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Plan to Reduce Road Widtlis. j '
Consul Thompson,of Hanover, Ger- ,
many, contributes some valuable com- 3
ments on the roads of Prussia as '
compared with those of the United .
States. The German roads, he says, J
Tange from twenty to thirty feet in '
width, while in our Middle or West- 1
em States, we take land of an aver- I .
age value of $100 per acre and cut it 1
up with roadways sixty-six feet wide, j 1
practically two-thirds of the same be- |
lng given over to weeds, which fur- i '
nish an inexhaustible supply of seed3
for the adjoining farm lands. The , J
farmer of Germany who has conquered
the weeds on his ground need ; j
I have no thought of their being started
again from uncultivated or uncared- j
for land along the roadways. Look- j !
ing into the valleys from one of the i
thousands of lookout towers which j '
have been placed on the summit of j
nearly every high elevation in Ger- 1
many, the roads lie before one's view . J
like bright white ribbons running
past squares of green or brown fields, J
along the verges of cultivated woods, I ;
and binding village to village?a so- ;
lution of the first and most impor- J
tant problem of human economy and :
evolution, that of transportation.
One of the simplest and most prac- j :
deal measures that could be taken "
!or American roads betterment would
be to reduce their width to from one- , 1
third to one-half of what they are I 1
aow. Work could then be concen- !
1*1 CLICV1 UU ivuu..w; v.. ^
ind both building and maintenance of
joads become much less expensive.
No road can be called really good '
1 it is bordered with weeds or mud, ;
md to care for and keep up a road
.'rom sixty to seventy feet in width, '
aot to mention the loss of land, means J
a the long run nearly double the ex- , '
>ense of a thirty or thirty-five foot 1
road. j
The average width of the first class
aighway in Prussia is thirty feet, and
8 found to be ample for all purposes. !
Seducing the width of public high- (
vays in but thirteen Mississippi Valey
States, aggregating700,000 miles,
tfhich now average sixty-six feet, to
:hirty-six feet, leaving them still J
auch wider ' than the highways of j 1
y Ttinmncnn shnws Wfill 1 d '
.1 A U OOXtfc, iUl . A WMW .? M " . ,
five back to the farmers of those
| States for cultivation 2,500,000 acres
>f generally tillable land, which, at
in average valuation of $100 per j ,
icre would mean the restoration to :
:he producing values of the States
lamed of $250,000,000. This sum '
ias an annual interest value of $12,500,000,
an amount which might be
.recovered, and if applied to the proper
scientific construction of roads in 1
the United States would in a few '
rears give us the most extensive and
finest country road system in the
arorld. G. E. M. | '
Washington, D. C.
This might do very well but for ]
the autos, says the Indiana Farmer,
though we prefer a sixty-foot to a
thirty-foot roadway if we can afford
j the space., and the roads can be kept '
slear of weeds and other rubbish, j 1
But what kind oJ a chance would the ^
anver 01 a siuiusu uutac ui auj uiuoi
fcind of a horse in fact but a worn- j
out plug have, in trying to pass a big
machine on a thirty-foot highway? So
long as autos are allowed to use our
common roads the roads should remain
as wide as now, and the improvement
should extend from fence
to fence, the outer ten feet on each
Bide being made by the auto owners.
I * ?Right
Way to Figure. j
Good roads will reduce the cost of
transportation by private conveyance ,
one-half, so it is a measure which is
entitled .to strong support, remarks
the Atlanta Journal. Yet there are
many who use the roads every day ,
who do not stop to figure this way. J
They will install a labor saving machine
on the farm because it will save
! them a little extra labor, and perhaps
!a little money, but they will not sea ,
that 2*>od roads are both the greatest
labor saving and money saving thing 1
extant. The Fort Worth Record recently
figured that if good reads were j '
universal the saving to the country
would be 5250,000,000 annually, and 1 1
every farmer in the country would
get his portion of this saving. This
agitation for good roads in Texas
should go on until every country road i
in the State is brought up to the high- | '
est standard. Jefferson County has
made a great start with its new shell 1
roads on all the principal highways
of the city, but there are cross roads ; 1
and the less traveled country roads
that yet may be improved, and the
work should continue. In the mean- i
time much of the Jefferson County
soil is amenable to the efforts of the
split log drag and the farmers of the '
country should interest themselves in J
this implement to a greater extent
than they have yet shown an inclination
to do.?Beaumont Enterprise. i
Easily Remedied.
An old lawyer, who is a noted wit, !
has for a partner another old fellow
who is very conservative and strait- j
laced. Recently the wit remarked to .
his partner tbat it was advisable to j
employ a female stenographer in the ,
office, maintaining that stenographers
of that variety were much more
satisfactory than males.
But the partner didn't like the
idea.
"My dear fellow," he objected.
"I don't think it would be proper. ;
It wouldn't do, wouldn't do at all. j
You see, here I should be in the of- ,
flee, hour after hour every day, quite j
alone with the young lady, and?"
"Well," observed the wit, with a |
twinkling eye, "couldn't you holler?"
?New York Times. ' ,
Labor Day. ;
Twelve hours, with two hours' rest, <
*? Iniril 11 Knri n <r Hav at flrlpssa. 1
1T5 IUC ICgat iftwv?*u0 ~ ,
Russia. Workers under seventeen <
must go to school for three hours <
daily. Christians are not required to . <
work on Sundays or feast days, nor ;
Hebrews and Mohammedans on their I
religious holidays. Those who have 1
to work on Sundays have the next ],
day, for reat.?St. Louis Republic, j ]
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The Passing of Satire.
By AMBROSE BIERCE
"Young man," said the Melancholy
Author, "I do not commonly permit
myself to be 'interviewed;' what paper
do you represent?"
The Timorous Reporter spoke the
name of the great journal that was
connected with him.
"Sir, I never heard of it," said the
Melancholy Author. "I trust that it
Is devoted to the interests of Literature."
Assurance was given that it had a
Poets' Corner, and that among its
regular contributors it numbered
both Aurora Angelina Aylmer and
Plantagent Binks, the satirist.
"Indeed," said the great man, "you
surprise me! I had supposed that
satire, once so large and wholesome
an element in English letters, wa3
long dead and d pardon me?
buried. You must bear with me if I
do not concede the existence of Mr.
Binks. Satire cannot co-exist with
* * - 3 s?- n /i
alien mouycoaaie senumcuLo ?j
brotherhood of man,' 'the trusteeship
of wealth,' moral irresponsibility, tolarance,
socialism and the rest of it.
Who can 'lash the rascals naked
through the world' in an age that
holds crime to be a disease and concerts
the prison into a sanitarium?"
The Timorous Reporter ventured to
ask if he considered crime a symptom
3f mental health. By way of fortifying
himself for a reply, the melancholy
one visited the sideboard and
toped a merciless quantity of something
imperfectly known to his visitor
from the arid South.
"Crime, sir," said he, partly recovering,
"is merely a high degree of selfishness
directed by a low degree of
intelligence. If selfishness is a disease
none of us is altogether well.
We are all selfish, or we should not
be living, but most of us have the
discernment to see that our permanent
advantage does not lie in gratification
of our malevolence by murder,
nor in augmenting our possessions by
theft. Those of us who think otherwise
should be assisted to a saner
rrlort? Kir niinkhmpnt Tfr Is sad. SO
3ad, to reflect that many of them eslape
it."
"But it is agreed," said the journalist,
"by all our illustrious sociologists
?Brand Whitlock, Clarence Darrow,
Eugene Debs and Emma Goldman?
that punishment is useless, that it
3oes not deter, and they prove it by
the number of convictions recorded
against individual criminals. Will
pou kindly Bay if they are right?"
"If punishment did not deter, the
housebreaker discharged from prison
would enter and rob the nearest
dwelling to the prison gate; whereas,
we know that the most incorrigible ol
the tribe will behave himself until
pressed by want, or until in his bruti
stupidity he thinks, as he thought before,
that he can escape detection.
Punishment deters?not perfectly, foi
nothing is perfect, but it deters. I!
svery human institution that lamentably
fails to accomplish its full purpose
is to be abolished none will remain."
The Timorous Reporter begged to
be considered worthy to know what,
apart from its great wisdom and interest,
all this had to do with satire.
"Satire," said the Mclancholy Author,
"is punishment. As such It has
fallen into public disfavor in its justice
and efficacy. So the rasals go
unlashed. Instead of ridicule we
have solemn reprobation; for wit we
have 'humor'?with a slang word in
the line, two in the second and three
in the third. Why, sir, the American
reading public hardly know that there
sver was a distinctive kind of writing
known, technically, as satire?that it
was once not only a glory to literature
but, incidentally, a terror to all
manner of civic and personal unworth.
tf we had to-day an Aristophanes, a
Jonathan Swift or an Alexander Pope,
lie would surely be put into a comfortable
prison with all sanitary adrantages,
led upon yellow-legged pullets
and ensainted by the Little Broth
*rs of the Bad. For they would think
him a thief. In the same error the
:hurches would pray for him and the
women compete for his hand in marriage.
"
The thought of so great a perversion
of justice overcame .the creator
3f the vision and he sank to the
ground, tried .to cover his face with
his coat-skirts and groaned aloud.
Process Jealously Guarded.
"Essen is essentially notable for
Its crucible nickel steel," said Ernst
Lange, o2 Werden, A. R., Germany,
who is making a tour of the steel
mills of .this country. "There is socalled
crucible nickel steel made elsewhere
in the world, but so far as
known the Krupp material is unexzelled.
This accounts for the large
exportation of Krupp crucible nickel
steel to the United States. In the
case of engine parts, where heavy
strains are exerted, manufacturers
(eel the necessity of acquiring the best
steel obtainable, regardless of origin.
iub prucess ot muKing cruciDie niCKej
steel at the Krupp works is jealously
guarded, although, even i? all the details
were known, the steel could not
be made in America or elsewhere,
since only the Krupp works possess
both the requisite organization and
experience. This crucible nickel steel
is almost exclusively used by Krupp
for gun work, and accounts in a large
measure for the high reputation of
Krupp ordnance."?Washington Post.
A Woman's Crowning Glory.
Good hair will often atone for a
want of grace or classical outline. In
one's mind's eye one can see the
cloud of soft gold hair which frames
a thin, white face or features that
are too misshapen for orthodox beauty,
or the masses of rich black hair
*Via+ m a Ir oc nno frtrorot Q Hull cVin a
stern mouth, or a big-boned, lanky
figure. Red hair is now much admired
and its ruddy tints bring parion
for many flaws, such as no eyebrows,
a sharp chin, a flat nose?
sven freckles. And a woman's looks
san be saved from ruin by a lovely
complexion.?Strand.
A Lost Day.
The most completely lost of all
lays is that upon which you have not
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Only Daughter of the Pr<
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Up-to-Date Clothesline, 1
A sensible clothes dryer, which will I
be welcomed by the particular house- i
wife, ia the recent invention of a resi- <
dent of Port Angeles, Wash, It does
away with the unsightly long lines of ?
plothes usually associated with wasn
day. Instead, the clotheslines are I
; economncally arranged on one sup- *
port. The latter consists of a post, '?
, ' to which are pivoted five or six bars.
These support the clothes line, which
' , is arranged in graduated lengths be- 1
tween the bars. When thus spread 1
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! A<?f 4es tVino nrnhoKlv 1 !\A f O/if
1 of clothes line, affording considerable
1 j space for the clothes. After the
! ! clothes have become dried the line
1 and supports can be folded up and
' | placed out of sight by operating a
1 ' small lever on the main post. The
upper part of the framework being
' , thus detachable, it can be quickly re!
; moved or replaced when needed.
> ; There are thus no disfiguring clothes
poets to mar the lawn.?Washington
1 | Star.
.
, ' Hall Calne's Portrait.
i ! Clyde Fitch, the noted playwright,
i was praising the reporter of the past.
'I "He has merged now," said Mr.
1 Fitch, "into the playwright, the novelist
or the leader writer. We don't l
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! | This gate, located In Avon, Mass.,
(>f an Injustice which the owner bellev
part of his land by eminent domain fo
It is made of a tree trunk and small bra
Cover For Water Pall. j i
The drinking water pail is usually 1
| the most likely catch for all dust, *
dirt and flies in the house unless pro- 1
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tected in some way. Get aa inch or 1
three-fourths inch board twelve I
inches wide and saw off a foot and <
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N TAFT.
asident and Mrs. Taft.
lave reporters like him now. Th<
>ower is too soon recognized. Th
ise too fast. And hence the ne
solumns suffer."
Mr. Fitch took down one of 1
icrapbooks.
"Here is a sample of the way i
jorters used to write. It's very go
md amusing," he said. "It's a <
icription of Hall Caine. Listen."
And he read:
" 'When he removed his slouch t
le showed long hair brushed back
a pompadour. It has the shade
? ??? ?%? nri/4 If lo flpoff (TXT
napic sugai, auu u id go?.biub w*
)n the top. He had an enormc
:ollar, with a turn-down flap thi
nches deep. He could wear a col;
it least five sizes too small withe
ihoking. His white necktie was tl
so carelessly that the knot part of
aung two or three inches south
:he collar button.' "?Washingt
Star.
Easy.
"In what condition was the pat
arch Job at the end of his life
asked a Sunday-school teacher ol
3uiet looking boy at the foot of t
class. "Dead," calmly replied 1
juiet looking boy.?Illustrated Bi
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?From The Survej
MRS. RCJSSELL SAGE.
One of the World's Richest Women.
The pedigree of some Arab hon
uay be traced back for 2000 years
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mm.
eel he suffered when the town to<
r the establishment of water worl
nches.?Boston Post.
Uso saw off the corners to make
oundlng on one end. Fasten hing
:o the square end and screw the
igainst the wall at a height so th
his cover will rest level on the wat
)ail. Nail a block of wood abo
he cover and put a small wood bi
on on it so that when the cover
aised up against the wall it will
leld by the button. This will ke
lust, dirt, flies, millers and oth
nsects from falling into the wat<
^o cat or other animal can drii
'rom the pall when the cover is dow
JVhen fresh*water is wanted, mere
ift the cover and fasten back agaic
he wall with the button.?Lewis E
horp, in The Epitomist.
The Church of England repoi
12,000 baptisms for last year, and
nembershlp of 2,142,039. Sunda
school teachers number 210,42
vlth 2,488,230 pupils.
Felled at Amersnam. near Harro
Bngland, a walnut tree measur
:wcnty-four feet round, weighed t
;ons and the trunk realized |245.
Another's Mission. I =
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By W. T. CHILDS. l|
A little messenger boy, dripping ft
with perspiration and covered with ,
dust, stepped up to the paying tell- jg '
er's windows at one of the largest
banks in the city, and said: "Please, .
sir, give me nickels for this?"
The teller simply raised his eyes
and pushed back the $10 bill. The ^
messenger boy thought he had not ^
been heard and repeated his request. .
"No!" snapped the paying teller. ?
The messenger boy was so fright- r
ened that he almost forgot his mis- ,
sion. He meekly picked up the $10
bill from the counter and returned to *
his employer's office.
"Well, where are the nickels?" his
employer asked.
"He wouldn't give them to me!" re?
j answered the boy.
In less time than it takes to tell,
the employer heard the whole story.
i He was a very heavy depositor in the ^
bank and also one of its directors, ?
tfil
<??/* ho ir>at nn -Mmft in maktne an in
! vestigatlon of the affair.
"I didn't think he needed the nick- opi
els," the paying teller sought to excuse
his action. .
"Of course he did not," answered
the employer, "but did it not occur to
you that he was on another's mis- mc
sion?" *a
The paying .teller could say nothing.
He acknowledged that he was
inexcusably wrong. If the employer cbi
had not been such a magnanimous g0:
man he would have exerted his influence
as a heavy depositor and director
of the bank to punish the pay- ve:
ing teller, but he was willing to for- en
give when the paying teller assured *U!
him that it would never occur again.
"Ah, young man," said the em- ex'
ployer, "you should remember that
the message is often greater than the
messenger."?Home Herald. ml
? WORDS OF WISDOM.
*lr dii
ey A kick in time may also save nine, ga
WS No man wants to go to heaven by
^ ??e aeroplane route.
Man wants but little here below, clc
re- eicept the things he knows he can't
od get. th)
le- Soipe of us complain that we don't er<
get all that's coming to us, and are Un
lucky at that.
La* Some women are such bargain
? ! fiends that they would demand cut ab
i rates for a surgical operation. hi^
(U i The people who sneer at us would ml
ee I Probably be very much surprised to
ln_ ; know what we think of them. t0
lar sei
,ut I When a girl thinks she has a .
:ed ! swanlike neck she is apt to make a
it I goose of herself over it. '
of j It sometimes seema to the rest of 3e]
on us that success comes to a man in be
spite of himself. ga
The race is not always to the thi
swift; but that is no reason why a tei
;r** : man should emulate the tortoise.
I It doesn't make much difference ^
a , what we think so long as we don't
'f*e ; think out loud.
:he 1
ts 1 Many a fellow with no desire for
' , ereat wealth would like to be rich
I enough to tell his boss just what he of
j thinks of him. pr<
I saw a woman buying some ci- en
j gars for her husband the other day.
| She got them to match his stockings ^
! and neckties.
j Some men do so much talking Fq
j about being square that we naturally
expect to see the corners sticking out ..
^ 3f them. fllr
The man who says nothing and ca
saws wood may some day trade that ac\
occupation for the more agreeable
one of cutting off coupons.?From tit
"A Gentle Cynic," in the New York wj
Times. bu
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Damage by Rats. bl(
Great Britain would like to rid it- fei
self of rats. Recently a deputation Ar
from the Incorporated Society for Ar
the Destruction of Vermin, headed by rto
ses Slr James Crichton Browne and the Pu
Duke of Bedford, waited upon Lord oa
_ Carrington at the offices of the Brit- Ar!
Ish Board of Agriculture and urged
him to appoint a commission to in- j th<
quire into the destruction of crops J
by rats. A Scottish newspaper sums j frc
up this destruction as follows: j
"The deputation pointed out the I
enormous damage done by rats, !
which amounts, on a most moderate j he
computation, to ?75,000,000 per an- !
num in Great Britain. This is ar- isl1
rived at by allowing one rat per cul- as
tivated acre of land. wh
"Assuming that each rat does | sei
damage to the extent of one farthing Ea
day, this works out on the 40,000,- rec
000 acres of land at the figure men- ret
tioned. Sir James Crichton Browne sta
incidentally stated that 2,000,000 ma
people died of plague in India, and rec
said it had been proved that the rat
was the chief cause of the spread of ?r(
infection. ^)o:
"It was also stated that the ex- *ai
pendlture on rat poisons in the occ
United Kingdom amounts to $250,- sea
000 per annum, which is considered ^u:
many times more than would be reer
quired properly to exterminate the I
3k | vermin if the campaign were system- j
ts- I aticaJlv conducted."?Chicago News. , va?
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Quite Polite. j ata
,eg Ther were slight acquaintances, ! wo
' and there was no love lost between j all!
Tt them- nui
er "Well," said the first 'grande aln
ve dame,' "bye-bye. I must really be
lt_ getting on. I have to make a call on ^ 3
js my mother." by
jje The second put up her lorgnette sra
ep and drawled: are
er "Really?ah?you don't mean to
jr> say you have a mother living?"
The first "grande dame" laughed j361
n ?a high, thin laugh, with something !ar
,ly biting, like acid, in it.
"Oh, yes," she retorted on the one
li" who had tried to take her down, "my
mother is alive, and she doesn't look r
a day older than you do, I assure R
you."?From Tit-Bits. . u
:ts> uir
? " ?? 0dc
Ly He Passed. an(
[9, Judge?"You are a freeholder?" bin
Talesman?"Yes, sir; I am." ru
"Married or single?" teii
"Married three years last June." tac
W-' "Have you formed or expressed
'any opinion?" . j
"Not for three years, your Honor." eig
?Success. ate
[n making a silver dollar the die ,
?iven a pressure of 100 tons to the j
lare inch, while one of 155 tons is (
en to the double eagle.
i
An alloy of seventy per cent, of |
ium and thirty per cent, of iron |
3 the remarkable property of giv- j
; off a shower of sparks when j |
uck by steel. I |
The British agricultural colleges ' j
ve been testing the growing of po- i
oes from sprouts with great sue- i
is. The yield and quality kave ,
th been Increased, and the diseaselisting
powers strengthened.
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A new dirigible torpedo, patented
a Swedish inventor and operated
electricity, is said to have a range
5000 yards. Its course can be al ed,
while submerged, from the
Int of departure at the will of the
erator.
A Chinese takin has been mounted
the Museum of Natural History, j
e animal was captured in the j
mntainous regions of China, and !
,s presented to the museum by I
ison Mitchell, former American
isul to China. The takin has the
aracteristlcs of an antelope and a
at.
We are accustomed to think of sere
and continuous cold as being an
emy to life of every sort, but data
rnished by the Pasteur Institute in '
ris by Dr. Charcot, the Antarctic !
plorer, prove conclusively that the |
:ense cold of the south polar re- |
)ns still allows various forms oi j
croscopic life to flourish.
It is said that a new supply of radlm
has been discovered in Portu-.
1 by Thomas H. V. Bower, a memr
of the American Institute of Meanical
Engineers. A certaic
earn, the name of which is not disced,
was reputed to have therautlc
powers. Mr. Bower followefl
3 stream to its source, and discov2d
that it ran over a bed of uranil
phosphate.
Gaston Bonnier affirms that the
ility of bees to fly straight to theii
res from a distance as great as two
les is not due, a a some have be- |
ved, to either sight or smell, but |
a special sense of direction pos- [
ssed by bees: Monsieur Bonnier j
ses his belief in the existence of j
Is strange senae, which would be j
tremely useful to man also, on a j
ries of experiments with homing j
es. He does not know in what or-' J
n the sense ia located, but he says j
at, at any rate, it is not in the an- j
inae. .
iUINE HERO OF PEKIN DEAD, j
itnam, of the Astor Battery, Had
Retired With Honors.
Word comes from the Philippines
the death of old Putnam, a horse
esented to the United States Gov
ament by Colonel John Jacob Astor
th the other equipment of the
tor Battery at the time of the
anish-American War. Putnam was
out eighteen years old and died at
>rt William McKinley. At that
ne the horse was on the retired
t, having been the second animal
ice old Comanche of the Seventh
valry to be regularly relieved of
tive duty.
The history of Putnam up to the I
ae he landed in the Philippines
th the Astor Battery is uncertain,
t his career since then is easily
iced. Just before the Boxer trou- i
is in China Putnam was trans- i
red to F Battery of the Fifth Field
tillery and sent along with the
nerican contingent. On the ar- !
ral of the allied armies at Pekin
tnam and another veteran horse
med Corregidor were pulling the
3t of the American light field gunq.
The battery had just started up
3 hill. Corregidor's traces broke '
d it was necessary to cut him away j
>m the gun. The absence of his
ite didn't bother Putnam and he j
t the gun up the hill alone and ar- ! ,
ed there in time for th-? cannon i
pulled to open the firing. j :
Putnam found his way back to the
mds in due time and did his work
a wheeler up to two years ago, i <
ien he got too weak to stand hard j
vice. A few months ago Colonel j
T. Brown, of the Fifth Cavalary, i
juested that Putnam be put on the j :
ired list and be turned out on all j
.te occasions and permitted to i ?
.rch behind his old battery. The !
:ommendation was approved.
From that time Putnam had a '<
)om, extra bedding and a padded |
ic stall. The old veteran's health j i
Izarl r?r? v Q r?H V?a H I or? hofnro (JnV I
:asion arose for him to march in j
te behind his battery.?New York , '
Q.
Africa's Forest. i
fn the heart of equatorial Africa a
?t and dense forest has been found
it would cover solidily the entire
.te of California. It furnishes a
nderful field for research to natursts.
So dense is the foliage and so
merous the creeping vines that they
lost choke the tall monarchs of
es. The animal life is varied. The
;hest grades of animals exist side j
side with the pygmies, or lowest |
:des of men. Sweetest songbirds
the companions of elephants and <
affes, while the tangled wilds are 1
=d with all sorts of venomous ser- 1
its and reptiles. It is said that the 1
gest pythons ever seen by hunters i 1
re been noticed in this territory.? I '
roit News-Tribune.
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Russia Leather Repels Moth,
rhe peculiar and agreeable odor of
ssia leather is derived from the
ch bark used In tanning it. This I >
)r repels moths and other insects I
i makes it invaluable for book- :
ding, as a few books bound in !
ssia leather in a library will prot
the remainder from insect atks.?Philadelphia
Inquirer.
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California judge gave a man :
ht years in the penitentiary for 1
aling eight cents. " 1
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STARTING A PROG FARM.
Set Government Pamphlet and Put
Up a Fence to Keep Snakes Out.
A gentleman of this city has recently
received pamphlets from the
Department of Agriculture on the
raising of the large food bullfrog. It'
is the purpose of the gentleman; j'V
shortly to start the culture of the
frog on quite an expensive plan. It
is also the intention of the gentleman
to get a large collection of the
best bullfrogs he can find and put
them in a large marsh that is located
near his place in Santa Rosa County,
fencing the mash in such a manner
that snakes cannot get into it. It is
thought by the gentleman that ha
can thus raise a large number of
healthy bullfrogs for the market and
make a good profit out of the business.
"I have been living in Escambia
and Santa Rosa Counties for the last
ten years," he said, "and have noticed
tie plenitude of bullfrogs that are in
the fresh water bodies in both coun
ties. The frogs grow to monstroud
size and seem to thrive in this section
of the country. I think that a
large and better grade of frog can be
raised with proper care and I think
that the raising of the frog will makd
a comfortable livLng for the man whci
engages in the business.
"I wrote to the Department of Agriculture
some months ago Inquiring
as to the method of raising the frog,
and have received a pamphlet giving
me full directions. My intention is
to fence in the marsh that is on my,
place and keep it as clean as possible,
so that the frogs will be healthy
at all times. I shall\have the enclosure
large enough to accommodate
a large number of the croakers.
"I believe that there is an ample
market for them in Pensacola, as al]
of the restaurants and hotels buy,
them whenever they can. The reason
for the great scarcity of frogs at the
present time is not tfiat they are'
scarce, but .that they are aomewhat
/ill II f/\ /tfi+ztVi
uim^uiu t\j uaiwu. . gq
"I am a firm believer in the work
and shall set out with an eye to succeed.
It seems to me that all a man
has to have 1s a mud puddle in hi*
back yard and put some frogs in it,
put a fence around It and feed the ,
frogs. The climate is natural to " -!
them and they will thrive in spite ol
all efforts to exterminate them. With
a little attention a large, high grade
of frog can be rained."?From the jj:)
Pensacola (Fla.) News. . Influence
of the Mind.
The power of the mind over the
body, as demonstrated in all forms of
faith healing, was recognized in the v
seventeenth century by Richelieu's
physiclau, Citois. Summoned to attend
his master's constant fits of depression.
Cifois would call solemnly for
a sheet of paper on which to write
a prescription; and almost invariably
after his departure the prescrip- tion
would prove to consist of tho ^
words: "One dram of Boisrobert."
Boisrobert being a poet of small tal- |
ent, but possessed of high spirits and
wit. In those days, when the common
remedy was bleeding, when it is! '
known that Voltaire, the poet, was . , -wSj
bled to death, and the Princess Conti,
suffering from apoplexy, was beaten
till she died in the hope of rousing
her from her lethargy, it is no wonder
that a humane and a human physician
like Cltois should have been
successful. I
The famous frequenter of tbe .
French salons, Fontenelle Is, however,
the best example of the power
of the spirit in retaining life. At the
age of ninety-five he fell when picking
up a lady's handkerchief and -.}t
made the historic remark?"Ah, que
je na'i pas encore mes quatre-vingts
ans." A certain callousness marked
his determination not to die, as on
the occasion when, a friend dying , -- >
beside him at the table, he requested
his man to remove him and continued
his conversation. He managed,
nevertheless, to survive to within a'
month of his hundred years, and1
then complained that he would have
lasted much longer had not the outbreak
of war "put a stop to pleasant '/<
conversation."?London Chronicle.
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Reward of Honesty. s
He was a conscientious office boy,
and he had always been taught to \
emulate the great George Washington
and never tell a falsehood.
"Boss," said he, timidly, as the
noon hour approached, "I want to get
off this afternoon." . . '.
"Oh, you do, eh?" said the old broker,
peering over his glasses.
"Yes, sir, and I haven't any grandmothers.
" \
"Well, you are an exception, indeed."
"And I'm not sick."
"Extraordinary; very extraordinary.
"
"In fact, sir, I want to get off to go
md see the ball game."
The old broker's face brightened.
"Well, Willie, I must say that you
ire the most honest boy I ever met." ?
"Thank you, sir." '
"Yes, and come to think of it, I
vant to see that game myself. I was
ifraid to leave the office at first, but
low that I see you are such an honest
joy I know my business couldn't be;
n safer hands. It will take some:
:ime for me to get back, so you will>
stay an hour or so later. So long,
kVillie; there is nothing like being
lonest. When I come back I'll tell
*ou the score."?Chicago News.
Worse1 Than the Honk, Honk.
The "honk, honk" of the homicidal
luto is an insult preliminary to injury.
It serves to attract the atten- . \
:ion of the victim to the method by
which he is about to be eliminated
'rom the human scheme, or it makes
iim jump for the divertisement of
.he joyous rider. However, com~
*"Y\n non' nnfeo mor?hinA
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ittached to some modern autos, a
:ontrivance productive of clamor,
combining diabolical screech with
lemoniac whistle, the blatant and offensive
"honk, honk" is almost
;oothing.?Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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Kansas Sweets.
When a young and pretty girl apoears
in a white dress and a blue'
sash on a summer evening, a man.
'eels like taking a spoon and eating;
ler.?Atchison Globe,