UNABLE TO GET HELP.
ONE
OF THE DRAWBACKS
WE8IEHN FAinOINQ.
TO
Cntiaea of Till, Cnndltton lfrtrveat In
1'rnctlcnlly Hliiuiltiiiieoiia nnd Oct
tliiu ti New l'leltla 11 f l.nlior Tuliee
What Money Worker Una Knrntd.
A peculiar situation In which thero
Ih iii'ollt fur neither employer" nor em
ploye Ih found hi lliu harvest season
In tlio heavy t'cion l-prmliicliiK Htntes
(if tlio Missouri mill Went Mississippi
valleys, says u writer In IIki Boston
TriiiiNcrlpt. Heiileh from tliu Missis
sippi In IIki cuttle ranges mill north
mid hoiiiIi through tlio full extent or
tliu wheat I'oiintry reveals only occa
sional grain ranches with acreages
liiiilllpllcd'lhtu tint thonmiiiilH anil pro
cessions of harvesting machines ex
ceeding In length tlio parades of grenl
circuses. Tliu lent wheat country Ih
too. good to lie blocked out Into acre
ages ciiuiiuuuly inoro than u section.
Quiirlcr-seethm farms nro exceedingly
freijiieut, and Hioho of 100 hitch tliu
wilier Iiiih found to lie a popular slzo
throughout thu wheat country.
Prairie farm machinery linn reached
Mich it development and dlveralllcittloii
of ctnpx, tending to distribute the farm
work evenly tliroiiuh tlio hciihiiiih, Iiuh
arrived at hiicIi a stage that two men
can HiicccnNfiiHy operato a HtaiKlard
farm from tho eluo of one harvest
season until thn opening of tliu next.
Tho gang plow nnil dlHk harrow, tho
four-liorxo grain drill anil wide-reaching
drug, toKelher with weeks of tlmo
In which to do tlio work, enable onu
11 in 11 to need soiiBounbly from ono to
Heveral hundred ncreH of Kraln. And
thu talo'of thn iiralrlo corn crop la ono
of Nwlft method of preparing tho need
licit, of planting and of cultivating, and
of a long, fair fall for tlio picking Hut
tho Hiiiooth running of affnlri) on tho
Iiralrlo farm herein lien tho peculiar
Hltimtlon I broken at harveat time.
Thuro In yet an Imperfect adjustment
of funning methods to prnlrlo eondl
Hons ono which need", to remedy It,
either n vastly clover mechanical lu
ventlon or much further progress In dp
vcrslllcntlon of Kraln crops.
Invention, succoHHfuI with cutting
and then with blndhiK Rrnlu, has
lmlkcd at thu third operation shock
lug. Only rumors of success with
shockers aro heard. Inventors have
nought to got around tlio problem In
hand In conceiving tho "header" and
Kreat tliriiBher-liarvester. Tho header,
extensively used on iiralrlo farms, cuts
tho grain IiIkIi up and throws It un
bound Into a parallel wagon ready to
Ik) carried to tlio stack. Hut, requiring
suven men In Its operation ono to
drlvo tho machine, two for each of two
necessary wngons and two for tho
stack tho header does not simplify
labor mutters.
Tho process of dl versifying tho Kraln
crop growing not only wheat, hut, as
far as conditions penult, barley, oats,
spell, llax and other crops which ripen
at different periods Is going on. Tho
soli seeded for years for no other small
Kraln than wheat Is beginning to de
mand rotation In crops. Hut wheat Is
yet tho stnplo Kraln on tho prairies.
And when tho harvest tlmo comes,
not Held by Held with many days In
tervcnliiK, or even weeks, docs tho
farm's crops ripen, but practically at
once. The harvest should bo as near
ly Instantaneous as possible. Tho two
men on the -100-acrc, or cvn 100-ncrc,
farm need help.
Tho situation Is unprofitable to tho
employer of farm labor becauso tho
workers lu the prairie towns and cities
do not tlnd.lt convenient to drop their
rcKUlar employment to hasten to tho
farmer's aid. And few workmen can I
afford to tie without rcKUlar employ
ment throiiKh the year for the saku
of tho week or ten days' special liar
Vest work the farmer will provide.
This person must depend for Ids har
vest help upon tho temporarily unem
ployed Kalhered from the four quar
ters (moro strictly spcnkliiK, from tho
eastern half) of the country. Indeed,
tho KatherlUK Is gratis. Press and
railway olllelals are effective iiKents.
Tho press dellKhts In tho stories of
Brent wiikcs, In the vast Interest of the
' Western harvest. Thu railway olllclal
lias a future frelKht Interest and n
present piiwongcr , Interest of Impor
tance. Hut the situation has a vast
dlsadvantiiKO for tho farmer In that
tho far scattered hands cannot bo
reached swiftly and surely. Tho har
vest cannot wait.
Tho situation Is even moro unfortu
nate for tlio harvester draiwii from
nbroad. IIo Is not told that tho ru
mored wages aro tho highest offered
that low wiiKes aro quite as frequent
as thoso which havo liiado copy for
tho press correspondent or been skill
fully ndvcrtlsed by Interested people.
And to thoso tiufalnlllar with Western
nffnlrs It Is not explained that tho po
rlod of harvest service In a particular
community terminates lu two weeks,
ten days or u week. And It Is not
published that tho belt of simultaneous
harvest Is sulllclently wide several
hundred miles to require In crossing
It, for tho purposo of following up the
harvest, a materia! If not a major por
tion of tho earnings of tho service.
Tho harvest scrvlco ends when tho
Kraln Is cut, It does not Include hous
ing Ki'iiln, as In tho Kastj pralrlo grain
Is not housed. Tho harvesters from
abroad rarely And oven brief employ
ment Blocking bundles lu tho Held. Tho
header, used exclusively lu wldo dis
tricts, docs away with bundlo stack
ing nnd leaves no moro work but tho
thrashing when tho cutting Is done,
And whero tho hinder has held sway
and tho harvest hand has been a
shocker Instead of n member of tho
hoador crow thu thrashing Is dono
from tho shock. What stacking Is
practiced Is dono leisurely by tho farm
er nnd his regular help. Thoso unfa
miliar with Western conditions nro
told that onco tho harvest Is over the
thrashors aro In demand. Bucli n state
ment Is misleading. It takes no ac-
tng outfit. They so simplify thrashing
that tho fanners of overy fairly well
Bottled t'oniinunlly can tako euro of tho
operation without outside holp.
THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS BORN.
Hound (tie little old deserted house the
iiolmimo weeds uru crowing-,
And tlio wind uiililtideicd wanders
lliroiMtli tlio broken eastern door:
Every rafter, bonm mid sash mid Anger
marks of Tlmn Is showing,
And Decay Is runiihiK Hot o'er tlio rub-
Mull-covered lloor.
Hero a rotting pillar staggers; there on
aged beam Is falling;
Over yonder sags tlio mantelpiece, de
jected ami forlorn:
Tliero is helplessness pathetic and the
Voleo of Old Ago calling
From curli crumbling bit of mortar In
Hi e Iioiino where I wns born.
Hero before tlio undent fireplace, where
the dust of jcars Is lying,
I first viiw the future pictured as 1
watched tho embers glow;
Ilcru 1 lay in bojliili dreaming, while
the shndows Hitting, Hying,
Were a hundred ghosts of fnucy nf
they wandered to and fro;
I.lttle knew I of the unlrerae which
f irt-jicl itself around mo
In a canopy of nzmo and a sea of
waving corn;
All my world was on the hearthstone
where my childhood dreaming
found me;
I was king and my dominion was the
houso where I was born.
LfcFT HANDEDNESS,
Ami I,eftHlileitiis Rnld to lie Inherit'
ed from Havnuo Wncin,
Much has been written about left
handed people, hut as no ono has here
loforo tried to determine by menus of
Miitlstles how frequenlly they occur,
I 'tor. Lnmhroso determined to under'
tako that task. IIu inudo observations
upon 1,0'Jll operatives and soldiers, and
found that tlio normal proportion wns i
per cent in men nnd 5 to 8 per cent In
womoti. Further research revealed tho
fact that tho proportion of left-handed
people among criminals Is very much
higher. Ho Hint 1'iof. I.ombroso re
Kinds left-lianilrdness as a now char
acteristic which connects criminals
with biiviikos, among whom left-hand-edness
Is not uncommon. Ills re
searches In this direction led l'rof.
I.ombroso to Inquire whether thero Is
not nlso what ono might call left-sided-
ness that is, whether there nro not
people who have n greater sensibility
on thn left side than on the right. He
discovered that left-sldedness exists In
much larger proportion than left-hand-edness,
and that left-handed people do
not havo moro of tills sensitive left
sldodness than right-handed people. In
lunatics this sensitive, left-sldedness Is
nlinost moro tho rule thnn tho excep
tion, tho conclusion being Hint left
handed people are moro numerous
among criminals nnd sensitive left
sided people among lunntlcs. Loin
broso remarks:
"As man advances In civilization and
culturo ho bIiowb nil always greater
rigiil-siucdness ns compared to sav
ages, tho mnscullno lu this way out
numbering the feminine nnd adults
outnumbering children. Thus women
and snvago races, even when they nre
not properly left-handed, have certain
gestures nnd movements which nro a
species of left-hnndcdness. Somo tlmo
ago Dolaunny observed that tho man
holds out the right arm, which tho
woman takes with tho left; that the
woman buttons her clothes from right
to left, whllo tho man does bo from
left to right, mid that women nnd chil
dren, when they trnco a lino or turn n
key, for Instance, of a watch, Initiate
tho movement from right to left, while
tho adult man docs so always from left
to right. This explains why, In early
times, nnd still among people llttlo
civilized, such as Arabs, the writing
was preferably from right to left,
which Is tho habit of children until cor
rected. Deluunnv even wpnt l,i fur
In his observations as to discover that 1 1,1 tho lnBt rn's of tl10 sun- TIle blrd
nntlnuo chronometers worn u'lmmi "iig ecstatically for a full minute;
from rlcht to left, while modem n.,,. ! lh-' unet nl111 8'lence'
They wero happy days (lod rent them
for my feet hnd ne'er been
atrnylng
Where the sold Is bruised and broken
by the brambles of turmoil;
Ne'er tho long years of anxiety my tern
pics had been graying,
Nor, my weary form bowed earthward
'ncntli the heavy hand of toll;
Earth wns then a wonder palace. From
tlio eastern window gazing
SOME BARGAINS IN CLOTHING THAT
PLEASED BOTH FATHER AND SON.
Ono of tho most durable woods Is
sycamore. A statue made from It now
In tho museum of Glzoh at Cairo, Is
known to bo nearly 0.000 years old.
I beheld the new moon hanging like s Notwithstanding this great age, It Is
shining silver horn; assorted that thn Wood itself Is en.1
,w.u i uuwn uuon ino aesvens ungui tirely sound and natural In
the evening star was hlnzlnir: I
Hotk wero shining, Just to please me, ...
o'er tho house where I was born.! A Dew tael ' belnB manufactured
B was a plain, ordinary citizen, with n smile, and a friend nsked him
why ho laughed.
"Becauso I am happy," replied Tho Man. "I'll tell rnn nl if
I 1 My boy needed n now overcoat, and I had S10 laid away, and I was
afraid that tho ten wouldn't cover the need. What do I know about boys'
overcoats? Ills mother buys his clothes, nnd, Ood bless her, she pinches
along nnd makes $2 do tho work of J4, and how am I to know? I didn't
think I could do much with less than $12, and I couldn't spare $12 very wolL
i u..u u. vniu it, tun uuicu, auu xno uoy anu i went
i to fi. clothlnff store. It was n nntv ntniirlnnn r ...... im i- a
nnnear- - w. wv. a o.y m ivu
Ji i figures on somo boys' overcoats, nnd almost had heart failure: found later
I llifll thn f1.i,.M .nnfr n .l-.ll- '
I have passed from it forever.
wonder anil tlio glamour
In California which Is made from
All th twigs and leaves of the eucalyptus
tree mixed with crude petroleum. It
Well, he tried on one. It was gray and warm nnd had a belt. n,i cum.
down to tho tops of his shoes, and he was so tickled he Just giggled, lie
kept finding new pockets, and he threw his chest out and said! 'If I could
Of the llttlo eastern window from th. Is said to burn freely and give good ' Z.Zr . ,,V.t'T . .. t c'erVa ne.8ttm UVe aolW"- FlTa
world have worn away; r,.,uY . pn " mnZ trnm This .L ' "8r fof " hat expanse of coat! I gasped like a drowning man, and said:
I have seen It. disappointment; I hav. n, 1 fem .n. f I Boy' don 1 you want otlilii else?' He looked shy, and said he alway.
ncam its empty clamor; . , . . ., ,, ' " '
And tho house I once thought wonder- , ln8f 'ongc,r tlmn ycllow plne' Tll
fill Iiow pitiful to-day! u,-","llu i" greaier man ine
the house where I was born.
Leslie's Weekly,
IN THE SHADOW
OF THE HILLS.
t -e
HUKE7.K stirred the follago of
the trees at the base of the
hills. The air had n touch of
chill In It, for the October day lu this
Southwestern Dakota country was
drawing to Us close.
A limn was lying at full length on
the gruss that the early frost had
touched and killed. Tho man's hands
were supporting his chin and his eyes
wero looking far off across tho rolling
prairies, which here met at tho base
of the Hlack Hills. There was pain In
the gating eyes. The voice of a her
mit thrush hroko the silence. Instant
ly the look of the man's eyes changed.
Pleasure nnd surprise took tho place
of pain. Whr.t a wonder was this, a
hermit thrush singing In October Its
song of the springtime!
The man rose and looked toward the
copso whence tho sound came. Thero
sat tho bird, Its brown back reddened
nro wound In the opposite direction.
North American Itcvlew.
If
Dog Know Ills Ilualneao.
A certain oHlcehoider decided to buy
a dog. In reply to his "ml." .n man
cnlied at his olllco with an Intelligent
looking animal, that ho Immediately
took n fancy to, though he deemed It
ndvlsablo to llrst Inquire Into some
thing of Its chnractiTls'.lcs.
"What can be do?" he asked.
"Oh, sir, ho can do anything.
you've lost anything, sir, he'll go direct
totheplaeowhcre you lost It. Hell-
liy mo way, I've just missed my
glovp. Do you b pose he could Hnd It?'
"Certainly, sir. Just let hlni Biilff a
your hand."
The ofllceholdcr held his hand to the
dog's nose and the animal trotted i-e-rrnely
off. Presently he returned, and
with n Joyous wagging of his tall de
posited Ills offering at Hie olllceho.d
er's feet.
At the Same moment the click f tin
typewriter In tho next room crasul
iV girlish form appeared In the door
way.
My sash ribbon," ci I d a h'gh sw el
voice, "my sash ribbon! The ilog has
my tash ribbon!''
The officeholder's fnce turned a dul.
red. He cast a furtive glance at the
man, dived Into his pocket nnd hauled
out a bill.
"I guess tlio doR'll do," he said
quietly. New York Times.
Concerning Cigar Iloxos.
Thero nro something like 15,000,000
clRnr boxes used In the United States
annually and about ulnc-tenths of Hint
number nro made lu thin city, whero
the Undo rivals tho clothing Industry
in point of capital Invested mid num
ber of people employed," said a lead
ing clKnr-box manufacturer recently.
"The material out of which tho best
quality of cigar boxes nre made comes
principally from Cuba and Is known ns
Hpanlsh cedar. A peculiarity about
this wood Is that It always retains tho
Havor of a Rood clKar. Indeed, boiuo
peoplo claim that it Improves the fla
vor, and tho reason given for this
contention Is that It grows In tho satuo
localities as the finest Havana tobac
co." Philadelphia Ledger,
Tlio Changing World.
"Tho world Is not tho same," I said,
"As in the days gono by;
The beauty of the sccno tins fled
And things have gone awry.
The laughter seems to lack the zest
And tears tho honest woo
They had when earth wus at Its best,
So many years ago."
The sun that rode his 'customed way
AH smilingly looked down;
The meadow that had bloomed so gay
Lay withering and brown.
And through the wind a whisper cnino
In mockery of my lot:
"Tho world, you see, Is still tho same,
lint you, alas, are not."
Washington Star.
Caleb Fryc rose. He listened n mo
ment, hoping to hear once more the
voice of Hint prlnco of singers, but
no sound came save the slight rustling
of the russet leaves. Caleb l'rye turned
and walked with shambling gait east
ward away from the hills. He strode
on for twenty minutes, nnd then,
rounding a bit of timber, caino upon n
Hut who knows? Perhaps eternity may,"1100'
bring n realizing An Innovation In the line of railroad
Of the tilings, my fancy painted ovei telegraph service has been put Into
AmI' "arfer"."'0' PrPheC7 between mica and Albany. Hy the
In ray heart when I lor Hr.nmln i'"eans of the apparatus a single wlro
uuu uu ubc-u ior iciegrapn ana icie-
phono messages at the same time.
While the operator Is ticking away
a telegraph In Morse code another per
son can telephone n message without
tho slightest Interference.
In a recent report on the results of
extended measurements of mental
traits In the two sexes, Prof. E. L.
xuornuiKo sam mat In the measure
ment of abilities the greatest differ
ence found was the female superiority
In the tests of Impressibility, such as
the rate and accuracy of perception.
verbal memory and spelling. In these
matters only about one-third of the
boys reach the median mark for girls.
In general the girls were found to
bo mentally less variable thnn the
lioys.
wanted a pair of golf gloves. Got 'em, too; good ones for 25 cents, and The
uoy saiu mac mamma was going to get him a new sweater some day.
" 'We'll get it now,' I said, and the clerk flung out a daisy, white and
blue, $1.50, and I paid. Say, I guess Boy thought I was going to die right
there, and when I told him that he ought to have one of those tasseled caps
to go with the sweater ho absolutely looked scared, and snld ho didn't know
he could havo It. It wan n beauty 60 cents made of mercerized silk, they
said. The Hoy kept the coat on. You couldn't have pried It off hlnv He
giggled again nnd wanted me to feel In the pockets, and then he wanted to
kiss mo on tbo street. He said he guessed the boys at school would think
ho had a pretty good father.
"When we got back to his mother he wag so excited that he couldn't
talk plain, and he mixed pockets and loving his father and mercerized silk
cap nnd golf gloves up scandalously. Then she glanced around to be sure
that nobody was looking, and leaned her head up against me and said; 'xou
make me so happy, dear.'
"And It all cost $7.31, and I figure that there was one thousand dol
lars' worth of good feeling In It. I am happy, and yet I feel like a cheat
when I think that I ever begrudged my family anything."
A thousand dollars' worth of Joy for $7.34. Yes, there are bargains for
those who will look for them. Des Moines News.
Cnleb Frye laughed. "They're weeds
that I'm mighty glad to get," he said.
"This Is the Aster Hnarlifollus, and I
never before havo been able to And
any that were white. Host of them
aro violet In color, nnd the white ones
nre ns raro as albino blackbirds."
"You're a great one for flowers, birds
and the like, Mr. Krye," said tho ranch
man, "but I never could see anything
In 'cm, excepting one chokes tho wheat
and the other steals the fruit."
"Well, I found something rarer than
tho nster to-dny," answered the stu
dent "I found a hermit thrush that
was willing to sing In October with all
the sweetness I have heard It sing In
Juno on Mount Washington, at the foot
of which I wns born."
"Those flowers nre lovely, Mr.
Frye," snld Frances Darrow, "even If
Mr. Driver does call them weeds. Tell
me where they grow, that I may get
some In a day or two.
Governor Bailey, of Kansas, is
The War Department, co-oneratlne Br.cat Clever In corn lands. He owns
wun the Shelllcld Biological La bora- 7 . """"'y." "
tory at Yale, has detailed 20 men from "e 5elu,?,e3 10 e"' Dolmns, lD.at rn
the Hospital Corps of the army to land wl" 60on bo moro valuable thnn
go to New Haven under charge of an wheat-producing ground. His proper-
assistant army surgeon, and submit ' """" """" u"
to cxnerlments Intended r .Werminn thinks, nnd will rise to $100 In Ave
whether physiological economy In
diet cannot bo practiced with distinct
years.
Somo sixty-four miles off the coast
been discovered. One was found to
be inhabited by a former French ser
betterment to the body, and without of Tunti a cluster of little islands has
loss or strength and vigor. Profes
sor Chittenden of the Sheflleld Sclen.
utlc School says thero Is apparently seant, Clement, who had disappeared
no question that people ordinarily some rourteen years ngo, nna a sman
consume much moro food than thero number of natives. The Islands have
Is any necessity for, nnd that this ex- ueen annexed by France! nnd Clement
cess Is, In the long run, detrimental to nppolnted resident Inspector of Ash-
health, and defeats the very objects ,nS nnd of the harbor, registrar and
aimcu ac teacner.
IAW HIM COHINO AMD WAVED A HAND,
An Klaborato lOiplauatlon.
"So your Hying machlno Is a fail
ure," sulci tho sympathizing friend,
"Certainly not," answered tho scien
tist. "Thero nro ono or two minor
parts that won't work and which Inter-
fcro with tho rest of tho npparntus.
But, taken as a whole, tho averago of
success through tho machlno la very
high." Washington Star.
Many Chances to Weil.
Sntnuol W. Hammers, who keeps a
great, rambling ranch house, On the
veranda was a young woman hardly
past girlhood. She waved him a wel
come, which he answered with his
hand, but In his eyes thero camo tho
look that was there before the thrush
sang.
Caleb Frye had como to this Da
kota country In search of health. He
was a student bent on following a life
which meant couUnemcnt IIo had
broken down, and the doctors had sent
him, from New Hnmpshlre to this far-
off country to get his health. He was
homely man, young. It Is true, but
looking old. Ho wns thin to nttenua
Hon and of nwkwnrd enrringe. nis
eyes did n llttlo something toward re
deeming his fnce from positive ugli
ness, for there lay In their depths
something of gentleness.
In tho ranch house, the homo of old
John Driver and his motherly wife,
Caleb l' rye had made himself a favor
Ito. Thero ho had met pretty Francos
Darrow, tho school-teacher, who made
her homo thero and refused to "board
round" becauso she so denrly loved
'Mother" Driver. Cnleb Fryo hnd not
known any woman Intimately In his
whole life. Ho know nothing of them,
He had had no tlmo for anything but
tuo studies which held him chnlncd.
Hero lu the foothills he hnd the tlmo
nnd the opportunity, nnd ho fell In
love, but he made no sign.
Only a short time after Cnleb Frvo's
coming tuero had arrived from tho
Enst a young fellow, handsome, athlet
ic nnd gifted by nature with every,
thing which bad been withheld from
Calou Fryc.
Howard Denno had como to the
rnnch on n Innd prospecUng errnnd.
Ho was commissioned by somo East
ern capitalists to buy. Ho made John
Drlvor's houso his headquarters, and
with tho old rnnchmnn hnd looked over
tho wholo territory for miles. How
nrd Denno should have left three
weeks before, but ho lingered. Cnleb
Fryo looked nt Frnncoa Dnrrow, nnd
knew tho reason for the lingering.
As Frye wnlked townrd the house
that October ovenlng, John Driver, his
country storo near Gettysburg, Pa., I wlro nd Ueano Joined tho girl on the
count of cither tho limited number of , advertised for n wtfo recently, nnd In porch-
harvesters that could possibly And em
ployment ns thrashors, or the reduction
In wages that takes placo Immediately
the hnrvest Is over. The self-feeder
nnd blower n devlco for self-stacking
form part of overy Western thrwh-
tho course of n fow days received an
swers from 2,700 women.
Muscular rheumatism Is (ho kind
that gets a man on Ills back nad keep
"Wbnt did you find to-day, Mr.
Fryo?" called Driver to him.
Calob Fryo held up,n bunch of whlto
flowers. "I found Something rare."
him thero for a mouth.
"Them's weeds," said tho ranchman.
"Ihey are growing by the SDrlnz
Just beyond that bit of swamp where Electromagnets promise to come Into 11 Is not known Just how long mos-
the big tree wns blown down In the common use for lifting heavy pieces Qultoes can live, but their average life
last storm." of Iron In factories and rolling mills. '8 much longer than Is ordinarily sup-
"I never knew so much of nature, ' "'stead or the present hooks and posed. 'Ibousands or them live tnrough
Mr. Frye," said Howard Deane, "but chains a large piece of metal Is sus- winter, hibernating or asleep In dark
from the enjoyment that you seem to Pended above the Iron or steel object Places In barns or house cellars. In
get out of It I believe It must be worth to De fitted, a current Is run through sparsely settled localities, where they
cultivating. Some day I wish you'd iisiB- .rendering It magnetic, so that It cannot find such places for shelter,
teach me how to get Into the good simply picks up the object and holds they live through the winter in hollow
graces of the Mother." I It until the current Is turned off. A trees; and, even though the tempera-
That night Caleb Frye went to his magnet weighing 350 pounds can carry ture may fall far below freezing, they
room early. He studied for a while n loaa or uve tons. The time renulred are not winter-killed, but on the ap-
for fastening a load to a crane by tho proach of warm weather become ac-
prescnt methods Is estimated to rep- tlve again. Mosquitoes are frequently
resent ono-half the cost of handling seen flying about In the woods before
the material, so that great saving In the snow has wholly left the ground.
nanaung material Is apparent There Popular Science Monthly.
is a numDer or tbese electromagnets A hundred pounds of ambergris has
now in use nt aurerent steel plants. been seized at Seattle as stolen prop
If we must have mosquitoes at all, erty. The appraised value Is $30 an
people will regret that tho new species ounce, or $48,000 for the hundred
of these Insects which Dr. William L. pounds. A hundred pounds of pure
Underwood has discovered Is a natlvo gold would not be worth as much by
of the Maine woods Instead of more $10,000. And were a hundred pounds
populous parts of the country. For of gold to be stolen nt Seattle a great
this mosquito docs not bite, although stir would be made about It Amber
It Is so large that If It wero given gris is scarcer than gold. It Is more
to biting It would be a terror; and of an uncertain quantity. It Is harder
moreover, its larvae feed eagerly upon to And ond harder to transport It Is
the larvae of other species of mosqul- found floating In lumps In the ocean.
toes. For this reason experlmnts are land occasionally In the Intestines of
being maae to determine If the new the sncrmaceU whale. There are. how.
mosquito will thrive In the climate of ever, few sperm whales available, and
soutnern Aew England. It has recelv- tho lumps of ambergris have been
ed tho name of Eucorethra Under- growing scarcer as the whales have
wooo.1. ira manner or disposing of decreased In number.
tne larvae of other mosquitoes Is cal
eulated to make sufferers from recent
mosquito bites gleeful. "The victim
Is caught," says Doctor Underwood,
','shaken violently a few times, and
swallowed!"
and then became restless. He wan
dered out on to the porch and turned
the corner of the building. He heard
voices nnd listened Involuntarily. The
voices were those of Howard Deane
and Frances Darrow. He did not mean
to listen, but what he heard made blm
know that what had been In his heart
must die.
Caleb Frye went to his room and
threw himself on his bed. The win
dow wns open. Downward through
the night came the voices of migrat
ing birds. He heard tho calling of
plover nnd the "chink" of the black
bird. "The birds are flying from tho
coming winter," be thought to himself,
"but for me the winter has already
come."
The next morning the ranchman and
bis two men guests stood on the porch.
Mojher Driver came out "Where's
Frances, Mother?" asked the ranch
man. "She's Just left for school. She went
early because she wanted to get some
of thoso white weeds down by the
spring, and It takes her out of tho
way."
John Driver paled suddenly. "My
God, mother!" ho said, "Bill and I set
n spring gun trap thero last night for
n benr. I meant to have told every
body about It, but I forgot"
Caleb Frye shot out over the prairie.
The ranchman and Deane followed,
but strive as they could they could not
keep pace with the long-limbed stu
dent, who ran not as a man runs, but
as a deer that Is hounded.
Caleb Frye rounded the timber.
Across tho open he saw tho girl walk
ing toward the spring. He shouted
gaspingly nnd ran on. The girl heard
nnd turned. She saw him coming and
waved a hand encouragingly, thinking
he was trying simply to overtake her
to walk by her side. She stooped to
pick a flower, and the student gained
somo ground. Then he shouted, "Stop,
stop, the gun!" biit the wind bore his
words away, nnd the girl did not un
derstnnd.
Ho could cnll no more. His voice
was spent with running, but his limbs
carried him on. The girl had entered
tho bushes near the spring. The man
tried onco more to call. The voice was
whisper, but on he ran, and In an
other moment had burst Jnto tho copse.
lie saw tne glistening of the wire of
the trap. The girl was within a foot
of it. His voice camo back. "StODl"
Startled, sho stumbled forward. Fryo
sprang townrd her, and in a flnBh wns
In front of her. His foot cnught, ho
swnyed, nnd then there enme a deafen
ing report. The girl fell backward,
fainting. The man's hands wero
thrown Into tho air, and then he lay
prostrate on the ground,
John Driver and Howard Deane
raised him tenderly nnd carried him
Into tho open, placing him gently on
tho dry grass of the prairie. There
wns a gnplng wound In his sldo. At
that lnstnnt the voice of a bird enmo
from the thicket Caleb Frye opened
his eyes, "it's summer," be murmured,
"Now, even to the unthinking," con
cluded the merchant "this sounds pre
posterous. But Just the same, it actual
ly happened, and had not the dye
rubbed off of the little captives, and
thereby their idenUty established, I
don't doubt that the grafter would
have died Independently wealthy. All
of which only adds one more proof to
the ever-current fact that the public
really wants to be humbugged that
they are anxious for It. The only real
difference being degree." Washington
Post
POOR ENGLISH SPARROWS.
Now "nook of Ages."
A missionary lately returned from
India expressed the opinion that re'
llglous work was going on very slowly town business man, "and every time I
there on account of the difficulty in see the busy little creatures now, i un
transiting tho spirit as well as the consciously find myself anxiously ex
Dipped la Canary Djre They Were Bold
for Bonaxatera.
"At least some members of the spar
row family have been enjoying their
ease and a great deal of luxury In
pretty, bright brass bird cages within
the past few weeks," remarked a down
text of the Gospel
"Take an Instance," he said. "I
tried to teach my converts tho old
hymn:
" 'Itock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself In Thee."
"I had a native Bible student trans-
late It Into tho vernacular. To mako
sure that he had grasped the spirit of
the words, I took his translation and
bad It translated back Into English
by another student. It then read:
aralning their feathers, wondering the
while, if they numbered among the
hundred or more fortunate ones that a
clever grafter succeeded in pawning
3ff on this evor-credulous public of ours
as the real thing In the way of a chirp
ing canary bird. The fellow who did
the trick has my congratulations. He
Is Ingenious, at any rate; and I could
not help thinking, when I saw him
caught with tho goods on, too, how
much real talent and rare qualities of
" 'Very old stone, snllt for mv bene enterprise had gono Into seed. Some
how, I reit provoKea mat it snouia
have been wasted upon a poor little
flock of innocent sparrows.
"As it turned out, complaints have
been coming In thick and fast. Cora
plaints that a man has, for some time
fit, let mo absent myself beneath ono
of thy fragments. "Detroit News-
Tribune.
The Great Telescopes Outdone.
Ilcmarkablo results lu star photogrn
phy with comparatively Inexpensive ' t hen norirtiim. urminrt town I
apparatus have been reported by Pro- llsh spnrrows tUnt, it has since been
fessor Schacberlo. His telescopo was aiscovcrcd, were artistically dipped
a parabolic reflector of short focus, tho nto a pretty( brlgllti canary-colored
mirror being 13 Inches lu diameter, dye nml dsposed of at a dollar or
4l"-ua Ul - "". more a head: the otter dcDend nir UDOn
ures of live minutes gave star Images
that wero beyond tho reach of the 30-
Inch Lick telescopo and that required
exposures of two hours with tho 3U-
Inch Crossly reflector. Stars fainter
than tho seventeenth magnltudo were
Included.
I am going up tho mountain path:
the hermit thrushes are singing."
In n moment his spirit wns beyond
the mountnln top, nnd to blm bad come
eternal summer and eternal Bong.
Chicago ltecoro-llerald.
Absence of soft water Is one excuse
for drinking hard.
Not tlio Ordinary Sort,
He's about the poorest actor 1 ever
saw," snld tho first manager; "a regu
lar ham,"
"Perhaps he'll get over his faults lu rules consisted chlelly of "don'ts for
time." suggested the other. canary birds," uuo rcau: 'Avoid
"Not much! He's a ham that can't strong light,' nnd went on to explain
tho generosity of his victims,
With each purchase was given a slip
of paper, upon which was written tho
rules which wero to be strenuously ad
hered to. Exactness, he explained, be
ing necessary, owing to tho unusual re
quirements of the peculiar species of
canary bird which lie presented. Upon
the paper was written n very fow
things to do for tho llttlo crcntures In
their too small wooden cages. Tho
bo cured." Philadelphia Press.
i'otoflluo Business,
Tho United States postal department
handles 7,250,000 letters ami cards a
year a number about equal to that
of Great Britain,' Germany nnd Prance
taken together.
Probably some men nieauder nrouiu
nil night for tho purpose of satisfying
licmselvea that theie is no place llkt
i'.ouie.
that tho bird was very young, and
that Hko nil youug things, strong light
wns bad for tho eyes. But the 'don't'
that proved tho fellow's undoing and
led to his capture appeared In black,
capital letters, and read: 'Never bathe
tho bird but onco within a month. Tho
bird having been just taken fresh from
ho bath this morning, there will be no
urther trouble concerning Its bath fof
i month. All Hi'', thl- bird requires is
neuty or rend,"
A. T. 8TEWARV8 CARPET WAR.
How the Merchant Started the Mill
at Oloveravllle, N. r.
With all his wonderful shrewdness,
A. T. Stewart, merchant prince, occa
sionally caught a Tartar. Mr. Stewart
lived to see the decadence of the Amer
ican trade lu foreign carpets, Arst large
ly undertaken by him In New York.
The manufacture of Axmlnlster and
moquette carpets by hand In foreign
countries was one of the slowest of
trade processes. Two men nnd a boy
were employed at one loom, nnd they
could mnke but one nnd n hnlf ynrds
n day, nccordlng to the New York
Times. Alexander Smith and his part
ner, Halcyon Skinner, of Yonkers, In
vented a loom that made eleven yards
a day when attended only by a young
girl. This revolutionized the carpet
Industry. Stewart, quick to perceive,
Immediately acquired control of the
output of Alexander Smith & Sons
Carpet Company, nnd through his enor
mous dealings that concern grew to one
of the largest of Its kind In the world.
The Smiths had little to say. Alex
ander and Warren B. went quietly
along filling Stewart's orders and In
creased their plant Inasmuch as
Stewart had financed the company
right along, he thought he owned It
One day Smith (it was in 1873) called
on Stewart at his store for funds. "If
you want any more money out of me.
you've got to do something for It"
said the merchant. "I've been too
liberal with you, and I'm paying too
much for your carpets. You must
come away down In your nrlces."
Smith said he would think It over.
The Sloanee, who had started In the
carpet business In 1843 In a small build
ing opposite the city hall, were not ud
to this time, of great consequence In
the trade, but when Smith left Stewart
to think over money nnd prices he
walked straight to the Sloane estab
lishment And made a dicker. The next
morning Stewart learned to his dismay
that the entire output of the Yonkers
mills had been turned over to the
Sloanes, and he was no longer carpet
king.
It was a severe blow to Stewart's
business, as well as to his pride. For
revenge he built an extensive carpet
factory at Groversvlile, N, Y., with a
capacity of 2,000,000 yards annually.
but by some strange perversity of fate
he died on the very day that the first
roll came from his looms. At the same
time Smith quit blm no one supposed
the Yonkers manufacturer had a dol
lar he cou'.d call his own. tils Inde
pendence proved that he was rich. And
when Warren B. died the other day the
world was startled to learn that the
quiet, unassuming, hard working
weaver had laid up a fortune of $32,-000,000.
The Ubiquitous Flea.
She was a pretty and winsome Utile
colonial lady of four summers, but, says
the Cornbill Magazine, she began her
first conversation with the gentleman
Just out from England In this unprom
ising fashion:
"The fleas bite me a lot in the night."
"Dear me, that Is very sad!" Then,
wishing to administer consolation even.
In those trying circumstances, the gen
tleman from England added, "Do they
bite you ha the day time, too?"
"No."
"Why not!"
"Well, you see In the daytime they's
busy biting gra'ndma."
Grandma lived In England. Then.
llttlo by little, the visitor from that
country got at the little girl's theory,
wutcn imagination ond geography
were queerly mingled. Knowing that
was night In England when It was
day In Australia, she had pictured the
flea as a wandering Jew, dally hopping
the world lu pursuit of his laborious
livelihood.
For Playgrounds.
San Francisco's city engineer In
cludes an Item of $731,000 for chil
dren's play grounds In his report on
needed Improvements.
It's almost as dlllloult for u medium
to predict what U going to happen a
It Is for a historian to record what has
happened-