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KLAMATH FALLS REPÜBUCAN tamM« tack Weak KLAMATH FALLS ....OREGON Tbe United States Senate will note that It haa become good magazine ma terial. Ennyhow. thia speling reform blznaa« la likely 2 bar ruf aledlng before It git« thru. Aa a rule the Imaginative poet la one who Imagine« he can exchange hla poetry for real money. There la no law agalnat women vot ing in Italy, but the women appear to have dlacovered It only Lately. If every bridal couple could atart with WnO.oOO worth of gift« the ques tlon of easy housekeeping would not be bard to solve. Dr. II. Preston Pratt of Chicago bellevtw electricity will drive ua all blind. Then we will take more luterest in second sight. Tobacco la anld to be the currency of British New Guinea. When a man amokea there hla wife can tell him be la just burning money. * Conan Doyle says: “Reformed spell- Ing might become unlveraal, but It would cease to be the English lan gunge." Yea, If reformed It would be “Ingllah.” The rarity of the conviction of men in high place« who are accused of fraud cannot fall of giving the mass«“» a poor opinion of the way the law la administered In thia country. Elijah I. don't have to have a bank account and Elijah III. has overdrawn hla. A prophet without honor In hla own town Is normal, but a propbet in trouble with his banker la absurd. Olga Netbersole, referring to the stage, says: “It does not save lives; at least, not directly.” Miss Netbersole'« statement can hardly be regarded as hysterical or lacking In conservatism. What la to berome of that chorus girl who Is heiress to $5» «.'.000? Of course abe doesn't nave to "act” any more, but then, she can hardly afford to lose the benefit of all that free ad vertising. According to Mr. Carnegie, no rich man can be happy. H. II. Rogers would probably t>e able to furnish strong evi dence In rebuttal If something horrible were to happen to the Supreme Court of Missouri. The latest alarm that has been rung tn la that the potato Is poisonous, the reason being that the parls green with which the plant Is sprinkled has set tled in the ground and Infected the tuber Itself. The time is coming when everything we eat will have to be pro vided with a certificate of good char acter. One class of New York policemen are not always what their title indi cates. One of these men appeared as a witness the other day in a tan over coat, a many-colored undercoat and trousers, a plaid vest and a red neck tie. To the question what was his bus iness, be replied that he was "a plain clothes man.” Several of the fruit porta of Central America have called upon the United ■tat ee—more particularly on New Or leans—for aid In stamping out and preventing yellow fever. Port Limon, which was formerly a pest spot for breeding the disease, has been entirely rebuilt In the last three or four years, and the result la so satisfactory that rival banana shipping ports wish to im itate Its example. Plans for an organic union of the Congregatlonallsts. tbe United Brethren »nd tbe Methodist Protestants were per fected at a conference In Dayton last month. A common name for tbe new denomination Is to be found later, but tbe selection of a name does not seem to trouble tbe men behind the move ment There are more Interested In de veloping plana for working together for tbe good of tbe world. When tbe union Is perfected, there will be a com pact body of more than a million com municants in place of three «operate bodies with separate denominational machinery. Among seven hundred boys recently examined In an Eust aide school it New York only three could raise them selves up by their arms on a horizontal bar until their chins were on a level with tbelr hands. Many of tbe chil dren In tbe schools in tbe poorer parts of tbe city de cot know bow to play. They have to be taught tbe simplest games, like tag and bop-w-otch. Tire pathos of a childhood without play boa begun to appeal to tbe public-spir ited persons In tbe city, and they are asking tne government to provide more playgrounds in tbe crowded quartet a Money »[lent in this way will sari thousands of boys and girls from pau perlsm and crime. Collier’s Weekly throws a bouquet nt American newspapers by declaring »hat they "today have more power a id use it ror bettar ends than at any previous time.” It goes on to say that the per- manonce and reality of the gain de pends on whether the public wi'l show Ito appreciation of higher standard« by support and patronage of tbe better class of newsp«i>er« rather than ttfo poorer »nd demoralizing class. Some few js'oslmtoto who bewail the fact th.it the moat vicious yellow Journals serin to nourish may be disposed to ques tion this, but a careful and unpreju diced survay will surely confirm Col lier’s conclusion that the tone of our American newspapers to steadfaslly higher as well as the tone of American bus! WS and society, both, doubtless, reacting upon one another In tbe same direction.________ __ h»1 heard the night before “It’a my ' to tbe game honestly played, lie played belief, air, that he was trying to swim 1 w ben Iu college and likes the game still. (he bay,“ he said, “lie must ha* gone ' Ills words, coming frinu a friend, may to th« bottom anyhow, for lie couldu’t ■ have more weight with the fanatical nwlni flvo yards with them Irons.“ defender* of the game tliau timer of a Vickers, busily engaged in getting un man -whose ohjisnlona to f.Hrtball are der way, accephhl this very natural sup By MARCIR CLAWKB position without question. The prisoner ' more fundatneutaL Omitting minor had met hie death either by hie own act points. I’nwident Angell's crlUviauis of or by «evident. It was either a suicide the game may be grouired under three or attempt to escape, and (he former | beads: The serious rousequetu-ea of tbe <x»nduct of Itufus Ihiwes rendere<l the I game among young players In high latter evplanntion a more pro)».tble one. CHAPTER XII. »»•nt down the bay. an.! returned, after i schools and academies, tbe waste of Iu auy case, he was dead Aa Mr Troke •The old dodge." »aid Frees again. » day ■ absence, with an addition to their time during twelve weeks of the col 1 rightly suruihed, no mnu could awliu the “Of course. I couldn’t let him go; but lege year, and the huge amounts of I took him out of the chain gang, and number In the shape of four strangera i bay In trona; and when the Ladybird. and a quantity of store» and fanning •n hour later, paaaed the Grummet i mouey luiulved. The larger number of pnt Mm on the Oeprer. Yon »sw her implements. Rufus l»a«ea. catching ’ the serious Injuries reported during in the dock as you came In. He worked w«irke»l eight of th«»» last, came to the conclu t Hock, all on board her believed that the the season occftr among tbe young play tor some time very well, and then tried sion that the boats had been to Philip corpae of Its late «»ccupAnt was lying beneath the waves that seethed at Its ers In the preparatory schools, whose to bxdt again.” Island, where ths "garden" was eatab “’Fhe old trick. Ha; ha! don’t I know lulled, and had taken off the gardeners base. frames have not reached tbe vigor The drifting log that had so strangely and garden produce. Rufus Dawes de | which will stand tbe severe strain to it?” aaya Mr Frvre. served as a means of saving Hufua “ Well, we caught him and gave him cided that the lmdy bird had brought a ■ which nerve si nd Line are subject«»! Dawea swam with the current that was fifty. Then he vras •eut to the chain I during a hard fought game. Besides gang, cutting timber, Then we put him new commandment his sight, trained I ruuulug out of tbe bay. For tome time by his half savage life, had already die conspicuous bruises and fractures on into the boats, but he quarreled with tingiilshed the burdeu that It bore wae au Inaeu Mr. Maurice Frere -and that the field tbe game to even more fatal the coxswain, and then we took hhn these mysteries were "Improvements” sible one. Exhausted with his desper In Its after effects on many of the boys back to the timber raft«, About six under the new rule. When he arrived ate struggle for life, the convict lay wbo take part In It Beside* that a weeks ago he made another attempt at this |»lnt of reasoning, another con- along the rough bark of this heaven player wbo distinguishes himself on the »gather with Gabbett. the man who jeeture. assuming his first to have been •ent raft without motion, almost without breath. At length a voleut shuck awoke field Is likely to be coaxed away from nearly killed you but hia leg was correct, tollowod aa a natural conse him to couaclousneea. and lie perceived hafe-l with the iron«, an t we took him. Lieutenant Frees would be a quence. the natural order of his studtes and Gabbett and three more, however. g»t more severe commandment than Major that the log had become stranded on a sneaked Into college with Inadequate aw ay,“ ' iekera. Now, severity had already sandy point, the extremity of which was preparation and under circumstances Just then some one came up the gar reached its height, so far as he wss ! lost in darkness. Painfully rnlalng hhu which make It almost Inevitable that den path and saluted. concerned; so the unhappy man took a •elf from hie uncomfortable posture, he he should regard the playing of foot “What la it. Troker final resolution he would kill himself. •taggered to his fret. ami. craw ling a ball as the chief end of bls ambition. “Prisoner given himself up. sir. Gab- Ignorant that the sights and sounds • few pace« up the beach, flung himaelf He C ’ • b ick to night. lie'-« about him were symptoms of ths final upon the ground and slept. The larger part of the fall term of • ett When he woke up It wae past mid college to given up to drill on the part down at the sheds. You can see him at abandonment of the settlement, and that ths Lady-bird was sent down to bring day. and the sun pournl Its full rays of the players, varied with hours of once, gentlemen. If you like.” It was not far to the sheds, and after away the prisoner«. Itufus Dawes de tq»on him. His clothe« were dry In all battle and days of slow recuperation. a few minutes* walk through the wood elded upon getting rid of that burden places, save tbe all« on which he had The rest of tbe students talk alm.»st en palisades they reached a long stone life which prea-u-d upon hint so heav been lying, ami he roae lo hla fret re exclusively of the game. This waste of buil tng. two stories high. fn?m which of ily. l-'or six years he had hewed woo»i freshed by hla long sleep. Hr scarcely precious time must lie avoided aw- ¡•»sed a horrible growling pierce?! with and drawn water; for six years he had comprehended, as yet, his true position. bow It must ts* remembered that the I shrilly screamed songs. At the sound hoped agalnat hope; for six years he He had eeceped. It was true, but not tuition fee charged by utdverslties not >f the musket butts clashing on the pine had live,! iu the valley of ths shadow of for long He was vererd in the history State Institutions pays only from one w.»<M flagging, the noises ceased, and a death. Hs dared not recapitulate to of eerapoa. ami knew that a man alone on that barren c?'«*t w aa face to face half to one fourth the cost Universi silence more sinister than sound fell on himaelf what he had suffered. Indeed, with atarvatlnn or recapture. Glancing hla sense* were deadened and dulls»! by ties are supported either ty State the place. Passing between two rows of warders, torture He cared to remember only one up at the sun, he wondered. Indeed, how grants or by tbe Income of funds con- the two officers reached a. sort of ante- thing—that hs was a prisoner for Ilfs. It wns that he had been free so long. tribute«! by pious or charitable peo- mom to the jail, containing a pine-log In vain had b»»en his first dream of free Then the coal sheds caught hla eye. and pie. The acceptance of the privileges stretcher, on which a mass of some dom. He had done hie beet, by g»x*d he understood that they were untrnant- thus liberally offered Involves a moral thing was lying. On a roughly made Conduct, to win release; but the villainy ed. This astonished him. and he began obligation on the part of the student •tool, by the side of this stretcher sat of \ etch and Rex ha»! deprive»! him of to tremble with vague apprehension. En to use his time to advantage, but this a man in the gray dress of “g hh I con the trult of hla labor. Instea«! of gain tering. he looked around, expecting er obligation and this Indebtedness are duct” prisoners. This man held be ing credit by his exposure of the plot on rry moment to see some lurking consta ble or armed soldier. Suddenly his too often forgotten. President Angell tween his knees a basin containing gruel tatard the Malabar, he was himself glance fell upon the loaves which lay calls attention to the fact that a good and was apparently endeavoring to feed deetno«l guilty and condemned. In spite of in the corner where the departing con mass on the pine logs. hie asaervatlone of Innocence. The football coach gets a larger salary than the “Gabbett! victs ha«! flung them the night before ” knowledge of his “treachery,” while It a cabinet officer or a justice of the Su The intelligent Troke, considerably gained for him no credit with the au At such a moment, this discovery seem- preme Court of the United States. The alive to the wishes of his superior offi thorities. procured for him the d testa ed like a direct revelation from heaven. amount of money received aud spent cers. dragged the mass into a sitting tion and 111 will of the monsters among He would not have been surpriaetl had they disappeared. Had he lived In an In football Is demoralizing to all who posture, and awoke It. whom ho found himaelf On his arrival Gabbett—for it was he—passed one at Hell’s Gates he was a marks»! man, a other age. he would have looked round have to do with It. With this and the fur the angel who had brought them. other objections removed and brutality great hand over his face. and. leaning pariah among those beings who wore (To b« eontlnmnl.t exactly in the position In which Troke pariahs to all the world besides. lessened by wise regulations there will had placed him. acowlbd, bewildered, at In ths meantime, the settlement was be a chance to get the benefits of a A JOURNEYMAN BARBER. hia visitors. ■ In a fever of excitement. In lees then manly game such as football ought to “Well. Gabbett»“ says Vickers, “you’ve thr»*e weeks from the announcement be. This Toneoriallat Multr« In come back again, you see. When will made by Vickers, all had been got ready. you learn sense, eh? Where are your The commandant had finally arrange-l mates?” with Frere as to his course of action “I >ead.” says Gabbett. He himself would accompany the Lady- While other (oaitrlei Pro*re«s, “Why don’t you «at your gruel?** blr<! with the main body. Ills wife and However, It Hetuwlne the Same. “I have eaten II Ain’t yer got mif Ten centuries ago China was un fin’ better nor that to flog a man on? daughter were to remain until the I sail doubtedly the most civilized portion Vgh! yer a mean lot! Wot’s it to b« Ing of the Osprey, which Mr. Frere was to bring up as soon as possible. "I win of the world and 3,000 years ago ouly this lime, major? Fifty?” leave you a corporal’s guard, and ten Egypt and possibly India could have “A nice specimenT* «aid Vickers, with prisoners as a crew." Vickers «aid. “ ’You competed with it But while tbe oth a hopeless »mile. “What can one do can work her easily with that number." ers have changed In various ways, with such a fellow?“ To which Frere had replie»! that he could “I’d fl”g his aoul out of hia body,” do with fire prieoners If necessary, for he China has remained tbe same. Think of some of Ito achievements! The sail Frere, “if be «poke lo me like knew how to get double work out of the that“ laay dogs. greatest structure ever reared by hu The giant raise.I bis great head and Near Philip's Island, on ths north side man hands Is the great wall. It Is looked at the speaker, but did not rec- 1,500 miles long; without break it ognizs him. He saw ouly a strange of the harbor. Is situate»! Coal Head, where a party had been lately at work crosses valleys, cllrnt« mountains, face—a viaitor, perhaps. “Y’ou may This party, hastily withdrawn by Vick clambers up the face of precipices and flig. and welcome, wehxmie, master, master,' ” sai»l he. era to assist In the biieinese of devasta bounds an empire on the north. "if you’ll give me a fig o’ tlbbacky." tion. ha<! left hehln»! it some tools snd It was built before the formation of Frvre toughed. The brutal Indifference timber, and st the eleventh hour a boat’s the Roman empire, while It was still of the rejoinder suite»! hl« humor, aud. < rew was eent to bring away the debris a republic and while Christianity was with a glance at Vickers, he took a The tools were duly collected, and the •mall piece of cavendish from th« pock pine logs—worth twenty-five shillings still unborn, in 2<H B. C. Or, to take et of hl« pea Jacket, and gave to the a modern Instance, while the enlight recaptured convict. Gabbett snatch«»! apiece In Hobart Town—duly rafted an»! chained. The timber was secure»!, an»! ened peoples of Europe were still en it as a cur anatche« at a bon«, «nd the convict«, towing It after them, pulle»! gaged with tbe crusades, before gun thrust It whole Into his mouth. for the ship Just as the sun sunk. In powder or the printing press bad been “How many mates had he?" ask«»! the genera! relaxation of discipline and Invented China built the great canal, Maurice, watching the champing jaws haste the raft had not been made with as one looks at a strange animal, and aa much care aa usual, an»! the strong almost 700 years ago. Our Imagination falls us with such asking tbe question as though a "nisi«" current against which the boat was la was something a convict was born with boring assisted the negligence of the con numbers. A thousand years of Chi —like a mole, for instance. victs. The logs began to loosen, and nese history make no Impression upon “Three, sir.” though the onward motion of the boat us, for they stand for no events and “Three, eh? Well, give him thirty kept the chain taut, when tbe rowers are represented to our thought by lashes. Vickers.” slackened their exertions the mass part- nothing distinguished In character or 'An»I if I ha' had three more.' growl- ed. and Mr. Troke, hooking himself on literature. But to the scholar all ts ed Gabbett. mumbling at bis tobacco, to the side of the Lady-bird, saw a huge log slip ont from Its fellow«, and dis different He learns to fill out the cen “you wouldn't ha' had tbe chance.” As he sat there gloomily chewing, he appear Into the darkness. Basing after turies and gain at least some faint Idea of their magnitude. He comes to un was a spectacle to shudder st. Not so it with an Indignant am! disgusted stare, much on account of his natural hideous a« though It had been a refractory pris derstand that It has not been quite a ness. Increased a thousandfold by the oner who merits»! two-days* “solitary,” monotonous sameness, but that there tattere»! and filthy rags which barely he thought he heard a cry from the di have been wise and unwise rulers, covered him. Not so much on account rection In which It ha»! been borne. He successful and efficient dynasties, pe of his unshaven jaws, his hare-lip, his would have pauee»l to listen, but all hie riods of refinement and periods of torn ami bleeding feet, his haggard attention was need»»! to save the timber, cheeks, an»l ilia huge, waited frame, and to prevent the boat from being terrible aud desolating warfare, In China, too, he comes to under- Not only because, looking at the animal. swamped by the struggling mass at ber he crouched, with one f»>Ot curled etern. stand there have been great sorer- as The cry had proceeded from Rufus round the other, and one hairy arm eigns. great novelists, great essayists, pendent between hie knees. he — his solitary rock hs had was so Dawes. From To begin to master all that has been horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to watched the boat pass him and make there achieved Is beyond the powers think that tender women and fair chil for the Lady-bird In-channel, and he ha<! of any man. and the most that an In dren must, of necessity, confess to fel declde»l that the moment when the gath dustrious student can hope to do Is to lowship of kind with such a monster. ering gloom swallowed her up should be learn more or less thoroughly tbe But also because. In his slavering mouth, the moment wheu he would plunge Into events of some single period or to his slowly grinding jaws, his restless the surge below him. The heavily la boring boat grew dimmer and dimmer, trace the development« of some par fingers, ami hia bloodshot, wandering as each tng of the oars took her further eyes, there lurked a bint of some terror ticular line of science or of art. Chi more awful than the terror of starvation from him. Presently, only the figure of nese encyclopedias there are In hun —a memory of a tragedy played out In Mr. Troke in the etern aheete was vis dreds of volumes and histories which the gloomy depths of that forest which ible; than that also disappeared, and aa seem Interminable and dictionaries ha»l vomited him forth again—and the the nose of the timber raft rose on the which are terrifying by reason of their shadow of this unknown horror, cling swell of the next ware, Rufus Dawes size and compendiums and short edi in« to him. repelled, as though hs hors flung himaelf into the sea. He was heavily Ironed, and he sunk tions Innumerable, themselves seem about with him th« reek of the sham like a stone. He had resolved not to ingly long enough for the most Indus blea. ‘‘Come,” said Vickers, “let us go back. attempt to «wlm. «nd for the first mo trious. I shall have to flog him again, I sup ment kept hi« arms raised above hl« Gets Wall Paper Excuses. pose. Oh. this place! No wonder they head In order to «Ink the qnlcker. But as the short, «harp agony of auffocation A school teacher has a collection of call it ‘Hell's Gates.’ ” “Halloo! what's that red light there?" caught him. and the shock of the Icy quaint excuses brought In to her by her "Dawes’ fire on Grqinmet Rock,” water di«pelle»l the mental intoxication pupils. She teaches on the East Side of says Vickers, going In; “the man I told under which he was laboring, he desper New York, an»! her wards, wbo are of you about." ately struck out, an»! despite the weight very humble birth indeed, lui nd her ex of hla Irons, gained the surface for an cuses written on paper boxes, magazine Two or three mornings after the ar Instant. Aa he did so, all bewildered, covers, even wall paper. rival of the Ladybird, the solitary pris and with the one savage Instinct of self- One note said : "Excuse my aon oner of the Grummet Rock noticed mys preservation predominant over all other he became conscious of a huge Gorg for b»»en absent on precis occa terious movement« along the shore of thoughta, the Islam! settlement. The building of a black mass «urging upon him out of the sion for he had no shews.” pier, or breakwater, running from the darkness. An instant's bhffet with the Another said: “Please excuse Jacob western point of th« settlement, was current, an Ineffectual attempt to dive for not to have because It was a hat discontinued; and all hands appeared beneath It. a horrible sense that the buying, ami came till late” to h« occupied with the newly built weight at hla feet wa« dragging him A third, wrlten on a piece of wall Osprey, which wae lying on the slips. down—and the huge log, loosened from paper, said: “Dear and honored admin Parties of soldiers slso daily left the th« raft, was upon him, crushing him be Its rough and ragged sides. The istrateur, wish yourself of excusing ma Ladybird, and assisted at the mysterious neath log passed completely over him, thrust work in prnrresa. daughter because that she absented her A fortnight after thia, shout the 15th ing him beneath the water, but his hand, self. Wish yourself to accept mine fe of December, he observed another curl scraping along the splintered aide, came licitations.—Liane Pierre."— New York ous fact. All the boats on tbe Island In contact with the loop of hide rope Press. put off one morning to tbe opposite side that yet hung round the mass, and he of the harbor, and In the course of the clutcheil It with tbe tenacity of a death Danger. day a great smoke arose along the side grip. In another Instant he got hi« head “How did Mr. Bradds make bls of the hills. The next day the same above water, and, making goo»! hl» hold, money?” ankpd the Inquiniti ve girl. was repeated; and on the fourth day twisted himself, by a violent effort, “My dmr,” anewered Mi*» Cayenne, the boats returned, towing behind them across the log. “you muet never again ask such a ques a huge raft. This raft, made fast to For a moment he saw the lights from tion about any one. People will think the aide of the Ladybird, proved to be the stern windows of the anchored ves you are writing for a magazine!”— compose»! of planks, beams and Joists, sels low In the distance; Grummet Rock all of which were duly hoisted up and disappeared on his left; then, exhausted, Washington Star. etowed in the hold of the brig. bresthless, an»! bruised, he closed hla “The Golden Poalman." This set Rufus Dawes thinking. Could eyes, and the drifting log bore him swift Ito share of fame great wealth may It possibly be that the tlmlier cutting ly and silently away Into the darkness. was to be abandoned, and that the gov At daylight the next morning, Mr. buy— ernment had hit upon some other method Troke, landing on the prison rock, found Acknowledge It we must of utilizing its convict labor? He had It deserted, The prisoner'« cap was You’re sure to fill the public eye l.ewn timber and built boats, and tanned lying on the edge of the little cliff, but If you've but got the dust bides and made shoes. Was It possible the prisoner himself had disappeared, —Catholic Standard anil Times. that oom« new trade was to be Initlatsd? Pulling hack to the Lady bird, the Intel- Before he had settled this point to his ligsnt Troke on the clreum- No one telia tbe whole truth about satisfaction, he was startled by another stancs, and In pondered delivering his report to CHINA ONCE MOST CIVILIZED. President Angell haa stated fairly the poeltlon of those who wish tn see reform In football. He to not opposd , Lia lack of time. • «••«•« boat expedition. Three boats’ crews come ICvery Murnln«. There's nt least one barber In Wash Infftou wbo doesn’t have to keep hie »•era turned to the word “uext,” anya tbe New York Pont Thia barter doesn't work In a shop, nor haa he any oat a bl I ah went of hla own. He’s a peripatetic bartwr. and he average« something like |H or 110 for four hours’ work a day, wears dia monds. and la a perpetual myatery and a aource of puule«l envy to the barber« with whom he formerly worked in ho tel barber abnpa. He la literally a journeyman barber. He cnrrlce the tools of hla trade around with him. suspended In a case from the handle bare of a bicycle, an<l he might easily be taken, to see hltn on hla rounds, for a rlalng young Bur geon. He shaves men In their rooms - men who are not quite able to have valets, but who are willing to dig up a half dollar every day for the sake of mak ing their Initial appearance alM>ut noon, ahuven. shorn, dune up, and groomed- looking. A considerable numt>er of hla cus tomers are army and navy officers liv ing at clutei, but be bas also a clientele of luxurious civilians. He starts out on bis rounds at 8 o'clock In the morn Ing, and by lo o’clock he haa shaven a lout ten men as they rwllne In their cozy -ds. When lie fluds his earlier customers asleep—some of them am prominent government officials, who report at tbelr offices nt about 10 o’clock In the morning he doeg not wake them up. but goes abend and lathers and abaves them, and be says that plenty of bls customers don’t wake up at all while they’re being shaved. He says that In the course of a couple of weeks’ practice any man may anally learn how to remain In the land of Nod while being shaved. When he finishes with his earlier patrons he glides around among his customers who dawdle In tbelr rooms In dressing gowns until about noon. He has a regular hour for each patron and always sticks to schedule time, keeping none waiting. He gets half a dollar for a shave and SI for a hair cut. Those of his patrons who want hair-cuts notify him a couple of days In advance, so that he can arrange his schedule. By 1 o'clock In the after noon this businesslike razor-wlelder has done all his day’s work, and then you’ll see him, a picture of grooming and a sort of glass of himself, stroll ing on F street any fine afternoon, “staking the girls to a treat” Rattled. Miss Peery's mother came Into the room rather suddenly, and Mr. Rpoon- elgh endeavored to cover his embar rassment. “As I was just saying.” he began In a formally conversational tone. “Why, no you weren’t George!” In terrupted Miss Peery, hastily. “You were speaking of football—don’t you remember?”—Cleveland Leader. Unwaleoma Conteats. “I see yoti carry a heavy stock of »Mi.” remarked the caller. ”1« there anything In eggs.” "Well,” replied the truthful grocer, ’’there was aomethlng In the consign ment that came In last week.” “Indeed! What?” "Chickens.” At llaooa Rrld««. Drummer Why are all ths nntlvea of this village out this morning? Uncle Kline—Why, by heck, they heard an automobile with ene of those new calllbope wiilatleg coming down the rond and thought a circus parade was on tbe way. **l«elnw Gotham.•• Is Yaa* Dairy Farm a Saev«««f A well couatructed shoveling boeri! attached to the wng«>u box to a grent »'onveiileitee wlieii unloading ear cori», root ero|>e or any aliullnr thing The Illustration shows a simple, practical Idea, tbe lower picture »bowing tin» I k »ani lowered for uae ami the upper one allow Ing bow It » an la» doeed. The aliovellng lx>anl proper I» about one Inch narrower than tbe width of tlx* Inalile of the wagon box ami la nt tache»! to the latter with strong bingee. the board tuny ta» the same width us tin» •Id»»« of the waguu box. or wider, If desired. Tin» »Ide tamnls A and II are »luntcit off ut the back sides am! tlx» front ends are the nume width aa the tan where they are attm-hed with strong bingos. Ntnnig. short Ixu.ks are placed In each aide Iman!, as shown un» Are you making all there Is to be made In tbo dairy business? 11 not. why not? This Is n qneallon Which every dleeattottod didrymau may woll ask himself. When a talsinee* man or manufacturer timi» Ills hualtieM to not paying lo suit him lie stvks for the causée of loss ami strives to eliminate them. If wc tnveallgate wo aliali fimi that the successful dairymen attend toevery little detail that affects tbelr bualneaa. They look at everything from a busi neas etatid|a>lnt. «ave wherever any- Ihlug can to* saveti, mid <lla»-nr«l aul mala or luettoxto that don't pay. If you ar«» uot oiw* of tlx* euccees fui dairy muu. look around and *»v why you are not. There la u reason for everything, mid wheu you kuow the reason you mv Iu it |»»altloi» to reme»ly the trouble. It you have uo liking fur your business, tlx* a»,»»tier you change to aomethlng you »I»» like tlx» better It will bo for jou aud th«»»»' dependent up on you. Have you tiwtRl your cowa Individually aud dtocitrded those will'll show by tlwlr own |M-rformam*e that they are not pr»»lllal»l»- I lie Itotaia k teat and the seal»« will show which are prittltable amt which ar** nut. ami It la sheer siili 1|«* v « iicm uot to apply su<-b a lent.- Imllaunpolla News. I tu l»r>,» Ina . _____ Sllovniso lloxlll.. drr letter A. am! uu eye Iu th» shovel ing lawn! just under tbe book, thus kn»plng tbe boanl Iu |a>«ltluu. There la u light Iron cbalu snp|H»rt at each aide of the box and b»>»>k«d uuder neath. — ludlanaiadla News. Making Incubator Frofllabln. The lii»-ul«t»>r ba» pu«««»l the expert mental atage. and Is no longer a ma eblue of chuu»-» rrsulta. Auy on»* with a reasonable amount of coiuiihiu sen«» and th« ability to take »-are of the inn chine and Ita contsuta while It Is In operation will be rewarded by ail»*-»«« If one Is In a position to go Into th« jiuultry business on a m ale of conaldsr able uiagultu'le the better plan 1« to prepare a cellar expressly for ttjs' work for. perfwt as tliey are. ln»*Ubators sometime« cat»-h nn fire, and then th»* lose of the building they are In genera al|g follows. Tlx* eeutent bulldins bfoiks which hnve re»»ntly come Into use offer the means to constrwt nn Incubtor »viler In any »»»»tlon of the country at moderate cost Brooders, too must Is» nd»!e«l. am! there stx.uld t»e a structure for th« brootlers, so that tlx» curly hatch»»»! <-bl<-ks ix*»xl uot lx* turn*-«! out of tl<s»rs tv «,-t w«t vr <-ntcb »»old Incubator »viler In any section of the pai-lty ami sold at a low prl»*e. A »>> egg machine of reliable make enn be bought for »10. and with It one can c»-t all the et|»erlrixv ne»-<1r»l to enable him to operate those of larger <mpn<*lty a M«»ond M-aiM»n. The Incubntor ami the bnxxlcr are essential In <>|vrntlona of considerable size, the sitting lien to bv use«! ouly as n makeshift. When and W ha< <n l*r«ne. This list of plants nnd alirulai. with tbelr requltvmente In regard to the pruning aoason. Is eapas-lally timely ami helpful. It han th»* weight of nutlxjrl ty, ns coming from n pructlcnl gur »lener. There Is n right time and n wrong tlm»* to prune ench plant, but few nmnteurs »-an distinguish lx»tw»s»n them. Also »vrtnlu trees do not m*»sl pruning nt all. Hend back Immediately nfter blonin Ing: Knlmln Intlfolta, dlervflln or wiegclln. azalea, foreythla, snowball, kerrla, mock orange, rhllnilelphua. bar Ixtrry, moat wixxly splrena. llend buck when dormant: R omm »vlinntla, splren Mirblfolla. hydrnnng»»n Liirg»» flowering treea not rnpilrlng pruning: Aes»-iilus (le.rse chestnut), aorliua «ambm-ltolls, cntnlpn, aorbus Amerlmnn (Americnn nidi), llrloden »Iron (tulip poplar), pavla, anrbus grnndltlora, pyrus aria (white benn tree), aorbua eliinocnrpa, roblria. »-bid rant to, tlngtorln (Vlrgllln tree), snpho rn, aorbua ancupnrln (mountain nali), < llnr«e«. The clipping of n horse In the early spring la now conceded by all the len»l lug veterlnnrlnna to I m * uh essential to hla well lH»lng as shoeing him or giving I i I iii n i-omfortiible la»»l to lie on. A crippled bora»* dries out rapidly nfter n hnril »toy's work and will rest <*oni fortably and I m * refreshed for the next day's work. An uncllp|M*d horse to II able to culcli the toinvea, pueiimonlii and all aorta of »vids, etc., lH»<-iin»e th»» moisture from |>ei*aplration to held by the long hair and chllto the laxly. A man would not ex|xs»t to enjoy very g»H>»l health If lie did liaril manual work clothe»! with heavy underwear, a heavy suit and a fur overcoat, ami after perspiring freely, as he naturally would, go to sleep without removing wine. It Is just ns ridiculous to ex pect a horse to be In perfect health If worked under the anm»* eomlltlons. If you wouhl get the best r»*turns from your Investment In your horse, treat him right, nnd be sure to clip him In the early xprlng.—Horae Re view. Don't Set Derry I'lants Too Noon. | If the strawberry plniitn are set In I the cold inolet noil they are likely to rot nt the crown or, If tills »1»aw not result, they will make no growth to speak of. Walt until the noil has drtoil out Home mi Hint It to mellow anil easi ly work nil; hnve tbe plot In good comil tlon, well worked ho that the noil In free from stones and »-linto of earth nnd the plants cun lie eaally set mid will to'gln to grow uninterruptedly ho that one will lone no time liy waiting until the noil to In |ierfe»»t condition before Gunner--So you went to New York on pleaeure bent, eh? Did you get bent? Guyer—Wore« then bent 1 got setting ou* ’be plants. Vlcken mentioned the strange cry he broke. an Ulti «lrvt»arS. It la oft,-»» the case that an uri-hard In middle life I« fourni to be uu longer prolllal'le. lunluly ton n'to»» a mistake was mail»* In the M*l»*cti<>U of the vari»» ile« Ita the iM'glniilug. In am-h cause* ths orchard may to» mnde profitable again by l»»p grafting the tiere Thia to not a difficult task, provide»! It la pn»|H»r- ly done mul th« union to»tw»tail th« branch ami lb»* ». Imi la |>erfiH»t. Aa it rule branch*»« iu>t over mi Inch In »II nmeter are thu beat lo work thia way. Of course. It to understood that the sdutte would I* much smaller In »limu eter tliun the parent stock, a»» th« plan la to lueert two on each outer edge The main thing to olaterve to to l»c sure that the bark of both •> Imi nu»l parent atock I« In perfect line, no that the flow of sap may lx» p»»rfe»-tly free. Curo musi also bu taken that Itu» «|ut»e belweeu tlx* scions am! tlx* parent Slock ntiid* by the ellleel be filleil with the grafting wax. ns well ns uuy other epeeee In which the air may get. It Is not cus tomary to lenie laitti of the grafts, but to cut out the weaker one If both gr»gs This work Is Intereating and really very simple if one get» tlx* knack of It. aiul It »vrlalnly pays with an orvliard tti.it is not t»xi *>l»l If »'nn* Is takun to *»b tain ecluna fr»,in known bearing tr>**»s of th« to»»l sorts. De Ma« «vere»« Gl» Veeaa Kiwi» Ou« of our ('ont«*iiq»>riirlea any« "make the enlf the family |wt.” In tbe opinion of til« writer and of other dairymen of loug ••t|« rl»»mv thto wouhl I»« one of the Worst lulstakr» that could Iv mnde. The cnlf Hint to the | h *1 of (lie tumlly I» naira Hum likely tn 1« used by tlx* rfilbln-rt for tiinny pur- [aa*«« for which It wns never lut<-mh*<l. By all means treat the »-aivoa that are to lie raised kln»11). Ramile llx-iii »au» shtorably amt pat them <-m<x>sli»gly oft rn. but let tlx» |M*ttlng stop heiv. for If It Is played with liy Hie ,-hlldrvu. rim ulng and Jumping w Ith them, lM»lng l»nru»*«M*d lit* with strings as children are quite likely t<* do. It bc»vmea n iiutoamv ns It grows ; it a»aius gets Im pudent, n»iM*a around where It luía uo busi luna, and. If Ita Ixirii» are alluwe»! to grow. Iswsnrs dangerous Inter on. Such n cnlf will luvnrlnlily try to "taies” the Iteri! after It gets old nnd »tnmg enough, and Is n nuisance g»-n »•rally.— Exchange. e»ir-F««»ler ter l'»al<rr, A perfection f»**-»! Ix>|>|irr la shown In the cut. »ays Ha» Orange Juild Farm er. It I» eight jm-ta-a wide, two mid one half feet high, mul three feet long The roof projeta over Hie |H»r* h mi which ttie fowls stand whll«* feeding. Tlx* mettasi of constnn-tlng tlx* |s»r.-h »■a nml tlx* weight nml attachment to the lid over tlx* grain Is i taarly staiwn In the picture. Tlx* weight on the arm rzxi> uoma >< ib rm i rgr. should ta» ndju«l<»»l to tin* sin* of the fowl. This box may ta» imide of any length deslr»sl. blit the height aud width are ntaiut right. chanalnir l.ots for Swine. Where swine lire rnlaeil III aulllrlcut numlN*r» so that they are heriled In Hinnll liicloHurca, it Is »■».sa'iiHul to clmpge tlx»«»» Iota yearly If mx» wouhl avoid tlx* danger of <-h-di-rn or other dlM'iiHea. Tlx» w ay to a»-» »uupltali this to the taut iidvnntage Is to hnve tin* swim» <11 ntrlLnt»-»1 in Hinnll cnlonleH, each with n moviilile house. Have the lots of double Hlze, using on»» li.-ilf of ««si. li lot during tla» early part of the HeiiHon nml the other half nt th»» latter port. Till« will carry mx» through Hie m - iihoii with Iitti»» danger of trouble, and then H icho lots staii'lil lie aliaiKlmieil for swine, being cultivated the next year ami new Iota provided for the swim*. This Is »-mc-blerablo trouble to la» sure, but there I» no way more certain to nvohl dlwiiHe than tills. I'lirtlcularly Is this pliin valmiilla In mh -H oiin wliero the soil I h Inclined to lit- heavy ho Hint the filth made by the hw I iio (1 oi » h not drain Into the Kill readily. rrr»»»lnK In «arm Air. Th« frii'z.liig of IcitVt'H mol luxia on ,-lenr spring nlghta, when tin» air tern* |H»ruture I h ntaive frci'zlng |Milnt, lias be»,|| siipei-HtltloiiHly loolusl upuy as llh »»ITi'i't of the iiioo I i ' h light. All Kngllah i»X|Hrlmeiiti»r fbida that, while all oh- |eeta have the I» m|H'i'i»iure of thu aur- rounding air mi cloudy nlghta, rnpl<| radiation may prodii»-»» n difference on clear night», ami a pie»-»» of rottiin prov* »-»I to be at tliiiea six nml even eight de- gr»»»»H colder Hum the nlr. PI.mta limy la* alinlbii'ly chilled bvluw freezing with the ulr lihova.
