toward the south
wind Indians walk the Jesus Road.
We go find It too."
The agent listened, incredulous, but
when the same tale was repeated,
when a whole village embarked In
tbelf birch canoes and traveled BOO
miles to find a missionary; when
hunting grounds were deserted and
the very life ot the trade threatened,
the ageuts pressed upon the home of
fice the necessity of bringing mis
sionaries to the Indians it they would
keep the Indians from going to tho
missionaries.
And that is how It came about that
the Hudson's Bay Company wrote s
polite letter to the Wesleyaa Mis
sionary soolety in London asking it
to send out to Norway House tho best
preachers and teachers it oould find.
The company promised to furnish tho
missionaries with houses and pro
visions, canoes and guides, tree ot
charge, if the society would help them
check tho Indian migration to tho
southeast
Saved by Dancing.
Tho battleship Dominion was cau
tiously feeling her way towards Que
bec on the night of August 16, 1908,
when the navigating officer, misled by
a hush fire on land, took tho wrong
bearings, and suddenly struck on a
hidden reef with such force that tho
huge ship was shaken from item to
stern. '.
Orders were at onee given for tho
whole crew, officers as well as men, to
assemble on dock with their kits In
their hands, and all the eight hundred
and fifty men were told to dance, sa
as to keep the ship "alive," and sa
prevent the Dominion's keel from set
tllng down on the ledge.
At first the bluejackets whistled an
accompaniment to keep the men in "
step till the captain ordered tho ship's
band to play lively selections.
Tbo men danced with a will, stamp
ing tbelr feet and swaying their bod
ies, and doing all they could to rock
tho ship. In the end they succeeded,
for finally, with the engines work
ing full speed astern, the Dominion
slowly gave way and backed again in
to deep water. Tbo dancing had
saved tho ship I
- Women Qood Harvest Hands.
Many hundreds of women assisted
in gathering tho harvest around Be
atrice, Neb. Tboy were lured to the
fields by the offer of board and $3 a
day. A farmer went Into Beatrice
looking for farm hands. Loungers In
tbo town refused to work, and the
farmer bad to face tho possibility .pi
losing part of bis crop. He went into
a restaurant, and when waiting to be
served was struck with the idea ol
bidding for the waitresses as harvest
ers. He offered tbem $3 a day and
every waitress threw aside her apron
and went to the farm. They did such
efficient work that others farmers
sought women, and they drew school
teachers, stenographers and college
girls as well. New York Press.
Ski for Postmen.
Recent experiment made at Bras
mar with ski for tho use of postmen
when tho country is snowed up bars
proved so successful that tho pool
office officials In various other districts
In tbo Highlands, Including Bpoysid
and Donslde, aro to bo slmllarlf
equipped. Frequently during tho win
ter tho conditions In tho remote High
lands aro quite arctlo, tho country
being Impassable to ordinary trans
it has been found that tho use of ski
enables tbo postmen to cover thelt
Journeys even when tbo snow is soft
and badly drifted. Loudon Daly Mail
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How a Mooto Eats Orate.
Of all peculiar sights I think thai
that of a moose eating grass Is the
most extraordinary. The neck la s
short and the legs aro so long thai
the animal usually kneels In eating
grass. True, they do not attempt It
very often, for grass Is by no me am
a staple with them, but oven a buoom
likes a change pt diet Tbo appear
ance of these huge and awkward crea
tures In this devotional attitude la not
only Interesting but laughable, Sf
Nicholas Magailne.
These Questions.
"IIsvo a pleasant trip ess IT
"Yep."
"How did you find New York?
"Why, you can't miss It if you Ukt,
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