Satisfied.
' I'd hate to be an Indian,
With face and hands all red.
And have myself all painted up,
. And featheri on my head.
Nor would I like to be a little
Frosty Eskimo, , ' .
And live away up north where there
Is naught but ice and snow.
I wouldn't like to be a "Jap"
In far-away Japan,
And so I think I'd rather be '
A girl Just like I ami
Detroit Free Press.
Cold-Water Mnalo.
This Is an old amusement, but only
(hose who have tried It know how
much melody may lurk in a glass of
water. If you have eight thin tumb
lers of the same size and shape, you
may make a musical scale easily.
Each tumbler contains a certain
amount of cold water, more or less,
according to the volume of sound re
quired; this you may find out prac
tically by dipping your finger In the
water and drawing It briskly round
and round the sharp outer rim of your
glass. This produces a musical note.
The fuller the glass the deeper the
note. The swift motion of the finger
round the edge produces a vibration
on the surface of the water, particu
larly If the edge is thin and clean cut
The glasses, with graduated' amounts
of water, might be placed In regular
scale order on a table covered with
both cloth and table felt : At each
glass put a performer with a good ear
for music and a steady middle finger,
which is the best and strongest to use,
Each glass must be held firmly, near
the bottom, so as not to mar the
sound,' with the forefinger and thumb
of the left hand. In this way all fa
miliar airs may be produced with
some really sweet vibrations, if you
know how to use your finger to the
best advantage.
About Eye-Glaaaea,
It is hard to realize what our an
cestors did without the help of specta
cles. The first mentioned of them
seems to be towards the end of the
thirteenth centry, when convex spec
tacles were invented It Is supposed
by Roger Bason. Concave glasses
were Introduced soon afterward, but
the Spectacle Makers' company of
London was not Incorporated until
1630. It seems that the ancients knew
nothing of these aids of vision; and it
is more than likely that Homer and
even Milton might have been spared
their blindness had they understood
the use of powerful lens. Eye-glasses
came In much later, when the spec
tacles were considered too cumbersome
for fashionable wear; and longnettes
came even later, when great ladies
wished an ornamental case for their
eye-glasses. The eye-glasses of to-day
fit on the nose with a spring for
merly they were held In place with
the hand.
Belief About Sneeaea.
There is a quaint old rhyme about
sneezing which runs as follows:
Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger,
Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger,
Sneeze on Wednesday, have a letter,
Sneeze on Thursday, something better.
Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for sorrow,
Sneeze on Saturday, see true love to
morrow.
A sneeze on Sunday meant a visit
from the parson the next day, and
the good old English housewife set
everything In order against his com
ing.
The sneeze has. certain unfailing tra
ditions attached to it, especially
among the earlier English peasants
and handed down to our day they have
become superstitions. "
One can easily Imagine that after
feeding for many weeks upon hippo
potamus steaks, the flesh of elephants
and other coarse food of that nature,
fish of almost any variety would form
an agreeable and pleasant change.
Such, at all events, was the opinion
of Sir Samuel Baker, who, after a
long march In Africa, through a wild
and dangerous country, arrived upon
the borders of a broad river. He took
his flshtug-rod, and wandering up the
stream, cast his line over the water in
the hope of enticing some beauty of
the deep to take Issue with him.
I put on a large bait, and threw it
about forty yards into the river, well
, up the stream, and allowed the float to
sweep the water in a half-circle, thus
taking the chance of different dis
tances from the shore.
For about half an hour nothing
moved. I was Just preparing to alter
' my position, when out rushed my line,
and striking hard, I believe I fixed tho
"old gentleman" himself, for I had no
control over him whatever.
Holding him was out of the ques
tion. The line flew through my hands
and out them till the blood flowed, and
I was obliged to let the fish take his
own way. :
This he did for about eighty yards,
when he suddenly stopped. .This un
expected halt was a great calamity,
for the reel overran Itself, having
no check-wheel, and the slack colls of
the line caught the handle Just as he
rushed forward again, and with a Jerk
that nearly pulled the rod from my
hands he was gone.
I found one of my large hooks bro
ken short off. The fish was a monster.
After this bad luck I had no run
until the evening, when, putting pn
large bait and fishing at the tall of a
; rock between' the stream and still
water, I once more had a grand rush,
and hooked a big one.
There were no rocks down-stream,
all was fair play and clear water, and
away he went at racing pace straight
for the middle of the river. To check
the pace, I grasped the line with the
tuff of -my loose trousers, and press
ed It between ny fingers so as to act
as a brake, and compel him to labor
for every yard; but he pulled like a
horse, and nearly cut through the
thick cotton cloth, making straight
running tor at least a hundred yards
without a halt
I now put so severe a strain upon
him that my strong bamboo bent near
ly double, and the fish presently so far
yielded to the pressure that I could
enforce his running in halt-circles in
stead of stratght-away.
I kept gaining line until at length I
led him into a shallow bay, and after
a great fight, Bacheet embraced bla
by falling upon him; and clutching
the mpnster with hands and kneei,
he then tugged to the shore a mag
nificent fish of upward of sixty pounds.
For about twenty minutes he had
fought against such a strain as I had
never before used upon a fish. It
measured three feet eight inches to
the root of the tail, and two feet three
Inches in girth of shoulders, and the
head measured one foot ten Inches In
circumference.
A Practical Demonstration.
"The best way to study nature is to
go right to it."
"I Buppose so."
"Oh, I know it. I was once disposed
to doubt the Industry ot the ant, of
which so much is said."
"And you learned better?"
"I did. I had a controversy with a
naturalist over the question, and I
thought I had him beaten until he
gave me a demonstration."
"Took you out and showed you the
ants at work, did he!"
"Well, not exactly that, but he took
me along on one of his scientific expe
ditions and then maliciously pitched
my tent over an ant hill. By the time
I discovered what was happening the
conviction was forced upon me that
ants are really and truly industrious.
They are small, but they made me
move, and some ot them went right
along with us to the next camping
place." New York Times.
tTnder Examination.
"Do you know the prisoner wellt"
asked the attorney.
"Never knew him ill," replied the
witness.
"Did you ever see the prisoner at
the barr
"Took many a drink with him," was
the reply.
"How long - have you known thl
manT
"From two feet up to five feet ten."
"Stand down," yelled the lawyer in
disgust
"Cant do It," said he. Til sit down
or stand up."
"Officer, remove that man." And ht
did. y
Bolivia,
Bolivia is famous tor Its sliver, bu
also possesses considerable quantities
ot gold, which, however, cannot be
extracted without great expense. Ia
the seventeenth century an Indian
near the town of La Fas found a mass
ot native gold, supposed to have been
detached from the neighboring moun
tain by lightning. Bolivia is, on. the
whole, in a backward condition, polit
ical changes and Internal conflicts
havtng hindered the development ot
its natural wealth.
SUBPBISE FOB A SHOPPEB.
Cola She Had Jut Laid Down Picked
Up by Another. K ,
"Shouldn't you think," said the
shopper, "that they'd lose lots oi
these Christmas cards, have lots oi
them stolen? One place where I went
for cards they always have a whole
roomful of them, Christmas cards and
nothing else.
.' "You see this room crowded with
customers, all the people that can get
In, and to wait on them you see three
or four or half a dozen saleswomen,
enough I suppose to attend to the
business. The customers go rummag
ing around, turning the cards over
and searching for what they want,
and pawing them over generally. 1
should think lots of them would get
torn rfnd bent and soiled; and what'i
to prevent anybody from picking up
cards and carrying them away? Still,
I don't Buppose the people that come
here would steal, anyway; but I did
have one queer experience in that
room the last time I shopped there.
"I had bought a bunch of cards and
paid for them, and had them put In
separate envelopes and then all in one
big one, and then 1 saw some. little
cards that caught my fancy, that were
two for five cents, and I took two oi
them and carried them to the sales
woman I had dealt with and" said
Can't I put these right in this en
velope?' and she said 'Certainly, and
that's what I did.
"But I couldn't hand the nickel to
her because she had both hands full
at that moment doing up some cards
for somebody else, and so I said
would lay the five cents down here, on
the table, and that's what I did. And
then what do you suppose happened?
"I stood there for a moment wait
ing to see the saleswoman pick n
up, and as 1 stooa mere me woiuuu
standing beside me opened her purse
and put that nickel in it.
"Whyt I was so surprised that I
didn't know what to say or do, ana
didn't say or do anything and I
don't know yet what to think of It"
Tmm
To Combat Mall Order Honaea.
Don't blame people for buying good
from the mall-order houses. Don't im
agine that the average citizen is going
to be moved by any great patriot!
impulse to trade at home simply to ben
efit the community. The fact is that
the average man is already feeling a
little grouchy at the high prices of al
most everything, and If he can find
some way to buy his goods, wares and
merchandise a little cheaper by send
ing away for them, he will probably
send. Of course he is likely to be
fooled. He is likely to get inferior
goods, and all that, but what's the dif
ference, if he Bends away? The money
is gone, and won't come back.
The place to head oft on the mail
order buying is before it starts. And
the way to head it off is to convince
people that they can actually do better
by trading at home. It can be none,
but it takes some exercise of brains.
Whenever a clever antagonist is using
brains to devise schemes to get the
best of you In some way, whether it
ta in a came of chess, a battle for
blood, or a fight for business, it be
comes necessary for you to use brains,
too, or he will "get" you. The mall
order house la using brains in its ad
vertising. In order , to meet that sort
of compeetltion you, too, must use
brains. You must study your adver
tising: plan it out carefully, to meet
the exact conditions which are presents
ed. Make your advertising with this
noint in view; to convince prospective
customers that you can sell tnem net
ter goods at better prices than anyone
else.
If these mall-order advertisements
. . i t I l ,Vi n-n
are suracienuy ouuvmciug, ,i
make people believe that they can get
goods cheaper by sending away, the
money will go, and no amount of high
sounding argument about patronizing
home industries will do any good. The
merchant himself buys where he can
get goods cheapest and the customer
will certainly do the same. ' :
The way to meet such competition ia
to study their advertising. . Make your
advertising readable. Give the custom
er a square deal. Do not pretend to
be selling goods at a loss. You are en
titled to a profit and the customer has
sense enough to know it Make your
profit a reasonable one, advertise your
prices, and deliver the goods as adver
tised, and" the customer will in most
cases be satisfied. The customer would
rather trade at home than send hit
money away, but he will not sacrifice
his own welfare to do so. and you
wouldn't do it yourself. Merchants'
Journal.
The Poet of the Attle.
It is reported that a modern verse-
maker has been ued for a 2? gro
cery bill.
This seems to advance him a little
nearer the real poet class.
In the earlier day, however, the real
poet never got within hailing distance
The Milking; Shed.
A plan that has been proven success
ful, not only in the improvement of
the milk-, but in the saving of the
manure, is to have a separate barn or
shed to do the milking in. This can
be a comparatively cheap structure,
as it would be intended to keep the
cows in it only during the process of
milking. '. -, .. .......... ,i7,;
The barn, however, should be con
structed in a substantial and sanitary
way. After the cows are milked they
are turned into a roomy shed or barn,
where they remain loose and can eat
forage or lie down at will There
are in this shed racks and troughs
for feeding hay and ensilage in.
In the milking shed the cows are
fastened by means of rigid stanchions,
and the feed mangers, where the con
centrates are fed, are built high
enough to prevent the cow from ly
ing down, thus she remains clean
until the milking is done.
The floors should be of concrete,
and there should be a gutter behind
the cowa. These stables should be
thoroughly cleaned out each day, and,
If possible, washed occasionally, so
that there will be as few flies as pos
sible and no offensive odors. ' There
should be no hay or feed stored in
this barn and it should be well venti
lated, so that the air will be pure and
free from dust -
This is about the most practical way
to keep cows clean. The feeding shed,
which could and really should be the
lower floor of the main feed barn,
should be well ventilated and bedded,
for in there the cows are allowed, to
run at large and the manure is allowed
to accumulate, being covered up each
day with new bedding. This plan
saves absolutely all of the manure
with the least amount of handling, it
being hauled directly to the land in
the spring. Southern Agriculturist
Method of Pulllno; "tumpa.
A very handy device for pulling
stumps from old orchards, and can
pull 200 or more a day by this means.
is shown. The limbs are cat off and
the stumps (E) left as long as pos
sible. A short rope or chain with a
single pulley Is attached to the stump
The anchor rope or chain with a sin
gle pulley is attached to the top of
stump (C). The anchor rope (B)
which runs through tfie pulley Is fast-
Tsflif V ra afliilf
FOB PUUJNO STUMPS.'
ened to the bottom of a stout stump
(A). . - . ;
A pair of steady horses is attached
to the rope and always pull toward
the anchor stump. With a steady pull
there is no Jumping or Jerking, and
they will walk right off as if pulling a
loaded ' wagon. Use about sixty feet
of one-inch rope, which costs $2.40
and the pulley J1.75, making a total
cost of (4.15.
Better Breeding- Bach Time.
No line of breeding requires more
thought and study than horse breed
ing. This is why so many fail in pro
ducing the highest types. One of . the
essentials is knowing the type of sire
to breed the mare to. Many farmers
will breed a light mare to a heavy.
horse or the very opposite, and the re
sult is nothing tangible in the way of
Improvement. Every . farmer should
know what kind of an animal he has
and be able to select a sire to breed
her to that will give an improved off
spring. With a proper selection made
here the remainder will be easy.
It is well to note at the outset that
no horse is absolutely perfect. Every
animal has some defect, be it large
or small. The defects in the mare
should therefore be carefully noted,
and the sire selected should be espe
cially strong in the weak points the
mare may have. It should be hardly
necessary to mention that it Is never
a good plan to cross breeds. To make
success of the business the horse
breeder must select ' one breed and
stick to It
ot 27 worth
Plain Dealer.
ot credit Cleveland
Tbarffeat Kite oa Reeord.
The largest kite ever made waa 60
feet by 40 feet Its weight including
tali, exceeded three-quarters of a too.
Within a month after you first starx
a lawsuit. It doesn't look so favora
ble. . - .
A lucky man is one who can have
hi rascality overlooked aa a mistake.
Weeding- Ont Unprofitable Co-rra.
Dairy farms are constantly advan
cing in value, which should be regard
ed as part of the profits. Grain farm
ing Is hard on the land.
With the case in test it will bo pos
sible to weed out the poor cheese cows
on the same principle used in the
Babcock butter test to weed out the
poor butter cows. Instead ot keeping
cows for cheese which average seventy
pounds of casein per 100 pounds of
fat, ohe may breed cowa that will pro
duce milk containing close to 100
pounds of casein to 100 pounds of fat
Creatine- latereat la Bore,
Better lighted farm houses, music
and Inviting reading matter on the sit
ting room table have done much to
solve the problem of keeping the boys
on the farm. Make home attractive,
and don't crowd the work toe vrL
rrerrenftnc otaeaaee. '
The poultry papers are flooded with
letters asking remedies for fowl dis
eases. Many of the letters may be
read between the lines and give a
story1 of conditions which should not
exist Nearly all poultry ailment- are
preventable if a few simple, rulaa are
observed.
Plenty of grit is necessary. It may
be placed In the water, in which char
coal should be also be placed. The wa
ter must be clean, and if allowed to
accumulate, the droppings from the
fowls is a most prolific breeder of dis
ease germs.
The henhouses must be well ven
tilated and dry at all. times.'. Drafts
and damp floors claim a heavy toll. .
: Impure food and soured mashes
cause Inflammation and other diseases
of the digestive organs. Any chickens
showing symptoms .of an unhealthy
condition should be at once Isolated
from the., flock. - Better care can be
given it, and the danger of infecting
other fowls is removed. Farm and
Ranch. - ' I ."
Handy Barrow for Winter.
I have had many a tussle in trying
to push a wheelbarrow through drifts
of snow. My pig;
pen is some distance
from the '- other
buildings, and it is
ery necessary to
have some sort of
conveyance for the
feed. After having
tried my patience
to the limit for sev-
tried my patience to the limit for sev
eral winters, I finally devised the
scheme shown in the cut I made a
large runner and put it on the barrow
.In place of the wheel: This skips
over the snow in fine shape, and runs
fully as easy as a wheel does on solid
ground. C. W. Beecher in Farm and
Home.' . ;
OMAN
USEFUL BABBOW.
To Simplify Sngrar Beet Cnltnre.
The Department of Agriculture is
experimenting with a view, to obtain
ing a single "germ beet seed. Last
year's investigations were successful
in increasing the percentage of the
single germ seed to 50 per cent, as
compared to 26 per cent for the year
previous. By methods of selection
from single-seed plants this percent
age may be still further increased.
The ultimate establishment of a sin
gle germ beet will revolutionize sugar
beet growing, since the several sproutj
sent up by the ordinary seed, all oi
which must be carefully removed by
hand, constitutes . the most difficult
problem in beet raising.'
Hoara for Turning Over Money.
The hog commends itself to the gen
eral farmer on account of its prolific
qualities. A sow will produce two lit
ters of six to a dozen each per yeai
and the farmer can turn his money
over several times with hogs while ht
is waiting for other animals to ma
ture. ; '
Hogs require a little more care at
times . than- other some animals, but
the man who likes to work with them
and is wiling to study their needs and
give them regular care will find them
a most profitable adjunct to the farm.
They can be turned Into money or
food as the owner chooses.
Swine Breeding.
A swine breeder of experience and
good Judgment says: "The best show
pig may come from the smallest sow
in the herd, but It Is not safe, aa a
rule, to select breeders from that class.
We want the most size In the., short
est time, and we can safely forego a
little of the fattening tendency, pro
vided w& secure in the prospective
breeder ranglness and a tendency to
growth. I don't care how good the In
dividual, if only three or four pigs
were farrowed in the litter I would
not reserve one of them for a breeder."
Barrel Trapa for Rata,
Two effective devices for trapping
rats are made with barrels as shown
here. Coarse brown paper, with crosi
slits, is stretched across the barrel
head in the one case and a light cover
of wood hinged on a rod in the other
plan. The best bait is usually food oi
a kind that the rats do not get in th
vicinity. . .:....',
Farm Notea. "'.
Alfalfa Is 'growing in favor as a rt
tatlon crop.
' Give the colts plenty of room to run
about in.
The plow has its share In the good
roads movement
Fit the collar to the horse, not the
horse to the collar.
Owls are vermin destroyers. En
courage their presence on the farm.
It is a poor policy to feed inferior
grain to horses especially to the work
team.
On cold nights do not leave the
cows out to sleep on the damp ground
where they may be chilled.
The manure heap is not the farmer's
bank unless he gets it out on the land.
Then It returns goods interest
Make every square rod on your farm
Dleld Its quota ot profit Some iim
can be found for even the poor strips.
Study out how you can best use all
-roar land. , I
1535 Society of Jesuits founded by
' Ignatius Loyola.
1724 Philip vof Spain abdicated In
favor of his son. . '
1758 France and Austria concluded a
treaty of alliance. . - .
1772 The first vessel left Quebec for
the West Indies.
1775 Quebec besieged in vain by the
- American provincials, under Gen.
- . Montgomery, who was slain.
1777 Washington surprised and de
feated the British at Princeton, N.
1780 Richard Howley elected Govern
or of Georgia.
1781 Congress chartered the Bank of
North America.
1813 British burned Black Rock and
- Buffalo.
1830 Methodism introduced Into Ger
many.... Illinois College opened.
1836 Constitutional convention of Ar
kansas met.
t849 Hudson River Railroad opened
to Poughkeepsie. .. .First number
of the "Alta California" issued.
1851 Louis Kossuth, the noted Hun
garian patriot, spoke before the ,
United States Congress at Wash
ington. 1858 Election held in Kansas under
the Lecompton constitution.
1861 Governor Brown of Georgia ar
rived in Savannah and ordered the
. seizure of the defenses ot that city.
1862 The siege of Vlcksburg was
abandoned by Gen. Sherman.
1863 Arkansas Post attacked by the
, Federals. . . .The Federals occupied
Murfreesbbrough, Tenn.'; ;
1875 Political riots in New Orleans.
1885 Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia
Invested with the pallium. : .
1887 The Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamber
lain visited Toronto. ;
1891 United States troops engaged la
battle with Sioux Indians near
Gordon, Neb.
1893 Nathaniel Wheeler, sewing ma
. ' chine Inventor and manufacturer,
died In Bridgeport, Conn.
1896--The President proclaimed Utah
a State.
1898 A score of lives lost by the col
lapse of ..the city hall in London,
':. Ont ' .: ... '
1900 Canadian troops won their first
Victory over the Boers in South
Africa... ..Second contingent of
Canadian troops departed f or -South
Africa.
1903 Nearly 600 lives lost In the Iro
; quois Theater fire in Chicago.
1904 Market price of cotton declined
to 6 cents. .
1905 R. F. Sutherland appointed
speaker of the Dominion House ot
Commons.
1908 Joseph B. Foraker and Charles
P. Taft withdraw from the Ohio
senatorial contest.1
' y
' A movement has been started in St
Paul, Minn., for the formation of a
pipe trades council. . -
The Alabama State Federation ad.
vocates the establishment tf a nation
al tuberculosis sanatorium.
According to the last available fig
ures, those of 1907, Denmark had a
trade union membership of 109,914.
Oklahoma City has started a move
ment to get the convention of the In
ternational Typographical Union In
1912.
Steps have been taken looking to the
formation of a State organization of
bricklayers and stone masons in Min
Short time notices have been posted
in the locomotive Industry at Horwlch,
England, where five thousand men are
employed. - .
Boston (Mass.) boiler makers have
unanimously rejected the terms pro
posed for their return to the A. F. ot
L. international fold.
For the two-year period ending June
SO, the International Association of
Machinists paid strike benefit
amounting to 1612,896.60.
A deadlock has occurred in the South
Derbyshire (England) pottery trade
with regard to the revised scale of
payments to the sanitary pressere.
The Swedish government has inter
vened to settle the dispute which waa
the cause of the general strike la '
Stockholm. Arbitrators have been ap
pointed for this purpose, and to draft
regulations for settlement of future
disputes. , .
The journeymen bakers of Paris,
France, and suburbs have issued, aa
appeal to the public to boycott all bak
eries where Sunday work la still car
ried on.
The master tailors organization of .
London, England, la considering the
advisability of forming a strong trade
union la order to protect their Inter
ests under the trades boards bill.
New England clgarmakera union
will undertake a vigorous label cam
paign In Vermont and the most par
ticular attention will be paid to Rut
land and vicinity.