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, too
Tha bullfrog aat by the river
brim
.And Bang the whole day lonf;
Th critics eometlme ceneured
And thty weren't far from
, . , wrong.
But be Miif away, aa the day-
;;. light fld
Aad idlda't car what the crltlca
' geld.
He 'gurgled and croaked till the
lCyj.1to o fat,
And the pollywoga o llm,
Remarked: "To warble a aong
,. like that
If uat be very hard on him.
Bu( no doubt It la difficult to do."
m
And the bullfrog almply pegged
i . away
1 the very beat he gnew;
They learned to bear It, and day
,;.: by day
Hla reDutatlon crew..
--' j'lrUl at laet, through tbe pond. It
That whatever the bullfrog Binge,
ft' good.
A SH ALL-FISH NIBBLE
' A recent article In The Journal from
' the pei ol It Astoria correspondent
mentioned the form of contract that
la being ottered as an Inducement to
, men who bave an Idea of working for
the Columbia fllver packers' Associa
tion. The form of contract needed
Uttle comment to point out Its burden
. upon the men and Its careful protect
tion to the packer.
' '. As usual In cases where an honeat
'newspaper attempts to correct abuses
U finds some lnslgntflcant but offen
sive Sheet hurrying to the rescue, in
Iti feeble way, with laudatory support
ofj the offending party or parties. The
champion of tbe Astoria concern men
tioned Is a publication Knov. n as the J
Astorlan, which Is owned by a promi
nent member of the canneries combine,
and which alleges to quote from
the Hps of a canneryman to the effect
that the "attack" In The Journal on
the contract In question is both "mis
leading -nd malicious. Vol
v cannot t get clean water out of a
ewer.". ;
; ' ; In " tlw . first place there was no
' "attack" on the contract or the con
. tractors In The Journal. There was a
plain statement of the truth. If the
"attack" was "misleading and ma
licious there is an Oregon law that
can be Invoked In the matter of libel.
. The Journal, stands ready to receive
tbe fire of the cannerymen and their
journalistic popgun any time they
ipay eee'flt to commence to throw stale
fish -t( this publication.
Apropos of "sewers" too. it Is well
' for the cannery kings to remember
that ' the . best .illustrations of sewers
ae certain Alaska canneries. The
- filth and muck that passes as' salmon
among some of the "canneries" of the
" Xar North, the Chinese-handled stuff
tbat'beople eaj and call the produ.ee
Of certain of these cesspools of dis
ease, the loathsome crews of Chinese
- tick who return, after a packing sea-
' son, to startle the waterfronts of sea
port towns, are matters that require
something more than an Astoria Fly
paper to explain to the satisfaction of
the public. ,
. If aiiy of the cheap-labor canneries
of Alasd, enter Into c ompetition
; wlffc llhe weilrpald labor canneries of
Oregon, are looking for truth eoncern
lrtg "the 'method of Their packs, they
Can Just keep on referring to The
Journal's stories us "malicious faJse
. hoods."
Germany could lit afford, from a com
mercial standpoint, to break with this
country. .
In the eight months ending In Feb
ruary of this year we exported to Ger
many more than eleven million bushels
of wheat, nearly sis hundred thousand
barrels of flour, over five million
bushel of corn, nearly seven million
pound 'of cured beef, nearly twelve
million pounds of bacon almost a mil
lion pounds of ham, over two million
pounds, of pork, 'one hundred and
eleven million pounds of lard and six
teen million pounds of oleomargarine.
If this source of supply were cut off.
as It would ba In case of war, Ger
many would have bard work to obtain
the necessaries which she now Imports
from the .United States, An embargo
on American foodstuffs would cer
tainly produce great bardshlp among
the German people and It Is doubtful
whether the Injury to the American
producer would-be either lasting or
great.
Kaiser 'NVUhelm knows on which
side his bread Is buttered and he will
probably Impress-upon his subjects
that the "Incident" is closed.
POSTOFflCe SCANDAL.
The scandal in the Postoffioe De
partment and especially n the rural
free delivery division Is reaching pro
portions which threaten to make It
exceedingly embarrassing to the na
tional administration. The Investiga
tion Is being conducted by Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General BrIStow,
and he has earned the reputation of
being relentlessly thorough and per
tinacious in ferreting out wrongdoing.
As yet he tUU not made public the
result of his Inquisition Into .the
affairs of the department, but enough
has leaked out to leave no doubt that
the rural free delivery system has
been made a mare political machine,
where civil service rules were utterly
Ignored, widespread corruption ap
pears to have existed and the sale of
posRlons In some parts of the depart
ment was as shameless as It eyer was
ln'Kew Terk In the worst days of the
Tweed regime,
Mr. Brlntow Is the man who un
earthed the eeley-Rathbone Irreg
ularities m Cuba and he can doubtles
be depended upon to muke a thorough
pensatton whatever has been male to
them. Even those who did. not see any
soldiers probably heaxl "about -them
and this was almost equally harassing
to their Infant minds. Many of them
were so young that they will not re
member anything about It, but they
can readily nnd their nurses, their
elder slaters or some one else to testify
how they suffered. The discovery 0(
this new class of potential pensioner
Is a gratifying solution of the problem
of what to do with the surplus.
' .
A derk who was detected in giving
awy his employer's stock In' trade'
without exacting anything In payment
would be very apt to And hlmsejf under
arrest. When a public official gives
away the assets of the taxpayer with
out consideration the case seems to
be wholly different.
a.. AtaLtTw coni CAanrxT.
The advance lu the price of rice 1
not uttrlbuted to the Vanderbllt wedding.
GROWING PENDLETON
(By Paul Ue Lanfy.)
job of the "investigation in which hp
Is now engaged. Hla report, when K
Is Anally presented, is certain to be
sensational In Its revelations and many
officials of the Postpfflce tepartment
may prove to be Involved. Postmaster
General Payne, under whose adminis
tration thla scandu ba arisen and
who has seemed singularly averse to
the investigation, will- scarcely escape
at least that degree of , censure ac
corded to the public official who tail
to detect . 'rascality and corruption
among his subordinates
IVnOW'ton la the second city 111 tho
ntato in growth ""d tiierpnlv Ot
rourne. there are muny towns In the
stale outside of h'ortlariu with a larger
population, but for enterprise and ateauy
rowth 1 believe lYmilrion leads them
uU.
You' may walk through the Htreet of
remtleton any day In the week, early
or lute, and the tutme Ma and Uuntle u
alwaya there. OthtT town have their
bimy day and their big runs, but thuy
have their dull Heaaona alao. With ivir
dleton It la different, it la true she haa
her big days, unj there are muny uf
them, out her malUt duya equal the
largest otoea of other towns herslxe, ami
even those much largvr.
Throughout th puai winter building
hna continued unubuteU. and now every
carpenter In the town i uuy. New brick
buildings, new frame residences, busi
ness hiMisea mid all munncr uf Improve
ment are being made.
The growth of reii.lli-ton la ii.it con
fined to her bualneus and resident dis
tricts, either. Iter achooln and churches
are Improving In like proportion, and
her public institution are owing ad
vanced an rapidly aa a dlacreet adminis
tration cn nnd the way.
MR
One of the finest cnufelies In the Eaat-
A QUIETUS W UNCLE SAM.
San Salvador will pay to the United
States an Indemnity, fixed 1 a board
of arbitration, for Invading the right
of some American 'cltleens who were
residing within the territory of the
liliput state. I3ut the Sao Salvadorean
government na accepted tne uecision
of the arbitrator with a very bad
grace, and apparently only because of
the fear that one of Uncle Sam's gun
boats may drop down that way and
blow her Into kingdom come.
General Itegalado, the former presi
dent of tbe little republic, was con
sulted as to the feasibility of welching
on the payment of the indemnity and
bis official opinion puts the United
States In a real mean light. He pro
nounced the award "vulgar," "rude1
and 7'mmr'." but Anally con
elude that the best course for 8an
Salvador to, take 'is to "hurl at the
claimant a little fold, with the con
teniptuous manner of one who Is dls
posing of something Immaterial, and
thus not conceding aa iota with refer
ence to its dignity and Its rights."1
This 1s too crushing to contemplate,
If Uncle Sam la to be subjected to
such humiliation as this be won't be
able to move In good society any more
f. - GERMANY DEPENDENT ON US.
. -Those Vjafiilce German editor' who
'H nave been sputtering and fuming ever
Inc Admiral Dewey expressed his
opinion about the Kalaer's navy, will
, probably subside jiow that it has beea
. ' decided to send'a few of our v urshipo
to participate in the naval display at
, Kiel, In accordance with the Invita-
tiorj extended by jnperor William.
' Thl WUl probably satisfy these rhol-
efid Bon-ebrobatants that there was no
intentional discourtesy in the previous
'fedlnaflon f the Invitation.
Tbe bad feeling which seems to have
been stirred iip in Germany toward
the t'nited State I rather ridlcuious,
ghd President Jiooaevelt Ka wisely
treated it, aa unworthy of serious at-
teittjon, , The relation between the
tw nation are too Close to be readily
disturbed, and aside from any cjues-
ioa of their relative fcaval strength 1
The coming international yacht
race have an exceptional interest. In
asmuch as they may be- tbe laat con
test of the kind to be seen on this
side of the Atlantic for ome time to
come. Should Sir Thomas Llpton suc
ceed In carrying off- the trophy which
he has so gallantly struggled, to win
it is reasonable to suppose that he
will be equally successful in defending
it, for a few years At. least, especially
as American challengers would have
the handicap of being obliged to cross
the ocean. Sir Thornus has announced
plainly that this will be his laat effort
If he does not win, and a third defeat
would be a serious discouragement to
other British yachtsmen, if so; per
plstent a sportsman as tbe Irish
yachtsman cannot win, after three
determined 'attempts and the expendi
ture., of many thousands of pounds, Jt
may not be so easy to And a successor
who will sink bis . money In the con
struction of a modern racing machjnej
with the chance of victory o doubt
ful. Many American yachtsmen there
fore express the hope that the chal
lenger will prove the victor in the
coming races, believing that this will
ultimately redound ' to fhe' benjeflt of
the sport.
One of the roost remarkable pension
claims that has yet come to light is
one presented by a Maryland" appli
cant. He recite wjtb "great gravity
and a wealth of circumstantial detail
that whlje a child in arm '.iii 1861 "be
was so frightened. by Yankee Invader
In Maryland that he became para
lyzed and bag never been able to do
any wor since. Obviously this pen
sion should be granted. -There must
have been thousands of babies who
were badly frightened by Our soldier
during the war, and hitherto ' no com -
ern portion of the atate ha JUt beiin
completed, and the new Pendleton At-adr
ray building haa only been, occupied a
few muntlia Thla has a large atteud-
aiK'e already and pronpectp (or un i-
;reust In avtenditiK-e ut Hie upentiuc of
euch new term- 3'he Culpa o( tvavtiers
here, ua well aa at the public high aciiool,
and thu aaiall schools ur me town, ure
aa vtjlcient ua may be tounU anywhere.
iiicy-record or i-matiiut i ouuty .hvw
that fruin an vduualionul BtuiiOjjgutt,
Pendleton and I'matUlu County ale nut
behind in th)a important cement uz
progi eaa.
These thlpga are not mentioned In
spirit ot Umiiung Pendleton. U'he people
there would not countenance such a
thing. The booming 'spirit haa always
been discouraged tlivre. 'l'he puper )uive
deSlated from thla almost uuitvl cu
tom of newspaper. It ha alwaya been
their motto to show the truth about
the town and county to IpU the bad as
Well as the good.
Whether or not tbla policy - haa been
adopted on account uf ttut Sqi lunate qon
dltlona of the aectlon, or from the con
servative nature of the editors, I am
not prepared to say, but it Is the policy
there to discourage booming of every
kind. -It may be that ench element en
ters Into the matter. The conditions
have always been favorable and the
newspaper men have long been ldentt
led with the plao and know what tbe
people want
UK
When one considers tne vast resources
which Pendleton has to draw from, one
may aee how natural It "should be that
booming is diacouraged.. .Booming is al
ways an indication of weakness some
where. Playing certain points in a com
munity to the world Is almost a ur
slan that there are weak ones. ' If all
were a good M represented It would be
unnecessary to boom any of them. Bach
great things a boomer and booming
paper parade before the public would
be found out anyway
such ha been the cave witn fenaie-
ton. at least. It is the central point of
a vast territory, ay of which 1 a pro
ducer. It la Immediately surrounded
by one of the greatest wheat belts in
the world, eeeordlng to the area. Uma
tilla County alone has long been credited
with producing 1 per cent of the wheat
produced In the United 8tates. In addi
tion to this, it is in a great atoca coun
try. Hundreds of thousands of sheep
are Owned In the dlatrlot and million
of pounds of wool are shipped from the
place. . .
The cattle product Is such that three
of the- largest cattle-purcbaalng Institu
tions la the Northwest keep special
agent at Pendleton throughout the mar
ket sea I on a, More cattle are fed in win
ter near Pendleton for, the spring mar
ket than at any other point in the state. .
It 1 also a great horse market, and
the leading hog ranch of Oregon la situ
ated near Pendleton.
t t ft
Umatilla County Is also- a great fruit-
producer. Hundreds of carloads are
shipped annually rrom Milton and Free-'
water. In the northern portion or the
county. Vegetables' are also entering
largely Into her products. She Is also
the central point or shipping point of
great mining district . Many or the
people of tbe great. John Day country
buy their supplies In Pendleton and ship i
their ore from that point to the smelter.
in fact, her .resources are almost in
numerable, and as the country opens
up. which it is doing rapidly, these re
sources increase and Pendleton will con-
inue to grow tne more rapmiy.
It will naturally be the central point
for the opening of irrigation, as the
government 1 looking I that Immediate
section, and with the advent or irriga
tion throughout the arid district Of
Eastern Oregon, it mean a hew era for
the country, and Pendleton will come in
ror her snare.
Pendleton Is not only growing rapidly,
and Is the second town of Oregon from
the standpoint or enterprise and prog
res, but If her sister towns don't look
r .a . . . .. -. .
sharp she will soon lead them In popu
lation as well. I.
Eastern Oregon 1 grooming Itself for
neek-and-neck race with Western Ore
gon. .vV -i '
IMS WJ tf ? to Jaif lre ft,
. tetest la oeogrepky.
"I know I have a reputation for super
ncAllty bi my work." said a Harlem
teacher to the writer, "but tha pedagogue
la ilk the undertaker a fluaattty upon
which everybody may 'pour the , vial
oi peiaimlam. We keep on, however,
finding new waya and mean to teach
the young idea. I've made good friends
with the mothers of my district by
coin museum. -It has become se popular
now inai we have naraea it toe traveling
coin cabinet The reason Of It existence
is simple " My children would not be
come Interested In geography. I used
brightly, tinted maps and raised-map.
made colored drawings and Secured new
fangled globe, yet their little) brains re'
rueea to .0. ensnared. One happy day
I called upon a achool Inapector who 1
a collector ot coin nd. I looking
through hla cabinet it came to me in I
flash that here waa a splendid Wy to
teach pupils history and geography
witnout letting them know It
" 'A brlfiiant Idea,' said the Inspector;
i" give, you my duplicate and iena
you specimen of the different k)nds.'
He entered into the project with . en
thusiasm. Th content of our little
cabinet increased rupldly. Where we
could hot get orlglnalN loaned to as w
secured eoples.. Now we hav poples of
tbe Greek. Rrmmn. mediaeval, modern
arid Orlentar achoolx of coinage. ' In de
scribing a country we us the coin to
Interpret tbf lines of monarch, chron
ology, woiK ot art. form of religion
and even th mineral wealth. Th gen
eralaiilp of aa Alexander, the cruelty of
a Philip of Spain, the stateilness Qf
Queen ties, the' bravery of a Napoleon
as depleted by a coin appeal with don-
uie iorce to the minda or children. The
country, character, government, co-1
tusia .and scones of triumph all appeal
trongly te them. Nuturully some at the
comment are dlsiTaoting If not humor
ous. A small boy who waa not very at
tentive thus summed up the history of
Alexander th Great, after seeing a coin
of hi time: 'lie iui the Georgian knot
with a Cuban macheto. and that Ut be
came one or he original colonies. Hla
lukt name wa Hamilton. He wu born
In ihe West Indite . . ThuV how
he came to have u machete by him.'
"The greatest In in est I ahpwn lti
American coin, ami especially tnoo of
Revolutionary and Coh.jiiui time. In
dian wampum and buckanhock serve a
purpoap In directing attention to th
Ani.'i'ieas of the red men. Bo delighted
were the children with h-ll money that
they traced strings of veuwan from mem
ory in a drawing l-:oii which followej
the formerly dt-texti-d gcog-ruohloal task,"
. f a m. e
X;:.THALS0F DENTISTS u I
i --------- --
His PsamaafUtp Blamed for gome of
XI OefMta.'
Nspoleon. aCcdiuliiK to Alexunder Du
man. lout such battles as he did lose
because he wmte u-h a fiend lnh hand.
HIh generals could not read his note
and letu-ra and th,' trembling marshals,
afraid of dlsnbeytng. and striving to In
terpret the .indecipherable commands.
lnlterd. wandered and did not Comb
up to the scratch, or not td the pght
scratch. Thus Wuterloo was lost. Can
not you fancy Grouchy handing round
Napoleon's notes on that sangruinary
Sunday? "I say." cries the marshal
to his ald-do-cemp. "is that Vord Gern
bloux or Wavre? Is this Blucher" tit
Unlow?' So prohnhly Grouchy tossed
up for It. and the ivul words niay have
been none of thcae at which he offered
hla conjecture.' Moanwhlle. on the left
and center. d'Erl.m and Jerome and iN'ey
were equally puxsled. and kept on send
Inn cavalry to places where it was very
uncomfortable, und did no sort of goad.
Napoleon may never have been apprised
of these Circumstance. His old writ
ing muster wss not on the scene of
actum. Nobody dnrod t ' a". "Sire.
what doe this figure or a centipede
mean, and how are w to construe these
two thick 'stroke Hanked by dots?" The
imperial temper was peppery; the great
man would have torn off his interroga
tor's epaulettes and danced upon them.
Did he not once . (Jraw his pistol to
ahoot a little dog that barked at his
horse? And when the pistol missed fire
the great soldier threw it at the dog
and did not bit him. The Uttle dog re
treated with the horror of war.
Such was the temper of Napoleon, and
we know what Marlborough thought of
the value of an equable temper. No
body could ask Bonaparte to write a
legible hand, so hi general lived a
life of conjecture .to his meaning,
and Waterloo was hot a succes. and
the emperor never knew why. Of all
his seven or eight theories of hla fail
ure at Waterloo his handwriting was not
one. Trt if this explanation had oc
curred to him. Napoleon would certainty
have blamed his pens. Ink and paper.'
Those of Nelson at Copenhagen were
very bad. "If your gun sre not bet
ter than your pens." said a Danish offi
cer (who enme in under a flag of truce
before the tight, and was asked to put a
message Into writing), "you had better
retlre,"--Longman' ; Magazine. . ,'
nrgTijrcT zs in tuoin.
Ti the styla :
Apropo of v the high-necked dress
movement in the London theatres, here
s the latest quip aimed af tbe decollete
habit: '"When I go to-the theatre." say
a lady In' the latest English melodrama,
"I am afraid to looar at what Is. going
'on. for JTeer of what Is coming qff. We
are underfed' and overdressed at lunch
eon and overfed and imilerdreesed a'
dinner."" Quite so. ttoston Herald.
The three K.0OO-ton battleships arc
to be named Vermont Kansas and Min
nesota, and the two ll,m-ten Teasel
Mississippi and Idaho.
t
Vow th Young of thf feathered Tribe
Are Xaueated.
- . ' - 1
There Is a school of the woods, luat
a much as there 1 a church of the
wood, or a parliament of, the woods, of
a society or United ' Charities or the
woods, and no more; there 1 nothing
In the dealings of animal with -their
young that In the, remotest wy sug
gests human instruction' and discipline.
The young of all tha wild creature do
instinctively what their parent do and
did. They do not have to be taught;
they are taught from the Jump. The
bird sings at the proper age, and builds
its nest, and takes its appropriate food,
witnout any hint at ail rrom it parent.
The young duck take to the water when
hatched by a hen a readily as if
hatched by a duck, and dive and stalk
Insects, and wash themselves Just a
their mothers did. Young chicken, and
young turkeys understands the -various
calls and Blgnals of their mother the
first time they hear Or aee them. - -
At the first alarm note, they squat, at
a call to food they come on th Aral
day as on the tenth. Th habit of
cleanliness of the nestling are-established
from the first hour Of their live.
When a bird comes to build it first
nest and to rear Its ' first brood, K
knows how to proceed.: k well as It
does years Inter or a its parent did
before It. The fog afraid of a trap
before he has had (tny experience with
It, and the hare thump upon the ground
at sight of anything strange and un
usual, whether its mates be within bear-"
ing or not. It Is true that the crow
and the jays might be called the sales
and Informer of the wood, and other
creatures seem to understand the mean
ing of their crie. but WhO ehall pre
sume to say that they have been In-,
Ptrunea in this vocationr wr. - iong
would 'have us believe the crows teaoh
their young to fly. ..He might as well
say that the rooster teache it young 1
a- ... .... . - . . n
iv crow or mat tne coca grouse teacaes
Its young to fly. They fly instinctively
When their wings e etreitg enowgK, J
Atlantic Monthly
"The dentlat beat everybody els
when It come to being a patient saint"
aid one of th member of th nrofen-
sion.-. w nave more trouble thwn an
the doctor, ' preacher,' shoemaker,, and
Street car Conductors -In the. city. Of
all professional mtu th dentist 1 con
sidered, to be the moat hearties and un
feeling.! Bach visit td hi dmc Is mad
With fear, gnd trembling; he I dreaded
even more than th careless chauffeur.
But . the trial of hi ', patient or
nothing compared ta hi own. -He I b
set badgered, and,' abused continually.
"Each patient ho, come into th
Office endeavor Jo impre upon him
that her teeth are unusually sensitive ;
Do be earefuk doctor!' la th pie
of alae sot of every ten women patient
wne vosn te mm rer wora. Anq te an ot
them ha mU and ,mke a promia to
be very gentle.- .' ;. 1 1
"l'h 'J worn who prance Into hi
presence and mlllngly ,ask him If b
trill not put In a pretty gold nuipg in
her front teeth Is one of the trials of i
tb dentist's life. ' 'It knows -before he
examine bet teeth that there is no cav
ity In' front' but she Is -possesued wtb
the Idea that a shining void filling would
aoa to ner aireaoie in iter own eatnn-
(ion Bumerou charm. Perhaps it will
correspond, with the yellow of her hh
If the dentlat 'needs th money" he wtl
do tt; If not. he will refuse id cut mio
a Bound tooths to gratify the whim of a
l!l.'Womain.j'i; ';.;-. . '- , ,
' ' t !:
"Pei haps-she mukes an appointment
to com agil ft never Intendlug to do
o and. goes straightway to gnotner
dent bt -Out, in all probability, she aIll
argue the question 'pro and Icon with
him nd leav the office lp temper.
"Another bore I the woman who
wants to take ga and have a tooth ex
tracted., Sometime a dentlat will give
ga ana extract tooth for a 'patient
when hi assistant ta not about 'but In
most- casee, he prefer to have a third
party presen. And this I the Yeoaon:
t'he wonan comes' from under the influ
ence in an Indignaat nvxwj and Inforrsa
the dentist that h is no gentleman; that
he tried to make love to her. pii t kia
her. while he" believed her lu be uncOn
cfoiia . He does not have much to say.
tor the situation Is not new. lie waits
until . she is nnished gnd tell her she
'was under the influence only a few sec
ond end that he was busy during that
time pulng the tooth. How would he
ny time, vn if he had the Inclina
tion, to make love to her? Afid he sug
gests "that a woman l pot at per best
when - her mouth .la open and she hue
just been, relieved of a tooth. And this
sometimes ofily make matter worse,
for such an explanation hi Insulting to
some women. - -
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ooxs? Aa rusib-
J- V9J, , - , m
Substitute for coal have for many
year 'commanded attention, and espe
cially o during the past eight or nine
month In th United Btatea. with coal
prce at abnormal figure a 'a result of
th anthracite miner'' atrlk last "year,
peat and brlquetted sawdust, wood, -oil
and many other substance hav been
under consideration, and among them
also corn, thla last particularly having
oeen spoken or a aomething quit new,
though, 'a a matter of fact, kcorn ha
for, a long time been used as fuel in
the farming district of the Western
Ctlons ot the United States, and that,
too.' with very satisfactory result
In a general ' way - It - wu recognised
there that when corp was abundant and
cheap and coal wa expensive the fori r
made a cheaper fuel than th latter, al
though no scientific; determination of
their relative efficiency had been made
until g short, time ago, when tests were
made by the Department of Agriculture
of. the JUlverity of Nebraska. These
showed, among other thing, that of corn,
which, ix burned, will yield from SX.
S12.000 to 411.021,000 units, not counting
the hent that could- be Obtained from
the stalk. Since a ton of good coal will
give up about- XO.POO.000 to 11,009.000
units, an acre of ground I each year
capable of producing fuel which 1 equal
to 0.(7 or l.! to 1.74 or I.tl lohs of coal.
Tl)e stalk will probably Increase this
amount by one-fourth or one-third.
SATS ANIMALS TALK
77
, "Mejl are most troublesome when, they
get into a chair and lnat on talking
continually. ..Instead Of tell big bis pa
tient to close his mouth, as -he would
like, the dentist smilingly asks him to
open It and permit him to work. .Often-
time he has to resort to the use of
the robber dam for no other reason than
to keep the man from talking. An ac
corapTlshment of the dentist is to un
derstand what he calls 'rubber dam gib
berish.' it 1 the unintelligible cnat
ter that patients indulge in when the
rubber is ftrapped across their mouths.
Baby, talk Is plain United States by
comparison.
, "The patient who continually take
hold of tha.dentlat's hand or arm when
he Is operating la a great annoyance. So,
alao, I tbe timid young piece of femin
inity who -must hav tome one to hold
her hand whHe she haa a tooth extract
ed. or this purpose a truly enterpris
ing dtjtrtlst employs-a nice hair-parted-ln-he-mlddle
boy as assistant and 'hand-
holder.-
"Matty persons scream before the
forcep even have touched them, and
when the. dentist, with a little fore
sight closes the door to prevent occu
pants in near-by office from turning in
a police alarm, they set up a wall even
mora painrui to near than their nrst at-
teppt Curiously enough,- these persons
fprget to make even the lightest noise
When tne actual pain come.
."The girl who lump Just at the
moment -when, the dftirtiat l applying a
hot instrument to nlllng and conse
quently barns her Up, blame it ell, en
the doctor. --He bad told her not to
move,, but that make no difference. And
the trials a D. o. 9. has with the mak
ing and setting of bridge and olate
are too intricate and numerous to men
tion, but they all o to make tto a dally
grind thai spells torture to a man who
must smile and smile and be a dentist
still." ' ' '
The experience gained ffdm boiler
tests with corn fuel made It appear
doubtful whether cprn would be a prac
ticable fuel for tb 'generation of pow
er. Unless It were burned In some ape-,
clal furnace that would Insure the per
fect combustion of 'the volatile matter
which form so Urge a percentage of the
whole cprn. and 'which Is driven off t a
comparatively low heat. Some form of
automatic stoker would also be desir
able, since corn burns rapidly and must
be frequently fired, making th work of
the Bremen very arduous, and at tha
same tme tending to cause Incomplete
combustion by the excess of cold air en
tering through th lire door. Undoubt
edly corn may, t times, be cheap and
economical, fuel for domestic use. It Is
cleaner und more easily handled than
cowl ami contains but a very small
amount of ash. It barns rapidly with an
Intense heat and Mils I apt to be de
structive to th east-iron lining Of the
stove. Here. gain, therefore, some spe
cial form of lire box, that will not be
injured by the heat and 'that will, uti
lise as much of the heat as possible
should be used. Cassler Magaxtne.
ASTOXrVSlU) tll fcYYOY.
"Ous-
unven axnt.
of Mooee-I
Beat . Cone Trout Begloa
: --;', bead fcak. ; :
Nonuntil ..the gum gatherers of th
country1 had formed a union did the many
patron of the pruoe, peach, plum and
other appetising confection realise the
existence. of gum harvesting a a special
calling.- It would appear from the or
ganisation that thousand of men, wo
men and children make a good livelihood
from extracting gum' from the trees.
It i but a bu sines easily learned, elth
er, th best worker being those Who
hay, g knowledge of th proper condi
tion of the tree, tapping those which
are ripe with gum, while hot injuring
immature orJ(barren ones.
i-; ' !-:
The gum gatherer say that their trade
is growing harder each year on account
of the pulp mill and other Industrie
which , "eat" Up the trees for their use
and' thu destroy member of the apruce
and other families that make the gum
barvest They are obliged to travel great
distances to glean their, gum products
jand the black spruce tree, chief of gum
producer, , are growing career and
Scarcer each season,; They -want higher
wages ana the price or gum raised.
some t j or our nest gum costs us
around go cent a pound," said A manu
facturer, "but we otm afford to nay it
We make it up Into small bar or squares
with other . mixtures and get t cents
apiece for them. The medicinal gums
are, of course, more expensive, but cus
tomer expect them to be' and we have
no trouble in. disposing of them,.
"The ' bid Indian guide and hunter
gather the best gum. , They seem to know
bymsflnet where and how to find It and
have a way of, preparing and packing it
which makes It exceedingly palatable. I
fancy the best spruce gum comeg, from
the- region of Mooehead la-kp. Twin
Dam, Square . Lake and KatahdtA in
Maine."" New York Evening pdst,
Why eould not 'the exDresscomtanles
BrovTde skids ''for sliding trunks fo the
eldewalk" aad do eny with their em
ployes practice or aumping tnem down
from th high' wagon? And. by the
way, 'tne legislature should pass an
anu-baggage 1 mabfng ;,Iaw, . such a
exists n oilier smiee, , oerore It aa-
joty-ljley .Tfojfta.erald. -
During 'irie"'pAt year 8I hereon were :
cremated In Germany an excea Tpf tm
over th previous year.
Meeting of Lord Ashbartda aad
lag Jtaok Sad.
"I never think of race horses and
races," said Captain Townsheud Smith,
"but I am remind of when Lord Ash
burton, envoy extraordinary from the
British government td setfje with Mr.
Webster th Northeast boundary ques
tion, was in Washington. 'John Tyler
was then President, and, with the po
liteness characteristic of the man and
of Virginians generally, wishing to en
tertain his lordsblp for a day, invited
l)lm to ride out to the race course,
which was then beyond Anacostia.
where the sport was at that time ren
dered very attractive by a great contest
between the celebrated horse Boston and
Blue Dick. Among the excited specta
tors wa a well-known habitue of the
turf who had served with Mr. Tyler In
the Virginia legislature. This man wa
with my cousin. Jack Dade, better known
a -Cussing Jack,' for he could swear
in fiV'ry known language. Jack saw the
President with the stranger, and walk
ing up .to the President he extended his
hand and ald. 'Hello, Johp Tyler,, old
fellow; how are you? Mighty glad to
see you, old horse. Looking well, old
coon.' and pursuing this strain, mingling
it with big oath between every phrase,
lie .completely astounded the President
who could not stop him or say a word
in reply. All this time Lord Ashburton
was sitting on his horse close by In
stately dignity and horror-struck at the
easy familiarity of the Virginian- The
President introduced him With great
gravity to Lord Ashburton. 'Lord, who
did you say, Tyler? The Lord Harry."
he roared out, extending his' hand In a
patronising way to his Jordahlp. 'No
lords, no dukes, no nothing of that sort
in this country,' and so tie dashed on
until the envoy himself entered Into the
spirit of the- occasion, end laaghed
heartily with the President
After this incident Lord Ashburton
end Jack Dad became fast friend, and
the latter was told that if he would go
with Ashburton , to England he would
guarantee that he would come Into pos
session of the immense Townshertd es
tate. Old Jack told hi lordship lhat
he would not travel , that far on water
even If he Knew he would own the
whole of England , after getting there.
It is a fact that Jack Dade would not
travel "by water." ;,'
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OAjgjUJaA QtiAxaizs.
Xoef Mea Set About to X.owr fragment
V "'.- of Marble.
A soon a "a great fragment of marble
detached by the blast has stopped roll
ing, it is mora or less roughly squared
Into a block, weighing; say. 40 ton.
Then the men et about getting It down.
Along certain, line of descent offering I
the least resistance .to a body descend
ing by force of gravitation a succession
of stout posts hays' been firmly driven
into tne loose stones ana maroie waste.
The men; - by means of crowbars and
PHILADELPHIA. Pa'Aprll 18. Ca
animal talkf ' Do they have an Intelll
gent mean of "communication between
ch -other t "Y
"Just com ground the ground with
m.M, sad Keeper Jack Lover at th .
Zoological Garden, 'and I'll let you se
whether they can talk or not. Of course,
I'll tell you right wy that I believe,
they da In faot I'm certain they do.
But.com along with me and let them
demonstrate for themselves. Now, mind
you. hearly every animal In th garden!
know me personally, because I mak
a point of making their acquaintance.
we are just coming to th wolves. In
the first cage I an old gray wolf by
himself and alongside of him is a pair.
Defor they can hear ua you go on
ahead and just look at them. They
won't pay much attention to you. Then
wait for ma" .
The reporter did a told. The
were lying oown ana they never
niovea oeyona a flight pricking of th
iuoui m minute later, however,
. - -' - wmaa.w V , 1 1 ifyn
or hi cage, making at th am time
low, whining noise Instantly, a tho
by magic, all ' th wolre. dog, and
roxes along th entire row of cage
were on their feet nosing th bar and
mtklng similar whining boia Juat
then Lover strolled up.
"How did they know 1 wa eomlngr
he asked. "And bow did th bid gray
tell them. If it wa not by that funny
little whin of hla He alwaya make
the same sound, and he doe It fully
a minute before I. eome along, before
any human being know I am in th
neighborhood. Now, here' another thing.
On of the little Virginia foxes that ar
rived last week Is very sick, and I'm
afraid she's going to die You see, hep
mate Is at the bar waiting to talk
to me. Just wait and aee what he doe
when I go to the cage."
. H
A a Lover approached the cage the lit
tle creature wagged Ma tall and wh1ng
with every expression of delight. theHk
suddenly ran td the back of the ceael.
where hla mtA law tntAAlA ... Ih h. TA
' "i ner wi, e eviaenuy saia
something to her. she rose on her feet
ss though to come and see her friend,
but turned and lay down again. Then
the little dog fox came back to Lover
ond whined sadly and returned to the
vlten.
"What do you think of that? Don't
you think he went and told her I wa
here? Don't you think he saDd she
was to come to me. perhaps I could
help her? And don't you think shje told
him to come And tell me it was nil nt
use. for I couldn't do anything fmr her?
Well, that's what I think about It,
anyway." said the keeper.
K R K
"Come and see the raccoons. They're
a clever lot of little rascals. Bee what
one of them has been doing? He can
Just, manage to get his foot under the
grating and he has torn a perfect
trench from one end of the cage to the
other. Now watch how helj try to .de
ceive me and put the blame on one of
the others."
The ring-tailed raccoon, as aoon a
he saw the keeper, left his work and
trotted to another In a different part of
the cage. With wonderful cunning this
second one crept and sidled along the
back of the; cage, stopping every now
and again to play with a oeaniit shell
or other toy, until It reached the aide
where Its friend had been working. The
rtrst fellow came running to the front
of the cage and put Its nose between
the bars Tor Lover to scratch. Mean
while number two was at work on the
trench.- -
m t
"Do they tnlk? How do you Recount
for the monkeys giving a warning sig
nal which . ("ends every one of them
scooting up to the tops rtf their ciges
like mad creatures? Hn Is It that
when an animal Is sick In one fair,' all
the others in the same house know It
long before the keepers do? In fact.
It is often from the actions of the first
animal we see as we enter rhe house
that We know there Is a sick one some
where in the house.
"Birds? We'll. I should saiy. Now,
there's those two old peacocks of ours.
They wnnder all over the gardens at
Will. They never stray. But If one I
at one end of the grounds And th
otheT nt the other end and one call
you'll hear the other answer. Do you
suspose that a flock of fifty or a hun
dred sparrow nil hear, or see. or smIl
the Approach of nn enemy at th same
time? Not they. That's impossible:
They have sentinel who kcepn wt-toll
and gives a sternal. Then, again, do. you
sunpose that fifty or a hundred birds In
different parts of the gardens can see a
heaa of grain throvn Into a nn ft th
same tlmef Not a bit of It. -Twit's Im
possible,
them muke
somf- way
to their
until they all know l. It mav hot be 4
talking we understand th word, but
It 4o mighty like it that.lt will ps
for talking to me.
... "Animals tajk all right. Jvet wtch
the little prairie dors and see 'f they
'don't. And take a look at th"' deer nr. I
see If they don't Of course they talk.
I wih I could underst.".n'l all ti-y'sny
as well a I believe thoy understand
me."
arrain mruwn init n ' r me
ief Not a bit of It. TW's lm-
to. Or.e cr two -or three of
ke the precious discovery ond In
.y communlcpte th" poo.-l rew 'J
fuiends,. from cne to enother,
Alt Lnn It ft mc fc,A k . -
Reviving Household Industries.
A few years ago the products of house,
hold Industry were as little pilied In
the general market as were old nreplaesr
and candlesticks of our grandfathers
after the ' modern l-mnrovempntM nf f ht
Jackacrew. raise the block onto a soapedN nace heat and gaslight had been ir.tio
skld of hard beech wood, ,of .which tlieyj duced. Bo the crochet needle and atroci-
have several to hand.' Before doing this
they secure the block by means of three
long three' to IlVe-lnch., hempen cables,
with which they take turn around the
posts, and pay out sufflelenf rope only
to allow the ponderous mass sliding over
the soaped skids by it own weight and
tbe angle of the Incline,. but not to al
low of Its gaining too much momentum.
. ' ... :-o-i-i'. ','-'
During this descent,! besides the men
tailing onto the ropes, two or three men
are! seated 0n the. block;, mgn follbw-
Ina closely in Its wake hands them Ub
the skid lust paused over, which they re-
soap and, hand down to a ..man, who
keeps Just, In front of the moving mass,
to put down in lte path, and so provide a
continuous slipway. This last-mentlqied
work- ha the most perilous task. If
one of the -cables part at a critical mom
ent or If a jnistake be made in paying- vived, find
out or aiackenlng them, he must Inevlt- I tlve prices,
tie In "fancy work" took the place Of
the looni and 'Its enduring products.
Factory-made goods were so varied andTvy
SO cheap that there was no demand for '
anything else, . 'But more racently there
has been a decided change, and there Is
a growing appreciation Of the bid-fashioned,
honest handcrafts. 'Taste has lm-
proved, and people who used to be con
tent with the latest novelty turned out
in quantity now want, individual things
not merely In the domain ' of fine arts,
but In that or useful household articles.
The Woman' who pow has a piece of her
grandmother's homespun prises It hot
only as a relic, but as a thing of use
fcnd beauty. The did fabrics, "'made of
tbe best materials and the most unfading
dyes, are eagerly seized upon wherever
found, and new ones, made where the old
method still survive or have been re-
a ready sale at remunera-
pf course, the great bulk
ably,,, crushed. It' Is A fine eight to of merchandise for. all classes of people
See the men at .the last pinch, near the
railroad, hand levering the marble over
the rollers onto the truck. At this stage
all hands are yelling like demons at
their work, but the "moment their bur
den Is safely entrained every man fling
down hla tool and all bolt for the os
terla, or win Bhop.r-Pearsoh' Maga-
alne. . ' ; ... ,. ,.
must b. produced-by maohlnery; but
that 1 no reason why household Indus
trie should die out
Oeraldin -Women are Just a honest
a men.' i 1 . ' v
Gerald That Isn't So; a man will put
tip a sign. "Look out for paint;'.'' but did
youiever know- awomaH !to 'do "It?;! being iSJ.tlO.
Brooklyn Life I are whites,
a
...':. Soor One I
Score one for the Roosevelt adminis
tration In the Northern Securities Mer
ger case, It not only expedited the
hearing, but It gets the verdict from
the Court of Appeals. Now" for the
Supreme Court. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Tfie population of New : Mexico ' ex
ceeds that of Arisona by about "3 000
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