Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — Page 3

FACTS FOR FARMERS.

HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE AGRICULTURISTS. A Veterinarian’s Practical Means of Preventing Tuberculosis—Arrangement tor Tying Celery for the Mar* ket-Wagon for Hauling Corn Fodder To Prevent Tuberculosis. Introduce a consumptive cow Into a herd, and the animal on each side of her In the common stanchions, shown In Fig. 1, will be infected from her breath and spit. Put a board partition on each side of the diseased cow, extending well out In front, and it will be long before she contaminates her neighbors, If she ever does. Exhaustive tests in Denmark, extending over two years, with 208 head, show that “It Is possible to rear a healthy herd on a farm where there is an infected herd if the two are separated by a

FIG. 1. UNHEALTHY TIE-UP FOB COWS.

wooden partition, and this will prove successful, even when the calves from diseased cows are raised.” G. N. Kinnell, a Pittsfield veterinarian, therefore advocates individual stalls for each cow, by simply running a partition between the stanchions, boarded up in front, with a ventilating shaft eighteen inches square over each cow’s head, four or six of them to join in a common shaft running through the roof. (Fig. 2 shows such partition not boarded up in front, the advisability of which w'e question.) He mentions a herd that escaped infection from two badly diseased cows because the sick

FIG. 2. STABLE TO PREVENT SPREADING CONTAGION.

cows were kept in stanchions boarded up in front, with a tight partition between each stanchion. Dr. Ivinnell wisely considers some such method of separating cows the most important, simplest and cheapest means of avoiding infection. The germ of tuberculosis dies in sunlight, hence a stable cannot be too light and airy.—Orange Judd Farmer. Windbreak*. In every long-settled locality where the soil is sandy, farmers quickly learn, after the original forest is cleared away, to plant windbreaks to protect their soil from blowing away. Such windbreaks do good which more than offsets the waste of the land which they occupy. Not only is soil blown away after being plowed, but during the summer there are frequent violent sand storms where the winds have full sweep, which uncover seeds and plants or blow sand against the foliage of plants, cutting and spoiling it. These windbreaks serve another important purpose in winter in keeping the snow evenly spread over the fields. They should be of evergreen wherever possible, so as to make a protection for winter as well as for the summer season.—American Cultivator.

Apples All the Year by Cold Storage. Professor Craig, of the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada, takes a hopeful view of the matter of keeping apples in cold storage. It may he questionable whether Professor Craig is wholly right in his optimistic views, but here is what he says: “Before long you will see a revolution in the apple trade. Winter apples will not be a necessity. Cold storage will solve the difficulty. Probably before two years are over you will see in every fruit-growing district cold-stor-age houses on the co-operative plan, based on the cold-storage buildings at the World’s Fair. Fall apples put into cold storage where' the temperature is 34 degrees may be kept an indefinite length of time. Thus, winter apples will not be necessary. When I was at the World’s Fair in the middle of the hot season I saw in good condition Duchess of Oldenburg apples which had been ripened early the previous summer and kept in cold storage. While in Montreal recently I noticed in the new cold storage building beautiful California pears.” Tying Celery for Market. Novices do not always bunch celery properly. An old grower of celery near Buffalo, N. Y., bunches his crop as follows: Two bricks are set up edge-

CELERY BUN CHER.

wise and two strings laid crosswise. Two neatly trimmed stalks are squeezed in tightly between the bricks, two more squeezed in on those and two more on top, making six heads in the bunch. All are then tied tightly with the strings. One Acre in Hens. It is a progressive farmer who can succeed in making one acre support a cow, and he is then perfectly satisfied with a profit of SSO from her. If an acre of land can be made to yield any kind of crop that will pay a profit of SSO, the success attending such a result will be considered worthy *f nolice. Profit means, of course, all that portion of the gross receipts which remains after the full expense* are paid, and a profit'of SSO an acre is very large. It is easy to figure (on paper) the possibilities of an acre of land, but

there are facts abundant to demonstrate that S6O is bat a small sum to de- 1 rive from one acre of land devoted to poultry. It la rare to find a case where a large flock of poultry has been given the space of one acre that the hens did not pay well, although due credit is not always allowed for the “home” market, which calls for poultry and eggs, accounts not being kept with the family table. Horae Beef. At present the German butcher* pay from $45 to SSO for horses; but already the demand is beginning to increase the price. Mr. Tingle, in Farm News, advises the American farmer to go into the business of raising horses to supply the German food market He says they can be raised cheaper than cattle, and can be more easily shipped across the water. As American beef and pork are excluded from the German markets, he recommends that the place of the two products be filled with horse meat Last fall horses sold at auction in Nebraska at from $5 to $lO each. The short crops had something to do with the low price; but the falling off in the demand for horses, by reason of the Introduction of electricity as a motor, the bicycle and other causes, had far more to do with fixing the price. It is doubtful if the prejudice against the use of horseflesh as food in this country will ever be wholly overcome, and the Germans can cat our surplus horses while we keep and consume our beef and pork. There is no sanitary) reason why horseflesh should not be used for food, as the horse eats the same things that the ox does, and is, if any difference, more dainty about what he eats. It is simply a prejudice, that is largely sentimental, and founded on the belief that the horse is intended for better things than to become food. Care of Pits?. Profitable swine breeding depends upon the time at which the hogs are slaughtered in ordwr to secure the highest market prices. Thus, the time of farrowing must almost of necessity be so arranged that a part of them at least be dropped in cold and frosty weather. That one has a moderately warm pen is not enough; the run for the sow must be ip a temperature which is evenly warm all of the time, and this, I mean,' controlled by animal heat enough to insure no frost

Qht of the forty pigs which we have bad the past winter, twenty of them were dropped in January, and all did well and to-day are the finest lot we ever had, says C. H. Whitcomb in The Stockman. They are on heavy grass pasture, and will retlhln so until our peas are ready to turn Into. Having pigs farrowed in this way gives us an opportunity to take advantage of both the early markets. Tnen, too, we must let nature have her way in the feeding of young pigs. While growing feed wholly on bone and muscle making foods, and the pigs will have no stopoffs. For Handling Bulky Forage. In handling grain, hay or green corn fodder, a low rack, similar to the one shown In the illustration, is a great saver of time and labor. One man standing on the ground and simply drawing the corn toward himself can lay it upon the table of the cutting machine without stopping, or raising it up simply to lay it down again. The top of the rack is 7x14 feet with sixfoot standards. The stringers are 4x6 inches, 19 to 20 feet long. They are hung from the front axle by means of a lengthened king bolt provided with a nut and washer. From the hind axle they are suspended by %-inch rods with nuts and washers below and hooks above to go over the axle. The stringers should be twenty

inches apart in front and tnirty-two Inches behind. A short wrench keeps the hound from tipping up. I find this rack very convenient. As short a turn can be made with this as with a six-teen-foot rack.—American Agriculturist. All-Hound Cattle. The cry is nowadays: “Give us the good all-round animal." The Country Gentleman thinks there is an element of error in this. Carry out this idea to an extreme, and you blot out the distinctive characteristics of every breed of animals existing. No one animal can do everything best As in the mechanical, so in the animal world—there must be a division of labor. We owe all the improvement of the present day in all classes of domestic live stock to special breeding for a definite purpose. Let the breeder of the race horse try to combine the strength of the Clydesdale or Shire with the speed of his thoroughbred, and the result is an increase of strength, but a reduction of speed. Timothy vs. Clover. We are not wholly averse to a small amount of timothy sown with clover, but we are against giving the timothy the preference, for we see object lessons continually averse to the latter practice. Farms are not improved by it. On the other hand, says the New England Farmer, when clover is given the preference, the farms are growing better.' The only pastures with us that show green in quantity to delight the eye of the farmer are those partly or wholly clover, and the clover is now best that was not allowed to perfect a growth early in the season, Grapes and Electricity. French scientists are reported to be farming by lightning. They found that electricity quickens germination and growth, so they set up poles armed at the top with copper spikes ,to draw electricity from the air. A wire conveys it to a net-work ofgalvanized iron wire four to six feet below the growing crops, and grapes are said to grow 50 per cent, larger and contain more of what grapes are raised for. A Strawberry Hoe. Take a common hoe, and cut off a section of the blade in a, line from ope corner back to the shank, says the Florida Farmer. It leaves an acute angle of steel at the comer, that will go in between the plants and mellow up the sol!, or yank out a little weed. The hoe is Just as good as ever, and ha* a sharp corner like a trowel, to get In where a common hoe could not

GOWNS AND GOWNING

WOMEN GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WEAR. Brief Glances at Fancies Feminine, Frivolous, Mayhap, and Yet Offered in the Hope that the Beading Prove Beatfnl to Wearied Womankind. Gossip from Gay Gotham. New York correspondence: 9

UCH showy C adornments a s i gold, strings of heads, spangles and jewels are all BkMk) to be employed in the effects of the Egjr coming elaborate Tj dresses. Many of / the close fitted \ hips will be em>J\ phasized by fesjr\ toons of glittering strings of beads.

and girdles are being shown so much like those worn on the stage by the oldtime queens that only an exclusive society woman would think of wearing in real life such tawdry adjuncts to dress. These girdles are inexpensive enougli when sold as theatrical properties, but are very costly when designed for other than stage wear. They are a series of Unks that pass about the hips, joining in front a little below the waist in a very large and elaborate link. From this hang a series of links that fall to the foot of the skirt, or to the knees. This model is a modification of the original design, which comes from the twelfth century. In those days it was a long band of jeweled chain equipped with a buckle on one end, through which the other end passed, the belt being drawn to suit the costume or the wearer, and the extra length falling loose In front. Originally only this pendent end showed, the blanket or hip drapery being drawn up through the belt and held by it, its extra width hanging over the belt. Artistic selection of these girdles is guided by consideration for their twelfth century adaptations, but it’s not safe to be too faithful in the copying, because either women were more hardy in the old days, or else our climate is more severe. It’s not every costume that will carry off one of these costly affairs success-

PLAID AND CLOTH COMBINED AND SPANGLED.

fully, and this sort of girdle is but one expression of a general liking for glint and glitter. It’s early yet to tell what winter’s development of this favor will be, but it is quite within the possibilities that the rule will be to have some sparkling accessory, no matter what the means of attaining it. It is a simple enough dress that shows beside the initial, yet the big mauve satin collar, with its pendant tabs and ornamental ro settes is not deemed sufficiently ornate, so the broad expanse of satin is liberal ly sprinkled with spangles, that in g-a.--light or sunlight the wearer can be distinguished from the unsparkling million. As for the rest, the dress is of apricot cloth, its skirt has side-pleated panels at either side of a narrow front, and deep folds at the back. The bodice Is fitted with lining hooks in front, and the left side of the stuff laps over, the edge giving the baggy fulness in the waist The back is of bias material with a few pleats in the waist, and a belt of mauve satin with rosette garniture comes about the waist. Spangled trimming borders the edges of the fancy collar in the next pictured dress, appears nlso at the top of tho plaid panels of the skirt and edges the hem all around, with the exception of the panels. Then there is a circle of it at the top of the fancy collar. Its use here is entirely tasteful, for the costume’s combination of laurel-green mohair and bright Scotch plaid is so striking as to safely admit of rich garniture. Beneath the mohair collar there Is a waist of dark-green satin and bows of ribbon top the collar’s slashes. Last winter’s tidal wave of crepons didn’t strand that material by any

A BODICE OF NOVEL SHAPE.

means, for crepon will be worn more than ever, and the women who took advantage of the sales of that fabric during the summer will have saved a lot of money. The experience of this weave Is a marked exception to all known rules, and its revival but a few months after it was worn by almost everybody is so unusual and unexpected an event that even the dealers themselves seem to have been caught by the manufactur-

era. It certainly looked as if the dulera were trying to get rid of their ere pons as a goods that would lack sale this coming season, but how the stuff appears in all sorts of modifications, and any number df materials with erepon characteristics a re'on the market under new names. In the third picture there is a dress of one of these crepons, its shade styled a Louis XV. blue. Its skirt is untrlmmed, and its fitted bodice is entirely covered back and front with embroidered satin of the same shade of the dress, over which are spread the tiniest of sparkling spangles. The .dress goods is draped across this at the front and held at the left side with a rich gold buckle. The fancy bodice will remain for theater wear. The elegance of the elaborate rings that are to be in vogue is quite out of the question for use under circumstances that will bring wear and tear and no credit to the costume below the waist. So plain skirts of correct cut will be worn with bodices of contrasting and fancy material.

DESIGNED TO DECEIVE.

These bodices will many of them present the characteristics of those we have been wearing, having blouse or loose fronts, Inlettings of lace, etc, etc. Others will take the coat effect, and with low waistcoat and modish stock and fall of lace present novelties of new diodes. In some cases the skirt will detßf(»J»atrate Its planned association With the bodice and assert its kinship by a lining of the color employed in the bodice, or by the appearance of corresponding material in slashes up the sides. But the reasonable preference will be extended to the perfectly plain dark skirt, except, naturally, for box-party use. Figures, like fashions, change, and though the modification that time works in the former are not brought out with the rapidity of those that affect dress styles, their results are more difficult to manage successfully than are the most unconquerable new fashions. Of courses, if the change in dimensions is a lessening, the matter’s simple enough, but, unfortunately, lb seldom works that way, and ordinarily dressmakers are slow to suggest means of stimulating the slenderness that once was, and now, alas! is not A trick that will help to this end is presented in the fourth illustration, and lies in the V of silk let into the front of the waist. As here used, the silk is pink, and the dress goods gray brllllantine. Bias folds of the dress stuff trim the skirt, ps Indicated, and a row of satin buttons appears over each hip. Like folds outline the vest, and similar buttons are placed beside it, as shown. A plain baud of the goods gives the belt, and the sleeves are puffed to the elbow, finishing in long, tight cuffs. This V device is not enough to overcome great width of shoulders,

A FORERUNNER.

but is enough to act as a take-off for the early signs of broadening, when the need of heroic measures has not arisen. Hip display is on its way to faShionableness, and as the princess and petticoat styles are already winning acceptance, (t seems likely that the shepherdess fashions will receive favor, too. To judge by the clothes of the shepherdesses of ’95, the old-time ones now copied had to loop up their overgowns so that they might tend the sheep, without getting their clothes mussy. The effect of the long princess part tucked up to show more of the shorter petticoat was so pretty, and the pretty waist was so emphasized by the fulness about the hips made by the looping, that m’lady a-passing through the fields, straightaway went her back again and looped up hey gown. So, since petticoat and princess are already here, we may be certain of the shepherdess girl, who will promptly bring about her pretty modification of the mode’s stateliness. Then the hip draping will take all sort* of forms, and we shall loop up in the middle of the back, too, when the overgown will be again the looped up overskirt, in vogue about twenty years ago. In the hip pieces of the final pictured* costume, there is just a suggestion of this fashion, though one can easily see that, starting from such a beginning, the fashion may easily be adapted out of anything like close resemblance to the old-time style. This dress is of fancy tobacco brown woolen suiting, is made princess and buttons in front The sides and hip pieces are of plain brown cloth and are bound with fancy woolen braid, which also borders the hem of the skirt, forming sharp points in the centers of back and front The oblong epaulettes of plain cloth hare similar trimming, and the collar is of brown mirror velvet ’ j"

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH. FULLY RECORDED. Aa latoraatux Summary of Um> Moro la. portent Dotes* of Our Natffhbon-Wed. dlnfiudD<*thi—Crimea, Casualties and Ooaoral Now* Notes. Condensed State News. Minor State Mews. Terre Ilaute lias been chosen as the next meeting place ol the Northwest Indiana conference. ~ Jacob Eckman of Itockport, a baggageman, lost a hand while making a coupling at Kockport. The total amount given away to the poor by Indiana township trustees during 18U4 was $686,2*2.27. John Leisure, of Arlington, was kicked to death by horses after being jolted from his seat on a wagon. J' Henry Hale, who has been missing at Goshen, has been found dead in the woods. He committed suicide. Knights town is enjoying an oil boom. Major Doxey of Anderson, is said to have made a rich strike there. ,l 1 H The old Masonic Temple at Logansport was torn down, and several old coins were found in the corner stone. Fort Wayne will celebrate her centennail anniversary, Oct.'ls, 16, 17, and 18, and will celebrate it right. August Rosencranz, a Laporte carpenter, hanged himself. He had been married three times, and leaves two children. John llarillo and Michael Sabo, employed by the Standard Oil Works at Whiting, were suffocated by escaping gas. Terre Haute coal dealers have raised the prices of anthracite 25 cents a ton, and it is expected that they will advance the rate of soft coal. The American Plate Glass Works at Alexandria, the largest plant outsido the trust, has resumed operations with 000 hands. An epidemio of diphtheria is prevailing in Yorktown, and the opening of the public schools has been indcnlinitely postponed. The Home Land and Improvement Company, with a capital stock of $60,000, has been incorporated to build houses at Alexandria for factory employes. The Supremo Court, in an opinion by Judge Ilackncy, held that the statute under which the humane societies of the Ktato kill horses and other animals is invalid. By a surgical operation 14-year-old Blanche Bighant of Laporte, was relioved of a hair-pin that had found lodgment in her body, causing her acute suffering for ten years. A small child of Mr. nnd Mrs. Samuel Bishop, of El.wood, while playing around a tub half tilled with scalding water, tumbled in, and was blistered in a horrible manner. Airs. Fouts, the first female white child born in Wayne county, still lives on the old Fouts farm, live miles from Klchmond. She is eighty-eight years old and in very good health. The City Council of Khvood passed an ordinance compelling the railroad companies to maintain flagmen at all crossings, and limiting speed of trains within tho corporate limits. There has been a fair strike of petroleum near Upland by the Upland Gas and Oil Company. Two wells have been drilled in there within the last week, each yielding übout fifty barrels of high-grade oil daily. Andrew Wallis was run over at Fort Branch while trying to board the midnight E. A T. 11. train. lie had both legs ground to pieces, lie was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital, Evansville, land the legs amputated, death following In two hours. The entire family of Charles S. Krueger, of Michigan City, fattier, mother and live children, now lie buried in the cemetery. The family was poisoned by eating diseased pork, and one after another they succumbed, the last one dying this week.

A curious accident occurred at the Marion fruit jar works. The bottom dropped out of a large tank, spilling and rendering worthless a mass of molten glass weighing 120 tons. It will be necessary for the factory to shut down two weeks for repairs A well-to-do farmer near Eminence,was run over by a wagon and almost instantly killed. lie hauling his winter coal homo, and in going down a hill his hand slipped from the brake, throwing him under the wheels, lie leaves a large |family. A man by the natno of Anderson and two young women were probably fatally Injured in a runaway at Williamstown. The team dashed down a hill, throwing the party out and injuring all three. The horses were ruined and the. vehicle wrecked. Well drillers near Brownsburg drilled through a twenty-foot layer of substanoe resembling India rubber. At a depth of 85 feet they struck a piece of pine timber in good preservation, then came a black deposit resembling very coarse gunpowder, followed by an indigo-blue substance, the water also being blue. A lease war is said to be waging near Yan Buren between the Grant County Gil Company and the Ohio Oil Company. Both companies claim a particular lease, and both have rigged timbers. The firstnamed company took out ten teams to remove the opposition company’s timbers, but were repulsed with shotguns. Patents have been issued to Indianians as follows: James B. Baird, Elwood. tinning machine; John J. Gaynor, Indianapolis, self-binding attachment for reaping machines; George Cross, Plymouth, bicycle frame and finishing; Emsley Harper, Lawrence, earth auger; Francis A. Hedges, Vera Cruz, bundle binder; John Hettierington, Porter, insect powder distributor; Albert H. Kennedy, Rockport, ball bat: Thomas Neisohi, embossing macliine; John E. Routh, Jeffersonville, mall bag carrier; Washington F. Walb, Greencastle, harness. Roscoe Kimble, receiver of the Citizens’ Bank, of Converse, which went to the wall In June, 1898, has declared a dividend of fifteen per cent, to depositors, payable Sept. 21. This will make a total of 82 1-2 per cent, paid thus far, and there are enough assets to pay all claims in fall. The corn crop in Wabash county is now gathered and is one of the largest yields the county has ever known. The grain has ripened without frost, is well developed and is drying so rapidly tha£ it can be cribbed with safety next month. In former years much corn lias been shipped In for feeding purposes, but this year there will be a great deal of corn shipped out. Jeff Hooster, of Kokomo, bet he Could go around the court house square on the tops of the trees, jumping from one to the other like a flying squirrel. The first jump he missed the limb and fell on a sharp-pointed iron picket fence, tearing off a piece of flesh as large as a man’s hand. He will not play flying squirrel again. The millions Of dead fish that have been scooped out of White river above the dam, near Anderson, and either buried or cremated, have left the water in' a very foul condition. The smell is noticeable a .half-mile from the stream. Fever is raging between that city and Moss Island, two miles below, as the result of the stench. Tlje dam is condemned and will have to be torn out, thus freeing the putrid water.

USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL.

Handy and Convenient Bests Which Are Essily Made. : One of tho most useful phases of furniture in a well-equipped bed- room Is a shoe box, a clothes box, or a receptacle for the children’s toys. Every family has them. They’re as popular as sofa cushions, and yet very few

FOR CHILDREN'S TOYS.

business stores keep them, and the carpenter has to be looked to for their manufacture. . A simple and neat box Is shown In the first picture. It is the size of an ordinary wooden shoe box, arranged with the lid on hinges and covered with some light, funcy material, such as cretonne, silkollne or denim The sec-

BOX FOR SHOES.

ond illustration represents a box with the lid raised, showing on its under side a series of pockets for slippers, overshoes, etc., and also a pocket for button hook, shoe lioru nnd other sundries pertaining to footwear. Another suggestion for a combined shoe box and window sent is shown In picture number three, which makes a very attractive and comfortable piece

SHOE BOX AND WINDOW SEAT.

of furniture. It cun be made of two small boxes and one long box, or other equally good boxes of about tlieso proportions, made of strong bonrds; the proportions should be carefully preserved. Remove oue side from each small box, leaving the ends, top, bottom and one side? place them on tho

FRAME WORK FOR NO. 3.

tloor a distance apart, with tho open end at the front; botweeu these placo the long box, liavlug a lid fastened on at the back with hinges; screw tho sides of the end boxes fast to the sides of the middle box, and across tho back of tho three boxes fasten a board to act ah a back to the seat.

THE SWARMING OF -THE BEES.

Napoleon Retrained Hla Km pi re Twenty Days After Leaving Elba. At nine o’clock u mighty shout Is heard without. “The Emperor! The Emperor!” The palace echoes the cry, as across the bridge of the palace, and along the Heine embankment, In through the Tullerles gate, thronged about by a clamorous crowd, and surrounded by his soldiers and Ills generals, Napoleon enters the courtyard. Tarls Is wl4l with joy! The veterans iilng themselves upon the Emperor’s carriage. They seize him In their arms. They drag him out, and, bearing bln. on their shoulders, they rush with him through the doorway, even to the foot of the great staircase. The palace rocks with the shouts of welcome. The crowd bearing the Emperor, and the throng pouring down the staircase to greet him, block the way. Progress Is Impossible. People are everywhere, and Philip, standing at the top of the noble Stairway of Honor, laughs, as he cheers, to see Corporal Poyrolles sitting astride the great silver statue of Peace, his chapeau on the end of bis cane, his face rod with shouting and wet with tears of joy. At last a passage way is broken through the crowd. Philip and Monsieur do Lavalette, back their way aloft and keep the passage open, nnd so, up the clamoring stairway, along the Gallery of Diana, through the Blue Room, and into the Emperor’s study, ninid tears and cheers aud shouts, and tossing of bats and waving of handkerchiefs, the Emperor comes to his own again. In twenty days after leaving Elba, Napoleon has regained his empire. With but a thousand grena- ’ diers he has conquered thirty millions of people. The Swarming of the Bees ends In a carnival of joy .—St. Nicholas.

When Tears Are Dangerous.

M. 8. Gregory, sheriff of Amador, was telling some friends the other evening in the Grand about a plucky deputy, and wound up by saying; “When yon find a man as cool and steady as a rock In the face of danger you can bet on him. But the most dangerous men are those who laugh or cry when they have a dispute on hand. I knew a man named Drew, down In Texas, who was noted as a very bad man. AVhen he was doing auy shooting he would laugh loudly—a hard, demoniacal laugh, without any merriment In It Up at Indian Diggings, many years ago, two men named Archer and Pawson had a dispute with a German about a claim. When they claimed the property and said they would take possession he broke down and cried aud they, supposing that they would have no trouble in taking possession, marched on the ground. The German took np a broken pick and laid them both out Archer was badly hurt and was a long time getting over his injuries. After that whenever he saw a man start to cry he got out of the way.”—San Francisco Call. “Of course,” said the practical girl, “there is l such a thing as love at sight” “I’m so glad to hear you say that” replied her romantic'friend. “Yes—but I’d always advise giving It at least thirty days to settle, just the same.”— Washington Star. ‘ <■

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF THE PAPER. Quaint Saying* and Cate DMng* of thn Little Folk* Everywhere, Gathered and Printed Here for All Other Little Onee to Bead. Flower Ghosts. Any child who wishes to see the ghost of a flower has only to make a very simple experiment Let him go up to a cluster of blossoms and look very intently for several minutes at one side of It. Then very suddenly he must turn his gaze upon the other side of the same cluster. He will at once distinctly see a faint and delicate circle of colored light around this second half of the cluster. The light Is always In the hue which is “complimentary” to that of the flower. The specter of the scarlet poppy Is of a greenish white. The ghost of the primrose is purple. The ghost of the blue fringed gentian Is of a pale gold tint In these circles of color the shapes of the flower’s petals are always faintly but clearly seen. —Chlcngo Inter Ocean. Hover the Dude.

How Many Apples l>id They Rat? “Can you tell ino,” said Will to Bob, ‘how many apples Adam and Eve ate In the garden of Eden?” "That’s a chestnut!” Bob answered. “Eve ate one and Adam nte, too; that makes three.” "You don’t add correctly, Bob. Tho total Is 103.” “How do you make that out?” "Why, as you said, Eve ate one (81) and Adam ate, too (82). Add 81 and 82 together, nnd you got 103, don’t you?" Bob thought a moment and then exclaimed : "1 guess they ate more, afte? all. Eve ate, for one (841), and Adam ate, too (82). Total, 023." "Oh, I can do better than that," said Will. "Eve, for one, ate one (4181), and Adam, too, ate one (281). That makes a totnl of 4,362. Can you boat that?" "Yes, Indeed! How Is this? Eve ate one, for one (8,141), nnd Adam ate one, too (812). That Is a total of B,OKI. Now It’s your turn.” "I’ll quit," said Will. “Thoy must have eaten tho whole trop. I '—New York Recorder. The Obedient Bsg. Some curious tricks can be-performed with eggs prepared In tho following way: Pierce an egg with a pin, and empty the contents of the shell. When tljo Interior Is quite dry, pour Into It some line sand until a fourth of the shell is tilled. Then seal the hole with a drop of white wax. You can then place the egg on the edgo of u knife or tho margin of the decanter, and It will stay where you put It. Take care to shake the egg well before placing it In nny of these positions, and thus bring

THE OBEDIENT EGG.

the center of gravity to the place whero you desire It to bo. To make a disobedient egg Introduce into an empty egg shell some grains of shot and sealing wax: Close the hole, and hold the shell over a flame until the wax Inside has melted. The shot and wax will then adhere to the bottom of the egg. When cool place the dgg on the table, and R will stand upright like the one shown In our Illustration. The egg will be a source of mystery to your friends, as It will refuse to assume any other position.

Saved Forty-Six Lives.

An instance of noble adherence to duty to save the lives of others was recently recorded, which is worthy a place in the school books beside John Maynard’s famous deed: Shortly after 11 o’clock the engineer, Thomas Lloyd* discovered that the engine house was on fire. He made an effort to extinguish the flames with a few buckets of water, but was unsuccessful. Lloyd was alone In the building at the time, and he remembered that there were forty-six men In the mine. Without losing any time, he ran to the telephone and gave the alarm in the mine. The footman at the bottom of tbe shaft told the miners to throw down their tools and get on the cage as quickly as possible. By this time the flames bad surrounded the engineer on all sides. He patiently awaited the signal to hoist the men to the surface. At last he got the signal and brought up the cage with lightning speed. Eighteen men were aboard. The carriage was then returned to the mine for the second load of human freight. On this trip ten men were brought up. The side of the building now collapsed, and the burning timber fell all around the brave engineer, who still held the lever. At last the remaining men got on the cage, and In a few minutes all were brought to the surface safely. The engineer was badly burned, but will recover.—Ram’s Horn. ~ mv Give people cause, and they’seldom fall to be grateful. Tbe trouble is that they so seldom hare cause.