Corvallis gazette., November 02, 1900, Image 4

GEE AT RECORDS MADE
TRAILS LEFT BY BRYAN AND
ROOSEVELT.
Hundreds of Speeches Have Been Made
During Journeyings of Thousands of
Miles Remarkable Physical Endur
ance Shewn by Tbese Two Candidates
In the trails which William Jennings
Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt have
left upon the map of the United States
are evidences of the intricate civiliza
tion which each would represent. These
itineraries are only the evolution of
the methods which in early days
prompted a candidate to saddle his
horse, throw a pair of saddlebags in
front of him, and to ride into a neigh
boring county to feel the pulse of the
people. To-day the horse has become
a 120-ton locomotive; the saddle-bags
are baggage, library and buffet cars;
the cross-roads inn is a palace sleeping
car that is home to the candidate in all
weathers, times, and places; the scores
of miles of muddy or dusty roads have
become the thousands of miles of steel
bound road-bed over which these palace
trains thunder with the swiftness or a
carrier pigeon.
That "there were giants in those
davs" has become accepted of the past
but that the old-fashioned orator of the
circuit-riding days of Lincoln and
SPEECHMAKING AND TRAVELING RECORDS OF
Douglas could have stood the strain of
the modern inter-state canvass is im
possible in the opinion of physicians.
Roosevelt, traveling 15,000 miles, mak
ing more than 300 speeches of nearly
600,000 words, sleeping at sixty miles
an hour and waking at all times and
places made a record that would have
astounded a politician of fifty years
ago. Bryan, not traveling so far, but
taxing himself even greater in speech
making and in the other activities of
a campaign of which he has been the
head, possibly did even more. In voice,
Roosevelt suffered; perhaps in nervous
strain 'be felt the work. Bryan, more
trained in the art of public speaking,
knowing better how to save and spare
himself, and having the experiences of
a great campaign on similar lines Id
189G, has been a phenomenon in endur
ance, even in the eyes of the medical
profession.
Bryan's Active Work.
Bryan's first active work began on
Aug. 31, when he visited Chicago for a
conference with the national commit
tee. His letter of acceptance had been
weighing upon him, but in response to
calls he went South and East as far
as Cumberland, Md., back through
West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana, to
Chicago. Then to Milwaukee, back to
Chicago, and from that city westward
through a group of the central-Western
states. These were only prelim
inary movements. His campaign proper
began at Papillion, Neb., on Sept. 24,
full three weeks after Governor Roose
velt's special train had pulled into De
troit, Mich., for the opening speech of
his campaign.
As an example of just how many du
ties devolved upon these candidates,
some of the figures from Mr. Bryan's
tour of Indiana have been gathered.
They show:
Miles traveled 700
Speeches 28
Counties touched 27
Towns passed qq
Towns spoken to 28
WHERE THE GUNBOAT NASHVILLE WENT WHEN SHE LEFT ST. LOUIS IN 1899.
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Receptions 27
Visitors 600
Persons addressed 100,000
Bouquets received 32
Speakers on train. 50
Newspaper men 8
Words by telegraph 234,000
Words spoken 98,000
Governor Roosevelt's train followed
almost the same route as this in Indi
ana, touching twenty-four places for
set speeches. About the same general
experience was his. Indiana being
considered a most important state, the
work was in excess of the general
Western average, but even with that
allowance the figures are significant of
the demands made upon the physical
and mental sides of these men.
Voc il 'Exertion.
In considering the campaign work of
a man, the voice is the one thing that
gives uneasiness to the speaker and his
friends. With voice gone, his work
is at an end, and it is known that the
voice is more likely to give away than
any other physical necessity in a cam
paign. If hand-shaking be thrust upon
a candidate until the bone and tissue
of the hand are a pulp, the public will
still come and will respect the fsct that
the man's right forearm is in sling. But
if he cannot talk, most of the attractive
ness of the candidate takes wing.
Nerve tax and the consequent loss of
tone in the system are regarded as hav
ing a direct and vital influence on the
voice. Dr. Oscar A. King, neurologist
and professor in the medical school in
the University of Illinois, has found a
most subtle relation between the nerv
ous system and the voice.
"As a' basic proposition," he said,
"you may trace every impediment in
speech to nervous influences. Starting
with this, the effect of a depleted, nerv
ous system on the voice is plain. The
mechanisms of the vocal organs are in
tricate of themselves, and the nerves
which control these organs multiply
their complexities. In a failing voice,
then, one must always look to the con
dition of the nervous system. In the
cases of Bryan and Roosevelt, the
things most calculated to derange their
nerves are those which react upon these
nervous systems. Unquestionably the
two things which most do this are ex
citement and the sense of opposition in
an audience which every political
speaker has to face."
Gets Little Best.
"Physically, too, the work of a great
campaign on the railroads tells upon a
speaker. There is a loss of sleep al
ways. Towns through which a train
may pass in dead of night often turn
out crowds who at least awaken the
candidate. Then the exigencies of an
itinerary force him to get up early and
go to bed late.
"But even if a man sleeps soundly
the night through on a railroad train he
is not rested as he would have been had
he slept in a stationary bed. There is
reason to believe that in the soundest
sleep possible In a fast-moving train
the muscles are making unconscious
efforts to neutralize the movements of
the body caused by swayings and jolt
ings of the train. The nerves prompt
this, and to the extent that they are
kept awake the whole system is af
fected. As the nerves are affected,
too, the tendency toward impairment
of the voice is increased. In many
ways they tend to this, chiefly by dis
concerting the speaker and causing him
to waste lung power.
"Irregular meals and exposure to
night air and to changes In the weath-
; IKS- lOVL
THE VESSEL MIGHT JUST AS WELL HAVE
er are physical causes for breakdown.
Most often such speakers have been
regular in all kelr habits of life. They
cannot adjust themselves at once to
bolted food and Ifregular hours for eat
ing. Food is not digested as it should
be and tile body lacks its usual nour
ishment. '-
"Above all thfls iu the case of Mr.
Bryan especially, tMpfcveight of bSng
the head of a party's machinery has
been distressing. He has had more
than the details of his own tour upon
him. Telegrams, letters, and all the
machinery of modern correspondence
have bound him to his party's manage
ment and have obtruded upon him
when he should have been resting.
"Nothing in athletics, in prize-fighting,
running, riding, wheeling, or phys
ical record breakings of any kind in its
physical aspect can compare with the
campaign work of William Jennings
Bryan. His performance, in the light
of mere physical effort and endurance,
has been wonderful. In the matter of
training and experience, of course, he
has had the advantage of Governor
Roosevelt, but he has been taxed as
Roosevelt has not been. His cam
paign stands out as a marvel of phys
ical endurance."
NAMES SPOKEN IN FULL.
Familiar Abbreviated Nicknames Have
Been Disappearing- for Years.
"Have you observed," asks a corre
spondent, "how the Jims, Sams, Bills,
BRYAN AND ROOSEVELT
Toms and other old-time abbreviations
of boys' -front names are disappearing
from among the youths of the present
generation, together with the diminu
tive Jimmy, Sammy, Billy, etc., which
time out of mind prevailed among mas
culine youngsters? For some reason
the boys have largely discarded the fiee
and easy way of addressing one an
other that comes natural to ingenious
youth, substituting for the more roil. ek
ing Tom, Dick and Harry, sanctioned
by immortal usage, a stiffer form of ad
dress which does not match well with
the freshness of boyhood. The same
appears -to be the case with the female
juveniles. Even among little girls play
ing 'ring-around-rosy,' the Bessies,
Maggies and Katies are disappearing,
giving place to the stilted substitution
of Elizabeth, Margaret, Catherine and
the like. This change has not had its
origin in the volition of either the boys
or the girls. They have evidently been
'put up to it.' Some higher authority
must be responsible for this priggish
ness, and from its general extent it is
likely due to misdirected instruction in
the schools. To no other source could
be attributed expressions now heard
among boys at play, such as 'Samuel,
do not throw the ball so hard; William
cannot catch it' No boy, who is not a
prig, either by nature or education, but
would say on a subject of that kind:
'Sam, don't throw the ball so hard; Bill
can't catch it.' This is as idiomatically
as correct as the other form and collo
quially preferable, while devoid of the
stiffness unsuited to youthful expres
sion." Philadelphia Record.
DRIVING OUT THE HOODOO.
Marcus Daly's Story of Ho w a Southern
er Changed His Poker Luck.
Marcus Daly, the Montana million
aire, tells of a poker game with some
peculiar features. "The game," said
Mr. Daly, "was in progress the second
night after we sailed. I don't believe
When the United States gunboat Nashville visited St. Louis in the spring of
1890, the demonstration attending her reception masked an epoch in the city's
history. The Nashville was the first ocean-going war vessel that had ever
steamed up the Father of Waters to the metropolis of the Mississippi valley.
Hence the interest attending her arrival. All the railroads entering the city
ran excursion trains, and people came from the surrounding States, anxious to
gaze upon the pioneer from Old Ocean's depths.
Leaving the city amid the acclamations of the multitude and to the music of
the bands, the gunboat proceeded down the river, across the gulf, rounded the
peninsula, stopped at Hampton Roads, crossed, the Atlantic, passed through the
Mediterranean sea and the Suez canal, on to the harbor of Tokio, Japan, and has
since been in Chinese waters. St. Louis people declare that the vessel might
just as well have carried merchandise as implements of war, and they intimate
that the destiny of St. Louis is to become a deep water port.
CARRIED MERCHANDISE AS IMPLEMENTS OF WAR.
much In hoodsos and signs and thl
sort of thing, and I don't put much
faith in luck, but I was pretty nearly
converted on this trip. A blonde-mus-tached
Virginian named Mack Hardy
was a steady loser for the first two
hours. He played 'em well, but when
ever he had a big hand somebody else
always had one just a bit bigger, and
on a bluff some fellow with more cu
riosity than nerve or judgment would
call him down. At just 11 o'clock he
got up from his chair and walked back
ward around the table thirteen times,
offering no explanation for his strange
conduct. On the next deal he had
a pair of treys, raised it when it came
his say, stood two raises from other
players and set it back the limit. Both
the others stayed in, holding up an ac
and didn't improve; each of the oth
ers drew only one card.' Hardy put
up a magnificent bluff I never saw
a low hand played better, with all the
feints of assured nervousness, frequent
glances at his hand, etc.
"He drove one man out who had
aces up and had the other on the run,
when a gust of wind through the open
door scattered the third player's hand,
one card getting mixed up with the
discards. Of course, that hand was
dead the four remnants of what had
been a queen straight and Hardy
swept something like $375 into his hat.
He didn't even have to show his treys,
for his opponent had not put up on the
last raise, although just about to do
so when the wind killed his hand. Now,
wasn't that luck? Or what do you
think about the thirteen walk-around
queering the other fellow's hand?
"An hour later Hardy took a fresh
pack, pinned the ace of diamonds from
it on a waiter's shirt front, tore up
the other fifty-one cards and then
marked a skull and crossbones in
creme de menthe on the waiter's shirt
bosom just above the ace. . On the
very next deal, with only three nines
on a one-card draw, he bluffed a $150
pot out of a fellow who held a deuce
full! Now what do you think of
that?"
How to Choose Good Meat.
Let us imagine ourselves before
butcher's block having on It four pieces
of beef presenting faces from the round
or sirloin. One is dull red, the lean
being close-grained and the fat very
white; the next is dark-red, the lean
loose-grained and sinewy and the fat
white and shining; the third is dull red,
the lean loose-grained and sinewy and
the fat yellow; the fourth is bright
cherry-red, the lean smooth and medium-grained,
with flecks of white
through it, and the fat creamy neither
white nor yellow. The first of these is
cow beef; the second, bull beef; the
third, beef from an old. or ill-condi:
tioned animal; and the last Is ox beef.
Ox beef that from a steer is the
juciest, finest flavored, sweetest and
most economical to buy of all beef. It
Is called "prime" when the lean is, very
much mottled with the white fat-flecks,
and when it is from a heavy, young
animal (about 4 years: old), stall-fed on
corn Beef ;f rom a young cow that has
been well fed and' fattened is next In
merit to ox beef. Beef from an un
matured anim'al is never satisfactory,
being tough and juiceless. It may be
easily recognized, as its color is pale
and its bones small. Woman's Home
Companion.
The Practical Side of It.
"There Is so little money in Iftera
ture," said the wife, "that I think you
would be wise to choose some other
profession. Why, the man who runs
the ice wagon makes more than you do:
the butcher goes out driving every Sun
day; the baker wears a beaver and a
linen collar, and the real estate man
has three diamonds in a white shirt, to
say nothing of the coal man. who goes
to sleep in church on a velvet pillow
every Sunday the Lord sends!"
"But Molly, think of Genius; whal
am I to do with that?"
"The Lord only knows, John! But
how nice it would be if you could only
split it into kindling wood at so much
a cord, or swap it off fqy a barrel of
flour and a sugar-cured ham!" Atlanta
Constitution. -v. .
Oysters Have ManyFoes.
The oyster appears to be the most
perfectly protected creature in the sea.
vpt it falls a victim to the soft and ap
parently helpless starfish. The method
of attack is curious but effective. The
Rtnrfish clasos the oyster in its five
arms and quietly waits. Presently the
oyster opens its shell in order to get
food. This is the chance that the star
fish has been waiting for, and it
prompt injects into the shell a little red
dish fluid.
This acts as a poisou, paralyzing tht
muscles of the oyster and thus making
it impossible for the creature to close
its shell. The' starfish does not take
the trouble even to remove the oyster
from its shell, but eats it in its own
borne and eventually crawls away,
leaving behind the gaping, empty shell.
"When the Lord finds a surplus lot of
babies on hand, he leaves them with
people traveling over the country In
movers' wagons.
TOKiO
PACIFIC
OCEAN
THE HOG IN HISTOEY.
REFLECTIONS ON PORK AS AN
ARTICLE OF DIET.
Many Contentions Have Arisen Over
Its Use as Food Much-Maligned
Animal that Resembles Man in More
than One Respect.
The hog of to-day constitutes no less
!han 370 different articles of commerce,
and next to cotton and wheat furnishes
the largest values In exports from the
United States. Its name has become
an epithet. Its application to man
means greed and brutishuess. It is com
monly supposed to be a scavenger, like
the puddle duck. It takes mud baths.
So do men. There is much virtue in
mud. The hog bathes in pools of it to
coat his skin against attacks of insects;
man dips his festered hide in it to im
prove his circulation and draw out his
gout and rheumatism. The hog is
pachydermatous; so is man notwith
standing Cuvier's classification. I have
seen men, know men to-day, with skins
thicker than the hide of the rhinoceros.
The hog is omnivorous so is man. The
hog is carnivorous by choice so is man.
The hog is herbivorous, granivorous,
pramnlvorous and phytivorous by edu
cationso is man.
These reflections are indaced by the
Indignities offered a useful animal.
The hog was the cleanest of beasts until
man built a sty and imprisoned him
in filth, fattened him on filth, killed
him in filth and ate him in filth. No
animal, wild or domestic, is so clean
ibout its bed as the hog. It wants pure,
3weet, fresh straw every time. The
hog has brains. It has been known to
sxcel the pointer in scenting quail. An
tuthentic Instance Is mentioned by
Bingley in "Memoirs of British Quad
rupeds" of a keen-scented sow that
svould stand at birds which the dogs
aad missed. Whoever heard of an edu
cated ox or sheep? Yet we have had
jn our stage educated hogs that could
spell and play cards, count and tell the
:ime. Hogs make docile pets. Many a
poor family has its pet pig sleeping on
the pallet beside the children, priv
ileged to the best in the house.
The hog caused the biggest mutiny
;ver known In the history of the world,
tnd was responsible for men being
olown from the muzzles of cannon.
When Great Britain shipped cartridges
to India for the native troops she reck
jned without her host, for the ammuni
tion was greased with lard, which so
jffended the religious scruples of the
sepoys that they arose as one man in
rebellion. The American hog nearly
caused war between Germany and the
United States and only the diplomacy
jf Whitelaw Reid obtained for the ani
mal admission into France.
Moses and Mohammed were opposed
to the hog because, while it divides the
hoof and is cloven-footed, yet it chews
not the cud. The camel is not eaten
for opposite reasons it chews the cud,
hut is not cloven-footed. The hare is
ilso unclean, because while it chews
the cud it divides not the hoof. All civ
lized nations have passed and repassed
laws governing what a man shall eat
ind how much it shall cost him, but the
mly sumptuary measure that ever
stood the test of time is the law of
Moses concerning the hog. It has been
jn the statute book for 3,390 years.
NEVER SAW AN UMBRELLA.
How the Irih Peasant Propose J to
Get it Out of hi is Hut.
Old Mike and his wife lived In a little
c-abin on the mountain, one of a type
which is happily every day becoming
more and more rare. The walls were
of mud and the floor of the same use
ful material, with a gutter running
down the middle to divide the family
apartments from that of the domestic
animals. To this mansion came his
reverence once cold, snowy morning in
March to hold a station. His umbrella
was wet and dripping, so, being a care
ful man, he placed it, open, in the space
racated by the animals, who were graz
ing outside. After the usual devotions,
when the congregation had dispersed,
he went for a stroll, while Moira pre
pared breakfast, for to entertain his
reverence afterward is the crowning
honor of a station. He had not gone
far when a heavy shower obliged him
to take shelter under a tree and send a
little gossoon running back for his um
brella. "His reverence is afther sending me
to bring his ombrell," said the boy,
bursting into the cabin. ' - .
"The saints preserve us!" said Mike.
"Maybe it's the thing he left beyant in
the corner," and seizing- the .umbrella
he tried to pass through the door, but
the entrance was low and narrow and
the umbrella large and wide. Without
a moment's" hesitation he caught up a
spade and began shoveling down the
wall at either side of the door.
"Man alive," said the priest, appear
ing on the scene, "what are ye at?"
"Shure, it's makin' way I am for yer
rlverence's ombrell," said old Mike;
"divil a bit of it'll go through at all, at
all." "Ah, nonsense, man," said his
reverence, laughing, and stepping In
side he took the umbrella out of Moira's
hand and closed it before them.
Old Mike stared at it aghast. Then
he turned to his wife. "Glory be to
God, Moira," he said, "Is there any
thing beyant the power of the priest?"
SACRED RELIC OF ASH ANTEE.
Golden Stool Has Been the Cause of
Many Wars with Knsrland.
The golden stool of Ashantee's mon
archs has for many years been the
cause of contention between the na
tives and the British. Descriptions of
it have been conspicuously wanting
and it has remained as mythical as the
golden fleece which Jason and the Ar
gonauts stole from the sacred oak of
Colchis or the three golden apples which
hung In the garden of the Hesperides.
T,he announcement that the recent up
rising was the result of attempts of the
governor, Sir Frederic Hodgson, to re
cover the sacred relic was generally in
terpreted in two ways by Americans:
Either the British were attempting to
rob the tribesmen of a large nugget of
precious metal or the account had some
meaning not understood, as would be
the case, for Instance, with the news
of the crowning of King Ki Kl of the
Kansas City carnival. S lit
But the golden stool is a real stool.
although it is not made of gold. It
means more to the Africans of the Gold
Coast than the ancient scone stone
which forms the support of the corona
tion chair of England signifies to the
loyal Briton. This symbol of authority,
on which the kings of the Ashantees
have been crowned for nearly 100 years,
is doubly prized as a piece of reniarK
able workmanship and as a spoil of
conquest. It was captured from the
Sultan of Jamin. early in the century.
Its base Is an oblong piece of wood,
heavily gilded. In the center of this
is a gilt support, resembling a char
coal brazier; on each side are square
pillars. These, with the brazijr, sup
port a concave seat. The stool is not
the only article in the regalia. There is
a state umbrella and there are golden
axes and euriously carved scimitars.
After his enthronement the king oc
cupies the golden - stool only once a
year. The rest of the time it is put on
one of the richly carved arm chairs
for which the natives are famous and
kept near his usual seat When Gen
eral Wolseley captured Coomassje, the
Ashantee capital, In 1874, the stool had
been secretly removed and It has re
mained ever since in the possession of
the tribesmen. The last time a white
man saw it was seven years ago. King
Prempeh had not been able to 'afford
the coronation ceremonies, so he sought
a loan of $2,000 from the British for the
purpose. When the commissioners sent
to negotiate the affair were ushered
into the monarch's presence a band of
musicians played on elephants' tusks.
"Under a large and gorgeous canopy,"
says Dr. Freeman, one of the commis
sioners, "stood a roomy chair of native
manufacture, studded with bright-headed
nails and enriched with silver orna
ments and on this reposed the cele
brated royal stool. Prempeh was seat
ed on a similar chair under his own um
brella and not under the canopy."
Early in 1900 the astute Ashantees de
clared they could not pay taxes to a
governor who had never sat upon the
golden stool. To be able to satisfy
their scruples Sir Frederic Hodgson be
gan the search for the royal emblem
which resulted in the recent war.
Science
ventiom
Plants, like animals, are continually
wandering to fresh fields and pastures
new. Professor Kellerman finds that
of the present flora of Ohio no less than
430 are immigrants. Almost all are
from Europe.
The number of stars distinctly visi
ble without the aid of a glass is put
by Gould at 5,333. Professor New
comb says their number Is near 7,647.
Tbese are up to the sixth magnitude.
Professor Newcomb estimates the
number up to the 14.5 magnitude at two
hundred million.
The country most frequently visited
by eartbquakes is Greece, and not
Japan, as was hitherto generally be
lieved. During tbe six years from 1893
to 1898, not less than 3,187 earthquakes
were observed in Greece, I. e., about
twice as many as occurred in Japan
within the same time. The island of
Zanta alone had 2,018 shocks during
that period.
The great majority of our birds live
by taking insects on the wing, and as
they cannot obtain this sort of food
after the reign of frost has set in, they
are compelled to betake themselves to
a warmer clime. Most of them fly In
small companies, but certain species
often migrate in large flocks, and the
most prominent examples of these, next
to the famous wild pigeons of the West,
are the swallows, notably the white
bellied species. A favorite route of
these swift flyers is over the salt
marshes which border the sea.
Claude Fuller, the English govern
ment entomologist in Natal, South Af
rica, says that the Basutos eat locusts,
even making cakes of them, as he is
informed. In Pietermaritzburg the na
tives, and some of the whites, gather
the flying termites that are attracted by
the electric lamps, and use them both
for fish bait and for food. They are
sometimes toasted and sometimes fried
In a pan with butter. He quotes from
a friend the statement that bugong
moths are cooked by the natives on hot
ashes and eaten with great gusto.
French meteorologists engaged In the
exploration of the upper air by means
of captive balloons have found that,
owing to the effect of the sun's heat on
the balloons, the best results are at
tained at night, and their most suc
cessful experiments have been per
formed by moonlight. The balloons
carry self -registering thermometers and
barometers and attain enormous
heights, varying between 40,000 and
50,000 feet The highest flight recorded
by the instruments is nearly nine and
one-third miles.
Last winter there was discovered at
Chateaudun in France an example of
the rare phenomenon known in popular
phrase as "the king of rats." It con
sisted of seven living rats inextricably
bound together by the interlacing of
the tails. A photograph of the singu
lar group, together with a description,
was sent to a scientific journal in Paris.
The name king of rats is based upon
the tradition that the king of the world
of rats and mice is accustomed occa
sionally to enthrone himself, adorned
with a golden crown, upon a group of
rats with tails entwined. Several in
stances of this curious phenomenon are
recorded in books on natural history. It
is said that the king of rats is formed
only in the winter, when the animals
crowd together to keep warm, and the
rodent friends of the unfortunate pris
oners are credited with feeding them
out of benevelonce.
Cheering: Him Up.
Mr. Newlywed I saw your old lovei
on the street to-day looking awfully
blue.
Mrs. Newlywed I hope you tried to
cheer him up.
"Oh, yes. I showed him my button
less shirt and that new tie yon bought
me." Jndge.
Shirts Washed While You Wait.
A Philadelphia man has established
a unique laundry at New York. He
washes and irons shirts "while you
wait"
Any man worthy of it can get credit
tM rit'e ever fails.
Mm
HOW TO MAKE A FILTER.
Her Are Two That Are Serviceable
and Easily Constructed.
Two inexpensive filters, which can
easily be made by any handy person,
are shown in the accompanying illus
trations. Fig. 1 shows a filter made
out of two stonepots or jars.. The lower
one has a hole drilled at the side near
the bottom, in which a faucet Is insert
ed to draw off the filtered water as de
sired; or, if this cannot be done, the
top jar can be removed and the water
dipped out. The top jar must have a
hole drilled or broken in the bottom,
and a small flower pot saucer Inverted
over the hole. On this is spread a layer
of clean, sharp sand, rather coarse,
then a layer of finer sand next a layer
of pulverized charcoal with the dust
blown out, and finally another layer of
sand, the whole occupying one-third of
the jar. Fig. 2 represents a filter
made out of a barrel, as follows: Pro
cure a piece of fine brass wire cloth of
a sufficient size to make a partition
across the barrel. Support this wire
icth with a coarser wire cloth under it,
md also a light frame of oak to keep
the wire cloth from sagging. Fill in
upon the wire cloth about three inches,
n depth of clear, sharp sand, then two
nc-hes of charcoal pulverized, but free
rom dust, then four inches more of
and. A faucet must be inserted near
the bottom to draw off the clear water.
There isn't much use talking religion
to a man when he has got a boil on
his neck.
The only husbands that are ever
"managed" are the ones that women
talk about, that they don't have.
You can get the truth out of a woman
by flattering her, but to get it out of a
man you have to get him scared.
Every fot woman thinks the Turks
are not so bad after all, because she
has heard that they think thin women
are ugly.
Whenever a man and a woman get
married, at least one of them doesn't
do as well as he or she might have done
for himself.
Every woman whose husband can
never pay his debts believes the world
will realize some time what a great
man she married.
Lots of women go through li think
ing that all the other people think they
are artistic simply because they keep
their hair mussed up.
The only difference between a mar
ried man and a man sitting in fresh
paint Is that tbe man sitting in the
paint generally doesn't know It
Every woman imagines that some
thing about her is "wonderful." Either
he has "wonderful" hair or eyes, or
else she has a "wonderful" talent for
something.
The only advantage there is in the
rainy-day skirt is that the average wo
man hasn't the nerve to wear It with
the old shoes she wears when she has
fot a long skirt on. New York Press.
Curious Instinct in Weeds.
Weeds, if they are pulled out of the
lawn at the time when they are full of
seed, will evince a degree of care for
the seeds which is almost touching;
They wil curl their leaves upward as
far as each can go to cover the swds
and protect them from the suu till the
end, and often one will find Wreedfl that
are quite dead, sun-kilied. whos Iwave
still are wrapped firmly around the
seed pods. No mother could show more
triking devotion in death thau do these
despised plants.
The talkative bore is the worst kind,
of a pneumatic tire.