BANDON RECORDER.
FOOD IN FRUrr SKIN.S,
Salrlllva Maalltl«« In Them Believed
In Be a Hraln K«ul.
I POLLY LARKIN. |
dulged in woHi-mokiuga big pi|« twice
a day. 1 remarked to him oue day
that we would have to gel him au a«-
■utaut a« all the room« were now rented
aud the work was too much for one
man. He simply stared at me for a
moiueut and then turned aud walked
out of tbe room without a word. Hut 1
i noticed be quit smoking and for about
•lx month« be never Indulged in Ids
oue luxury. Then he got leave of
afineuee for about two mouths and
asked hi hi« ¡»eeuliar nasal voice for me
uol to gel au assistant for he wa« going
to his old home in Norway to get one.
1 thought that would be the la«t ol
him, but in just two mouths to the day
in lie walked with bis twin brother and
announced that he had brought lii«
asaistant. They were like a« two ¡teas
In a pod. They both occupy tbe little
Iiack liedroom, which contains the bed
and two chairs and a Huy mirror on
tbe wall; take their bread and black
coffee in the morning, which Is made
on their little coal oil stove, and their
ten-cent dinners every night, winter
and summer. They go to lied at dusk
to save the expense of a tallow caudle.
Their w hole aim in life is to save enough
to go back Io the old country and buy a
fishing smack aud outfit, and marry
the two tlaxen-haired sweethearts that
are awaiting their coming with a
patience and faith iu their lovers that
would make le«H-coustant lovers turn
green with euvy. Their gain will be
our lose, however, for uever was build
ing kept so immaculately clean as ours
under the Norwegian regime.
fOR THE HOUSEWIFE CHOICE MISCELLANY NEW SHORT STORIES 4TNTS FOR FARMERS
t'«brd« Weadta«.
When tiny wgu »put« cume to light
fa a favorite bl«k or dark colored «Ilk
umbrella, they •“ be mended neatly
by covering the »lace with black silk
courtplaster. C9 the plaster In little
round piece* «ifcbtly larger than the
hole« to be meuffd- mol«teu aud apply
on the Inaldc of he open cover. If th«
umbrella 1« oatupted in a heavy «how
er. the eourtpl$»ter must be applied
once more. Iniileutally It 1« allowing
an umbrella to try while it I* closed
■ nd lie away Inxhe fold« which cause*
these tiny craft« and hole« in tbe
cover.
A still better way to mend these
worn place*. If «tie can** to take th«
extru trouble, is to darken with black
Ink a glue whir* you know will defy
molNture. Only a small quantity need
be darkened. Agply till* lu a thin coat
to «ome black sik cut out quite a little
larger thau I* ugi'asary for the court-
plaster. Apply o* the luside of the urn-
lirella with the umbrella open aud set
It aside still <>|>« to dry. In this way
one can make «n umbrella last much
longer tbau If tbe boles are neglected.
It certainly proves economical to pur
chase a good ugibrella with a quiet
natural woisieu banbi.' whose appear
ance I* always dainty anil refined, for
the cover can lie renewed for a dollar,
a good frame aud handle outwearing
many covers.
A Prwmraadr With • Tl«rr.
Hum«« sradmt«* Frank«.
A Naw IAr* For Potato Grower«.
Among those remembered by the
king in lii» UUtributiou of coronatlou
honors wa» Sir Edward Bradford, chief
<-omml»siouer of police for tbe city of
London, who was made a baronet.
8ir Edward ba» held bl* present posi
tion for ten year* aud ba* at all times
diHpluyed au unfailing tact and a
broad capacity for dealing with tbe
complicated situations which are so
frequently presellteil for bi* couaidera
tion. Tbe chief commiaslouer ba* but
otic arm. He lost tbe other lu a hunt
ing accident «lieu be wa* a goisl deal
younger than be la now. He was «boot
ing iu ludla and came to close quar
ter* with a tiger. He tired at the ani
mal, but Hie bullet ouly Inflicted a
alight wound. The tiger *praug upon
him and fastened it* teeth In bl* left
arm Juat above the elbow
8lr' Ed
want had presence of rniud aufflcleut
to realize Halt it would be fatal to
struggle and in spite of the great pain
actually walked a few steps beside bls
captor lu tbe direction of tlie animal’*
lair.
He wa* fortunately prevented
from continuing till* most unusual
promenade by a couqtanion, who shot
the tiger, but the bitten arm was so
badly mangled that It bud to be ampu
tated at the shoulder. One of tiie nota
The Sense« «nd Fine Art«.
Tlie tine art* are each distinctly as ble sights at the diamond Jubih*e of the
Bis-lated with one of the senses. With late Queen Victoria was Sir Edward'*
out sight there would lie no enjoyment management of his buge black borae
In front of St. Paul's at tbe couc I uh I ou
of painting, sculpture or architecture
of the special service. Tbe animal wa*
for us. Without hearing music would
not exist. Without tuste we should somewhat restive, says the Brooklyn
full to appreciate cookery, which In all Eagle, but tiie maimed eoihuiisslouer
civilized communities lias been reck controlled him while be mounted by
holding the bridle rein* between his
oiled lu It* highest phases as a tine art.
teeth. In till* fashion he Is said habit
There are, therefore, two senses left
ually to have handled bl* horse during
that have at present no artistic repre
his long experience a* a pig sticker In
sentatives—those of Binell and of touch.
India.
During ¡he luter empire at Home the
former wus cultivated as a line art.
Napoleon'« H««e.
and a symphony of scent* came to lie
A story is told of a sudden ruge into
spoken of In the same category as one which Naisileon I. fell oue day Just a*
of soHtids. The fashion died out when he sat down to dinner. He liad scarce
Rome fell from its high estate. but ly partaken of a mouthful when appar
there Is nothing more inherently uh- ently some .Inopport line thought or rec
surd or Impossible in a tine art of ollection stung his brain to madness,
odors tlian iu one of colors. Touch is and, receding from the table without
les?udifl^tuble. bu^tlie development of rising from Ills chair, he uplifted bis
wireless telegraphy and through It of
thought transmission by a minimum of
mechunical means uiuy yet raise that
senseoto tlie dignity of liavlng nil art
corresponding with it* utility.
They still tell the «lory at Villa Me
did. ltouu*. of a "nouveau" student who
when presented to M. 8<-buets himself
Isildly tapped him ou the chest and. to
the Joy of the "aucieu" student«, ex
claimed: "I know that Joke, old chap.
No um * trying It ou me!”
Tbe Joke is tbe richer «luce It marks
tbe pa ««lug of one of tbe best Joke« at
Ibis fumou« Institution. For years it
bad been the custom for the older »tu
deuts to have oue of their number in a
dress coat presented with all due wolem
nity to tlie new students.
Still another Joke 1« fur the older
student* to capture a Couple of new
comer* and after conducting them to
their room* thrust them in and lock
the door, leuvlug them face to face
with a donkey tied between the la-ds.
Each year tbe saloon of the villa 1»
transformed Into a gala place, utid the
*|«*ctator find* himself iu the midst of
a country fair, an old time Roman
carnival or the holdup of a family ot
English tourists, lu which a young
woman, who, by tbe way, wear* a lux
uriant mustache, is borne off lu tri
umph by a luind of tbe blackest bun-
dlts ever painted.
Time are more nutritive qualities
How few cbildreu are taught the art
bidden lu the aklua of fruit«, cereal« of saving.
Every penny, nickel and
mid vegetable« than the average per.
dime gum foreou fee tionery- the cheap
son 1« aware of. lu fact, the great
bulk of the bralu building food* are In est kind of cake« ami caudle«, and
the «kina of the fruit« and vegetable» worthies« toy«. Every cent fairly burn«
their little hand« uutil they have In
we eut.
If. a* 8a varln says, "the destiny of vested it for the mere liiiieslhat give
anti ai« depend* on their food." then loit the pleSHiire of a moment. The
the destiny, whether a healthy long wily storekeeper has learned tiie art
life or iusanity or suicide of every unit now-a-day« of coaxing the nickel« and
»f the United State« depend« ou how he
dime« and little brown coppers into
or »be 1« fed.
If the breed ao much depend« upon their ca»h-drawer« by wheel«of fortune,
food. why should not every ¡icrsou ca grab boxes and the like. In the former
pable of normal thought seek to pro the little purchaser lay« down hl« five
cure such food as best sustains his or cent« and gives a whirl to Hie wheel of
her
normality?
Brain starvation, fortune.
If the hand» marking the
through the lack of suitable bralu and time «top» at a certain figure he doubles
nerve uourlshmeut lu our dally food, the amount slid gel« ten instead of five
is the sole cause of the craving for cents' worth of candy; frequently be
stimulants to supply, us they do. arti-
only gets the nickel'« worth. They like
ficiully and Improperly what nuture
lias provided III a natural forui lu the the excitement of turning that wheel
skin of the grape, which contains the however, and back they go the first
best part of the wine; In the skins of time they can get a cent, to try their
all fruits and vegetables, and if not In foituner. The next «nare is the grab
the skins of the cereals, bow comes It I mix . Home are only a penny a grab,
that stimulating properties are extract others a nickel. It is the biggest kind
ed from them, us the inner kernel, of a swindle. The child get« a box with
the starch, Is devoid of anything other
four or five piece« of the commonest
than a heat giver?
kind of »tale candy and an article not
It has been proved by chemical anal
Line« the Clotheahaakel.
ysis uud demonstrated by microscopic worth half a eeut. It pleaaes tlie child
To protect damp clothes from possi
experiments that the most valuable ish fancy for th« instant, and create«
ble stulua from a clothesbasket that
brain sustaining properties are resi Hie desire to try their luck again. It is
ba* seen many years' usage I make a
dent In all skins of cereals, fruits and not right to encourage till« folly, and
loose removable lining, «ay« a corre
vegetables, and us an Instance of the yet many parents are blind to the fact.
spondent of American Agriculturist. I
»»«»
great difference to the health resultant They reason t hat is only a small amount
use old sbevts and always have two on
"Hut where, Polly, would you gel the hand. Cut a piece tbe size aud shape
from partaking or rejecting tlie skins and if it gives Jack or Jill or Mary or
here Is an incident that occurred In
California youth to live thus frugally to of the bottom of the basket. Cut an
Annie any pleastne where’s the harm?
India, as told by an Indian officer:
gain a certain object in life'?” 1 admit other piece as long as tbe circumfer
A regiment was stationed In a part It would tie better for the wee folks in that they are few and far between, ence of tbe basket at tbe top and a«
of the country where grapes were the the long run to teach them that “a still I have known, personally, several deep as tbe sides and four Inches more.
chief article of food. The officers, one penny saved is a |>euny earned.” Ouce
boys who were very economical,denied If the basket Is a round one, gather tbe
after another, becume so sick as to be they begin to save, they will take the
side lining after seaming up aud sew
invalided us until, for service, but it same pleasure lu adding to the little themselves many enjoyments that their to tbe bottom piece, but If tlie basket 1«
being considered remarkable that the sum tliat they had previously enjoyed companions indulged in and refrained of oval shape take two deep dart* at
troops were all well a commission of in throwing it away for cheap, stale from all luxuries for the sake of an each end to make tbe side lining fit tbe
Inquiry was instituted, when It was
education. Yet they were favorites Imttom. Cut and bind two slits four
candy at Hie confectioner». This year
found that while every trooper In eat
with young and old and, needless to inches from the top edge to slip the
n
arked
anew
era
for
a
number
of
Polly
’
s
ing grapes swallowed the skins the offi
say, gained their hearts' desire aud handles through, turn over on tbe out
cers followed the fashionable habit of little friends, both girls and boys, who have made a success financially since* side the superfluous four inches, which
rejecting them. It was then ordered have passed many nickels and dimes
leaving college. They simply know no keeps tjie lining from «lipping, and you
that the officers should swallow the over tlie counter for the privilege of
can alwuys have a clean busket, no
such
word as fail, but plod steadily on
skins, which wus done, with the result whirling the wheel of fortune and
matter bow discolored or old It is.
ward,
passing
by
obstacles
I
hat-
would
O
—
that they immediately recovered.
delving deep into the mysteries of the
The C'hanirlBK Fashion 1« Novels.
Thus It will be seen that the skin of grab box of trashy odds and ends. makes less resolute nature faint-hearted
A Handy Little Box.
°
Literary fashions are ulm»*t us
the grape, besides being a bralu feeder, Their father itsik the smaller sizes of and a ho|>eless failure.
A long chocolate box makes a good
(sissesses other healthful and nutritive
foundation for this pretty pin box. changeable a* fiyihions in dress, and
tlie
yea»t-|s>wder
cans
and
soldeied
the
qualities necessary to the sustenance of
COver and line with silk, fixing it ei Wilkie Collins is today out of fashion.
BRIEF REVIEW
the human body. The reason why as tops on hard ami fast, after cutting a
ther with vegetable glue or seccotlne. *rrue, ninny of ids novels have ac
paragus. calibuge, string beans, lettuce, slit hi the top and arranging it so the
Tlie little divisions iu tbe ends are for quired the fame of the sixpenny edition
spinach and other green vegetables are money tuiuld go in but could not
Electricity and Sleep.
small plus. These are made by cover- But his is not a uauie to e.injure v.itli.
so wholesome 1« that the skins are not come out. It was better than any bank
and If reference is ever made lo him
A eommuiiieation lately made in the
It is as tlie pnslucer of sensational nov
rejected. Our Friend.
they could buy, for deft little fingers French Academy of Hi'lences by M.
els df a type which long ago lost Its
soon learn the combination of tlie not Leduc regarding Hie use of electricity
A Tou«h Negro.
freshness. Mr. Hardy holds that mod
very well constructed toy banks. Now in inducing anaesthesia, or loss of cou-
Stories of brute toughness and Ho
ern writer* ha ye uo story to tell. Wil
there is a rivalry between them to see sciousnese, is likely to Interest those
meric endurance are tenderly preserv
kle Collins bad. and knew how to tel!
which
will
have
tlie
largest
amount
who aie specially concerned with the
ed lu the folklore of the water front
It. He, like tlie Ancient Mariner, b >lds
— how, for Instance, Scipio Flanagan, when the banks are o|>en«d. Each one production of that state, says the Lon
the reader with Ills glittering eye from
"the biggest nigger in the business," ha« a motive for saving, for the amount don Chronicle. E'ectric currents have
first to lust. So potent is his power
supported the entire weight of ail im will go towards their summer vacation. apparently Iieen proved to lie capable
that even In those stfirle* that are not
mense packing case, weighing upward They are plotting and planning and in certain cases in causing the uncon
his best one I* compelled to read on.
of 1.800. on bls prostrate body. The jingling their cans, and while the banks
His methods are not the methods of to
scious state. It ap|iears that M. Ise ing pieces of card with silk. They
negro held the band truck to receive get heavier from week to week the till
day. But the admission Is not a con
the case, which In the bands of half a of the coufectiouer misses the modest duc’s early experiments were attended should be the exact width of thè box, demnation, and many a modern novel
with pain. He lias now made arrange but a half inch less in depth.
dozen men was being balanced at Just
ist who sneers ut bi* technique might.
little sum he hail iieen wont to count ments whereby through the more
Tbe lid I* a straight piece of card, a If he would, letfrn a much needed les
the right angle to slip Into place. But
It hit the edge of the truck and knock- on. Each week their father gives them gradual application of his currents, and trifle smaller tbau Hie box, as It siuks son from Wilkie Collins. — Ixnidon
ed It away, and the negro unluckily a small amount to deposit and by the by allowing a longer iieriod for their inside the Isix and rests ou tbe parti Speaker^,
lost his footing and fell Hut with the end of the week, as the number of action, pain may be avoided. It will tions. It is padded at tbe top to form
Indian Servant Gtrla.
great box on top of him. lie shrieked |>eunies, nickels and dimes have been be scientifically important to note any a pincushion and is covered and lined
A new solution of the servant girl
with silk. A tal» of ribbon is sewed to
In terror and groaned. It was said, like deputed, there is a very perceptible
further development« of this phase of
each end, so that it may be easily problem I* being discussed in the large
a siren whistle, but when a gang of difference ill the weight. It Is a lively
1 «
cities of the west. Indian girls from
fifteen men lifted the thing bodily and competition and the result is looked electrical applications. I do not for a rHlsed.
♦
——
o
special training schools are being em
pulled him out all be did was to screw foiwaid to with much Interest, at least moment suggest that M. Ix-duc’s re
Case For Pattern«.
searches are other than valuable, but
ployed as servant girls. It i* said that
Ids fists Into his eyes like a big child,
by the Juvenile members ot the family. oue bears in mind the possibility of
A pattern case Is a very useful ac the Indian girls who have been proper
stretch bls long limbs grotesquely and
cessory
for
tbe
home
seamstress.
We
»»•»
ly trained are found to be perfect em
return to work. Of course be talked
hypnotic and other states influencing
all know tbe inconvenience of au over bodiments of satisfactory domestic
shout this feat for many a day.—Frank
a certain class of patients, and it is very
In another family where there is
flowing box, with the0 needed »pattern
Leslie's Monthly.
desirable that in such researches central invariably at the very bottom. The service. Five thousand or more Indian
one child the father, who is a shrewd
girls have b<*en engaged from the vari
exjieriinents should lie carefully insti case requires a strip of some heavy
Old Delusions.
financier himself, discovered that Ins
ous Indian schools of Jbe southwest to
material, such ns cretonne or deuim, act *as domestics in the home* of
It Is Inexplicable how the old delu young son, although but a mere child, tuted.
1 yard long and012 inches wide. Three wealthy people In Kansa* City, Chica
slon that a man cannot eat one quail had not inherited his desire to save. He
Origin ot “Hobson’s Choice.”
strips of tape are piit lengthwise “of go. St. Imuis and Denver. Most of
a day for thirty days bolds Its own. thought he detected in him the char
Mr. Har|ier tells us-all there is to tie this material epul distances apart.
these girls areofroni tlie Chicago and
Any man can eat one quail a day for
acteristics of the spendthrift. To use told alsiut Thomas Hobson, the famous The tapes are fastened down firmly
Haskell Indian schools. Tlie Indian
thirty days. At Lawrence some years
his own expression, “I nipped that carrier lietween Ijondon and Cambridge at spaces four iuckes apart and also girls a^e physically strong. They are,
ago Will Upton ate two quails a day
for more than thirty days. For tlie fault right in tlie bud, Polly. I got him who died in 1831. It was from him at the ends. Two long tapes are fas a* a fule, faithful, polite aud unobtru
first week or two he starved himself a Imnk III short order and talked save— that the proverb of ^Hobson’s choice” tened at one end, to tie the case wbeuc sive.—Buffalo Enquirer.
with the Idea that he must keep up an save save—to him, until he imbibed ansie, meaning, of course, a choice rolled up. Tbe <xse is bound with
■■ u—
appetite. After that be sometimes ate the whole lesson. I give him money which is no choice. “The saying anise tape? and the patttrns qre Inserted by
Daualiter of file Railway.
three or four of the birds in a day.
on his birthday and Christmas. His from the livery stable business carried slipping them under the lengthwise
A Russian railroad lias udoptrxf a
tapes.
Itoli up «nd tie with tbe little girl. Tlie engineer of a fast ex
Another old fraud on the public Is grandfather does the same, and I pay
on by Hobson at Cambridge, in addi strings.—Hural New Yorker.
the belief that a horse cannot pull a him for attending to certain duties that
press saw s'Tniethlng on the tracks as
Hon to his carrying trade. He is, in
sack of sand at the end of a two hun
the train w%s nearing St. Petersburg.
I think will help to make him more deed, said to have Iieen the first who
How
1«
Dr
la
It
Water,,
dred foot rope. Any cow pony in Kan
He stopissl lii* engine, and the fire
manly
by
assuming
the
responsibility.
made a business of letting out saddle
A beginning of kidney trouble lies in
•as will go off on a lope with such a
man found that it was a basket, in
The result is, I put fifty dollars in liank horses. His practice, invariably fol tbe fact that people, especially women, which wus a girl baby. Tlie baby was
■ack.—Kansas City Journal.
for him the first year that he had ac lowed, wa« to refuse to allow any horse do not drink enough water. A tjumbler takeu Into St. Petersburg. <and It was
The “Big Dipper.”
cumulated in his toy bank. He has his iu bis stables to be takeu out of it« pro of water sipped lu tbe morning immedi so pretty and cute that the generul
In astronomy the “Big Dlpi>er,” so own Imnk Issik and is as proud of it as per turn. ‘That or none,’ was his un ately on rising, another at night are manager decided it should liei-oiue tbe
recommended by physicians. Try to
called, 1« In the constellation of Ursa anything he possesses. Boys are not
failing formula, when the Cambridge drink as little water aq, possible with ward of tlijj railroad, which is now
Major, or the Great Bear. The stars
¡laying tlie expenses of Its nursing.
wholly to blame, Polly, when they students, eager to pick and choose,
meals, but take a glatsful half an hour
forming the tall of the bear also form
Every day scores of railway men cull
the handle of the dipper. The first star grow up «|>endthrifts and don’t know would have selected their own fancy iu to an hour before eating. This rule
op little Nikola Jewskaja uml assist lu
In the handle Is Benetnascli, the second the value of a dollar. Foreigners know horse fiesh. Every customer wasserved persisted in day after day, month after
amusing her.
month, tbe complexion will improve
Mizar, the third Alioth. The other how to save lietter t! an our own Amer without favor.
aud the general health likewise. Water
four, which go to form the bowl of the ican hoys.
‘
Basel«« With the Brik«.
Salt for Sheep.
dipper, are Megres, Phad, Merak and
drunk with meals should be sipped, as
Tbe festivities attending the wedding
Dudbe. The two last named are called
Experiments in the value of salt In well as taken sparingly.
of Miss Josephine Malegkerand Frank
“I have in mind a lank, rawlsiued
“The Pointers,” because they point or
the food of sheep have Iieen recently
Kubee. which took ¡dace the other
To Preserve Salad Dressing.
juHle tlie eye to the pole star, which Is Norwegian lad who ambled awkwardly mail« in France. Of three lots of sheep,
morning at tbe Polish monastery In
To
prevent
tbe
curdling
of
boiled
into
my
office
alsiut
three
years
ago
and
distant 29 degrees. The top bowl stars
one had no salt, a second hail half an salad dressing mix a teaspoonful of Green Bay. WIs., were concluded the
ire 10 degrees and the bottom ones 8 asked for work. We had had trouble
ounce daily, and the third had three- flour with tlie sugar and mustard while next morning at 1 o'clock. Following
legrees apart
with our window cleaners for some
fourths of an ounce. The sheep taking all three are dry. Then proceed with tlie usual custom, plates were spun by
lime; the work was so poorly done and
Hie male guests for a chance to dance
salt gained more flesh and had better tbe rule as usual. This will prevent
A Bag Lot.
the window cleaners, Japanese, were so
tvlth the bride. As a result 101 plates
Newitt — Yes. old Goodman's three
wool than those without It, and the tbe dressiug from curdling. Never
Wera broken, and $2*25 wa* paid out
l>oys are a bad lot. Two of them at independent, that a happy thought sheep getting half an ounce did lietter cook it too long over the Are. Over
for tlie liouor of dancing with tbe
struck me. We would give this young
cooking
often
curdles
a
dressing
that
least ought to be in Jail.
than those getting more.
tride, who danced two hours aud ten
Norwegian
the
work
of
cleaning
the
would
otherwise
have
been
¡»erfect.
Brown — Some redeeming quality
lilnutes by tbe watch.
entire building, washing windows and
•bout the third one, eb?
At a recent auction sale in Isindon a When removing it from tbe fire, set
Newitt—Yes; he’s already there.— keeping everything in order. He spoke love letter written by Keats to Fanny the pan* in a basin of cold water and
Fish «nA Filar«.
Catholic Standard and Times.
English very Indifferently, but filially Krawne was knocked down for_$2l'2. stir it until it has cooled a little. This
Every yaar the Uoiteti State« iisli
Will
r.voiee
It
more
smoovii
auuTTeamy.
I made him understand what was In 1885 the same letter brought only
joniinlssloner distributes the enormous
Itooatlag Comfortably.
wanted. You never saw such a worker. $71 at auction. As it contains only 68
number of 1.5UO.0U0.0UU young ttsb. or
Bread Padilla«.
“It wa'n't warm, but It was peace
Soak a pint of stale bread in a quart alsiut twenty for every man. woman
ful,” says the man who lived in the II* made friend* with no one, but at words, including address and ilgnature
chicken haw. beerv«e hl? wife'« rela tended strictly to busitiesM. Friendly it brought a price of nearly $4 pet word of cold milk for two hours. At tbe ■ nd child In tbe country. And yet the
tives lived In the house. Thus the sat overtures were received wiU'i a giuleiai at the last sale, That was ni'ich more end oi tnat time rnasli tne bread One. person who cutches flsh lias to en
isfaction of the mlud transcends In Im grunt, but whether it indicated friend than Keats received for his works when Beat together three tahlespoonfuls of counter the same old incredulity. In
sugar, a teaspoonful of salt and two the fish proposition not even figures
portance the mere comforts of the liness or disgust it wa« hard to say.
living.
________________
body.—New York World.
eggs. Stir this Into tbe bread aud count.—Saturday Evening Post.
There was never a gleam to lighten up
There were 927,052 births registered milk. Pour the mixture into an earth
his small, greenish, gray eyes; never a
He Waaa't Dlatarlveg.
en pudding dish and bake in a slow
Thick blotting paper which <’a:«ida
smile to pas* bl« thin li|m, drawn tightly in England and Wale« during 1901.
Canvasser- Don't let me disturb you.
oven for three-quarters of an hour. formerly got from England she uow
These
figures
are
equivalent
to
a
birth
over
a
good
set
of
even,
white
teeth.
sir—
Serve with a vanilla sauce.
jet« from this country.
Busy Merchant—I won't. William, His eyebrows and hair were of the same rate of 28.7 |>er cent in 1000 |iersons liv
La
show the gentleman oat. — Chicago dull carroty color. We let him have a ing, which Is the lowest on record.
"It’s wonderful.” said the meditative
Railroad Time Folder«.
Tribune.
small iiack room in the building and
The average person who picks up a
Bishop Terregianl of Australia is said mail, “how one small word, insignifi
gave hint twenty dollars a month. One
cant In Itself, may Induce an endless railroad time folder does not realize
Steel Slayaerapera.
loaf of bread lasted him a week with a to tie the heaviest prelate In the world,
train of thought, speaking volumes, in tbe enormous amount of work which
An architect of New York says that cup of coffee without sugar or milk. He his alleged weight lielng 294 |sHinde.
tbe preparation of micli a publication
fact."
with the modern steel frame a build
limited himself to two meals a day and
“Yes." replied the caustic man. “Take Involves.
ing can be carried to a height equal
Heariug, aa a rule, la more acute with
the word 'but.' for Instance, when a
The big Burlington *y«tein, for in
to seven and one-half times the dlam to»k his dinner every day the year the right than with the left ear.
woman says. t)f course. It'« none of stance, has a general time folder made
eter of the base. By thia rule on an round at the same teu-ceut restaurant.
<ny business, but ’’’—Exchange.
up from sizleen different division time
ordinary city block could lie erected In nil his three yean here beiiad never
Polo is proliably the oldest of athletic
tallies. The folder contain* 2.0UU names
a building 1.000 feet high. BOO feet visited Holden Hate Park or tne Cliff sports. It has Iieen tracer! to 000 B. C.
Tbe Increase tn population tn Venlcs of town«, gives the schedule« of over
higher than the Eiffel tower. It would House or any other attraction about tbe
has been not less than 60.000 during 5U0 trains, and whenever there is a
have 125 «lories aud coat about $30. city because it would cost him ten cents
Connecticut has seven ex-Hovernors the last tweuty-flve years. During tbe
change In time fJU.UUU figure« have to
0U0.UOO
carfare. Tlie only luxury he ever In Ivlng. Massachusetts has but three.
last ten years It has been nearly 17,000. be carefulhr checked and corrected.
One of the enterprlslug farmer* lu
Kennebec county, Me.. I* George C.
Jacob*, and among his speclaltl«« lu
th“ agricultural line Is raising potato««.
He has been very suceeasful In produc
ing tbe eiirlleat to be found In the mar
ket. The past seasou be succeeded In
raising two good crop« ou tbe sain«
piece. The ground was thoroughly
plowed tbe previous fall. In tbe spring
It was harrowed until tbe earth was
tine and light, ami when ready, foe
planting phosphate was dropped In th«
hills to tbe amount of one ton to tbe
acre.
The ¡iotatoes for seed were brought
up from the cellar tbe last of February
or first of March and placed lu a light
cool room, so that when they were
planted they had large green sprout«
and well developed leave«. A« soon a*
the soil was warm enough these were
placed tn tbe ground. His care did uut
diminish any uow that tbe potatoe«
were planted, and very soon tbe leaves
liegau tu push up toward tbe tight and
air. They were kept free from weeds
and bug* until the middle of July; then
Mr. Jacobs liegau marketing them,
largely at a dollar per bushel.
Meanwhile a second lot of potatoes
bad been sprouted tbe same a* the oth
ers and planted the flrat of July be
tween the rows, so that when the flrst
crop was dug they boed tbe second lot.
which was already above the ground.
In September the second crop was har
vested. From the first plantlug Mr.
Jacoba raised at tbe rate of 900 bushel*
per acre, from the second 100 buabela.
The variety used waa the New Queen,
and the ouly fertilizer wa* phosphate.
—American Agrlculturlat.
Th« Frte« of Breeders.
Some people who would like to invest
In improved live stock have been scared
a little by the high prices paid for fan
cy Individuals. They aeem to think that
there is no use in trying to get Im
proved stock at reasonable figures. Th)«
la ail wroug. • Good breeding stock can
be bought today at prices that bear a
proper relatiou to the value of market
animals. It is not necessary uow aud
it never was for tbe breeder of grade*
to pay extravagant prices for pure
bred sires, no matter what kind of live
stock he is producing. Tbe sale of fan
cy animals, with pedigrees in the
height of some craze, affords no crite
rion of the market for pure bred atock.
Further, It Is not merely unnecessary
for tbe breeder of grades to pay ex
tremely high price*, but it la usually
unwise to do so. It la also unwise aud
dangerous to pay extremely low price«.
Tbe seller of an article kuows Its value,
and when be offers a pure bred animal
at or near slaughter price It is often
worth less than that. Be Judicious but
not parsimonious in buying slrea.—
Stockman and Farmer.
Prefect Yoir FrleaAa.
crash ! wknt the dinner
0
foot. Dash! went the table. Crash!
went tbe dinner. And tbe emperor,
springing up. paced tbe room with rap
id strides. Dunand, ids attendant, look-
ou, and quick us thought the wreck
wus cleared away, an exact duplicate
of tbe dinner api**ared as if by magic,
and its presence wus quickly announced
by tbe customary "His majesty is
served.” Nuiioleon felt the delicacy of
bls attendant aud said, "Thank you, my
dear Dunand," with one of Ids inimita
ble smiles. Tbe hurricane hail blown
over.
If we would stay the ravages of in
sects. we must employ nature’s greatest
Insecticides—bird*. To do this will re
quire not only stringent law«, but a
public opinion that will compel their
enforcement. Tbe farmers themselves
often destroy their best friends aud
then complain of bugs and worms that
destroy their crop« or reduce them be
low the point of possible profit. I’urm-
er« can cease this injurious foolisbnes«,
and they can compel the exemption of
their farms and lands from the depre
dations of the bird killer. But they will
do neither one nor tbe other until they
realize the importance to themselves of
doing so. To solve this problem la to
effectively educate the people on the
subject. Then proper laws may be
made and enforced. By so doing we
can attack not only tbe boll weevil, but
all other Insect pest« In their most vul
nerable point. -Farm and Ranch.
Tbe Gypsy Motb.
People In Massachusetts are becom
ing a little anxious over tbe rapid In
crease of tbe gypsy motb since Hie
campaign to exterminate was stopped
DlatlBctlon* With DIBereaee«.
In making tbe announcements to his three years ago. Tbe pest Is likely to
congregation recently nil Episcopal give a great deal of trouble soon. Why
minister whose parish is not more not government and state combine
than a thousand miles from San Fran forces, as In tbe case of tbe present
cattle epidemic? Let congress be urged
cisco said:
"Remember our communion service to make a liberal appropriation condi
next Sunday. Tbe Lord is with us in tioned on help by the state. Tbe state
the forenoon aud tbe bishop in the cannot finish the work aloue, aud tbe
government doubUeas will not, but both
evening."
Here is another lapsus lingua? which In co-operation could baudle tbe Job
bad Its origin in a Sunday school out without putting much of a load ou tax
in tbe missions. Tbe suiierlntendent payers.—American Cultivator.
was making a fervid prayer a few
Tobacco Dost *■« Bee«.
Sunday* ago and asked divine liless
Last summer i was Induced to try
lug upon each and every enterprise in
which the school was Interested. He tobacco dust ou my melou aud cucum
closed bls petition to tlie throne of ber vines as a protection agulnst tbe
striped beetle aud am satlsfled that
grace in tlie following words:
“And now. O Lord, bless the liimlis while It proved most effective In that
of the fold and make them ‘meet for regard It also deterred the pollenlzlug
the kingdom of heaven. Ameu.’”— insect* from visiting tbe flowers aa
they are wont to da My crop of mel
Sail Francisco Wave.
ons and cucumber* suffered lu conse
quence of Its use. True, tbe weather
A Promising Youth.
was uupropltloua, but I noticed that
Dr. John Lovejoy Elliot, director of
while tbe bees, etc., were plentiful In
the Hudson guild, was instructing a
other parts of tbe garden they seemed
rlass of boys from tlie “Double Fifth
to give the melon and cucumber flow-
avenue” district.
In illustration of
era tbe "go by.” —Cor. Rural New
some ethical principle the boys were
Yorker.
asked to find their own examples, aud
one of them related a typical Sunday
Why He Have« HI« B«r«.
school story Just bristling with goods
We came across tbe historic man th«
and bads. When the boy sat down. It other day who bad actually moved bls
was evident he bad made a very deep barn to get rid of the plies of manure.
Impression, and Dr. Elliot said:
His crops were poor enough and need
“That is very good. But Is it a true ed al! tbe fertilizer be could get. but he
tAory /"
bad to put In so much time saving tbe
"No. sir,” promptly r»*plle<l the boy: country, running to town and fishing
“that'« a moral story." New York that he bad to move his barn to get rid
Times.
of tbe manure.—Farmer*' Guide.
Not Aeo«al«te4 With the Family.
Wh«« a H«r«« G«r«ca Hl««««IL
“Who were tbe Goths?” the teacher
asked.
“I don’t think I ever knowed'nny of
’em. mn'am.” answered tbe frightened
little boy. "We never lived anywheres
but Mendota till we eatne here.”—Chi
rago Tribune.
If a borae break* Into tbe crib or bln
and gorges himself on grain, give him
a good do«e of oil. Castor oil. aweet oil,
cottonseed oil and linseed oil are all
good. To give tiliu water on a grain
gorged stomach will insure au aggra
vated case of founder.
A Brt«hi StaOrat.
N« «Mokla«.
Among tbe reminiscences of the class
of '02 at Yale I* tbe story of a stout
and healthy looking member who wns
told by bls tutor that "be was better
fed than taught.” “You teach me. 1
feed myself." was the retort.
There la one country In the world
Where It la considered a crime to smoke
—Abyaainla. Tbe law forbidding to
bacco date« from tbe year 1842. It
wna at flrat merely Intended to prevent
priests from smoking In tbe churches,
but It waa taken too literally, and now
aday* even foreigner« have to be care
ful not to I m * seen smoking.
Hl« R««ret«.
Judge — Your Innocence Is proved.
You are acquitted.
Prisoner (to tbe Jury 1-Very sorry.
Indeed, gentlemen, to have given you
all thia trouble for nothing.
When you get tired of work, yon
will rrallze that you have reached th*
H um * of life when you have no place to
nlav - Atchison Globe.