OLO
J FAVORITES
t.
II IHHIIl H-r
t 1 H I ihh I broncho which the tatlves call loco I
poka,' which li as hardy as a goat.
The loco poka la the craziest thing be
tween Arizona and the next hottest
country. As long as the notion doesn't
strike 'em they're all right, but If ever
they make up their minds to stop noth
ing on earth can start 'em. Whenever
one goes, the rest go. A stampeding
loco poka might go through a town
where a score of his kind arc hitched.
and every blessed one of them would
break loose In some way and go gal
loping after him. They run till tbey
get good and ready to stop. If you
happen to hang on that long you can
turn your loco poka around and the
rest will follow.
'We use the loco pokas for packing
the kid meat to Tucson and, barring
this one accomplishment, tbey are all
right"
BRIDE OF KANSAS' "BACHELOR GOVERNOR.
i CABIN WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN HAD
CRUMBLED TO RUINS THIRTY YEARS AGO
The American Flag. '
When Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurl'd her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there;
fine mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped Its pure celestial white .
With streaklngs of the morning light;
Then from his mansion in the sun
She call'd her eagle-bearer down,
And gave into his mighty hand '
The symbol of her chosen land.
Majestic monarch of the cloud!
Who rear'st aloft tby regal form.
To hear the tempest trumpiugs loud,
And see the lightning lances driven,
lien strive the warriors of the storm.
FLANNEL SHOULD BE WORN.
This Fabric Is Much More Healthful
Than Other Woolens.
In England one sees much of the hy-
And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven glenlc underwear which Is so Btrongly
Child of the sun! to thee 'tis given
To guard the banner of the free,
To bover in the sulphur-smoke,
To ward away the battle-stroke, -And
bid its blendings shine afar,
.Like rainbows on the cloud of war,
The harbingers of victory!
Flag of the brave! thy folds shall fly,
The sign of hope and triumph high,
Whea- speaks the signal trumpet-tone,
And the long line conies gleaming on;
Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet,
Has dimmed the glistening bayonet,
Each soldier eye shall brightly turn
To where thy sky-born glories burn,
And as his springing steps advance
-Catch war , and- vengeance from the
glance.
And when the cannon-monthings loud
Heave in wild wreaths the battle-shroud,
And gory sabres rise and fall
Like shots of flame on midnight's pall
"Then shall thy meteor glances glow,
And cowering foes shall sink beneath
Each gallant arm that strikes below
That lovely messenger of death.
Flag of the seas! on ocean wave
'Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave;
When death, careering on the gale,
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,
.And frighted waves rush wildly back
Before the broadside's reeling rack,
Each dying wanderer of the sea
Shall look at once to heaven and thee,
And smile to see thy splendors fly
In triumph o'er his closing eye.
Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
By angel hands to valor given;
"Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born In heaven,
.Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls be
fore us,
With freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And freedom's banner streaming o'er
us?
Joseph Rodman Drake.
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MONEY IN GOAT RAISING.
urged for general adoption, but In this
country It Is less common. From n
sanitary point of view, this Is a pity,
since physicians regard It as a preven
tive of many forms of disease. It af
fords the body the greatest protection
against ' Cold, heat and dampness wltS
the least obstruction to tile body's ex
halation. These coalitions, are Instinc
tively felt to be better fulfilled by
woolen than by linen or cotton fabrics.
Hence the very general use of flannel
garments by athletes and by member
of cricket, boating and other sporting
clubs, who are called upon to engage
In' vigorous physical exercise likely to
cause profuse perspiration.
As formerly woven, woolen fabrics
were objectionable to many, because
they Irritated the Bklu and caused dis
comfort by preventing the proper es
cape of Its exudations. Moreover, they
were as a rule so heavy as to be lutol-
erable for summer wear. These objec
tionable features have now been re
moved, and to make woolen clothing
truly sanitary and suitable for all sea
sons the usual process of weaving
woolen fabrics has been materially
modified by adopting a method which
produces a much less closely woven
texture than the ordinary flannel.
The feeling Is Instinctive, too, that
woolen clothing Is "hot" In warm
weather; that If we wear wool In wln
ter to keep us warm we must wear
something different In summer to keep
us cool, or be Inconsistent In theory
and practice. But this Is a mistake.
It Is obvious to all how a non-con.
ductor of heat a woolen garment, for Before Congress reassembles that
Instance prevents the escape of the branch of the government service
hent of the body to a colder atmos- which Is represented by the employes
pbere, or the Ingress of heat to the of the government printing office will
body from a warmer atmosphere; a be housed In Its new home, with con
familiar Illustration of which Is found ven fences, equipments and machinery
in the practice of wrapping ourselves surpassing anything that was ever be
ln blankets to keep us warm and of fore provided for a printing office. For
wrapping Ice in a blanket to keep It years it has occupied a dangerous and
The Kansas City widow who was engaged to Governor W. 3. Bailey, of
Kansas, for two years without any one knowing it, and wnlle be was re
ceiving thousands of letters of proposal following the publication of stories
that he was a confirmed bachelor and that the executive mansion at Topeka
might be without a hostess during his administration. Mrs. Bailey, whose
marriage to the Governor took place recently, was Mrs. Ida Weede, and
was employed as a clerk In Kansas City after the death of her husband and
until Governor Bailey's election laBt year. She has two sons, the elder
being 11 years old.
FOR several year the press has been giving ns occasional accounts of
the "Lincoln cabin," in which Abraham Lincoln was born, says ft
writer In the Boston Transcript Some years ago we heard that It had
been bought for $10,000 by a wealthy New Yorker, presumably the
agent for Robert T. Lincoln, son of the murdered President. Next we were
told that the "cabin" was to be removed to Chicago and made one of the
"sights" for pilgrims to the Garden City. Then we heard of the "cabm" In
New York City.
Like the Holy House of Loretto, this historic hut seems to be transported
through, the air to any desired point. Like the phantom sh'p of the Flying
Dutchman, It may appear In any city or off any harbor; It seems to be
ethereallzlng like all else that pertains to Abraham Lincoln; but the "cabin"
has a perpetual lease on time. It knows neither waste nor decay.
The last public "appearance" of the spectral "cabin," we are told, was
at the Buffalo Pan-American exposition. Since then It has been resting
rejuvenating, perhaps at Coney Island, or In New York City, ready to be
transported again when the cloth of gold Is spread out for It. Along with
the liberty bell. It will doubtless be present on all the specially great
occasions of the future.
Some enterprising speculators, with an audacity scarcely conceivable In
this twentieth century, are Imposing upon a credulous public and the gulll
bles are swallowing the fraud without a gulp. Simple truth ought to be
told. The "Lincoln cabin" has now neither a place nor a being. Does any
sane man believe that a pioneer cabin built of green logs more than ninety
four years ago would still be preserved?
The writer of this, when a youth hardly past his majority, was for
some time principal of the seminary In Hodgensvllle, Larue County, Ky.
about three miles from Mr. Lincoln's birthplace. Several old people were
still living In the vicinity who remembered the Lincoln family and often gave
reminiscences of them. ' The writer was somewhat acquainted with the
country near the old "cabin" site; for the shack Itself had rotted down long
before that time. Thirty years ago the onlp vestiges of the "cabin" still on
the ground' were a few stones once the corner stones or supports for the
sills of the hut and a small heap of rubbish at one end, where the chimney
formerly stood. These were all the remains of the hut where the great
emancipator was born.
Down the hill, not many steps away, is the Lincoln spring nearly the
sole relic of the Lincoln home; the spring Is genuine and no mistake. It
probably determined the location of the "cabin." The surrounding land
Is very poor and so little worth cultivating that in those days when the
writer knew the place a large part of It had grown up In bushes. That
Thomas Lincoln should have selected such land for a home Instead of the
far more fertile land In the valley of Nolln close by Is further proof If
proof be needed of the extreme poverty of the Lincoln family.
SOME OF THE VISIBLE EFFECTS 0E
TROLLEY LINES BETWEEN INLAND CITIES
FINEST IN THE WORLD
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,
MARVEL OF IT8 KIND.
Mammoth Structure Baa White Kn-
ameled Brick Walls and 1.50O Win-
dowe Nearly 4,000 Men on the Pay
roll-Frank W. Palmer Its Bead.
moisture and the evaporation of the
moisture at the fabric's outer surface.
This evaporation disperses the heat,
thus lowering the temperature. This Is
the reason the soldier keeps hs wool
en-covered canteen wet In hot weather.
A wet woolen garment disposes of the
surplus heat and leaves the body cool.
Hartford Times.
GOVERNMENT FBIMTIRO OFFICE.
An Industry in Which There Are No
Unsalable Remnant.
"Yon can sell every part of a goat cold to keep the hent In in one case, dilapidated old barracks, whose walls
but his scent" said John Collins In the and not In the other. It may not be bad frequently to be propped up with
course of an Interview recently on the so easy to understand why we should timbers. In its day the old shell had
-subject of his Arizona goat, farm', clothe a warm body In a blanket to teen the finest printing office of Its
"There are thousands of goats on the cool It off or keep It cool when the kind in the world. That was back In
farm," he said, "but whether there are temperature of the surrounding air Is jgoo. in size and equipment It was
10,000, 20,000 or 30,000 I couldn't tell In or near equilibrium with It. superior to anything, even In Europe,
vou for the life of me. Tue explanation lies In the nature Dut tne demands upon It were heavy,
"I can tell you, however, something and condition of the body, the woolen and lt flnaUy yielded to such an extent
about the way In which our goat in- ""- - ' " tnat uongress was compelled to appro
dustry was started. By the death 0f ' . .. y
a grand-uncle, my uncle, Harry Mc-
-Cormlck and I Inherited the Griebe St.
Anne silver mines, which are two days
and a night of steady burro travel
south of Tucson. There was silver In
the mines, but by the time we got lt
-out and got lt to Tuccon we were pay
Ing for lt at about the rate of 16 to 1,
But It wasn't a case of free silver, by
-any means. It was the most expensive
money I ever got hold of. Finding the
venture a losing one, we took lessons
Jrora the 'greasers and bought from
them 150 common goats.
"There Is nothing but sagebrush and
cactus out there for those animals to
feed on, but no man ever saw a dead
goat, unless he had pome to some vio
lent end. They live and thrive where
nearly every other living thing starves
to death.
"We started out with 150 goats, de
riving our profits from the sale of the
hides. In 1892 we decided to mix them
-with Angora goats. After two years
the cross disappears and you get a per
feet Angora goat. It is a valuable
thing to have. The long hair Is sold to
the manufacturers of plush for furnl
ture, sleeping cars and such things.
The hair next to the skin can be made
up into valuable shawls. The meat of
the kids is delightful when fresh and
Is sent In Its canned shape to Cuba,
the Philippines, other parts of the
United States, to China and to many
other foreign countries as canned
lamb.
So rich Is goat's milk that one tea
spoonful of lt Is equal to three table-
Doonfuls of the purest cream. But
Queer Food Plants.
In the department of agriculture at
Washington, hidden away In an ob- prlate $2,400,000 for a new structure.
scure corner, Is an odd sort of exblbit The building is now practically com
of queer foods eaten by out of the way pieted. It Is double the size of any
people. other printing office In the world and
There Is a loaf of bread made from ln it8 interior appointments is a de-
the roasted leaves of a plant allied on ilKht to any printer's eye. The oak
the century plant. Another kind of cageg uKnt anA the solidity and
bread is from dough of juniper ber- Becurity 0f the structure cause the
ries. These are relished by some pi.nters to speak In highest praise of
triues or inaians, wune otners manu- t
facture cakes out of different kinds of
bulbs.
The prairie Indians relish a dish of
wild turnips, wbich civilized people
would not be likely to enjoy at all. ' In
the great American desert the beans
which grow onmesqulte bushes are
utilized for food.
Soap berries furnish an agreeable
diet for some savages in this country,
while ln California th copper colored
aborigines do not disdain the seeds of
salt grass.
The new office has a floor space of
about fourteen acres, divided Into
seven floors without partitions. Print
ers need light and this is provided by
1,500 windows. One-third of all the
wall space Is glass, and, ln order that
this light may not be lost, the walls of
the rooms are lined with white enamel-
bricks which can be washed like a
bath tub or the marble steps of the
houses In Philadelphia. The building
Is absolutely fire-proof, or as near fire
proof as any building can be. It Is
In P.nltfamls. tha Tlitrtrav Tn.
flinn. n nin i,nt onrnMim. also as substantial as bosslble, and
called pluones, by kindling flres against lts walIs are bullt "k? those ' a
the trees, thus causing the nuts to t88. beca,I8e P6 18 bevy f,nd pr,nt'
ii nf th.-Pnnp. At th m Ing presses cause considerable vlbra-
i, . c,vr,t m ,vrM hnm h tlon. and lt would be unfortunate to
wir Hrvinc tho nnrnn nf .,rnr have the roof or the wnlls cave In and
the best part about the milk is that The seeds of gourds are consumed by bury 3'957 mer,oa.n citlz und(r the
la fl deadlv foe to tubercula. and con- Inrllnna In Arlznnn. material u uiuuinuc.jr ui luieuu
auniptlves who drink lt are " often
cured of the disease. We are planning
to condense the milk and sell lt for
medicinal as well as family use. If
there Is any other dumb animal with
ed only for the dissemination of In
telllgence. The outside walls are three
Iiia-ht-weiirht Books.
Many book-buyers, says a writer In feet thick, and to construct them 10,
the Youth's Companion, must have 000,000 bricks were required. Inclosed
noticed the remarkable llehtness of within them Is a steel framework
more valuable dualities than the sroat. some of the volumes recently issued, weighing about 12,000,000 pounds,
then I don't know lt especially from English presses. The which Is heavier, perhaps, than the
"No stables have to be provided for paper, although of normal thickness, frame ot any omer Duiiaing in tne
the keeping and six ranchers are suf- Is singularly lacking In weight. Some country. n-very care was taken to
flclent for herding up those we want to American books also begin to show this secure tne greatest possible soiiauy or
ell. Once In a while the greasers and characteristic. In some cases the rela- construction. The columns, beams,
Indiaus get away with a few. but tive loss of weight, as compared with girders, channels ana plates were not
where vou've cot some scranov ranch- older volumes of equal size, amounts made of ordinary stock steel, out were
rs they are not likely to repeat the to thirty or forty per cent. The cause forged to order and the steel work Is
performance often. is the recent adoption for book-work of so protected tnat in ease or neat being
"As a rule now, we sell the goats on paper matte ot esparto-grass nuer. inis generates ny we uurniug oi any raaie-
the hoof." continued Mr. Collins, ae- paper lacks the smooth surface of the rials that might be placed in tne buna
older kinds, but the relief afforded by tag, Its strength will not be affected by
the loss of weight in bulky books is warping. There Is no shafting. All
very agreeable. the machinery Is run by electric power
and three dynamos, each of 300 horse-
cording to the Washington Star. "Iu
order to do so we have to drive them
Into Tucson. And a tough Job lt Is.
Of course, horses are not much good
then, as It Is so hard to get provender
and water, but there Is a species of
The world is but a ring on which power, will run the 80fe presses,
men cut their eye teeth. I elevators, 7,000 Incandescent lights and
Ti
system of ventilating fans which are
quite novel.
Nearly 4,000 Employee.
Each day about fifteen tons of paper
are used and ln the cases are more
than 2,000,000 pounds of ordinary type.
There are 3,957 employes on the pay
roll, of whom more than 1,000 are
typesetters, 927 are employed ln the
bindery, 850 are pressmen and 85
electrotypers. The rest are divided
among various departments and all are
well paid.
The government of the United States
does more printing and publishes more
documents than any other nation In
the world, and last year the cost ot
this branch of the service reached
$5,848,453.08. A large proportion of
this money was wasted by the printing
of worthless and useless documents
ordered by Congress. One-half of i'ue
printing done for the Senate and the
House of Representatives Is a pure
waste of labor and money, and the
extravagance of Congress ln this re
spect Is Increasing annually. No mat
ter what kind of a report is made from
a committee, no matter what sort of a
petition Is presented by a senator or
a member, lt goes to the government
printing office, and at least 1,000 cop
ies are Issued and divided among the
members of both houses for distribu
tion. This has been the subject of
inquiry and discussion periodically for
many years, and repeated attempts WELL 1,000 fEET DEEP AN
have been made to introduce measures ATTRACTION OF PERU, IND
of economy, but tne congress readily
drops back Into Its old habits after There Is a flowing well on the Giles
a few months of reform. Tlllett farm, four miles west of Peru,
It Is said that a company at Edln- Ind., on the north bank of the Wabash
burgh, Scotland, Is building a printing iUver, and the grounds surrounding lt
establishment more than twice as large are rapidly becoming a popular picnic
as the government office at Washing- resort The well Is 1,000 feet deep.
ton and that lt will cost $7,000,000, It Is located between the old Wabash
while the plant at Washington repre- and Erie canal bed and the river; and
sents only about $4,000,000, but no one for half a mile on either side, both east
seems to know much about lt except and west, along the river, there Is a
thnt lt la Intended for the publication dense growth of tall sycamore, elm
of books and magazines. and walnut trees, making lt an Ideal
The French government has the next place. The river flows between high
biggest printing establishment ln a
HE development of the trolley, as applied to the lnterurban, simply
runs away from us who are In the business we can't keep up with
the strides that are made every day. Every morning's sun seems to
see a new line begun and a new one done. The craziest promoter
ln the business cannot foresee what the future will be." This statement
was made by Manager Chlpman, of the Greenfield line, says the Indianapolis
News, when he was asked what Ohio connections his road would make
when lt reached Dayton.
"I see," he said," that even the steam railroads are being benefited, ln
one way at least. The papers say the trolley Is Increasing their Sunday
excursion business because lt makes more visiting places avallable.and makes
lt possible for more people to reach the railroad. When we opened our line
the storekeepers ln the small towns said we would wipe them out of busi
ness, but now they say that Indianapolis people are coming out with their
baskets once a week and are buying their supplies. I have a neighbor who
spends SO cents to take his market basket to Cumberland every Saturday
and have It filled, and he says be saves a dollar.
"The liverymen In the smaller towns said that the trolley would kill
their business. One at Greenfield told me yesterday that lt has Increased
his business 50 per cent, because the trolley brings more people who want to
visit friends ln the country. They never over-drive a horse, and always pay
cash, and he says the trolley la 'making him.'
"I recall a hotel man at one town along the line who wanted to sell
his paying hotel when he heard the trolley was coming. I ate with him
Saturday, and he told me that Instead of emptying his beds, the trolley road
filled them, and he had just bought three more lots In his town, and did
not want to sell. .
"Strange as It seemed ln the days of prediction, the trolley has made.
Instead of ruined, the small towns. The trolley men cannot even under
stand lt at all, and we are but ln the Infancy of the trolley and Its
effects on city and rural life.
"The reason that more people are not building homes along the trolley
lines and moving out of the cities, Is because the farmers wll! not sell their
land. But the time will come when the trolley lines will run through a
continual town of pretty country homes."
village near Paris; that of the German
government Is third ln size, and that
of the Japanese Is fourth.
Frank W. Palmer, for many years
editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Is
at the head of the government print
ing office.
Equal to the Occasion.
A perfect dinner partner, one whom
every woman loves to find assigned to
her, was entertaining his fair charge
with a curious story he had been told
of domestic happenings tn a circle he
bad not yet located. The story pro- p
greased with airy and good-natured
comment on the part of the reciter,
and great Interest on the part of the
audience of one. Finally the audience
took the floor. "I only want to tell
you that I am the woman concerned,"
she said bubbling over. Even then his
savlor-falre did not forsake the dear
diner-out. "Ah," he said, graciously,
TUB FLOWING WELL.
"then I hope I hove the particulars bank(1 Three yearg aK ft cotnpany
AArlat " I
of oil men, while "wild-cattlng, sank
this well, but found no oil. As the
TnnMiM In TnmnAMnn.
at recent meeting of the Semi, water flowed over the casing In an
Teetotal Pledge Association ln Eng. eight-Inch stream lt was decided to
land, the secretary, G. n. F. Nye, was V 11 M,s Permt the wtter fl?w
able to report a large accession of In- through a - two Inch opening ln iu
divldual applications for pledge forms cop. Water spouts from this two-Inch
monntliur to some 15.000. From Blrm. opening twenty-uve leet into me air,
Ingham an application was read ask- and !t never varle9 ln Pre88ure. It
Ing for 1,200 forms for one factory na" conuuueu w mi. jmu ir
,inB past three years without diminishing
ln pressure, ana it may continue to
Down wiin education. i flow for ages. There is no dlsagree-
What do you want with Seth Slim- ftbie nor bad taste to the output:
mins as postmaster? Why, he can't tn fact, the taste Is something like
even read or wruei .... water and very palatable,
... . . a , .L . l,. ( 1 o
xuai s j en iu i uu, eaiu canner
CorntosseL "we want someooay mat Tophet Would Be Better,
won't keep on pesterm us by openin' There lives ln a small town down
our newspapers an' teJIin' the neigh. ,n Mggouri a good old deacon who.
bors wnais on our postal carus.- nlta his harsh, coarse voice, al
ways joins vociferously tn the singing
at church. In the same town Is a
little boy who had become the proud
possessor of a gorgeous string of pro
fanity, which he Is very fond of dis
playing. Ills mother, finding her ar
guments had no appreciable effect ln
expurgating from the youthful vocab
ulary the objectionable words, sent
him to the deacon, in whom she had
all confidence, to see If the latter
could not put a stop to the swearing
habit. That dignitary pictured to the
boy the beauties of heaven In vivid
language, and then told him that those
who take the Lord's name In vain can
never enter there. The boy pondered
a moment.
"What do folks do ln heaven, dea
con?" he asked.
"Oh, play harps and sing."
"Are you going there to play harps
and sing when you die, deacon?"
"I hope to, son," replied the deacon,
modestly.
"Then what's like?" asked the
boy earnestly, after some thought
A Profit in Smoke.
To put smoke to profitable use has
been the aim of Toblansky, the Belgian
engineer. In his process the smoke
is forced by a fan Into a filtering tower
charged with coke or other porous ab
sorbent, sprinkled with naphtha or al
cohol, and the Boot Is retained by th
coke, while the Altered gases, mixed
with the vapor from the naphtha or
alcohol, are collected ln a gasometer to
be fed to Welsbach burners, stoves or
gas engines. This gaseous mixture,
which has been named pyrogas, burns
with a bright flame and an entire ab
sence of smoke. The value of pyrogas
even makes lt profitable to burn fuel ot
low grade for Its smoke alone, and it
la computed that plants of small cost
Trill enuMe cities to derive a material
Income from the conversion of their
garbage Into purified smoke for light
uud power.
Preparations.
"So you are preparing for further
airship experiments?"
"I am."
"IIave you got out your machinery
and plans?"
"Certainly not. It's too early for
minor details. I've been going through
my scrapbook of newspaper notices to
make up a prospectus." Washington.
Star.