A HUNDRED TEARS AGO.
Investigations conducted by a number of English phy
sicians go to show that women as a class are growing
taller, and the statement Is seriously made that a hun
dred years from now, at the present rate of Increase,
women will be not only taller than their sisters of to
day, but they will be able literully to look down upon
AUTUMN.
Tls now that spiders In the casement
weave,
Or launch their silken airships on the
breeze ;
Tls now that boney ripeness feeds the
bees
Where vine-born amber sweetr their
prison cleave,
And golden spheres their leafy heavens
leave.
The same wind whispers through the
orchard trees
That blow our swallows over southern
seas,
And stole the robin's vesper from our eve.
The spirit of the year, like bacchant
crowned,
With lighted torch goes careless on bis
wayj
And soon bursts into flame the maple's
spray,
And vines are running firs along the
ground.
But softly 1 on October's blazing bound
How laugh the violet eyes of tender
May I
Edith M. Thomas.
The curtain had fallen upon the first
act, and Thomas Nash, whose atten
tion had been divided between the
stage and the girl who sat next to
him, was able to devote all his atten
tion to the latter. That, be It under
stood, as far as he dared; for she was
a complete stranger to him. He could
not speak to her, but was forced to
content himself with little surreptitious
glances aside, each of which gave him
some further detail of her profile; her
bine eyes, her slightly retrousse nose,
her arched lips, and the whiteness of
her neck and shoulders. There was a
man with her, a man with a brown
mustache, which Mr. Nash character
ized unjustly as scrubby. But for the
girl herself, he hnd nothing but appre
ciation. The orchestra wns about to com
mence the entr'acte, when a man In
evening dress stepped before the foot
lights and spoke to the audience In a
voice which cracked a little In his ef
fort to suppress anxiety.
"Ladles and gentlemen," he said, "I
should feel much obliged If you would
all leave the theater at once and quiet
ly. There Is no danger, but you must
leave at once." He motioned to the
lender of the orchestra to play.
Everywhere men and women stood
up, quick anxiety In their faces, vague
questionings In their eyes. In that mo
ment Mr. Nash looked at his neighbor,
and she did not hesitate to speak to
him.
"What Is it?" she said under her
breath. "Fire?"
"1 suppose so," he answered non
chalantly, with the wish to pose as a
hero In her eyes. "But don't be afraid.
There Is nothing to fear. I will help
you If necessary. I have been In a
theater Are before," he continued, Jlng
lng truth to the winds. "The great
thing Is to keep one's presence of
mind."
And then the curtain bulged forward',
a vast sheet of flame swept from lis
under edge, and the man before the
footlights threw up his arms and fell
writhing before that scorching blast.
Mr. Nash forgot his heroism, forgot
the girl, forgot everything save the
necessity of reaching the doors as soon
as possible and at any cost. He turned
and fought his way through the crowd,
striking men In the face, flinging wo
men on one side, hts mind a panic fear.
He felt two hands gripping his shoul
ders, but they scarcely retarded him,
and he had more formidable obstacles
to conteud with. Cursing and thrust
ing, trampling upon the bodies of those
who had fallen, he forced hts way
through, until at length he met the
cool rush of air that wns streaming In
from the night outside, and found him
self safe In the crowd on the ophite
side of the street, panting and shaken,
Miiaxcd and horrified at himself.
A sobbing voice near him called him
to his senses. Ho looked round and
aw the (Irl to whom he had spoken,
Presence of Mind
WOMEN AEE GROWING TAIXEH.
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TO-DAY.
shivering In her evening dress, but too
hysterical with grief and fear to notice
the cold.
"Oh, thank you!" she cried; "thank
you I I should never have got through
but for you."
Mr. Nash stared at her a moment,
unable to realize the extent of his good
fortune. He had fled In panic and bad
earned the reputation of a hero.
"That gentleman who was with you?"
he queried.
She pointed horror-struck to the blaz
ing theater.
"Oh, go back for him I" she cried.
"uo DacK ana save mini You are
brave; and I will thank you and pray
for you all the days of my life."
Mr. Nash's heroism received a nasty
shock. He looked about him desper
ately. But oiye again fortune be
friended him, and he saw the very man,
though much singed and blackened,
coming toward hlin.
"Thank heaven you are safe I" said
the newcomer with emotion.
"Yes, yes I" she cried. "Thank hea
ven I And thank this gentleman, too.
He saved me. He got me out of the
building."
The young man shook hands with
Nash warmly.
"Sir," he said, "we must know more
of each other; my sister ow.es you her
life. My father and mother will be
anxious to thank you themselves. I was
knocked down in the first rush. I be
lieve that my being so saved my life;
for I crawled under the seats and got
over Into the pit, and so out that way.
This Is a terrible business. Let us get
.iway at once and find a cab."
They hurried down a side street and
found a four-wheeler not 100 yards
away. As Mr. Nash sat In the cab op
posite to his new-found friend, he be
came calm enough to realize the ex
tent of his good fortune. The young
mnn introduced hlmBelf as William
KVEBVWHEUK MEN AND WOMEN STOOD CP.
Pearson, a name which Mr. Nash knew
well as associated with one of the big
Industries of the city. He Introduced
also his sister Lucy, and Mr. Nash re
sponded by giving his name and men
tioning modestly the fact that he was
a solicitor. They dropped him at his
rooms with further thanks, an address,
and a warm Invitation to call upon the
following day.
The Pearsons lived in a large house
lu the fashionable quarter of the town.
On presenting himself at the door, Mr.
Nash was ushered Into the drawing
room, which was filled with people, all
talking excitedly. It was Mrs. Pear
son's at-home day, and the tragedy of
the previous evening had formed an ab
sorbing subject of conversation. He be
came the center of attraction. Mr.
Pearson, a stout man with a gray beard
and honest eyes, came forward and
shook him warmly by the hand. Mrs.
Pearson was voluble and euthusaistlc.
Lucy, looking pale from the effects of
the shock, smiled wanly and made him
sit beside her. Her brother recounted
his exploit All the guests poured
questions upon hhn and were eager In
their praises. In the midst of this adu
lation Mr. Nash did his best to bear
himself with becoming modesty. In a
pause In the buzz of praise, he smiled
and spoke.
"I'm really very much obliged to you
all," he said ; "I don't deserve half the
kind things you have said about me.
All that was needed was a little pres
ence of mind."
Mr. Nash became a frequeTTt nmt -wel
come visitor at the Pearson's house.
lie came to lie looked upon as a close
friend of the family ; and when the day
came when he asked her to marry tilai, ,
A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW.
Mere Man. Similarly, according to statisticians who deal
with Europeans, man has fallen by at least three-fourths
of an Inch wltbln the past 100 years ; nor are there any
signs that there Is an upward tendency among the males.
On the contrary, the average man" of the future will ap
pear squat. If not stunted, beside his Junonlan Bister. ,
her eyes sparkled with happiness as
she accepted. Mr. Pearson made no
difficulty.
"I'm not looking for money with mj
girl," he said heartily. "She has enough
for two. I'll see that you are comfart
able; and I daresay even a solicitor can
And a use for a little extra capital,
I'm glad to know that my daughter is
passing into the hands of a brave man,
That is enough for me."
Mrs. Pearson said the same, and
kissed him. ' '
At the wedding breakfast, Mr. Nash
made the customary speech.
'This is an occasion for presence of
mind," he remarked humorously. "01
all qualities, it is the most to be de
sired. I cannot forget that it is to
presence of mind that I owe my present
happy position." The guests applauded,
Lucy understood and looked at him
with shining eyes.
Surely Mr. Nash should be a hnppj
man. He and his young wife are very
fond of one another, and he knows that
her love is based on respect for his
heroic qualities. But there is a fly in
the ointment. Deep within him, a still,
small voice tells him at times of the
panic in which he fled from that thea
ter, and he knows, though he tries to
fight the knowledge, that should sim
ilar circumstances occur and should his
wife wish to take advantage of his,
presence of mind, she will have to do
so by keeping a tight hand on his shoul
ders. J. Sackville Martin In the
Sketch.
BETTER THAN BERRIES.
Harriet Hoimer'i Delight When She
First Finds Modeling Clay.
An old school friend of the late Har
rlet Hosmer, the sculptress, has recent
ly related some interesting auecdotes
of her childhood. Her first modeling,
it appears, came about through a blue
berrying expedition. "Hattle," as she
was always called, had gone to the ber
ry pastures with her foster brother
Alfred.
"They hnd tramped farther thau
usual, when all of. a sudden Hattle
stumbled upon a big clay bank. It was
Just as if she'd been looking for it all
her life. Out went all the berries from
her nearly full pall, and Into the pail
went big double handfuls of the soft
clay.
"Then she fairly rushed home, sat
down on the back doorstep, and there
modeled her first figure, a representa
tion of the little, shaggy yellow dog
who was at that time her chlefest
treasure. After that she never forgot
the clay bank.
"Why, when she was at boarding
school with the rest of us she made
costs of all our hands, and they were
beautiful. She did one of Mrs. Sedg
wick's, I know she was our head mis
tress and I remember that Mrs. Sedg
wick said It was 'truly exquisite,' and
wound It all over with the soft, smooth
silver paper she used for her finest
laces."
In a day when the athletic, outdooi
girl was yet unknown, Harriet Hosmer,
against all convention, at the Impera
tive call of a free nature, rode, swam,
paddled, hunted, fished, climbed, tramp
ed, and studied nature to the horror
and dismay of the excellent housewives
of her town.
"You should have seen her collec
tions," said her old friend. "She had
bugs and beetles, squirrels, rabbits and
blids, and even an old fat woodehuek
that she had shot and wounded herself.
We girls could never see how she could
do It the things are so so smelly
and unpleasant."
Even when her study of her art had
taken her to Rome, among fellow ar
tists and great folk who praised her
and made much of her. she yet kept
cm relic of these happy days, oddly
tucKea m amid the clay and tools and
glistening marbles of her studio. It
was an old, dilapidated crow's-nest, the
prize of a daring climb, reduced to dec
orous service as a darning basket
A Literal Youth.
"Why, Johnny," said Mrs. Muggins,
"what are you doing here? Is WlllleV
party over?"
"Nome," blubbered Johnny. "But the
minute I got inside the house WIlMe's
father told me to make myself tl
home, and I came."
Dairv Idols.
Cows becomes favorites with their
owners not altogether by reason of the
tnllk they nroduce. We have known
cows that their owners thought a great
deal of because of the kindly disposi
tion of the animals. Oue cow that the
writer remembers eave hut a few
quarts of milk a day, but she was a pet
or the family. She would prefer the
company of members of the family
rather than that of other cows. If the
cows were being taken to pasture she
would insist on walking by the side of
the one in charge of the herd. It is
hard to order a cow of this kind sent to
the butcher, and manv neonle will not
do It Instead, the animals are kept
ror a dozen years, and not only allowed
to eat up the provender without re
turning a compensation for it, but are
aiowea to add to the herd more cows
after their own ability not to nroduce
milk. These may fairly be called dairy
mois. a heir owners claim great things
for them without belntt able to substan
iate the truth of what thev sav.
. But the family pet is not the only
brand of dairv idol. There are the een-
eral purpose cows that quite generally
nave the entire confidence of their own
era as to their great value. They are
Idols that the single-purpose cow men
have demolished again and again, to
their own satisfaction, but they are still
to be found all over the land.
The dairv idol Is n thine that can he
dispensed with to the advantage of
the owners of the cows. The warfare
against them will be kept up, and little
by little the factors we are warring
atralnfrt will disnnnpnr Tt mav hnw.
ever, take about as lona to eliminate
them as it took Christianity to drive the
idols out of the pagan world. Farmers'
Uevlew.
RUIC In Drenched Cattle.
Doctor David Roberts, State Veterl
harian of Wisconsin, gives this advice :
Perhaps the best way of demonstrating
the danger of drenching cattle is to ad
vise the reader to throw back his head
as far as possible and attempt to swal
low. This you wllj find to be a diffi
cult task, and you will find it more
difficult and almost Impossible to swal
low with the mouth open. It Is for
this reason that drenching cattle Is a
dangerous practice. However, if a cow's
head be raised as high as possible and
her mouth kept open by the drenching
bottle or horn, a portion of the liquid
Is very apt to pass down the windpipe
Into the lungs, sometimes causing In
stant death by smothering, at other
times causing death to follow In a few
days from congestion or inflammation
of the lungs. Give all cattle . their
medicine hypodermleally or In feed, if
they refuse feed give it dry on the
tongue. The proper method of giving a
cow medicine is to stand on the right
side of the cow, placing the left arm
around the nose and at the same time
opf ning her mouth, and with a spoon In
the right hand place the medicine,
which should be in a powdered form,
back on the tongue; she can then swal
low with safety.
Handy for Sorting; Potatoes.
In sorting potatoes a time-saver can
be made of boards and common wire.
The best wire should be smooth and
about the thickness of ordinary clothes
line. The side-boards should be about
18 inches wide to keep the potatoes
from rolling off the sides. The wires
are fastened to a pulley at the ton to
tighten them so they will not sag and
let the large potatoes through. Shovel
the potatoes in at the top and the
small potatoes will drop throueh the
screen into the box.
To Tell the Ages of Swine.
It may be Interesting to those who
do not already know It ,to learn of
some way to arrive at the age of nisrs.
so we give the following :
Pigs having their corner permanent
Incisors cut will be considered as ex
ceeding six months. Pigs having their
permanent tusks more than half tin
will be considered as exceeding nine
months. Pigs having their central per
manent Incisors up and any of the first
three permanent molars cut will be
considered as exceeding twelve months.
Tigs having their lateral temporary
incisors shed and the permanent ap
pearing will be considered as exceeding
nrteen months, rigs bavin their lat
eral permanent Incisors fully up will
be considered as exceeding eighteen
months.
Shoeing; Males.
The hoof of the mule, being smaller
and tougher thau that of tho average
horse, does not need shoeing unless
worked on bard roads a great deal. It
is better not to have them shod If con
fined to work on the farm, unless used
to haul heavy loads on frozen ground.
FOR SORTING POTATOES.
Nutriment la Milk.
Bulletin No. 51 from the Storrs Ag
ricultural Experiment Station. Con
necticut 1b a most excellent one on the
origin or sources of those small or
ganisms called bacteria, which are
found so abundantly in ihllk. The
bulletin also contains some rnther
startling statements and some whole
some suggestions.
Among the statements which ought
to make the average man sit up and
think are the following:
"A quart of milk at 8c Is equivalent
in food value to a pound of beef at 18c.
This means that 4c worth of milk gives
as much food energy in the body as l)c
worth of beef.
"The average individual consumes
three or four times as much meat In a
day as the body actually needs for re
pair, and for its highest physical con
dition. "If the American people would eat
one-half less meat and consume one
half more milk, they would save about
$150,000,000, in money and in health,
enough to make the doctors' bills look
small."
To Fatten Fowls.
Shut the fowls up In a darkened
place with Just enough light for them
to see to eat, and feed on cornmeal,
ground oats, cracked wheat and shorts,
which may be mixed in equal propor
tions and scalded.'" Feed as often dur
ing the day as they will eat up tha
food clean. That is to say, stuff them,
Take a light and feed again Just be
fore your bedtime, and as early In the
morning as possible. Supply them
with grit and water and keep the
premises clean. Half a dozen fowls to
gether will fatten more quickly than a
large number, as they will not pine for
company. Cooked potatoes, rice, corn
bread, cracked corn and whole wheat
may also be fed. Give no green stuffs,
as It is too filling and will do no good.
Fowls crowded this way should be In
fine condition in two weeks. Shut up
longer, they are likely to begin to mope
and will go back rather than Increase
in weight Itural World.
Improved Hog Pen.
A large hog pen with space for both
sleeping and feeding can be arranged
with a , floor on one-half to ensure a
dry bed. The size of the whole pen is
8 feet by 10 feet, so that the floored
section of the pen is 8 feet square. It
is made of strong materials, usually 2
In. by 4 in. stuff, and rests on cleats in.
the bottom of the pen.
The Milk Machine.
There is mighty- little sentiment
about a cow. She's nothing but a deli
cately organized milk-making machine.
Her nervous organization Is well de
veloped, though, and is easily disturbed,
but If she Is well supplied with mllk
maklng material and is let alone she
will turn out a good product and plenty
of it, provided, of course, she is built
on the right lines. A poor machine of
any kind is a curse to the owner.
Money In Irrigation.
Two hundred feet of the levee on the
San Joaquin River in California gave
way and flooded 4,000 acres of growing
crops, causing a loss of $5,000,000.
Crops worth $1,250 an acre are not
rare In an irrigated district, though the
figures above given would look like a
misprint to an Easterner. About 800
acres of the Inundated area were in
celery, and the value would run far
above the average stated. El Paso
Herald.
Beats the Steam Shovel.
A Kansas paper says that If all the
hogs raised in that State last year
could be rolled Into one hog, it could
dig the Panama Canal in two roots
and a half, and wants to know how
long it would take a Missouri hen to
scratch out the canal. We don't know
about that but we do know that the
Missouri hen can pay for the big ditch
In one and a half years.-HumansvIlle
(Mo.) Star.
Not the Farmers This Time.
Prof. Trueman of the University of
Illinois, after maklug a searching In
vestigation, declared that milk dealers
of Chicago systematically adulterate
and water milk delivered to families
In the poorer sections of the city. In
many instances the stuff Is entirely un
fit for food. In the better residence
districts, Tiowever, the milk was nearly
always up to standard.
Milk Vessels.
Cse no wooden milk vessels, and
after washing milk vessels set them
out to dry scalding hot' Never rinse
out with cold water after the final
scalding. Leave them hot so they will
dry quickly aDd not get musty.
Notes on Orchard Work.
Select only standard varieties.
Spray frequently and thoroughly. -Clover
crops prevent soil washing
Buy only of responsible nurserymen.
Go slow about planting dwarf varie
ties.
Sell direct to the consumer whenever
possible.
Form strong symmetrical heads on
all trees.
Prepare the ground the fall previous
to planting.
Supply an abundance of plant food
at ail times. -
PEN WITH SECTIONAL FLOOR.
THEWEEKLY
kHSSTORlAH
i 'i T, -
1522 Tonstall, Bishop of Durham,
printed the first work on arithmetic
in England.
1535 Jacques Cartier discovered the
Saguenay.
1C20 The English Pilgrims sailed from
Plymouth in the Mayflower.
1G51 Cromwell defeated Charles II... at
Worcester.
1G75 The Indans under King Philip at
tacked the town of Deerfield, Mass.
1082 Delaware was granted to William
Penn by the Duke of York.
1700 The French defeated by Prince
Eugene at Turin.
1724 Sir Guy Carleton, who was commander-in-chief
of the British forces
in America, born in Ireland. Died
r in England, Nov. 10, 1S0S.
1720 Beauharnois appointed governor of
Canada. ' ' '
1752 First play performed in ' America
by a regular company of players, at
Willianisburgh, Va.
1755 British defeated the French and
Indians In battle of Lake George.. ..
Sir Charles Hardy arrived at New
York to succeed De Lancey as gov
ernor of the province. .. .Public an
nouncement was made of the exile
of the Acadians from Nova Scotia.
1703 Indian battle at Bloody Ridge,
Mich.
v. '- . .
1705 The subject of medicine " firs
taught in America at the College of
' Philadelphia.
1767 Charles Townshend, the British
statesman whose bill taxing tea and
other commodities brought about the
American Revolution, died in Eng
land. ' ',
1774 First Continental Congress assem
bled in Carpenter's hall, Miiladel.
phia.
1777 Washington completed the de
fenses of hifl nrmtr at Wilminwfnn
" Del. .
1781 Washington and Rochambeau re
ceived In Philadelphia. .. .Americans
victorious in battle of Eutaw Springs.
1783 Peace made between Great Britain
and the United States by the treaty
of Versailles.
1792 French republicans slaughtered 100
persons in the military prison of
Albaye, near Paris.
1804 'Nineteen Dominican missions es
tablished along the California coast
from San Francisco to San Diego.
... .American squadron under Com
modore Preble made its sixth attack
on Tripoli. . . .The American ship In
trepid blown up in the harbor of
Tripoli. '
1812 United States troops repulsed the
Indians in battle at Fort Harrison.
1814 The British sloop of war Avon
sunk by the American sloop Wasp.
1829 A grand fete given in Lyons,
France, in honor of Gen. Lafayette.
1837 An extra session of the United
States Congress convened to devise
measure! to rcliavA the Bnnnninl am.
hflfpetfiemanfa nf tha inhnf.if '
1854 Grand opera first produced in Cas
tle Garden, New York.'
1855 The first Hebrew temple in the
Mississippi valley consecrated in St
Louis.
1803 Forts-Wagner and Gregg, nea
- Charleston, bombarded by Gen. Gil
more. .
1864 President Lincoln issued a proo
lamation of thanksgiving because of
the successes of Farragut at Mobile
. - and Sherman at Atlanta.
1868 "No Papery" riots in Manchester,
England. .. .Steamer Hippocampus
foundered in Lake Michigan, with
loss of thirty-eight lives.
1883 Last spike driven in the Norther
Pacific railroad, near Gold ' Creek,
Mont.
1894 One hundred and thirty-four unl
dentified dead, Victims of the forest
fires, buried at Hinkley, Minn.
1894: Labor day observed for the first
time as a legal holiday throughout
the United' States.
1904 Telegraphic signals sent around the
world in honor of the opening of the
International Geographical Congress
In Washington.
1906 President Roosevelt ordered re
formed spelling to be given a thor
ough test by the public printer. . . .
Senator Heyburn attacked the for
estry policy of President Roosevelt
In the irrigation congress at Boise,
Idaho.
1907 Anti-Japanese riots occurred in
Vancouver, B. C Seven persons
killed and many injured In a Cana
dian Pacific railway accident near
Caledon, Ontario.
Adds Zest.
-nonest now, do you really enjoy
competition?"
"Yes, indeed. You see. I advertis.
and I'm getting about all the blx."-
ashlngton Herald.
Different Viewpoints.
Mabel There goes that youne doctn?
la his automobile. Isu't he Just too k'U
ing for anything?
StellaOh, I don't know. The
be hasn't an practice to speak of.