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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.
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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- (
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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
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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 ^
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BRIDGE DURING ERECTION. n
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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*
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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
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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 .
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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 , '
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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 ^ "