TOPICS OF THE TIMES
A CHOICE SELECTION OF IN T E R
ESTING ITEMS.
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C r it ic is m s
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I 'p o n t h e 1 1 ii |t in* n I ii it* o f t h e D a y
---lllH l o r ic u l a n d - N e n i N o t e s .
It pleases the childless man to have
pleasant things said about his dog.
Kermlt Is making a great record, but
he has not yet killed either a poglawee
or a giastlcutas.
"Man wants but little here below."
Usually a necktie or a pair of silk sus
penders will satisfy him.
One of the most valuable farm prod-
acts is the healthy, industrious boy
who is reared in the country.
To a humane person the only place
where a dog with a tin can tied to his
tail looks funny is In a picture.
Mary Mannering says a germ causes
love. The most fascinating germ theo
ry that has been advanced up to date.
I f women are to have equal rights
we demand that they be required to
undergo the ordeal of haircutting as
suffered of man.
In the years that are to come Col.
Roosevelt will have a large list of
thrilling wild animal stories to tell
the grandchildren.
“ A New York physician argues that
the brain is not the seat of reason."
Then will he kindly tell us where the
•train storms originate?
What Is fame? The New York Even
ing Sun prints Ben King's immortal
bit of verse, "The Pessimist,” and cred-
■ts it to the Columbus News.
An Ohio paper complains because
calves' livers cost 25 cents a pound.
Why not look on the bright side? No
calf's liver weighs many pounds.
"There are,” says the Washington
Herald, “a lot of wise people In this
country.” Yes; and the number in
creases after every national campaign.
Maurice Hewlett, the English author,
Classes himself as a workingman. He
has never succeeded In writing a best
seller, hence he cannot claim to be a
capitalist.
It is reported that the people of this
country have $14,000,000,000 deposited
in the banks. 'Tls evident that a good
many of us are not living beyond our
means, after all.
The kingdom of Prussia faces a def
icit of $50,000,000, owing to Increases
In the salaries of public office holders.
Prussia must be trying to establish a
reputation as the politicians' paradise.
The fortune which was left by E. H.
Harrlman has Increased considerably
since his death. People who used to
tremble for the future of this country
whenever Mr. Harrlman had a head
ache appear to ¿jave been unnneces-
sarily alarmed.
In less than ten years’ time every
part of Central America will be in
dally touch with the commercial world
and the people peaceful and happy In
all the provinces, with no fear of rev
olutions, political murders or official
demands for their lives and their prop
erty.
King Gustave of Sweden is acting
more like a medieval monarch than
like a modern king. The other day
he spent several hours working In dis
guise as a stevedore, carrying sacks of
coal from a lighter. It is said that he
proposes mingling with working men
in other occupations, that he may
learn something of their |>olnt of view.
I f he carries out his purpose, he ought
to be a better king for the experience.
The Alsop claim, which has been in
dispute between the United States and
Chile for over a quarter of a century,
is to be settled by King Edward VII.
as arbitrator. The claim involves about
one million dollors, and is based upon
concessions made to a syndicate of
Americans by Bolivia. The territory
In question has since become a part
o f Chile, and that country has failed
to keep Its promise to recognize the
rights of the Americans. Instmid of
resorting to The Hague tribunal, the
two countries agreed to ask a dis
interested ruler to settle the dispute,
as was the old custom when countries
preferred arbitration to war, and no
doubt justice will be done by King Ed
ward's decision.
A "mental attitude” Is a good thing
If it has the proper foundation. Your
mind may be made up on many mat
ters and you may be very proud of
what you call flrmness—your decisive
ness. But whether or not your pride
Is justified depends upon how your
mind was made up. If your opinions
— your attitudes—on various ques
tions, methods and Institutions, are the
result of logical thought upon those
subjects, then you can really be proud
of having "made up your mind.” This
requires concentration of the mind,
and the ability to think properly—to
reason from cause to effect— Is the
most creditable faculty you can pos
sess. But If you have allowed little
whims and circumstances, little preju
dices and Irritations to run together
In your mind like various liquids pour
ed into one vessel and thus make up
your mind for you—then you have no
cause to be proud. Your decisiveness
Is reduced to obstinacy and Instead of
having the power of logic you are In
the power of the petty things about
you. As many persons do not take the
trouble to And good reasons for their
own arts and state of -mind, it is not
surprising that many have erroneous
"mental attitudes.” If you have been
allowing your mind to be made up for
you on this subject by Irresponsible In
fluences. concentrate your thoughts and
assert your power to make up your
mind logically to your own advantage.
Use logic.
not yield so much as it once did. Be
hold. when great-grandmother's gowns
come to light, they are all too small
I for the youug generation. It is not a
i mere matter of stays and busks, for if
! it were, a tightened corset lacing
might lie endured for a single evening.
But the girl of to-day is hopelessly
j taller than her forebear, and there is
I no remedy for the skirt, waist and
sleeves too short. The Increase in the
height of American women has doubt
less gone on steadily for fifty years,
but measurements have altered mark
edly in the last decade. A skirt of
forty-one Inches was considered long
in 1895. Now skirts of forty-four and
forty-five inches are made by whole
sale. Grandmother stood barely five
feet In her shoes, but her daughter
measures five feet four inches, and
her athletic graddaughter measures
from five feet seven to five feet eleven
in her stockings.
The increase in
height is not an unmixed good. To
begin with, long clothes coat more
than short ones. Six inches added to
length of skirt and bodice make an
actual Increase in the cost of material.
Moreover, tall girls, especially if they
are slender, are not so easily fitted in
the cheaper ready-made garments. The
large sizes seem calculated for stout
women. Strangely enough, the aver
age stature of the men of the coming
generation has not Increased so fast
as that of the women, and there are
many men not so tall as the girls of
their own age. Such a man fears to
dance or walk or even to talk with a
woman to whom he must look up
physically, whatever he may prefer in
her of moral superiority. It is little
short of tragic when a long line of
tali girls files past a group of short
men. each avoiding the other with
blank gaze and the secret reflection,
"How I should look with him— her!”
SQUIRRELS SPREAD PLAGUE.
O f f i c ia l * P l a n C o n f e r e n c e t o D e v i * » ,
M e a n « o f E x te r m in a tio n .
So serious has become the question
of the spread in this country of the
bubonic plague from the cases that
have been discovered on the Pacific
Coast that plans are now being made
for a conference on the subject be
tween the biologists of the Depart
ment of Agriculture and the experts
of the public health and marine hos
pital service, with a view of devising
means for stamping it out at once, the
Washington correspondent of the New
York HeraM says. While none of the
officials of either branch of the gov
ernment will consent to be quoted on
the subject, they do not hesitate to
admit that they are much disturbed
by recent developments in California.
That the ground squirrel is an im
portant if not the principal factor in
the dissemination of the disease on
the Pacific Coast is admitted by the
officials of the public health and ma
rine hospital service. | They carry it,
according to the generally accepted
theory, in the fleas which live upon
them as parasites.
These squirrels are being killed off
In California, but the work will be
carried on to a greater extent than at
present because of the fear that has
gripped the government that some
thing really serious may result from
the present conditions. It Is proposed
to take no chances whatsoever and
leave no loophole through which the
disease may work eastward.
In California nine persons have been
attacked with the plague as a result,
it is believed, of having been bitten
by the fleas which infest the ground
squirrel. Several of these persons, ac
cording to the data In possession of the
Department of Agriculture, have died.
The officials declare that It is the
same plague that each year wipes out
thousands of people in India. It is
believed that the disease was carried
to California by rats on board mer
chant vessels and that the rats have
handed over the deadly germs to the
squirrels. The squirrels infested with
the disease have spread over 600 miles
about San Francisco and Oakland and
doubtless go farther.
In the last year the public health
and marine hospital service has not
been negligent In Its effort to stamp
out the plague in this country. In a
report by Dr. Walter Wyman, surgeon-
general of the public health and ma
rine hospital service, Just made pub
lic, it is recorded that during the
week which ended December 4, 1909,
1,908 rats were trapped and killed in
San Francisco and 597 were done away
with in a similar manner in Oakland.
In San Francthco as many as 398 rats
have been found Infected with the
deadly germs, according to Dr. Wy
man's report.
M e tlr n n
T l«ll»lta .
Water bugs and worms are among
the tidbits in which the Mexican peon
delights. He catches his bugs as they
skim along the top of fresh water
ponds, drying them and then eating
them with as much zest as an Ameri
can boy eats peanuts. As near as the
peon can explain it, their flavor 13
something on the order of the chest
nut, but as no white man has ever
tried eating water bugs or, if he has,
doesn't dare confess it, the exact taste
of these Mexican morsels can't be de
scribed very accurately. The peons
dote, too, on the nice fat pulque worm.
This insect Is about two Inch “ S long
and half an Inch thick. They fry the
dainty in grease and pack It In brown
paper packages of a dozen worms,
which bring 2 cents a paper. An In
dustrious pulque worm collector makes
a good living.— New York World.
The
M it t e n .
She gave it to him Christmas in a box
all neatly tied,
A bit of azure ribbon 'round the tissue
film Inside.
He gazed upon it sadly, tho' no single
word she'd written.
Then he burned It in the furnace— that
sweet, dainty litle mitten!
— Laurana W. Sheldon in New Yors
Times.
For ten days before Christmas It Is
no disgrace to a True Mother If a
caller can write her name on the dust
In the parlor.
Nothing pleases a woman more than
• ---------- —*
A search of the garret for old-fash to say, when you admire something
ioned clothes, "to dress up In.” does she has on. "1 made it myself.”
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
TH E D E AD LY PUBLIC D R IN K IN G CUP.
1VE diseases are respopsible for 400,000
deaths lu the United Slates every year.
They are diphtheria, bronchitis, tubercu
losis, pneumonia and grippe, and each and
every one of them may be acquired—and
often Is— by the use of the common drink
ing cup. This striking array of figures ap
pears in a paper by Prof. Alvin Davidson of Lafayette
College, which Is given additional weight by being pub
lished In the current bulletin of the Massachusetts
State Board of Health. It constitutes an unanswer
able argument against the use of public drinking cups
anywhere, but more especially in and about the public
schools.
An epidemic of diphtheria in Rochester, N. Y., du’ -
lng which twenty-four people were ill, was traced un
mistakably to a drinking cup which all the sick had
used. Tonsilitis and sore throat are invariably more
common in schools where common drinking cups ars
used than where the Individual cup Is required or the
sanitary drinking fountain has been Installed. The les
son in this Is so plain as to need no pointing out.—Bos
ton Traveler.
assail us. Remember P. T. Barnum's remarks about
Willing popular gullibility. Just have the courage to be
a fakir, and crowds will flock to you with ecstatic de
votion and heap ui>on you the blessings of their wealth.
—Philadelphia Telegraph.
In C r o p l l o t a t l o u .
W o r ld * «
W heat
C r o p , 1 B O ».
Broomhull's final estimate of the
Farmers in lower Delaware are
greatly Interested in an exi>eriment 1909 wheat crop of the world places
just concluded by Capt. William E. the total wheat production of the
Lank, who has thoroughly proven the wheat acreage of the world at 3,347,-
advantage of the rotation of crops on I 000,000 bushels, an increase* of 283,-
a four-acre field. Last spring he ma 000.000 bushels over the production in
IS C H R IS T IA N IT Y DECLINING?
nured the four acres, which had been 1908, a 427,000,000 bushel increase over
LEKGYMEN occasionally bewail the lack of
in corn the previous year. The manure the crop of 1907. The production in
popular influence which they realize affects
was plowed under, the 'ground well Europe aggregated 1,872,000,000 bush
the modern church. Scoffers foresee the
harrowed and peas drilled In. The els, being 160,000,000 bushels over the
day when churches will be swallowed up
crop grew well, and in June the peas 1908 crop. The crops of North and
in great economic movements. Both scoff
South America reaches 1.040.000,000
were sold at a net profit of $92.
ers and clergy are partly right and partly
As aoon as the peas were removed, bushels, or 80.000,000 bushels over last
wrong. The church does lack Influence,
plows again turned the aoil over and It year. It is likely that this great pro
but the right kind of clergymen are beginning to see
was planted with corn. From this a duction will not be more than enough
why, and the day Is not far distant when the church,
fine crop of fodder was saved, to supply the demands of the world's
instead of Remaining reactionary, will cast In its lot with
yielding a net profit of $65. The population.
the progress of civilization and wage its share of the
ground now has a finé set of scarlet
C o n a e r v a tlv e C o ra P o lic y .
battle.
clover on it, the seed having been
It Is, after all, but evidence of a
Economic movements will not swallow up the church,
sown at the last harrowing of the
desire to speculate when the corn belt
because church leaders will make the church more prac
corn, with every indication of $40
farmer, particularly the one located In
tical and less theoretic, Its administration more business
worth of clover hay in the spring and
the northern part, plants a type of
and less blundering, and its alms as earnestly to Im
« constant improvement to the land.
corn which is too big to mature in
prove conditions on earth as to Insure happiness in
the season lying between the limits of
C o n a t r u c t lo u o f C o l o n y H o a « e .
heaven. In 1909 the American people gave just about
During the dull season our local lum killing frosts in spring and fall.
$1,000,000 a day to Christian churches. In a nation
F A K IN G FOR FORTUNE.
Where an exceptionally
favorable
ber dealer and his assistant built some
where the church receives $100,000,000 more than all
OUNG man, if you would prosper financially
portable colony poultry-houses as fol season makes possible the proper ma
the expenditures of Its States, Christianity is not wan
—let us be perfectly cold-blooded about It—
lows, writes an Indiana correspondent turity of such corn one year, there
if you aim to amass wealth, and that quick ing and the church Is not declining.—Chicago Journal.
of Orange Judd Farmer: The frame is will be a half dozen seasons when it
ly and by easy means, mark the signs of
securely bolted to the sills, which are will get hit with the frost before It Is
F E M IN IZATIO N OF TH E UNIVERSE.
the times and start a cult. With the nota
made sled-runner style. The walls are ripe and sour and mold In the crib.
HE feminization of the world Is slowly but
ble example before you of Mr. Dowie, who
made from closely-fitted tongue and It is better to play safe and grow A
surely being accomplished, the Eternal
did exceedingly well for himself in this
grofive drop-siding. The floors are smaller and earlier maturing type.
Feminine crowding the Transitory Male
world's goods, or of Brigham Young and Joseph Smith,
tight, and the ventilators covered with
off the - boards.
Gutzon Borglum, the
and a host of lesser lights of more recent date in the
F e e d l u g S u b s t it u t e f o r C o r a .
screen wire to keep out rats, weasels,
sculptor. Is the latest to assent to the skirt-
realm of prophecy or revelation, who have all waxed fat
in these days of high priced corn
etc.; the cover Is roofing felt. Each
ward trend of thought. He has made a
of purse, how can you forbear to give rein to your in
house is painted. The size is 6 by 8 there Is a lesson In the experience of
statue of Atlas, but has substituted a
ventive genius? Why can't you discover that you are a
feet; 6 feet high in front and 4 at the Boyden Pearce of Hancock County,
reincarnation of the Grand Kahn or Christopher Colum woman for the traditional strong man bearing the world
back. They cost me $15 each for all Me., who says: “ I have been forced
upon
his
shoulders.
It
Is
woman,
not
man,
he
rightly
bus? Why don't you fake a revelation? Why don't
material and work. Very likely they to depend upon my farm for my pork
thinks,
who
is
carrying
the
whole
world’s
burdens.
you promulgate some new food theories? You might,
could
be built for less in places where and have learned that plenty of ruta
This
gives
added
significance
to
the
latest
suffragette
for Instance, inaugurate a Nebuchadnezzer cult of walk
baga turnips, clover and one bag of
lumber
is cheaper.
ing on all fours and eating grass with a view of ac story. It is related that one of these women became
corn will put a hog through the win
quiring wisdom and length of days. Or you might dis much depressed at the non-success of her labors In re
ter; then to pasture till fall. It makes
F ir » « Im p o r te d H o r .e e .
forming the world. The task seemed hopeless, and In
course eloquently of the ethereal rhythmic dissonances
It is said that the first horses Im good pork and at a low price. There
of ancient Babylonian harmonics—Jargon sounds learned her despair she communicated her fears to another suf
ported Into New England were brought is money ln it and no need to depend
fragette, who thus consoled her: "Do not be cast down.
and makes a good Impression—and propound an empiric
over io 1629, or nine year3 after the upon the West for pork.”
There is always One to whom we can take our sorrows
system for teaching the music of the spheres as a sure
landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. One
Pray to God, and She will aid you.” — Chicago Tribune.
cure for all the evil thoughts and bodily maladies that
S a lt f o r M i l k i n g C o w « .
stallion and seven mares survived the
Your cows will get enough salt by
voyage. From this it will be seen that
the first nine years of our history was simply putting a lump of rock salt ln
ing. The moment he had seated him
F A M IL Y M E AL A NICKEL.
a homeless "age” In New England. the manger. A cow giving a good flow
self hfs eyes began to rove through
colonlgts in Virginia differed from of milk, well fed, ought to have two
the crowd. Pretty soon, with a sat E x c e l l e n t S t. L o o t . P h i l a n t h r o p y
M e e t . S e n ,.« R e e o f f o i t i o n .
th e sober-minded Puritans of New En- ounces of salt a day, an ounce in the
isfied grunt, he picked out the owner
A meal for a family for a nickel.
glan(, ln being fond ot sp0rt, loving morning and an ounce at night. Some
of the forlorn chattels that had been
This Is the sign on the door of the fag( hor, es and trylng their speed on advise giving this to them on their en
put on the block. A battered derby
hat, a look of illness and half starva St. Louis Souphouse, one of the n ovel. the race track The bor3es imported silage, when you feed ensilage and
London motor bus drivers are fined tion and hopeless poverty marked him. charitable institutions of the city that j were En- n ,i,' hunters and racers. grain. You can take a small piece of
for being ahead of time, but rarely for The shabby little man watched his Is doing much good among the poor | Fearnaugbt brought over In 1764. left salt in your fingers and weigh it, and
face, paying no attention to the rusty and with little public recognition, the h,3 mark OQ a numerous progeny of will soon be able to judge the amount
being late.
St. Louis Republic says.
ln an ounce.
uncommon beauty, size and speed.
The use of dust frona vacuum clean bits that had once furnished forth
The place is at-818 Walnut street.
ers Is In demand for use In dusting a little home. Suddenly he straight
C le a n lln e a a In D a i r y C o u n t « .
K e e p in g I ’ P S p r a y in g F l* h t .
ened up. "A dollar," he said with a The cold weather has driven a steady
patterns in foundries.
Cleanliness in all lines of dairying
stream of hungry and cold humanity
The fight against Insect, scale and
crisp decision.
Fish is now one of the chief means
fungus diseases In our orchards must counts for quality of products. After
That bid won for him the little case to its doors.
of subsistence of the German people,
W. Vincent, the proprietor, preaches not be dropped with the harvesting of milk vessels have been washed with
of books that the auctioneer had been
because of its comparative cheapness.
Offering.
He turned them over the gospel on the streets during the ( the fruit crops, It cannot be hoped soap and hot water they must be final
Long hair, it seems, is to be the thoughtfully In bis hands. Every book summer and devotes his limited means that you have, by your spraying opera ly rinsed with scalding water. When
fashion for men this year in London. was clean, but each one had been well to the relief of the poor during the tions during the summer season, killed scalding water Is used no drying with
The flat has gone forth from the hair thumbed. The barks were limp, the winter. His wife is his assistant.
all the scale insects and fungi, and rags will be necessary, as the heat
dressing establishments In Bond street. binding had lost its gloss. The imi
Nobody is turned away If possessed doubtless during the press of work from the water, will dry the vessels
Recently there has been a great sale tation leather case which had con of a nickel, and even that is not neces ou the farm during the midsummer without aid. 8unnlng after cleaning
of hansom cabs and horses In London. tained them had worn until the paste sary where Mr. Vincent is convinced season the matter will have been neg Is to be commended.
From one establishment alone 120 cab board of Its foundation was staring the party is deserving. The charge lected. or very little done, since the
A n im a l a m i B ir d F a r m A id « .
horses and more than seventy cabs through at every angle. Some way, of 5 cents is made to keep away the fruit was formed, and It can be de
were sold. There is no great demand one felt that those books had been tramps and hobos who would be drawn pended upon that there will now be on
According tc the Department of Ag
for them, and the prices realized for read by a woman In other days. The to St. Louis by the prospect of free your orchard trees a fine collection of riculture of France a toad is worth
the cabs are very small.
all sorts ready to hibernate and come $9; a lizard. $9; a swallow. $20; a tit
titles were old-fashioned, and as they meals all winter.
For the men, a pint of soup, a pint forth in the spring stronger than ever. mouse, $8; the robin, $4; a mat, $30;
The inhabitants of southern Italy fell open under the touch the ¡lus
an owl, $12; a screech owl, $16; a
and Sicily are alarmed by an invasion trations were seen to be hopelessly out of coffee and all the bread that can
H o w W e s t H it » D e v e lo p e d .
fern owl, $30. That looks bad when
of ravens, which are causing serious of date. The shabby little man looked be eaten is furnished, while heads of
Five years ago It was freely predict- so.me of us come to think it over and
damage. At the corresponding period up, to see the man in the battered der families receive a quart of soup, a
i ed that land values in the West had call to mind how many of our friends
of last year, preceding the terrible seis by watching him. Tears stood in the quart of coffee and a loaf of bread for
reached their height, but they are 20 we have killed.
mic catastrophe which destroyed Mes battered mans' eyes. The corners of the same price.
All sorts and conditions of men arc to 40 per cent higher now than then.
sina and Reggio, a similar invasion his weak mouth twitched tremulously.
The families of the first comers are
P r o v i d i n g S a lt f o r P l K e n n « .
The shabby little man made his way cared for. In cases of drunkards with
occurred.— Paris Presse.
grown. The secoid generation has
On one of the largest squab plants
Mrs. Josephine L. Newcomb, of New out through the crowd, and as he did out a nickel, Mr. Vincent gives them {come to the fore and is taking part
in this country salt Is furnished the
Orleans, Is said to have given a larger so got the other by the elbow. They a card, with the request that they get In the business of the communities.
breeders by dipping the small sacks
the necessary nickel from the saloon
amount to educational charity during went out together.
They have grown up with the country ln water and then allowed to dry un
“ He hasn't much money to spare," keeper who sold them the liquor.
the last twelve months than any other
..a
,,
i ’ and j and
produce
and
til they become hard and firm. These
Sometimes
they pome v.
back,
an<1 know
Know what It “ can
.
..
„
woman In this country. She bequeathed said the auctioneer later, according to
Just how valuable It is for the purpose are then placed in the lofts and the
sometimes
they
don't,”
he
says.
the
New
York
correspondent
of
the
$1,500,000 to the Sophie memorial
of production and for a home.—C. M. pigeons pick out the salt through the
school of New Orleans. She had pre Cincinnati Tlmes-Star, “ but with what
T h e B e «t o f In t e n tio n «.
Harger ln the Atlantic Magazine.
sacks. Never glv„ i»i,im on granulated
viously given $1,000,000 to the school, he has he conducts a queer charity
Competent learning and technlca,
salt loose.
that
is
all
his
own.
He
was
sold
up
which Is a m em orial'to her daughter,
G o od H r a d t o f S a w d u »«.
capacity characterize the true critic,
once, when he was younger, and some
Making good roads with sawdust Is
who died at the age of fifteen.
but native tact and delicacy may oc
W h l t . W A . h l n s t h . H o n .e s .
Arthur Dupln, the "father of the thing that he and his wife valued casionally be substituted with good ef being practiced ln a number of locali
Nothing Is better for poultry build
above
everything
else
on
earth
went
Apaches,” has just died In Paris. He
fect— as in the case of a gardener ties in the South. Two ridges of earth ings from a sanitary point of view
was a feuilletonist, who wrote stories to help satisfy the creditors. Now he known to a contributor to the St. are thrown up (a road machine being than a good coat of whitewash. Espe
attends
auction
sales,
and
the
one
required to do the work) at a certain cially is this true when getting the
for the Paris press after the style of
Louis Globe-Democrat.
width
Fenimore Cooper. One of his early thing that the ruined man or woman
The
gardener
was
employed
by
a
------ from each other, the space be- poultry houses ready for the winter.
contributions, entitled "Les Apaches cares for more than anything else he friend of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, (tween being filled with a six-inch bed All may not be aware there is quite a
des Belleville," made such an impres buys it, to give back. You saw that One day, when she was walking in his of sawdust. Dirt Is then mixed with science in whitewashing. There are
sion on the criminal classes of that little case of books? The man's wife garden, Mrs. Stowe came upon him. I the sawdust, and It Is claimed that different kinds, and each Is adapted
notorious Paris suburb that by com used to read them as she sat by the working among his roses. She watched heavily loaded vehicles In passing over for a different use.
mon consent they adopted the name of window, waiting for him to come him a while, then entered Into con this kind of a road make no impres
home.”
the redskin tribe.
versation. Curious, as all authors are, sion upon it. It is estimated that the
W o r k i n g f o r T o p o f I- n d d c r .
The German emperor has recently
to know the impression her work had cost of building is about $250 per mile.
A DOE'S STRATAGEM.
Do not hesitate to work on the top
shown himself to be an excellent busi
made upon him, Mrs. Stowe suddenly
rounds of a ladder ln the poultry bust-
F e e d i n g C a lv e s l » r H a n d .
ness man by the way In which he has T h r e w t h e R o n » O ff t h e S e e n t A n d said:
It Is always best to feed the calves ness. The higher you get the less
S n vp tl H e r F i m n ,
pushed the sale of the manufactures
“ My man. did you ever read ‘Uncle by hand, because one knows Just what crowded It Is, and therefore the bet
The following anecdote is related by Tom's Cabin'?”
of the pottery works at Cadinen, which
they are getting and how much. It is ter the business pays, says a writer la
belong to him. These pottery works, M. X. Raspall. It is worthy of com
The old gardener did not want to really not such a terrible task to ieed an exchange. You may feel a littla
parison
with
the
most
remarkable
of
where majolica is the principal article
hurt the famous novelist's feelings, a dozen calves, but is quite a nuisance lonesome at times, but It Is the kind
produced, have been the kaiser's pri Instances of the same kind.
neither did he want to appear Ignorant to go through the motion just for one of loneliness that Is right easy to
The
author
one
day
perceived
a
doe
vate property for several years, and
under further questioning.
or two. Perhaps a great many dairy bear.
he personally supervises their man in full flight before two dogs in the
"W ell, no, ma’am,” he stammered, men who object to raising calves or
Algle
woods
that
form
a
part
of
the
agement. Apart from acting as man
T h . P o w e r In G o a o lln e .
"not exactly. Not as you might say their own herds would change their
aging director of the enterprise he forest of Chantilly. The doe was ac read it,' but I've tried to, ma'am."
The power of gasoline Is really mar
minds If they ehould practice It in a
companied
by
a
very
young
fawn,
also contrives to stimulate the sale
velous. The man who has used gasoline
wholesale way.
T h e P a rth en o n .
of these manufactures among his which appeared quite exhausted and
power for years does not marvel at It
L
i
g
h
t
In
C
o
w
S
tn
M
e
s
.
ready to drop. The mother, doubtless
The destruction of that famous
friends and wealthy men.
as does the recent purchaser. A gallon
The
light
in
a
cow
stable
should
of this liquid will easily carry five
Attention should be called to the well aware of this, slackened her pace building, the Parthenon, took place ln
come from the rear of the cows, so
passengers ten or fifteen miles, or It
very abnormal fact that there never be and presently stopped close to some 1637 during the siege of Athens by
fore existed In all natural history, out thick bramble bushes. She remained the Venetians. The Turks held thé ! the milkers can see to clean the cows will grind feed cheaper than the man
side of a fattening pen and the Strass- some time there with lowered head as city, and the Parthenon was used for properly for milking. This arrange- with horses that need the exercise can
burger goose, the opportunity for such if awaiting the onset of her pursuers. a powder magazine. One day during ment is accomplished in modern do It. Great Is gasoline.
Suddenly an Idea seemed to strike the conflict a Venetian bombshell stables by building them thirty-four to
luxurious consumption of food with so
little movement as exists for many her. and with a butt of the head she dropped Into the building, and the thirty-six feet wide and having two
I n n o c u l A t l n n o f A f a 1 fa .
here to-day.
'Tis high noon ,of a tossed her fawn right into the middle explosion followed which badly shat rows of cows facing toward a feeding
The results from more than 100 co
of
the
thicket.
Then,
first
advancing
tered
the
structure.
From
that
date
alley in the center.
greedy, gluttonous golden age! Until
operative experiments ln growing al
thirty years ago, before up-to-date of gently as if to make sure it was well the renowned building has stood roof
falfa, located in over one-half of the
P n b l l c T r o n « h « D n n jf e r o u « .
hidden,
she
soon
set
off
by
rapid
less
and
exposed
to
all
the
inclemen
fice work, few Anglo-Saxon men were
Be careful about letting your horses counties of New York State, Indicate
bounds
in
front
of
the
dogs.
The
lat
cies
of
the
weather.
For
more
than
ever In the house except to eat or
drink from public watering troughs that where neither the lime nor lnocla-
sleep, and most were on their feet ter barking close upon her heels, she 2,000 years the temple stood entire,
and
ln
its
ruins
Is
the
archUeriursJ
i
when thPr* ar*
contagious dis- tlon Is applied the chance of a success
made
a
sudden
bend
and
thus
drew
nearly all the time when awake. This
ful crop Is not more than 20 per cent,
ln the coun,ry The V ° ugh '» *
great sudden change bodes not well.— them far from the spot where this wonder of the w o rld .-N ew York ea9es
or one chance ln five. —
fine distributing center for Infection.
Incident occurred. The bowling of the American.
New York Press.
dogs became fainter and fainter, the
A
R I . t w l . i l I . C n .tljr .
C a re o f H a ir y B u ild in g «.
S h o n ld B e C a r e f u l .
valiant animal having doubtless led
Soundness le an essential feature la
M AN W IT H A H E A R T.
Take care that the buildings In
Plain Guest (excitedly) — Miss Luc,
them two kilometers away Into the — your— mare’s run away.
I j u3t which milking Is carried on are well the makeup of a driving or riding
Canardiere peat bogs, where the dogs popped my head over the gate-----
| aired and free from avoidable dust. horse when placed upon the market.
Q u e e r C h a r ity S h a b b y M a n C o n d u c t.
often lose the scent.
A t A u c t i o n S a le s .
Miss Lucy (annoyed)— Oh! That'i'F resh air and sunlight should be con- A small blemish will not only lower
In fact, later they were seen return
enough to make her. She's so fright j stantly admitted, and litter or feed the value of the horse, but will ofteo
The auctioneer who was conducting
ing to the village in an exhausted con ened of anything like that.— London should not be handled during the milk- prevent the sale entirely.
the sale of some poor devil’s household
dition. while the diligent mother
<ng hour.
Opinion.
goods spoke with marked respect to
A c c id e n t« D a e to H a r n e ««.
doubtless returned to the bushes to
the shabby little man. "Got a seat
Considering how worthless dogs
R e m e d y fo r S c ra tc h e s .
Never work a young or spirited team
find the little fawn she had so clever
saved for yuh, sir,” he said. “ You,
A mixture of gunpowder and lard la with a poor harness. Many an acci
ly hidden and placed In safety.—Vul ars, we often wonder why the Lord
Jim, bring out that box I put away.” garisation flclentlflque.
Invented so many different kinds.
a good remedy for scratches and dent that ended in serious damage and
Jim brought out a shaky soapbox,
„ . ‘ir .s .r .i.A S
-
____I grease heel. But keeping the stables the ruin of a good horse has been
R e can t understand why any man
th# horM,. ,efg c lfM „
b,tt, r
A lot of the reform articles yon
and the shabby little man sat down
caused by harness which gavt way a
should
become
excited
over
basket
without a smile. He had hardly re read are advertisements which manage
a critical momen*
(and -costs lar
ball
plied to the red-faced saleman's greet to get in without I
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