Cottage Grove leader., July 10, 1908, Image 6

well defined Indlef th at lawyers thrive
chiefly by m aking law breaking safe
T hat a declaration of ethics will dc
som ething tow ard modifying whgf Is Ir
gre*t degree an unjust and hurtful I k *
lief cap hardly I*» doubted, hut tin
auth oritative utterance of a code ol
Coprrlrht. îan*. hy J. B. L ip u n c o t t C o m p a n y
By
ethical principles will serve a greatei
A ll ri«b U rmerved.
Edith Horgan Willett
good than this. Such an utterance 1«
needed w ithin the profession. It Is no!
neressary 111 sup|»ort of this statem ent
to discuss deeply the conditions which
Juatify It. The m ain tendencies of the
In line with the best modern productions of fiction
generation In American life a re by thli
tim e apparent: to any one who has a which we are offering, this serial is timely, intensely entertain­
moral (’onsciousiiess. Among the fact?
of the generation has been the develop­ ing and dramatic, and should be received with enthusiasm
m ent of a m ore than ever im portant by every reader who delights in a bright, interesting story
relation between business and law. The It is entitled. “T h e C h a u ffe u r and t h e J ew els . ” and
rise of the corporation. Itself a creation aside from the automobile element, which is fascinating,
of the law. has Involved the develop­ has a wide range in land and ocean travel and includes
ment of an enorm ously Im portant and
The gifted
correspondingly profitable departm ent j scenes and incidents of varied interest.
of h*ga! activity. In this new flekl sue authoress is E dith M organ W il l e t t , the story is
cess has m eant usually not the strict j finely written and interest is maintained to the very last
and scrupulous application of the law
but the adroit invention of devices fori chapter.
The heroine is Annette Bancroft, the daughter of a
Its evasion. T he ethical problem here
presented lias never in Its essen tial! retired army officer, whose home is in Washington. Miss
factors been absent and never will he | Bancroft and her mother pass a wonderful year visiting
absent from the practice of the law. England in May, summer in Switzerland, the Tyrol in
But In a period of transition—a transi t
tlon which is legal, economic, and so- j September and the winter in the Riviera, where their
elal—which old conditions are to he n d -. automobile was bought. They are robbed in a mysterious
justed as far as possible and w ith the* manner of very valuable jewels, and this incident forms
least j>ossib!e injury to new laws and
prohibitions, the pressure is consider-1 the central point in the romance. Complications ensue
able upon the whole legal agency. A , and around these are grouped pot and counterplot and
reaffirm ation o f right principles in the numerous incidents that are intensely depicted. There is
practice of the law has been m ade ini-1 a strong element of love and devotion all through the
perative by a charge so subtle yet so story, ending in a dramatic way that is original and
profound. It should be accompanied by.
the active exorcise of the iiersonnl hi-, striking.
flutnc* of the better class of lawyers
This serial has a further element of fashionable society
upon their younger or w eaker brethren. | life that lends a pleasing variation to its development.
Much can he done—It Is not too much
to say th at much m ust lie done— to | The double impersonation, the loss of the jewels, the rapid
m ake the new code more than a counsel change in sc ne, all continue to maintain the interest, and
of |K»rfection.
the result is a story of superior power and merit.
The C ha u ffe ur
and the Je w e ls
m arried.
T here should be a lot of money In it
for the find man who opens an airship
repair shop.
A fter pro(>o8lnK to a girl 208 tim es a
Boston man has won her. We suppose
she did the counting.
(Jo ahead and And the north ¡>ole.
gentlemen, and 1*11 put up a $¿0,000 li­
brary there.—-Mr. Carnegie.
A Chicago infant has a thousaml-dol-
Jar crib. The kidnappers will I k * tempt
ed to take the fram e and leave the pic­
ture.
“ Blondes are apt to be near-sighted.*'
says an oculist. Still they are not apt
to overlook the right sort of fellow ut
close range.
“ I didn’t expect this,” said Mae
Wood, a fte r landing in jail. Mae should
he old enough *o know that it is the un­
expected th at happens.
T he Queen of Kugland wore gems val­
ued a t $5,000,000 a t the state ball in
BuckIngham Palace. Sounds as if her
fath er cam e from Pittsburg.
People who have the money to spare
no doubt would rather contribute $50.-
<■ 00 tow ard Anding the north |x»le than
go in search of it themselves.
F IS H AND TH E BRAXEM AN.
CH A PTER I.
peared miraculously on the wide, shallow,
“() for the men of old!" sings a lady
O w n E a r lie r
Springtime in Franco—a poet’s theme! orange-potted steps of the Hotel de Paris,
poet in one of the current magazines. M a > ir e n a a r t« « a R n d em S em to b o er«-«!
d fo r F a ir I 'lu y .
The
charm
of
a
gray-blue
sky
strung
with
at
Monaco, at the very moment that Mrs.
It is our impression that the men of
W hen the Illinois C entral formed an bead-like clouds, of level fields, of dis­ Waring was descending them, and. ap­
old dem anded a g<n>d deal of submission Alliance with tin* lfhm sgpfrllg & st. tant
spires and turrets jotted picturesque­ proaching her with a low bow, presented
ou the p art of ihelr wives.
Louis and thereby secured an entrance ly on the horizon ; and always the white to her a coroneted missive, in which no
road,
glistening, undulating ahead, keep­ less a personage than the Prince Rode-
to the great northw estern field, Stuy-
Frauce and England are reported fo vesamt F ish in his private car m ade a ing step with the windings of the Seine! rigo del Pino sang the praises of one
It was with the satiety of utter enjoy­ Ludovic Sarto, who had managed his
he inuking plans for the further isola­ trip over the new line, says C. E. Bus­ ment
that Annette at last closed her tired new forty-horse power touring car for
tion of Germ any. It m ust he quite flat­ sell in H um an Life. Returning, the eyes
and, leaning back on the crimson two years in a trip which must have tak­
tering to a nation when other great car was attached to the regular even­ cushions
of the tonneau, gave herself up
in all the corners of the globe, dis­
low ers are kept busy combining against ing train for Chicago. About five m in­ to the twin luxuries of perfect motion en
playing nerve, resource and science in
It.
utes before startin g tim e a young fel­ and perfect air.
all motoring exigencies, besides intimate
low that looked like a railroad man Chug-chug, snorted the motor as it swept fellowship with Baedeker and "unusual
The English language will die out by • ame to the rear platform of the car, ahead, consuming space at the rate of linguistic ability.” The effect of ail this,
the year 4000, announces a college pro­ where the party was sitting, and said; sixty kilometres an hour. Over the girl’s endorsed by the coronet, had its influence
bead rollicked a merry wind, now steeped on Gussie Waring, who engaged the par­
fessor. 'Hils Is the first tim e we have ”1 w ant to see Mr. Fish.”
in sunshine, and again chill with the agon on the spot.
seen the date fixed for the shutting
Mr. Fish glanced down a t him and breath
of far-away ice fields. Behind lay And so Ludovic Sarto steered the new
down of the Indiana rom antic fiction said instantly.
Paris,
left that very morning, and now Napier motor over the upper Cornice,
mill.
“Come «board.”
only a confused, composite memory of de­ down to Monaco and Monte Carlo, and
The young fellow climbed over the lights which had been crowded into three finally up to Nice, where, Mr. Gerald
Young A lfred G. Vanderbilt, whose railing
delicious weeks. Ahead the telescopic Buist, an ancient ally of Mrs. W aring’s
fa th e r selected him to be the head of
“Do you w ant to talk w ith me?” eyes of the motor pointed to Havre; and (besides being second son of Lord Lind­
the house, has decided to reside in Eng­ asked
then—Miss Bancroft shivered slightly— say)- appearing on the scene, the new
Mr. Fish.
land and drive a coach between Ixmdon
there would be the Channel crossing. chauffeur was relegated ignominiously to
The
young
man
said
he
did.
and Brighton. It will imve to he gen­ “T hen came in here,” wild Mr. Fish, Southampton, Liverpool, and eventually the tonneau and the society of Miss Ban­
—home!
croft.
erally adm itted th at he might easily do and led the way Into the car.
Home. To the girl in the tonneau that A month is a long enough time to reg­
tilings which would he more disagree­ T hree m inutes later he reappeared magic
word signified chiefly an abode in ister an impression, nnd in Annette’s
able.
and called for the conductor of the S street, one of Washington's unfashion­ diary it will be found recorded that there
able thoroughfares, where bay-windowed are worse things In this sad world than'
Six S tate Legislatures out of the train.
“Jim .” he said, “how long can you “twenty-foot-fronters” elbow each other being whirled through space in a comfort­
forty-six in the country have petitioned hold
offensive fam iliarity; where walls able arm-chair, tete-a-tete with an agree­
train and have tim e to meet with
Tongress to call a constitutional con­ No. 7 this
are narrow, and ceilings low, and the able individual w'ho has apparently been
at
Lum
ptvlum
p?”
or
some
such
I smell of cookery haunts the air.
everywhere and seen everything and who
vention In order to secure an am end­
It was in one of those so-called "desir­ knows how to talk about it ail in excel­
m ent providing for the election of Unit­ place.
“Seven
m
inutes,”
said
the
conduct-'
able residences” that Annette's father—a lent idiomatic English.
ed S tates Senators directly by the peo­ or.
retired army officer on half pay—and her “Chauffeurie,” if there be such a word,
ple. A petition from the Legislatures
“T
hat
will
I
k * enough,” said Mr. two little brothers had been keeping bach­ is a curious craft, which admits of its
of tw o-thirds of tin* S tates is required Fish, and went hack into the car. In elor’s hall without her for the past year. votary working like a coal heaver and
before Congress Is required to call such five m inutes he cam e out and the However. Major Bancroft was a wise engine driver combined, while at the same
a convention.
parent, as well ns a kind-hearted if some- time preserving the manners and appear­
young man hopped off.
prosaic mortal, and when Mrs. ance of a gentleman.
“ I’ll attend to It.” Mr. Fish said to wkAt
Dick Waring, who was a distant cousin “ I know he’s a gentleman,” Annette
T here are in New Haven about 4,000 him. "Go ahead, Jim .”
his late wife’s and a handsome woman told , herself irrelevantly, and for the
|K*rsons who have come from a single
At the first stop Mr. Fish sent a of boot,
had taken him ofF forcibly in her twentieth time, that June day, as they
province in Italy. They pride them* telegram , ordering the reinstatem ent of to
victoria
one fine day of the previous left Chateau Gaillard—a pin point on the
selves— and well they may—on the fact the young m an in the com pany’s serv­ spring, and
“the loan of that nice sky line— speeding on to Andelys, which
th a t during the last tw enty years not ice. lie was a hrakem an that, be­ Kiri of his for begged
twelve months on the other shimmered alluringly through a blur
one of them has been sentenced to jail cause of some m isunderstanding w ith side of the ocean,” he had said “Yea” haze.
In New Haven, and there has not been a train dispatcher, had been unjustly without hesitation.
Above the front seat a veiled hat and
a single divorce case, no one lias been dism issed. He had sat in Mr. F ish’s After all, when a man has a penchant a gray auto cap could be seen in close
Im plicated In a m urder case, and there private car and a train had been held for doing his own marketing and divides propinquity, while their owners indulged
have been few civil actions among while he told his story and he had bis time satisfactorily between the club in absorbed conversation, and the swing­
and his newspaper, an only daughter is ing car traced eccentric scallops on the
them . It is evident, either th at these got Justice for the telling of It.
always indispensable—especially broad road.
Italian s are most uncommonly good
Some one expressed surprise th at not
when she writes regularly and doesn’t re­ "We will be in the ditch without doubt
people by nature, or th at there is sonie- Mr. Fish should bother with such quire
an
allowance. Besides, what an if Meester Buist is not more careful,”
tulug In the a ir of Connecticut which things. He said :
for the child! Europe at commented the chauffeur aside, in his pre­
m akes It still the “land of steady hab­ “*rhat man was a hrakem an. I have opportunity
twenty-one! A witching combination, cise foreign English. He bit his lip and
its.-
________________
swung a lantern myself. All he w ant­ even with an exacting chaperone to offset scowled as the motor skimmed the edge
of the roadway in a zigzag course of per­
was fair play. It w asn’t much to Us charms.
We believe the tim e has come when ed
“You know,” Mrs. Waring had Inform­ ilously acute angles.
the “old m an,” who has slaved from do for fair play.”
ed her proposed charge very frankly, “I’ve The girl beside him laughed softly.
young m anhood to the lean uml slip-
SECRET W RITIN G .
quarreled with Julie—and, any way, one "How you want to be on that front seat
pered pantaloon stage, ought to he
gets tired of traveling forever with a at this moment!” she ejaculated.
aw arded his due mewl of praise. He (■ e r m n n P r i s o n e r s I n v e n t I n g e n l o n a maid,
*
I've had to do ever since poor Sarto turned his head.
M r lh m l o f ( '» i n m n n l r i i t l o i i .
has effaced him self too long, doing his
Dick departed this life— French women “Scusi. signorina?” he asked, eyeing
duty ns a m atter of course and spurn­ The modern detective story mo fre­ of that class have no ideas to speak of his companion with an Intent glance that
way to one of reluctant admiration.
ing com m endation therefor. It Is time quently (I cim ' ik I b fur Itn plot either upon and are such poor travelers. You won’t gave
mind hooking me up behind sometimes, Annette Bancroft was not a beauty;
to force him Into the lim elight and ex­ n cryptogram or lnrlxlhle w riting that will
dear, and packing ray trunks? the small ova1 face, with its delicate
hibit him In all his excellence. We do a general Interest attache» to a recent W ell you,
have a beautiful time together and childlike features, had none of her cous­
not think there ought to be a “fath er’s discovery made hy I’rof. Gross of Ger- see
in’s emphatic brilliance. Nevertheless,
everything withih reach.”
<lny” and more than a “m other’s day.” uiuuy. This la nothing more or less And
the girl’s shy grace was full ol poten­
so
indeed
they
did,
the
wonderful
But we feel deep down In our hearts Ilian a m ethod of Invlalble w riting used year linking a chaplet of experiences that tiality—hints half uttered, yet unmistak­
th at m other and the children ought to hy convicts for the purpose of secretly Annette, like a good Catholic, was for­ able, of the charm that was to be.
“Why do you imagine that I covet the
try to be good to the “old m an” every com m unicating w ith th eir friends who ever conning over and over.
front seat, signorina?” he inquired curi­
«lay In the year. He spends his life in are still at liberty. According to the England in M ay; summer in Switzer­ ously.
their service. The least return they description of the Herm an professor It land ; the Tyrol through September ; then Again Annette laughed. "Ah ! I know
Italy—and a winter on the Riviera,
can m ake Is to recognize th at father, Is one of the sim plest ntul most effec­ where
the automobile had been bought. you must long to he at the helm again,”
with all his frailties and lim itations, is tive method* ever Invented.
At
this
most exquisite point in Miss j she surmised sympathetically, "in your
Take
a
sheet
of
common
w
riting
pa­
a useful factor In civilization and in
Bancroft’s rosary of recollectiona, a voice rightful place, with your hand on the
per.
moisten
It
well
with
clear
w
ater,
the dom estic economy. We revere the
steering wheel.”
broke in upon them.
m others of the nation. We insist that and then place It on a hard, smooth sur­ “Where are we now?” It demanded, in "In my rightful place!” echoed the
man had taken off his
face.
such
as
glass
or
stone.
A
fter
care­
the virtues of the fathers shall receive
Mrs. W iring's clear, trenchant tones, that chauffeur. -an The
unusual action with him—
due rw ognltlon. They may eat onions, fully removing all s ir buhhles from th e ' carried above the whistle of the wind. glasses
and without their somewhat grotesque
they may w ear plain clothes, they may sheet place upon It another dry sheet i "W hat’s that in the distance. Sarto?”
Halliard, madame.” Then, protection his eyes gleamed out unfamil-
not know th a t m ore than one fork is de­ of equal sise and w rite upon It your I to “Chateau
Annette, “There, to your right, see?” iarly ; long, heavy-lidded brown eyes they
sirable for a dinner course, but they com m unication w ith a sharp pointed Annette
opened her eyes. Beside her were, slightly raised at the corners, giv­
are the salt of the earth. We lift our pencil. Then destroy the dry pa|>er | the chauffeur
was leaning forward and ing their owner the half-sad. half-won­
voices in behalf of this downtrodden upon which the w riting hns been done,1 pointing to distant battlements. Far dering expression of an animal.
nnd allow the wet paper to dry gradn- above the road on a rocky height the cas­ He smiled now—an odd. twisted smile.
creature.
ally by exposure to the atr.
tle towered—a sullen mass of ruins, blot­ “It Is not always that I have been on
T here Is no doubt that the common
the front seat of a motor, signorina.”
W hen the wet paper Is thoroughly ting the fair landscape.
good will he served by the solemn form ­ dry. not a trace of the w riting will be | The two people on the front seat of the Then, breaking off abruptly, "This .is
ulation of a code of professional ethics visible. But on m oistening the sheet motor had turned their heads and were Andelys," he said, in his usual tones.
“That spire— it is a good piece of Nor­
by the law yers’ national organization, sgaln with clear w ater and holding It staring up.
do you not think so?”
the American Bar association. W hether against the light, the w riting can tie “W hat’s the use of stoppln’ and over­ man But architecture,
Annette only gased absently ahead
haulin' that old den?” demanded the huge,
the som ewhat cynical attitude of the n-ail In a clear transparency. In other broad-shouldered,
personage who as the motor fooled through crooked
laym an tow ards the law yer's profes­ word*. It cau be read precisely like the was grasping the thick-set
wheel. “ If streets at a pace that gave chickens and
sional ethics is more salient today than "w ater ¿nark” used by paper m anufac­ we’re goln’ to reach steering
Rouen this afternoon, small children scant time to get out of
ever may be doubted, since the layman turers. The w riting disappear* sgaln we’d better push straight on and keep the way.
has never really or, s t sny rate, ade­ a fte r drying In the atr, tint It may be our nerve and muscles and temper for the When they had left the little town
quite behind, she turned lo her compan­
quately appreciated the force of the reproduced by m oistening for an Indefi­ cathedral. What say. Ouasle?”
tru th th a t It is as Im portant to the wel­ nite num ber of time*. Should the aheets "All right.” laconically agreed Mrs. ion again. "Now I am going to make a
this abruptly spoken in
fare of society fb st the guilty shall be become too much heated, however, the Waring, and the car shot on. "Mr. Buist conjecture.”
is not an. admirer of ruin»," remarked the French, the painfully correct French of
“defended” as th at the Innocent shall w riting will disappear, never to reap­ chauffeur
sot to-voce, and then, as his thn boarding school. “Do you know”—
be. He has alw ays looked askance at pear again.
companion acquiesced with a whimsical sha . flushed a little, inwardly surprised
the zeal of the advocate as an advocate,
shake of the head, he shrugged his leath­ at her own audacity— “ I ’ve been wonder­
O tte rin g n F a ir C o m p r o m l.r .
not realizing Its vltki necessity to the
shoulders and sat stgriag at ing—tell me if I’m not right in fancy­
'•And will you let my daughter hare er-covered
proper working of tb# whole machinery
the
Englishman's
square back with eyes ing that at some time or other in the
con®** of your life you’ve been a sol­
of Justice As the advocate him self her own way the sam e as I do w hin which glittered behind their goggles.
The chauffeur himself was not an In­ dier; you know there lb such an unmis­
has been known to overstep the proper yon are m arried?"
martial look to your shoulders.”
bounds of advocacy, the laym an has “ No; hut ahe will come a* near ha» effective figure. In spite of the goggles, takably
heavy brow« heard, and brigand^lilte Th*> chauffeur smiled. “You have
seized upon the egregious esse to fortify Inf It as your wife does."— W ashington the
great
discernment,
mademoiselle,” he said
, moustache, not to mention an an? noMle politely. “Yea, I have
him In w hat la really hla ml sunder H erald.
been in the For­
livery which could not qujft «MBiffflt
standing of the advocate’s duties. Wen­ T he man who has a m otto Is also apt the
eign Legion—yon know nothing of that
graceful
line«
of
hit
person
and
the
dell Phillips declared th at Rufna to take up some of your tim e by quot­ straightneee^hf his i
grgzniuitiob? It Is an extraordinary af-
G hosts had m ade m urder safe, and ing poetry you aren 't anxious to b ear Six wseks ago It
that he bad zb - fltfr, the Foreign Legion”—hia tones
as
quickened, gaining a certain enthusiasm
—“the moat marvelous chemical solution
in existence, capable of depriving a man
—any man—of his identity aud turning
him into a bit of military mechanism,
neither more nor less. I served in the
ranks for two years.”
He stopped short, and ss suddenly the
light, the vigor of an unwonted exalta­
tion, went out of his fare, which settled
into its habitual impassivity. Replacing
his goggles, he lowered his cap over his
eyes, and folding his arms sat looking
imperturbably ahead down the long road
—a motionless leather-encased figure sug­
A H a n d y S m a ll H a rn .
gestive of motor cars and naught beside. A Missouri
of Farm and
This attitude was not conducive to fur­ Home forw ards stifmcrlber
for a handy
ther confidences, hut Annette Bancroft at and Inexpensive a b a device
rn ,‘and in describ­
twenty-one had all the instincts of a born
biographer, and when once on the scent j ing sam e say s: “Many small farm ers,
of possible romance was not to be turned poultrym en. fru it and truck growers
aside.
have no use for a large barn such ns
“ I suppose,” she hazarded at last. Join­
ing the loose ends of his unfinished story,
“that after you left the army you took
this up?”
Her companion hesitated, twisting his
long, brigand-like mustaches.
“ Well, not immediately,” he responded
guardedly, still speaking in French. “ I
got down here by degrees; that is the
way it generally happens. Let me see—
I started by tutoring a bit in Switzer­
land ; the boy had consumption and died
in less than a year. After that one took
ub what came easiest. The transitions
do not amount to much, but”—he laughed
suddenly, a frank, gay, wonderfully light­ those usually published by the papers.
hearted laugh—“in the course of my
checkered career I have been respectively 1 send the plun here illustrated In the
guide, courier, croupier, and even cabman hope that It will I k * of some use to
on occasions, besides officiating as motor those wishing a small barn. It Is 1S.\
pilot for various racy individuals—not. of 24 feet on the ground and divided as
course, including His Highness the Prince shown in the floor plun. The open shed
del Pino.”
is used for tools, a wagon, buggy, or
He paused with a faint shrug of the a shop, and sometimes simply us a
shonlders.
place to store manure. In some of the
For an instant the girl gazed at him colder States doors should be provided
with eyes that were unnaturally dilated. for the shed, and possibly the parti
“IIow interesting!” she murmured at tions extended to the celling. The
last, inadequately.
structure is ten feet at the eaves and
The chauffeur made a slight bow.
to sixteen feet In front. The
"Rouen already!’’ he ejaculated, dis­ fourteen
missing the subject and glancing around, loft Is floored over eight feet above
then relapsing into his careful, conscien­ the grade line. This provides ample
storage space for hay ami rough feed
tious English.
"See you our auberge at the end of and the two feed rooms are am ple for
that little street? How have we made grain and bran! These may be floored
the run?” He pulled out his watch. or not, as desired. The outer walls are
"Good! Seventy kilometres in as many boarded up and down and battened.
minutes.”
The roof should be covered w ith some
W hiz! buzz! sang the motor, its rath er tight m aterial not over eight
breath expiring like a wounded sky-rocket, Inches wide, nnd this is turn covered
as it drew up in front of a red brick with any of the prepared roofing felt
Normanesque facade.
now on the m arket. The barn has
“Sarto!” called Mrs. Waring peremp­ been
built several tim es at a price
torily.
ranging from $50 to $00, and can be
She stood, minus her dust-cloak and built
some cheaper where native lum­
goggles, a dazzling tailor-made vision
with a big bunch of violets at her waist, ber is used. When neatly painted it
smiling with unwonted graciousness to will make a very good appearance. I
the chauffeur, who hastened to do her bid­ was prom pted to subm it the sketch
ding. Then, accepting his hand, regard­ from several articles w ritten by sub­
less of the Englishman breide her, the scribers stating tlfiit sm all barn plans
landlord in the doorway, and an obsequi­ never appeared in the Journals, and as
ous commis-voyageur who was pressing it Is very evident th at they can only
forward to her assistance, she stepped
nimbly to the ground and passed into the publish such article as a re subm itted.
inn. followed by her cousin.
Mr. Gerald Buist with an expression
less countenance sauntered off to the
postoffice, wondering “what possessed
Gussie Waring to make such a fool of
herself;” but the man whom she had
delighted to honor afood by the motor
rooted to the grouna, gazing in a rapt,
reverential way at his leather-covered
gloves.
(To be continued.)
M AKE ELEPH A N TS SNEEZE.
Roys T h ro w
C h in ese C o m p o u n d
to
A n im a ls w it h S ta r tlin g R esu lt.
FLOOR PLAN.
the readers are a t fault and
Two small hoys, nam es unknown, but possibly
not the journals. I hope the above
very much desired by the keepers of the plan
will be found useful to m any.”
Bronx zoo, threw several hundred an i­
M lie d 12 r e e d 1 11 jr.
m als and several thousand persons in­
to one grand sneeze recently and came In m ixed breeding, or cross breed­
near bringing about a general riot, says ing, nothing is accomplished beyond
the New York H erald. The m eans the first cross, says a Colorado veter­
was a large quantity of Chinese snuff, inary bulletin. W hile a few good in­
an innocent appearing w hite powder dividuals may be secured, the tend­
guaranteed to produce more sneezes to ency is for the progeny to he below
the m inute than the w orst kind of a rather Ilian above the average. A man
conducting his breeding in a haphaz­
cold in the head.
Since the tube under the E ast River ard way is contending w ith fearful
was opened thousands of Brooklynites odds, groping in the dark following a
have found it convenient to explore the will-o’-tbe wisp. In a hundred years
heretofore unknown fastnesses of the he would be ju st where he started. In­
Bronx zoo. W hen the crowd w as at cidentally this Is Just w hat we have
Its largest the youngsters with the snuff been doing in this country from the
wormed their way into the elephant beginning, nnd the reason why we
house and, with a breath, w afted a have so few pure breeds of live stock
quantity of the powder into the air. At aud are. after all this time, sending
once the visitors began to sneeze. Soon our good money across the w ater for
Honda, the trick elephant, ceased his pure bred sires which we should pro­
regular Sunday exhibition, made an duce a t home.
aw ful grim ace and then gave vent to A fter anim als have been graded up
a “catchoo” th at shook the roof. Sul­ to a practical purity of blood, the
tan and Kartoom, the little elephants, longer they are bred along this line
followed with sneezes w orthy their size, the m ore prepotent they become, nnd
while Mogul, the rhinoceros, exploded the more certain th at the offspring
with a terrific paroxysm . M eanwhile will uniform ly possess general excel­
lence of form, quality, action and
the visitors continued to sneeze.
At first It was taken as a Joke and utility.
then the anim als began to show signs The sam e is, of course, true of all
th at It is no Jokli.g m atter to have five stork. The only certain method
one’s nose tickled when one’s nose Is as of raising the average standard of ex­
long as an elephant’s trunk. Keepers cellence Is by persistent breeding to
B ayreuther and T hurm an, sneezing sires of the same breed until the na­
violently, saw Impending trouble from tive blood is obliterated nnd the pro­
the elephants and quickly den m l the geny uniform ly possesses all those de­
house, allowing Jhe wind to blow’ out sirable qualities of the pure breed em­
ployed.
the snuff.
H aving found such satisfactory re­
D o n ’ t N f c le c t th e D a rd e n .
sults In their first venture the boys In sum m er the farm er has plenty of
w andered from place to place, w herever work on hand, and work th at m ust
there w as a crowd and threw out more have prom pt attention, blit the work
snuff. At the hear pit they set the needed in the garden Is th at which he
bears sneezing as well ns the crowd should least neglect. Ills living depends
around them. H enry Merkle. assistant on It. at least he ought to think so, and
sup erintend en t hastily organized a act on th at belief. It Is certain th at
squad of keepers to run down the hoys there Is^ no other ¡»art of his entire
and started sneezing^ in hot pursuit. work so’ im portant to the health and
The boys were not found.
com fort of his fam ily and him self, and
the actual saving of expenses which a
O n ly mn O S o « B o y .
bounteous garden Insures is a feature
“If you w ant s ready-to-hand study which alone w arrants him in m aking a
In the dow nright cussedness of hum an good garden, no m atter w hat other
natu re unw arped," said an insurance work many cause him to defer. It is
agent. “Just watch the office hoys In presum ed th at he hns by this tim e of
your own or any other place of busi­ year made all necessary preparations
ness. In four css«** out of fl?e the for a supply of fru it for fam ily use
thing will come out this w ay:
during the entire summer, and much of
“A new boy Is engaged. He Is meek the provision for a supply of staple
and mild, apologetic of beating a.id vegetables should be completed, but
courteous of speech. He Is apparently there is tim e for much more, and It
seeking an excuse for daring to moke will not pay to neglect It.
a living. He looks reproachfully at the
bead office boy, who orders him around It does not occur to m any am ateurs
in a rough, cateh-as-cateh-can style th at there Is a right and a wrong way
of cutting cabbage. To do it properly,
Snsh rudeness pains him.
“Note this hoy s little later. His press the left hand between the headed
rude superior has resigned or been dis­ p art of the plant and the larger lower
leaves so as to make room for the
missed. and he Is now head office boy. knife;
m ake a slightly slanting
Is he meek and mild, apologetic and cut close then
under the hearted part, thus
reproachful? Say, he’s a worse young
the cabbage, hut leaving as
ruffian than his predecessor—bullyrags removing
long a stum p as possible. In case the
the newcomer. Ignores the cuspidor, stum
ps are Intended for a production
uses language not fit to print and comes
fresh growth, do not remove the
dangerously near sssslng’ his employer. of
large leaves until the sprouts have
He knows it all, and a little more.
“T here are exceptions, but they been given an opportunity to attain
some site.
prove the rule.”—New York Glob*
W e a n in g
P lf«<
It will soon be time to take young
pigs from the sows, and in weuuing
them much cure will be necessary to
avoid stunting them or stopping their
growth. W hen about three weeks old
the young pigs will begin to look
around for feed, and a pen should then
be provided for them where they can
be coaxed and given a little fresh
m ilk—It takes very little at first—after
they have once tasted the milk they-
may be easily called to th eir feed.
Corn should he constantly kept In this
pen and the little pigs have free access
to It at all tim es. Milk or swill should
be fed to them , a little a t first, and
Increased gradually dally. It will be
beneficial to give them all the fresh,
clean swill they will drink up clean
at each feed. Never feed little pigs
anything sour, or so much swill that it
will stand In the trough and sour. Feed
them this way until you see th at the
sow is dried up. then remove her and
the pigs will be weaned.
U n it e d
S t a le s F o r e s t
Land.
T he U nited States Forest Service
now has adm inistration over more
than 164.000,<XH) acre* of laud. This
is slightly m ore than one-fifth of the
country a total forested a r e a ; the re­
m ainder is in the hands of private
owners. N early all the tim ber land
of the unappropriated public domain
is now in the national forests. This
m eans th at It Is being protected
against fire, theft, and w asteful ex­
ploitation ; th at its power to grow
wood aud store w ater Is being safe­
guarded for all time, and th at never­
theless it« present supply of useful ma­
terial is open to Immediate use when­
ever it is wanted.
D is tr ib u te s
F e r tilis e r .
Fertilizer is the life ^>f the farm.
T he man who applies it generously Is
rew arded by large and fine crops, but
the farm er who Is
sparing w ith the
s o i l rejuvenator
pays the |K*nalty
with d e c r e a si n g
crops until he dis­
c o v e r s th at his
ground Is “worked
out.” Next to the
use of this valuable
msTuiuuTxa
m aterial is the mat-
.
.
ter of its applica­
tion. The best results are obtained by
its even distribution over the ground, so
th at all p arts will obtain the benefit.
W here it is scattered In lum ps and
heaps, much of Its virtue is lost. In
order to accomplish this operation In
the most approved m anner' the ap­
p aratu s show’n herew ith has been In­
vented hy a Virginia genius. He
claim s th a t It Is the most effective and
com pact of all the m achines for the
purpose, and besides this It is capable
of very fine adjustm ent, so th a t the
nm ount of fertilizer may be regulated
to a nicety.
S eeding C lover.
There are custom s which a re rigid­
ly adhered to iu the sowing or plant­
ing of »tuple crops. Clover is usually
sow’n on w heat land In the spring, the
seed being scattered over thp ground
when it is covered with snow in order
to facilitate the w’ork. One of the
rigid rules is to sow a certain quantity
of seed (as little ns possible if seed is
high), and should the stand be light
the cause is ascribed to everything but
the quantity of seed th a t has been
used. T hat fact is that seed should be
used more liberally, as much of It Is
destroyed in various ways before germ i­
nation, the saving of seed causing a
loss of clover. Another point is to
harrow the wheat, seed down the Clov­
er and then use a roller on the land.
The better the preparation for clover,
the more seed will germ inate and the
more perfect the “catch.”
f e b t ii izer
C o rn er
Post
fo r
W ir e
Fence.
T his contrivance Is Intended for the
attachm ent of a portable woven wire
fence a t the ends. Two posts cleated
GOOD CORNER POST.
together at both top und bottom about
four Inches ap art are set In line with
the fence at each end. Two pieces of
one by four inch oak are bolted on the
fence in the form of clamps, placing
one on each side of an upright w ire to
preveut slipping of the laterals.
S k in s M i l k
f o r C k lc k e n a .
T he W est V irginia experim ent sta ­
tion m ade a 122-day test to determ ine
the value of the skim milk as a chick­
en feed. They selected tw enty-tw o
hens and fed them skim milk w ith the
result th a t they secured 1,244 eggs In
this time. A nother lot of tw enty-tw o
hens fed w ith m ash w et w ith w ater
laid 906 eggs in the 122 days.
B eat
S o li
fo r
B e ets.
Beets will grow well on sny kind of
soli except a hard, compact clay. The
ideal soil Is a mellow, moist one. pref­
erably a sandy loam. W ell-rotted
m anure should he applied to the poorer
soil®, the am ount depending on the con­
dition of the soil.
fo r
B rood
W a r ,,.
Brood mar»* should bo fed liberally,
but not to exceoa. They should h a re
the best quality of well-eured hay. oats
and bran. Moldy bay th a t has been
heated In the mow or hale, m usty o a ti
and bran th a t haa soured will not sup­
ply the proper nutrim ent for producing
stake winners.
Belgium I* im porting (boot $1.000.-
noo w orth of automobiles, m otor cycles
and bicycles. These Im ports hare quail,
rupled la four years.