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" 11 ?mmmtmrn ?? wand in hand. ,Wo twain went o'er the world so wide, And rtever gold lia<l we: But alio was ever at my side, And that wua all to me! Jn many a land her dear, swedt hand Knew the firm' clasp of mine, Over the weary deaert sand And by the purpling viae. The Rens were broad, the seas were deep, And night and storm fell drear; She did not waver?did not weep, But stood beside me there. ?un, Hide tlice trom tli? tempest's breath, So wild-flfo trwift to kill!" Sweetly nWr&aid; "Through life?through . , (leatVT' ? % ? "1 am beside thee still!" In liovels hard for hunger, sw?et I beard her breathe my name. .And saw the night with morning meet Over deep pits of Hhame. I And ever in the weary ways. Where the red thorns abide, "There is sweet music in my days, For she is at my side. ' ?Atlanta Constitution. i ON THE EDGE OF THE t! 6 FOREST. i d INTERESTING NEWS. 0 ^ By F. P. KOPTA. 0 On afternoon Apolena came home later than usual and astonished us all with the news she had heard from the old ladles who kept the "delica-1 cles store." The sweet Seraphiene was to marry her Lazar, who had won a fortune at the "little lottery," it wns said. ?u aown, Apolena, and tell us all about It," said her father, "and do not flirt about like a mosquito." Thus admonished, Apolena sat down on on* ot the rickety chairs and drawing a long sigh, began her tale, to which we all listened in breathless silence. Seraphiena and Lazar, as all the town knew, loved one another to dia1 traction. But yjere were objections, \ na there aj^v;iys are. Lazar was a chimney sweep, and nennlless. Spr aphiena had a hundred florins, a cow, and a yearling pig. She could look for a better match than poor Lazar, in spite of his curly hair and good looks, said her father, and he kicked the young fellow out of his inn whenever he met him. Naturally this did not help matters much. Seraphiena and Lazar met hehind trees, wept together in friendly shops, and klsrod one another unknown to their parents behind the paternal doors. Still things looked hopeless for the clovntprl nntr tui heaven smiled upon them. Lazar had a beautiful dream! Here Apolena stopred to take breath. "It was a lovely dream (hat Lnzar had, and he thought to himself, "Why should T dream buch a beautiful scene and near morning? Such a dream was not seji^-to me for nothing.' So being n '^mdble lad, he went to see old pai,.- Mama Barbora, who was skilled it) such matters, and related his vision." he did not go to tlie la r* dies who to"ep the delicacies store. They are great hands for hunting out numbers in the Snar (dream book)." "They are not friends of his. They t tried to persuade JJeraphiena to marry a glass blower, a sort of cousin to' one or their brothers', wife. Any way lie went to Barbora. " 'Ah, my gold boy,' said the old woman. 'Your guardian angei stood by you when you had that lovely dream. Make a vow to burn a candle, while I go In the next room for my urcniii iiouk. "Of course Lazar took her advice, and promised the saint a candle of two pounds' weight if ho should win. " 'Mother, If I should win, I will buy you a red skirt, such as you never saw in your life,' said Lazar, and they went at it to hunt up the numbers." "lie may he dirty, hut he is devout and kindhearted," said the grandfath vi, Diucwuys at ivuney. "A -candlo for a saint, a. red skirt for granny. That is what I call well mannered. I know of lads who, if they won four florins at the little lottery, would not buy their loving relations an ounce of snuff." "You are right, grandfather," said Matey, with a grir.iace meant for a smile. "And I have oven known people to win the four florins, and to get dead &runk, and to have to be carried borne on a wheelbarrow by their loving relations. Oh, yes, I have known such eases!" "Drat you both! Must I si? fnrnvnr on this chair? Lot me ro on with my story, will you? Tho old woman came hack with the Snar, and between them both they fixed the numbers." "What was the dream about, Apolena?" asked her father. "It was about a holy bishop, and you know, lias many numbers, i very lucky dream. To see a ying mass Is twenty-six and To speak with him 1b a ^ to whatever you havo in >unts thirty-two, sixtyRut there are a great Sibers mixed up with t skilled in the mat^ora, can explain. To hort, they found out And behold! It vra nau said, ins j/lth him, when ho (am. Ilia numbers number came out!" ho win, Apolona?" father. Hlx hundred florins! He ago now." tils patron saint was at n he sot those num~ apostle or a saint?" remember hearing n In the Evangc a blessed marired his granddigues," said Apoa;on. Is It for the jjiss religious mat. to know? 'You oald Miss Alv ho saw all his five ~> outsldo the store, He treraVfad an <4 nearly fell down, and then he rushed to the church, dirty as he waa, and threw himself flat on his face before the allar. Some ot his comrades^draggod him away I at last, and brought him home, and gof him to wash himself, but he went afc>out liko one dazed, they say." "Perhaps now that he 1;; so rich, ho will not marry Seraphiena," said tho grandfather. "He can make a better match/' "Like enough the host of the Gobien Calf thought so, for he was one of the first to catcii him In the street, J they told me." " 'Come with me, Lazar, my boy,' ho said. "You and I wer? always fond of a Joke together. Come to the Inn; we will drink to your health,' and ho led him r way." "What a world this Is!", said Matey, suddenly. "It Is a very good world," snapped his grandfather, "if only there were less fools in it, say I." "They say," went on Apolena, "that when Seraphiena hoard the news, instead of laughing with joy, she just blubbered, and that when Lazar saw her at it, he also went to weeping, and then those two precious idiots wept away on a bench tide by side, instead of being glad." j "Well, perhaps It was their way of I being glad," said Matey. "Was there ever such a dunce as I that boy?" aid his mother. "Who ever weeps when they are glad I should like to know?" "Ho only says that out of perversion! He is like a pig?pull him ny the ear one way. if you wish him to go the other." Here Matey took the hint, and beI gan grunting like a pig. "Well, perhaps, after all," said Apolena, speaking lound, "Lazar may marry her." "Of course the host oZ the Golden Calf will stick to him if possible, now he is rich," said her father, kicking Matey to n\ake him stop grunting. "Well, for my part," said Apolena, "I wish Seraphlena luck. She is a good girl, if lanky and marked with the smallpof, and she had scoldings and slappings enough before Lazar had that lucky dream. I hope that they may got married." "And still there are people who ridicule dreams, and abuse the little lot very, Hciiu nor latner, meditatively. "What will you," said Apolena. "There are still people who believe that the world is round like an apple. and that the people on the other side walk about, with their heads, and have their legs in the air! Anil others, like that professor who came here hunting vermin, who told us we came probably from fishes. There are lots of fflols in this world, and one has to hear a lot of nonsense every day. The besi plan is to let it go in oip ear. and out of the other." And Apolena got up, and began scraping potatoes for the evening soup. Baltimore's Oldest People. .. . . _ liy MHvS. 11. C. MlliliRK, in Leslie's. Baltimore has two remarkable centenarians among her residents?a n.an and a woman. The man is a tall, heavy-set Russian, who is not only the oldest man in the Monumental City, but very likely the oldest in the United States; for Louis Abraham Kallinsky is nearing his one hundred and sixteenth birthday. The other is Mrs. Susan Askey, a woman who was born in Maryland and who has spent her entire, life of one hundred and four years as a resident of that State. An interview with these old people brought forth many interesting reminiscences, for both of them still retain all their faculties and recall with amazing vividness the incidents of three-quarters of a century Mrs. Askey spoke of the many changes in her native city and the growth of her chosen religion, for she is a devout Methodist Episcopalian and has been a member of that sect for eighty-two years. Up to her ninety-eighth year sh" was a regular attendant at church worship and took an active part in church work. Today she can give, you the names of her pastors for the last seventy-five years. Last year the was taken to church on her birthday in an automobile. She declared that she liked motoring and uiuKtiu lorwani 10 u nae on ner mrtnday tliis year. Mrs. Asluy remembers nothing of the War of 1812, save that at Its outbreak she was sent to Frederick, Md., where she remained with an uncle until It was over. She then returned to Baltimore and was educated at St. Patrick's Catholic School. !!? Won Out. "Nettle," cried the enamored young man, "I love you, and would go to the world's end for you." "Oh, no, you wouldn't, James," retorted the sweet girl graduate. "The world, or the earth, as it Is called, Is round like a ball; therefore, It has no end." "Yes, I know," continued the e. y. m., "but what I meant was that I'd do anything to please ycu. Ah, dearest, If you knew the aching void?" "Now I am surprised, James," interrupted the s. g. g. "Nature abhores a vacuum..and there in no ?np.h I thing an a void; but admitting that I thero could bo such a thing, how could the void you speak of bo void if thero wft? an ache in it?" "Oh, welt," rejoined tho young man, "at least I'vo got cash and property amounting to nearly $100,000, and I want you to bo my wife. So there!" "James," rejoined the fair one without a moment's hesitation, "since you put It in that light, I haven't the heart to refuse you. i^et the wedding bells ring without unnecessary delay. "~Chlcago News. Doesn't Count the Cost. "Sho spares no expense when sho entertains." '' F flhnnl/l oftv 1\7 s\ ??aMa ?? ? kjiij nut. ** u ?YCI U up .hero tho other evening, and ciho actually nerved fresh eggs."?Detroit Freo Press. Clover Ten. Toa made from red clover blossoms Is a good blood i>urlflor. ? ' I I ' ' t n Protection of Cows.. J'ar bettor In 1*1 ** m? n nltin I shed tlmn to let tho cows or calves shiver during a bitter cold night in tho lea of an old straw stack. When storms are brewing sec that all the stock is safe and warm. Then you can go to bed satisfied and sleep. Either feed your stock well or sell it; don't have anything lean, hungry, cold and sore-eyed.?Farmers' Home Journal. Sod llnsins For Trees. mi- * * i ue mnuacapc gardeners of one of New York City's parkways have devised an attractive way of protecting the base of *t?3e-trnnks by arranging a square border of sod, two feet wide, around each one of the trees bordering the boulevard. In this way the soil between tho border and the tree-trunk may always be kept loose, allowing tho moisture of rains to : >ak into the ground and nourish the'roots. Were it not for this sod basin tho gravel path, coming close to the tree, would, in time, become firmly trodden down, causing*the tree to suffer ac| coi'dlnglv. I * The Idea Is one that could 1)3 adopted elsewhere to good advantage. llai'M'stinv; Alfalfa. The first point to accentuate as we approach the subject of harvesting is the pre-eminent value of the 1 aves. These contain from seventy-five to eighty per cent, of the i>;)toin of the whole plant, that valuable nnnpound that gous to produce milk and meat. It has been estimated that a ton of properly cured alfalfa 1 aves ia equal in protein to '2s<>n pounds oi' wheat bran; and when it is also estimated by careful observers that the loss of i i icuvus 111 Harvesting, even under favoring circumstances, ranges from fifteen to thirty or more per cent., it is readily seen that the harvesting is an important part in alfalfa hay-making.?From Cohurn's "The Uook of ! Alfalfa." ! Scientific Forestry. A Consular report conr s from G r] many which shows that scientific for, estry is a practical and money-making ; proposition. It is stated that tho German Empire has nearly 35,000,001* j acres of forests, of which forty pe r j ( turn. uriuiiKH id nif oiaic?. uermun ; forestry methods have resulted in | raising the average yield of wood pr,ii aero from twenty-two cubic feet i:i 1 s:iO, to sixt.v-ftve cubic feet in 1 r?0 1. During the same period it has tr- hi .1 \ fhe proportion of the sawed tiinb . secured from the averaga cut. i:s ! fifty-four years it increased the I returned from an average ac.v of ' forests sevenfold, yet to-day, the (; : , yian forests are in better c ndition ' than ever before.?Farmers' Home Journal. Feeding I Yost < <1 Corn. Untimely severe frosts sometimes damage the corn crop so that its marketable ValllA t? lntitoi.o.1 but in this event, as in other ea:si', j the hog comes to tho rescue. Soft j corn is considered excellent for swine, and especially for the young; in fact, I many breeders believe they can obtain better gains from soft corn than with \ the sound, hard grain. In soft corn ! the maturing of the grain has been j checked, thereby arresting tho dovelj opment of the starch content or fatj producing element. When used it is advisable to add, for finishing, some I corn that is well matured. Immature corn that is frozen and even somewhat soured may bo fed to hogs, but \ if there is on hand a greater quantity I in that condition than can be used on ! tho farm before warm weather sets in it should bo disposed of while the v.hium is cuiu. uruimiruy it may | be used in cold weather without danl ger, hut it should not he carried over r into the warm season, as it will fev! ment. and hecorne unfit for u.- >.? ; From Cohurn's "Swine in America." The Shoulders of (he Horse. Coming now to what is meant by ; "liarnessy" shoulders iu ;< saddler, the term is more or less erroneous, for . the reason that the position of the J shoulders should be oblique in luui ness as well as in saddle hor. -:i, i Those who use the. term moan to con* ! vey the idea that the shoulder;; arc [ more or loss upright and the withers more or less thick and meaty. This formation, as already detailed, presupposes a short neck and a stilted way of going, both of which are very had faults in a saddler. A certain amount of jerk-and-slam net ion nviv go with straight shoulders, but all the most accurate actors in the highstepping classes have possessed sloping shoulders; indeed, a very decided slope is necessary to enable any horse to show thr> correct sort of action, which may he described as that the fore foot should apparently be following the circumference of a rolling wheel. Forest King was the greatest actor we have ever had in this country. Anyone who remembers the set of his shoulders will grasp the point sought to be made instantly, when it Is stated that the truest and best action is never associated with straight shoulders. At that, however, much strjiighter shoulders will do for ordinary harness uses than for the saddle, for in tho leather they havo not to sustain the superimposed weight of the rider. Hence the application?or rather misapplication of the term "harnessy" in describing or discussing the shoulders of saddle ; horses.- Breeders' Gazette. Hard Milkers. Dr. David Roberts, tho Wisconsin Stoto Veterinarian, writes us on tills subject: A cow or heifer with a nice, large, well developed udder with four good slzo teats placed squarely upon same, seems like a source of pleasure, providing that, they arc easy milkers, but tho nnnm oni-l ?-?< ' ? ' '' avm wi u > ><>v in iieiier DDini; termed as a hard milker Is aa a rule a uourco of annoyance, especially to those who do tho milking. Owing to tho fact that a cow or heifer is a nice, eariy milker, tliey are Usually milked out clean at each milk,ing. In this way thoy are enr.blcd in ? t f ^ L keep up their regular flow If milk, while on the other hand ii'Athcy ha hard milkers the milker becomes discouraged and impatient, ^nd fai'.B to draw out the natural quantity. The cow or heifer will then .s<jon show the cffect3 of this by drying vii> on her milk. In this way many a valuable cow has become practically worthless as a milk producer. Hard milking, in cows or luifers can be positively overcome in a short period of time and in a very economical way, not by the uso of the milking tube, biu by the use o? the teat pi UKThe teat should be washed with an antiseptic solution, the teat plug should be dipped in a like solution, then in a little ointment and passed j into the point of the teat, and being self-retaining, should be permitted to remain in the teat from one milking to another. In this manner hard milkiifg can be made a thing of tlio past. Gold ami.(Jilt. Professor Frnser, of lho Illinois Agricultural College, makes .'i plain diit rence in "Gold" and "Gilt," the nlines of two cows 011 tho college farm. He says: They were brought up alike 011 a farm near JjJlgin, Ml., and obtained their early education in the same herd of 100 cows. Here at the university, with the very same surroundings and equal opportunities?,"they have drifted apart in character, and* their progress ma li 111 *j11j j.sii directions. It is not a differeuee of hide, or horns, or ti inner; it is not thai obe is wild and (ho other a pet. Ii is notra difference of beauty or intelligence, but solely a difference in the way they have worked, o difference in the money they have earnvd for the owner. All the milk of these cows has been weighed and tested for three years. A record has been kept of every pound of feed consumed by each animal. both summer and winter. Kacli year Cold produced on the average 11,390 pounds of milk, containing 405 pounds of butter fat. but during the same time (lilt averaged only Si) pounds of milk, with 13S pounds of butter fat. These cows were both cared for in ! the sai>ir? wnv 1 lir v vv. .ri.--... ? ? ? ^ ?<11 * ii*j j :;:.me kinds of" food and allowed to <:;it all they wanted. (Sold uto oiicj half more than dill, but produced j three tinic-s as much milk. j Kqual amounts of feed in rule in the one ease iss pounds of butter fat and la the other 1 "> pounds. The j one cow 4>rodiKed : atly twice as | much as (lie other from exactly the i sain-* feed in l:in ! and ;'.mount. Countir.K' tin lni r fat at twentythree cents p r p< in I and taking out the exact < ".s; of f ed in each case, tho oi'e cow brought in a profit of $34.59, while tli otimr lacked $.">.G2 of payin k for Per l;oanl a I market prices of fi' i cat !i \ ar. ! Tills eompurhon. exact and coni pi t.<?, for tlirco years, and including I ihe i t cord of both milk and feed, moans a great deal r ire than a single year's comparison or one in which it is necessary to introduce an estimate. It would be gratifying* indeed, if it could be truthfully said that these two records are extreme and exceptional. and therefore do not stand for any general condition of the dairy business, llut the very opposite is true. Disappearance of Lakes. Whether the globe on which we dwell -is gradually drying up or not is a question that has been much debated. Recent discoveries in central Asia have been rei/:irrlr>fl i>v favoring an alUrinativo answer, but others liav replied that the ohsorvod phenomena are simply periodic change-. l>r. Walser, of Zurich, champions the adirmative view on the ground that a great, number oil ISuropean lak< s have certainly disappeared within the last -30 years. The canton of Zurich, for example, had 1 ! !t lake, a quarter of a century ago, and only s venty-six to-day. 11' believes that a similar tendoncy to d isnppearanrIwu: affected ihe lakes of (lermany and llussiu.?Youth's Companion. An Kvnggcration. Tlor hair looked like a slack of sou moss with strands of oakum and kelp and dried alfalfa twisted through it. Occasionally she pushed the hunch hack into place, and it. trembled like a living thing. "The trouble with the new fashions in hair," shi> drawled, "is the unfortunate fact that the shop girls seize upon the latest arrangements, don't you know, and grossly exaggerate them." She push, d hack the stack as she spoke, and six puffs, three short curls, and a yard of fuzzy filler fell to the floor with a noiseless thud.? Cleveland Plain Dealer. Taking I'recnutions. A young "llrieflOHs" was perambulating the courts with an air of scarcely behiK able to find time to do ?m.>i.uiim wncn ins ooy Hacked lilm down ill one of tho corridors. "Oil, sir!" said tho boy, "there's :i man at your office with a brief, sir.'' "What, a brief! Great heavens!" And the young fellow began to run through the passages as fast as he could, for fear tho prey should escape hini. "Stop, sir, stop!" cried the boy, I who could scarcely keep pace. "You ! needn't hurry, sir; I've locked him :! "?M. A. I\ Neatly (lit Oft'. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, at ons ,->f 1,^,. .llm.A,.. 'I- ?? w. M,.-, uuiiicig i?,L mi; miu^itiow, ncr picturesque residence at Short Beach, Conn., hit off in a neat epigram a notorious difference in (ho world'* treatment of the sexes. 'To say," she observed, "that everv body Is talking about a young man i an eulogy; but to say that overybod: is talking about a young woman Is a ' elegy."?Washington Star. j Tho pen point jiroductlon of Blr^ mlngluiiilft^uslautl, is 220,000,000 u fvcelc. \ ,g *, |r,y Wireless messages transmitted ' from the (Jlaco Bay station in Cana- I da have recently been picked up with J eomo regularity by the JO iff el Tower receiving station in Paris, proving (hat transatlantic wireless communication i.? an accomplished fact. The Paris plant is in no way competing with commorcial stations, being purely for military purposes, makiig no communication with places outside of France except the French African colonies.?Scientific American. The growing importance of the elccj trie vehicle, hitherto somewhat over snadowed by the more showy successes of the gasoline car, is evinced by the fact that at the recent annual convention of the Society of Automobile Engineers in Chicago half the papers presented related to electrical subjects. Two <>f the papers referred to storage batteries and one to measurement of energy consumed by com mercial vehicles, the most animated discussion of the mooting centring around the latter. Seicmine American. A kitten about sk months old was taken to a house a few miles distant from its blrthn'.ace, confined in a room and tenderly c n od for during a week, and then sot :it liberty. It was supposed to have become habituated to its new surroundings, but it returned to its old home on the day of ils release. Tim so of locality j and direction was exhibited still mor# i strikingly by an old torn cat, whieb | was stolen and carri' d a distance of twenty miles, confined in a bag. The cat was imprisoned, but made Its encape and in a few days r<terapcared 11 11 il IHllillM"' Slillt' <11. I III* UOTtO OI US former master, which was separated I from that of tl.e thief by -i high ! wooded cliff.? Scientific \nn rican. Professor ITergesell, Count von : Zeppcliu's mathematical and met >r! ol >gienl adviM r, is now in New Yurk. | lie states fiat two airships will lie j used l>\ Count von Zeppelin with a 1 view to < xploring ?tho <'>ti:-" region within th" Arctic Circle. One will nrobahl he- left at a relief si ition in Spitzbei" " n, while the other i> on its journeys, t lie two keeping in touch : I y nenn >:{ wirolesK telegraphy. The | (S^rnian tii v> r iment will undouhiedi ly ai l t undertaking uc i;i 11 - . - Sclent ilic Ainc rlcim. Chare 1. craphii nd diamonds arc only -'i f' v ill fori.is of one chemical i I.'mc;;' carbon. Hitherto carbon iris '> cii n ; infu.-l'ile, I hnt i: litis apparently bee it fused i:i j expt rliiicnt which were dc. < . ibed by tlic 11 I !i id'.vsicist 1 .si Uo-a, at the i l;u in! rnatiotial conjrnvs ol applied I chemistry My subjecting very pure i sik;;u' charcoal to the intelise ii? :?t of tin .-infill).' electric arc, I.a Kosa obI initied a c impact mass 'if graphite. Win !, ilii; mass has cooled quickly, minute tr inspan nt crystals appeared, | which \v< re proved to bn diar.ioi is by tin ir form, chemical composition, and physical ;<n per tics. -Scici t i'i< Anierj lean. Fascination of the Newspaper. !\V S.\Ml'i:i, <;. I.IjYTf!! \ in Leslie's. Newspaper work is essentially a business for young men. Old men cannot last in it, because old men cannot stand the pace. And the further truth is that when a man gi ts old in newspaper work, unless he has specialized, he decreases in value to 1?i? employer instead of increasing. Th Vfninoor von ml in llm h.-Mir it v- ill bo for you after you havo acquired I whatever knowledge you can afford ; and are ready to tako a chance. I j don't know how to get out. 1 have Keen rhoalsf of newspaper men ^ t out into all sorts of jobs, from business down to politics, and lots of them have madi wads of money; but they never did belong, anyhow, The real writer never gets out of his same; and why should he, for hi; game i.s the best sam,-> in the whole world. New Them ie.s ?.)' Sb < ;>. Mil IJIIIIIIIi' <11 l|!l i r S ( I ments now being conduced i:i the University of Michigan wiih ill - <>bjcet ol' solving tlic mysteries 01' skip wj'.s niutlc public by Prol" or 1J. M. \V< nicy. <>i I)ciroit, Mit-it. According to liis statement one long accepted theory is -> -mm urie-d. It has boon accepted as a tact tli.it the loss of consciousness was duo to a lessoned flow of blood to the brain. I rofossor Wenlej says bis experiments show thai tbt size 01 volume of the brain Increases when tin individual goes to >l<eop and decreases ...nil II" UK ivni'im, <11111 lilt- Hill MO IS true of the haiuls and fe- t it was noted that i!i some oases the brain !> came smaller at iirsi, and then increased as skvp became deeper. One of the delicate devices used recorded a "breathing wave" from both the brain and hands and foot. The fall of circulation corresponded very closely to an Inspiration and rise to an expiration. Misfortunes Must Come. As daily experience makes il evident, said Dr. Johnson, that misfor tunes are unavoidably Incident to human life, that calamity will neither bo repelled by fortitude nor escaped by (light, neither awed by greatness nor eluded by obscurity, philosophers have endeavored to reconcile us to that condition which they can not teach us to merit, by persuading us that most of our evils are made afIIlot Ivo only by ignorance or porverseness, and that nature bus annexed to every vicissitude of external clrcum I stances so mo advantage sufficient to overbalance all its inconvenience. ' Kconomy of Iltiihling Ships. TJy the introduction of Improved machinery it Is claimed that (Jreat iJiltaln is now in apposition to bulk! vessels cheaper thni?ovor before. A London Journal BayfFrho steamers of from six thousand tenalgia tUotiHond tons can now bo built at $20.25 uer ton of their deadweight carrying capacity.?New York World. CRANKY? ALL HOT AIR. Menu Tcmyefiitui'e Due lo the AOnosn Chicago Professor Says. Jf yon arc cranky and irritable, you | are not win victim of a vicious temper, merely of hot air. It' yo'i ar ? a 1 lombcr of a club and i constantly quarrelling with your folj low members, nothing in the world ia to blame but hot air. In short, if you feel out of sorts, are tired when you should be spry and morose when you should bo cheerful, hot air is your ailment. Such, at least, are the assertion?} of Principal W. 13. Watt, of Chicago, who lectured recently on 'Hot Air in the Family." And Professor Watt did not use the words ' hot air" in j their slang significance. | "Air, when warmed, expands," I said the speaker, according to tlie i Chicago Record-Herald. "It is like I <'i sponge, and when cxnnmlnri tir>? ! terstices between its molecules, or , within them, which, under natural j condition:', fill with watery vapor. ' Th?> drier the air becomes the more i dust it will carry when deprived of watery vapor. "We heat our houses by steam or ho: ;,jr generally in cities. This air i rises in temperature after being in the house a wlilie, but there is no | i adequate giving it I ho moisture it craVfv, as er being expanded. ' it, therefcii o, sr i b Upon every partii do of tlpor dust 11 tin) the street, from the blrt'!cIn?: i <1. from any sourco whfire it i--, crou n^flne enough to he caPri (1. Thi.; carries the germs i# :t!l v.ir foul "TOP diseases. Pneu- ' ii' , . . v-i i?. fover, nasal cat: rli i" ' i v. Ui$jS. list of such dis{ orders j-ro well represent J. Because tliei a wan r pot in y<)9f furnace is no . h,n your home is piwjSf&ly moist n< !. If the '-in i com in':-: out of i ' yciir luvnitiMf ;:I (.lit ol" your coils'-ii i:t i in. v inn i hiiuv ouwht to Ijo none. "TIht.- :.r ni; ny i. .1 who simply arc steam-heated, wiio thinl. am tire;l I)'pause they are pas' forty or j fifty. There are steam-heated wo! men, who ac-'mowlodge that their ; ! nervous systems are wrecked by the I demands of society, who are stuttering j onlj because their vitality has been tun: imined by warm, dry air. I "When you find yourself sn>i'ig (hit. ; to those you love and weeping i bitlei t'ars iinnn ilia 1 ely afterward, i do n it blame yout elf for your vicious 1 temper; it is o..l> V rai: you are ..team-hi ated. When you cannol avt nd your . club without boing ehrus< ! at what is aid or done by other 'm-heated women, do not upbraid j-.lurself or theni; remember that the ilnb is steam-heated. mo le u> of \ omen from steain-ji aud lionn ; and run by those who ar driv -i t-i desperate i luiiirtiirus ny ii: Kinii 1 air tli / : ub' ject I horns. lv< " i o. Schools till over this land ft.ro wanned without being giv.'i t!.< humidity nature denihii'l . I ii any I wonder that t. achers get florco and I'. ponio vituperative? Is it ai y won<1 < r that childnn are ?si, ;i devilish in . : : 1 atmosphere? "Learn to regulate the i mperaturo and the humidity of v.tur liofiie. Agony may bo avert'd by ihi-; simple expedient. Divorce and scandals hang on this warm air. ineoiupatibilit.v of temperament abounds in ibis I unnatural air. Death and ?1 i? -n' of the lingering as well as ih<> rapid varloti s hover over the steam-heated tauiilj Ma\ O Ivcll on the Peer-. Tun Knglish Kadicals iiav> dug up this description ol the Lords from the almost forgotten bonk, "John Hull and llis Island:" The nobility i hero essentially a money d nobility, a monopoly of property. * ' w Ninetenths of the English peers would b" unable to produce any quai terings furthetf back than tIk laM ( utury. : The heroes that are ennobb i are I: >" j heroes of money{ English p:\ie nlo :-ad double stout h:r . more !Ii*l- and ! Ha roils to answer f< : than ail t';" i other nati >. 1:11 prodtn I . The 1 f on:- (! i it' i ?I( M :1 ?I''' if Mill oil s n >. and knows quit il l! at its exist* nee > <ir iv d< ; jids u| on ii ; keepii. qui I and n i a' i; i'.. Umv t:> !iii.io, Wit!' ruliivaio ' h outdoor ha i' < ' 1' i-: l i! : of v.- (' !'l V . !. ' 11 ' ' 1 ill 1 Miy on \ In i i'i, i I'd- : 1 Uy . it ill)Ii!i! i ii: .. \\ !:mi ! ! i! : I i: t 111)1 (Very OIH' i: I'l. I 111,.III' < 'II Oil!; il I >) l> nblo < u i out i: tin- inviuor: : i:. < ozoiif i'i" ;i M:!?;.( . i it - v mi and wo should niiiiv i mi i <>: <ri: no 1 1 < ri uil". Tho ;i ir i : I: i'i m dust ami j.' iins that wmv Mnwii -? i about i < I'oro ill'- m i?\v (inn . (lot out: of tlio no!i ;i i'i?i' you can't stun<1 cold mil snow, and >ui will .noil iv:tli7.o what yon have jui- it ; and whni a 1! mi. - who In. n ? o loriunlty to bciulif l>y tin i mating olfocl of ji. .M.isMtchus :tsi winter, - Haverhill fi:ix. Mo. t llis |;<'(1iic(Io|i. | A Unltinioro school ti itfh< r had n| couiiK-i cd such a doyrc of am: on ino pari ol ono 01' her b y;; in relation to tlio recorded an.. ol ih Father of His Country that she prow! varcast ir. "I wonder," she h pan, "if you 1 could tr>l mo whether (leorpe Wash-' ington was a sailor or a .oldier?" The hoy grinned ' Ho was a sol ] dier, all right," he aid. 'I low do you ki. >\v 7" the teacher1. challeiutGil | "Because I saw a picture of him i crossing tho Delaware. Any sailor I would know ennuuh n;>t to .-'anil t:^ j J in a boat."?Shipping Illustrated. Blame Towels I of Kpidemic. Tlu; installation of a la-:idr> plnnt j In connection with the i'nivcrsitv oil i'ennnsylvania R.vnnia.^inni is iho proliahlo 1 < nit of an Investigatlon, prosecuted y? terday 1 ?y Dr. R. Tail McKenzle, into the causes of the re j cont epidemic of mild scalp disease 1 anion- tho smdents. The gymnasium handled about 10,000 towels each I weelt, and ?very indication jointed to these as tho cause of tho rapid spread ot tho disease. Several hundred dollars' worth of gymnasium clothing was condemned ?u\d binned J as a result of tho epidemic.?l'hilaUeluhla Record. ( OOD fM'OADS &? *>* National Crusade. It lias been suggested tliat the Good Roads Board of the American Automobile Association co-operate with the National Grange to hold thousand:; of good road meetings throughnn< fhn nnii<H..v !l l.nt. ./ ! .lon.l /I I r. hold al least one meeting in each of tho 300 affiliated clubs of (he American Automobile Association and 0110 each in the thousands of affiliated bodies of the National Grange. The purpose of these met-tirigs is to arour-o public sentiment for the* enactment of comprehensive highway laws by tho various State Legislatures and tho Federal Congress and the appropriating of liberal funds by town, county. State and Federal authorities. Much has been said about the details of construction, but it is believed that these may safely be lrfl to com potent highway engineers, who should ho employed to efioiently and economically supervise tho < xpendituro of road appropriations. It is doubtful if tho discussion at road conventions of the various types of road construction is of inn oh value, as the time of such meeting could doubtless be more profitably expended in discussing in detail desirable highway legislation and the size of appropriations. In order to create sentiment for comprehensive highway laws It is necessary that the advoca's In any particular locality of such statutes clearly understand the kind of law desired, and b familiar with its dotails and assured thai it is drawn to meet the conditions of the particular locality whore ii. is urged. A highway law of any State should provide for the improve incut, maintenance and repair of every mile of highway in the (.' unmonwcaltii outside cities and incorporated villages. Experience in some States lias shown | that it is wise to divide the highways into three classes, sometimes do:;oribed as State, county and town roads, the State roads constituting approximately four per cent, of the tfilto mil age and being those high| wnys which connect the main centres of population of the several conn ties. These hishwavs will !> tlonc.fl in up; l?<" | Th t o ( whir V? lO) (on ni 1 h< ir i not l>o . count i nor o in ' Slate. ' roads w m ilea-it? Villi IT't lo. vuluatioii. ' > The t! ird i InsKifu-ai ion would Iic? known as lown ( roads ; nd would eoi ; 1 i highwayk not included ' two class s. The Statjj;'fehould 1 port ion of t ho expem of all t l.r.^r.clas.-vs i may prop.-rly rotnin have sup f-yision o. proporli n wliich th ho called upon to pay i..n . . RltV ilorii 11(1 lit,nil 1 li n 1... , 1 r,. in tho individual Slates. j In iho State nl' Now Y niouwonlth pay the out Stale roads, ftpyroxinv of tho cost <ji the coi approxi ...ial ltfj-one-t' i f i lie town joadt. I ti< ing approximately one-thiru cr si r tli.' coinfly roads, and tho reinainii ? \| ns ^of ail classes being borne by tho townv ' Tho <i 01 mail the (he Stato and county road-; si >uKl ft? borne by ill Slat' , as in mo ) ajities it has In- i tnir.d inr i' lo to have ||l, ,, i, , ! *a v. r> 1 by thd local ofliriaij<, which iS but an?n In r u ; I! :i it should l> (inn h 1 !: ' . -: i?. at Htato C'X]'*li-0. v. , \ 8 'it isjj i*!i -veil, i roih> ! ii I); ;li v .i'ji . .i nii 'c.n, ?... t ins? j or I rot':: '|H? I I )! jncil: . ' tr'I c hi y should < ! (> n ' it r <>r i \;i ' i s-? i'\ 'uf.-; i' licit ;!) r i w 11 ;i : i?n, ami 1'tiled |\ 1! . . II <1 . poi l'i\ Ciiir.vin ? * A; t.l" k( ill Ion, i' inn of Jv is cast, ? it ii<], ;i. o I >) ln> gr :i! tails. In cuMe is is no sio lie 1' i i. OMT (})<> out (?;' sip I In*i o is 1II< 111 1 > ! t est i i' in 11 reach is < ) vt To-Diiy. 'I . <1111 Ol , homo papers iru. < Op to all ti. \Vmiii they visited \\ <1., they wont through partment and saw ihu n of tho new battleships. Pointing to a conip; hanging over tho sldo ships, she asked hoiH was. "Oh," ho ro| scape."- Harpe T.l-ii:ilhtnir ?v? < (lured iu Homo Pa long ago, nnd Iimic tiuvii manifested.