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THE WOBTHEBIT PUTS. A lonely pin on a northern shore; The blue ky laving the sands be ' : low; ; , ' . The 'homeland breeze blowing o'er, And the white-winged sea-gulls cir- , cling alow. : V yard where the ax and the mallet ring Through the busy course of the sum- , mer days; - ' stately ship, like a living thing, That leap to the ocean, down the . . : ways. : . - . A shadow of black on the ocean path; A brazen cast In the troplo sky; A typhoon loosing It awful wrath; A ship that Is shattered while brave men die. A battered spar, by the currents spurned. Which ha floated far on the "surg ing main; A sandy beach where the tide has - turned, And the northern pine Is at horn again. . . . -Youth' Companion. mm ILLIOH DOLLAB FUMEfiAL DOU&GEI? EMPRESS i . . . I The Claim J umpers J Ben Hallowell was returning to his claim. He had been to 'Frisco for a mnnth rvH n in tnrfuoA anm AflA with means to "grubstake" him, but had failed. This was not because he did not have a good claim, but because the capitalists he met did not care to look Into It. Ben was very gloomy. A year before he had married the girl of hla choice In the East and a week "after his marriage had returned to his mining operations. He had hoped be fore this to bring his Susie to him, but the fates had been against him. And now his failure to secure means with .whloh to prosecute his work made him doubly despondent Before him, coming on horseback, the broad brim of hla felt hat flapping with each lope, was a man whom be recognized as Andy Kitchen, the owner of a claim not far from his own. ,!!How.djf,,Ben?" said Andy, grinning affably, and without lessening bis pace added, "Yer claim's Jumped." "What's that to laugh at?" called Ben, sharply. "How many of 'em?" ' "Two. But one on 'em I reckon you can handle without trouble. He's a little cubb. T'other may down you." Ben would have asked more ques tions, but Kltohen seemed to be In a hurry and rode on. Here was more trouble. Ben was a peaceful, plodding man, beloved by his neighbors, and the last man in the world to fight ex cept for his rights. But be was not a JkJi Ct:-': o THR TWO Of 'EM. man to suffer imposition. Besides, he had strong faith in his "hole In the ground," and relied upon It to unite him in time with his beloved wife. He rode on, considering what he should do. He bad no faith In peaceful meas ures, for claim Jumpers were not re specters of JuBtice and usually did not Jump a claim unless prepared to maintain their ground. He finally con cluded to reconnolter the Jumpers from a distance and watch for a good op portunity to catch them apart It was about 10 o'clock In the mon Ing and a bright summer day when Ben left the road and struck a trail through a wood which led to his claim, now but half a mile distant. The birds were, singing in the trees and every thing about him was so peaceful that he approached the encounter before him with still greater reluctance. His young wife was ever present in his thoughts, and he could not dismiss a picture of her anguish If It were fated that she should hear that he had been killed by the Jumpers. After go ing as far on horseback as he dared, lest he attract attention, he dismount ed and proceeded on foot pausing be hind a tree In sight of his claim and his cabin beside It . There was no one .about but the cabin door stood open, and smoke Is sued from thestoveptpe chimney. Be tween two fires swung a hammock, la the center of which was a bundle. Ben eyed all this cautiously, listened till he was convinced that there was no one present then boldly went forward. Curious to learn what waa in the ham mock, he pulled apart Its sides and revealed a roll of blanket. But as the blankets contained something he pulled aside a corner covering on end of the bundle and revealed Well, what Ben revealed was no more striking that the expression of bis face on seeing It The stern look he had worn up to this moment melted it - j t. V) 4-n i 4 V if I 4 - s MAKING A VESSEL OF SMOKE FOR A DEAD EMPRESS. - We here ' reproduce a photograph showing the burning of a gorgeous boat specially built, according to Chinese custom in royal funerals, to con vey the spirit of the late Dowager Empress of China across the mystic river beyond which 1b believed to He the heavenly Nirvana. The boat cost about $40,000. On the bow stood a huge figure representing the guiding spirit of Heaven, and Just behind It was the imperial yellow chair. On the deck were four pavilions, the first containing effigies of Bbme twenly-flve court ladles of her majesty's train, the second a number of robes actually worn by the Empress, the third effigies of priests and the fourth the Imperial throne. The entire funeral expense was nearly Jl.000,000. Illustrated Lon don News. . -' ' Into one as kindly as, or more kindly than, had ever rested on his features. He looked down Into , the face of a sleeping baby. For a time the diminutive creature slept on, then began to stretch its lit tle legs and fling its little fists about, at last opening a pair of blue eyes, which it fixed Intently on Ben. "Reckon you're the little Jumper," said Ben, giving the baby his finger to clutch. "I hope the big one is no more formidable. If your dad has taken my property I don't see how I can have the heart to dlsposses him." By this time Ben was on his knees beside the baby, making all kinds of grimaces and saying all kinds of ridic ulous things to show his good will and attract the child's attention. Then a sudden thought struck him. He re membered Andy Kitchen's grin when he announced that the claim had been Jumped. "By thunder!" he exclaimed. "Sup pose the big jumper is a woman!" For a moment his face fell. If this were bo, what an uncomfortable situa tion! Even the shooting he had ex pected was not so bad as that. He was so engrossed with this thought and the baby, In whose face he fancied he could see trace of some thing pleasantly familiar, that he did not hear a footstep approaching. Then he felt a light touch on his shoulder. Instinctively his hand flew to his re volver as he turned. He looked into the smiling face of his wife. There are certain scenes as well as emotions that are Indescribable. Nei ther the scene nor the" emotions In this case can be painted in words. Never was man more completely turned from the passion of strife to that of love. There was one long embrace that It seemed would never end, then a grad ual relinquishment;- after that explana tions. Susie had prevailed upon a relative to furnish means with which to prose cute Ben's claim, besides funds to en able ber to take them to him herself. A letter telling him of her Intended Journey had arrived the day after bis departure for 'Frisco. Susie on her arrival, finding him gone, quietly took possession of his cabin and waited hla return. When he came she had gone for water. Ben's claim turned out a bonanza. In time he organized a company to work It and he called It the Little Jumper. Grit MISUSE OF WORDS. , Correction of Wanton Abuaea Skonld Bvarln In Grammar School. Those who find a never-ending pleasure in reading the works of Goldsmith, Addison, "Rollicking Dick" 8teele and our own genial Irving must suffer something like literary nausea in turning over the pages of some modern newspapers in quest of news, the Buffalo Commercial says. Why should the society editor Insist that a wedding "occurred," Instead of taking place? But this abuse of the word eems venial when we turn to the sporting page and find that every event recorded from a dog fight to a running race Is "classy " It may be assumed by some critics that this word flashed upon the sporting fraternity as a great prlie through the revival of the Olympic gacnes. Greek authors wrvt books now known as cl&aalcs, find by the same token their athletic games obtained a like designation. But why should a prize fight be called "classy"? Probably the word ? Is a slangy equivalent of "high class." At any rate. It is Illegitimate and . of fensive as "brainy." :-. But the offending is not confined to the editors of sporting pages. To go through the catalogue of misused words would far exceed the limits of any editorial article. Yet one can hardly leave the subject without re cording a. solemn protest against the phrase "armed with a warrant," or the aeronaut who. "negotiates a trip" around the aerodrome. And one would like to add that "Inaugurate," which means to Induct In office, does not happily .characterize the running of a new railroad train or the opening sale of autumn millinery. ' The colleges of America are doing good work in their departments of English literature to prevent the wan ton misuse and abuse of our magnifi cent language, but the education should begin In our grammar schools, where the great majority of our chil dren receive their only education. , He la a Oennina Highland Chief. King Edward is about to start on his round of country house visits for shooting, writes a Londoner. The most interesting of all his majesty's hosts, from every point of view, Is The Mack intosh, of Mackintosh, laird of Moy Hall, Scotland. The Mackintosh's ancestry Is like a page of Scottish Chiefs, so closely con nected Is It with the history of Scot land In ancient days. The Mackin tosh Is one of the few genuine High land chiefs of purely Celtic descent In the male line. His ancestry goes back to the invasion of Irish Scots from the north of Ireland, which destroyed the original Inhabitants of the Highlands the Pietl, the Romans called them, because they painted their bodIes-nd altered the name of the whole coun try north of the Tweed. ,He Is the chief of the Clan Chattan, which ruled for centuries over the greater part of Inverness-shire and Aberdeenshire, including the great for est of Badenoch. As befits his ances try, The Mackintosh Is very tall, with long, aquiline features and a droop ing yellow mustache. He wears the kilt and sporran of his clan, a skened- hu (knife), a dirk and a Highland cap. In this costume he will greet the King. . , :. :: Electrle Drpa!a. A scientific man In Buffalo proclaims that he has discovered that working about high voltage electric apparatus results in "grave disturbances of th digestive organs, loss of appetite, dis tress after eating" and a whole train of dyspeptic symptoms. : Dating Her Par Back. Miss Passelgh I have had my pic ture taken once every year since 1 was 10. Miss Youngthlng Oh, do let me one of those old daguerro types. They're bo quaint Boston Transcript The Cannibal Chief Thi fellow you'r eating now, your excellency, wa a Pittsburg millionaire. The Cannl bal Chief Well. I find him altogether too rich for me. If you have a good friend doat poll It all by Imposing on. him. FISH THAT CAJf WALK. fllmfctaar Perch 'Travel Over LaaA from Water t - Water. - It may seem absurd to speak of Sshes as walking. The flying fish 4 well known, but Its flight looks much like swimming In the air. We natural' ly think of fishes as living always in the water, aa being Incapable, in fact of living anywhere else, Pearson's Weekly says. But nature maintains bo hard-and-fast lines of distinction between animal life which belongs to the land and that which belongs to the water. If we can believe the ac counts of naturalists, there are fishes that traverse dry land. ; ? " It Is reported that Dr. Francis Day of India has collected data of several Instances ef ' the migration ' of fishes by land from one piece of water to another. A party of English' officers wero upon one occasion encamped In a cer tain part of India when their atten tion was attracted by a rustling sound In the grass and ; leaves. Investiga tion showed it to be caused by myriads of little fishes that were passing slow ly on. There were hundreds of them moving by using their side and small fins as feet now upright, now falling down, squirming, bending, rolling over, regaining their finny feet and again passing on. These fishes were the famous cllmb- Ig perch and they were-passing over the country to avoid a drought When the stream in whloh they had been spending the season dries up they scale the banks and, directed by some marvelous instinct crawl to another. Wilson ; Vance's novel of a Crom- welllan soldier in old Virginia en titled "Big -John Baldeth" to to be brought out In England by the noted Bristol publisher who Introduced Hugh Conway, Jerome K. Jerome, Anthony Hope . and other novelists of note. Wilson Vance Is Che father of Louis Joseph Vance, author of "The Brasa Bowl." - ' ,'"-" . There will be given to the world thia autumn two books about the late Lord Kelvin;-'-, one of the really great men of science of the nineteenth cen tury. One is the formal biography by Professor Silvan us Thompson and the other Is a volume of personal remdnls-' ences written by bis sister, Mrs. King who haa lately followed her brother into the other world. i Mrs. Velma Bwanston Howard ha returned to New York from a visit to the celebrated Swedish author, Miss Selma Lagerlof. : A new edition of Mrs; Howard's translation of Mlse Lagerlof s "Christ Legends", has Just been Issued. The book la having a success as literature aside from Its religious significance. Many of the legends It contains are not to be found In the Bible and have, a distinct qualntness and charm of their own. Harry Delaoombe, the author of the "Boy's Book of Airships," has been In the British army and became much interested in the subject on which he writes. He Is now a specialist In it and has a personal acquaintance with most of the leading inventors. He has withheld his forthcoming book from the press as long as possible In order to get In the very latest informa tion, and it Includes accounts of the Zeppelin dirigible and the Wright Curtlas, Farman, Blerlot Antoinette and other aeroplanes as they appeared at the International contests at Reims. To see ourselves as others see us is always an Interesting occupation, and nothing can be more interesting to an American than to know why he Is unlike the English and the causes that have made him the energetic, enterprising, active man that he is. In A. Maurice Low's forthcoming book, 'The American People," these things are explained and the working of the American mind is carefully analysed. To be told that American character has been influenced by the Indian or that one reason why we are different from Europeans la because of our 'cold waves" is Interesting. . Cicely Hamilton, the author of "Mar riage as a Trade," frankly admits that she speaks as a spinster. Her claim la that woman's one trade or means of livelihood has- been to please man, to marry hVm If possible, and to do the work that he judges too tiresome or uninteresting to do for himself. The result has been not only that her profession of matrimony has been jvercTOwded but also that the low grade of woman's wages Is due to her lack of interest in her work and re gard for It on account of her belief that her only respectable career waa the marrying of some good man, or In case that failed In becoming the wife of an unworthy man. Miss Hamilton Is an English woman and the author of "Diana of DobsonV Breaking- a Record. 'What was the matter with that boy I sent you?" "He Isn't honest" "You must be mistaken!" "No. Tm not He said he was truth ful and that he loved work, and a boy that can lie twice with halt a dozen words is too swift for our business." Houston Poet Tn Maek. RaaUaa. "Why are you crying. Johnny? "We was playing train and I was the engine." -Yea." "And pa corned tn and switched ma" Judge. Modern Farm Barn. The barn herewith illustrated will be found suitable for a medium-sized farm on which eight or ten milk cows are kept It has a floor space of 38 by 64 feet exclusive . of the milk room. The studs should be 12 to' 14 feet long. The Interior Is divided as shown on the floor plan The silo Is 12x38 feet, with a 5-foot pit which may be of stone or cement. The silo as shown is connected to the feed room by a EXTERIOR VIEW OF BABIt. 4x4-foot chute. This should extend the entire length of silo and have small windows both at the top and bottom. The hay chute Is 5x5 feet square and has door at the floor line for forking out hay. The chute Is of sufficient Blze for feeding stock If barn is full. The silo and hay chute are boarded up tight to prevent dust, dirt or odors from entering the cow barn. The loft floor should be made tight for the same reason, and If made double with tar paper between it will be better. , The construction of the calf r and bull pens, also the box stall, should be such that the animals may readily see the other animals in the barn. They enjoy .company as well as human be ings do, and many an otherwise good tempered animal has been rendered unsafe by' being placed In solitary con finement The milk room is handy to the cow stalls and has both an interior and exterior exit The door leading Into the barn should be closed at all times." . The Interior arrangement is Buch that one attendant can feed and care for the stock, In a short time; a point not to be overlooked In this day of high-priced labor. An 8 or 10-foot opening should be left In the loft floor over the driveway for passing up hay, etc." The grain and bran bins are lo cated over the feed room and the feed drawn through 8-lnch wood spouts and mixed In the feed room. The driveway; also the space between the feed room and cow stalls, may be used a portion of the year for tools or a wagon. The floor above the drive way should be 11 or 12 feet high; the floors over the pens and cow stalls should be 7 feet high, and those over the box stall and horse stalls should be 8 feet high. This arrangement pro- , , . . , , 1 -zi 4 T it GBOUND FLAN OF BARN. vldes ample storge room for hay,' etc.. In the loft Ax good feature of this barn is that additions can be made without interfering with the general arrangement in nay way. J. E. Bridg- man In Farm, Stock and Home. . - Feeding; Silage. , Quite a number of practical feeders have adopted the silage method. One man In particular having a large stock farm in Ohio puts up annually be tween 2,500 and 3,000 tons of corn and cowpea silage, which he feeds to his beef cattle. A 1,000-pound steer will usually consume about 60 pounds of silage per day. When fed a ration of this kind, some nitrogenous food should be added, such as oil meat cot tonseed meal or other concentrated products found on the market The feeder from Ohio referred to feeds on an average about 5 pounds of cotton seed meal per day to his steers and about 6 pounds of clover hay, In addi tion to the 60 pounds of silage. For beef cattle It is usually considered ad visable to allow the crop to mature berore cutting, and also to plant It the same as one plants for grain .produc tion. The cattle feeder Is not partic ularly anxious to obtain a large amount of forage, but he Is more anx ious to get as much corn as possible. A crop of corn that will produce about 60 bushels per acre will make from eight to nine tons of silage planted in the usual way and harvested when mature. It is stated by feeders who ars using silage, and similar reports have come from stations, that cattle fed on this produce scour less than when fed on corn and dry roughage. The Cornell : Experiment Station found that two tons of horse manure in an exposed place in five months' lost S per cent In gross weight 60 per-cent of ita nitrogen, 4f per cent of Its phosphorus and 76 per cent of Ita pot aslw. The total loss of plant food was CI per ceo V: ' Weather Pacta. v ' The Farmers' Club of the American Institute ua issued the following rules for forecasting the weather: 1. The wind never blows unless rain or snow la falling within 100 miles of you. 2. When cirrus clouds are rapidly moving from the north or northeast there will be rain inside of twenty four hours, no matter how cold it is. 3. Cumulus Vlouds always move from a region of fair weather to a re gion where a storm Is forming. 4: When the temperature suddenly falls there Is a storm forming south of you. 5. When the temperature suddenly rises there is a storm forming north ol you. . 1 ' x 6. " Cirrus clouds always move from a region where a storm is in progress f a region of fair weather. 7. When cirrus clouds are rapidly m ovine from the south or Bouthnnnt there will be a cold rainstorm on the morrow. If It Is in summer; if It is In winter, there will be a snowstorm. 8. Whenever heavy, white frost oc curs a storm is forming within .1,000 miles north or northeast of you. 9. The wind always blows in a cir cle around a storm, and when it blows from the north the heaviest rain la east of you; If it blows from the south the heaviest rain is west of you; If it blows from the east the heaviest rain Is south of you; If it blows from the west the heat lest rain is north of you. f Sidebone tn Horaea. The cut on the left shows a healthy foot bone. In some cases the cartil ages are large, extending for some dis tance, giving an appearance of side bone. If the same condition exists In other feet, it may be concluded that no sidebone exists. The picture on the right depicts a foot with growth of sidebone. The growth begins at lower edge of cartilage, next to the foot bon and expends gradually upward. . Farming- Poaaf bllltlea. - At the average rate of twenty bush els of wheat per acre (which Is much less than the average yield of either Germany or England), the State of Illi nois, with a few ' Indiana counties thrown in for good measure, cultivated exclusively to wheat, would produce annually more of this product than does the entire country. If Ohio and Iowa's 76,784 square miles of improved land (census 1900), with a 17,658 square miie strip oi jvausas, snouia be planted in corn, there would be harvested, with an acreage yield of fifty bushels, 3,022,144,000 bushels, an amount practically equal to the total 1906 corn crop of the United States, Canada and Mexico. ; With the 10,615,644 , acres of Georgia's Improved land producing a bale of cotton per acre, the yield would amount to nearly Is much as the total annual cotton crop of the country; and yet a large part or tne 1&.7 M13 acres of so-called "unimproved farm land" In Georgia can be made to produce as well as the best land in the State, with still a balance of 11,191,943 acres of unclassified land, of which a por tion only is Irreclaimable to agricul ture. '-'- '.-; Hosr and Pence. "." Lean, lank hogs and poor fences will discourage almost any farmer who has, such a combination. With animals that will multiply as rapidly as pigs It seems almost a shame to see a man breeding old scrub sows to some boar that has no pride of ancestry or hope of posterity. Yet this Is exactly the course that about half of the farmers are following, and wondering why feeding hogs is not paying substantial profits. .Never get the idea In your beads that breeding from young and Immature breeding stock encourages early maturity In the progeny. Good, strong, well-developed pigs from ma ture sires and dams will make better growth and more economical gains than the undersized runts that result from breeding immature sows to soma 6-months-old boar pig. : Ponltry and Fro It - Growlna;.' A combination of fruit-growing and poultry raising is especially recom mended in a bulletin from the Penn sylvania Department of Agriculture. If possible, locate the poultry houses so that the runs will be in the or chard. The fowls will destroy thou sands of harmful Insects, thus greatly benefiting the trees and Increasing the prospects for fruit, and the fowls will at the same time gain great comfort and benefit by the protecting ehade of the trees. Plum trees and cherry trees are especially benefited by the pres ence of fowls about their roots. Peach trees will grow most rapidly and soon est give an ' abundant shade. An Old Bank Game. A farmer near Rock Island. 111.. was cleverly swindled out of S25 by a smooth stranger who claimed to be the game warden. The farmer was hunting on his own farm when ap proached and asked if he had a hunt ing license. He had not and the man said he was not excused by being on his own farm, and that he would ar rest him. This did not please the farmer, and he finally gave the fellow $25 as bail. When ha appeared in court the next morning he met the real game warden, but not his money.