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TOPICS OF THE TIMES A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER- EoTINQ ITEMS. C om m en t» and C riticism « Haaed l |>on t h e l l H | H > e n l i» ic « «»f t h a —• llla t«* r le M l a u d N o t# «. 4 l)»f Hogs are so high that it is almost compliment to call a man one. The telephone is thirty-four years old, but the girl operators are all voung. What a happy world this would be If all of our pleasant dreams would come true. The Boston woman who complains that kissing is overdone probably pre fers hers rare. Coats that button up the back have been suggested for men. Doubtless it is some woman’s idea. Telling a Congressman where to get on and off should be regarded as one of the duties of good citizenship. “ Do women worry more than men?” asks a London paper. They do, but the men are always to blame for it, of course. "Oblige,” of all the words in the En glish language, is said to be the one most frequently mis-spelled. And misused, too. Chicago has decided on a safe-and ean« Fourth. If it is accomplished, it will stand out the one white spot in ♦he 365 days. “ Chickens may be kept nine months," says Dr. Wiley. Much de pends on the character of the neigh borhood one lives in. John D. Rockefeller drew six mil lion dollars In old dividends In one week recently, considerably more than was necessary to settle with the grocer and the butcher. Many years have elapsed since old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone. But, owing to the high price of meat, his tory Is likely to repeat Itself. A Chicago man says the love germ kt located at the center of the nervous system. Recently somebody declared the liver to be the seat of affection. There Is no end of opinions. There Is In Flushing. N. Y., a man who has thirty-two children, and bis neighbors report that he never makes any complaint about the cost ot living. He is probably kept too busy to have time for complaining about anything. Investigation has shown that the high cost of living Is due to the fact that there are not enough farmers in this country. This Is the penalty the public is compelled to pay for permit ting the boys from the farms to enter 'he cities and become leaders there. Professor Wheeler, of Yale, tears the United States Is Balling straight to ward paternalism. Notwithstanding the fears of Professor Wheeler and others who have for years been warn ing the people against paternalism this Country will probably stick to Uncle Samlsm for some time to come. Mr. Wolgast, the new pugilistic champion, is being "floodeJ" with offers from theatrical managers. It is reported that some of the ofTers carry salary provisions ranging "from *1,000 to *2,500 a week. It 'will be wholly useless for anybody to attempt to con vince us, after this, that there Is In this country no widespread apprecia tion of our home brand of art. The enormous demand for India rub ber created by the bicycle, and greatly Increased by the automobile, has led to a rapidly advanced price. This, In turn, has not only stimulated the search for new sources of supply, but lias encouraged Investigations looking to posai tile substitutes. At the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a spe cial “ rubber division" was orgaqlzed among the chemists, for the purpose of studying the chemical composition of rubber, and of producing It artificially. It Is sometimes mistakenly sup posed that primitive races have nat urally better eyesight than civilised ones. That Is not exactly true. Nat ure works more slowly than that, and In the records of power or acuteness of eyesight some French artillerymen proved to be as well furnished as the most keen-sighted Arabs. Native races often appear to have keeu eyesight simply because they know what to look for and where to look for It. But as soon as reading Is Introduced to a race short-sightedness begins to appear with progressive frequency, and some si rik- Ing Instances of this relation to cause and effect have appeared among the school children of Egypt. Upon how small an income can a man afford to marry? This question might be debated indefinitely, but the Rev. Wright Gibson, pastor of the Mc Kees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Presbyteri an church, has established an empiri cal minimum. The present cost of commodities, he says, Is so high that he does not feel Justified In marrying any more couples In hls parish unless the bridegroom can prove that his In come Is at least two thousand dollars a year. “ Poverty leads to divorces,” declares Mr. Gibson, “ and I do not purpose to assist the divorce cause." With the principle Involved In this protest against marriage minus a mar riageable Income there can be no quarrel. But Is not two thousand dol lars too high a limit? Perhaps the Presbyterians of McKees Rocks are above the average In their possession of this world's goods, but there must be some people In that town who will never have an Income of two thousand dollars or even one thousand dollars a year; and shall they be debarred from marrying? I f there is one gift that comes more directly from heaven than any other womanly attribute. It Is the Instinct ror making a home; first In the Inner, finer qualities, the sense of peace and fulness and order that should prevail I d every household; next In tbs fram- mg or tnese. virtues, their harmonious ; expression in outward and visible signs. For a house may be beautiful, spacious, stately, yet remain but a car* 1 ven chalice, unfilled by the wine of life. It does not follow that the small house is necessarily invested with this divine quality; here incouvenience may quarrel at every corner with ugliness, redeemed by none of the warming fires of sincerity and good cheer. But of the two problems, it is the easier to solve, because, for some strange; and unaccountable reason, it is given to the elected only to blend with large' beauty the charm of comfort, of rem-1 iniscent homeliness. A house, a home,; should have a rested, lived-in look, the ( sense of toys played wit** and put by, i the lingering sound of little children's voices, the glimpse of happy, human, peaceful Joys. What wonderful qual-1 ity Is there about a glowing lamp or the cheerful flap of a red tablecloth on a backyard clothesline that can belit tie mere beauty into a thing of fa r ; less worth? The inuch-abused mid- Victorian period, with all its oversen sibility and decorum, had, neverthe-1 less, a surer grasp of the fitness o f . things. Nowadays most rooms have j the air of being planned by people, who never expected to live in them, and one has seen their pictured fur nishings standing in rectangular aloof ness, all so completely alike in spirit, that at last the fastidious observer is tempted to parody Kipling’s verses, i and demand, “ It's art, but is it a home?” ATO P THE F R E IG H T T R A IN . W a lk in g: the C a r« a H a ir K a ls in « E x p e rie n c e fo r a N o v ic e . Opinions o f Great Papers on Importent Subjects. VALU E OF SM ALL ECONOMIES. O TH E high cost ad living nowaday, U add ed the’ expense of shaves at barber shop, shines at the bootblack stand and cigars at the tobacco store. Formerly these were listed In rtie cost of high living, to which few men aspired. Perhaps the housewife is entitled to her part of the blame for to day's high cost of living (not now regarded as high liv ing), on account of her poor management of household expenses or bad cookery, but the husband who buys shaves, shines and cigars Is hardly qualified to complain or pose as a model. A man in New York, who for thirty years shaved his own face, shined his own shoes and eschewed cigars, tells the Sun, of that city, that In that time he saved *11,500 through these ecuuomtcs. With this money he, three years ago. purchased for his adult boy the busi ness of the boy's deceased employer and the son has wholly repaid hts father out of the business and is on the road to fortune. This is the way the father figures his thirty years' savings: Shaving, three times weekly, at 15c, 45c; a year, *22.50; thirty years ............................................* 675 Shoes, three times weekly at 6c, 15c; a year, *7.50; thirty years ............................................. 225 Cigars, three a day (box price), 15c; a year, *52.50; thirty years ............................................ 1,575 Gross saving ................................................... *2,475 Therefore, when figuring the high cost of living, or the cost of high living, do not forget the shaves, the shines and the cigars. A great deal of money goes Into these unnecessary luxuries, and they are not less wasteful than automobiles, which many thoughtless persons who buy shaves, shines and cigars foolishly Imagine are the acme of extravagance. Also should be Included the cost of shampoo, massage and tip at the barber shop. Many men are throwing away fortunes every day, without stop ping to figure their waste. And yet they think they are skimping along without enough to live on constantly. A good many of them talk about extravagance of their wives, when they, poor things, are buying fewer luxuries than their lords and masters.— Portland Oregonian. There came over me as I sat in the caboose that evening a wild desire to ride with the engineer In the cab. Planning to slip ahead along the half mile or so of train at the first stop, I made known my desire to our con- j ductor over that part of the run. "They’ll be glad to see you,” he told me. “ You won't have any trouble get- tin’ there. It's a mild evenin'.” He swung open the window of the lookout and called to his rear brakeman. “ Jim mie, run along with this here party.” Jimmie pulled me through the window of the lookout before I clearly realised the entire plan. It was a slippery path over the roofs of sixty cars to the big engine that was pulling us, and the wind that swept in from the shores of the ice bound lake, along which the tracks ran for many miles, snapped sharply over those car roofs. Jimmie hung on to hls lantern with one hand, to hls con voy with the other. Long miles over those slippery car roofs had taught him to regard It as no very serious business. “ This ain't nothin',” was hls assur ance. " It sometimes gets nasty when we get down to zero an' a blizzard comes a-rippin' from off over the lake. Sometimes you have to get down and crawl on all fours. It wouldn't be much fun to be swept off the tops of these cars.” There was no disputing that, nor that the three lengthwise planks at the gable of the car roofs were not wide promenades. You jump from one to another to cross from car to car, and a man has got to have something of a gymnastic training and some cir cus as well as railroad blood In hls veins to do It many times without droping Into one of the hideous dark abysses between them. A hand out of the dark slapped me In the face. "Drop,” said Jimmie, and, fearing possibly that I might not obey, he pulled me fiat down upon the car roof. “ That was a ‘telltale,’ ” he explained, and before I could ask further we were In a short reach of a tunnel, and I understood. We were whirled through that tunnel like a package In a tube, and If we had raised our arms we could have touched the flying roof of the bore. The smoke lay heavy in the place. It filled our eyes and nos trils. "Not real nice,” said Jimmie cheer ily. "But no danger in the holes, save j now and then an Icicle gets a crack at your nut. You see. there ain't much use In arguin' the matter after that 'telltale' strikes you.” — Edward Hun- gerford In Harper's . TH E AM E R IC AN FARM ER. F THE American farmer went out of bus! ness this year he could clean up *30,000,- 000,000; he would have to sell his farm ou credit, for there Is not enough money in the world to pay him half his price. He earns enough In seventeen days to buy out Standard Oil and In fifty days to wipe Car negle and the Steel Trust off the Industrial map. One American harvest would buy Belgium, king and all; two would buy Italy, three Austria-Hungary, and five would take Russia from the Czar. With the setting of every sun the money box of the American farmer bulges with new millions. Merely the crumbs that drop from the farmer's table (otherwise, agricultural exports) have brought In enough of foreigD money since 1892 to enable Mm, If he wished, to settle the railroad problem once for all by buying every foot of railroad In the United States. Our new farmer, instead of being an Ignorant hoeman In a barnyard world, gets the news by daily mall and telephone; and Incidentally publishes 700 trade Jour nals. Instead of being a moneyless peasant, he pays the interest on the mortgage with the earnings of a week. The railroads, trolley, automobile and top buggy have transformed him Into a suburbanite. 'T h e busluees now swinging the whole nation ahead Is not the traffic of the stock exchangee, but the steady output of *20,000,000 a day from the fields and barnyards. 7'he American farmer has always been just as lntellt- geut and Important as anyone else In tht republic. He put fourteen of his sons in the White Houses and did hls full share of the working, fighting and thinking all tha way down from George Washington to James Wilson. He got no rebates, franchise, subsidies. The free land that was given him was worthless until he took It; he has all along been more hindered than helped by mid ling of public officials. To-day farming Is a race— an exciting rivalry between the different states. For years Illinois and Iowa have run neck and neck In raising com and oats. Minnesota carries the blue ribbon for wheat, with Kansas In seo- ond place; California has shot to the front In barley; Texas and Louisiana are tied In rice, and New York holds the record for hay and potatoes.— American Re view of Reviews. TH E CURSE OF NOVELTY. F A L L the fads that humanity adopts, per haps nons Is more detrimental to modern life than the unreasoning passion for the new, simply because It is new, and not be cause It Is one whit better In any respect than that which Is discarded to make way for the novelty. This restlessness, without any basis of reason, without any sense of conviction, with no real feeling In the matter except a craving for something new and uncommon, is dangerous to the health of the Individual and harmful to the commun ity. The fearsome freaks which fashion annually Invents to cater to this spirit among women Illustrate in a home ly way the tendency of the times. But fashion Is not alone In Its craving for the unknown. Art, literature, music, the play, law, business, every phase of life Is af fected. Religion, morals and even the home do not es cape. Everything seems to be in a constant state of transition. Everywhere and at all times turmoil and unrest exist. Comfort, quiet, friends, the Joy that comes of familiar friends, old books, surroundings that give one the comfortable sensation of acquaintanceship, all hese are lacking. The American nation is losing its sense of location, its feeling of the permanence of conditions, the sens* of home, which exists in the brain of tbe carrier pigeon and the family cat. Those who hope to enjoy life to the full ¡hould have a care lest they mistake unrest for progress, and the temporary and superficial things of life for those hat are abiding and real.— Chicago Journal. M u ll H o*. DE TAILS or UOX ANI) 1 SOLLET. brackets fastened to the poles at such a height as not to Interfere with teams, etc. A small box and carrier can be run over this between the bouse and- the road. The box can be sent down and brought back from tbe house by the use of a cord or light twisted wire cable. Attach It to the box and pass It through a pulley on a post at the road and around a drum or through another pulley at the house. The trolley wire should be soldered to the brackets so the carrier may run i The F a r m e r ’» M AIL BOX TBOLLEY LIVE . over It without trouble. With a little Yankee ingenuity anyone can rig up a device of this kind.—Farm and Home. A u to m o b ile. While automobiles are expensive vehicles. In a sense, they are dally becoming less so. Improvements in methods, materials and knowledge have made a cheaper car possible aud the fact that the purchasers of fancy cars are already supplied has caused man ufacturers to devote their energies to turning out a car that is medium priced and of high quality. A new field for the marketing of the product of their- factories was necessary and this field was found among the farm ers. High-priced, fancy cars would not go with them, but quality would, and those manufacturers who were shrewd enough to make a car of high qual ity at a reasonable price have found ready customers among the farmers. It Is estimated that there are now In use about 100.000 automobiles among the farmers of this country and some thing like 5,000 of these are In Kan sas. They are great favorites among the dairy farmers as time savers In the delivery of milk, but they are no less so among other farmers, who find In them a means of rapid transit without disturbing the farm teams. The new farm automobile Is here to stay.— Kansas Farmer. W heat fo r L a rin s H ear. Many farmers grow and sell wheat, but they do not feed any ot It to their chickens. Wheat Is one of the best egg-producing feeds, and It will pay to feed It to the hens at all seasons, even when it Is above a dollar a bush el. Wheat Is similar In composition to milk and eggs; It contains nearly ill the elaments In right proportion for perfect animal growth and mainte nance. A little of It will go a long way In feeding. A M ercllea a P a ra a lte. The ficus macrophylia, commonly called the Moreton Bay fig, Is a merci less Australian parasitical growth, says a writer in the Wide World magazine. It takes root in the forks of its host tree (which In this case is a Queens-, land bloodwood) and ultimately smoth ers the latter and usurps its place as an independent tree. Many valuable trees In the scrubs of Queensland are destroyed In this manner. C ertified M ilk P ar« B eat. Certified milk sells In all large cities for about twice the price of other milk. It is absolutely clean, no impuri ties being allowed to get into the F o w l s I t e q u l r . S a lt. milk. A layer of fine cheesecloth is Fowls require salt In their ration In stretched over the milk pail, a layer order to thrive beet, the same as do of absorbent cotton is placed upon that, all other animals. The mineral ele then another piece of cheesecloth. ments In the salt are desired by the There is no sediment in the bottom of fowls, and their systems crave them. the milk vessels of milk treated In But only a little salt Is needed—not this way. It’s not expensive, either. more than a handful a week to the av erage-sized farm flock. Too much may E n a lla g e and A lfa lfa Feed. be more harmful than too little. And The scientific ration for a cow giv since fowls oiten do not know wh-n ing twenty pounds of milk with 4 per they have had enough of It, we dare cent of butter fat—a good average □ot place the salt before uiem, and dairy cow— is forty-five pounds of en let mem eat all they want, as can be silage and ten pounds of alfalfa hay a done with most other farm animals day. Ensilage costs about $2 a ton and So the best way Is to mix a handful alfalfa about $10 a ton. Thus the occasionally with the soft food or cow feed cost of 9Va cents a day, which mash. This seasons the food and glv-is is more than a third cheaper than it a palatable taste, as well as proving could be sustained on an ordinary a benefit to the fowls.— Agrlcultur *1 corn ration. Hpitomist. themselves In enterprise and adaptabil ity to Siberian conditions of existence. The average temperature of the win S to r y o f O ne o f t h e H a m o r l a t * . *-M ou- ter in Veryhoyansk Is 53 degrees below j k ey s h ln e i" In H a n n ib a l. zero, Fahrenheit. The rivers freeze to j "Going to Bermuda, is he? Well, 1 the bottom and the small trees have can tell him a plan that'll beat that been known to snap and split from the Let him come over here and climb up force of the frost. and down the old hills, chop holes to Yet, with all this, Verkhoyansk Is, It fish in Bear Creek and smoke soms is claimed, not a disagreeable place of Old Fisherman cigars and hell forget residence, and is preferred by the Rus he ain't feeling peart.” sian officials to many more southern Thus spoke Joe Tisdale Sunday and warmer posts. Its atmosphere in morning when told that his old friend winter is always clear, and for the lit and playmate Sam Clemens had gone tle time that the sun Is above the hori POLICE PROTECTION IN CITIES. to the southern Islands tor the benefit zon its beams are unobstructed. The of his health, a Hannibal (M o.) corre spondent of the New York Sun says. A t l a n t i c ( ' I t y , \ V n * l i I n u t o n a n i l S t. air Is still, too; no blizzards or drift ing snowstorms make life a burden to L o u i i i H a v e CxPOUtent A m o u n t . Mr. Tisdale had been out walking since the inhabitants. 7, without gloves, enjoying the keen Interesting facts concerning the po The Siberian dress completes the wintry air, he said. It was then 11, lice In the 158 largest cities In the and everybody but Mr. Tisdale seemed United States, each having a popula comfort of the citizens of this arctic S u p e r io r to th e M u le. to be wearing a heavy outer coat and tion of over 30.000 In 1907, are com city. It consists of two suits of fur, The greatest hybrid that the world an outer and an inner suit. The Inner thick gloves. has ever known Is the mule. This Is prehensively assembled In the United He is a small man, a trifle bent, but States Census Bureau's special annual suit is worn fur side Inward, the other I a cross between the horse and the ass. fur side outward. With his hood down, active and vigorous as a school boy. report on the statistics of American and just enough space left to see out The resultant mule was, however, jar There 1 b only a few years’ difference cities for that year. of and to breathe through the Verk- ren, and the possibility of developing between his age and Mr. Clemens'. The police protection afforded the hoyansker is vastly more comfortable a more perfect type through selection “ Are you the man who used to make Inhabitants of different cities is Indi did not exist. The mule had to be those long three for a nickel stogies cated by showing the number of police in a temperature of 80 below than taken as he was and made the most if many an American, in hls cloth over for Sam?" Mr. Tisdale was asked. At that he has borne the brunt of corn per 10,000 Inhabitants, per 1,000 acres “ 1 made cigars, sir, not stogies,” re of land area, and per 100 miles of im coat, In a temperature of 5 above zero. field labor at home and tugged the na The winter, indeed, is more enjoya- | plied the old gentleman with some in proved streets. ble than the summer, which is hotter i tion's cannon Into the ever-advancing dignation. "Began down there where It Is stated that the number of po than might be expected. The average frontier. He has surpassed both the Tom Foster kept drug store alongside lice to each unit Increases with the temperature of July in Verkhoyansk horse and the ass that bred him in the printing office. That was long be size of the city. In cities of over Is 59 above zero, and very hot days j many ways. The zebra Is evidently a fore the war— the big war, you know. 300,000 population the number of po The earth be-1 creature superior In every way to the I guess It was in 1852. Sara came In lice per 10.000 inhabitants was 19.4. as are not uncommon. I r o n l n u ns a G e r m K i l l e r . comes green and vegetation thrives, mule, and It Is believed, with selectos there now and then and bought smok and scientific breeding, it will take a To mere man, uncultured and un ers; used to say they were the best compared with only 10.5 In cities of though only the surface of the ground At Yakutsk, which Is | place In the world that will tend to re- ashamed, the flatiron seems a thing of I he could get. He was a bit particular from 30,000 to 50.000 population. The is thawed. tire the latter, and. possibly, the horse, evil. Its use renders the house unin j about what he smoked, even when a cities with the greatest protection, ac farther south than Verkhoyansk, but 1 cording to this unit of measure, were not much warmer in winter, the mer 'rom the field of action. habitable one day out of seven; It dls youngster.” Atlantic City (25.1), Washington tracts woman's attention from the all V a in * o f lla m a , la Soil. "W hat did the people think of Sam (23.4) , St. Louis (23.2) and New York cury rises in July to 100 degrees.— Harper’s Weekly. Important matter of preparing food. ! In those days?” The value of humus in the soil Is In shameless conspiracy with starch, i "They thought he was a darn fool.'' (21.5) . not only that it supplies an element of IN D IA N S TO K IL L WOLVES. The compensation of patrolmen was It renders clothes uncomfortable, turns The response was made with such plant food, but that It absorbs mois napkins Into slippery boards and ban promptness that no one could doubt much larger In the cities of over 300,- H o w C o l o r a d o C o t t l e M e n K x p e e t t o ture and Is an obstacle to evaporation, 000 population than in the smaller ishes sleep from beds. Civilized man | the old clgarmaker's sincerity. says the Rural Californian. It also P u t n i l F m l t o t h e P i t at. cities. The average annual pay of pa Is a slave o f the ironing board, and "H e was a Joke, Sam was. I re Tough times for timber wolves are prevents soil erosion and waste. The trolmen In cities of over 300,000 pop the boiled shirt Is the emblem of his member one time he got a big water looming up in the future. The latest most successful farmer Is the one who ulation was highest in San Francisco degradation. melon, the Lord knows how, but any scheme for ridding the White River takes the most pains to utilize every (*1.464) and New York 1*1.228), and Now, the scientists tell us that Iron-' way he took it upstairs and laid tt on cattle country of these four-legged element of hie farm products that con lowest in New Orleans (*7 SO) and Buf lng has an Important function as an hts stool near the window. I w as com marauders is to let the Indian do It. tributes humus to the soil. This Is falo (*900); In cities of from 100,000 antiseptic; that the hot Iron is o n e ! ing around the corner and as I looked And this appears to be the best notion «■specially Important in localities where of our leading germ killers. This In-1 up I noticed Sam spying up and down to 300.000 population it was highest In yet. the surface Is uneven or broken, and Portland. Ore. (*1.200), and Newark strument of torture may have a tern the street. When It comes to trapping or shoot the earth Is not firm, or, In other (*1.176), and lowest In Grand Rapids. perature of 266 degrees, and that, they ■ Presently John Meredith ing wolves and locating their dens an words. Is easily eroded by rainfall. comes say, is more than enough to satisfy j along and when he was directly under Mich. (*796), and St. Paul 1*858); in Indian knows what a white .man would P o i n t « In P r u n i n g . the most fastidious bacillus. In places | the window Sam drops that big melon cities of from 50,000 to 100.000 popu never find out, the Denver Republican where sterilizing devices are not ! right square on John’s head. Gee, but lation it was highest In Oakland. Cal. says, so now the plan Is to Invite the Do not choose the dormant season handy, surgical dressings may be Iron it smashed him. I think John's first (*1.200), and Houston. Tex. (*1,161), Utes up from the reservation in the to cut back trees that are growing too ed with great advantage, and In a idea was that some building had fall- and lowest in Kansas City, Kan. southern part of the State and their fast to be fruitful; It will only make (*780); In cities of from 30.000 to 50,- cousins from over In Utah and turn them grow the faster in the spring. recent experiment clothing which had en. 000 population it was highest In Butte them loose to etart the wolf massacre Walt till they are in full flush of been worn by diphtheria patients was "John saw me grinning and came in completely disinfected by the use of a my direction like he was going to take and Sacramento (*1.200). and lowest In Rio Blanco and Garfield Counties. growth In May or June If you want to In Kalamazoo (*699) and Oshkosh hot Iron. The idea originated with Charles T. drive their surplus energies into fruit it out of me, but when he looked Long suffering man will note with around the street and saw everybody (*709). _____________________ Limburg of Leadvllle, a prominent cat buds. Be sure to carry a paint pot relief that the scientists have said was laughing I guess he thought It too tleman and banker. He bas taken up along with the pruners, and whenever COLDEST C IT Y ON EAR TH . nothing In defense of starch. T h e re ' big a Job to lick us all. Of course Sam the matter with the office of the State a limb as much as an Inch In diame has been no vindication ot the boiled wasn't nowhere In sight, but John game and fl9h commissioners, where ter Is cut off, cover the wound with oil H oyt P e o p l e L i v e I n W i n t e r I n F a r shirt.— Success Magazine. the poBsibllltles of his suggestions were and white lead to keep out dampness found who did It and he never spoke th est S ib eria . recognized at once. Various schemes and the entrance of fungi spores that ■ to Sam from that day till they met A Thought Header. The coldest Inhabited place In the have been devised for getting rid of will produce rot. In the spring this years after at Pike's Peak. “ So you are studying telepathy?" "In talking about it Sam said he world is undoubtedly Verkhoyansk, In the big gray wolves which slaughter cover Is not to necessary, for as soon “ Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum: studied a long while which would be northeastern Siberia, with a mean an so many yearling steers In the White as growth begins the tree will begin "my object in life has been to find the most fun, to eat the melon or drop nual temperature of less than 3 de River country every summer and so to cover Its wounds with new wood what people are thinking and then u on somebody's head, and he flipped grees above zero, Fahrenheit, and a many deer In the winter. that will creep over it from all sides. gay It first. Any reliable system would a nickel to find out which he ought to winter minimum of 85 below. The wolves of the White River tim — Rural World. simplify my labors Immensely.” -— do. The head won. Verkhoyansk is In north latitude 67 ber country are exceptionally large Bent to B a r Silo. Washington Star. "About twenty years after Sam had degrees, on the great arctic plain, and fierce. A head of one of them Do not undertake to build your own A 1 hoiighl of the Cost. • left us he came back. 1 met him and scarcely more than 150 feet above the shows them to have heavy, capacious silo. Nine times out of ten you will “ How'll yon have your beefsteak to ' told him when he wanted an old-time level of the sea. Probably there would Jaws and long, keen teeth which look be the loser. When the lumber, time smoke to come around to my shop. 1 be no town there if it were not neces as if they could snap a dog's back morrow?” asked the cook. and the durability of the structure are "In fear and trembling,” answered got up a box of the Old Fisherman, sary to Russian government purposes bone In with a single crunch. It looks all taken into consideration, yon will as If it were up to the Indians, and It the man who economizes.— Washington and when he and John Garth came In to have an administrative center for a region where many thrifty Yakuts, the is believed that they will enjoy the find you aro coming out at tho small I I made Sam a present of the box. Star. fur-trading “Jews of Siberia," carry outing with great pleasure, particu end of the horn. "There were forty-six big cigars In In terco llegiate. larly since it means getting all the Farm Sch ools. ! it. John Garth told me before he and on .their operations. "N ot that I love Smith less, but that I Sam went to bed that night they All its inhabitants, save a few offi food they want while they are away At the twenty-fourth session of the . love Bryn Mawr," said the Junior as smoked the entire contents of the box cials and other Russians, are Yakuts. from home, with the chance of bounty fourth course In ngrlrultum nt the ne Invited a Philadelphia girl to the except two, which they saved for This docs cot prevent its being a place money thrown In. Wisconsin College 461 farmer« and prom.— Amherst Four Leaf Clover. their boy* were In attendance. Near morning. 1 don't guess there are many of some Importance, for the Yakuts are “ People think I'm smart because 1 the most progressive people In north ly every county In the State was rep- T*'*ra art - so many ways ot being fellows who could smoke like Sam. never aay much." said a man today. i —Dinted. •'That's the way he did about every ern Siberia, excelling the Russians M A R K T W A IN ’S W ATERM ELON. thing he went at. It was no trouble If’ there was fun at the end of it. We never supposed he was training for a funny writer, though. If he'd have stayed In Hannibal and wrote all them pieces that's made him a great man the people wouldn’t have paid any at tention to him. They'd Just say, 'Oh, that's some mot* of Sam’s fool non sense.’ and let It go at that. He sure showed good sense by getting out of Hannibal If he wanted to turn hls monkey-shines into dollars.” T ro lle y Many patrons of rural delivery routes live a considerable distance from the highway, and a device which would carry the mail between the house and the road would be a great convenience. A Kansas subscriber whose house lsh 90 rods from the rural route and who has a straight line of telephone poles to the road, asks If an endless wire cable could be arranged In some way to carry a small box. A No. 10 wire can be attached to Protect the G rin d w ton e. A grindstone should never be left ex posed to the sun. The weight of handle will always cause one portion of the stone to remain uppermost„and this from exposure will reach a differ ent degree of hardnesa from the under side, so that after a while the stone will be ground out of circle. If the stone has to stand in the open a fiat box can easily be obtained to serve ./ a cover. M eat B arrel C over. This sketch shows a meat barret cover that can’t be beat. Get a barrel that has top and bot tom and saw It through In the middle, making two tubs. Use these tubs for covers on meat bar rels by turning them over the barrels as shown In the sketch and they will assuredly keep out the dust and moisture. T e.H lIK l-'.KK* la In cu b ator. During Incubation, eggs should be tested on the seventh and fourteenth days. At the first test the air cell should measure about a quarter of an inch; on the tenth day, one-half inch; on the fifteenth day. five-eighths ot an Inch; nineteenth day, three-quarters ol an Inch. The measurement should be taken from the middle of the large end. C arr o f It o r .r .' T erlh . Horses seldom suffer from decayed teeth, but because of the upper teeth closing on the lower ones a little on the outside points are sometimes found which lacerate the cheek or penetrate the gums, creating n tenderness that prevents the proper mastication of food, annoying the horse so much that he falls away very rapidly. M lx ta r* fo r P a .ta re. Minnesota farmers have found elx pounds of timothy, five pounds of white clover, three pounds of Ken tucky blue grass, and one pound of red top seed per acre, to be an excel lent mixture for pastures. If the ground is Inclined to be wet, the red top will take the place of the timothy. A ir S h a ft C osts L ittle. An air shaft can be built In th» dairy barn at very little cost, that will ventilate the stable perfectly and do away with the dampness and heavy air so noticeable on winter mornings. One man Installed two ventilators which ran from near the floor to well above the roof for *30. P r o d ie ls f P r o fit M a k e r. The breeding of a bull whose dam and grand am were great producers to a cow known to be a producer and with a like ancestry la pretty sure In aroduce a profit maker.
