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HOW LINCOLN MiCHT WOT HAVE
BECOME PRESIDENT.
Reminiscences Called Out by theSisrht of i
an Unmarked Cravo-What Might Have
Happened if a Boy Had Been Paid by a
Lawyer.
Hard by a seldom-traveled road iu
^-??'tne state ^ir?ch gav? to this country j
j - its most ^remarkable President is an!
unmarked grartr- "Not rong-tfgo~aj
traveler passed over thi> road in a
family carryall of other days and the
driver pointed out the neglected spot
According to the driver, several stones
have marked this grave. Each has
been knocked down and broken to
pieces, but no one ever tried to dis
cover by whom. "A tree stood near
by once," said*' the man who jerked
the weather-beaten reins which guid
ed the animal hitched to the rig, "and
it was hit three times by lightning.
..The last time the tree fell, and, as it
was deader than a mackerel, it caught
fire and burned to ashes right-on the
grave. Then a big wind scattered the
ashes."
Nearly a mile had been made before
the driver again spoke. The interlude
was broken as if there had been no
stop.
"Maybe he mightn't have been Pres
ident, but the man who came after
him was. Get up! Funny, what a
. little thing in a man's life settles his
hash."
Then followed the remainder of the
story, as it follows here:
"He stood mighty well in thc minds
of the people when he started out.
Everything seemed fixed for him to go
right ahead. There was a lot of boy
babies named for him before he ever
run for office. When he used to ride
over this road everybody he met
knowed him and knowed everybody
so well that he called them by their
first name.
"One day he was in town and met a
young farmer lad. and he says to him,
calling him by his nickname: 'If you
want to make four bits as easy as
falling off a Jog yon go to my barn,
clean it out, and curry and saddle my
horse and fetch him in.'
"There was a circus coming to town
the next day and the lad jumped at
the job. It was a purty hot day. The
lad worked on his job until he looked,
when he got through, as if he had been
doused in the creek. When he rode
the horse to town the owner didn't
know the animal, he looked so sleek
and that fine. The owner made a
mount, and turning to the lad, he says
'Much obliged,' and rode off, leaving)
the lad by the stile-block, for every
body to laugh at.
"Tie lad got to be a man and had
become a storekeeper in the town
where he had got the mit from the
lawyer. Every farmer in this part of
the country had bought goods from
the merchant, mostly on credit. He
had helped thpm sell their corn and
oats, and when the women folks went
to town to trade the merchant always
gave their children a stick of candy or
a lump of sugar.
'"Bout this time there was an elec
tion. The lawyer had got it into his
head that he would begin his political
career by being elected judge. One
of his backers was a man who became
President of the Un5*ed States.
"The young merchant had kept his
mouth shut all these years, but when
the lawyer began to run for judge the
young merchant hired an extra clerk
in his place and went out into the
country. There wasn't a farmhouse
where he didn't stay all night, and
when he left in the morning the law
yer lad lost as many votes as the
house had. Purty soon it got noised
abroad what the merchant was doing,
and then the man got to be President
of the United States went to the young
man and asked him what he meant by
legging against his candidate.
' "The young merchant told him how
the lawyer ?ad beat him out of four
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bits and thereby caused h'm to lose a
chance of seeing the circus.
"The man saw that the young mer
chant was terribly in earnest and
! went and told thc candidate. A half
a dozen of the candidate's friends call
ed on the young merchant and tried to
patch things up, but h^ wouldn't have
it. To maK it no longer, when the
election was over the lawyer didn't
know he had been running.
"Twict after this the lawyer came
j up again for office, and the four-bit
'(story went the round again, just as if
it had boen new,_an?
lawyer got laid out.
"Then the leaders says, 'It's- no use.
He'll never do,' and then they took up
the man who bad done so i2'-ch for the
lawyer, and he was elected to Con
gress, and finally he got to be Presi
dent of the United States.
"The lawyer quit practice 'cause the
four-bit story clung to him like a tick
on a country hog, and then he took to
drinking, and that was his grave that
I we passed back yonder. There's a
heap of difference 'tween his grave
and Abe Lincoln's down at Spring
field."
At the mention of Lincoln's name I
looked at my driver, but he seemed
to be wholly unconscious of having
told a singular story. On inquiry in
the little town which was the end of
the journey two old men corroborated
the driver's tale. One added, "That
lawyer had the start of Abc Lincoln,
but he lost his gait."-Chicago Tri
bune.
The Survival of Toads in Rocks
Some experiments were recently
made in England to test the belief that
toads can live for long periods In rocks
without air or food. The Kev. W..
Buckland took a large Hock of coarse
oolitic limestone and prepared twelve
circular cells in it, each about one foot
deep and five inches in diameter. A
groove or shoulder was cut at its up
I per margin so as to receive a circular
! plate of glass and a circular piece of
slate was in turn to protect the glass.
He then prepared twelve smaller cells
each six inches deep and five inches
in diameter in a large block of sillci
ous sandstone, these cells also being
covered with glass and slate and luted
around with soft clay. The object of
the glass cover was, of course, to per
mit of the toads beir.g seen without
having to remove the lids. One live
toad was placed in each cell and the
covers cemented on. The weight of
the toads was ascertained before seal
ing up the cells. Both stones were
buried under three feet of earth for
thirteen months. .. the toads in
the sandstone cells were found to be
dead and their bodies were decom
posed, showing that they had been
dead for a long period. The majority
of the large toads in the block of lime
stone were alive, sa j's the Engineering
and Mining Journal, and in every in
stance the glass covers were cracked.
The toads were weighed, and it was
found that they had decreased iii
weight. The conclusions drawn by
the naturalists were that the toads can
not live a year totally excluded from
air, and cannot live two years if totally
deprived of food.
Luck of a Brakeman.
Oil strikes in California are making
poor men millionaires as in the old
days in Pennsylvania. One of the
strangest of these freaks of fortune
came to John A. Bunting, a former
freight brakeman on the Southern
PzMfic, who has just ordered a $30,
0t$ private car of the Pullman Com
pany.
Bunting began ten years ago ns keep
er of a railroad water tank on the
desert near Tucson, Ariz. He Anally
reached the position of freight brake
man. He loaued a friend $170 and took
as collateral a watch and a mortgage
on 40 acres of land in Kern County.
His friend did not pay, and Bunt
ing sold the watch and foreclosed on
the land. He tried to sell the land,
but could not get anything for it. Re
cently oil was struck near his place.
He resigne' and began to develop his
property. He struck oil and now ls
rated as a millionaire.
? IMG THE M?
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7 EAYMONI
su.
for a nu.
begin with, ic
feet than any evei
this stream. It was ?
time, too, for the snow w?..
a rush after the ice had gone oui.
sequently the creek was brimming, anu
on this flood tide came the logs by the
tens of thousands.
To roll stranded logs from the banks
and to break the jams, there was ' a
gang of more than 60 strong, daring
men. They rode the torrent and fell
in a dozen times a week, but at last
they learned caution.
Bill Kennedy rode a log into Has
kell's rifts before he knew It one day.
A mlle of white water full of rocks
was before him. Kennedy lost his
courage, the more completely because
his courage had never before failed
him. He uttered a wild cry.
Dan Cunningham saw his peril, and
jumping to a passing log. pushed out
to the rescue. It was a wild race, but
the approach of help steadied Kennedy
and enabled him to keep his balance.
Cunningham, guiding his log into the
swiftest current overtook the helpless
raftsman, and with his pike pole
steered both logs for shore.
There was an eddy just, a little way
below, and Cunningham, with all his
might, shoved Kennedy into it. But
that thrust pushed his own far out,
rolling and rocking. Kennedy was
ashore in a moment, but before Cun
ningham could recover his balance
the log he rode hit a rock; one end
flew up, and the rescuer was thrown
20 feet into the air. He came down
head first on a froth covered rock and
dlsa. peared. It was dark before tho
body was recovered. After that the
men took the long way round, even at
dinner time.
No man is a raftsman "Unless he can
ride a log. So in a lumbering country
every riverside boy of ambition learns
the knack on creek still waters. It is
a good thing to know how to do. It
means a good job when one grows up,
and may be the saving of a life be
sides.
Among the rest of the boys at Wil
murt, Will Conway, 16 years old that
spring, was renowned. He knew the
creek, the places where the deer
crossed it. the brooks that the mink
followed and the pools the trout lurked
in. But he wasn't satisfied with the
money he earned selling trout and
trapping mink. He wanted to mat?
daily wages l?;e a maa So he wen
to George Koch, the. boss-driver, ami
ask'Fu' tb'-'^"!^
told the lad he wasn't big enough ye*
to handle a cant-hook. ,
It was a heavy ' disappointment to 1
Will. It hurt his pride; besides, the
family needed the money. But as ar
gument was of no avail, Will was a
mere spectator on the bank just above
Mad Tom's gorge when the driving
crew arrived there on a Saturday
morning.
That was the best place on the creek
to see the drive. A big boulder had
come out of the deep water above the
gorge and lodged there in midstream
at the brink of the tumult, its broad,
ugly head two feet above the surface
level. Against it logs were hanging
every minute, making the worst jam of
the season. It was already 200 yards
long.
The mere fact that it was a big jam
was something, but that was not all.
Whoever broke this jam must surely
go through the gorge-a third of a mile
of the wildest plunging water, where
the flood piles up first against one
rock ledge, then against the other, and
finally glides into the foaming tumble
at the head of Mad Tom's pool, in
which men have disappeared.
Haskell's rift, broad, open and com
paratively shallow, had cost Cunning
ham his life. Here was water tenfold
worse. At sight of the jam above it
the men hesitated and shook their
L.-iads. They ate their lunch of cheese,
bread, canned beef and coffee. Some
hoped the water would rise and lift the
jam over the boulder; they pointed out
that the stream was just then rising
a bit, for it was higher in the centre
than at the sides. At any rate, a little
delay would do no harm.
At the head of the jam the water
sucked and boiled, with little whirl
pools diving into one another. On both
sides lt raced, wide, black and smooth,
gurgling along the edges as it drew
bits of ice and sticks under the ends
of logs. Where the water was divid
ed and its bed narrowed, the current
ran swifter and swifter till, at the en
trance of the gorge, the water was
lined and the foam stretched out, and
even the bubbles were oblong, slanted
back by the wind, or whisked off the
surface into shining, evanescent
threads. Under such conditions-with
the water sucking and boiling-no man
in the crew volunteered to go to the
jam. ?sa matter of business, the boss
offered $25 to the one who would try.
There never was a log jam that river
drivers wouldn't break sooner or later,
no matter how high or rough the wa
ter, but in this case the mee wanted
time to think. An that was a boys
opportunity.
Will Conway's father had been a
noted jam breaker, and men of the
crew who knew the boy relieved their
uneasy feelings by joking with him a
bit
"Why, Billy," they said, "your dad
would have been out there hours ago
if he were here. He wa'n't afraid of
the gorge. Huh, I should say not!
I seen him the time he went through
it^the only one as ever did it alive, I
reckon, though some say they have.
Them days they used to break jams
with a cant-hook and ax, 'stead of
dynamite. There was a jam just like
tills one. You'd ought to have seen it,
the way he rode the first log, stiddy as
a wagon, and he saved his ax, too.
Pity ther' ain't no such men alive now
adays."
To this bantering narrative Wi M lis
tened without undue gravity, bu <"ter
a while, unobserved by any oi he
opened the cheese box in which e
the dynamite and fuse used by
floaters to blast'jams and dangei
rocka. He put four sticks of the st
? MD TOM'S GORGE.
) a SPEXE3. '2:;
'Mo his hip pockets, and a length of;
< 'nto his blouse.
- went up the creek round?
^ouse and took a small)
. . .Irv matches. TheJ
: *?d. used was
tha" s ;. ,. ( ...
his way u.
dodging or fenu. . i-.-g '
watched the current . to
an unexpected drift did mi
out of his course; he stood .
knees slightly bent and his head in
ward, and the quarter-inch spikes in .
the sole of his shoes gripped the log' j
till it splintered.
Ahead of him was the jam with logs
hitting lt every minute'. Some of then
dived out of sight instantly. Othen
slued round sidewise and climbed the
back of the jam. The whole head of |
the jam was rolling, twisting and heav
ing; there could hardly be a more dan
gerous place for a man's legs.
To misa these rolling logs and yet
find a laodlng was Will's hope. To go
too fpr down would be to risk the pltcli
into the gorge and the probability of
being carried past the jam. But as h?
plunged into a drift of logs and was
unable to steer out of it in time, he |
had to take his chances as they came. ?'
There wasn't really any great choice'
in the matter. It would be a leap for
life, anyhow, wherever the log struck,
and it might as well be a big leap as
a little one.
Will was within 100 feet of the jam
before any one saw him. Then a small
boy shouted, "There's Will Conway on
a Jogi"
A hundred men, and as many women,
and childron, looked in time to see Will
poise himself for the leap as his log
approached the jam. Instead of hold
ing the pole for a mere balance as ha
harl been doing, he turned it parallel
to his log and stooped for a vaulting
jump.
Log after log struck, each with a
heavy, musical thump-a half dozen
of them. Suddenly Will crouched,
dropped his left shoulder, struck the
iron pole point home in a log, and
then sprang forward and up-up, while
the log he had just left plunged down
into the vortex.
. .-and r??
vex/
some of tho logs iaiuj _,
others were piled crosswise and length
wise. A big one, its back splintered
almost broken-was evidently the key.
As it lay broadside to the current, the
water poured over it six inches deep
at one end.
The other logs were thrust over and
under it, and were lodged against the
boulder. Just below the key log, in
the water beside tne boulder, was the
place for the dynamite, so Will decid
ed after the examination. Then he
went to work.
While the crowd on shore looked on,
wondering what he wouid do next, not
knowing that he had dynamite, Will
moved his pike along the jam, and
found a straight spruce sapling, eight
feet long and bare of bark, which some
lumberman up at the log dump had
used as a handspike.
He carried this to the key log, and
kneeling down, tied the. dynamite
sticks, one by one to his sapling, lash
ing them fast with a stout striug, as he
had seen th? ~ rr>,a" v>?> fastened
the fuso ai
steadying it
a few mlnu
onlookers,
logs again,
put the chai
Boss Koch z
"The coolesl
At la?t thc i ._CVwu nome,
the dynamite was three feet under wa
ter and the end of the fuse was nearly '
a foot above the surface. Then Will
stood up and looked into the gorge be
low.
He knew how the water ran there,
for he had lived within a mile of It all
his life. The story of his father's ride
was not a new one; indeed, his father
had pointed out to him the black
streak or navigable water he had fol
lowed on that memorable drive Of
years ago.
Will could see the streak for a short
distance along the right bank of tho
gorge. To th? left the logs that missed
the jam were lifting their noses
against the ledge and tumbling over
backward. " ?
Will pulled his belt a hole tighter,
and drew his trouser legs out of his
stocking tops; if he had to swim there
wouldn't be bags of water on each leg
drawing him under. He glanced back
and saw where the pike pole was. Then
he took a match from the bottle and
struck it on a blt of dry log. The
flame sputtered into the fuse, and Will,
grasping his pike, ran for the head
of the jam, where the logs were thump
ing and rolling.
In the days when jams were broken
with cant-hooks and axes, the floaters
always tried to keep ahead of the rush
of logs lest they be crushed among
them; but in these days of high ex
plosives one must take one's chances
at the other end; and this is not the
safest place, when all the logs are
moving and grinding together.
The fifse was long and burned slow
ly. Will was at the head of the jam
long before the explosion came. He
waited with the pike-poie balancing.
The onlookers stood on tiptoe. The
roar in the gorge was not quieting to
any one's nerves, but at last a dozen
logs were lifted into the air, splin
tered and broken, and the boulder dis
appeared in smoko and spray.
There was not so much noise as one
might think; just a sound that travT
eled low down, but a long distance.
A 50-foot dome of gray spray, speck
led with large black sticks and yellow
splinters 10 feet long, flashed up, and
then Will Conway poised for a life and
death struggle.
''"The jam quivered from end to end.
itt-broke to pieces in great masses.
jS?me logs came jutting up out of the
-black water; hundreds plunged in with
^mighty splashing. All were tossed and
pitched.
In a moment Will was stepping and
"jumping from log to log, running to
ifward the gorge. Once he fell, and the
*crqwd gasped; but agile of body and
cool of mind, he sprang to his feet
feet again with only a shoe wet.
As he whisked into the gorge, one
,yoice alone was raised. Boss Koch
shouted, "Good boy! Keep your
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. v ? hand in reply, and was
"** sig tit.
-ny one hZ'l
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&K??- . . . i ?ir* .*"- -.y.r
it fin
were dresbv^
ors, blue, rea,
blouse waists, and "D-*^
of all shade and hues. Oi?^. -
sun shone with extraordinary eftt*.^
they strung out along the road, the
best runners leading and the womeu
bringing up the rear, all headed for
Mad Tom's pool, whero the gorge end
ed.
Down the gorge, below the first tusn,
the right bank is worn out and hangs
far over the quick water. The turn
is a gradual one, and the log:, once
clear of the lifting wave above, swing
round to the left again, end on, and
along the side of a huge molasses like
roll.
On the opposite side is a fierce eddy,
in which logs dance on end and are
split in two by the crush. The rocks
on either side are hung with moss wet
by a cold, thick spray, dashed up by
the wind. Here Will found himself
drawing toward the grinding mass in
the eddy.
He was too far to the left. Quick as
thought he jumped to a swifter log
higher up the Toll, then to one beyond,
and on to a third, clear of the eddy by
a yard.
No time to think of it, though, for
ahead was business quite as dangerous
-perhaps the worst of all.
The gorge narrows below the second
turn, and the water, crowded Into it,
foams so high on both sides as almost
to curl over. Down the centre runs the
black streak. Will got into that, and
the white water was higher than his
head on each side. He shot forward
with increasing speed. He saw one log
iixi--. . . .- - -
...--s" iay aown the cen
tre.
Once more Will saw that he Was off
his course, headed too much for the
waves. Among them he could do noth
ing; he would be tossed as from a cat
apult
He jumped again. The log dived,
and he had to go to one beyond. For a
moment he hung, almost toppling, but
he got his balance again, none too
soon.
Ten seconds of awful roar followed.
His pike-pole, which he held as a rope
walker holde his balancing pole, was
in the foam at both ends. Up and
down on short, solid three-foot waves
went his log, and through some soft,
foamy ones.
A water-soaked log came lurching at
him, but fell short Another plunged
across, just ahead of him. It seemed
as if 'the whole jam was there, waiting
for him.
The next instant the tumble of wa
ter was left behind. The current be
came broad and leveL-y^r-g'gg/cing was
'..ver for a while. 7\,?v/?-roliafter a
? ~-!ng, ceaseo t*?w??^r inging,
a with rigid dignity. Will
ed himself to shore and
. e road with his pike over
beating the spray drops
i cap.
; by u whooping crowd o?
;, crying women and screaming
boys, who all talked at once.
A few minutes later the drivers hur
ried away down siream, and Will ac
companied them. He was to have a
man's wages for handling the dyna
mite at jams too big for cant-hook
work.
Of course, somebody went back to
tell Will's mother what had become of
him; in fact, they've been telling her
ever since, greatly to her satisfaction,
-Youth's Companion.
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New Zealnnd Now Copie* California.
Very remunerative is ostrich farm
ing, which for a considerable time fol
lowed in California, has now been in
troduced into New Zealand. Five hun
dred of the birds are now on the farm
of the Messrs. Nathan at Whitford
Park, a short distance from Auckland.
All the steps in the industry, from the
nesting of the birds to the dressing,
dyeing and mounting of the plumes,
are carried on at this establishment
Th'e manager states that an adult
.bird requires about the same amount
of attention as a sheep, and that the
ostrich consumes about twice the quan
tity of grass needed by a sheep. The
birds become dividend paying invest
ments when about 10 months old, after
-which they are clipped every eight
months. The feathers clipped are
worth from $3.75 to $6.20 per pound,
the after dressing increasing the value
enormously.
.The male and female birds manage
the incubation of the eggs between
them, taking four hour watches each.
To his share of this duty the male os
trich adds the labor of turning the
eggs. The chicks are hand fed, as with
those of the ordinary farra yard fowl,
and are reared without serious loss.
I _
Cn nae for VTar.
A citizen walking past a butcher
shop in a Kansas town saw the butcher
and "a customer rolling over the saw
dust floor in a lively rough and tumble
fashion. He pried them apart and then
learned that the customer had come to
buy some dog meat. The butcher non
chalantly asked: "Do you wish to eat
it here or shall I wrap lt up?"
tMOVEbPR?dEET TO S
I TEAEH IMPROVED METHOS |
S OF ROAD
THE Illinois Central Rar0ad
Company and the Nabnal
Good Roads Association ave
completed arrangements for
running n "Good Roads Train"ue
tween Chicago arid New Orleans'or
thc purpose of constructing samle
roads, as object lessons, at convenint
commercial centres. The office of pb
Hc road inquiries, under the Sees
tary of Agriculture, is co-operatig
with the National Good Roads Ass
'elation by furnishing two road e
perts, to instruct the farmers, road o,
flcJnls.~"aih3 people of States in th?
~?r. improved" >."thods of road con
'Hie great mamfycturers of1
'n the country^-ail^
aud com-1
potent men to operate the same,
which will show the necessity and
economy of utilizing road machinery
in constructing dirt, gravel and maca
dam roads.
This Is the first attempt of any great
railway corporation to spend time and
money In assisting and stimulating
farming communities to improve the
GOOD ROADS TBAIN'S FBACTICAL WOBK.
common roads. The officials of rail
road companies occupy the same posi
tion as managers of any private or
corporate interest, for they must give
an account of all expenses and results
to the stockholders. There should be
a commonality of interest existing be
tween all railroads and agricultural,
mining, manufacturing and commer
cial pursuits. The Illinois Central
Railway passes through the great
agricultural and mining States of the
Mississippi Valley. These States, ow
ing to the great rainfall and rich allu
vial soil, have to contend with almost
Impassable mud roads nearly five
months of the year. It ls, therefore,
a question of policy and commercial
balance to encourage a betterment of
the common roads.
The train will begin road building
at or near New Orleans, working north
as the weather will permit. It will
have a Pullman car, with commissary
to accommodate two Government en
gineers, or road experts, the President*
of the National Good Roads Associa
tion, six competent men for operating
the machinery, and six laborers. At
each place selected to build a piece of
the road the officials, commercial or
ganizations and farmers will furnish
all necessary material. Special at
tention will be given to educating the
people In making the best dirt roads,
as many of the Southern States are
not blessed with stone or gravel for
these purposes. These roads in most
cases will begin at the railroad stations
and lead out into the country.
Fifteen places have been selected
at which roads will be built. W. H.
Moore, President of the National Good
Roads Association, will arrange
places and dates of conventions. Lead
ing railroad officials, Governors, Sena
tors and Congressmen will be invited
to speak on convention days. The
project promises to be an industrial
movement of far-reaching importance.
There are 8 submarine cables of over
2,000 miles in length.
FISHING FOR SHRI
Everybody has heard of beggars o
seen them down in Mexico and Central
but there Is only one place in the wori
ployed in fishing. This illustration sh
near the town ol' Newport. The lishe
ready for their excursion iuto the sea
er-bcateu fishermen starts from shore
j trained and docile horse dragging tl:
.scoops In the shrimp as it passes over
back frequently make hauls of several
are considered the aristocracy of the
latlon to their fellow toilers that cava
hi?ese Windmills Surprise Our Soldier?
T^hen our soldiers arrived at Taku
hey wondered at the immense number
f strange windmills all along the sea
hore. From time immemorial such
rindmills have been employed by the
Chinese to pump sea water up into
higher basins, where wind and sun
evaporate the fluid, leaving the salt
Such salt contains a great deal of
hitter salt, which gives it a very dis
agreeable taste; but il appears to sat
isfy thc Chinese. From Taku it is
carried, in blocks resembling ioa!*es--oi^
bread, to Tlen-Tsin, whence it is
scattered all over the country.
Tallow vave.
Near North Dorset, Vt, Is a cave
which presents a remarkable mineral
ogical phenomenon, from which it de
? ber, however, the walls, roof and floor
are found to be much softer, having
almost a putty-like consistency that
can easily be cut out in pieces with a
penknife. As described in an article
In the Journal of the Franklin Insti
tute, this material on analysis proves
to be carbonate of lime. The only ex
planation that has been offered to ac
count for the peculiar formation is that
it is a carbonate of lime so thoroughly
saturated with water that it cannot
harden into stalactites. Neither these
nor stalagmites are found in the cave.
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VIEW OF THE LARGEST PK
There are records of three similar
caves in Switzerland, and the Swiss
peasants have given the peculiar sub
stance the curiou' name of "moon
milk."
Mushrooms and Ants.
There is a species of ants that live
on mushrooms, grown and cultivated
by themselves. They cut leaves into
pieces and carry them down to their
cells under ground. There they re
duce the Jcaf bits to a pulp and pile it
in a heap, in which the seeds, of a cer
tain kind of fungus find lodgment. In
the course of time little musbrnoniy
swellings break out of the mass, and
on these the ants live as food.
MP ON HORSEBACK.
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in horseback, and a few travelers have
I America, where horseflesh is cheap,
1 d' lt ls believed, where the horse is em
I ows a scene on the coast of Belgium.
! mien's horses are attached to the nets
after shrimps. A proresslon of weath
, each man mounted '.pou the back of
ie triangular, purse-shaped net, which
the sands. These fishermen on horse
I hundredweight at a single trip, and
Belgian littoral, holding about the re
l ry bears to infantry in the army. v
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TEN thousand flying pigeons
and 5000 little enes In the
nests present the unique spec
tacle shown in the accom
lanying illustration of the only real
pigeon ranch in the world. It ls lo
fted at Los Angeles, Cal., and from
i small beginning has developed into
i pretentious institution, from which
squabs and grown birds are furnished
tor cafes and family tables all over
California.
The ranch contains about eight acres
and is conducted by J. Y. Johnson,
who lives Among his winged pets.
After running a gauntlet o? fierce. bJiUr
dogs his visitor finds himself inside a
bewildering mass o? life and color
in kaleidoscopic chan??. Add to this
a constant roar of cooing and of myri
. . V *: t3
ad flapping wings and it becomes
^indescribably confusing. There are
|p?geons everywhere; the shed roofs are
crowded - with them; the ground is
covered vith them. They rise in
swarms like^bee*.
like a summer cloud. If you have
ever disturbed a great flock of nesting
?pa birds on some Island rock yon may
ter I.r>peinauv:e nu. .uUu
more .eady sale. The flock is ?ncreat?~?
by hunJreds every day in the year.
At the age of twelve days the squab
is fully grown and feathered, and if it
escapes the market it is soon on the
wing. Each afternoon Johnson and
Iiis son go through the buildings and
take from the nests enough of the
fat squabs to fill orders for the next
day. Early in the morning they are
killed by disjointing their necks,
dressed and delivered. Just now the
season is dull because of the abundant
?EON RANCH IN THE WORLD.
supply of ducks and quail on the mar
ket.
The pigeons are well housed In
three large buildings. In each of the
sheds, running lengthwise and ex
tending from ground to roof, are
tiers of shelves, with narrow passage
ways between. On these shelves,
loosely placed, ar? little square boxes,
turned upside down, with small aper
tures for doors. These are the nest
ing places, and the largest of the
buildings has 2000 inside and 1000
outside. The others have nearly as
many. But the pigeons form nests
and lay eggs everywhere, in the pas
sageways, on the floor and even on
the roofs, or iu any stray nook where
a few straws can be gathered togeth
er. In one of the nests the other day
was found a squab having four legs,
and being in other respects a more
or less perfectly developed and lively
quadruped. Johnson says these freaks
are not rare on his ranch.
In one of the long sheds 1000 oil
cans are utilized as boxes, the sides
and ends being made entirely of them,
laid like bricks in a wall, each with
the open end inward. Through the
centre of the shed runs a double tier
of the same material, facing opposite
ways and extending to the roof. In
these .ns a colony of 3?00 pigeons
are comfortably stowed away.
A remarkable fact in connection
with this place is that the pigeons
rarely leave the ranch, and that lt is
seldom that one of them gets beyond
the high wire fence which sirrounda
three sides of the place. They are
fed assorted grain and screenings, and
the cost of feeding the 15,000 is about
$7 a day.-Chicago-Times Eerald.
. While tue population of Maine In
creased during the pas^/decade only
from GG1.0S6 to 694,460V'or but about
five per cent, the cojit of the State
Government has nearly doubled dur
ing the last eight ?-'ears.
Nearly one-half' of the persons in thia
country die whgn they are children, j