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mm. ' FREAK BIRDS AND BEAS = L? " ^ If Uncle Sam could collect a pair < birds and reptile3 which inhabit his n? he would have a zoological ''biggest si markable ones are shown in the accom] grotesque of Oriental animals. Its ey< and its fdet and ankles are uncovered flying fox, is a bat. It lives on fruit, should beware of importing. The zibf cero3 rhinoceros, who imprisons his 1 wall over the entrance hole, so that sh nesting season, is the oddest of Fhilipi wife through a small hole all the whil hammers down the wall and lets her ot most gorgeous birds in the world. Th 1 Modern War Msclianisro. I * ? ' $ sP Searchlights. Steam Plough? arid ^ ? Heliographs in South Africa. As might be expected, the English are using in the South African war the most modern military appliunces that can be had. They are thoroughly up to date in the matter of guns and ammunition, and even the surgeons are using new means of developing X rays. The War Office has negotiated with Marconi's business representatives for wireless telegraphic outfits, and by this time the apparatus ought to be in service. Moreover, a number of other appliances that are no$ necessarily instruments of war ha?e been put to use in the contest with the Boers. & -iS& | Ono of th,e most striking instances of this kind is the employment of^a steam plough for digging .trenches. The ploughshare and pruning hook are particularly typical of the and spirit of peace, but now, for ta^fitst. time in history, the formerinvpleinent has becomc a military weapon.Tl$e steam plough is not ii\,ijtae]f any novelty. It has been used, fotf years on a large scale in the western parts of the United States, where the great wheat and corn crops of the: gountrv nrn i-nicoil Tf ig olfln tvpll tnAwfl TVfrJ (A powerful electric light ia { the shaft bend at the De i this light signals wore eroUa#gagHtr*~*t tw?eu Kimberley and the force ture is conducted on 'thfi\Vhple^Tf?. Africa was designed bj-''tjolQi>:A Tern pier, of the Royal Eag^eeVVSBti' differs only in trifling details-rami that with which the American wh:6ab v grower breaks np the surface. OT 'iiie; fertile prairie. The superiority"' 6i this means of digging trenches is ^0 manifest that one wonders why it ras , never thought of before. ^ threewheeled "traction engine/' such as is; employed in hauling heavy wagons, from town to town or in ope&tiug itinerant threshing machines, 3ra^ the steam plough of Colonel TMSgj&JE through the soil. Two of the whegraj are large ana oi-oaa, ana ine unragj out in front, carries only a small pa^j of the load, ami is used mainly' steering purposes. ?'; 3f There is nothing especially new ij&i the resort to telephony. The Ameri^j can Signal Service has long had ample equipments o" this kind for field work. particu'arly iu the dissemination of ? j ~ ~ I J i g K. :y j' - J"""' [ BRITISH SIGNALING LAD orders from headquarters and tho receipt of reports from subordinates during an action. It is not at all likely that the English are ahead of the United States in this respect. However, some interesting features are presented by one of the instances ... c, TS IN THE PHILIPPINES. ^ IV , rLt.Nj fJ.1 jf specimens of each species of beasts, iwly acquired Philippine possessions low on earth." Some of the most repaying cut. The spectre is the most 3S are like a great pair of spectacles 1 bone formations. The kaguan, or The mougoose is a pest which we ?th is a variety of civet cat. The buxiate in a hollow by building a plaster e cannot leave the nest during the pine fowls. Father Hornbill feeds his e. When the eggs are hatched he it. The paradise major is ;one of the ie buffalo is used as a beast of all work. of telephony in South Africa just described in the dispatches. After arriving on the field of battle at Elandslaagte, General French sa^ the necessity of prompt^ reinforcements. In hia army were several telegraphers, who were provided with portable telephones, batteries and incidental apparatus. A ^regular tele ' NEW ^aH F< ys,^ ' (Ueed for the first time in ^gOtfsiakcp was to establish an elec wbich it has in the na'^Wnw^omewhat fti^fereut from those thus far found for ij^on land, it certainly has its value rifflKerra firma, At Kimberley it has aP^rmed a double office. It has asK^jteji in the watch for an enemy, and S8nittnrnished an excellent means of j HHKphing. By switching the cur- I EpTon and off the light can be broken into dots and dashes, to form te'ewraphic letters. The enemy might See these signals, but as a secret code ^onld doubtless be employed, the significance of the flashes would not be understood except by the initiated. YSMITH BY HELIOGRAPH. Searchlights have been made whose rays could be discerned at a distance of fifty or seventy-five miles. At Kimberley it was known that Lord Methueu's army had come within twenty or thirty miles nearly a fortnight ago. No difficulty should have bceu experienced in sending messages concerning the {situation in the beleaguered city, therefore, although a reassuring response could not so easily be transmitted. The Boers, too, are learning to use modern methods. A small contingent have realized the uselessness of merely teariug up a section of railway and throwing the rails into a stream?the usual Boer method of destroying a track. What they now do is to heat the centre of a section to a white heat and carry the rail by its two cool ends to the nearest tree or telegraph pole, round which they twist it in sush a way that it is absolutory impossible to use it again for railway purposes. When the usual plau is adopted, the British troops merely search for the missing sections and replace them. A valuable method of communicating. which the British are using in South Africa, is the heliograph, such as our army has long employed on the Western plains. General Buller, while at Frere station, communicated daily with General White, at Ladysmith, about twenty miles away, with the heliograph. Sun rays flashed back and forth told the besieged army to be of good cheer and assured the relief column that the garrison, though hard pressed, was cheerful. Th? Chrysanthemum. The National Chrysanthemum Society was instituted just fifty-three years since, in 184G. The flower' which it has taken finder its patronage, upon whose aggrandizement it has bestowed so successfully suob patient and ingenious care, has been established among us onbp a little over a century. The firBt time it was thought worthy of a v"show" all to it /j,//,'f *? ', jj 3R CUTTING TRENCHE3. /. '>:*, ci? , tha South African War.) self was in 1830. IfSfocy if one of those early patrons could havo - * - --- Ji t-if-ii.'-- 1 1 dropped in ai me ezuitmiuu mot woon and seen what bis favorites had attained to! Surely he would have thought himtfelf translated. The very generic name of the plant, the "golden flower," at first so pertinent, has lost its distinctiveness. There are golden chrysanthemums still, it is true; yellow blossoms incomparable for purity and brilliance; but what of all these other colors not less brilliant and pure, these rich damasks, royal purples, flushed pinks, this dazzling white that puts a snowdrift to shame, at last actually a bloom that is just aea green?. Color, size, form, growth, all have undergone a change that half a century ago it entered into no men's heart to conceive. And the eud is not yet, it may be; the last wonder lhas _.t i 1 ~J i.-U&t. LlUl< jet uccii rorcuicu xux no, oy uuaa?t, less in its possibilities and potency ia that "affectation of Men to gr?tifle the Pleasure of their Eyes, inciting thein to pusfy on things to more^&d more Perfection."?The Saturdaj^Re* V?ew. Mormons' Curious Alphabet. An alphabet intended for exclusive use in Mormon literature -was designed by Orson Pratt and W. Phelps, both contemporaries of the great apostle of the Latter Day Saints, Brigham Young. The Mormon abecedary consists of forty letters based on t ' lyj# 3'e o o o t * id I j'i * A A? AW 0 00 E A Art AW * kM IM? 1-*?T WW Ml M.Af fp_' boc j i oi ow u woo re h p apt a' C <f o ? P i z IT > t c cm 4, k oa r v ra V 8 6 D 8 ho4) 1 W THE S 2 ETil VUt R U M N N& SECF.E* SPELLING SYSTEM. a sort of phonetic system. It has never come into very general use, but is employed when secret intelligence is transmitted from one head of the ch'irch to a distant apostle. A South Sen Islnml Kride. The bridal procession was approaching. In front, walking abreast, ii. - M. i x. ii I .1 came tue wcuuou pair?tan, uuuu* some, and of an excellent tawny hue. The bride, a beautiful young girl, exhibited a ludicrously absurd appearance. Her shapely legs and feet were naked. She wore a low bodice'of scarlet satin, bedecked with shoulderknots of brilliant blue. Round her body so m?ny robes, some of the paper-like barkcloth, others woven of the native grass, were enwrapped, that her aspect, instead of impressing us, as it doubtless did the natives, with respect for her wealth, merely made comic suggestion that the poor child was parading iuside a barrel! Her pretty head, runi^ng over with otoa.e rings^ of tan.-Upped J^?ir, -n-ns ' It^will be quite a, gurprise""to" many who* hava vi3i ted Billings ^Freeman's store in IijBbauon and Been what they supposed was an eagle, to. jftfan oi* authority of the Rev. C. ^Downs' that it is but a little auk, oFv'fooliih g$Hiemot,'a bird that is almost a perfect.stranger so far inland as where it was captured. Few particulars are known of this species, which is very rare, and has its home iu Greenland and as far north as Spitzenberg. In Greenland it is called the ice bird. Tt is not by nature a crafty bird, and is sometimes eusiiy captured. It if, when seen, usually on tho seacoast, and has very peculiar habits iu feediutc. ? Manchester (N. H.l Union. IMMUNE TO FEVERS. An Englishman Tel]* of Kemarknhle Treatment Employed In South America. The world moves fast, but it is pos Ikl a lUnf ann^ a nf ? mr\af 1 \?*i I 1 i n r\ V i DIUiO limv avjmu \ji iud uiuou uj uuauu discoveries have not gone beyond the | simple practices of uncivilized peoI pies. A Jamaica journalist gives his j personal experience of how the Ini diana of South America not only cure i a patient of the most dangerous stage | of malarial fever, but also, by inoculation, insure for many years his imj munitv from future attacks. Other travelers have had similar experience, and no less an authority than Sir Clements Markham has testified to the efficiency of these Indian cures. The writer, after long escaping the terrible fevers of the country, succumbed at last. He says: "I lay in my hammock, ravaged by an all-consuming fever, with death in sight. Medical aid, supposing it to be of any use, was not to be had within a fortnight's journey. A few miles from vour camp was a Indian 7 Vmrl Un.1 oAma rloalinnra OObblOiUCUUt x uuu U(||U aumv uv.Mitu^u with, and won the good will of the head man, so I sent to tell him that I wanted the services of a peiman, or native doctor. "It was nidnight when the messenger returned with my friend, the old chief, and the tribe 'medicine man.' By this time I was past knowing anything of my surroundings. My companions told me afterward that I had already developed all the well-known symptons of febrile collapse. "The peiman tended me, administering internal xemedies^by means of roughly devised but effective subcutaneous and other injections. Then followed the inevitable mummery, wtfen I was shut up with the peiman, and enough noise was made to indicate a dozen people inside. , "At about 3 o'clock in the morning, ' when the peiman issued forth and my companions were allowed a sight of me, I was sleeping naturally, bathed in profuse. perspiration, which was already moistening the outer folds of the double blanket that enveloped me. At 8 o'clock 3^ awoke and then slept again for twenty-four hours, the peiman from time to time administering'subcutaneous injections. Wheal finally, awoke there was not the slightest trace^ of^feyer. Ia three days I was able to be about and in a week I was fit >to' undertake a loag The most-:wJnderfal part of the story, howa^e? is the sequel. The paiman, with the reward given himf Offered to inooulate his to reader him proof I Against all kiads of "bash" fevers, j;-i^Pp^ter how much he might be ex^Hsed to them, for at least 100 moous. he contracted fever.it would be of The traveler went to the settlemeat and was inoculated. The operation consisted of st&bbiag gently into the > - < <- ?:~t _.:a _ t IOll> Wtiai Witu u uuuuu v/i OA^gwuinglj fine needles plucked from a hard spiny leaf, the needles being first passed through a flame "and then | dipped in a black liquid. In a short timo all the well-known symptoms of J malarial fever developed, then a i peculiarly nauseous medicine was ad; ministered, and a deep sleep com! pleted the business. When the , patient awoke he felt perfectly well except for the smarting of his wrist, j which had to be bandaged. For a long time after this he travI eled in somo of the worst swamps of j Central America, undergoing consid: erable exposure, iucluiling a night j spent under the trees after the upsetj ting of his boat. Of the four white ?' aen in the boat three had fever and ivn in tweutv-fonr hours: the .third returned to the United States with health completely broken. Afterward bo f>pent six years about the Isthmus of Pauarna, and in that hotbed of fever, Colon, never experienced a day's fever. Not until ten years after inoculation did a touch of fever come, and then no alarmiug symptoms were developed. ^Tended tho Soup. ' Vlt was at a department store bargain counter for odds and ends. The crush was terrific. Women squeezed and elbowed aud shoved to get alongside the counter. Frequently two of them happoned to pick up the same i bargain at one and tho same time, and I then they both retained their clutch j ; on it and looked daggers at each other J until tho stronger of the two won tue victory or the bargain was rent into ribbons. ; A haughty matrou with an electric seal coat picked up a box containing three cakes of imported soap for : eight cents at the same moment that ; an humble-looking little womau in a ; faded tan coat had fastened her'grasp on the box. ; "I believe I was the first to take hold of this," said the matron in the electric seal coat, freezingly. i The humble-looking little woman j I held on for a minute, studying her antagonist, then she slowly relaxed her hold on the box. i "Well, you can have it," she said, | amiably. "You look as if you need j tho soap." j The bargain counter is the place to | observe how they love one auothor.? j Washington Post. Ratro and the Livery Owner, ! The late millionaire, Alfred Sutro, j upon one occasion was unable to hire ' a team in a country town because he I ; "was not a rosponsible party." "How [ much do you want for vour team?" j - ? - i i asked ijutro. ive nunareu uunaicy | and I will buy^it back at rthe same price when you return," was the re- j ply. The money was paid over, and ^ the capitalist drove off. In a week he returned, had the rig ^examined, and . reoeived back his S500. '.'Hold on," | j aaid the proprietor; "yon owe me $30 ! for'the use of tho team." "Never pay ! for the use of my own team;" replied Sutro, as he walked away.?Kansas ,X3ity Independent. j Commandant Vil.joen on His Captor*. 1 . JB?n^Viljo?& who was. captured at planddsagli^jreiit ^boat the streets of Johaimesbarg preroous to the war saying that the Britiah troops m ere only the sweeping3 of^ the slums, for be had it on good authority'.' .,' But his opinions underwent a sndden change when he found himself and hia men surrounded, and the centre of the Iiusaar charge. "I wish the man who told mo the British couldn't fight wero here now," was the Commandant's commont. ? Westminster Ga1 zette. * pAfflCULTliL ! The Private Market Kent. As long as a man grows produce for the public market he must accept what the public is willing to give; but when he grows for the private market the public generally gives what the farmer demands of them. Feeding: Itottfcn Potatoes. As an experiment two lots of fowls were fed on sound and unsound potatoes, the result being that the hens that were fed on rotted potatoes that had sprouted became sick, some dying. This is due to an active and pojsonous substance existing in such potatoes, kuowu as "eolanum," the symptoms being that the poisoned bird sits on the ground, with its head down, and so remains until it dies. Do not feed rotten potatoes to fowls, therefore, or even sound ones that are sprouted, and, in fact, do not use such potatoes yourself. I Barren Apple Trnei. tYiontf annla a n f Jm udi \j aic rnauj aypio v* oto vuau bear from one-third to one-half a crop every year, the portions being barren alternately, so that the tree is never entirely barren. This is apt to be the case where different varieties are grafted on the same tree, and especially if the grafting is done in alternate years. In other oases cold storms or frost in the early life of the tree destroyed the frnit at blossoming time on the exposed side of the tree, and as in the years that a full crop is produced on the limbs in bearing there is little *ohance for fruit buds to be formed on those parts of the tree and t'ne habit of bearing alternate years formed by accident becomes fully established. Cheap Winter Kan. The accompanying cut shows an easy way to make a sunny winter run for poultry at little expense, either of money, time or labor. Some old window sash is set up for the front, and BUN OP SASH AN*D stBAW. the top is covered with straw* or corn stalks. Make the top strong enough to hold the weight of the snow that may fall upon it. If there is no tight board fence at hand, the baok can be boarded roughly and then banked right up to and over the top with straw or other material.?New England. Eomestead. ' Feod Calves Accordingly. Calves for veal may be started on whole milk, gradually shifted to skimmilk, and finished off with whole milk /% rti ifd Miam o iv/1 a wuoa ui reu 5"" smooth appearance and improve their sale. In a number of careful trials reported, calves gained one pound iu weight from ten to sixteen pounds of skim-milk. Calves for beef stock can be profitably raised on a diet largely skimmilk, but should be taught to eat hay and grain as soon as possible. Heifers for dairy purposes should grow in a thrifty way, but should not get too fat; for these skim-milk is the best food of all until they are a year old, wheat bran and middlings being added as soon as they will eat them. In feeding milk to calves, especially young ones, overfeeding must be guarded against, and the milk cpn be used to the beat advantage when fresh from the separator, and warm, as already described. If skim-milk from a AHAftmnnw i a nan/1 rrrcx of. naro mil of. ho exercised to prevent injury from old or tainted milk. * Calves are much sooner made sick with bad milk than are pigs. If the milk is clean and pure acidity does not hurt, dirty and putrid milk is death to calves and should never bo fed under any circuinstauces. Success With Hogs. If the farmer enjoys the presence of swine on the farm and take3 pleasure in seeing them well fed he will generally succeed with them. Then the only question he need consider is how many he can handle and keep them healthy. No farmer should have so many hogs that he cannot have new feeding grounds to put them on if there Is danger from disease, or so inauy that they cannot be shifted to different fields during the year. Un an eighty-six acre farm for nearly ten years we \^ere able to send to market in two lots from seventy to eighty hogs each year. This was the p^duct of five sows having two litters each year. I3ut when we undertook to double the number of brood silws aud nearly double the product of fatted animals we had trouble. The first year we put on the market over ninety, with no loss worth considering. The second year when we wanted to put off 125'we got all our available pasture land under the trauip of the hogs, and when disease came we had no opportunity to divido them aud put them on new feeding or pasture land. The consequent results of such conditions were doubtless greater than they would have been had we been able to cut the herd to pieces and put j them on fresh land. We shall immediately go back to about the name j number that we had the greatest sue- j cess in haudling. Instead of five; sows wa will keen six or seven, as we ! have better shedding and other ar-1 . rengements than we had when we i j kept five. Wo could doubtless carry the greater number if we had more lots and spent more time feeding grain products, but this would increase the cost of the pork very much over that "made from clover and grass. We aim so far as possible to couvert these products into pork, and believe it is more in the line of nature's way and certainly is conducive to the health of the swiue.?John 31. Jamison, in Farmer's Advocate. An Effective Skunk Trap. Skuuks are a nuisance about a farmhouse or barnyard, and where the; get into the habit of raiding the chicken yards, must be gotten rid of r f at any cost. Often they are allowed to mate and occupy nests in the vicinity of the barn or house, and remain undisturbed on account of the disagreeable consequences an interference would bring about. The average man would rather beard the lion in his den than risk an encounter with a skunk. A pair of these animals made their abode beneath the floor of TRAP BEADY FOR THE SKUNK. a neighbor's summer kitchen, and as the floor was not tight, got into the habit of coming into the room above. The farmer captured them by use of the trap shown in the illustration. A small-sized dry goodB box, not so large but it can be easily carried, is fixed with a trap door, which is attached to a lever connfioted with a trigger in such a manner that when sprung the door will drop. The box <&n be carried with its captive to a safe distance, where the odor will not be disturbing, and the prisoner shot or dispatched by a trusty dog. The illustration shows the trap ready set. The trap door, a, is attached to a lever, b, which rests on a fulcrum at c. The other end of the lever is fastened to the trigger, d. The trigger passes through the top of the box, the notch, f, catching on the edge of the hole in the box, which should be large enough to give plenty of play. The trigger stick should be long enough to reach within an inch of the bottom of the box, where the bait, e, is fastened. A hinged door in the side of the box makes the last act easy?that of dispatching the entrapped animal. If the box is carried cerefnlly there is no danger of the skunk opening hostilities until immediate danger threatens him.?American Agriculturist. -ri*nc urowm ana moisture. Profesflor Spillman, of the Washington station, writes that through every growing plant a stream of water is constantly flowing. This stream begins at the roots and spreads upuard to the leaves, being lost by evaporation from the surface of the leaves. The life of the plant depends upon thie stream. It brings the plant its food, and the amohnt of food the plant can obtain depends, among other things, upon the amount of water that .must flow up through a plant and out at its leaves for each pound of growth produced in the plant. It has-been found that to produce one ton of dry matter (equivalent to one and onesixth tons of ordinary hay) there must pass up through the plant into the air 223 to 912 tone of water. The dryer the atmosphere, the more: wind there is, the higher these figures, other things being equal. As-' | suming, then, that in this country the amount is 500. which is not far, from correct, this means that to pro-j duce one ton of hay on one acre re-j quires 430 tons of water, equivalent, to 3.8 inches of rainfall, or irrigation water enough to cover the ground 3.7 ! inches deep. And this takes no account of the water lost by percolation into the soil and by evaporation' from, the soil surface. j Professor King, of the Wisconsin! Station, found that in sixtj-four days! a well-tilled summer fallow lost by, evaporation water equivalent to 8.24 inches in rainfall, or .G7 pound of> water per day from each square foot! of surface. "If we take the average daily loss from the soil at only .25' j pound per square foot, from May 1st to September 1st," says he, "this, would be equivalent to 5.27 inches of rain. I am sure it will do no oue harm to know how much water a crop, really needs; this knowledge ought' to be specially valuable to men who ; pay for water by the inch." If wo could entirely preveut evap-' | oration of water escept from the plant j itself, we could, on an average, pro-'. I duce five tons of hay with nineteen | inches of water?enough to cover the ground niheteen inches deep. The amount of water used iu irrigated UUUiitUCO lO UOUOUJ auuuu U1VJ luwuvwi | We thus see that crops uso little more j than one-third of the water applied to j them under irrigatiou. Where rain \ must be depended upon, the propor- j tion is much smaller, for rainfall does i not come to order, but much of it comes at a time when it cannot be utilized before it has had time to get away into the soil and air. Experiments have demonstrated ; that crops make the largest growth j when the amount of moisture in the j soil is between forty and sixty per cent, of the total amouut it can hold, some crops, of course, requiring more than others. The effort of thejjfarmer should therefore bo to maintain this amount of moisture in the soil. Kruger Firteen lears aco. , j The following story of President Kruger is published iu a recent issue of the Paris Figaro: The President was visiting Holland in 1885, and, according to this journal, dividing his attention between old Dutch churches K.nd young Dutoh women, who sang songs in his honor, when a correspondent met him, aud suggested that everything was settled between England and the Transvaal. "There you are mistaken," said Mr. Kruger. "I cannot, naturally, discount events. I have great confidence in the Queen of England, in many English people, and even in their chief statesmen. But the scheme for an Austral Africa, p.Yrtliisivelv British, haunts too many minds and too inauy interests for m& to be without disquietude. They always keep up mischief-making around 11s to disturb the situation until the propitious time comes." The Make-Up of a Boer. This is Max O'Kfill's recipe for' makiug a Boer: "Take all that is dirtiest, bravest, most old-fashioued aud most obstinato in a Bretou; all that is most suspicions, sly and mean in a Xorrnau; all that is shrewdest, most hospitable, most Puritan and most bigoted in a Scot?mix well, stir aud serve, aud you have a Boer, or, if you will, a boor."?New Yo Tribune. ft. rr'-v* : Mancbtaaen Corroborated. A very singular zoological cariosity is now on exhibition at the N?w York State Museum of Natural History, at Albany. It consists of a section of the trunk of a large oak tree directly UNIQUE ZOOLOGICAL SPECIMEN. t v, ' . c: ; . through which is thrust the antler of what must have been a large deer.. A" '*; part of the skull remains attached,; o + ill Kflnnlnrt lli/i rt* n?iil rt? nlnJnfM aviti ucauu^ iuc uiucx auuci, jL/ioaujf^>< showing that the deer must have dlee^;*.' upon the spot, being unable to pull V away from the tree after once becom-* iug fast. Of course the presumption is that the antler was not imbedded A in the oak when it was full grown; evidently the deer while rubbing his horns oil a young sapling, or butting against it, in some way got fast, and the tree as it grew gradually grew more and more round the imprisoned prongs. The specimen was found in the Michigan woods. f A Blind Shot. M A well-known divinity professor, SI grave and learned man had five daugh-l ters, whom his students irreventlyl named "Genesis," "Exodus," "Mum- I bers," "Leviticus" and "Deuteron- \ omy." , y"\ Beginning his lecture one day, the professor said: "Gentlemen, I wish to speak to you about the age of Genesis." Roars of laughter came from the students. "Genesis is not so old as you sup pose," continued the professor. More roars? e^ long continued, indeed,'that the worthy man had time to 'v\w think before he made the next remark. He said timidly?and he managed to hit the mark this time: "I may not be thinking of the same Genesis as you are!"?Collier's Week-, ly. - > ??i r , *. ;t ?& S Odd Counpanlona. A Maine mau has a fox and a hound , ; that are boon companions. When v both animals were in tho pup stage, ' they were placed together and hare now enjoyed a year of each other's ' society in peace and harmony. They sleep together and play with each other much after the manner of two frolicsome pups. The fox has perfect freedom of action, coming and going at will, but he always returns at night to share the dog's bed.?Kennebec" (Me.) Journal. X Health tho Mainspring of Saccesa* * ' The chief esseutial of success for young man is what the vast majority of young men think about the least-? .j >,. that is, good health and a sound con- * atitution. That is the first thins: nothing precedes it. In the battle for vv ? success, that should be a young first thought; not his abilities, nojTjj^1 *" his work, but his health. Thit is the W basis; the cornerstone of all. Abilities cannot bring health, but health majv > and generally does, develop ability.? Ladies' Home Journal. A Famous Western Capitalist. Among the progressive element for which the middle West is famous, Mr. John C. Hubinger, of Keokuk, Iowa, is without a peer. As a manufacturer, as an enterprising capitalist and as a philanthropist his fame has spread over many States. Although but forty-seven years of age, he can look back upon scores of commercial victories, each one of which has benefited mankind, for his liberality is as bountiful as his business sagacity is i i\t.. ?. i<nrn marvelous, jii. nauiu^? ?uo in New Orleans, La., liis parents being of French and German origin. Almost before reaching man's estate he secured patents on u number of valuable mechanical inventions, thereby laying the foundation of his present fortune. His attention was early directed to the manufacture of starch by improved processes, and in the course of time he became the head of a concern having an annual business of millions of dollars. .TOHN C. nCBINGEll. While Mr. Hubinger is devoting his best energies to the manufacture ot his new and wonderful product, this will not interfere with the exercise oi the splendid hospitality which he, his wife and his four children dispense at their palatial Keokuk home. An apparatus has been deyjsed for automatically photographing' people as they enter shoos aud other nlaces