HANDLING RAMS
AND MATING
f Let us suppose that the ram has been
selected early in the season; that he
has been chosen to correct the chief de
tects in the nock; that he Is just the
ram you need. It Is easily possible to
Jose advantage of the service such a
ram can render by mating him wrong
and handling him carelessly.
First, let's take up the A B Cs of
ramology. So many men neglect their
rams entirely. They winter them with
a bunch of calves, never once thinking
It will injure them to feed them wrong.
Just so they pull through till the com
ing of the grass they are satisfied. A
ram should be fed with the greatest
care, for he is far more important than
any sheep of the flock, writes R. B.
Ar buckle in the American Sheep
Breeder. The rams should have a
large run If possible, with water con
iVenient that Is clean and pure. He
should be fed a little oats once a day
for a week before turning him to the
ewes, and it would be best to keep this
tip during the season if be is to have
heavy service. Select forty ewes for
each ram. Don't turn two and three
rams Into a flock together. You will
have advantage of best points of every
ram, and one ram will probably be
worked to death.
If you have two rams you have ewea
eulted better to one than the other.
Tour big, strong ewes, with coarse
bone, should be bred to the smaller,
neater ram and vice versa.
If possible turn ram In for one day
and night and then take him out for a
day, turning him in that evening late.
Mark his brisket with some Venetian
red which has been stirred Into stiff
grease. You may thus keep a record
of the breeding of your ewes. Some
prefer taking rams from ewes during
day and turning In each night. This
Is a splendid plan if the ram is kept
In a cool shed and fed well during the
day.
This plan will pay well, and, though
not practical where the flock is large
and labor scarce, it Is worth striving
tor.
When the mating season Is over the
rams should be taken promptly from
the ewes and fed grain once a day. The
rams will probably be run together
and are sure to fight. Ram fights are
dangerous, often proving fatal. You
may save all trouble by yoking your
rams together iu pairs, using short
pieces of rope, which must be tied
around their necks with knots that
won't slip. When you yoke a pair to
gether mount the fence and prepare
to see some fun. They can'.t hurt each
ether, but, my, what funny capers they
will cut! If you use pains lu handling
your rams you will be repaid a thou
sandfold. A Burwell BeRuty.
The accompanying illustration, taken
from the American Sheep Breeder,
shows one of the Burwell flock of Ver
mont. He has a fine form, good size
and is well covered with a very dense
A BCKWElili LEADER.
lieece. Mr. Burwell has always been a
careful breeder and has furnished some
of the high priced Merino rams for the
Australian and South African markets,
and many of the best sheep In western
flocks trace back to the Burwell flock.
Draft Horses Pay.
In proof of my assertion that draft
stock is more profitable I would simply
say this, that in my neighborhood there
are no less than thirty draft stallions
in service (exclusive of our barns)
.within a radius of eighteen or twenty
miles, and our farmers find for the
product a ready sale from the time the
weanling is taken from its mother's
side until It Is a grown animal.
Through the mouths of the midwinter
buyers and speculators are scouring
the country seeking these good draft
colts, paying for sucklings from $100
to $150, and Ohio feeders are in our
vicinity every week seeking those f rom
thirty months to four years old and
paying extra prices for the best ones,
some selling as high as $300 and even
more. Nearly every farmer can use
two mares on his farm, however small,
with as much profit as the same num
ber of gildings and save the help of
one man. Those mares will perforin
,all the labor that a pair of geldings
will ou a farm, at least as much as
any one man cares to pile up or get
over in a day, and raise a pair of colts
besides, aud when these colts are giv
en just a trifle extra care they will
bring at weaning time $100 each or
even more. J. M. Frisinger, Decatur,
Ind., Before Convoy (O.) Institute.
The Best Way to Keep Hay.
Nearly every haymaker considers his
method for stacking or housing hay the
best. A Nebraska farmer writes that
last year he built a large hay shed 40
by CO' feet, with tight roof, but no pro
tection to the sides or ends. The hay
was spread loosely tinder this covering,
tiie stacks being about ten feet wide.
Instead of building up on a stack at
a time the hay was spread dally over
the whole surface of the three stacks.
In this way the hay cured out as
nicely as if it had been left in the field
tinder hay caps. The Idea seems a
good one.
BUMBLEFOOT.
A DUeue That la the Base of tao
Pooltrrman'i Life The Core.
Bumblefoot is noticed mostly in fowls
that are fat, and in heavy varieties is
attributed by some to jumping from
high roosting places, but a writer in
Western Poultry Journal has known
very bad cases to break out in flocks
which were accustomed to roosting on
flat surfaces and where all conditions
were seemingly perfect, although un
doubtedly the trouble arises from
bruises of the feet either by stones in
scratching or from jumping. Cases
have been known where the corn form
ed on the underside of the foot, cover
ing a surface measuring three-quarters
of an inch and when forcibly removed
pulled with it a hard white pus of the
same length. Treatment, if taken in
time, is simple and effective, and con
sists in keeping the bottom of the foot
soft either by placing the fowl on straw
or softening the swollen foot by the
application of vaseline or some carbolic
antiseptic. Proper treatment consists
In first washing the affected foot, re
moving any foreign substance, and if
on examination the foot seems soft and
likely to contain pus open by making
an Incision with a sharp knife and
syringe the wound with the antiseptic,
one part, and water, fifty parts, bind
ing on it also an ointment consisting of
one part antiseptic and forty parts vas
eline. An excellent remedy also con
sists in binding on the diseased foot a
small piece of salt pork, which will
soften it in two or three days, when
the corn may be removed and the pork
again applied to heal up the wound.
Unless treated bumblefoot will pass
upward through the leg of the fowl af
fected and lead to swelling, great sore
ness and gangrene or abscesses. The
trouble yields readily to the above
treatment and will, if treated in time,
save the fowl.
To Get Lots of EgKi.
A. F. Ancier of Earlville, N. Y., gives
the following rules for producing heavy
egg returns: In the morning feed a
mash composed of ground corn, oats.
wheat, clover and green bone, just what
they will eat up clean, and later throw
into the litter a little wheat or millet
for which they will have to scratch.
At noon give steamed clover with mid
dlings, at night cracked corn, wheat
and barley, all they will clean up at
once. Never feed more than they will
eat immediately. Suspend a head of
cabbage in the pen for them to pick
at during the day. You will be sur
prised at the amount of green food they
will eat during the winter season. A
most excellent green food for all kinds
offowls is Dwarf Essex rape. Sow the
poultry yards to rape in winter and
when the snow is off give the fowls
free access to it and your eggs will
practically all be fertile.
The Season's Fertility.
Nothing we can add will throw one
ray of light on the season's fertility of
eggs-for-hatching topic, but the reader
may have faith enough to read of a
few instances that we will mention
even after we make the above admis
sion, says American Poultry Journal
Those who are among the poultrymen
report low fertility. In some western
yards the fertility has been high all
season, but to balance this comes the
report from down east that over half
the shipments are failures. Every
season has its good and bad hatches
and yet no statistician has had the
colossal nerve required to gather data
on the subject.- Lately we noted that
a shipment of eggs from Scotland
hatched better than 40 per cent. This
Is remarkable, though the eggs were
extra well packed.
For Quality E&ga.
The day of the market poultryman is
dawning, for now the big egg buyers
demand eggs by the dozen instead of
by the case. Buying by case means
accepting good, bad and rotten; buy
ing by the dozen means that eggs are
candled and poor ones not paid for.
This aids the poultryman who desires
to work up a high class demand for a
strictly fancy product. The largest
buyers of eggs now demand quality
before quantity, and they pay good,
liberal margins over the market price to
get what they want Clean, fresh eggs
are what they demand, and they soon
cut from their lists the ones who for
ward the inferior stuff along with the
good.
THE OSSETINIANS.
a Race of the Caucasus Mountains
With a Georgian Dialect.
In the highest parts of the Caucasus
mountains, around the Kasbeek region,
there is a tribe, very tall and hand
some, which speaks its own peculiar
dialect of the Georgian language and
has its own peculiar customs, differing
in many ways from those of the
Tscherkesses, Armenians, Circassians
and other tribes that dwell in the same
country. It is the tribe of the Ossetin
lans.
Like the rest of the Caucasus tribes,
they have recognized Russia's authori
ty. But they adhere to the claim that
they are not descended from Asiatic
races, like the other tribes, but that
their ancestors were German knights
who had gone to the crusades and who,
after the disastrous end of the last
crusade, had been driven into the wild
valleys of the Caucasus, whence it was
impossible for them to win their way
out and homeward owing to the vig
ilance of the Moslem foe. So at last
they settled down and took wives
among the Caucasus mountain women,
who have always been noted for their
beauty. - . .
It is a strange fact that the Osse
tinlans understand the science of brew
ing malt liquors, and they are the only
ones who drink beer, the other tribes
preferring Asiatic liquors.
TRAGIC IN ITS BREVITY.
The Story of the Duel Betweca Hu
ilton and Ban.
The story of the Hamilton-Burr duel
is tragic in its brevity. The little party
of five the principals, their seconds
and the surgeon was on the ground
not long after sunrise. The prelimi
naries were soon arranged. As Pen
dleton, Hamilton's second, gave him
his pistol, he asked, "Will yon have
the hairspring set?"
"Not this time, was the significant
reply, and then the men faced each
other.
According to the best authorities up
m a disputed subject, Burr fired at the
word. At the report, Hamilton started
forward with a convulsive movement,
reeled, involuntarily discharging his
pistol into the foliage above him, and
tell headlong. Burr, with an expres
sion of pain upon his face, sprang to
ward him, but Van Ness, his second,
seized him by the arm and hurried him
lown the bank and into their boat.
Hamilton, being lifted up, revived
'or a moment and gasped, "This is a
aiortal wound, doctor!" Relapsing
. again Into unconsciousness he was
again revived by the fresh air of the
river. "Pendleton knows," he said,
trying to turn toward his friends, "that
did not intend to fire at him."
At 2 the afternoon following he
had breathed his last.
Monster Bowl of Punch.
In 1694 Admiral Edward Russell,
commander of the English Mediterra
nean fleet, entertained 6,000 people in
a large garden in Alicante, where he
served the largest bowl of punch ever
brewed. It contained twenty gallons of
lime Juice, four hogsheads of brandy,
one pipe of Malaga wine, twenty-five
hundred lemons, thirteen hundred
weight of fine white sugar, three pack
ages of toasted biscuits, fifty-one
pounds of grated nutmegs and eight
hogsheads of water.
The whole was prevented from dilu
tion In case of rain by a large canopy,
which spread over a marble fountain
bowl which held the punch. The punch
was served by a boy, who rowed about
the basin of the fountain in a boat
built for the purpose and refilled the
empty cups.
: . Two Scotch Storlea.
A Scotch schoolmaster in Banffshire
years ago had strong views on the sub
ject of dress. In the day when crino
line was the rage a girl came to school
with a very extensive one, which much
exceeded the space between the desk
and the form on which she had to sit
The teacher, seeing this, said to her,
"Gang awa home and tak' off thae
girds (hoops) and come back to the
school as God made ye."
Another rough and ready dominie
was examining his boys in a catechism
and asked if God had a beginning.
"No," said the boy. "Will he have an
end?" "Yes," he replied. This was
followed instantly by a buffet on the
f Bide of the head. "Will he have an
end noo?" "No," said the boy, and the
master was satisfied.
THE WATWA OF AFRICA,
a Carloni Tribe, Low Down In the
: Scale of Humanity.
A hunter of big game in Africa gives
a description of a tribe of natives
whom he found there, the Watwa.
"These natives," he says, "live in the
swamps, their staple article of diet be
ing fish and flour made from the seed
of the water lily, although during the
rains they grow patches of cassava
root and sweet potatoes at the edge
of the swamp. They smear their
bodies with mud to protect them from
mosquitoes and are extremely dirty
and evil smelling in consequence. They
are very low down in the scale of hu
manity and have a bad reputation
among tribes living on the high ground,
which reputation they upheld during
our visit We engaged several Watwa
natives as carriers, but they only came
to see what they could steal. One day
I shot a reed buck in sight of the
camp and left two Watwa to carry it
In while I went after a hartbeest, but
I never saw either men or buck again.
It was no use following them into the
swamps, as they knew every Inch
of the ground and water. They had
small canoes hidden everywhere, and
Immediately they crossed a stream
they sunk' the canoe again where they
alone knew where to find it' Our boys
were afraid to follow them, as they
used poisoned arrows and sometimes
set poisoned stakes In the tracks lead
ing to their haunts."
DAME JULIANA BERNER.
She Was a Fifteenth Century Author
ity on Fly Fishing.
The first printed English book on
angling was Dame Juliana Berner'a
"Book of St Albans," which appeared
about 1450, and contained a cha'pter
entitled "A Treatyse on Fyshynnge
With an Angle."
Fly fishing must have been practiced
much earlier than this, as nothing but
a gradual evolution could account for
the complete list of flies for the fish
ing months of the year which It gives.
To Dame Berner belongs the honor
of first telling that the salmon could
be caught with the fly. She says: "Al
so ye may take hym,, but it is seldom
seen with a dubbe at such, times ai
when he .lepith in lyke fourme and
manere as . ye do'a tro'ught or a gray
ling.',' , Her . knowledge seems ' more
complete titan could have been' that
of the original inventor, sq that the
time. when, fly fishing originated in
British (waters must remain uncertain.
Dame Berner's flies will kill trout
today, and her twelve were the foun
dation of those of which Izaak Wal
ton said quaintly in 1653: "Thus have
you a Jury of flies, likely to betray
and condemn all the trouts In the
river.' . ... .. -
' HE WAS A REAL FARMEPL
BBNaBBBMBBBBBBBMM
Bene He Conldnt See the Poetle
Side of Farm Life.
"Oh, yes," a man In the hotel lobby
was - overheard to say. "I'm a real
farmer now. My farm only costs me
about $75 per month now, so yon can
see I'm getting along." Then the man
was heard to comment upon farm
labor.
"It's all right to talk about the poetry
cf farm life," he said, "but if farm life
Is poetry I want the prosiest jort of
prose in mine. Is there any poetry In
greasing harness? Do you find any
rhyme and rhythm in milking a double
Jointed, back action cow twice a day?
Well, I guess not."
"But there's the scenery," hlg com
panion interjected, "and the smell of
grain"
"Yes," said the amateur farmer, "and
the chiggers, and the red bugs, and
boles in the fence, and rats in the seed
corn and ii;e potatoes sprouting. And
if you are through plowing for awhile
and haven't anything better to do you
fix the wheelbarrow for recreation, or
you can see that the pen is made hog
proof, or that the water trough doesn't
leak too much. Then if everything
else fails and it's too rainy to do any
thing else you can get out a second
hand kit and fix the crupper on the
harness or nail strips of boiler plate
on the feed box so that crib eater of a
plug won't have too many splinter?
In him when he dies. Oh, you can bet
I'm too much of a farmer to look at
the poetic side of it I'm a realist
farmer; that's what I am." Dallas
News.
TOBACCO SALARIES.
A Custom of the American Colonic
Before the Revolution.
Before the Revolution, ministers of
the Anglican church in those American
colonies where that church was estab
lished by law were remunerated "in
kind" instead of in money. Maryland
gave an Incumbent forty pounds of to
bacco a year for every tithe payer in
the parish, whether churchman or dis
senter, white or colored. These terms
were handsome enough to secure the
pick of the clerical market In Vir
ginia the stipends represented a fixed
and unvarying quantity, by weight, of
the manufactured leaf. These stipends
were rather beggarly in quantity. In
a bad year even the "sweet scented
parishes," where the minister's salary
was calculated on a high priced and
exceptionally fragrant tobacco, yielded
only about $500 a year. The parishion
ers sometimes refused to induct a cler
gyman unless he would consent to take
one salary for serving two parishes. In
1758, when the price of tobacco had
greatly risen, the house of burgesses
passed a law fixing the cash equivalent
of debts payable in tobacco at one
third their true value, thus wiping out
two-thirds of the incomes of ministers.
Patrick Henry made his first fame In
defending this law when a test case
was brought in behalf of the injured
clergymen.
A Dead Moose.
When a bull moose lies dead in the
forest he looks like some strange ante
diluvian animal, with his square pre
hensile muffle and horns spreading lat
erally, a peculiarity which he shares
with, the prehistoric Irish elk and the
nearly extinct European elk of later
times. The huge form tells of strength
and swiftness, and withal the still dan
gerous gleam of the eye, glazed in its
last stare, bids the hunter pause and
feel almost guilty of a crime in the de
struction of so much that is grand and
weird, a feeling very different from the
sentiment supposed to attend the
slaughter of a deer. But the triumph
of mastering the wariest and bravest
animal in the woods by fair still hunt
ing and by grimly sticking to the track
for many a weary mile amply atones
for any regrets. Century.
Sneak Thieves In Churches.
An old sexton was discussing the
amount of ' stealing that Is done in
churches. "Scarcely a day passes," he
Bald, "when the church is open with
out some distracted woman coming to
me bowed down with grief because
somebody has stolen her purse. There
are certain contemptible thieves who
prey on unsuspecting women who
pray so hard that they forget to look
after their pocketbooks. The thief
watches until the woman Is deep in
prayer and then leans over, grasps the
purse and sneaks out" Philadelphia
Record.
Came In Handy.
"The weather man said It would rain
today, and I'm glad I carried my um
brella."
"Why, It didn't rain at all today."
"Of course it didn't, but I met the
weather man on the street, and I used
the umbrella to bang him good and
hard." Catholic Standard and Times.
Quite Probable.
The Publisher The insolence of these
authors! Here's Spiffles demanding to
see the Illustrations before he writes
the story for them! His Partner Ab
surd! First thing one knows they will
be asking to have the Illustrators read
the stories before they draw the pic
tures for 'em! Brooklyn life.
i.
is exercise.
"Excuse me, Softly," remarked Pen
dennis curiously, "how is It you always
wind up your watch Immediately after
dinner?"
"For the benefit of my health. You
see, my doctor has recommended me
always to take a little exercise after
dinner."
The man who trusts to luck to make
Mm rich Is generally a strong believer
In bad lack by the time be Is f orry-flT.
SonMrrUl (Mass.) Journal.
THE AFTERNOON NAP.
Modern Conditions Killing; the Sies
ta Habit In Mexico.
There are people in Mexico City who
take their afternoon nap every, day,
and are greatly benefited thereby, but
their number appears to be growing
less year by year. Whether the siesta
Is beneficial or not, or whether in this
high altitude it is a necessity for many
persons, as Is claimed by some, its
death knell as a general custom seems
to have been sounded since the city
adopted its modern enterprise and
push. Many old residents will tell yon
of the time when a person in the city
of Mexico would have been considered
almost crazy if he neglecical his after
noon rest but gradually, with the ad
vent of the railways, the street cars
and the electric lights, came the in
evitable sleeplessness which is one of
the most noticeable characteristics of
modern civilization.
There are several supporters of the
siesta Idea in this city who express re
gret that the " custom appears to be
passing away. These persons, who are
themselves devotees of the practice,
claim that it is a healthful and nerve
restoring habit and that If it were in
dulged in systematically by the peoplt
of the United States and other pro
gressive countries there would be few
er cases of nervous wrecks for the
newspapers to report "Early rising
and a short nap after dinner" is what
these people advocate, claiming that
the best work of most persons is per
formed in the morning. Mexican Her
ald. FIRST USE OF TEA.
An Ancient Lea-end Ascribes It to a
Kins of China.
By whom or when the use of tea for
drinking purposes was first discovered
Is lost in antiquity. It is spoken of as
a famous herb in Chinese literature as
far back as 2,000 years B. C, at which
time its cultivation and classification
were almost as thorough and complete
as they are today. One of the ancient
legends says that its virtues were ac
cidentally learned by King Shen Nung
She, the Chinese monarch who is also
known as "the divine husbandman,"
who, the record says, flourished forty
centuries ago. He was engaged In boil
ing water over a fire made of the
branches of the tea plant and careless
ly allowed some of the leaves to fall
into the pot
The liquid which he expected to come
from the vessel simply as sterilized
water was miraculously converted into'
an elixir of life by the accidental ad
dition of the tea leaves. Soon after it
became highly esteemed in all the ori
ental cities and was used as a royal
gift from the Chinese monarchs to the
potentates of southern and western
Asia. .
This same King Shen Nung She not
only earned the title of respect by
which he was known through the dis
covery of the virtues of tea, but be
cause of being the first to teach his
people how to make and use plows and
many other implements of husbandry.
WAIT FOR "AN APPETITE.
You Should Never Eat Simply Fsi
the Sake of Eating.
A prolific cause of chronic indigestion
Is eating from habit and simply be
cause it is mealtime and others are
eating. To eat when not hungry is to
eat without relish, and food taken
without relish is worse than wasted.
Without relish the salivary glands do
not act the gastric fluids are not freely
secreted, and the best of foods will not
be digested. Many perfectly harmless
dishes are severely condemned for no
otherreason than they were eaten per
functorily and without relish and due
Insalivatlon.
Hunger makes the plainest foods en
joyable. It causes vigorous secretion
and outpouring of all the digestive flu
Ids, the sources of ptyalin, pepsin,
trypsin, etc., without a plentiful supply
of which no foods can be perfectly di
gested. Wait for an appetite, if it takes a
week. Fasting is one of the saving
graces. It has a spiritual significance
only through its great physical and
physiologic importance. If' breakfast
is a bore or lunch a matter of indiffer
ence, cut one or both of them out
Wait for distance and unmistakable
hunger and then eat slowly. If you
do this you need ask few questions as
to the propriety and digestibility of
what you eat, and it need not be pre
digested. Exchange.
THE PENGUIN.
It Is Awkward on Land and a Gym
nast In the Water.
A kind of penguin, the adelie, is a
laugh provoking bird. Adelies are
most lnauisitlve and at times are in
such a hurry to follow up a clew ttmt
they will scramble along the ice on
the belly, pushing with their legs and
using their flippers alternately like the
paddle of a canoe. They get over the
ground at an astonishing rate, and it Is
hard work to overtake a penguin when
it takes to this means of locomotion,
especially when It doubles. In the
water the penguin is perfectly at home,
diving and steeplechasing in grand
style. It can jump clean out of the
water and pop down on the ice exact
ly like some one coming up through a
trapdoor on the stage and dropping
on his feet The penguins collect in
enormous numbers and are sometimes
seen marching about like a regiment
of soldiers In Indian file, all acting in
unison.
A much larger penguin, the emperor,
weighs sixty or seventy pounds and
stands well over three feet high. It
possesses the most extraordinary mus
cular powers in its flippers. When pre
sented with the end of the skee stick
the emperor gives K 6uch a smack that
one's hands tingle. At the same time
It utters an an.xry guttural exclama-
BOY OF THE REGIMENT.
With His Dylnar Breath Ho Asked
Garibaldi For a Coma.
When Enzo Ferrettl entered actively
I Into the Italian war of independence
: he was just seventeen. He left Parma
secretly, deserting, as It were, his fa
ther, mother and family to fight for hla
hero, Garibaldi. He walked over the
Apennines without a penny in his pock
et and, arriving half dead at Genoa,
concealed himself on one of the ships
bound for Sicily. When at his destina
tion he emerged and gained the nick
name of the "boy of the r?imentw
From that time for some months he
fought until the day for rest came. He
was shot In the head and carried to
the hospital In a dangerous condition.
Everything possible was done for him,
but it was evident that he was trou
bled, and at last it came out that he
could not die happy because he had
never seen his hero. "I have fought
everywhere and sought always," he ex
claimed, "but I have never succeeded
in seeing him. How can I die never
having caught a glimpse of him?"
Another preoccupation was that he
feared he might be buried without a
coffin. Morning, noon and night his
cry was, "Let me have a coffin 1" The
very day he died, by a fortunate
chance. Garibaldi arrived at the hos
pital. Having heard Ferrettl' 8 story,
he stooped and spoke to him. The sick
boy's expressive face lighted up and
he exclaimed: "Now I can die happy.
Oh, general, let me have a coffin!"
" " Protected the Jnds-e.
After the jury in a Texas case had
listened to the charge of the court and
had gone to their room to deliberate
upon the verdict, one of the twelve
went right to the point by saying:
"That thar Pike Muldrow orter be
convicted an gen'ral principles. t He's
bad as they make 'em."
As the hum of approval went around
a weazened little juror said, "I heerd
that Pike guv It out that he'd go gun
nln' fur us, If we sent him up, jes'
soon's he got out, an' fur the jedge
too."
"We must pertect the Jedge," they
agreed, and the verdict was "Not guil
ty." Detroit Free Press.
A Peculiar Ornament.
Berlin has probably one of the most
peculiar ornaments for a reading room
that has ever been seen in a .similar
position In a civilized country. This is
a gravestone which stands, large and
massive, In one corner of a small room.
It Is not only a gravestone, but is in
its legitimate position at the bead of
a grave. The history of Its location In
the house Is Interesting. It was not
put up In the house, but the house was
built around the stone. Its original
position was In the burial grounds In
the churchyard at St Hedwig's.
How Conld He Help Itt
He Do you think marriages are
made In heaven? She I don't know.
Perhaps they are, but I'd be satisfied
with one made in or, that Is, of course,
I wasn't thinking what oh, Charlie,
do you really mean it? Chicago Record-Herald.
Nothlns Definite.
Her Mother Mr. Sloman has been
coming to see you for quite a long
while, Maude. What are his Inten
tions? Do you know? She Well, I
think he intends to keep on coming.
Philadelphia Preen.
LOGGERHEADS.
This Name Is Given to Some Turtles
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The giant turtles which are found
along the Atlantic coast and frequently
In southern waters In great numbers
are known as loggerheads. They com
monly attain a weight of 1,600 pounds,
are rapid swimmers and are often seen
far from land, floating asleep upon the
waves.
Carnivorous by nature these huge
tortoises feed cn crabs and fish, espe
cially on a large species of conch, which
they break open with their massive
jaws. The flesh of this terrapin Is
leathery and oily, with a strong smell
of musk. Young specimens are more
palatable and are often on sale in the
markets. '
A duck, as large as our goose, which
is native of the shores of Tierra del
Fuego and the Falkland isles Is also
called loggerhead, from its seeming
stupidity and helplessness.
In the West Indies this name Is also
given to two or three sorts of fly
catchers.
Hose of Olden Time.
In the very long ago hose were not
stockings as now worn, but made long
and were often drawn up even to the
waist and, oddly enough, had pockets
In their sides. We read, moreover, that
In the time of the Tudors and Stuarts
they were of great variety, both of
material and color, and for such as
could command the luxury were rich
ly trimmed and costly; they were often
called "nether stocks."
Useless Labor.
"Don't be afraid of making me angry
by telling me your candid opinion of
my verses, old fellow. Criticism doesn't
make any difference with me."
"I know that, my dear boy, but the
trouble is that it doesn't make any
difference with your verses either."
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Singular and Plural.
"Funny! There was a time when the
barbers used to speak of my hair."
"You mean before you began to get
bald?"
"Yes. Now they speak of my bain."
Philadelphia Press.