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The
Main
Chance
BY
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Meredith Nicholaam
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C o m io tT H U
B o b u -Mutai lx CoM Pim
C H A P T E R V.— (Continued.)
A few day* a fte r Evelyn P orter came
borne, Wheaton followed Raridan to his
room one evening a fter dinner. Rarldar
had set The Bachelors’ an example of
white flannels fo r the warm weather, and
W heaton also had abolished his evening
clothes.
Raridan'a rooms had not yet
lost their novelty for him. The pictures
the statuettes, the books, the broad conch
with its heap o f vari-colored pillows, the
table with its candelabra, by wuich R a ri
dan always read certain o f the poets—
these still had their mystery for W hea
ton.
“ Going out to-night?" he asked with
a show o f indifference.
“ H adn't thought o f it." answered RAri-
dan, who was cutting the pages o f a
magazine.
“ D on't let me interrupt i f you’ re read
ing,” said Wheaton.
“ But I
thought
some o f dropping in at Mr. Porter’s.
Miss P orter’s home now, I believe.”
“ T h a t's a good idea.” said Raridan.
who saw what was wanted.
H e threw
his magazine at the cat and got up and
yawned. “ Suppose we do go?”
The call had been successfully man
aged. Miss Porter was very pretty, and
not so young ss Wheaton expected1 to
find her.
Raridan left him talking t<
her and went across to the library, where
M r. P orter was reading his evening pa
per. Raridan had a way o f wandering
about in other people’s bouses,
which
Wheaton envied him. Miss P orter seemed
to take his call as a matter o f course,
and when her father came out presently
and greeted him casually as if he were a
fam iliar o f the house he left relieved and
gratified.
C H A P T E R V I.
Raridan was at the station to meet
some guests o f Evelyn’s, as he had prom
ised. H e had established a claim upon
their notice on the occasion o f one of
his visits to Evelyn at college, and b
greeted them with an air o f possession
which would have been intolerable in an
other man. H e pressed Mias W arren foi
news o f the Connecticut nutmeg crop,
and hoped that Miss Marshall had not
lost her accent in crossing the Missouri.
Annie W arren was as reserved and
quiet as Evelyn could be in her soberest
moments; Belle Marshall was as frank
and friendly as Evelyn became In her
lightest moods.
Evelyn had been the
beauty o f her class; her tw o friends were
what is called, by people that wish to
be kind, nice looking.
Annie W arren
had been the best scholar in her class;
B elle Marshall had been amongst the
poorest; and Evelyn bad maintained a
bappy medium between the two. And so
it fortunately happened that the trio
mitigated one another’s imperfections.
>lyn had discussed with her father
and means o f
entertaining
her
H e preferred large functions.
H a l wished Evelyn to give a lawn party
before the blight o f fall came upon his
brs and shrubbery; but she persuad
ed him to w ait until a fter a pending
carnival. T h e ball o f the carnival was
near a t hand and she proposed that they
give a small dinner in the interval.
“ I ’ ll ask W a rry an I Mr. Saxton. Peo
ple w ere already coupling Saxton’s name
with Raridan'a.
“ Oh, yes, that’s ail r ig h t”
“ I don’t want very many; I ’d like to
ask the W h ipples;” she went on, with
the anxious, far-away look that comes
into the eyes o f a woman who is weigh
ing dinner guests or matching fabrics.
“ Can’t you ask Wheaton?” ventured
M r. P orter cautiously, from behind his
paper.
" I f you say so,” Evelyn assented. “ H e
isn't exciting, but Belle Marshall can
get on with anybody. I ’m out o f practice
and won’t try too many. —rs. Whipple
w ill help over the hard places.”
Finally, however, her party numbered
ten, but it seemed to Wheaton a large
assemblage. H e bad never taken a lady
in to dinner before, but he had studied a
book o f etiquette, and the chapter on
"D in in g Out” bad given utm a bint of
what was expected. It had not, however,
supplied him with a fund o f talk, but
he was glad to find, when be reached the
table, that the company was so small
that talk could be general, and he was
thankful for the shelter made for him by
the light banter which followed the set
tling o f chairs.
Saxton went In with
Evelyn, who wished to make amends foi
his clumsy reception on the occasion of
his first appearance in the house.
General W hipple persuaded Miss M ar
shall to tell a negro story, which she did
delightfully, while the
tabls
listened.
Southerners are, after all, the most nat
ural talkers we have and the only ones
who can talk- freely o f themselves with
out' offense.
H er speech was musical,
and she told her story with a nice sense
o f its dramatic quality.
Th ey had their coffee on the veranda,
where the lights from within made a
pleasant
dusk
about
them.
Porter's
heart was warm with the Joy o f Evelyn’s
home-coming. Abe bad been away from
him so much that be was realising fot
the first time the common experience of
fathers, who find that their daughters
have escaped suddenly and Inexplicably
from girlhood into womanhood; and yet
the girl heart in her bad not lost Its
freshness nor Its thirst for pleasure. Bhe
had carried off her little company charm-
la g ly ; P orter had enjoyed It himself, and
he felt young again in the preeence of
youth.
General W hipple had attached himself
to one o f the couples o f young people
that ware strolling hers and there in the
1 1 sands
P orter and M r s W hipple held
the var anfln alone; both
Evelyn and
they walked back and forth hi fron t o f
the house, talking g a ily ; and
Porter
smiled at the eagerness and quickness oi
her movements,
»axton 's deliberateness
contrasted oddly with the girl’s light step.
Such a girl must marry a man worthy
o f h er; there could be no question of
th at; and fo r the first time the thought
o f losing her rose in hla heart and numb
ed I t
Evelyn and Saxton had met the oth
er«. who were coming up from the walks,
and there was a redistribution at the
house; it was too beautiful to go In, they
said, and the strolling abroad continued.
A great flood o f moonlight poured over
the grounds
A breeze stole up from
tha valley and made a soothing rustle In
the -trees.
,
Evelyn and Wheaton heard the sound
o f the piano through the open windows,
and a girl’s Toice broke gaily into song.
“ I t ’s Belle. She does sing those coon
songs wonderfully. Let ut w slt here un
til she finishes this one.” The sun-porch
opened from the dining
room.
They
could see beyond It, Into the drawing-
m om ; the singer was In plain view, sit
ting at the piano; Raridan stood facing
her, keeping time with an
imaginary
baton.
A man came unobserved to the glass
door o f the porch and stood unsteadily
peering in. l i e was rery dirty and bal
anced himself in that abandon with which
intoxicated men belie Newton's discov
ery. H e had gained the top step with
difficulty; the light from the window
blinded him and for a moment he stood
within the incloaure blinking.
An ugly
grin spread over his face as he made out
the two figures by the window, and he
began a laborious journey toward them.
KAM1DA.N
STOOD
VACINU
TIME.
UKB,
KEEPING
H a tried to tiptoe, and this added fur-
ther to his embarrassments; but the fig
ures by the window were intent on the
song and did not hear him.
H e drew
slowlv nearer; one more step and
he
would have concluded his journey.
He
poised on his toes before taking it, but
the law of gravitation now asserted it
self. H e lunged forward heavily, casting
himself upon Wheaton, and nearly knock
ing him from his feet.
“ Jimmy,” he blurted in a drunken
voice. “ Jim -m y!”
Evelyn turned quickly and shrank back
with a cry. W heaton was slowly rallying
from the shock o f hia surprise. H e grab
bed the man by the arms and began push
ing him toward the door.
“ Don’t be alarmed,” he said oyer his
shoulder to Evelyn, who had shrunk back
against the wail. “ I ’ll manage him.”
This, however, was not ao easily done.
The tramp, as Evelyn supposed him to be.
had been sobered by W heaton’s attack.
H e clasped hla fingers about W heaton’s
throat and planted his feet firmly. H e
clearly Intended to stand hia ground, and
he dug his fingers ihto W heatoa’a neck
with the intention o f hurting.
“ F a th e r!” cried Evelyn once, but the
aong was growing noisier toward its end
and the circle about the piano did not
hear. She waa about to call again when
a heavy step sounded outride on the walk
and Bishop Delafield came sw iftly into
the porch. H e had entered the ground.»
from the rear and was walking aron-wi
the house to the front door.
“ Q u ick! that man there— I ’ ll call the
others!” cried Evelyn,
still
shrinking
against the wall.
Wheaton had been
forced to bis knees and hia assailant was
choking hhn. B at there was no need of
other help. The bishop bad already aeised
the tramp about the body with his great
hands, tearing him from Wheaton's neck.
H e strode, with the squirming figure In
his grasp, toward an open window at the
back o f the glass incloaure, and pushed
the man out. There was a great snort
ing and threshing below. The bill dipped
abruptly aw ay from the side o f the uoase
and the man had fallen several feet, into
a flower bed.
“ Get away from here," (he bishop
said, in his deep voice, "and be quick
about it.” The man rose and ran awiftly
down the slope toward the street.
The bishop walked back to the window.
Tha others had now hurried out In re
sponse to Evelyn's peremptory calls, and
she waa telling o f the tramp’s visit, while
Wheaton received their condolences, and
readjusted his tie. H is collar and short-
front showed signs o f contact with dirt.
“ It was a tramp,” aald Evelyn, as the
others plied her with questions, “ and he
attacked Mr. Wheaton.”
“ Where's he gone?" demanded Portqr.
excitedly.
“ Th ere he goes,” said the biahop, point
ing toward the window. " I dropped him
gently out o f the window.
The shock
seems to have inspired his legs.”
“ I ’ll have the police------’’ began P o r
ter.
“ Oh, he's gons sow, Mr. Porter,” said
Wheaton, coolly, as he restored his tie.
“ Bishop Delafield disposed o f him so vig
orou sly that he’ll hardly coma buck.”
“ Y u , let him go,” said the bishop, w ip
ing his hands on bis handksrchlef. “ I ’m
only afraid. Porter, that I ’rs spoiled your
beet canna bed.”
C H A P T E R V II.
The follow ing Sunday morning after
church, as Wheaton reached hia room be
found an envelope lying as his table,
in ga am-
T h e Paras Cream Separator.
formed hand, to himself. I t contained a
d irty scrap o f paper bearing these words
“ J im : I ’ ll be at the Occidental Hotel
to-night at 8 o’clock. Don't fail to com«
B u tter making In the home d a iry
and creamery has been almost revs-
lu tlon lsed by the Introduction of the
“ B IL L Y .”
Wheaton tors up the note-with irrlta
tloa and threw it into the waste paper
basket.
H e called the Chinese ser v ant,
who explained that s boy had left It in
the course o f the morning and had anld
nothing about an answer.
The Bachelors’ did not usually muster
s full tabls at 8uoday dinner. A ll C lark
son dined at noon on 8unday, sad stoat
o f tbs bachelors were fortunate enough
to be asked out. Wheaton was not fre
quently s diner out by reason p f his mpre
slender acquaintance; and to-day
all
pere present, including Raridan, tha mas!
fickle o f all in his attendance.
I t bad
pleased Wheaton to find that the other»
had been setting him apart more and
more with Raridan for the. daily dia
pline they dealt one another. They liked
to poke fun at Raridan on the score of
what they called his mad social w h irl;
there was no resentment about it ; they
were themselves o f sterner stuff and had
no patience with Raridan'a friv o litie s ;
and they were wlthiu the fact when they
assumed that, i f they wished, they could
go anywhere that he did.
It touched
Wheaton’s vanity to find himself a joint
target with Raridan for the arrows which
the other bachelors fired at folly.
Wheaton after dinner went to hla room
and made himself comfortable.
H e re
read the Sunday papers through alt theii
supplements, dwelling again on ths events
o f the carnival.
H e had saved all the
other papers that contained society newt,
and now brought them out and cut from
them all references to himself.
H e re
solved to open a kind o f social scrap
book In which to preserve a record o:
his social doings. H e remembered a com
plaint often heard in Clarkson that there
were no eligible men there; he was noi
sure just what constituted eligibility, but
ns he reviewed the men that went about
he could'not see that they possessed any
advantages over himself. It occurred. to
him fo r the first time that he was the
only unmarried bank caslyer in to w n ;
and this in itself conferred a distinction
H e was not so secure in his place as he
should like to b e ; If Thompson died there
would undoubtedly be a reorganisation
o f the bank and the few shares that P o r
ter had sold to him would not hold the
casbiershlp for him.
It might be that
P orter’s plan was to keep him in the
place until Grant grew up. Again, he
reflected, the man who married Evelyn
P orter wonld become an element to reck
on w ith ; and yet i f he w ert to be that
man------
H e slept and dreamed that be was
king o f a gream realm and that Evelyn
P orter reigned with’ him as queen; then
he awoke with a start to find that it waa
late. H e sat up on tha couch and gath
ered together the
newspaper
cuttings
which had fallen abont him. H e remem
be red the imperative summons which had
been left fo r him during the m orning; it
was already fl o’clock. Before going out
he changed his clothes to a rough buai
ness suit and took a car that bore him
rapidly through the buslnesa district and
beyond, into the older part o f Clarkaon.
The locality was very shabby, and- when
he left the car presently it was to con
tinue his journey in an ill-lighted street
over board walks which yielded a pre
carious footing.
The Occidental Hotel
was in the old part o f town, and had
long ago ceased to be whst It had once
been, the first hostelry o f Clarkson. It
had descended to tbs levsl o f a cheap
boarding bouse, little patronised except
by the rougher element o f cattlemen and
by railroad crews that found It convent
ent to the yards. O ver the door a dim
light blinked, and this, it was understood
In the neighborhood, meant not merely an
Invitation to bed and board, but also u
the Occidental bar, which was accessible
at all hours o f the day and night, and
waa open through all the spasms o f vir
tue with which the city administration
was seized from time to time. The dooi
stood open and W heaton stepped up to
the counter on which a boy sat playing
with a cat.
“ la W illiam Snyder stopping here?” be
asked.
The boy looked np lazily from hlz play.
“ Are yon the gent he's ezpecting?”
"V e ry likely, la he in?”
“ Yes, he’s number eighteen.” H e drop
ped the cat and led Wheaton down a dark
ball which waa stale with the odors o.
cooked vegetables, up a steep flight ol
stairs to a landing from which he point
ed to an oblong o f light above a door.
“ There you are,” said the boy.
Hi
kicked the door and rrtreated down the
stairs, leaving Wheaton to obey the sum
mons to enter which was bawled from
within. W illiam Snyder unfolded his
long figure and rose to greet his visitor
(T o he continued.)
H ow
It
Sounded.
Since th is Is a confession. It may a »
w ell be a fra n k and tru th fu l one.
I
am not jealou s o f m y husband's first
w ife — a t least I hope I am not. But
when he looka depressed, o r when I
see th at he is not as happy as I would
lik e him to be, I am conscious o f an
u n com fortable doubt.
I have tried to
brin g my sense o f hum or to bear upon
this pain, too, and som etim es have suc
ceeded fa ir ly w e ll— som etim es 1 have
fa ile d dism ally.
A tr y lq g trick that
m y d e a r husband has Is th at o f sink
in g in to an absent-minded reverie or
a b s tra c tio n ; and he som etim es so fa r
fo rg e ts h im self to call me " M a r y ” In
stead o f “ Sarah.”
Once when he had
been p a rticu la rly fo rg e tfu l and dream y
he did this three tim es In one evening.
A t last m y resentm ent and apprecia
tion o f the ridiculous sprang to arms.
W ith the fou rth “ M a ry ” I answered
s w e e tly ;
“ In heaven, d e a r ! W on ’ t I do?”
I had heard o f another w ife who
bad done this, and it had aonnded
fnnny to m e when I heard the s to ry ;
but when I u ttered the unseemly end
unrefined speech I w as overcom e w ith
shame, m y anger fled, and, bursting
in to tears. I begged m y husband's p ar
don. and I told him ao.
“ I am hurt." be s a id ; “ I had no Idea
th a t the m em ory o f m y p oor girl, or
th a t m y thought o f her, distressed you.
Sines it doss, I shall be m ors careful
tn th s future, m y d ear w ife , and try
n ot to ta lk o f har.” — Snccsaa Magazine.
Loodoo baa 800,000 ons-i
M V S W IA A M A A A
Portable H a « H a
A small house which can be occupied
by a brood sow and her litter it the
best for raising strong, healthy hogs,
it Is the most cleanly and sanitary,
and with well-arranged yards the pigs
can be cared for with practically no
more labor than In a long house.
A very economical and useful house
is shown in the accompanying cuts. It
farm
separator, which
separates
cream fro m milk by a centrifugal
prone as.
T h e shallow pan or crock
system and the deep-setting system
have been largely eliminated, and
with their exit a considerable part of
the drudgery of the household disap
peared. The farmer la now no longer
req u ired to make the dally trip to the
preamery; he can retain tha tklm milk
to feed hla calves and pigs and de
liver the cream, sweet, every other
day, when properly cared for, and
this substitution of cream delivery for
milk delivery by creamery patrons
saves them labor and millions of dol
lars yearly In expense.— Report Secre
tary United States Department of
Agriculture.
The Lssi
FSAM KW O SK AND DIM ENSIONS.
la set on 2x6-in. runners and the house
If 9 f t 4 In. long and 7 ft. 8 In. wlda
A tight, smooth floor, with no cracks
or knot holes, is essential. The frame
w ill allow 16 f t boards and battens to
be sawed In two.
At each end of the house ia a door 2
ft. wide and 2 ft. 6 in. high, which
slips up and down between grooves or
deata, and la held up by a rope passing
through a small pulley at the ridge.
It is quite desirable to have doors at
both ends
A necessary adjunct to a sanitary
pen la the ventilator In the root. Two
of the 12 in. roof boards are sawed off
C s i.
“ I with,” aald an experienced veteri
nary, “ that I had all the cloth which
haa been wasted In manufacturing
cuds to replace those “ lost.” This la
one o f tbs dregs of superstition which
still dings In some places. The cud
la returned to the mouth after enter
ing the first stomach, and .Its loss ia
generally an indication of indigestion.
Thla la m olt prevalent in winter,
when eowa are heavily grained. Should
It appear In summer when they are on
pasture, but receiving some grain. It
is well to remove the latter ration for
a few days. After a day or two give
1 pound of Epsom salta and 2 ounces
ground ginger root mixed in two
quarts of warm water. After she re
sumes her cud feed for a time on
green grass and good hay, gradually
working back to the grain ration.
D r s s s ills
fa r T r t s
P ls s lls f.
Holes for tree planting, according
to the Engineering Record, have been
excavated by the Long Island Rail
way by blasting with dy -unite. ▲
hole about two feet deep was first dug
with a posthole aufcur at an angle of
•bout 35 degrees with the surface and
loaded with half a stick of 40 per cent
dynamite. This shot makes a hols
abont two feet deep and three feet in
diameter, leaving the earth In the
bottom pulverized suitably for plant
ing. It is stated that two men can
thus excavate 250 holes per ten-hour
day at a cost of about 7% cents per
hole.
P l o w e r s mm P o o d .
COMPLETED MOO BOUSE.
a few Inches from the ridge. Strips 2
In. thick are nailed above the battens,
which w ill raise the ventilator 2 in.
above the roof boards and give ample
ventilation while preventing direct
‘'rafts.— Farm and Home.
M ilk S S « M i lk i n g .
Many people believe that milk ia
ready-made and stored In the udder of
the cow simply awaiting the milker.
This Impression is corrected by the
statement of the well-known scientist,
John Burroughs, who says: “ Most
persons think that giving down or
bolding up the milk by the cow is a
voluntary a c t In fact, they fancy
that the udder la a vessel filled with
milk, and that the cow releasee Or
withholds It just s s she chooses. But
the udder Is a manufactory;
It Is
filled with blood from which the milk
Is manufactured while you milk. This
process la controlled by the cow's
nervous system; when she is excited
or In any way disturbed, aa by a
stranger, or by taking away her calf,
or any other cause, the process is ar
rested and the milk will not flow. The
oervous energy goes elsewhere. The
whole process Is as Involufitary as Is
digestion In man and la disturbed or
arrested In abont the same way.— In
diana Farmer. ’
Its v p s s s
ml
M i lk
P lo w .
A very common trouble in every
dairy Is to find an animal with the
point of the teat closed, either due to
a bruise of teat itself or to Infection
of the milk duct which causes a lit
tle scab to form, and unlew thla Is
properly handled with care and clean
liness the infection Is apt to cause a
loss of the entire quarter. Thoroughly
wash the part In an antiseptic solu
tion; then dip a teat plug Into a heal
ing ointment and Insert It, allowing
same to remain from one milking to
another. In thla manner closure can
be overcome In a very simple and sat
isfactory way A milking tube should
not be used if It can possibly be avoid
ed. as there Is much danger of Infect
ing the entire quarter by Its use.—
Denver Field and Farm.
V ig o r la
(h e
F lo c k .
The -period of usefulness of good
sheep varies much with the breed as
well as with Individuals of the same
I. Some become unprofitable at
three or four yeare of age, others at
ten or twelve or even older. Whenever
a sheep begins to show signs of weak-
evldence of disease or lack of
thrift and vigor It should be removed
from the Nock. “ All la lost that Is
poured Into a cracked dleh;” all la
lost that la put Into an unthrifty
sheep— worse than lost often, for a
diseased sheep may do great damage
te the flock, and when one loeee thrift
It loeee Its natural power to resist dls-
Nature has marked such a one
for destruction, and tha shepherd
should forestall nature by disposing of
It. __Orange Judd Farmer.
C rsa r-~ *r
P "> Is «U e s .
The 1900 cenaus gave the total
amount of creamery butter made in
tm United States aa 420,126,000 pounds
In 1904 tha figures had increased to
U 1 460 , 000 . and It la estimated that
dWSU-
1910 flfurea w ill ranch fully 788,-
DUCHESS W HO IS A D S DT EDU
CATION O r W O M I N O G IR L I.
An interesting development of the
use of flowers for food la recorded in
the dally papers, says the London
Globe. The use of candled petals of
the violet sa a sweetmeat haa long
been known, bat the practice is now
arising of preserving flowers whole.
Yon may now buy a bunch, say o f vio
lets. for your buttonhole, and after
ward eat them. As a matter of fact,
a number of flowers are habitually
eaten. Cloves, capers, cauliflowers and
artichokes are all flowers, or parts of
flowers, before the blossoms have ex
panded.
P le h lo
Isr
C a r la «
The Duchess of Marlborough haa be
come deeply Interested tn philanthrop
ic and educational work among Lon
don working girls, being actively con
nected with the management of the
National Physical Recreation Society,
of which King Edward le also a pa
tron. The society, established In 1886,
furnishes opportunities for working
girls to obtain Instruction In physical
education, providing hundreds of in
structors for its numerous gymnasl-
uma The Duchess recently presided
at the thirteenth annual drill compe
tition, given by the pupils of the so
ciety for challenge shields and med
als, and she presented the tokens t «
the winners.
PORE OLD DAD.
Y e kin sca'ce pi k up s paper
An it's “ poet’s corner" rivet,
’ *
'Cept ye'll see er pirty poem
’ Bout the mother, saintly, sweet |
Bnt ye’ll have a time s-say—
Eyes will be er-achin’ bad
Ere ye’ll overtake er poem
A t this time for pore old dad I
M e a ts .
Fourteen pounds salt, four ounces
saltpeter, two ounces saleratus, five
pounds brown sugar, tablespoonful of
rad pepper, twelve gallons of water,
to he mixed In a cold state. The
above quantity la sufficient for 400
pounds. I f the pickle gets moldy, boll
and cool and use again. For pickling
beef, four gallons of water, one and a
half ponnda o f brown sugar, six
pounds salt, two and a half ounces of
saltpeter to a hundred pounds of beet
—Rural New Yorker.
No, it ian’t w illfu l in ’em—
Them that write o f mother d ear
That that'« never notice taken
O f her old man aettin' near.
No, It’a never meant to alight him.
But kit looka a little sad—
A ll the bouquets made fo r mother, .
N ot a bloom for pore old d a d !
True, uor mother watched above us
T ill her gray old eyes would ache.
But old dad he humped to feed ns
T ill his back would nearly break.
Mother crooned sbve the cradle,
Gave devotlort, all she b a d ;
Still that w aant any circus
C s s z n u l a s a l SreU s.
A t this time for pore old dad.
The National Government Is becom
ing more liberal to the agricultural
Interests each year. The appropria
tion bill has reported, covering all
appropriations made for the Agricul
tural Department, amounts thla year
to f 13.773,276, which is an Increase
of $889,450 over that of last season.
The forestry service has secured an
Increase of 9500,000 for fire protec
tion. Last year’s forest fires were an
objeet lesson.
P as*
M ilk .
Certified milk sells In all large cities
for abont twice the price of other
milk. It is absolutely clean, no im
parities being allowed to get into the
milk. A layer of fine cheesecloth la
stretched over the milk pall, a lzfyor
of absorbent cotton le placed upon
that, then another piece of cheesecloth.
There Is no sediment in the bottom
of the milk vessels of milk treated In
this way. It is not expensive either.
W ar
oa
Bad
Seed.
Good work In detecting adulterated
seeds Is being carried on by the De
partment of Agriculture. Of 1,471
samples of seeds taken last year 102
samples ware found adulterated or
misbranded. The department publishes
the results of the test, together wKh
tha names of the firms that sold the
seed. It Is claimed that since this
work began the trade in adulterated
seeds has fallen off greatly.
Jos*
S c a le .
The San Joes scale le the Insect
that should he sought out and fought
at all seasons of the year. It le a
soft-bod led Insect protected by a waxy
covering which can be penetrated only
by very corrosive chemicals. Owing
to Injury to foliage, these chemicals
must b# used In winter or when the
trees are dormant
Do not take one line from mother
When you w rite the soul sweet aong.
But (f thar's a word for father
Now and then it won’t be wrong.
Pore old sou l! He's bent and wrinkled
A n ’ I know ’ twould make him glad
If. while you are praisin' mother
Somethin’* said for pore old dad t
— Anonymous.
A F o re * fo r E w n a f ,
It was an Ingenious husband who,
according to a writer in the New York
8un, sent hla wife shopping in a taxi
cab. A friend who happened to see
him say good-by to her from the curb
remarked on hie apparent extrava
gance.
“ It’e economy, really,” said the hne-
band. "Whenever she’s In a store
■he'll be worried to death because
that taxicab Is eating np money all
the time, and so she won’t stay long
enough to spend half as much as she
would If she went on foot or In a
street car."
The
Poppy.
The poppy throughout the East la
an emblem of death. In many parts
of India this flower Is planted upon
graves and In cemeteries. Whether
or not the Idea was suggested by the
poisonous character of the Juice Is un
certain. It is believed that the peppy
was known as a funeral plant to the
ancient Egyptians, for upon the tombs
opened by Bel ton I there appeared rep
resentations of plants which ware evi
dently intended for poppies.
S e r v e s ’ E m R ig h t .
"Uneasy ‘lies the head that wears
the crown.” quoted the student.
"D o you mean to tell me,” exclaim
ed the self-made man, "that those king
duffers wear their crowns to bed?’’—
Kansas City Times.
O ae
of
M aar,
“ Does your husband worry over
T k e A p p le C s s s t r r e f I s r s p s .
money matters?"
Normandy Is the apple country of
“ No; it’s lack-of-money matters that
Europe. Germany Is Its bast customer. worry him.”— Houston Post
The applee which could not be sold
It costs as much to bs ths fsthsr
wars turned Into 72,000,00 gallons of
eider, which le the favorite beverage of a be tls ss It floss to « « a g raog
m* t t e inhabitants of Northern Franos.