GOOSE ROUTS A BEAU
tbUfti HIDES UNDER . BED TO
ESCAPE GIRL'8 FATHER.
When He It Ignomlnlously Put to
Flight Jthe - Parent Relents, and
Now the Couple Have Free
Um of the Parlor.
Logansport, Ind.-Perry Hopke, who
lives near Rockfleld, five mllea west of
Logansport will never again crawl
under a bed to escape, the irate father
of his sweetheart. , ' , , ., : ,
Hopke's attentions were favored by
the girl, but the father objected and
threatened to kick Hopke out of the
house should he ever call. One even
ing the father went to Delphi, Intend
ing to stay until midnight The girl
Informed Hopke and he called at the
house, but he stayed a little too long.
When papa's footsteps were heard
on the porch the girl rushed the young
man from the parlor into a side room
and told Hopke to crawl under a bed.
The father entered, but at the same
time a sharp, hissing sound came from
under the bed. The next moment a
wild yell was heard, and then a form
shot out of the room, bumped Into the
father, who was standing in the door
way, and fled down the road. A goose
that was "setting" had attacked the
girl's beau and struck him so hard in
the ear that blood flowed.
The sight of the fleeing youth and
the fact that he had been put to flight
by a goose so impressed the father
that he has relented and now Perry
Hopke will call at the girl's home and
the two will have free use of the par-lor.
LIVELY BATTLE WITH BEES
Pennsylvania Farmer Nearly Stung to
Death by Infuriated Insects
Which He Disturbed.
Wllllamport, Pa. Harry A. Fague,
a prominent Picture Rock farmer,
drove through a swarm of honey
bees with a. mowing machine. As a
result of his battle with the infuri
ated insects Fague was nearly stung
to death. The bees had alighted in
the hay field but a short time before
Fague drove by with the womer.
The blades of the machine cut the
warm in half, and the aroused bees
covered the team of colts and their
driver. The horses made a leap for
ward and started across the field at
breakneck speed. With one hand Fague
attempted to control the team, and
with the other he brushed the bees
from his face and neck. He held the
team in check until they reached the
barn safely. Fugue's hands and
face waa masses of bruises, and his
arms are swollen to twice their nop
mal alze.
MEET AFTER MANY YEARS
Twins Taken by 8eparate Families at
Mother's Death, Brothers Find
Each Other. ,
Pittsburg, Amos and Cyrus Lape,
born together, In Black Lick, Indiana
county, thirty-nine years ago, are
acquainted for the first time. On ac
count of the mother's death at their
birth the twins were separated and
lived with different families, whieh
lost track of each other.
The reunion of the brothers was
brought about by a mistake. A strang
er who found Amos at work in Export
exclaimed, "Hello, Cy, what are you
doing in ExportT"
Amos demurred: "But I'm not 'Cy,'
I am AmoB Lape. I have heard I had
a twin brother named Cyrus, but never
aw him. Do you know hlra?"
"Well, rather," said the stranger,
"he's a neighbor of mine at Dunbar,
I'll lead you to him," and he did.
TWO GOOD , CAKE RECIPES
Striped Cakes and Small Cakes Good
Enough to Tempt Most Jaded
Appetite. v
Striped Cake. White Part. One
half cupful butter, one cupful sugar,
one-half cupful sweet milk, two cup
fula flour In Which is sifted two tea
spoonfuls baking powder, whites of
three eggs.
Dark Part. One cupful brown
sugar, one e. tablespoonful j molasses,
one-half cupful butter, one-half cup
ful sour milk in which dissolve one
naif teaspoonful soda, two cupfuls of
flour, one tablespoonful of cinnamon
and allspice. Drop a spoonful of
each kind in a well greased cake dish,
first the light part, then the dark, al
ternately. Try to drop it so that the
cake shall be well streaked through,
so that It has the appearance of a
striped cake. ;
Small Cakes.-rOne pint of New Or
leans molasses, one pound brown
sugar, one tablespoon of melted but
ter, two tablespoons of soda, one-half
cup of sour milk, one-half teaspoon
each of cinnamon, cloves and allspice,
one nutmeg, pinch of mace, and one
grated orange and lemon; flour to
sake a stiff dough. Mix the ingre
dients the night before and in the
morning roll out thin and cut in ob
long; add more flour if needed, as
lome flour differs.
aSailAround
If hooks for the bathroom, kitchen
and pantry are dipped in enamel paint
there will be no trouble from Iron
rust.
Having several pairs of shoes and
never wearing the same pair more
than one or two days at a time will
rest the leather and make it last bet
ter. Chamois leather should be washed,
when necessary, in soapsuds, and
rinsed in soapsuds not in clean wa
ter. Treated thus it will keep its
original softness.
Any dish that has held dough, milk,
cream or eggs should be rinsed In cold
water before being placed in hot wa
ter, as hot water tends to cook such
things and make them more difficult
to remove.
Small glasses filled with jelly will
prove to be very acceptable gifts
when Christmas time comes. When
making your own supply of Jelly fill
i few little glasses of different flavors,
put into a prettily trimmed basket 01
box will make a nice present for an
Invalid friend.
Save old kid gloves for ironing day.
Sew a pad made from the left glove
on to the palm of the right one, and
you will find your hand is saved from
becoming blistered, while the fingers
and the back of the hand will be pro
tected from the scorching heat, which
Is so damaging to the skin.
Secretary
Wilson Now the Bug Man
WASHINGTON. Added to his al
ready manifold duties, James
Wilson, the secretary of agriculture,
Is now made by congress the chief bug
inspector of the United . States. It
came about with the . passage of a
law identical with t'ue pure food and
drug act, but covering all insecticides
and fungicides. The enforcement of
the law, as in the pure food law, is
vested in a commlstion consisting of
the secretary of the treasury, the sec
retary of commerce and labor and the
secretary of agriculture. But the two
cabinet officers first named are sort of
commissioners emeritus. The real
work comes down to the secretary of
agriculture.
The bug commission has appointed
the legal officers of the three depart
ments, R, E. Cabell, commissioner of
internal revenue; Charles Early, so
licitor of the department of com
merce and labor, and George P. Mc
Cabe, solicitor of the department of
agriculture, as a subcommittee to
look after the legal enforcement of the
law. This subcommittee is up against
a hard problem already. The law de
fines an insecticide as a compound for
"repelling, destroying, mitigating or
preventing" any insect. The law of
ficers, after due. consultation, admit
ted that while they understood how an
Insect might be repelled or destroyed,
they did not see how they could pre
vent an insect or mitigate him.
The law is specific in . declaring
against misbranding Insecticides. If a
well-meaning citizen of the United
States puts up a compound that he
says will rid a house of, say, bugs,
within a specified length of time,
there seems no way to determine
whether the compound is misbrand
ed, unless the secretary of agriculture
goes to the premises and holds a
stop-watch on the roaches," to see
whether they mitigate or vacate with
in the time limit.
The biological survey has issued an
informal statement already, saying that
the law is remiss in that it does not
Include rats among the insects to
be prevented. An ef:o: t is being made
to see whether the law officers are
willing to consider rats as insects.
Dr. Henshaw "of the biological sur
vey and Prof. Crittenden of the bu
reau of entomology are going to call
to their aid the legal advice of Judge
Pugh of the police court Judge Pugh.
while assistant district attorney some
years ago, established a reputation In
the police court by arguing that, le
gally, a lop-eared rabbit was a chicken
within the meaning of the act, If any
body can prove a sewer rat to be a
centipede Judge Pugh is the man, it
Is believed.
How Old Mother Earth Hides Her Age
0'
Helps for the Housekeeper.
Green blinds that have become
faded may be renewed by rubbing
them with a rag saturated with lin
seed oil.
To attain a good glaze on linen It Is
necessary for It to be damp, for the
Iron to be hot and for great pressure
to be used.
To clean carved ivory make a paste
of sawdust damped with water and a
few drops of lemon juice; lay it
thickly on the carving. Let this dry
thoroughly, and then brush it off with
a dry cloth.
When washing glassware do not put
It In hot water bottom first, as it
will be liable to crack from sudden
expansion. Even delicate glass can
be safely washed in very hot water
if slipped in edgewise.
LD MOTHER EARTH, like femin
inity through all time, but with
her far greater success than most of
her sex, has defied man to learn her
age. Scientists still admit their de
feat. Their latest estimate credits
her with "not above 70,000,000 years,
or below 56,000,000 years." This esti
mate, given official sanction through
publication by the Smithsonian insti
tution in Washington, is the result of
studies by Frank WIgglesworth
Clarke and George F. Becker of the
United States geological survey, who
have followed the subject with consid
erable interest.
Prof. Clarke, in a paper entitled "A
Preliminary Study of Chemical De
nudation," presents a review of all the
available data not only for the United
States, but for the world of the propo
sition from a chemical point of view.
tor. Becker, on the other hand, dis
cusses the question in a paper on "The
Vast Sum Which We Spend on Peanuts
Fights Bull With Hairpin.
Fulton,, Mo. Mrs, Thomas Douglas,
living south of here, was badly in
jured by a bull when the animal at
tacked her in a field, She had armed
herself with a pitchfork, which the
animal knocked from her grip. She
was thrown down, butted and tram
pled upon. When the beast finally left
her for dead she crawled to the house
and telephoned to the family doctor,
In the battle with the bull Mrs. Doug
las took a hairpin from her hair and
used It In an effort to gouge the ani
mal'a eyes.
Mosquitoes Feast on Babe.
New York. Under a bush In Central
Park, and surrounded by a cloud of
mosquitoes, a patrolman found a 4
months-old baby boy. The child was
crying lustily and waving Its chubby
hands to keep away the Insects that
were devouring it At Bellevue hospi
tal seventy severe Insect bites were
counted, and the attendants declared
that the child's condition waa serious
as a result of the wholesale poisoning
by the mosquitoes. The baby waa
dressed In new clothing and there
were no Identifying marks, '
Farm Full of Freak,
Tulsa, Okla. A chicken with Its
heart on the outside of its body Is one
of the monstrosities owned by Billy
Lumpklns, a local character, whose
hobby la the raising and breeding of
freak animals. His unique menagerie
Includes a fire-logged hog, a one-legged
chicken, a horned rooster, a talking
sparrow and the fowl with its heart oa
the outside of Its breast, his latest
acquisition to the strange collection
of nature's freaks.
A Convenient Dryer,
As great a boon as women Know a
racuuin cleaner to be, comparatively
few have learned to put it to personal
use. When they buy one for their
home use they revel over the clean
house they will keep, with never
thought as to clean clothes and a clean
scalp.
Instead of laboriously brushing your
tailor suit with a whisk, stand In front
of the vacuum cleaner and every par
ticle of dust and dirt is lifted out In
a few minutes. Nothing remains to do
but wash off grease spots and press
ing.
Shampoos are simplified by using
the cleaner as a dryer. Put on the
blower, sit in front of it, and the hair
Is dry In a surprisingly short time.
Blueberry Biscuit '
Add a cup of blueberries to the ordi
nary baking powder tea biscuit, made
from a quart of flour, three heaping
teaapoonfuls of baking powder.
large teaspoonful of butter, a little
salt and two scant cups of sweet
milk. Make the biscuit as soft as pos
sible and with as llttlo handling, and
bake In a quick oven. These are de
licious for luncheon or tea. The ber
ries should be washed, dried , and
rolled in flour before adding them to
the dough.
Carrot Conserve.
Wash and scrape half doien firm car
rots, put through meat chopper and cut
a? small as peas. Boll half hour In
slightly salted water, then drain, and
to each pint add two cups of light
brown sugar and the juice and half the
grated rind of one lemon. Cook slowly
til clear, about 1 hours. This la an
agreeable novelty with a decided for
eign flavor. '
-e of the Earth" from a more philo
sophical point of view.
The age of the earth always has
been a subject for discussion among
men of science and largely without
any definite agreement among the
representatives of . the different
branches of studies on account of the
different points of attack.
Briefly, the more recent discussions
as to the earth's age have placed the
time as follows:
Lord Kelvin, in 1853. estimated the
earth's age at 20,000,000 to 40,000,000
and perhaps 98,000,000. years.
Clarence King and Carl Barus, In
1833, placed the age at 24,000,000
years.
Lord Kelvin In 1807 revised his fig
ures from 20,000,000 to 40,000,000
years.
De Lapparent In 1890, said it was
67,000,000 to 90,000,000 years. -
Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, in 1893, placod
the maximum age at 70,000,000 years.
J. Joly, in 1899, estimated the age
of the ocean at 80,000,000 to 90,00,000
years.
W. J. Sollas, In 1909, placed the
age of the ocean at 80,000,000 to 150,
000,000 years.
HE person who buys a nickel's
worth of peanuts to munch at the
ball game, to feed the squirrels In the
park or to gladden the hearts of chil
dren at home, scarcely realizes that
he has contributed to an Industry that
last year formed a million-dollar crop,
and which placed on the market in
various forms, reached the enormous
sum of $36,000,000. But It is a fact
according to Washington statisticians.
This little seductitve nut a resolu
tion to "eat just one" is Boon forgot
tenwhose . birthplace la America,
was. until comparatively recently, un
appreciated either as to the "money
In them" or as a really nutritious
product Today the peanut plays an
important part In pleasure, from the
swell dinner party to the ever-present
democracy of the circus, ball game or
picnic After all, what Is a ball game,
picnic or a circus without the peanut
accompaniment?
CAP
and
DRUGGIST IS GOOD-NATURED
Example of How Dispenser of PHIi
Is Imposed Upon by Many
;s Thoughtless Persons.
-
He came to town and wandered into
the big drug emporium without re
moving the mud from, his boots.
"Do you give four stamped enve
lopes for nine cents, mister?"
;"We generally charge ten, but I
guess you can have them."
"Got any sample cough drops?" ,
"Here are a few."
"Any old cigar boxes you don't
want?"
"Here's a couple."
"All the 1910 almanacs goner
"Long ago."
i "But other drug stores keep a few
on hand."
"We don't"
"That's funny. Let me see some ol
your fancy sweet soap."
"Want to buy a box r
"Nope, want to study the French
names. Some of those city college
gals are coming down on the farm to
board and I want to spring a few
French words on them, that's all
Early Habit
Mrs. Judson Have you ever noticed
the polite consideration Mr. Blysterre
shows other people? At the dinner
table, for instance, he never puts a
morsel into his own mouth till every
one else has been helped and Is eat
ing. . .."; -:" '
Mr. Judson Oh, what you term his
consideration is only an Illustration of
a force of habit His 'w.if'e, used to do
his cooking for him and he learned at
that time it was always wise to let
some one else test the food before
tackling it himself."
Why He Was Thankful.
Welgler You seem to have a won
derful friendship for Turner. '
Gausley I ought to have; he saved
my life once. ,
Welgler How did it happen?
Gausley He Jumped into the rivet
after me.
Wnlelnr How came you to be in
the river? ' '
ORiiaier Turner had rocked the
boat
By far the largest part of the crop
Is consumed from the peanut stand,
the little whistle sign of the roaster
being the signal for the average
youngster to suggest to dad or ma
that some of them would be very ac
ceptable, and the paternal or mater
nal parent's willingness nine times
out of ten to invest. Yet there are
millions of bushels that go to the
fattening of hogs throughout the
south, the feeding of poultry, while
the vines, often cured as hay, feed
thousands of head of cattle, and even
old Mother Earth Is nourished by the
roots of the plant, which furnishes
nitrogen to It from the air. :
The farming of peanuts during the
past five years not longer than this-
has become an established Industry
of this country. At present about five-
sixths of the crop comes from Vir
ginia and most of the balance from
Tennessee, Georgia, West Virginia
and the Carollnas, although most of
the southern states contribute some,
As the peanut Industry has Increased
so has the use of all nuts grown
mightily as an article of food during
the last decade, and the entire fam
ily now forms a most Important part
r the diet of the physical culturlst
vegetarian.
According to Measure.
"Yes." said the man with the au
burn tie, as he lit the stump of a cigar,
"I have a bushel and a half of chii-
dren. My name Is Peck, and I have
six." v:".
"That's pretty good," rejoined the
. . . - . i jin.,.,
man Denina tne corncuu inye, u
I've got a mile' of them. My name 1b
Furlong, and I'm the father or eight
General Wood May Stir Up the Army
THE army la on the anxious seat
With a new boss on the Job it. la.
expected Major Gen. Leonard Wood,
chief of staff, will make things hum
until his own Ideas are put into oper
ation. Although he was appointed to
succeed Major Gen. Franklin J. Bell
last October, since that time he has
been on a trip to Argentine to rep
resent the United States at the cen
tennial celebration, and has only late
ly returned to Washington.
In the meantime many Important
questions have been piling up await
ing his decision. Just what effect the
personality of the new chief of staff
will have on the army la a matter of
much moment to the officers who
know something of his strenuous ca
reer. It is expected ne win under
take most actively a number of re
forms which might not meet with the
approval of the army at large.
One of the questions which will be
taken up by General Wood Is the
physical test of officers. Since PresI
dent Roosevelt Inaugurated this sys
tem, many officers have been hoping
that it would be modified. General
Wood Is one of the foremost of phys
ical culture enthusiasts.
Instead of being made milder It la
not unlikely that the tests will be
made harder than ever. The detail
of troops to the Philippines is an-
other matter that will be disposed of
by General Wood very soon. He haa
also a number of Ideas regarding' co
operation between the regular army
and the militia which he will prob
ably attempt to put into practise.
General Carter, who has been act
ing chief of staff, will take his place
as assistant chief. General Biles,
whom he succeeds, will go to Saa
Francisco to relieve General Barry,
who takes command of West Point
Invisible.
First Suburbanite How's your gar
den. old man?
Second Suburbanite It's simply out
of sight.
First Suburbanite That's good.
Second Suburbanite It's anything
but good. The grass and weeds are a
foot high all over It .
Not Awkward.
Canfleld Bunyan can't take a stey
without treading on some one's corn,
Naylor He must be exceedingly
awkward.
Canfleld Oh, no, no, he Isn't; hes
merely unfortunate. The corna he
treads on is on the bottom of his own
toot'.-: -'. '
A Wonderful Breed.
Seymour I hear" you have evolved
a wonderful breed of laying hens?
Ashley You bet I havel They beat
anything I've ever seen. They don'1
need roosta. '
Seymour Don't need roosts?
Ashley No, sir; they're laying
night and day.
Unfashionable Event
; , "Among other events, we shall have
a sack race for ladles.' Professionals
barred."
"What do you mean by profession'
alB?"
"Those who have been wearing tube
Vwns." Answers.
Counter Attraction.
"I waa at Atlantic City when Glen
Curtis s made his flights there."
"What did you think of him?"
"Didn't see him."
"Didn't see him?"
"Nope, couldn't see him for
Vathlng aults."
th
The Truth of It
"They eay that women always reaa
the last chapter of a novel first"
"It Isn't bo. I always read the first
chapter first"
"And then?"
"Then I read the last chapt-"
; A Fat Reducer.
Before starting- to starve or drug
off your extra layers of fat try the
effect of this simple exercise, whicn
is a great reducer of adipose tissue.
Standing with knees close together.
rise on the tips of the toes, and, at the
same time, elevate the chest and force
down the palms of the hands as If
pushing hard on a boara. nena tne
hands up slightly so the muscular
strain comes on the fleshy part of the
hand close to the wrist "
Do this whenever you happen to
tWnk of it during the day. and you
will soon notice a decided difference
In your flesh, particularly in a promi.
Bent abdomen.
Protecting the Men.
"All women of whatever age, rank;
nrofesaion or degree.' whether virgins,
maids or widows, . that , shall from
after the passing of this act impose
upon or betray into matrimony any
of His Majesty's male subjects bf
cents, paints, cosmetics, washes, arti
ficial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool,
Iron stavs. hoorm. high-heeled shoes or
bolstered hips, shall lnour the penalty
of the laws now In force against
witchcraft sorcery and such like mis
demeanors, and that the marriage,
upon conviction, shall stand null and
void." An act of Parliament In the
reign of Charles II.
:.:: Habit . '; "
Habit is the deepest law of human
nature. It is our supreme strength, .
W nlA It nAnraln ilMtimoronnha . - All
miserablest weakness. Let me go once.
scanning my way with any earnest
ness of outlook, and successfully ar
riving, my footsteps are an invitation
to me a second time to go by the
same way; it is easier than any other
way. Habit is our primal fundamental
law, habit and Imitation; there is
nothing more perennial In us than
these two. They are the source of all
working and all apprenticeship, of all
practice and all learning In the world.
Carlyle. '
Before and After.
The young Prince Tsai-Tao, during
his visit to America, welcomed criti
cism of Chinese customs, and retorted
politely with counter criticism of the
customs of the United States.
The prince, at a fashionable lunch
eon In New York, sat beside a lady
prominent in a rich and rather fast
"Prince," said this lady, "I think lt'a
dreadful that in China a bride never
sees her husband before the wedding
day."
"Well," said the prince, with a grin.
"here in America you never Bee him
after it" ' "
cnange in iwan. I
Men are not the same through all
Jlvisions of their ages; time, experi
ence, self-reflections, and God s mer
cies, make in some well tempered
minds a kind of translation before
death, and men to differ from them
selves as well as from other persons.
Hereof the old world afforded many
examples to the Infamy of latter ages,
wherein men too often live by the
rule of their inclinations; so that
without any astral prediction, the first
Say gives the last; men are common
ly as they were; or rather, as bad dis
positions run into worse habits, the
ivenlng doth not crown, but sourly con
sludes the day. Sir Thomas Browne.
To Make a Home.
What do you Include when you think
of housekeeping? If you take It to
mean merely the work of the house
which could be. accomplished by a
hired servant then perhaps it does not
matter that you should miss such
things as opportunity for. thought.
dally reading, etc., says Home Notes.
But If you make housekeeping mean
home-making and home-keeDinsr. th
formation of a home into a center for
the life of the soul and spirit aa well
as of the body, then you must culti
vate your mind, not keep it always to
the level of the mundane things of
life.
Free from
Alcohol
Since May, 1906, Ayers Sar
saparilla has been entirely free
from alcohol. If you are In
poor health, weak, pale, nerv
ous, ask your doctor about tak
ing this non-alcoholic tonic and
alterative. If he has a better
medicine, take his. Get the best
always. This is our advice.
A
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yers
W kulak alaofcal
from r aadiaiaat
, Warayawta
. asoHiiyamr
dootar
A sluggish liver means a coated tongue
a bad breath, and constipated bowels.
The question is, " What Is the best thlnt
to do under such circumstances ? " Asl
your doctor if this is not a good suiwert
Take laxative tiosaa of Ayere Pilla.
mr.j.hr.h. . . . TlTTIlt. Will