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HODGE, THE CAT.
Burly and big, his books among:,
j pood Samuel Johnson sat.
?: With frowning brows and wig askew,
RHis snuff-strewn waistcoat far from new;
So stern and menacing his air
That neither "Black Sam'' nor the maid
To knock, or interrupt him dare?
Yet close beside him, unafraid,
Sat Hodge, the cat.
"This particle," the Doctor wrote,
"The modern scholar cavils at.
But"?even as he penned the word
A soft, protesting not- was*heard.The
Doctor fumbled with his pen.
The dawning thought took wings and
flew,
The sound repeated came again?
It was a faint reminding "Mew!"
From Hodge, the cat.
"Poor Pussy!" said the learned man,
Giving fhe glossy fur a pat,
"It is your dinner time, I know.
And?well, perhaps I ought to go;
For if Sam every day were sent
Off from his work your fish to buy.
Why?men are men?he might repent,
AM/1 oforra Ar vnil ATI fllf* vlv?
Eh! Hodge, my cat^"
The Dictionary was laid down?
The Doctor tied his vast cravat.
And down the buzzing street he strode,
Taking an often-trodden road.
And halted at a well-known stall:
"Fishmonger," spoke the Doctor gruff,
"Give me six oysters?that is all;
Hodge knows when he has had enoughHodge
is my cat."
Then home: Puss dined, and while in sleep
He chased a visionary rat.
His master sat him down again,
Rewrote his page, renibbed his pen;
Each "i" was dotted, each "t" was crossed,
He labored on for all to read.
Nor deemed that time was waste or lost
?>j>ent in supplying the small need
Of Hodge, the cat.
That dear old Doctor: ficrce of mien,
Untidy, arbitrary, fat,
What gentle thoughts his name enfold!
So generous of his scanty gold.
So quick to love, so hot to scorn.
Kind to all sufferers under heaven?
A tenderer despot ne'er was born;
His big her.rt held a corner even
For Hodge, the cat.
?Susan Coolidge, in Hartford Courani.
Her Splendid
Inconsistency.
tm fn tlie open win(^?ws
|rt! came music by the orchesI
F tra in tlie ual,room ou t,ie
Ml jju further side of the house,
. vvl softened by distance.
I Moonlight, broken up by intervening
trees into bars and splotches of golden
radiance, lay all about them as they
i .walked up and down the veranda.
"The right kind of a woman always
appreciates a proposal of marriage
from any man as a great compliment.
Coming from you it is the much more
to be valued, but I cannot marry you,"
said the woman.
"I have to thank you for having lte.
tened to me so patiently. Might I
trespass a little more upon your good
nature and. ask permission to discuss
the matter further with you?"
"No amount of discussion can profit
either of us. so far as I caa see. But,
as I have said, in asking me to marry
you a great compliment was paid me.
and in return for that compliment I
suppose that I owe you permission to
indulge your love for discussion or argument."
"Thanks for the permission," said
the man, still in his stolid manner. "I
cannot recognize my proposal as, in
any senst, u compliment, but I ain
willing that you should, if you wish,
take the manner in which I made it as
a compliment. Recognizing the splendid
development of your own logical
faculties. I have made my ofier of marriage
in perfectly business-like form,
j I have heard you often declare that a
contract of marriage is like any other
contract, and should be entered into
. only when both parties are fully aware
of what they are doing."
"Do you think women are ever entirely
consistent?" interrupted the woman.
The man looked a trifie surprised
and replied:
u T I.a?.
.ii it'UM, i ,)uu cit-uit iui inning
a splendidly consistent mind. You
do not mean that I have erred in my
manner of proposing, that you would
have preferred more or an air of romance,
and all that sort of thing?"
"Now, the situation is something like
this," continued tho man in very much
the same tone of voice that he would
have used in arguing an important case
before the Supreme Court. "You are
twenty-nine?or is it thirty??years old.
have a reputation as a beauty, and all
that. You can, I know, marry any one
of two or three men who can offer you
at least as much as I, but modesty was
never a prevailing characteristic of
mine, and I have not feared to measure
myself with these other men.
"On the other hand, I can give you
pretty much anything you desire that
costs money. I stand well in my profession,
and have prospects of soon being
near the top of it. Altogether, I
am satisfied that any one would call it
a very suitable match all around."
"Does the prosecution here close its
case?" Inquired the woman, laughing
a little.
"I hardly care to regard the matter
as one of prosecution and defense,"
said the man imperturbably, "but ii
you wish to use the terms I am forced
to admit their applicability. Will the
defense rest its case on the testimony
submitted by the prosecution, or will
it elect to submit an argument?"
"The defense will submit an argu
ment," replied the woman. "I adniii
that the match would be, as you say
pronounced suitable to every one. A;
for the two or three other men whon
you aver that I can marry at any time
I cannot answer. I have noticed tha
the number of my proposals has beei
falling off of late, and I attributed th<
fact to advancing age. You were righ
when you said I was thirty. I ma:
close the discussion by saying that !
have made up my mind to become a:
old maid."
"Far be it from me to say anything
against thoso estimable members o
society, the old maids," said the man
"but I do not think you will ever bi
one of them. A wise man once sai(
that the cowl of a recluse always hide
cither a disappointed lover or a groa
rascal, and, while I do not indorse hi:
opiniou unqualifiedly, I am firm in tin
belief that every okl maid is a womai
who was disappointed in love or wh<
,was too ccld-bloodediy selfish ever t<
marry. Surely, you do not come In
either class'*"
"No." said the woman, reflectively,
"I cau't say that I do. and yet "
"Perhaps." said the man, and now
his voice was very gentle, as though
he feared lie might touch some old
wound unwittingly, "there is in your
life some romance which I have not
guessed. Believe me. I would not
wound you for worlds, and I trust you
will pardon my clumsy speech."
"Oh. I am not a blighted being, never
I fear." this with a laugh that did not
ring altogether of merriment.
"Then, your refusal to marry me is
not based upon the ground that you j
j prefer some other man?"
"No. I am not in love?with some otli- |
cr man."
"They, why not marry me?"
"I have given you the best of all a |
woman's reasons, 'because.'"
"But your refusal of me is final, I
may take it?"
"Yes"?the "yes" with an almost inaudible
sigh, a sigh so nearly inaudible
that it did not reach the man.
He had thrown away his cigar and
stood for a moment gazing out toward
the trees. Then he began to speak, and
. his voiee was harsh with feeling that
had been restrained.
"I tliiuU I quite forgot to mention j
otie tiling in my proposal. I did not
say that I love you very dearly; that,
not wishing to be a beggar of love, I
have waited all these years to be in a
position to offer you the things which
I mentioned as rendering me eligible
for your hand. You, who are so cool
and calm, what can you know of love i
and passion? Now, I know that I have i
worked all these years in vain?no, ;
not altogether in vain?for I am going j
to kiss you once, here and now, if it
means the loss of the little that is left
me of your regard."
He gathered her in his strong arms
aud kissed her, not once, but many
, times, on her forhead, on her eyes and
! on her lips, and then released her,
with the full consciousness that he
had done an unpardonable thing which
he did not regret.
But the woman held out her arms
to him ar.d said:
"OH. Jack, dear, wny aiun t you ten
mo that you loved mo at first."?W.
I W. Ilines, in San Francisco Call.
A Little Story of Dully Hie.
"Most of the good stories get into
print," said the commercial traveler, j
Pcrliaps this one has been in types,
but I've never seen it. A traveling j
man stopped at a hotel in Monticcllo.
The proprietor told him he could not
lodge him, not a room in the house.
The traveling man protested. He must
have a room. Finally the proprietor
told him there was a room, a little
room, separated by a thin partition
from a nervous man, a man who had
lived in the house for ten years.
'He is so nervous,' said the landlord,
'I don't dare put any one in that
room. The least noise might give him |
a nervous spell that would endanger :
his life.' " j
" 'Oh, give me room,' said the traveler.
Til be so quiet he'll not kuow i
I'm there.'
"Well, the room was given the trav- j
eler. He slipped in noiselessly and began
to disrobe. He took off one article
of clothing after another as quietly
ns a burglar. At last he came to his 1
6hoes. He unlaced a shoe, and then, I
man-like, dropped it. i '
"The shoe fell to the floor with a '
great noise. The offending traveler, i
horrified at what he had done, waited I
to hear l'rom the nervous man. He
took off the second shoe and placed ;
it noiselessly upon the floor. Then in !
absolute silence he finished undressing I
and crawled between the sheets.
"Half an hour went by. Ho had j
dropped into a doze when there came a |
tremendous knocking 011 the partition. |
"The traveler sat up in bed trembling j
and dismayed. 'Wh?wha?what's the |
matter^ he asked. Then came the i
I
voice of the nervous man:
" 'Blame you. drop that other shoe" "
?Indianapolis News.
Music That Drsws Kveryl)otly.
That the music called classical often
palls while th? old familiar melodies i
never lose their power to charm, was [
demostrated recently in front of the |
Metropolitan Opera House. The or- j
chestra rehearsal room is at the Thirty- j
ninth street corner of the Broadway i
front, and from its opened windows !
came the sounds of snatches of l'.ar- j
monies that never once took the form !
of what might be called a tune. The i
rehearsal went on for an hour, but none i
of the passersby stopped for a mo- j
ment to listen.
Suddenly the orchestra struck into
: "Auld Lang Sync" and Broadway came
to a bait. As long as tbe well known
air lasted, so long did every one pause
to listen, until there were a couple of
hundred persons standing on the oppo:
site side of the street, gazing up at tall
windows out of which the music was
coming. It came to an end with a
fortissimo flourish, the classical music
. was resumed, and then the crowd
moved on.
- Tbore," said a man who had boon
' looking on, "you have an illustration
of the principle that the appeal to {lie
' heart, whether it be in music, literature
or any of the other arts, is always
much more the surer than the appeal
I to the heads."?New York Press.
l>r. Koch Kctilcnti.
I It is reported from Berlin that Dr.
Hubert Koch has resigned his post of
- Director of the Institute for Infectious
t Diseases. A retiring pension has been
. granted to the eminent bacteriologist.
5 ? Iteuter.
1 T)r TCiifti wlin i? in It 1? c'vtv.lvct
, year, is the most famous living bait
teriologist, and gained world-wide rei
nowii by his discovery of the bacillus
? of tuberculosis' in 1SS2.
t His latest theory that tuberculosis in
> animals was different from human
I tuberculosis was disputed by the Briti
isli Royal Commission.?Philadelphia
Record.
T -9
f First Motor Car in I'awn.
lf For the first time in the history of the
e Paris Pawnbroking Department, a moI
tor car was pawned with it the other
s day. The proprietor drove his car
t slowly into the courtyard of the pawn3
broking office in the Rue Servan, and
s after satisfying the officia1 that the
i machiue was really his own property,
o and showing that it was in good condio
tion, he was allowed an advance on it.
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New York City.?Tucked coats worn
with belts that contiue them at the
back and sides are exceedingly becoming
to young girls and are among
misses' tucked coat.
t
the latest and most attractive models
shown. This very excellent example
is adapted both to the costume and
to the general wrap and to the many
materials of the season, but is shown
in a mixed brown velvet edged with
laney braid. The long lines of the
front, provided by the tucks which
pass over the belt, add greatly to the
style and make a specially noteworthy
feature. The sleeves are the new ones
tiiof full nt thp shoulders and are
finished with roll-over cuffs.
The coat is made with fronts, back
and under-arm gores, and is finished
at the neck with a simple roll-over
collar. The sleeves are full and are
pleated into bands that are concealed
by the cuffs. The belt is adjusted
over the back and fronts to the centre
tucks, where it passes through openA
Late Design i
?
!ngs left for the purpose and is closed
Invisibly.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is five yards twentyseven
inches wide, two and threefourth
yards forty-four inches wide, or
two and one-eighth yards fifty-two
inches wide, with one-half yards of
velvet and one and three-fourth yards
of braid to trim as illustrated.
Double-Quilled Crown Band.
The crown bands on hats intended
to be worn 011 cool mornings in the
mountains are quite different tban anything
seen before.
To begin with, they resemble a cartridge
belt more than anything else,
and have a double tier of quillings
Df ribbons around the crown. The
lower quilling Is of light-colored ribbon,
the upper one a very dark shade
)f the same color or of black if white
De used for the lower tier. The ribbon
used is of a heavy, handsome quality.
The quilling is stiff enough to stand
jp like a stockade around the crown.
The light-colored tier comes up outside
if the lower edge of the dark quilling,
ind is also broad enough to lie out
flat for a little on the brim of the felt
lat. Cream-colored felt hats are liand>omc
thus trimmed with two shades of
jrown ribbon or with cream and deep
eaf brown.
A swirling plume of white cock's
feathers, poised slightly to the left of
the front, falls down over the broad
?elt of double quillings.
In Brown Heaver.
A lovely brown beaver turban is valnable
in two ways, besides its beauty,
[t shows that Paris has decided to
divorce brown and orange, and introluees
us to a new tricorne!
This charming tricorne turban is
ioubly three cornered. The crown in
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I the first place is tlirco cornered, the
beaver skirt being most deftly manipulated.
The brim is likewise shaped,
pointing well at the front. Folds of
brown tulle cover the bandeau and the
edge of the brim i? decked with two
tiny brown taffeta pleatings with three
rows of mat beads between them. The
two outer rows of beads are brown, the
centre one being, no, not orange, but a
delicate apple green. At the left front,
nn thr> ? nil or sirlo nf flip brim, is a
brown bird, or rather, the fore part of
a bird. From this bird sweeps a splendid
paradise plume which shades from
soft brown to delicate apple green.
It is a chef d' oeuvre.
"Knickers" For School Girls.
For school girls plain serge and
Scotch plaids will be the favorite materials.
Up to fourteen years the choice
of make is between the sailor suit
and the Russian-blouse frock. Girls
from eight to fourteen years wear
knickerbockers for school and playtime
instead of petticoats under their
dress skirts now; the practical side of
this fashion has recommended it to
most mothers who have the comfort of
their children at heart. These knickerbockers
are made to match the dress;
in winter of serge, in summer of gingham
or linen.?Fashion Number of
Harper's Bazar.
For Breakfast.
A pretty matinee sot seen recently
v.**.,-! ;.?mn/lfl in hnlorn clisinA.
11UU. LUC jataci liiauv/ ut ww.v.v
This, like the skirt, was trimmed with
quantities of fluffy lace.
.Kilted Skirt With Round Yoke.
Skirts that are pleated below H
smooth fitting yoke are among the
smartest of all smart things for the
coming season and will be worn for
all street costumes. This one is peculiarly
chic and attractive and is so
arranged as to-give a plain effect at
the front, which is always desirable.
As illustrated, it is made of cheviot
in mixed shades of brown and tan,
trimmed with handsome brown braid,
by May Manton.
but is suited to all seasonable mate*
rials. As a matter of course tbe trimming
can be varied to suit individual
taste, but the little straps coming from
beneath each pleat are eminently stylish
and attractive.
Tbe skirt is cut in seveu gores and is
laid in backward turning pleats which
meet at the centre back, where the
closing is made. The yoke is circular
and is stitched to the skirt with corticelli
silk, tbe trimming straps concealing
the seam at sides and back.
As illustrated, it is made in Instep
length, which is the prevailing one for
the incoming season, but can be made
still shorter whenever desired.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is eight and one-half
KILTED SUIP.T WITH r.OU-SD YOKE.
yards twenty-seven inches wide, five
and one-fourth yards forty-four inches
wide, or live yards fifty-two inches
wide.
Corn Well Digested by Poultry.
Tests made in Germany in regard to
tho digestibility of Indian corn by
chickens show that 92.5 of the protein,
84.4 of the fat and 91.7 of the
ftarchy material is digested, also 43.3
of the mineral matter. It appears that
chickens can digest grain more thor*
oughly than the animals, hence the
grains possess somewhat higher feeding
value on this account.
Dairying of the Future.
It is possible, even to-daTy, although
the process, it is confidently hoped
and believed, will be speedily further
perfected, to pass milk drawn from the
cow by the aid of a milking machine
direct into the separator, which is attached
to a butter maker, i. e., a machine
which first skims the cream and
then churns it into butter?in a word,
to make butter practically direct from
the cow. Practical men. however, are
j quite aware of the advisability of waiting
for a further development, when
the work will be more economical and
the results more satisfactory.
Cost of Sprayiner.
The cost of spraying apple trees
three times with bordeaux mixture at
the Maine Experiment Station is from
ten to fifteen cents per tree. Baldwin
apples on sprayeel trees showed ninetyseven
per cent, of the fruit free fr6m
scab, while unsprayeel trees showed
only sixty-seven per cent, of the fruit
free from scab. On full-growu trees
It is reckoned that the average crop
is about three barrels, which would
give a gain of a barrel of clear handsome
fruit as a result of the spraying.
The profits of the operation, however,
vary, as some years there is but lit
tie scab, while other years it is very
prevalent.
Work and Poultry.
Give fifty bens one acre and they
will need but little help? not as much
as is required for a cow when she is
on the pasture. Why would not a
farm on which the hens can have plenty
of room pay? Then there is the
work. If one attempts to avoid work
it is best not to begin. The hardest
work the farmer can ilo is to rise at
i o'clock in the morning, milk the cows,
(In winter) ship the' milk, feed the
nlnon nilt tlio stfltls fllld l'PDeat
the same at night, lncludiug Sundays.
It is really inconsistent for a dairyman
to complain of work with poultry, as
the keeping of cows to supply milk Is
hard work at all times.
Crackers For Young Chick*.
Soaked crackers and soaked bread
are often recommended as food for
young chickens, but I don't recollect
ever having seen dry crackers mentioned,
says a writer in Country Gentleman.
For several years I have given
my newly hatched chickens no food
but dry Boston crackers and cold water.
Since adopting this method I
don't think I have lost one chicken
from infantile disease. I break up a
cracker with my fingers, and the little
ones pick up the minutest particles,
the mother hen reducing the larger
pieces to the proper size. If one has
incubator chickens, it would be neces
sary to pound or grind the crackers,
but I doubt not that the chicks will
thrive as do mine.
Horses Must Have Oats.
Oats seem to be the natural grain for
horses, and every attempt to substitute
any other grain, in considerable
quantities, always brings trouble for
the horse. There is too much corn
fed on the average farm, and while it
is admitted that when one grows corn
in abundance it is a most natural thing
t? use it, there is no doubt but what
all farm animals have more corn than
they ought, and this is particularly
true of horses.
The writer urges farmers .not to
make this mistake, for they do it at the
expense of the years of the horse, even
if serious trouble does not result immediately.
Sell corn enough to buy what
oats the horse should have. An occasional
feed of cornmenl. bran and oil
meal will not injure the horse, but the
bulk of the grain given it should be
oats.
Fertilizer For Cabbage.
Experiments were recently made by
a foreign experiment station to determine
the effect on the yield of cabbages
which had been fertilized. The
field selected for the experiments was
of soil of medium loam from fifteen to
eighteen inches deep, and which had
not been manured previously for forty
years. It was ascertained that-the
largest salable heads were secured
from the plant fertilized with thirty
tons of manure, 225 pounds of sulphate
of ammonia, G50 pounds of basic slag
and 175 pounds of muriate of potash.
Fully as good results were obtained
wheji 300 pounds of nitrate of soda
were used In place of the 225 pounds
of sulphate of ammonia. The increased
yields obtained when these fertilizers
were used were ten tons greater than
?*! ? I nor. o /.VA r\ mnniii'O
WIJUIl mil ij ivuo i?k:l 41V. L VI
were used alone.
Brerdfi For Beginners.
It is very difficult to advise one what
! breeds to select without knowing for
what purpose the fowls are to be
raised. If one wants but a few for
home purposes, it is best to select the
larger breeds, such as Plymolth Rocks,
Wyandottes or Light Brahmas. All of
them lay faivly well and the carcasses
are large and plump. If eggs are
mainly desired, then the smaller
breeds, such as the Leghorns or Minorcas,
should be chosen. It is a matter
of personal opinion as to whether the
white or brown Leghorn, or black or
white Minorca is the most desirable.
If one has but a limited range for the
fowls during the summer the larger
breeds should be chosen by all means,
for the smaller breeds, and especially
the White Leghorns, are impatient of
close quarters and fret under confinement.
At- - , tfi fATvl.- nvn
juuriiig nit: auuuuci, n. tuc
on the range, v,iiere they can obtain
more or less grass ami insects, the best
grain food is wheat, buckwheat,
cracked corn in small quantities of millet.
Do not feed poultry much whole
corn during warm weather, as it is
too fattening and will stop their laying
quickly. If the grass supply is small,
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green food of some kind must be giv- ,
en daily, and ther? must be a good i
supply of fresh, clean water, given sev- !
eral times a day.
1
Care of the Horse. .
Speed horses are always trained j
down before they enter races. Foot- i
ball players train and diet for months, i
in order that they may be in prime of
condition; that their muscles may be ?
hard and their endurance extended, <
but how many farm horses there are <
that are not even given a thought
about conditioning before entering the *
heavy harvest and fall work, says
Farm Review.
Where horses are worked more or j
less continuously there should be no ;
trouble whatever in bringing them into j
good condition and keeping them
there, but with those that are turned
to grass the problem is not so easy.
Grass is good for horses, but when <
turned on, and this accompanied by ]
feeding at random, with a little work 3
now and then, will not get or keep a J
horse in condition. If on grass tae I :
horse, if he "works more or less, should j j
be given his grain feed regularly. In
anj case pains should be taken to have
the horse hardened and 111 condition
by the time hard work begins. If such i
is the case, both man and beast will enjoy
the harvest more than if the horse j
is poor and soft. j
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Field Culture of Cabbage.
Cabbages, which are often consid- ]
ered superior in feeding value to tur- <
nips, are cheaper to grow than a root
crop, and constitute excellent food for
sheep and dairy cows. Deep, adhesive
loams are best, but the crop is suitable j
for the stiffest soils, provided they are
deeply worked. j
Liberal manuring is essential, from (
twentv-five to thirtv tons of barnyard .
manure per acre being a good dress- <
ing. This should be supplemented i
with from 200 to 300 pouiyls superphosphates.
Top dressings of from 100 to 1
200 pounds of nitrate of 6oda are profit- 1
able when the young plants have J
well started, and again when the
heads have begun to form. The lighter
the soil the greater the quantity of J
manure required. Seed may be drilled j
in rows or starred in a seedbed. The j
former method is both cheaper and better
in the end. Drill four to six pounds
per acre. From one to two pounds sown
on a rod of good seedbed will j
produce enough plants for an % acre. ]
The rows should be about twenty-four j
inches apart, and the plants a like distance
asunder in them. The enemies 1
of the cabbage crop are in some degree i
identical with those of turnips. The t
cabbage worms cause great los3 by 1
eating the leaves. Hand picking is !
the surest remedy, though it is cheap
er to spray or dust the attacked plant?
with one of the standard insecticides ]
used for soft bodied caterpillars.?B. (
A., in the American Cultivator.
i
The Best Turkey*. '
Always use as breeders turkey hens
over one year old. Be sure they are ]
strong, healthy and vigorous and of (
good medium size. In no instance select
the smaller ones. Do not strive <
to have them unnaturally large. \
The male may be a yearling or older. t
Do not imagine that the large over- |
grown males are the best. Strengtn,
health and vigor, with well propor- I
tloned medium size, are the main <
points of excellence.
Avoid close breeding. New blood is <
of vital importance to turkeys. Better 1
send a thousand miles for a new male <
than to risk the chances of inbreed- '
ing. Secure one in the fall, so as to '
be assured of his health and vigor
prior to the breeding season.
No matter what variety of turkeys j
may be selected for keeping, they
should, above all things, be strong, (
vigorous, healthy and well-matured, <
but not akin. Better secure the females
from one locality and the male ;
from another to insure their non-rela- ,
tlonship, rather than run the risk of ]
inbreeding. In all fowls it is well to
remember that size is influenced large- i
ly by the female and the color and !
finish by the male. Securing overlarge
males to pair with small, weakly i
hens is not wise policy.
A medium-sized mule, with good, '
fair-sized females of good constitutional
vigor and mature age will do far better (
than the largest with the smallest fe- '
males.?G. E. Mitchell, in The American
Cultivator. .
Effect of Grooming. i
The skin of the horse, like that of
other animals, is an active excretory ]
organ. Supplied with almost an in-' j
definite number of pores, through i
these, if keDt onen. a continual dis
charge of watery fluid, and such other
waste matter as is carried there by
the blood, occurs. It also contains myriads
of minute glands, secreting an <
oily fluid that is essential for render- i
ing the skin soft and flexible, as well J
as furnishing the nourishment needed
by the hair and keeping it soft and 3
glossy.
It will not do, therefore, for these
pores to got clogged, for in that case '
the skin would soon become dry,
rough, hard and diseased; nor is there
much danger of it except when the
horse is hard at work, Then the sec-re- .
tion of watery fluid is heavier than ]
when the animal is idle, and if the
sweat is allowed to dry on the skin,
dust will accumulate, mixing with it,
and, if not cleaned off, fill and clog the
pores. As a result the skin will not
only become diseased, but the whole
system more or less deranged. The impurities.
unable,to escape through the
skin, will accumulate in different
places and give rise to blisters, which,
if neglected, may lead to blood poisoning.
or something else nearly as bad. <
By regular, thorough grooming, how- 1
ever, all this will be prevented, the
pores kept open, and a healthier, thriftier
condition of the animal maintained.
A horse h?ving a thick, tough skin
will endure a tolerably sharp currycomb,
which, used on another with a
thin, tender skin, would be a postive
n*i>na/irMimnlntinns nf
I U UCJlj. n iiuir? VI -(lirt
may bo ou the hair after the \ise
of the skin should follow by the aid of
a good brush.
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IINOR EVENTSOFTHEWEEK |
' WASHINGTON", ^
President Roosevelt removed from
office Robert S. Rodle, Supervising Inspector
of the Steamboat Inspection
Service. i
While Attorney-General Moody was
taking his customary morning exercise
>n horseback he was thrown near the
White House, and had a narrow escape
from serious injury. His horse fell
with him, but Mr. Moody suffered only,
i few bruises.
Robert Woods Bliss, United States
Consul at Venice, was appointed Second
Secretary of Embassy at St. Petersburg.
Montgomery Schuyler. Jr., secretary.
)f the Legation at St. Petersburg, has
rv? o*1/\ QflAHflf A W A# T ofro^AT*.
focu rnauu ruob uctitutij vi ut^auvu
ind Consul-General at Bangkok, Giam.
Paul Nash, who Is succeeded by Mr.
Schuyler, has been appointed Unitetf
btateB Consul at Venice, succeeding
Mr. Bliss.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.'
Judge Robinson, of the First Circuit
Dourt, in Honolulu, has sentenced E. S.
Boyd, former Land Commissioner of
FTRvrflii. to twi vpnrs' imnrlsnnment at
tiard labor. Boyd was indicted last
\pril on the charge of embezzling pub- J
lie funds. Pending an appeal Boyd has
been admitted to bail.
Lieutenant Pritchard, of the Philippine
army, son of ex-Senator Peter O.
Pritchard, went insane and killed Lieu*
tenant Deen and then killed himself.
A white man throughout tye Philippines
is as safe in traveling or living
is in Arizona or Colorado or Montana. "!
Se may go about with perfect freedom,
The Union party, of Porto Rjco, has
nominated Julio Larrinaga for the
jfflce of Commissioner to the United 'S
3tates,
DOMESTIC. Jj
Annual reports on the various Bock
[sland systems were issued.
Philip Weinselmer took the stand in .-';j
lis trial for extortion in New York
2ity. Mr. Band, for the prosecution,
ittempted to show that the labor lead- J
?r had banked $80,000 on a $'1300 salMiss
Miriam Grant, daughter of:
Clysses S. Grant, Jr., was married to
Lieutenant Ulysses S. Macy, U. S. N.w . ^
11 Grace Church chantry, in New? r<?rk
City.
Firemen say that the fire in the tene^
nents at Nos. 15 and 17 Moore street*
Brooklyn, N. Y., in which six persona
ost their lives, was started by tnievea
'or purposes ol' plunder.
The House of Bishops at the Protestint
Episcopal Convention in Boston, . ^
Mass., approved of the amendment of .
:he divorce canon forbidding clergy- ;
nen to officiate at the marriage of anj}
jerson who has been divorced.
Charles Pfefferman and Cora Kip*
ing were found dead in the Pfeffer-! -.'t
nan apartment In New York City af-1 .4*1
er Mrs. Pfefferman had quarreled with!
ler husband and gone away. The man ,
ind woman had been shot ancl the gas v
ivas turned on in every room.
One man was killed and the lives' ofi; *
many others were endangered in aikj '
elevated road accident in New Yorla ,~|
Two New Jersey duck hunters were!
swept to sea in a leaky rowboat and
tossed about thirty-six hours. j 3
The paymaster of a contractor on thtfj Jj
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad
was T" .unded and robbed of 513,- *
XK) near ".jbois, Pa. ' ( : lj
The Department of Commerce and
Labor has stationed 200 mounted inspectors
on the Mexican border to stop*
^mmlrrro nfo frnm
JUOpCL ICU llUiUlgiauiu 4?vu* vMkv^??Q|
the United States by way of Texas.
W. L. Douglas accepted the Demo era* ^
tic nomination for Governor of Massa- si
Aosetts. |
Paul Schmidt, a youth of nineteen^
tvhoae parents in New York City are >,
highly respected, confessed to the murier
of William Taylor at .Sherman* ,
Conn. He was surprised in a robbery) j
ind beat his discoverer to death.
Run over by a street car at Mont*
?omery, Ala., C. J. Casslmus, a wealthy;
retired merchant, was killed, hi3 bodjj
being fearfully mangled. v J
Burglars blew open the postoffice
safe at Wabash, Minn., securing about
?700 in cash and $500 iu stamps. i , mj
Italian Day was observed at the St.
Louis Exposition, the exercises being
:ommemorative of the landing of Columbus.
j
There was considerable rioting In
Chicago, 111., in connection with thel
strike of the baggage wagon drivers, j
Impeachment proceedings were filed
it Montgomery, Ala., against Sheriff
A.. D. Rogers, of Madison County, ha
being charged with neglect of duty. i
Edward Van Wart, pilot of the General
Slocum when she was destroyed
by fire, had his license restored to him4
General Chaffee issued an order calltag
attention to the law forbidding
army omcers to receive gins num ?u* .
bordinates, and announcing that it \ %
would bj enforced hereafter. i
Edwin O. Qulgley, once a wealthy",
broker, of New York, was released
from Sing Sing prison, after serving
nine years, eight months and fifteen j
Jays for forging bonds in 1895. ! j
FOREIGN.
M. Santos-Dumont, a special cabte
Jispatch said, is building a uew steerible
balloon with which he intends to
make a week's voyage in the air.
Through his personal representative*
King Leopold of Belgium presented ta j
President Roosevelt the Belgian reply
to the charges of atrocities in the Congo
Free State.
Mexico proposed to issue a $40,000,[)00
gold loan, bearing interest at tha
rate of four per cent. ; ' ,'i'j
The Infanta Maria, Princess of thei
Asturias, King Alfonso's sister, died ia
childbirth. >
The Minister of War of Italy haa
warned the military authorities of the
danger of subversive propaganda of revolt,
inspired, he alleges, by the extreme
party.
General Kuropatkin, according to dispatches
received from Mukden, has
gained ground southward, resuming
the offensive agalust the Japanese. , ;
The steamer Fuping, which was cap
tured off Port Arthur, was chiefly loaded
with ammunition. She flew tho
Gennan flag.
The situation in German Southwest *
Africa is regarded as increasingly serious,
and volunteers are being asked
for from the soldiers of the reserve at
Berlin.
The Duke of Connaught. King Edward's
brother, was thrown from an
automobile and suffered injuries to his
head. The Baltic licet returned to Li*
bau after a short cruise. i
St. Petersburg was depressed, a special
cable dispatch said, over reports of
disaster to General Ivuropatkin's arms*.
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