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# MOTHERLESS. SET.- was so small, so very small, ; That since she ceased to care, Tra easy just to pass him by, i Forgetting he was there; jBut though too slight a thing he seea.?d ! Of interest to be? 0?e heart had loved him with a love }; A3 boundless as the sea. . h (5Bfe was so poor, so very poor. That now, since she had died, He aeemed a tiny threadbare coac : With nothing much inside; But. ah, a treasure he concealed. VAnd asked of none relief: 0m shabby little bosom hid "'A mighty, grown-up grief. ? Iflorence Earle Ooates, in Harper's Bazar. PURSUED BY WOLVES > .. 1 < ?< H By WM. J\. STIMSON. AUK HJSN father moved to Skagj( hb); way, in the . early seven' 6 Vv ? ties' tljat p?rtion o? ^is* <1 ^ eonsin was a wilderness. ;tl^WOW We lived at the northern ici?d of Bear Lake, a pretty sheet of '[water, eight miles long, while RockJaud was at the southern extremity. Between the two places (he forest stretched unbroken, and there was not a single house on either hank. ' The winters were cold, aud from December to April of every year the lake was a sheet of smooth ice. We t>oy3 became experts in the use of skates, and most of our leisure time * ."was spent on the ice. The greatest rivalry existed between the two lake .iwsensi sind akflfiner matches were fre cnieatiy held. Although, the country .was sparsely settled, nearly all the -wild animals had disappeared before our coming, but ther& were bears in the forest and wolves?big, fierce fellows that hunger sometimes made dangerous. One cold afternoon toward the end of January I buckled on my skates for a trio to Rockland to make final arrangements for a skating match between teams from the two towns that ,was set for the next day. I was late \ in starting, and the boys at Rockland kept me so long that it was after sunset before I left for home. But it was fu l moon, and the big yellow orb was just peeping over the wood;s at my right as I struck out. i I was in no hurry and skated along easily, saving my streugth for the mor^ row. I had gone about a quarter of A \ tb? distance when, from somewhere ^ away orf in the forest, there came to ( my ears the howl of a wolf. AH was silent again for a few minutes, then the sound was repeated. It was not so far off this time, j'.nd there was no axis wiring note from the opposite shore. i That these beasts wouid attack a man never occurred to me, but being aione on the lake and far away from home,--the'dose proximity of the {wolves made me uneasy, aud I quick .ened my strokes a little. By this time the moon had risen liigh enough to make everything light as day, only along the eastern shore ithe shadows were still dense. Suddenly from the woods on my right another series of howls broke out on the riigtit air, and as I glanced around 1 w half a dozen long, gaunt, gray creatures leave the underbrush and come racing towards me over the ice. i realized then that the wolves were twsing me and grew thoroughly (frightened. My fears were increased, (when I saw several more i^ave the t cover of the western bank, aud cutting diagonally across, join the first pack. I buttoned my short coat and struck out at my best pace, thinking that .when they saw me leaving them they {would give up the pursuit. i That was a mistake, as I soon saw. Ife fTliey, too, increased their speed, a-nd 'oama hrmn.lincr olstncr -i ff (?r ma fhftir r bodies almost touching the ice. Every now and then one of tlieni would give voice to a shrill bark. One big fellow Jed tbe pack by several yards. The j pace was telling on me and my purA suers were gaining every second. A W glance backward showed them not a hundred yards in the rear. Home was still four miles away and I there was no help near. I had nothIiug in the shape of a weapon except my jack-knife, and as t sped along I drew this from my pocket aud opened the big blade. The pack was at my back when it occurred to me that I might yet escape them by putting in practice some tactics familiar to every one who has played the game of "tag." These tactics were nothing more than dodging the wolves when they came close enough, and I knew that on the smooth ice I had them at a disadvantage. Slackening my speed, I waited for the leader of the pack to approach a little nearer. On he came, until I could ee* the fire flash from his eyes and the froth drop from his half-open jaws. When he gathered himself to spring, I turned sharply to the right aud darted off at full speed. The manoeuvre worked perfectly. (The wolf leaped just as [ spun about,' aud instead of alighting upon my shoulders, he went slipping and sliding over tiie ice for a distance of seve<eraI yards. The rest of the pack, in tueir attempt to turn quickly, lost their Ifeet and fell over each other, giving lie several precious seconds, which K used to advantage. L By my trick I had gained some dis- j ^uce, but the wolves were closlag in Hi iae again. I waited until the ndcr was almost upon me the second W^ne, then swung about to the left. The beast was anticipating some such movement on my part, for he did not aprhg, and I found that [ had not gained the start that I did the first lime. However, it helped, for as 1 heard the quick breathiug of the pack I at my heels once more, L saw the lights of the village around a bend in the bank. j 3ut the murderous beasts wer-* too Sntent on their prey to be frightened off even by the proximity of the settlement. My strength was nearly gone and I was afraid that I could cot execute the dodge this time with the success that had followed my other efforts. Nerving myself for a supreme effort I altered my course again, and for tSs third time the wolves went I ' scrawling, but in turning I gave my right ankle a twist. and with a shrill cry of pain fell full length upon the ice. I gave myself up for lost and awaited the attack with my knife ready. When they saw me at bay tbe wolves hesitated, but only for a moment. One big fellow made a leap for my throat, when there "came a shout from the shore, followed by a gunshot that laid the wolt low. His death was the signal for the flight of the others, and away they weut, pursued by several rifle balls. When my father and two brothers reached me I was so weak from fright and paiu that they had to carry me home. On the way they told me how one of the neighbors, being out on the ice, had heard wolves howling. This alarmed my father as he knew I was away aloue, and when I did not reutrn at sunset he and my brothers started out to meet me. Well for me was it that they did so. The match came off the next day and the.Skagway team won, btit without any help from ine. My sprained ankle prevented my. taking any active puri in iue rage,?ci^u/icibiu uiiuner. WINDS AND DRAUGHTS Scieutiit Shown That the Former Are Beneficial and the Latter Datigeroua. Professor Max Herz, an Austrian scientist, has just published an essay upon the difference between wind and draught, which is likely to convince the public that the old-fashioned prejudice against draughts is not altogether unjustified. ' By a draught is meant the currents of air in an enclosed space. Our forefathers attributed nearly all the evils that beset them to draughts, and they would not nave slept iu uucuriuium beds for anything. Of course, ttfeir windows and doors were shaky and houses stood far apart, so draughts were nearly inevitable. But the modern scientific world tries to deny draughts altogether, and calls thein winds, which are harmless and even healthy to a certain degree. Dr. Herz says that any one who cares to find out the difference between a wind and a draught can do so in any apartment which has windows on dif ferent sides of the house. Let him open a window on a windy day on the side of the house toward which the wind blows. The air which comes in is quite harmless if the person exposed to it be dressed in warm clothes, and little children may take the.air in a room thus ventilatfe.?. But let him qpen a window past which the wind blows, and it will be found that the air in the room is moved by a number of currents. all of which strive to reach the opening. It is the passing wind which sucks up the air in the room and draws it out, and this causes the room to have vjjiat is called a draught. The effect upon sensitive persons i3 immediately felt.: like the forerunner of pain to come. A draught will always be felt as; colder than the wind. Very dangerous draughts are those that are produced in railway cars by the rapid motion of the train. It is not wind that gets into the carriages, but the air of the car which is sucked out. A lighted match held to the chink of the window will prove this?as the flame will be drawn toward the window, not blown from it. At Last, the Reason. "A few years ago," remarked a man whp shaves, "the barbering fraternity, as most people remember, was for a tender period between two legislative sessions under the direction and control of a State commission of examine barbers, and before a barber could shave a bewhiskered 'citizen with full legal effect he had to obtain a license from the commission. Tbe applicant for a license was subjected to a rigid examination, and at the time the troubles of the Barber Commission were being exploited in public I chanced to notice a list of the questions asked in the commission's examinations. On^ of the questions was: 'Why is the upper lip always shaved last?' I have never been able to find an answer to tbat question in all of these succeeding years. I have asked every barber that has sbaved me in that time, and only one out of the whole number?be is a barber down in Sydney, New South Waies?could give an intelligent answer to the question. Wlien he had finished shaving me I asked: 'Why is the upper lip always shaved last?' 1 " ;My word?' he said", with much astonishment at my native dullness: That's the last part of the face I reach.' "?San Francisco Chronicle. Irvine's Statecraft. It chanced to me once, and only once, in a life of some faring by land and sea, to ride up a Kurdish gorge at early dawn, the sky still starry, as the charcoal-burners had begun their work, aud to see over all, as the smoke rose, a gray-blue light as of tbe depths, son# touch of deep-chilted enveloping air on gorge and mountain-side, as though a sapphire had aged, aud grown gray and wan. Once only I saw this, and never again. When, in Faust, the curtain rose on the Brocken, I saw before me the same miracle 'of grayblue. "How did you," I asked once at supper, "who ride abroad so little and are so rarely on the . mountain-side, hit on this, the rarest of lights?" "Once," and he took up a small plate,' "I saw in a gallery," and he named it, but I have forgotten, "a landscape by Durer the size of this plate, a mountain-side in . the early morn in this same gray-blue light. It gave me the light I wanted for the Brocken."? Talcott Williams, in the Atlantic. Odd Origin of "Orange." uranges came ongiuany uvui iuiu;i, having been carried westward by the Arabs. The first crossed from Africa to Spain with Mohammedanism, while, probably, the crusaders were t> ?,e thanked for bringing it to Italy and western Europe among their trophies of the East. The name is Arabic? '"naranj"?and of Eastern origin, though a legend that it comes from two words meaning '"elephant'1 and "be ill,"' because elephants ate oranges to make themselves ill. is absurd. Probably in French the initial "n" is dropped off from naranj with the- final "n" of the indefinite article, just as "an apron'' represents "a napron" and the selling with an '"o" points to false -association with "or" (gold). -Net? York World. A PAVEMENT JDF WHALES1 BONES | b? Aaratra iMKEa3LE7, One of the most picturesque towns in California or on the Pacific Slope is Monterey! Historically, it is the most interesting town in the Western States. It was the capita! of Alta, California, where the Spanish held sway in the days "before the Gringo came." Father Junipero Serra landed at Monterey, whieli is on the bay of the same name, on June 3, 1770, more than six years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence^ The missionary priest preached to the Indians and founded the mission church of San Carlos, which Is still in excellent preservation. Many relics of Spanish rule are to be seen at Monterey, such as ' the old customhouse, the jail,' etc. ' Besides being the capital of the' Span; ish' province, Monterey was an imporv' - ' - ' r .4 AUama tant wnanng station, maiiy ui iuubc great mammals being found in Mon-' terej Bay. The walk leading from the ' street to the maLn door of San Carlos mission church is paved with the ver-j tebrae and other bone3 of whales. The) accompanying photograph, made at the end of August last, shows the composition and present condition of this remarkable pavement.?Scientific American. > THE ZAMBESI RIVES BBIDGE, VICTORIA FAUS, RHODESIA. The great steel arch bridge designed ' to carry the northern extension of the Rhodesia Railways across the gorge of .the Zambesi P.iver just below the' famous Victoria Falls in South Africa, was opened to traffic on Sept. 2, 1905. The 500-foot span of the Zambesi arch ranks it among the large steel arch bridges of the world. To this feature of interest is added the novelty that the bridge was erected thousands of miles from its place of manufacture fl? ^ ';- '. ' ' :-< -:;', A L . HU| rTP Trrrrn-p- ,1 fl Iw^ml vl fiSnB y-\ai\i; >*> ? HfMIlT lTT xY r^^ gfijL QuKsSnBH BS^n^Blhfk^ a:& MDHMSdWH OEMBB &%&& IH^HlBiOHi VIEW OF ZAMBESI ARCH and in a part of (he world which not many years ago had been reached enly by a few iutrepid explorers. NEW SHOE FASTENING. In the illustration below will be found a shoe fastenwr entirely different from any yet introduced. A Baltimore man is the inventor, and he does away entirely with eye> lets and laces and uses instead a combination of straps, ?yes and a buckle. In the fastening operation the normal overlap is increased, the part of the upper above the instep being drawn II A?I! P "I ? I . i I aBLD IN PLA.OB BZ 9TBA.PS. toward a point on the rear section and brought closely against the portion of the /ooi immediately above the heel. The upper is divided into two sections, which are primarily disconnected, except where they unite near the sole at the sides of the shoe, the front section of the upper overlapping the rear section, so as to present no apparent openings between the parts. Straps f&stened to the back section connect with eyes secured to the edges of the front sections, the straps being perforated at regular intervals and fastening in a suitable buckle. The fastening operation consists in crossing the straps at a point on the rear section of the upper, which is directly over the heel of the foot, after drawing the straps tightly iu buckling their ; ends together. > Clinnco For a "Plane"' C"ok. L The following advertisement ap peared recently iu the "Help Ranted" ( column of a certain journal: "Wanted?A flat servant for a single lady."? Harper's Weekly. ? WORKS OF ART THIRTY-FIVE SEN' TURIES OLD. la 1897 the French Government established a special archeological mission at Susa, in Persia. The mission was under the control of M. de Morgan. the former director general of an- ( i ' I I , I 1 s tiquities in Egypt, and the Government r has allowed $26,000 per year for ex- i: I penses. Recently the results so far ob- c tained were placed on exhibition in the t ii TUB PIODRE AT THE RIGHT IS OP QTJEEfl NAPIR A.SON, fcEOENTLV FOUND KT j., THE RUINS OF 3D8A. ^ Louvre, and a writer in the Illustra-' (.] tion, of Paris, describes -them as fot y lows: "The chief feature of the collec ^ .tJi h ?'r - 'A - 1) B. e t( fi 8 h fi o fi BRIDGE DURING ERECTION. n b tion is a bronze statue of Napir Ason, ? the wife of King Ountach Gal, who ^ lived some 3500 years ago. This sta- ^ tue was presented by the king to his " wife, and it has'remained for centuries Cl buried at a depth of sixty feet in the 81 ruins of the acropolis of Susa. During C( the past year the laborers employed in " the excavation brought the statue to 'j? light. The figure was intact, but the head was missing. However, as only P some 280,000 cubic meters have been excavated up to the present of the 1,220,000 cubic meters which represent the area of the acropolis, it is only rea- a sonable to suppose that the head will eventually be found. On the base of P the statue are carved the names of the a. queen, arid hehind her are two enameled lions which went through the fire of the kiln at least 2000 years before Christ. C( "In addition to the statue the Hamurabi code was found carved in gran- tj ite. This stone is of great value, since n it gives us the civil code of the Chal- jj deans 2000 years before our own era. Further, the commission has found 1( 'Koudourous' or property deeds en- ^ graved on stone which are 5000 years jj old, bronze vases, maguificently chased u and dating back GlHXJ years oeiore tue r( Christian era, and other relics of u past age which are of immeasurable lue" n A PIPE-ARCH BRIDGE. a _ C< Aii engineering curiosity, said to be ^ unique in this country, and to have but one parallel example in Europe, is the a; pipe-arch bridge over the Sudbury River, which carried Boston's water ?" supply. The span is eighty feet, and 01 the steel pipe, seven and one-half feet ^ ?- *? t< in diameter, rises five and one-half feet jj above the horizontal ;.t the centre. The pressure on the abutments when the p pipe is filled with, water is very great, and is resisted by a mass of concrete a forty feet thick behinr". each abutment t) Across the curved iop runs a hand-, railed foot-bridge. The steel of tha' pipe in the arched portion is fiveeighths of an inch in thickness. Lhassa, the Forbidden City of Tibet, * has 10,000 people. y Care of Ponltry Yard. *" ?j Where fowls are confined ia rather o :lose quarters during the summer it is ti i good plan to arrange so that the " >oultry;.yard can be cleaned or. else n livided in two or more sections so that I me can be renovated while the other r s being used. If the yard is of the y >rdinary garden, soil it should be i ?paded under to the. depth of the I ipade after first cieaning out the worst I >f the filth. Then sow this space to T >ats or rye and allow it to grow for :wo weeks; then turn the poultry into h his yard and treat the other, yard in L he same manner. t( A Ration For Swin??. c The argument that swine can be [j( ed more cheaply on corn than on any- C( hing else is fallacious if one counts for jj tny value the increased gain in a given it teriod under the other ration. True, f corn is low in price and other rations ^ 'xcessively high, then the corn is the a, iheaper food provided the carcass rings a fairly high price. It has been lemonstrated repeatedly that in most ^ ocalities the ideal balanced ration for a. wine during uie winter is one-nan niddlings and one-half cornnieal, vary- jjj g the ration by an occasional feed of 0j orn on the ear without, of course, ^ he middlings. ia A still cheaper ration, giving quite as ;ood results, consists of one-third soy ^ iean meal and two-thirds cornmeal, jj, irovided the former can be bought at 96 fair price. It has been proved be- p] ond question that an entire corn ra- w ion lays the animal open to various tc iiseases, and that, beyond a certain ioint, the exclusive corn ration adds racticaUy nothing to the weight of the nimal, so that nothing , is gained in ai eeding more than is necessary to sus- 'd( ain life. Try one of the balanced ra- fl< ions suggested, and you will find it c( rofitable, as others have.?Indianapo- -w is News. fr ? Cf Kye as Soil Protector. ai While rye is not considered all that fc i desirable as a cover crop it certainly j-j i far better than to allow the soil to C( emain uncovered all winter. We have Dund great benefits in sowTng rye after jjj arvesting the last potato crop, and w specially on the fields that are sandy. ^ Ve take pains, however, to fertilize gl lie soil before sowing the rje, realizag that it has little nianurial value, ut, on the other hand,must take some i lant food from the soil for its support. The main value of the rye is in the act that the soil is kopt open by havlg this growth on it, hence obtains nd holds a certaiu quantity of moisure which will be needed the follow12 summer by the growing crops. Vhat "will be done with the crop in lie spring must bB decided by condiions. It may be desirable to feed it j stock, but if this is not necessary nd the soil on which it grew is lacklg in liupus it would be most desirale to plow it under' in the spring to enefit the next crop in the rotation. 0 matter what it may be. In any ? vent, have some sort of cover crop *o 3r the soil and conserve the foods in 31 : rather than let them be destroyed er 9 a greater or less extent by the ele- ?t ients.?Indianapolis News. Shooing; Tonne Homes. Of Trouble comes in this work when sc Sere is Improper handling the first ai ime the colt is shod, so that before the Tl olt'ib taken to the blacksmith for the w rst time he should be prepared for se hoeing by handling his legs in such tii careful manner that he is not to be as armed. The rule invariably is to take th tie colt to the blacksmith first. This us 1 a poo? plan. We have found" the ca allowing method to be an excellent th ne in preparing the most vicious colts fr 5r shoeing: or Tie a long strap around the colt's eck. passing it along the near side and etween the hind legs, bringing it. to t close to the body; then pass it un- st er the strap which is around the neck; it Sen.tighten up the strap gradually, ig olding the colt by the bridle. The gr olt will probably pull a little, but hr peak to him; kindly. When he has be-; accustomed to the strap, lower it so ? a. point' just above the hock and i radually pull up the strap until you io< ave lifted the leg, at the same time th ull back or to the side on the bridle f<j > keep him from stepping ahead; then ar ike the leg in your hand. The same da ling can be done with the other leg, bj nd after the process has been gone th irough several times you will be sur- i)l rised to -find how easy it is to lift s0 ny of the colt's legs.?American 'Cu:- in vator. Accos?ories of Dairj. Not all dairymen can have th? Baback test, 'but none of them is too poor ) buy scales and weigh the milk. Yes, . lis is the old subject, but it certainly eeds repeating until every farmer in 0D ie country who keeps cows and dis- . oses of the milk in any form; has lS >arned to tell the robber-cows from or je profitable ones. If many of us are m nnrnnerlv feedincr the cows, more of er s are feeding with reasoaable cor- * jctiiessr, and tben losing'the profit be- " luse we are feeding cows that do not ive profitable results. An accurate :ale, an account book witb each cow , ccurately kept and one will know, by . amparison, in 6ix months, which of is animals belong to the butcher. a Then there is a little machine known ?r a a feed grinder, which it will pay > have in the stable and to use for j1 ho rinding feed for all the stock. One in be had for from $25 to $30. which ^ rill grind the feed for a large number E animals and be good exercise for the " orses. A live man with a little capital 1 m buy one of these grinders and lake its cost by grinding for neigh- ce prs at a small toll. A German dairyian worked this plan and obtained, as >11, nearly enough graiii to feed his wn herd of seven cows. It may be ossible in a progressive neighborhood > buy one of these machines in com- ^ inn lion. Work the two plans sug ested, nnd with the proper feed, the roper care of the cow.s aud the proper ' ondition of the stables, one will have . much better idea how they stand in j3 tie spring thau ever before.?Indian- * polis News, ________ Farmer's Tomt. da Harper's Weekly suggests that in w hese days of agricultural prosperity te re should not forget the line old 5* ? I... anner's toast not uncommonly fonnfl n English drinking vessels in former iraes. It goes as follows: Let the wealthy and great loll in splendor and state. envy them not, I declare it. eat my own Iamb, [y chickens and ham, shear my own fleece and I wear it. have lawns, I have bowers, have fruits, I have flowers, - > he lark is my morning alarmer: o my jolly boys now [ere's God speed the plow,'' ong life and success to the farmer." The young man oil the farm who is ?mpted to go to the: town or city, iving up a substantial certainty for oubtful prospects, would do well to msider the'truth expressed in these UCO. X lie a LU1 111 CI I* ILLe is iue JUUU9L (dependent, and 13 beSet with less imptations than any other. It is ie nearest to nature and the farthest tvay from the degenerating artificialies of the modern world. It is because of this artificiality and s false standards that the ten-dollarweek clerk, who may be fired any ly and not be able to pay his larfndry 111, is led to consider himself superior ' the strong, sun-browned harvester ho gathers his own crops on his own nd. There are higher prizes than those lat are won by the successful farmer, at those higher prizes are too often rcured in part through a moral comromise and a sacrifice of self-respect hich the farmer Is never called upon > make. For Straining Milk. A South Dakota man has patented i attachment for milk cans wjiicli ? ^signed' for 'straining the' milk' as1 it' ' >ws into the pails. This attachment >nsists of a funnel-shaped device hich can be inserted into or removed om the pails at pleasure. *The milk in be practically inclosed by a cover, i opening being made in the centre ir the insertion of the attachment, ie latter being held in place by a >llar that fits snugly in the neck, he body of the attachment is shaped ie a funnel, which extends down- . ard into the pail and is closed by a, >ttom, the central portion being laped like a hollow cone, intended t ' Miii 1 I KEEPS DUST OTTT OP THE MILK. > serve as a settling chamber In the ( des of the funnel are openings coved by screens or strainers, while anber screen extends across the top of te funnel. ' In use the milk received in the f unit will pass through the pgRer funnel reen into the interior of , the sfl&ner id then into the settling"chamber^. . tiA U <-wr? Tf i an rvn wfinlftn a f f mdffOT* . UC -ucavici J/Ul IIV-ICO \M. LVtW^u. ujuvvvfcill gravitate into and-remain in the ttling chamber, wide the lighter parses will be caught by the strainers i the milk falls out of the funnel into e pail. This attachment can also be ted as a ventilating cover for a milk n by inverting it and placing it on e can, the screen openings permitting ee passage of air.?Philadelphia Bec<L Gapes In Chickeus. That dreadful disease, the gapes, deroys many, many chicks every year, is not really a disease, for the chick not what we might call sick, but it adually becomes weakened and extusted from the frequent yawning of ninw itnHl i hi TMfali<-(T i? emnp - 9 tld on it is no more. Gapes are caused by small parasites clgiqg in the-trachea, or windpipe, of' e chick. Most of these worms are rk shaped, although straight ones e sometimes found. They hatch In imp ground or water and are found r the chicks and swallowed. Perhaps e bird may swallow only one worm, it in a short time it multiplies and metimes v. "i^y find a dozen worms the throat a. *"; time. When a flock ... infested, there are veral ways.of getting rid of the pests, at is, if they are given attention as on as the disease is discovered. As on as possible separate the sick from e well ones aud apply a remedy; if ie fails, try another. [f attended to as soon as the gaping noticed, a small bit of camphor gum, three or four drops of turpentine iiced in a pint of soft foojl will genally effect a cure. Another, is to dip feather in the prepared camphor or rpentine, run it down the chick's roat, give a sharp turn to remove,J id- quite often the worm will cling to e feather. rhe fumes of burning carbolic acid another very good remedy. Fasten' screen about the middle of a barrel box. Put the chicks on the screen, en put a tew drops oc rue ul-hi uu red-hot shovel and set in the lower If of the box or barrel; as the smoke ises and fills the upper half where e chicks are, watch them very carelly, as it is liable to suffocate them kept in too long. Sulphur may be ed in the saqae way with good suess. instead of doctoring, let us strive to event this disease; quite often it is rough our own carelessness that this >uble comes. Gapes are seldom found iiere the fowls have good food and ire water, and where cleanliness iout the house and runs is strictly iserved.?JI. D. in the Indiana irm^r. <r.. i very OUirtJLUi iu Lurr unvr UL ouitur, as it wil! suffocate very quick-Ed. One of the machines exhibited it the Liry show recently held in London as a neat contrivance by which butr could be made out of fresh milk jji xtv seconds at tiie-tea table, i . f i ii _________________ PHOTO FASHION PLATES* ^BB Dace the fashion-plates/were scare&nftl^^H ' with the slimmest, wasp-like vAxj^B But the modern magazine* have unprovaff^Hfl artistic tastes. i H Now instead of awful drawings mad? men who couldn't draw, There are photographic '.half-tone* ^tfp^D from an/ sort of flaw. To suoh lengnlsiiav? they proceeded WMfclX^H this system nice and new I That'it's hard to ten a portrait frdfl*-?F,j^B| - "side and back-breadth view." i] I And there's many a sharp surprise that m^HI the dear old fogy waits Since they've got to using photographs folks for fashion-plates. H See the picture in the paper, of a lady; I 1 fair and sweet? ' ; Just the very sort of person that the fn^ I H lows hke to meet. . ' 'IMfl Fluffy tresses crown her forehead, she's *4 <0H figure like a dream, v While cno witching imps of mischief 'neaflr|3| H her lowered lashes gleam. jHfl Then yon bring the paper closer, ao's tofigure out ner name? |^B m.... <K J.J.1.1 ?1?tr wiH* * ooeft a uarA'uiuc fum ????>. .. jacket of the same." ? , r*!^H Other blows ?a hard as this one make b? curse the foolish fates :} ' flH Since they've got to using photographs of folks for fash*>nTplates., ;; k ( JHj There's a girl that simply ravishing, iraK^^Hf eves chat fairty speak? ?! r' - *** She's ' a princesse gown of pink and -winf* that's trimmed with lace tatigm,',' ' A There's another clad for comfort in a Jmjev H - and clinging aacque? jBH She's "a robe oe ntfit' embellished wHwEB some shirring afc the back." There's a matronis|;ic person with',a 1x0*1 of classic height? . If jj( She's "a handsome walking ctisbttne $atfc4j ered bias at-the- right.M ' ; t - AS <j^0 Thus we helpless men are maddened.pjS^gflB these rare and nameless baits , Since they've got to' using photographs OC':^g| folks for fashion-p'btes.' ' '*'?! -Strickland W. Gillilan. in Puda ?,l .-Ji ?. m "By George. I'm glad ifs ov^..Tt*;1?? worked awful hard during the l#ac ': * few, years, getting my legal education^VrJH "Well, cheer up. Ifll be a long tlnMf JjM before you have any more work to dtfM ?Cleveland Leader. ' v * Farmer Wayback-r-'Ts your son dotag?^ jB well at college?" Farmer Corntoeael?* "I guess so. He hasn't sent for ?iroj| fl extra money, and he isn't a candidate'J fl for either the nine; the eleven or ttftjpl crew."?Somervtlle Journal. > *\ ' JS Algernon?"I heah that you andCUU> /M 9 ence had an altahcatiou tewst night Jj and he called yonh grahwything;**: 'iaM Perclval?"Yaws, but I got even wlt& M him, deah boy. I called him nothing; 1 doncher know."?Chicago News. : ;S ? Investigators tell uh ? Tia the little things that kill,- > You'll find no deadly microbes > ' ISm : OnafWQObiD. f .1 tv v ?Chicago Trilwae^-r fsaH Little Sister?"0, mamma, I've gat .1 a canker on my toe!".' BigBrothgr? "That isn't a canker. A canker k? i what .they throw overboard on a shlfc ** 1 to make tlie ship stand still. .What 1 you've got is a pop-corn!" j V "Phut's this!" exclaimed Michael^ I reading the legend on a new invention?- ^ "'Pat. applied for?' Faith, an' whi? I there'** inny worruk to be done poor I Pat is always applied for,? bad lucid 'J1 to 'em!"?Boston Transcript. N .When Smithers' automobile, I Ujpn a.sudden whim, I Rail straight into tto ocean I And 'out of aigfat'with him, I Hia friendsTemargnj, "Hownatural!'** #? AlthQugh, their eyes were dim ; ? 'for he-had bought the thiag - . 1 ^To pUt nlm m the swim. , JQ ?Judge.*! -^1 "No, I never go to vaudeville attow?,T' ^ j said the collector, refusing the invtti?j V tion. "Why not?" asked his friend ?3| "Because I've had enough of it In mjj 173 business most everybody gives"m?"iff 'x.;|| 'song and dante' of one kind ora*- I other!"?Detroit Free Press. j "I always save money on hats," satil 1 mp? wis(? "How's that?" Inanirodl -VsM her friend. "Why, my husband luue ?9 read so much about the awful prices J women pay for them that it never ocJ ] curs to him that I could get one f*Q- I half the money!"?Pefroit Free Preifc \ Tale of a Tailless Cat. - J , It is well known that Manx cats ^|?j have no tails, only slight stumps, andt - j that the offspring of such in other parts I of .the world, in the first generation at least, are in the same abnormal I condition. While living in Scotland thirty years ago we had a Manx kit* ten given to us, which, although boo# ? there, was tailless. The door of ourr >Ja breakfast-room was spring shutting^ J| like most of the screen doors in this 3j country, but opening only toward the? ,'?a inside. Before the kitten was foltf jyjl grown he had learned to let himself -J? in by pushing from the outside, but never learned, although we often tried ' ^ to teacih him, to pull it open from- th? - $ inside. . 4-$ -jf It was not, however, the opening o^ -J the door from the-'outside to wniqn * wish to call attention?any cat couKf have easily iearned to do that; hut th?. "jl fact that he had invariably, after h4 had so pushed it and got !his body par* * tially in, he made a rapid tarn whirl to prevent the tail that was not there (but hereditary impressed ou hinl $ the", fact that it ought to have been^ from being caught between the closing door and its frame. ' ~v "'"'I This he did dozens of times ever* day so long as we had him; and ,w*? always willing to show off before, otu| visitors, as he never seemed to reco?j s ^ nize the fact that he had not a tail like his neighbors.?Scientific Amerl* ^ on n , ' " *r Oldent Dwelling's la Europe* One of the very earliest human settlements In Europe is Roche CorbonJ ^ on the banks of the Loire, seven rolled above Tours. Here limestone cliffai stretch for mile3 anil are pigeonholed with caves, which are on different lev-j els and. open onto terraces. When thej rest of the country was nothing butt forest land Roche Corbon was a thriv* ing settlement inhabited by wHa f ck-ir?-nin<i predecessors of the present} cave dwellers. These terraces and 4,^ caves were formed by the action of mighty rivers, and during the glacial period, when th? climate of that portion of France was very severe, man drove out the bears and hyenas and took refuge in these natural shelters whiclx faced south, and so became human settiements of a primitive sort Near at hand were the rivers, ani great forrsts full of fisb aod ^ "