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*. PRINCESS FIRE.
TJve gray fog folds the houses round,
The rain falls from the sky;
And in the house, all snug and warm,
Are Princess Fire and I;
She wears a gown of changing red.
And while she sings to me
She dances gaily to and fro
With laughing witchery.
O weary, weary, weary wheels,
Slow turning in the street,
O lamps that burn so bravely there
Through all the mist and sleet;
O great bleak wind from northern lands
That beats against the pane?
To your cold realms I banish you,
^ a n r?/l tkfl T*0 I r?
JL\J uaiaucco auu nit laxu.
Upon tbe hearthstone here within
The ruddy comfort gleams;
And Princess Fire her province rules
The while her subject dreams;
And here is warmth and cheer and light.
And here no need to siob;
A lover and his lady bri^at-?
Good Princess Fire and I.
?M. S. Clark, in Youth's Companion.
< The Harp That Grew.
It was a great day throughout the
country when Jack the Q'iant Killer
took possession of the castle. The
Giant had been the terror of the
? neighborhood for so long that the
poor people could scarcely call their
lives their own. It seemed strange
to have that gloomy stronghold
opened wide to the air and sunshine,
and stranger still to see Jack restored
to nis own. ine casue naa ueiuugeu
to his father, a valiant knight, who
was slain in his sleep by the Giant.
Jack and his mother took possession
of the castle as soon as all
traces of the Giant and his evil deeds
had disappeared. Here they lived
for many years in great content. The
Beanstalk withered away after it was
cut down, and the steep hill which
had stretched between Jack's old
home and the castle gradually dwindled.
It became once more the gen_
^ tie slope it had been before the
Giant's heavy tread had made such
deep furrows along its sides.
Now Jack, you remember, had run
away with three precious things from
the Giant's castle?the Men that laid
the golden eggs, the Money Bags full
of precious gold coin and the Magic
Harp of gold that played and sang
at the Giant's bidding.
All these treasures the Giant had
stolen from Jack's father, and Jack
was only claiming his own when he
took them away. The Harp was so
small that Jack had no difficulty in
tucking it under his arm as he ran
with the Giant at his heels.
After the Giant was slain the Harp
was silent for many years. From
the first it resisted all of Jack's efforts
to make it sing, so he saw it
carefully stored in a large disused
chamber, and there were so many
other pleasures in his life that he
soon forgot all about it.
He grew up a very noble, handsome
youth, the pride of the cpuntrv
side and the joy of his mother. He
was fond of the hunt, and one evening,
returning from the chase, he
Ifc^chanced to pass the chamber where
had hidden the Harp. To his sura9p*prise
he heard a voice chanting in
low, tender melody:
"Our Jack hath now a man become,
Tis time to bring his true love
Lf | ! home."
Jack pulled a key from the pocket
of his doublet. In a moment the door
Ksr flew open and he was peering about
Hr In the dim light for the Magic Harp.
There it stood against the wall, as he
v had placed it, a beautiful little toy.
He carefully brushed away the dust,
showing beneath the bright untary
nished gold.
f This Harp was curious in shape.
The figure of a woman he e the top
of the instrument on her head and
the hands were touching the strings,
f as though in the act of playing.
"Did you speak to mer" asked
Jack, but the Harp made no answer.
Suddenly he remembered vhat the
Oiant had done.
"Play!" he commanded, and, obediently,
the Harpist began to sweep
the strings with her golden fingers,
singing:
"Take me with you when you wc.o,
I can choose the maid for you."
Jack had never thought much
about his future wife, but e.s the
Harp sang he became anxious to find
a beautiful maiden to make him hap*
py. So the next day he set out upon
his travels with the Harp under his
ii arm.
3 He went from castle to castle and
li found many maidens as handsome as
Kb ^ they were good, but the Harp was siP
lent, and so Jack passed them by.
I. One day they came to a stream, on
W the bank of which a girl was kneel
ing, her long, bright hair touching
f + the water. As she raised her fair
face to look at the approaching youth
tut; nai p suuucui) uiuac xuiu suun a
rhapsody that the air resounded
with it. The birds caught up the
lingering notes, and even the girl
herself joined her voice in following
where the golden fingers led upon the
Harp.
Jack did not doubt that this was
the maiden of his choice, and as she
\ seemed alone in the world, he took
her home aud placed her in his
_ mother's arms.
The wedding was a grand affair,
and when all was over Jack and his
wife sat alone in their happiness. He
brought forth the Harp which had
guided his choice and placed it on
the floor.
"Play!" he commanded and, passing
an arm about his wife, they both
leaned forward to listen.
Then a strange thing happened;
with every chord the Harp grew larger
and the face of the woman became
t a living, breathing face. Her figure
Wi grew taller and the golden gown flut L
tered in the sunlight.
"A kiss, my daughter, come and give
MH *
fjB A kiss from your sweet lips awl 1
Map am free."
fK The girl wife stooped and laid her
lips upon the glittering strings. As
" she did so the top of the Harp lifted,
releasing the head of the woman imprisoned
beneath it. She stepped
tforth, a stately, beautiful creature,
,-wbo clasped Jack's wife in her arms
end held her close.
"My child," she said, "I have
> 9 -waited all these years for you to release
me, for you are my very own.
& My husband was a great prince and
|| loved me more than his life, but 1
loved my golden Harp only, and even
when my child came I swept the
cj+tm n fro all Hiv onrl novor rmtippri her.
But once the baby strayed so far
from me that she was lost. The
prince, my husband, died of grief,
and I was doomed to shrink into the
smallest space, and became a part of
my Harp, until released by the child
so long lost to me. Now I am free
to rejoice in your new-found happiness."
Again she embraced her daughter
and there was joy in the castle.
Then Jack had a golden pedestal
fashioned, on which he strung the
harp strings and the princess made
rare music upon it for the rest of her
life.?Belle Moses, in the Washing,
ton Star.
A PROBLEM FOR THE INVENTOR.
Something Must Be Found and Found
j at Once as a Paper Substitute.
> One of those things for whose pres
' ent riss in price there is a real reason
is the wood pulp paper from
' which newspapers are made, declares
the New Haven Register. The pro'
ducers of this sort of paper tell a
discouraging tale and spread out an
alarming prospect. As most persons
know, practically all newspapers today
use this pulp paper, made entirely
frofm the spruce of our Northern
forests. For every week day
of the year 1,765,000 feet of timber
is used in paper, and as all the newspapers
which pr,int Sunday editions
use more paper than on other days,
the aggregate amount used on Sunday
alone consumes all the' timber
that can be cut from thousands of
acres.
Under the conditions, it is no wonder
that the price of news paper is
steadily rising. Where a year ago
it coaid be contracted for at two
cents h pound, the mills are now
loath to set any contract price for
as loLg a time as a year. While in
jvory lavge quantities it may now be
jojtaiaed at slightly over that price,
its lowest quotation is two and oneialf
cents, and the price ranges up
to three cents a pound, with talk of
f-.ur or even six cents as a not disidnt
price.
In such a case it is easy to see
what is soon to become of the one
ccnt newspaper. There are scores
of newspapers in the country which,
e rr n at the former prices of paper,
have daily put out editions whose
paper alone cost them considerably
more than they received out of the
one cent charged. ' With paper increased
even fifty per cent, in price,
this will simply be impossible.
Eut this is ont the worst. Unless
the situation is exaggerated?and
the ordinary observer knows that
there is too much truth in the growing
dearth of timber?there is prospect
in the not distant future of wood
pulp becoming so scarce as to prohibit
its use for news paper. Something
must be found to take its
place, and found at once. The problem
for the inventor is ah imperative
and immediate one.?New Haven
Register.
Bleaching Flour.
Although the uses of butter color
are well known, the public is not
generally aware of the existence of
flour bleaches. Certain high-gradd
flours are decidedly yellow wherf
first milled, and the yellow tint is
discernible after months of exposure
to sunlight. Therefore, the millers
resort to electrical and chemical
methods of bleaching, for (which the
manufacturers of the processes claim
virtues of increasing the keeping
quality and the nutritive and breadmnkine
nrnnprtiAS of thp flnnr 'Rut.
some of the processes, such as bleaching
by nitric acid, have been condemned
as injurious to health.
Mr. F. J. Aiwa.-, of the Nebraska
Experiment Station, has tested 100
samples of variously bleached flour,
and found, quite naturally, that it
gave the whiter loaf, but no difference
was discbvered in texture, odor
or taste from the unbleached specimens.
The color of low grades, however,
was more unattractive than before,
while the baking test showed
that the use of more than a certaia
proportion of nitrogen peroxide was
objectionable. But as excessive
amounts of the bleaching agent injured
the color, thus lowering the
market value of the flour, Mr. Alway
concludes that there is little danger
to the public in overtreating flour by
this method.?New York Times.
Dnnfnl in IU/m.1/1
ili^ucni licnitti au vuc huiiui
What is considered by experts one
of the choicest bits of space in the
world for business purposes has been
leased for a long term of years at
the highest per foot rental on the
globe. It is underground, is twentyone
by nine feet and is in the exact
centre of the S5.000 square-foot concourse
of the new Hudson Terminal
buildings, extending from Cortlandt
street under Dey street to Fulton, tc
be opened next year. It is to be oc
cupicd by a cigar stand. The annual
rental is about $7560. The tenant
will be A. Schultze, who has a
store at the entrance to the Pulitzer
building.
Assuming that two-for-a-quartei
cigars will be the chief sellers there
and that the profit is thirty-three per
cent., 188,000 cigars, or 3760 boxes
of fifty each, will have to be sold before
the year's rent is offset. Taking
intn acrnnnt other expenses. it if
likely that profit would not begin
until more than a quarter of a million
of "two for twenty-five's" have
been disposed of.?New York World
Stung.
A little girl was being put to be<i
one summer night, and after she had
said her prayers her mother klsseo
her good-night, and said:
"Now, go to sleep, dear. Don't be
afraid, for God's angels are watching
over you."
In a short time, while the mothei
and father were at tea, a small voice
from upstairs was heard.
"Mamma!"
"Yes. little one; what is it?"
ilrinr\o' aneek nrf? bnzzine arminri
and one's bitten me."?Harper's
Weekly.
Beira, a little town in Africa, is
built almost entirely of galvanized
sheet metal.
I A HOME-MADE AIRSHIP. I a
'I IP
Inspired by the aeronautic exhibi- B
' tion at the St. Louis Exposition, w
i Cromwell Dixon, a fifteen-year-old w
lad of Columbus, Ohio, resolved to M
i make some experiments along this h
: line himself. With his mother's aid w
alone, he designed and built two airi
ships, the last a slight improvement w
over the first. The boy's mother be- gi
lieved him too young to attempt to b<
fly with a powerful motor, and he m
began on the idea of a foot-power ma- it
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USUI
THE "SKY CYCLE" BUILT AND
YEAR-OLD
chine. He secured a silk gas bag hav- "]
ing much the form of a huge lemon, ai
thirty-two teet long and fifteen- feet p<
through. For this he designed and tl
personally made a four-inch mesh zc
net. The bag he fills with hydrogen is
gas produced with home-made gen- qi
erators. Taking an ordinary bicycle, m
he removed the wheels and the forks, ai
leaving only a triangular frame sup- m
porting the seat, the handle-bars, b:
and the pedals and sprocket wheel, te
The latter he geared to rotate a two- M
bladed silk propeller. Behind the as
framework he placed a silk rudder er
with a bamboo frame, manipulated by tr
means of cords running forward to it
the handle-bars. The main frame ei
of the airship is built of slender T!
spruce rods. On this frame the fli
mechanism is supported, and to it the as
gas bag is attached by means of the st
net. Young Dixon has succeeded in it,
maiung , succes>siui asuyms wun jus ;
"sky cycle."?H. G. Moore, in Scien- si
tiflc American. | el
Orville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, Ex- G<
perimenting With His Famous
"Gliding" Air-Ship.
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rne uivuung J*oa Jtxpiaineu. j. i
During the past twenty years I ^
have met the assertions of practical W1
men and all newspaper claims as 00
regards the efficacy of the divining wi
rod as a means of discovering water, ^
with a skeptical smile. I have always e'{
believed that those who used it either 80
deliberately utilized their expert ob- T*
servations of local conditions, which ^
made the securing of water probable, ^
to fool people by giving credit to the va
little forked willow stick, or else un- el(
consciously allowed this expert va
knowledge to act on their nerves and ^
thus equally unconsciously allowed
their muscles to act on the stick and
thus make it bend toward the earth
aa soon as they had made up their
minds that the lay of the land favored
the existence of water at the
spot thus indicated. Nor am I now
convinced that this may not be the
case; but I confess to some doubt j
TohafVioi- T mov Tirvf ho miRtfllTPTl !
aroused by reading an article on the
question in a Danish paper the other
i day, of which I make the following cl<
abstract: th
It seems that a Mr. Franzius, of I ca
Kiel, Germany, who did not believe ci;
in this peculiar power of the willow bj
twig, wrote to a certain Mr. Bulow, "e
who has quite a reputation as a well
seeker by its aid, and invited him to th
show his power (or that of the twig) be
In a locality which he (Franzius) had h>
previously surveyed and by frequent tu
borings located all the subterranean fo
water courses. lo
When Mr. Bulow arrived he used, 1 D?
however, a fork made of wire (kind
of metal not mentioned) instead of
the willow, and succeeded in astound- j
ing the skeptic by the eractness with J yo
which he located the water courses ; ep
and their directions in perfect agree-; H<
Toilet Device. le1
An exceedingly neat device which of
shoilld appeal to members of the fair br
sex is the holder for tooth powder
and brush shown here. It is so con- 'n
structed that by simply operating a ar
. to
Powder Drops on Brush , ha
i
lent with the map previously preared.
In the only place where Mr.
ulow and his wire fork disagreed i
ith the map. it turned out that he \
as right! This made a convert of
[r. Franzius. who found that even
e could locate water, although not ;
1th the exactness of Mr. Bulow.
The tosts are described and the
ire fcra: illustrated. The operator
raspB .-he wire fork (Fig. A) with
Dth ha ::.de nnd bends the fork in the
arner shown in Fig. B and carries
in such a manner that the free
f
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NAVIGATED BY A FIFTEENBOY.
handle" points straight forward In
\ nearly a horizontal position aa
Dssible. The "handle" indicates
le water by diverging from the hori>ntal
position. When the wire fork
held in the above position it reuires
but a slight movement of the
uscles to make the 'handle" move,
id the question then arises how this
ovement of the muscles is caused
7 the operator passing over the subrranean
water. The experiment of
r. Franzius showed this plainly,
> the fork ''acts" whenever the op ator
crosses the rails of an electric
ain or telegraph line in action, and
does not "act" at all when the op ator
carries rubbers on his feet!
his indicates that the action or inaence
is an electric one, especially
i it also "acts" if a weak electric
lock is given the one who carries
But how it is possible that the
ibterranean water should have this
ectrical effect through the soil?
srmany's Aerial War-Ship Maneuvring,
Under Perfect Control,
Over the City of Berlin.
7
le explanation has been given that
e water has a "radio-activity," the '
iter giving off various currents and
me of these pass through the soil
ith undiminished force and cause
e air above to become "negatively
sctrlcal" and act on the operator .
that the handle of the fork bends,
lis explanation, says the author of
e article, Is probably correct, as
ere is a great difference between
.rious persons' susceptibility. The
ectrical resistance of the skin may
ry from 1200 to 36,000 ohm, and
e forco repaired to produce a mus!
?
A
u , Fig.B.
Fig. A?
. .^i; may vary from oneird
to fifty-five volts. This indites
that certain persons arc ospeilly
adapted as seekers of water
' this device, provided that this
ilectrical" explanation is correct.
The question should be given a
oroughly scientific investigation,
icause a confirmation of the above 1
pothesis would enable us to substite
a scientific electrical "indicator"
r the crude divining rod, be it wil- i
T LI r\r\ A rvf 1
W W UUU 1 11 C. U. Ll. 1TIUUI uu, V/A
jnmark, in the Country Gentleman.
i
Frequently I)o.
Don't find too much pleasure in <
ur charities; they may become the 1
ltome of your selfishness.?John A.
jwland. 1
per it will deliver a certain amount
the tooth Rowder onto the tooth ]
ush. The tooth powder is placed
the receptacle through an opening
the top. Within the receptacle
e rolls of paper, which agitate the
oth powder and carry it to an open- ^
g in the bottom of the receptacle,
lis opening is the same size as the ^
istles of the brush, the latter being 1
Id in place by a clamp. After plac- ^
% the brush in position a small lever
operated to move the paper roll to
ing the exact amount of powder .
sired onto the brush. The powder '
deposited on the bristles of the t
usn, me ron serving aiso io ciose
e opening against further disarge.
The brush is readily reived
and the powder applied to the
Jth.
Rev. Dr. Curtis Lee Laws, of Baltisre,
has completed a tour of the
llted States, covering about 11,000
lies.
Japan has 2237 banks, with $29?,- ,
A OO A nnnltnl Flf/. n.o.
1,00* I'iTC VIC YY UCUin.0 I J
,ve opened since February. '
<C. C ~ " ? "
The Peruvian Government is distributing
free cotton seeds to planters,
and in other ways is encouraging
the cotton industry.
It is generally agreed that ambergris
is secreted by the sperm whale
as the result of a disease. It is
chiefly bought by scent-makers, but
is also valuable as a constituent of
certain medicines.
The second of its kind in the country
is the picturesque temple of worship
which 7000 Greeks at Lowell,
Mass., have built, it being a $100,000
structure, with a brilliant golden
dome and two golden turrets.
It is reported that a gold coinage
law 1b being drafted for Siam, and
that the measure may become a law
within the yeah It is under this
law that it is proposed to reintroduce
the stang?a copper coin this time,
not nickel, as before.
Some farmers make a nice thing
by constantly looking about for some
new crop, of which the supply is
snort. a Missouri iarmer nan in
twenty acres of popcord this season,
and it has turned him in about
$1500.
Alfalfa is a wonderful plant for producing
wealth. It not onljr yields
several cuttings of most nutritious
hay during a season, but actually enriches
the ground on which it grows
by taking nitrogen from the air. The
total crop of alfalfa hay in 1907 is
estimated to be worth $100,000,000.
Cocoanut pearls are rarely seen in
this country. They are found only
in the cocoanut trees grown in the
Philippines, and, like the oyster
pearls, are the result of the trees being
out of health. They are never
larger ' than a pea, but a cocoanut
pearl of that size is worth from $200
to $400. (
A French detective has hit upon a
novel idea for the capture of pickpockets.
He attaches to his purse a
length of thin cord, and when the
thief has taken the purse he hauls
him in hand over hand and arrests
him. Sometimes the thief cuts the
cord or drops the purse, and then he
gets away. But one can't think of
everything.?London Globe.
The game birds of the United
States are constantly decreasing in
number, and the practice of introducing
foreign birds as substitutes is
growing. , During the year more than'
1000 European partridges, about
2000 English pheasants and a number
of capercailzie and black game of
Europe were imported for liberation,
while 5900 eggs were imported for
propagation.
SEA WORDS.
The Origin of Such Words as "Admiral."
There is hardly a language which
has not been called upon to provide
at least one of the curious sea terms
which are- in constant use and whose
origin is so obscure.
* or instance, the word admiral is
not of English origin, but is from the
Arabic "Emil el Bagh," or Lord of the
Sea. Captain comes from the Latin
caput, but mate is from the Icelandic,
and means a companion or equal.
Coxswain is a word whose derivation
would never be guessed. The coxswain
was originally the man who
pulled the after oar in the captain's
boat, which was known as the cockboat.
This, in turn, is a corruption of
the word "coracle," a small round
boat used on the Wye and Usk rivers.
So coxswain comes to as from the
Welsh.
Commodore is not so difficult to
trace to its beginning. It is simply
the Italian comandatore, meaning
commander. No ouch person as Davy
Jones ever existed, though we often
hear of him and his locker. One
should speak of "Duffy Jonah's locker,"
for that was the original owner
of the famous sea kit.
They used to talk of "larboard"
and "starboard." Starboard has
nothing in common with stars, but is
really the Anglo-Saxon "steor board"
for "steer side," because in all galleys
which were steered by an oar the
oar was fixed somewhat to the right
hand side of the stern, and the helmsman
held the inboard portion in his
right hand. "Larboard" was probably
a corruption of lower board, the
larboard side being inferior to the
other.
The "jury mast" has nothing in
common with a jury except its derivation
from the same word, "jour," the
French word meaning day. The jury
mast is one which is put up temporarily?for
a day?just as a jury in its
legal term. meant a tribunal summoned
for a short period only.?TitBits.
Possessing Reneficence.
An old Lowlander had been persistently
asked by his son, who was
ioing very well in London, to pay
:iim a visit. Having at length decided
to comply, he spent a fortnight in
:he metropolis and duly returned
north to tell the tale. A pompous
person invited him to his house soon
ifter the old man's return, with a
new to having some amusement at
he latter's expense.
' And what was it that most impressed
you in the great city?" asked
:he pompous gentleman.
"Weel, sir," quoth the old fellow,
'the thing abune a' that impressed
ne maist was my ain insigneeficance.
Deed, sir, I wad strongly advise ye
;o gang?it wad dae ye a vast deal
)' guid, sir!"?Tit-Bits.
The herring catch off the shores of
2ns;land represents $15,000,000 an
Professional Fools.
By IDA A. TAYLOR.
According to Garzoni, the lord was
never without the fool, the fool never
without a lord; while he adds that
so necessary was the one to the other
that if the master were compelled to
forego temporarily his toy he
straightway fell ill from melancholy.
ThA Htat.pmpnt ia rorrnhnrat'pri hv
the evidence supplied by history of
the extraordinary affection borne by
kings to their Jesters?an affection
perhaps the result in part of a licensed
familiarity permitted to the
fool alone. Traces of it are everywhere
apparent. Here and there a
magnificent tomb, such as that erected
in the Church of St. Maurice de
Senlis to the memory of Thevenin da
Saint Ligier, "fool of the King our
Lord," testifies to the gratitude of
the master toward the man who tad
made him laugh. Or again the'proof
of it is to be found in gifts such as the
rich chapelle of ermine covered with
a rose bush, with stem of gold of
cypress and leaves of wrought gold
presented by John the Good, the
prisoner of Poictiers, to his fool,
Jehan Arcemalle. So dear was Caillette,
his official jester, to Francis I.
that when death had removed him
from his post the King paid to his
TY"? n tv? AfV <4 Vi n 11 n* a1 A t tvi r\ />Amrt1(rvtrtn4
iucmui j IUO uunuv/cmc tumyiiuicui
of insisting that his son, made afte.
quite another pattern and regarding
the calling with abhorrence, should
carry on the family tradition by assuming
the cap and bells. Of Charles
V. of France it is recorded that be
maintained at his court a number of
the craft, with whom, his morning
devotions concluded, he* was accustomed
to exchange "paroles joyeuses
et honnestes" before proceeding to
the more serious occupations of the
day. Poor mad , Charles VI. surrounded
himself with jesters, hoping
thus to find a means oL distraction
from his melancholy; and, to come
to a prince of the Church, so close
and intimate was the tie uniting
Pope Leo X. and his favorite buffoon
that the latter assisted at his deathbed,
and has been asserted?one
would hope erroneously?to have
been the sole watcher there.
Abyssinian Ministry.
The decree of the Emperor Menelik
ammouncing the construction ol
' a Cabinet on European lines is as follows:
"The lion of Judah has prevailed.
"Salutation be to you.
"It is some time since we thoughl
of introducing a European system to
our country. You have always Indicated
(this)., and said it would be
good if we too adopt some of the
European systems.
"I have now taken steps to appoint
a Ministry, and if it is the will oi
God I will complete it. I Inform you
that I have appointed the following
persons: Affa Negus Nasibu, Fitaurari
Habta G-iorgis, Privy Seal Gabra
Selassi, Bejirond Mulugata, Likamaquas
Katama, Nagadras Haila
Giorgis, Kantiba Walda Sadilc."?
London Standard.
\ Shipboard Plowing.
A common everyday farm plow
' was used in unloading the cargo oi
I the Ammon, at San Francisco. The
: entire hold was filled with fifteen
! hundred tons of nitre which, had
! frozen into one solid mass and very
hard. Explosives could not be used,
and picks and shovels were too slow.
As a joke a bystander suggested they
had better U3e a plow.- The captain
decided to try the plan, and
bought a good-sized plow, and by
means of block and tackle and steam
winch, pulled it back and forth the
length of the hold. The plow
loosened the nitre as fast as a big
gang could shovel it into steel buckets.
This is probably the only instance
on record where a ship's cargo
was discharged in this way.?
Popular Mechanics.
Sellin' a Sheep.
T'ttt#-* TJirrVilonH fa rm ora maf nn
II V A?l?)UiUUU <.H1 Uivyl U U1 v V VU
their way to church. "Man," said
Donald, "I was wonderin' what you
will be askin' for yon bit sheep over
at your steadin'?"
"Man," replied Dougal, "I wass
thinkin* I wad be wantin* fifty shullin's
for that sheep."
"I will tak' it at that," said Donald;
"but, och, man, Dougal, I am
awful surprised at you doin* business
on the Sawbath." \
"Business!" exclaimed Dougal.
"Man, sellin' a sheep :ike that for
fifty shullin's is not business at all;
it's just charity!"?Scottish American.
Dno and Legal Form.
"Since it is all over between us,
Miss Berkenhead," said the young
I man, pale but calm, "I am compelled
I to ask for the return of the numerous
and costly presents I have given you |
from time to time during the last six j
months, under the mistaken idea that
I was your accepted lover and you.
were my affianced wife."
"No, Henry," she answered, "you
can't claim them now. All you can
do is to give me the necessary sixty
days' notice. By that time?er?
perhaps confidence will be restored."
?Chicago Tribune.
Catching Him.
During the recent stay in camp of
the National Guard of the District
of Columbia, one of the captains
called a sergeant one day, saying:
"Sergeant, note down Private I
I Mooney?one day on bread and water I
for slovenly turnout on parade."
" Beg pardon, captain," responded
the sergeant, "but that won't make
| any difference to Mooney?lie's a
vegetarian."
"Then," said the captain, "give
him one day on meat and soup."?
Harper's Weekly.
The Cattle of the King.
There is much English history iu |
the fact that the chief exhibitor at
the Norwich cattle show was the
King, to whom, even more if possibles
than to English kings of the fourteenth
century, English stock owes
its reputation.?London Outlook.
A Big Advantage.
The man who is always on timer
has a big advantage in the struggle
I for success.?Chicago Record-Heraldj
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Highway Building.
In the great Mississippi Vallef
there is practically no good rOadraakiag
material at hand, and whatever
is used-, must be transported
great distance^ at considerable expense.
tft Illinois, .Alabama, Kansas,
Iowa and other Central Middle States
the road problem is acute to-day.
Occasionally gravel, be^s are found
which yield fair road-making material,
and in the hands of the engineer
good stretchcs of highways
have been made at no great Cost;
The drainage on these rich farming? > > .
sections, is almost as bad as it could
be, and this Increases the cost and
trouble of the work. Traveling)
through these States in an automor
bile maizes one conscious of the greafcj
road problems facing our richest agricultural
regions. In vain have local
and national engineers sought to de^ ^
rise some means of making roads in i
these States' without importing t.
stones, gravel and other building material.
Bpt apparently the roads
must be built at great expense
through the employment of materials,
transported from more favored sections.
Transportation thus becomes
the most vital factor in road making
jf the Mississippi Valley and tff many
of the Southern States. If good roads
are to be had there, the materials .
must be brought by the railroads*
,and co-operation between the steam
lines and local, highway commissions
must be secured. . . . v : vl
No hard and fast rules of highway
building could be laid down for this
3.at central region, although the ./
nest granite or gravel would pay the \ '
best in the end, for it costs no more
to transport it than the cheaper
shales and softer limestones. The
Question of durability and cost of
maintenance would have to be seriously
considered. In the experiments
made by the Government and local.
commissions, good roftds of broken
. atriroc aiirh aa (rranltn flint and alii.
cates, prove more economical than
'cheaper materials, and many of the
Middle Western towns and cities have . ^
miles of excellent highways built at.
only thirty to forty'per cent, more:"
thah the cost of similar roads in the
EaBt, which, with proper care, Will
last for many decades. i
Good roads in the Mississippi Val
ley pay better than almost anywhere
else in the country, owing to the vivid
contrast between them and the natural
poor roads. The Increase in i '
valuation of property along the line
pf macadam roads in this section has
been all the way from fifty to sixty
jper cent., and many new, thriving
towns are to-day making strenuoua
efforts to attract settlers and investors
through improving roads. It has ' *
proved an economical success to increase
road taxation in order to secure
higher real estate values. Road
construction across the middle of our
continent at the present rate of development
should within another
decade completely revolutionize conditions;
and a trip across from ocean
to ocean by automobile should prove
a popular pleasure instead of a tiresome
struggle with muddy, dusty and
heavy Btretches of roads.?Scientific /
American.
Good Roads and Citizenship.
A. L. Cushman, Director of the
Office of Public Roads, Department of
Agriculture, recently declared that
poor roads and a poor class of citizenship
usually go together. He said
the rubber tired wheels of aitfomobiles
not alone raise clouds of dirt
granules but soon destroy the best
macadam highways by scattering the
dust binder. With iron tired wheels^
contractors had been able to rely
upon the friction to grind up the surface
stones, keeping the road smooth
and well bound by the small particles.
Of its 2,000,000 miles of
'public roads, the United States has
improved only seven per cent.. Continuing,
ho said: "Even in road making
it is necessary to touch the pocketbooks
of the people before any reform
can be accomplished. California
became the pioneer of oiled
roads merely on account of the detrimental
efTect of dust upon her orange
crop. It is not until a community ia
stirred to the real menace of dusty
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oirecc auu ivauo iuai u&o ctu
been accomplished. The American
people are not an unintelligent rac?,
hut they need a vast amount of education
to remove them from a sceptical
attitude toward true reforms in
tany direction. Travel through the
country and you will find that the
character of a road is the best criterion
of the character of the community.
You see no ill kept houses,
no unwashed, unkempt children along
a good road, while such is the rule
along a poof highway. A community
! that is negligent of its public roads
| cannot cxpect to raise up good citizens.
The moral effect of surroundI
Ings is against it."?The Motor Car.
Legal Tender.
The Willamette Heights ciiizen
Imndefl tbe conductor of the car a
$5 clearing house certificate.
"Wnat's tnat r" asnea tuc man uehind
the bell cord.
"That's a clearing house certificate,
the new kind of Portland
monfy," said the W. Ii. citizen.
"Is it good?" ascked the lord of
t"*.? punch.
"Sure it's good. Paper money
goes these days."
"All right, old mail," and the conductor
immediately handed the passenger
$4.95 worth of transfers.?*
Portland Oregonian.
A Common-Sense Musician.
Moscheles, the most distinguished
teacher of fae pianoforto of hie time,
was particularly .proud of his staccato
playing. One day, when the
hand of an American pupil had been
unusually heavy, the musician
turned upon him.
"If the keys of the piano were
jred-hot pokers," lie laid, "you would
never think of allowing your lingers
to rest on them!"
"I guess," the American replied,
dryly, "if they were rea-Rot powers
1 shouldn't touch them at all."? ?
fouth's Companion.