Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 24, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 September 1904 — Page 3

TOLD OF T.E I..LiD. Princess Henry }of Battenberg has considerable skill In the almost cbsolete art of illuminating‘. Among Queen Victoria’s favorite volumes were a copy of Thomas a Kempis’ “Imitation” and a superb autograph ilbum, both of which were illuminated by her daughter. The ameer of Afghanistan was very dull at book-learning when he was a boy. but had a natural gift for engineering and handicrafts; in fact, he became an expert blacksmith, as he thought a ‘prince ought to hate a trade to fall back upon just as much as any of his subjects. : | ;

Albert, the reigning prince of Thurn and Taxis, is an a;rdent sportsman and puts on a new suit of clothes every day. To his critical eyq a coat once worn is in rags. Each of these garments is perfumed with attar 9f roses that costs not iess than $9O an ounce. In a year his serene highness w{‘tears about 1,000 cravats. :

The empress of Russia-is a strong believer in female SlJffrage. women’s clubs, the higher education of women and in her right to enter any and all of the professions. She holds that almost all of the great reforhs of the world have been brought about by women, and that they are just beéoming conscious of their power and possibilities. Under her imperial patronage societies for the education ‘and development of females are growing n,umero'u‘%pin St. Petersburg and even spreading through the jealously guarded realm of the czar. THE FIELD OF ELECTRICS. .To an electrician one horsepower is 746 watts. e - : Whenever a plq,nt is wounded a positive electric current is established between the wounded part and the intact parts. e 4 Argon, the réceqtly discovered element of air, is, as was| expected from its ex‘istence in the chromosphere, very light and apparently monatimic. : The enormous i;,ncrease in the production and sale of copper, esp?c’ially in the United States and Europe, is due to the general increase of electricity used. It is usually imagined that the incandescent electric light gives out very little heat. As a matter of fact only six per cent. of its energy \goes to make light, while 94 goes into heat. The e]ectromeder is so acutely sensitive that it will detect in one minute an amount of n{’a.tter which must ac“cumulate for 2,000,000 years before there is enough of it to affect the most sensitive chemical balance. An interesting collection of about 700 incandescent electric lamps, including the first experimental lamps, is being made by the St. Louis exposition. The collection is -uniiqugli, and includes a specimen of every kind of fillament lamp ever made in Europe or America. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the introduction of electric’ traction into Germany will soon be celebrated in Berlin. On October 1, 1903, there were no fewer than 5,500 &(ilométers of rails used for electric traqic and 8,702 electric motor cars, with 6,190 ordinary cars attached to them, in use in Germany. -~ °

HOME REMEDIES. A fig split open makes a good poultice for a boil. | It is especially useful for gum-boil. - A split raisin is also good. S |

A little horseradish scraped and laid on the wrist of the side affected, will; in many cases, give speedy relief. +A better way is to place a little scraped horseradish in t;he mouth, or the tooth, and just around thkre gum. It relieves rheumatic pains in the gums and face also. The mouth may afterward be rinsed with a little camphorated water, lukewarm: i .

Boracic acid [is a simple home remedy; mixed witp vaseline, it forms onc, of the cheapest and safest ointments for cuts and brpises. Boracic acid dusted into the sleeves of dresses which have been wori when cycling, removes all disagreeable traces of perspiration. Handkerchiefs 'which have been used when cald and‘iinﬁuenvza are prevalent, should be sprinkled with boracic acid powdered, or, better still, should bLe steeped in a siron'g solution of it and water before being sent to the wash.

BUILDING FOOD - To- Bring the Babies Around. When a little human machine (or a large one) goes wrong, nothing is so important as the selection of food which will always bring it around again. e “My little baby boy fifteen months old had pneumonia, then came brain fever, and no sooner had he got over these than he began to cut teeth and, being so weak,” he was frequently thrown into convulsions’” says a Colorado mother. “] decided a change might help, so took kim to Kansas City for a visit. When we got there he was so very weak when he would cry he would sink away and seemed like he would die. ’ ~

“When I reached my sister’s home she said immediately that we must feed him Grape-Nuts and, altßough I had never used the food, we got some and for a few days gave him just the juice of Grape-Nuts and milk. He got stronger so quickly we ‘were soon feeding him the Grape-Nuts itself and in a wonderfully short time he fattened right up and became strong and well, | :

“That showed me something worth knowing and, when later on my girl came, I raised her on Grape-Nuts and she is a strong, healthy baby and has been. . You will see from the little photograph I send you what a strong, chubby youngster the boy is now, but he didn’t look anything like tnat before we found this nourishing food. Grape-Nuts nourished him back to strength when he wds so weak he couldn’t keep any other food on his stomach.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. . . All children can be built to a more sturdy and healthy - condition upon Grape-Nuts and cream. The food contains the elements nature demands, from which to make the soft gray filling in the nerve centers and brain. A well fed brain and strong, sturdy nerves, absolutely insure a healthy body. g i i Look in each pkg. for the famous little book, “The Road to Wellville,”

%.;ﬂ”u»f‘"wm” T/l -m% it o MW ‘]Zl J\ o 4 A ) H@R[C T Lt T ~ HINTS 'FOR FARM BUILDERS How to Put a Durable Foundation Under Structures Put Up Some " | Seasons Before. The illjustration shows an excellent plan for! putting a tight.foundation under a barn or other structure thatis already built. This is usually a difficult matter, particularly if thé building is close to the ground. Foundation should extend down below frost line. Dig a trench (t) close to the barn, as shown, and then under the barn to required distance to accommodate width | 4 = ! Bk : SR i 3 e ‘ ! = et J mf.b o PrBIEL - T S MAKING A FOUNDATION. of foundation. Exactly under edge of building, at bottom of wide trench drive stakes and put down a rough board (w), as shown in cut. Fill in behind boaid with loose stones (s), putting on other boards and adding more stones until they stand level with the surface of the ground. The trench outside the barn is now,‘ﬁllgd in with earth, packing down solidly. |Leave old becards where they are. Flat stones (f) can now be putin above the ground anc cemented. Sometimes it is found more convenient *o place these stones before filling in outside trench.—A. D. Brewer, in Farm and Home. e

WASTE MUST BE STOPPED. { T . Many Farmers Fail Because They Do Not ?raétice Any Rational Sys- | tem of Fertilizing. 'On the average the American farmer wastes each year more than enough to keep his family. Enormous wastes are going on in many ways, but the greatest one is the ‘waste of farm-fertility. Preserve what fertility is already-in the soil, and put more in it. It may be that sonje farmers donot know the value of manure, as.some are giving it away in order; to get it out of the way. Others are burning the straw-stacks instead of using the straw for bedding, which would incréase the value of the manure. I know this from observation. Farmers waste much of the value of manure by putting it in piles in the barnyard, and letting it take the weather for months. If the yard happens to be near a creek or pond, ‘a great part of the fertility finds its way into it, and probably one-half of its value is lost. ‘ I think that if some of our farmers could visit among the rural population of Germany, and note their methods for saving manure, most of them would take a lesson home with them. Most of the German farmers are successful, and their success seems to be due to the careful saving and applying of fertility. Why cannot we stop this waste by saving and applying all the manure, by keeping more live stock, by cultivating our soil properly and retaining the elements of fertility, and by studying the subject and applying the thoughts gained? We must stop this waste if we want our land to be kept in a high state of fertility.—E. J. Waterstripe, in Farm and Fireside. . :

GIVE THE BOYS POULTRY. One Way of Inducing Children to Work Contentedly and Happily on the Old Farm. As usual, there is loud complaint from farmers that the children brought up on the farm are getting uneasy and wanut to try their wings elsewhere. Thisis not to be woridered at when these young people hear and read of what is going on-in the world. The monotony of country life seems unbearable to them, especially when from the farm they obtain only plenty of hard work, the food they eat and the clothes the wear. True, one may say that is about all anyone gets out of life, but if we can plan some way by which the young people can make a start for themselves they will be much more ¢ontented. >

The! indianapolis News thinks that poultry offers a way of trying out the feeling of the young folks at small expense.. Give them a chance to raise poultry and have the proceeds for their own use, and in a year or two they will have become reconciled to country life and be willing to make it their future or they will have shown their utter lack of adaptability for it, in which case the best thing for them and for the parent is to let them leave the farm and take up the work for whieh they are better fitted, but don’t lose your grasp on the young people without first giving them a chance to do for themselves on the farm and show what is in them. AGRICULTURAL BRIEFS. Teach the young pigs to eat as soon as possible, . i New ground reasonably rich is best for turnips. . Slow milking frets the cow.: Hasten the performance as much as possible. In horses bad dispositions are generally the result of bad management and handling. - ) Keep plenty of help, so that the harvesting and storing away of the crops may be done properly. Clear salt and water on old sores, harness and saddle galls often cure them where nothing else will. In ‘nearly all cases it will be found best to continue the cultivation of the corn until it can be considered made. Feed' the sows after farrowing upon foods calculated to produce a large flow ot»:-ilh milk. Increase as their neces‘sltie? vedquire. = G Alj profit that comes from a dairy cow or oxfg being fattened is derived from the food over and above that which is necessary|tosustainlife.

BIG MONEY IN ASPARAGUS. Demand. for This Vegetable Is Increasing Steadily and the Market Holds Good. Most farmers would think $45 an acre for manure would be an extravagant outlay of money. But down in New Jersey they spend that much for stable manure at $1.50 a ton, and consider it a good investment. Naturally they conot raise corn or wheat or oats on that sort of soil. They raise asparagus, and get from $5OO to $640 per acre returns from it Experiments from four different kinds of fertilizer show that stable manure brings the largest returns. The different "fertilizers used were as follows: Manure, $45 per acre; complete fertilizer, $12.93; complete fertilizer, bone and potash, $18.29; complete fertilizers. bone and potash and nitrate of soda, $21.91.

There is a' constantly, increasing demand for asparagus, the market holds gowd, and is likely to foryears, yet hundre¢s of farmers who own good land near large cities go on year after year raising «orn, oats and other crops which vielé them a bare living. Asparagus is a sure crop, a sure sale and always profitable. o

The soil should be plowed in the fall and sub-soiled, "then turn double furrows five feet apart, and place the roots five inches below the surface. Strew about one-half the fertilizer in the bottom of the furrow, mix it with the soil and place the remainder on top after the roots are planted. Manure can be applied after the plants have started to grow with good advantage. Place the roots about 30 inches apart in the rows. Before the growth starts in the spring, work the ground thoroughly with disc and harrow, and then cover the rows slightly with the single cultivator shovel set to throw dirt outward. Cultivate every ten days thereafter, and keep the soil in fine condition. : If bleached asparagus is desired. throw a ridee of soil over the row as soon as growth is started, and cut as soon as the shoots show ‘through this ridge a length of six or seven inches. If green asparagus is wanted, cover with only about three inches of soil, and cut the shoots four or five inches. From 25 to 30 cuttings per year can be taken from a good asparagus bed. The soil requires plenty of manure every season.—Clinton M. Shultz, in Farmers’ Voice.

NEW STRAWBERRY CULTURE Commonly Accepted Report Has It That Good Crops Have Been Raised in Barrels. . The method of strawberry culture shown- in the illustration has been successful and profitable. Tight jronbound barrels are used with all but four of the hoops removed. Holes are bored through the staves at proper distances “%gw&g_ e AR A o 0 | sg’ AN ‘S@%‘a ;I’{% N “”‘.; £ ! / S‘TRA'\\’BERR]ES IN BARREL. as shown, plants are set in these holes and- the barrels filled ‘with soil to the top. The average yield of berries is over one-hal?! bushel per barrel. The greatest advantages claimed for this method are that no mulch or cultivation is necessary, that the berries are always clean and free from sand, and are far more readily picked than when grown in the usual way. A tileis placed in the center of the barrel as it is filled with soil. This permits an even distribution of water from top to bottom, an abundance of which should be supplied at all times.

Plants Which Go to Sleep. ; Some plants go to sleep every night. The well known sensitive plant, or mimosa, in daylight opens its fragile leaves which are hard at work eating, absorbing the carbonic acid of the air into plant food. At night the mimosa sleeps and digests what it has, eaten, and the leaves fold up double against each. other; the stem droops and the leaf is limp and apparently dead. Similar to this is another plant, fourd as a weed all over the country east of the Rocky mountains, known as the partridge-pea or large-flowered sensi-tive-pea. The leaves are not so sensitive to the touch, but close quickly if the stem is cut. This is not a troublesome weed.

Putting Away Sweet Potatoes. In reply to a query concerning how to put away sweet potatoes to keep for winter use: In the first place dig before frost. Dry and lay them away. Line a box or barrel well with paper, and put.in a layer of potatoes, about four deep and then .a layer of paper enough to make a goed division and so on until the box is full. Put them where you want them for winter and keep the room warm—not below freezing at any time, and 40 to 70 degrees is better. Keep in a dry place and vou can have sweet potatoes until harvest—provided you don’t eat them.— Charles B. Williams, in Ohio Farmer. New ‘Remedy for Insects, The fact that the odor of moth balls is extremely repugnant to house insetts has suggested to some ingenioug mmd the use of this remedy against outdoor pests. A New York farmer who whs much annoyed by the ravages of striped beetles on- cucumbers employad moth balls with such success that Ekis neighbors are imitating him, e placed a clam shell (hollow side up) in.the center of the hill. with abet five balls in each shell. This might e tried with other injurious insects.

ACCIDENTS IN THE WATER. When the Lungs Are Filled with Water There Is Small Hope of - Resuscitation. The readers of the daily press need not be told that the number of drowning accidents during the summer season is significant and appalling. Every day we hear of them, says the New York Herald. Some oecur to bathers, others to boating parties, and still others to such as accidentally fall overboard. Even the good swimmer may be seized with cramp at any moment and sink before help arrives, may die in a faint or from shock, or quickly choke for want of air. Barely two minutes is sufficient to settle the question of life or death when a body is submerged. Hence everything must bend to the question of quick rescue. When the lungs become loaded with water by the gulping efforts of the struggler there is usually small hope of resuscitation. ey b

It is estimated, however, that fully 12.5 per cent. of drowned persons die the moment they become immersed from other causes than simple suffocation. In such cases death may result from mechanical injuries, concussion, shock, faintness, apoplexy or cold. For theseevidently no ready help is of any avail. Contrary to the general belief, also, only 25 per cent. of the remaining 87.5 per cent. actually die directly of asphyxia pure and simple. The remaining causes are usually complicated and modified by one or other of the conditions named.

A correspondent of the Herald recently gave some excellent alvice to the prospective drowning man by urging the necessity of coolness in the face of death. But the truth is, no one can be trusted to act calmly when gasping for air. The best swimmer loses control of himself under such circumstances. When he begins to struggle he is lost. It is quite true that the submerged human body is but a trifie heavier than water and that the smallest amount of buoying power is necessary to make it float. With the mouth closed and the breath held, the slightest wave of the hand or kick of the feet may be all that is necessary to bring the chin above the water, but in order to accomplish this the victim must maintain his presence of mind, be calm in his calculations and have faith in the outcome of his efforts. Ordinarily all this is impossible on its face, which makes every difference in the world between the man in the water and the man who writes directions on dry land. The real assuranceagainst the usual fatality of such accidents is the ready help in the emergency—the life preserver on shipboard and the life saver on shore. Itis estimated by various authorities that the actual weéight of an adult body in water varies from four to ten pounds. The English life saying belt for the navy is calculated to spupport 25 pounds and the American belt 24. These are supposed to buoy not only the wearer, but another who may need his help. With such af)paratus the victim can be safe for hours. In England many of the excursion boats are furnished with settees having air-tight appliances under the seats which can be used in some sense by large numbers as miniature floating rafts. But what can be said for our General Slocums and Graﬁ Republics, whose life preservers are not only found to be rotten, but on testing have been shown actually to sink of their own Weight? | & When an insensible victim is taken from the water much will depend on the skill and judgment of the rescuers. No time is to be lost in the efforts at resuscitation. The main objects are to clear the lungs of water and fill them with air by imitating the respiratory efforts.® So long as any sign of life remains such endeavors should be patiently persistent, even for hours, before all hope is abandoned. After cessation of the heart’s action all treatment is unavailing. What is known as Sylvester's method of artificial respiration is generally considered the best for resuscitation after immersion. Its great advantages ars its simplicity, ease of application and its general effectiveness. Any person of ordinary initelligence may apply it, and thus make good use of precious time until skilled medical assistance can be procured.

After clearing the mouth and nostrils of froth, grasping and pulling the tongue forward, the patient is'placed upon his back with shoulders raised. The restoration of breathing is effected by grasping the arms above the elbows and drawing them upward until they meet above the head, keeping them there for two seconds then bringing them to the side of the chest and' pressing the elbows against the ribs gently and firmly for two seconds more. By such means the air is allowed to enter the expanded chest and to escape afterward when the compression is made. :

These movements are to be alternately and deliberately repeated 15 times in a minute until a spontaneous effort tq respire is perceived. So much having been accomplished, the principal aims should be to restore the general circulation and give warmth to the body. The victim should be wrapped in blankets, the limbs ghould be rubbed upward, hot water bags should be applied to the pit of the stomach, and when he is able to swallow some. warm water or drandy should be administered.

If a single life in the number of drowning accidents that are to be can be saved by such means it will more than justify the publication of an emergency treatment that mught be suggestive to otherwise frantic and resourceless helpers in their hour of greatest anxiety.

Light in the Sahara. The Sahara desert lighted by acetylene street lamps is a novel conception at which the mind hesitates. Yet that is what the traveler would see, thanks to the ingenuity of Commandant Pujat, of the French army, should he visit the Oasis of Tougourt, in the far south of Algeria. Tougourt was remarkably unhealthful, but the commandant, by diligent sanitary work. has overcome that trouble. To make the place more attractive and pleasant for hig garrison, he has mounted large acetylene lamps high on the stems of the gigantic palm-trees which shade the market-place, and thus has given this' mid-Sahara camping place quite the appearance, by night, of an American village. L i ‘ : Rare Birds. Commenting on the craze for killing rare birds wherever they may be found, a writer .in London Truth says: “I should have thought that the fact that a bird is rare would be a reason for not killing it, make him rarer.”

’45 o 4 \) ( ND i =9 R BOIE LIS, AB ol <A 14" : ’\ S 5 u’ v ;—, NP IS iR &&&J‘f/\! : l z"l . /4—: . K ir—ﬁ’*..—_- /‘ & { 83 TABLE MANNERS. The bluejay is a greedy bird; I often watch him eat, When crumbs are scattered from our door he snatches all the treat, He drives the smaller birds away, his man- ‘- ners are so rude— ; It’s quite a shocking thing to see him gobble down his food! And sometimes when I'm not polite, I hear my mother ‘say: ‘ ‘“Why, now I see a little boy who's eating bluejay way!” The, sparrows are a noisy .set and very quarrelsome, Because each hungry little bird desires the biggest crumb, They scold and fight about the food, all chirping ‘Me! Me! Me! And sometimes when we chiidren are inclined to disagree ' About the sharing of a treat, my mother says: “Why, you Are acting now the yery way the silly sparrows do!” : -‘The jolly little chickadees are perfectly pooo Aite . They never snatch, they never bolt, they never, never fight, They hcld the crumbs down daintily with both their little feet, And peck off tiny little bites—we love to watch them eat! § And when my sister’'s good at meals, my mother says: ‘‘l see A little girl..who's eating like a darling chickadee!” : —Hannah G. Fernald, in Good Housekeeping. |

BIRD WITH STRANGE BILL. Rhinoceros Hornbill of Borneo Is a Creature That Is Equally Curious and Unselfish. ' One of the most remarkable and least known birds in the world is the wonderful rhinocerous hornbill. " It lives in the high fruit forsests of Borneo, and,although it occurs there in flocks so great that their wings make a sound like thunder when they are disturbed, yet few travelers 'see them, because tkeir dwelling places are so difficult to reach. ; The natives call them sungungs, but, as will be seen from the picture, the name of rhinocerous hornbill is about as descriptive a one as could be devised. A fine pair of them is to be seen in the bird cases of the national museum jin Washington. ‘ ; Despite its enormous bill, the bird is an excellent and swift fiyer, and manages to hold its own against the many serpents, tree-climbing cats and monkeys of Borneo. But they have so many enemies that they are driven to great straits to preserve their nests and eggs from these marauders. The way in which they do this is a fine example of unselfishness among animals. 4 As soon as the female has laid her eggs in the hollow. of a tree, the male bird sets to word to seal her in, by clos-

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Its Leaves Always Point Due North, Hence It Is Highly Valued by Travelers on Plains. { “Sailors, when they’re lost, get their bearings from the stars,” said a western miner. ‘Lost landsmen, knowing nothing about astronomy, must trust to their botanical knowledge to lead them home. If I ever get lost on' the prairies I look for a compass plant. This plant is a pretty common growth on the western plains, and its leaves always point due north. If you know where north is you are sure the south is behind you, the east on your right and the west on your left, and there is nothing for you to do but push onward in the direction your home lies. Thus the compass plant has saved many a lost traveler from death on the plains. ; “Woodsmen tell me that when they get lost they find due north by examining the tree trunks. On the side of the trunks that faces north the maoss, they claim, always grows the thickest. Moss will be found, to a certain ' extent, all over the trunks, but en the north side there will be two or three times as much of it.”—Louisville Cour-ier-Journal. By o . Public end Private. “I can’t see,” said the reformer, ‘“how a man who is perfectly clean in private life can lend himself to all sorts of dirty deals when he goes into politics.” \ “l suppose,” replied the practical man, “that it is for the same reason you take a bath at home every day, but would never take one if you had to do it in theé public square.”—Cincinnati Commergial Tribune, P Ml

SPORT OF ROPE VAULTING. An Exciting and Healthful Exercise for Boys Used to Ordinary Athletic Sports. ‘ Of course, most of aur boys know all about high jumping and pole vaulting, but have you ever heard of rope vaulting? ! All you really need is-a good stout rope, a tree limb to hangit to, and something to jump over, but it is very much more fun to do it exactly right. Get-two bbards or strips of boards, about eight feet high. On one side of each of these drive small nails a littla way into the wood, about an inch apart, leaving the head and about half the nail sticking out. Leave two feet of one end of your pole or strip of wood free'from nails. With a sharp stake make two holes in the ground beneath the tree limb that is to hold your rope. Make these holes about six feet apart and about 18 inches -deep. Now put your posts into the holes and drive them firmly in plice with the = - ”;' 2 s ; '_’,-' ';{ng’@ = S e —a( 58 ( ==s Sty =5 3525 f h,/ 7/ = (\'\;\\ ] %// AV /1,":« %v 7L ////7 =" | s — ///% Ve . N ) 1 // L 47 s/ ”~” € L : /// 57 ///—ﬁj‘-’/'// z, / ST - VAULTING OVER CROSSBAR. nails pointing the same way on both poles. Get a thin lath or slender stick, long enough to reach between the posts and light enough to rest on the nails. Now climb up to the limb of the tree and tie your rope in place on the bough, just over the center of the posts. The rope should reach to within two feet of the ground.

~ Now stand a few feet away from the crosspiece, swing yourself toward it, pull yourself up the rope as high as you can, feet first, if you know how to do the trick, and swing yourself over the crosspiece as the picture shows. = It is easy enough, as you will find when you try it, but to make a vault seven of eight feet high—well, that.is another matter. .

The secret of high rope vaulting is to grasp the rope as far from the ground as possible, throw your body backward, raise your feet till they point nearly straight up, and as you swing toward the crosspiece pull on the rope, lifting your whole body. You can pass over the crosspiece at astonishing heights by his means and you and your friends will find rope vaulting an exciting and healthful sport.—Chicago Inter Oceon. DISPATCHER RUNS TRAINS. Although One Rarely Hears About Him, He Is the Real Railroad Nerve Center. We are a railroad-riding people, and are so familiar with this mode of travel that it hardly ever occurs to any one how much our safety depends on the vigilance of many, but particularly of one who may be termed the nerve-center of the road. He is the train dispatcher, and of him and his work Frank H. Spearman thus speaks in the Outlook:. ; .

The work of this marvel, fixing for a moment thne attention of the world, is only the work of the train dispatcher, who, sitting under his night lamp, blindfolded by four white walls, his right hand on the key and his eye fastened on the figures of a train sheet, ‘forces his mind, when other men are asleep, to visualize the long, winding miles of his division—its traius, its passing tracks and curves, its towers and stations, its semaphores and switches. At 20 points in the darkness of his night, and depending for safety on the clear, instant working of his mind, are swiftly moving trains of Pullman cars loaded with sleeping men and’ women whose waking rests with him alone. This man is no genius; he is the plain, everyday American that one meets in the street car or in the crowd, He cannot choose his days for playing his games; he plays every day from eight a. m. till four p. m., or from four till mwidnight; or he takes his transfer at midnight and sits in his chair through the last watches of the night. He cannot play 20 games and rest; he must for eight hours be ready steadily for every game that comes over the wires against him, whether of of storms, blockades, breakdowns or wrecks. He cannot load up with coffee or with strong cigars.for the strain of one night, because he must meet the same conditions on the next night and on every night. No one marvels concerning hira; no one coddles him; no one pays any attention whatever to him, until, after pernaps, 1,000 or 5,000 such nights -successfully passed, he makes one night 'a mistake, a fatal mistake, and from those people who themselves never forget anything a cry fov vengeande goes up. Other men may make m.stakes; not the dispatcher. His nerves must be iron and must never fag, never wear. Sitting in his den he directs his train movements every day and his life, burned out like the electric current at his key, is one of the little sacrifiecs we exact as the price of our living in the country and doing business in the city, of crossing a continent in days instead of weeks, of getting our letters with the speed of telegrams and our papers and magazines wet from the distant press. ! Bishop Slept on the Wharf, Rev. W. Bompas, Episcopalian bish.op of Alaska, is accustomed to roughing it. On his way to Winnipeg, he stopped a night at Vancouver, but refused to sleep in g hotel or private residence. Instead, he wrapped himself in a blanket and, with a grip fog a pillow, slept soundiy on the whart, - Dogs as Auxiliary Brigands. The brigands of Corsica use traines dogs to attack and pull down their vietims, and hold them on ‘the ground until the brigands come on the scens,

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