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1^?????? " ENGLAND'S FUTURE K ~ '1 '' - ' <L?TTLE PRINCE EDWARD, OF WA ALONG PA MODERN CHAIN CABLES. Huge Links Made to Hold Giant Ocean Liners. Apropos of the massive chain cables made for the new Cunard liners, Shipping Illustrated gives some interesting facts. In the illustration is shown three or tne nnKS or a nuge caDie maae iu Wales for the Cunard Steamship Company. The iron is 3 % in. diameter at the smallest part of the link. Each lini measures about 22^4 in. in length, and weighs, with the crucible cast steel stud, about 160 pounds. Recently the Cunard Company gave notice that they required come links to be tested to destruction, and three links were cut off the cable as made and sent to Lloyd's Proving House at Netherton. The sarr.de was first tested to the British Admiralty proof strain of 189.8 tons, at which strain each link elongated not quite one-quarter ol an inch. V .o statutory breaking strain of 265.' tons was next applied, and the links were further elongated about three-quarters of an Inch. After this an attempt was made tc test the sample "to destruction," but the full power of the testing machine at 350 tons failed to accomplish this result; indeed, it is understood the ra i , " ~Ji "Sample T inks of a Modern Cable. actual tension applied was over 370 tons. On a careful examination of the links, no sign of fracture or defect of any kind could be found. The .strain applied was about ninety per -cent, above the admiralty proof .-strain. The two main cables for the > new Cunarder consists of two lenghts, - each 165 fathoms, i. e., a total length "Of 330 fathoms, of 1980 feet, in fifHeen-fathom lengths, joined together vhy twenV .wo joining shackles, and with anchor shackles for connecting to the anchors. The weight of the cable is 122 tons. Chain that will stretch instead of snap in a sudden strrin is necessary .for cables. Pish Story Hard to Beat. "Here is a fish story told by a Britfist nobleman: An Irishman nad -caught a big pike. Noting a lump in its stomach, he cut it open. "As I cut it open there was a mighty rush and a Japping of wings, and away flew a wild duck; and when I looked linside, there was a nest with four *eggs, and she had been afther sitting on the nest." Interesting Toy. The simple principle used to spin a top has been applied to a new toy hy a Texas inventor. He calls it the NWhirllgig. As shown here, the frame Ks open on all sides, the top and bob ^nincr onHH r?io^o<8 nf wnnd. Ex* VU1U UClUg ytvvuw v. tending through the centre is a shaft vhich projects quite a distance above the top of the frame. Within the frame, secured to the shaft near the end, is a circular platform, on whict the figures are placed. Suspended ING OUT FOR A WALK. m m] , I .LES. AND HIS TUTOR, STROLLING . LL MALL. from the top of the shaft are cords, the ends of which are attached to a : small bar. The operation is as follows: The cord is wound around the shaft, leaving only sufficient room to press on the bar with two fingers, ' one on each side of the shaft. The pressure starts the shaft in mo* . j .-ip=T| ; I ' ?cs csa : ,nJ_=, 4? I [ Figures Revolve. ! tibn, which revolves the platform. ! The momentum unwinds the balance of the cord and also rewinds it. The bar is again depressed, and the operation continued indefinitely. By an arrangement of the mechanism, the figures always rotate in the same direction. Mirrors to Help the Driver. Drivers who are obliged to run through heavy traffic to any extent find it of considerable advantage to affix a small bit of mirror plate to the right stanchion of the canopy just above the lash, so that the following traffic may be observed without turning the head. Such a device may be very simple and easily contrived, and serves to relieve the driver of considerable anxiety and twisting through closely crowded streets.?Motor Worli. New Idea in Ladders. Ladders are such common, ordinary articles that anybody can build one, there being no secret in their makeup. The disadvantage of the ordinary ladder is that it cannot be used in narrow and crowded places. In manufacturing plants, where machinery is placed together, with projecting arms at every point, it Is impossible to get a ladder into position. For just this purpose a California man cdhstructed the ladder shown in the illustration, and in order that nobody should steal the idea he applied for and was granted a patent. By f ,9 in i n i For Use in Close Quarters. decreasing the size of the steps, making the lower one very small, he has devised a ladder that should prove exceedingly useful in a great many ; instances. High Prices For Fish. , "In these days," said a fish dealer, , "people pay for fish luxuries prices . that they never used to dream of. . The costliest fish in this market now is English sole, which sells for ? sixty cents a pound, but there is a ) demand for it at that price. Striped > bass brings as much as fifty cents a l pound, and kingflsh from forty to I fifty cents."?Detroit News Tribune. i SEEDLESS ORANGES Are Responsible For Millions of California's Wealth. The introduction of the seedless navel orange has revolutionized the orange industry of the United States. It has drawn 13,000 men from other pursuits and transformed vast areas of sunbaked land in California into orange groves. It has been the prime factor in i the growth of a dozen towns of 5000 ! and 10,000 persons in southern California apd has added directly ! more than $43,000,000, and inj directly $60,000,000 more to the taxable wealth of the State. The first seedless orange trees were apparently freaks of nature . and their counterparts have never I been found. Early in the '70's Will liam .Judson, United States consul J -to Bahia, Brazil, heard an account I from natives of a few trees in the swamps on the banks of the Amazon, some sixty miles away. He sent a i native up the river to get some of the fruit and to bring him some of the shoots of the treeWhen the native returned the consul was delighted with the specimens and sent six of the shoots, carefully packed in moss and clay, to the Department of Agriculture at i Washington. The trees did not excite much interest at the department. Two which were planted in the department grounds died for , lack of care and others were forj gotten for months. J The crop of the first years netted sixteen seedless oranges, and those were exhibited all over California. There were about a box of oranges i in the second yield and they were even better than the first crop. The planting of groves of seedless oranges propagated from the buds from the two original trees began in earnest in 1882. The following year the demand for buds from the Tibbet trees were so large that a. dozen buds sold frequently for $5, and some growers paid even as high ?,s $1 apiece for them. Remarkable But True Statement. Hon. Francis S. Hesseltine, of our Boston Bar, sends to Our Dumb Animals the folJowine. written to him by Dr. J. Langdon Sullivan, a prominent physician: "The facts you ask for are as follows: Twenty years ago a gentleman brought to my office a large, very handsome intelligent spaniel dog whose right foreleg was badly broken, the bone being grown out of place. On the master's assurance that the dog would not bite me I set the leg. Drawing the bony fragments into place caused severe unavoidable pain. The animal whimpered, but displayed no ang^r, and allowed the dressing to remain undisturbed until I removed it when firm union had resulted. I saw no more of my canine patient nor of his ? owner for two years. Then (again on a summer's morning) I heard a loud scratching at my office door. I opene<j it and there stood my old spaniel friend, wagging his tall. Beside him stood a'fine black-and-tan with a round French nail driven clear through his right paw. I patted the spaniel, called both dogs in, removed the nail and sent both away happy, trotting side by side as if nothing had happened. I have never seen anything of either since." The Forest Giant. The Gladwin Record gives a splendid view of what it regards as probably the last big log rollway on Cedar River. The long stretch of logs and handsome river scene make a magnificent spectacle, yet it cannot be contemplated without a feeling of sadness in the breast of every old lumberman who will behold in it the passing of what once seemed a serried and unconquerable army of forest giants, capable of holding out, with petty losses, for all time, against civilization and the lumber barons. A scene in camp, with old a * r a i a vi- t Angus xviacaunaiu auu ais nusay ox team at the front, affords an Interesting study. Grizzled Mack, now verging on seventy, but still as hale and hardy as an old buck, has spent fifty-two winters in the lumber woods, and it would not be strange if with his love for the forest it will ] be his dying request to be allowed to stand in the range of the last lumber monarch to be felled on the Cedar River, and in its crash meet a glorious death beneath Its sturdy trunk} , for what would there be left for rugged "Old Mack" worth while living for??Detroit News. Cnr.ous Habits of Foxes. The animals on which the fox usually preys are often left untouched round his home; and it is even asserted that nothing is killed on the side of the hill in which that home is made. In a small patch of nettles within I a few feet of the mouth of the foxes' | earth a partridge placed her nest and 1 brought off her brood. Round this I nettle bed the cubs were constantly to be seen, and in it they played hide and seek. In another case the entrance to an earth was surrounded by five or six rabbit holes the tenants of which were unmolested by their next door neighbors. In a third a litter of cubs was placed in a large pit surrounded by fencing, from which there was no escape arod in which there were a number of rabbits. None of these was attacked by the cub3, though they l would seize a dead rabbit in full of | sight of the person who had shot : and thrown it to them.?Native Notea, SlLFAR tmmkil an J|?foTc^ "VJ ?? Agriculture in Kural Schools. State Superintendent of Public Instruction, F. A. Cotton, is enthusiastic in his efforts to establish a theoretical as well as a practical course in agriculture in our rural schools. In a bulletin just out he outlines the plans for beginning this undertaking. The publication is issued in reference to the work to be taken up this spring. In substance, his scheme is this: In the first three years the pupils will be led gradually to understand and appreciate the value of birds, flowers, plants and animals, through the medium of conversation and written language lessons. The work in the fourth and fifth grades will be a combination of geography and outdoor study, with the purpose of quickening the observative powers of f V? > v\i 1 c* T n + fi'vlVt T'oo r LUv pupiio. JLU 111C OiAlU J cai ) CUV importance of the farmer in the world's economy is dwelt upon. The closer study of seeds and plants, such as farmers grow, will be taken up; also inquiry into the relation of the plants to the soil, and the work of insects and wind fn pollination, etc., will occupy an important part of the time. Experimental work will be introduced as far as possible. In the seventh and eighth grades work#like that of grafting, tree pruning and planting will be in order. A more advanced study of farm crops will here be taken up, and the boys be induced to try cultivation experiments and report results the next year. The work designed for the township high school will be farther advanced, of course, than that in the preceding grades. ? T~r / v Don't Prune! < i Most amateurs worry themselves over,what they consider.the intricate problem of pruning. My advice is simply this: Don't prune! Avoid the annual trimming that ruins so many of our gardens. There are more shrubs ruined by the pruning mania than by any other one cause and the worst part of it all is that the damage is suffered by just those people who would appreciate having a few good shrubs. After the thinning out of surplus specimens the only attention that the shrubbery needs is a thinning out of the old growth to make room for the new season's wood and of course the removal of any dead or dying branches. T? ow omhor fViof ohrnha Hn nnt nooH ViAHtb Uili UVM VA v AAV w AAVVM the attention of the pruner to make them grow; pruning is only meant to make the garden look neater. And remember this golden rule: "Prune after flowering." This means that a late flowering shrub like the hydrangea can be pruned in the spring because the flowers are produced on the growths that it will make in the summer, but It is just as satisfactory to prune it in the winter time. The early flowering shrubs that flower on the growths of the previous season may be pruned in the spring, but not until after they have done flowering. Therefore, spireas, lilacs, deutzias, golden bells, and such like must not' be cut back if you want to have flowers the. same season. They will in all probability require some reduction of the top, but it must be done by reducing the number of the growths, rather than by shortening. ?Leonard Barron, in Garden Magazine. Beginners and Varieties. The beginner in strawberries Jhould consult with. some experienced grower before selecting the variety, as the kinds used in some sections and on certain soils may not be suitable elsewhere. Some varieties will thrive on heavy soils better than on light soil, while others give the best results on sandy soils. Some kinds are very large, but not good in quality. Never sacrifice flavor for size, as flavor is everything in a strawberry. Many growers prefer the varieties that stand shipment to market; hence, for a family supply, the aim should be to select a variety suitable for the soil, and of excellent quality, in preference to size . and firmness. Do not overlook the fact that some varieties are both staminate and pistillate, while others are pistallate only. Should the variety selected be pistillate, every fourth row should be of some variety that is both staminate and pistillate, and which blossoms at the same time as the other, in order that fertilization may result, for if not there will be no fruit. There is no variety which can be said to be the best, as all varieties will excel in some respect and be lacking in other qualities. The prop- ' er method is to procure a variety best adapted to the soil and give good cultivation, with an abundance of plant food, and satisfactory results will usually follow. "Potted" plants are the runners taken from" old strawberry plants that have rooted in small pots sunk in the ground, in convenient places for the purpose. These small pots are soon filled with roots, the plants and balls, of earth being easily turned out without disturbance, and when transplanted continue to grow, almost a full crop of fruit next year being the result. "Potted" plants are largely, in de-{ ?sii mand in the fall season of the year.-* Philadelphia Record. Feeding Chicks. It is quite the thing nowadays to keep dry feed before chickens all the while. Perhaps one of the best arguments in its favor is the opportunity it offers for the weaker or more timid members of the flock to get their share. Usually the "dry feed" is composed of the smaller grains, but eround feed is excellent served in this way, so there is a reasonable varietj'. A Pennsylvania man gives a heap of advice in the following paragraph: "We have tried all the different methods of feeding and have found the most successful is the dry feeding. We don't feed the chicks for from thirty-six to forty-eight hours after hatching, and then feed the dry chick feed, many different grains being mixed together. We feed this the first four weeks steadily. We also keep a box of beef scraps before them at all times after the fifth day. We do not give them water until the third day. By following the above we can almost see our chicks grow. Would also say that we keep the chick feed before our chicks at all times the first few days, so they can eat as often and as much as they want. By this way we find the inactive chicks get more, and in a short time they start off and grow like the Test. As a rule it is the inactive chicks starving to death that runs the death rate up in brooder chicks. In regard to skimmilk I would not advise giving it to chicks under four weeks of1 age. I think after that it can be fed to chicks at an advantage. No doubt there Are other methods which are giving good results for others, but the above has proven to be the best for us $fter +TTTrt?+t7 vo#wj' Mrnprlmentine. After four weeks we vary the feed, dropping the chick feed and feeding cracked corn, whole wheat, oats, etc., feeding a mash (scalded) in morn* ing, containing beef scraps." ' Rational Culture of Corn. ^ In order to grow a good crop of corn, it is ^essential for the soil to be well plowed and thoroughly pulverized. For this work a disc harrow, the spring-tooth and smoothing harrow and a drag or roller make a splendid combination; and that they may be employed to the hest possi-' ble advantage, says Fred O. Sibley, in Eptomist, it is advisable to wait until the ground is In proper condition for tillage. The aim should be to get the soil in thorough and complete tilth before planting. A thorough preliminary cultivation aids in the formation of plant food and by aerating or ventilating the soil, influences the soil temperature as well as, in a measure, controls the ..a Root rtf nil. It supply U L XllUlSlUiC. UVUI, kills out or retards weed growth, which is very important because weeds consume the plant food and to that extent rob crops. By shading the ground^ they also have a smothering tendency and they take large quantities of water from the soil. To keep them back still more and at the same time help the further pulverization of the soil the field, if not made too wet by rains, should be gone over with a smoothing harrow just before the corn plants begin to show through the surface. If the teeth of the harrow are set at the proper slant or angle, sufficiently over not to tear out the corn, this method is really most effective in destroying young weeds. And a week later, or thereabouts, when the corn is two inches above the ground it will pay even to go over the field a second time with the harrow. The soil is thus left fine and mellow, the field clean and active and the corn plants not hurt a particle. This should be followed up by cultivating after every rain to break the crust, for continued cultivation is as much needed to conserve moisture as to kill the weeds. Keep the cultivator away from the corn roots, however, and try to handle the implement so as to leave the surface level and even, not in ridges. If other conditions are equal, such as requisite fertility and a favorable season, a fine growth of stalks and ears should then be obtained. FARM NOTES. Always feed at regular hours. A fat hen is queen on the market. Old hens are not profitable on an egg farm. Plan for plenty of soiling crops. Have an abundance of sweet corn to follow the peas and oats. vr" ft wlfli o iNO pei'SUil W UU IS aucvt^u nivu h cough or consumption should be allowed to care for cows or milk. Every milker should wear a clean overall suit, kept for the purpose. The hands should be washed before milking, and the fingernails cut short and kept clean. We are all of us forgetful, so let me whisper in your ear once more that nobody ever invented a strainer that would take impure matter out of milk. You must keep it out, or it never will be out. 4A The Autumn season la coming more and more to be recognised as a most suitable time for house-paint- - ing. There is no frost deep in the wood ?-:j to make trouble for even the best job of painting, and the general season- ~v J ing of the Summer has put the Wood* :**$m into good condition in every way. The weather, moreover, is more like- ,.>2j ly to be settled for the necessary length of time to allow all the coats to thoroughly dry?a very important precaution. An old and successful painter laid to the writer the other day: "House owners would get more for their money if they would allow their painters to take more time, es- ' / pecially between coats. Instead of . ^ allowine barelv time for the surface to get dry enough not to be 'tacky/ several days (weeks would not bo too much) should be allowed so that ' ^ the coat might set through and - ^ through. It is inconvenient, ot J&sj course, but, if one would suffer this ~ Sc slight inconvenience, it would add. V two or three years to the life of thepaint "All this is assuming, of course, that the paint used is the very best to be had?thef purest of white lead and the purest of linseed oil, un- v mixed with any cheapener. If the cheap mixtures, often known as- .. . 'White Lead' and oil which has been doctored with fish oiX benzine, corn* oil, or other of the adulterants XVj known to the trade, are used, all the y% precautions of the skilled painter are useless to prevent the cracking and .. ' v peeling which make houses unsightly v- :< in a year or so and, therefore, make % painting bills too frequent and costly. "The house owner should have hit j painter bring the .ingredients to the ' M premises separately?white lead of ; Z some well-known, reliable brand and' % linseed oil of equal quality ? and mix the paint just before applying -J it." Painting need not be expensive and '. j-j unsatisfactory if the old painter*# suggestions are followed. . Modes for Motorists. It is suggestive of how swift is the "jS evolution of fashions at the pres^gS^^? time that even in such an exclusive department of clothing as that of. modes for the motor there seems to be fdwavs some change to-record. . . The cni'ef point worthy of note at- jfeS the moment seems to be the generttt!.^^ waning of the popularity of leather.' for coats, the general conclusion being that it is too reminiscent of the ||| . chauffeur. Apart from this, there ft also the question of the way In which it shows the dirt, and, although it is, ^ of course, quite possible to have such a coat cleaned, this is an extensive ' and expensive business. J As a lining, however, leather it '-V^ more to be desired than ever it . and in this capacity it is very much " S used. Under such circumstances K ^^if| possible to employ the most deUcrtfe|||jX tones, and champagne, pale blue, and the palest green are among the shadetk^^P most frequently employed. vMiifa. no.t rsf tho matt X UD VUbUA piM V V* WMW ^ lined is tweed, either self-colored* >33 which perhaps looks smarter, or the mixtures in which green is, the-^JgV dominant color; in fact, there is eveiy 4 sign that this is to" be a green season, . jj ?Philadelphia Record. J TWO VIEWS OP THRIFT. AJJ Rockefeller was delighted with the - '3 thrift of the French. "Beautiful, beautiful," he murmured, then added musingly: "Yet if my countrymen were equally saving '4 where would I be?" . . ./ % So serious was the train of thought started by this reflection that he forgot to tip the waiter.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. : ' \ v>* SO IT DOES.' "You ought to take a trip through ^ one o' them big shoe manufactories ' down East," remarked the old-fash- ^ ioned cobbler. "I've been through one," replied the ';> other. "What d'ye think of all that modern machinery?" "Well, it certainly does beat awl, v' A WINNING START. A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Make* Nerve Force For the Day. J Everything goes wrong if the breakfast lies in yonr stomach like a / j| mud pie. What, you eat does harm /t J if you can't digest it?it turns to poiA bright lady teacher found this to be true, even of an ordiziary light breakfast of eggs and toast She says: "Two years ago I contracted a very annoying form of Indigestion. ;?|| My stomach was in such condition that a simple breakfast of fruit toast ;v?r.r and egg gave me great distress. "I was slow to believe that trouble jSj could come from such a simple diet, I but finally had to give it-up, and SI found a great change upon a cup of hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with /;f? cream, for my morning meal. For more than a year I have held to this M course, and have not suffered except when injudiciously varying my diet. "I have been a teacher for several ^ years and find that my easily digested breakfast means a saving of ner- : f vous force for the entire day. My gain of ten pounds in weight also ^ causes me to want to testify to the \?h value of Grape-Nuts. . "Grape-Nuts holds first rank at * H: our table." ;^3| Name given by Postum Co., Battle \ 3 Creek, Mich. ^ "There's a reason." Read the lit- <&? tie book, "The Road to*Wellville," in ' % pkgs.