The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 07, 1906, Image 4
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SELLS BAD MEAT.
Upton Sinclair Bares New Atrocities
of Beef Trust.
CONDEMNED STOCK
I
Of Five Million Farms Poured Into the
Publfc Maiket for People to Eat
I By the Big Packing Houses
of The Armours and
x" Other Packers.
The Heef Trust Is about to be called
to account for selling diseased and
rotten meats. Upton Sinclair, who
has been Instrumental Id showing up
the methods of the Heef Trust In
"The J ungle,'' a book he wrote, writes
as follows to the New York American:
For decades there has been developing
In Chicago, entirely unrestricted
and unheeded, a system whereby the
public was made to buy and consume
all the diseased and tainted meat that
could be gathered from the live million
farms of this oountry. When I
first went to Packlngtown I found
that the system nad reached a stage
where the public had been educated
to ignorance?not merely as to the
practices that existed, but even to the
laws concerning them.
I wrote a book to tell the truth
about it. The packers tried to bribe
me, and to Intimidate mr; they set
detectives after me, and tried to in
iluence my publishers not to bring out
the book. They filled the press with
lies about me, and even sent to newspapers
to prevent the book's beiug
reviewed. And then the President
read it; and when he began an investigation
they started the story that
he wps investigating me, to get material
to attack me. And for months
they were able to make the country
believe this grotesque yam.
DK1VKN TO STOP "DOCTOKINQ."
And meantime tney were cleaning
up in front of bis commission. 1 got
information from a superintendent at
Armour's as to the precise room in
which they "doctored" Bpolled hams;
but they had stopped "doctoring"
spoiled hams! A night watchman for
uiiu ui me mg niree," wno is gi /ing
me Information, writes as follows:
"They knew just when the two new
pemmissioners were to be out, and
yXtra men were working half the
slight getting ready."
to In the Armour plant I saw with
toy own eyes the doctoring of hams
\t were bo putritied that I could
force myself to remain near them.
\ hams were on a working table,
by l a man with a foot-pump which
not ked on the principle of a gigantic
the edermic needle rilled them with
euro (trtical which killed the odor,
stitut.w skinned h&ms taken from
causetso old that nobody could eat the
the mi Without the skins there is a
Tube, r them. Then the skins were
you luand ground in a big mortar and
perfects head cheese. Not a can of
entireJd or tinned meat that goes out
result.se packing houses Is free from
can bqjal preservation which must eat
restoAnd corrode the lining of the
hearaach.
nine.tkd iiams made of stale iiukf.
JL UO illUIUUl 1U1 |iVJUUCU iiALUQ
infiverified by two former superlnten
sy^nts, Id to take the nubs of mouldy
smoked beef and grind It In great
'hoppers with rlnd trimmings.
^ I know a man who was high up In
the councils of Armour & Co., at the
) time of the Spanish-American War,
and who is well known to President
n \ ft Roosevelt, who says, upon his personal
knowledge, that one chemist got $70 000
for testifying that the process did
not destroy the nutriment In the beef.
/This man said that Armour alone
Upent $1,000,000 getting out of the
'scandal. This company contributed
-- '* 950,000 to the Republican oampalgn
fund in 1896.
While 1 am not prepared to say of
my own observations and knowledge
that such horrible conditions exist In
iT^ew York and other large cities, I
tcfcm morally convinced that they do
^xiBt in a degree only second to those
[lc. Chicago.
[ r i That the Chios go packers arealarmA11
and desperate in their determlna
m(ton to have the Neill-Reynolds re*l.,lc)rt
suppressed is shown by the fact
ylc??t,they sent a man to try and In-2fiuencfc
*Jbis commission, composed of
.Ames B. Reynolds, former seoretary
. wt Mayor Low, and United States
/ ^omissionor of Labor Charles P.
Q / jL. I violate no confidence In say q'
/ ^H|.muoh, for I have it in a let>t
J /fa a man who learned of it
/ ^ Trust representative
) Avf And now that all these tricks have
failed, they put the screws on the
poor cattle raisers and set them to
telegraphing:
Much cause the cattle raiser has to
love the Beef Trust, and to pull its
ohestnuts out of the tire. For years
the packers have been beating down
the price of beef on the hoof, ruining
the industry in whole States. They
?" oaused forty banks to fall in a single
t0 month. It has been their regular
practice to raise prices to Induce big
shipments, and then lower them, and
soocp in all the cattle in sight. And
/it is these same cattlemen who have
Vy often been stuck in Chicago without
^money to get home by freight, who
T' now set to telegraphing the President
in behalf of the condemned meat
>' Industry!
J ust a few facts to show how the
packers treat these cattlemen. Dr.
William K. Jaques, of Cnloago, who
was for two years at the head of the
olty Inspection In that olty, writes me
as follows:
1 Quarantined meat Is that which
has been suspected of disease on the
hoof, hut *fter slaughter has beon
found to be g od. The law provides
that this Is to be sold at auotion. The
chief meat Inspector was employed by
one of the packers to buy this meat
A ring was made and the bids were In
writing and the meat was always obtained
at a small tigure. The chief
meat inspector could ride through the
yards, pick out the finest beef and
quarantine It, and after It was killed
?et It at his own price for the packers.
When It was stated that I would
make these bids open, it was Intlmat
td that I might come into the
,rlDg.'M
"1 suggest that it Is time for the
cattle n en to open their eyes, and not
believe all they read in Reef Trust
telegrams! Let them send on to Chicago
and lf-arn a little about the
Standard Slaughtering Company,
winch kills these quarantined cattle,
and which Is owned by the commission
men, who are supposed to h?
looking out for the Interests of their
patrons, but are in reality Felling them
out?liaving good meat quarantined
and sola to their company at half its
vaiue.
"Newspaper report says that twc
cattle experts called on the President
and told him that everything In Packingtown
was all right. If they did
that, they said what they knew was
false, for there Is not a cattleman In
the United States who does not know
that what I have charged about the
Condemned-Meat Industry Is true.
The President knows It too, for he ha*
the report of his Commissioners.
1 It Is a business that has grown up
with the trust system of large scale
slaughtering and refrigerator car riis
tributton; so that now all the old,
drled-up, diseased and crippled cattle,
which formerly were burled in the
farmer's back lot, are gathered up
and shipped to the nearest trust fao
tory to be converted Into some kind
of food.
"There Is no seorecf at all about
this. You can go there to Packingtown
and see them; you can't go there
and fall to see them, If you know
what a sick cow is, and are honest
enough to admit. It. Among the hun
dreds of letters I have received about
these matters Is one from a farmer in
Minn sota, who writes:
' One day a hog buyer came to my
p'ace and said: 'llave you any sick
hogstosellV 1 answered, 'Yes, nearly
all my hogs are down with the chol
era.' He said: "If thev live till 1
can get them on the cars I will pay
you a good price for them.' Aud so
he did. Some time after this I met
the hog-buyer, and asked him how he 1
came out on the deal. He said: 'Two
of them died on the way to Chioago,
but I came out all riirht.' "
MEAT PRODUCTS A HE POISON.
I wonder If there la any connection
between that story and the one published
in the San Francisco Examluer
of March 23, last, telling how all the
inmates of an orphan asylum in Valhjo
were poisoned by a can of Swift &
Co.'s "Jewel" brand oflard.
Eight years ago the United States
Government made a practical test of
the products of the condemned meat
industry. It took many thousand of
able-bodied men and isolated them lu
Cuba, and forced them to eat packing
house tinned meat. And the death
rale that followed caused a national
scandal. Everybody who is on the
"inside" in Chicago knows that the
Beef Trust spent literally millions of
dollars to hush up the facts, and that
it was the worry incidental to the
process which killed old man P. D.
Armour.
They are making the same kind of
luua louay?some sweaty minions or
pounds of boiled-out meat pulp ki own
as "Canned Roast Beef" goes out from
Armour & Oo.'s alone every year, and
into the tins go the very same disin
feotants and dyes, the same gristle
and tallow and potato fljur, the same
pulverized gullets and oows' udders
and heads and skins of hogs.
A newspaper dispatch says that the
demand for meat Is falling c IT as a result
of my agitatloi, and tnat this is
the reason the stock raising Interests
are sending telegrams. That is true,
and it is the first true statement the
Beef Trust has sent out in its war on
me.
MAKKKTING UNDKK ASSUMED NAMES
Miss Alice Lakey, of tne National
Consumers' League, writes me that,
the oanned meat trade has fallen eff
17 per cent; and one of the assistants
who is now at work In PacklDgtown
states upon the authority of a superintendent
that Armour & Go's, business
has fallen (ft 30 or 40 per oeut
ana tnat tne Dig nrms are do longer
marketing their goods under their
own names, but are sending them out
under false labels.
Naturally Mr. Armour is vexed at
seeing his criminal profits disappear
log, but I do not think that it will
help him to send telegrams to Presl
dent Roosevelt, begging him to suppress
the truth. If Mr. Armour wants
the American people to continue eating
his products, the thing for him to
do is to let them see a complete
threshing out of the charges whioh
have been brought against him, spec
fically and in detail. 1 have publioly
accused Mr. Armour of briber) and
corruption, and with criminal negligence
or worse, In the preparation of
the food of an entire nation; and Mr.
Armour has not sued me, though I
^ave dared him again and again to do
It.
Is It becaasc Mr. Armour's shrewd
detectives have found out the names
of the men who have promised to go
on the stand and back me up in case
it comes to a fight.
Iloayfn tor Old Maid*.
Is there really "no room in heaven |
for an old maid," as a prominent minister
in a Northern city recently declared?
Coming with the seriousness
and solemnity of a pulpit utterance,
the assertion, which might serve as a
passable, though ancient, joke, becomes
grotesque.
Marriage is broadening in its tendencies
and in its elficts disciplining;
but can it entirely reform or change
the nature of either man or woman?
Women certainly do not always stay
single from choice. Singleness is not
always a deliberate sin. As society is
at present, the meetings which result
in marriage are pureiy accidental, and
if the right man does not present himself,
is a woman to be blamed for not
taking one of whom she does rot ap
prove and for whom she does not care?
When we speak slightingly of the "old
maid" we allude not so much to the
fact that she lias passed her youth
without marrying as to thecharacteristicsof
the narrow life, such as timidity,
coldness, loquaciousness or tinickiness
which prevent comradship.
Hut these characteristics also apply to
many men and to many married women.
By nature woman is much better
than man. Angels are likened to
her, that heaven may he brought
down to the level of man's comprehens
on. Thousands of old male s who,
t hrough devOt ion t.O narnnte unni-IH/iA
for others or applicat ion to work, have
permitted opportunities for marriage
to pass them by, are of spotless souls,
whose unselfish lives bring much of
heaven down to earth. Only the wings
are lacking to carry them to Paradise.
The preacher who would shut tnem
out of heaven either knows little alnjut
what heaven is for, or is incapable of
appreciating what qualities fit people
for a home in that blessed place. It is
astonishing what rot is uttered from
the pulpit sometimes.
Uood For Iho Houl.
The Wall Street "News, which is a
reputable financial journal of NewYork,
and which did all it could to
defeat Mr. Bryan in 18%, makes this
candid confession:
"However desirable it was to defeat
the free silver agitation in 18%. did
the end justify the means employed to
accomplish that defeat? It is not too
much to say that the money spent in
18% to prevent the election of Bryan
resulted in political debauchery, suoh
as was never before experienced in tlie
United States, and from which thepol
I itics and ousinessor this country have
not even yet recovered. It is not far
f rom t he fcrut h to sav that the country
| lias suffered more by reason of the political
corruption of the 1896campaign
than it would have suffered from the
triumph of free silver, lamentable as
that would have been, Bryan's triumph
of free silver would have given
t he markets a terrible shock, but Bryan
could not have really done much
harm in a practical way, and the country
would have made a speedy recovery
from the disaster, but it will take
many years to recover from the (. llccts
of the political debaucherv which has
been brought about by the abuse of
millions of dollars in political campaigns."
Those who were in a position to
know say that old Mark Ilanna had a
corruption fund in 1896 of $16,000,000
to defeat the people's choice in the
election of that year, much of which
was contributed by so-called Democrats
of the Grover Cleveland ?triiw
Is it any wonder that the country is
still feeling the elTeets of the debauchery
brought about by the use of such a
corruption fund? An honest open
coi fession, like the one made by the
News, ought to humilate the so-called
Democratic newspapers in the South
who helped Mark llanna with his sixteen
million dollars in corrupt ion money
d? feat the honest and fearless Democrat,
William Jennings Bryan. Chickens
will come home to joost.
(Jor?(l by a null
A dispatch from GreenvUie says
MaJ. John Ferguson, aged 65 years, a
large plantei and a prominent oitlzon
of that section of the state, was gored
to death Thursday by a bull at hit
home near the Pickens court house
Thursday morning. At one time hi
was the leading merchant of that city
Major Ferguson of late years had retired
to the old family homestead,
where ho occupied his declining years
in raising tine stock. The bull which
killed him had been ari especial pet
and he had been aocusL- med to go out
in ine neia to reed lb with h's owe
hands every morniDg. This morning!
tie pursued his usual custom, but
the usually d clle animal was enrag
ed at somofcbing and gored him t<
death before assistanoe could be prooured,
Senatoh Bulkeley, of Connecticut,
who defended his subscriptions from
trust funds tQs the Republican campaign
fund, is president of a life insurance
company and not a tire company
as has been stated. So it was the money
of widows and orphans that this
stand pat Republican stole to help debauch
the voters.
It is just as true today ps it ever
was that the safest and most, honorable
way for a man to secure a competence
is to do it little by little, taking
a life time for the work. The haste
to be rich and make money fast is the
economic curse of America today.
Every man wants to draw a prize in
the business lottery and it is seldom
that he is content with small savings
and safe Investments.
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BREAD SUPERSTITIONS.
Obm ?(111 PhtthII la Rml
Frame*.
There nre some curious superstitions
about buklug bread iu the course of religious
Reasons which seem so easy to
prove fallacious that one hug ililticulty
la understanding why they are still be*
lieved. One would think that some
day a tnlstuko would occur und the
discovery be made that there wus no
force In them. Probably, owing to the
constitution of the believers, the failure
of the expected result would be
ascribed to some supernatural cause
rather than the real one, and the belief
would bo continued. Most of these
superstitions ore found In France, the
greatest bread eating country on the
globe.
For Instance, In upper Brittany
bread baked on Good Friday, It Is do
C la red, becomes black. In Charante It
Is held that he who eats of bread
baked on All Souls' day will become
diseased. The flumes will burst out of
the oven In one's face If bread 1?
baked on the feast of St Nicholas, say
the good people at Aube, so It Is not
done. In Burgundy the people believe
that if bread Is baked iu the course of
Rogation week all bread bakod during
the remainder of the year will turn
moldy. The Inhabitants of the Black
mountains believe the same thing. The
Sicilians refuse to bake on Good Friday,
because they fear that In some
manner they will burn the Saviour.
The beliefs which other Kuroiieans
used to have In early times demonstrate
how Illogical Is all this superstition.
These used to think that bread
baked on Good Friday would not grow
moldy, nnd the hot cross buu was Included
In this belief. Some one lias
shrewdly suggested that the spice preserved
them. A piece of bread baked
on this holy day, perhaps because of
Its holy character, was supposed to
have miraculous powers If preserved.
The house contalulug It would not
catch fire. It was useful for preventing
whooping cough and If fed to cattle
111 of certain diseases would cure
tliem. The natural deduction from nil
tills Is that In one country bread baked
on a ccrtnln day will work 111 and that
baked In another on tho bhiuo day will
work good, which menus that bread
baked on that day Is alxmt the same as
bread baked on any other.?New York
Tribune.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Every mother Is n trained nurse,
wlfli the two unimportant exceptions
of the uniform and tho wages.
Tliere Isn't any greater waste of time
than that spent In worrying because
others are not doing their duty.
A man may think he is Ixiks of Ills
own home, but after his wife lias l>een
sick once or twice he tlnds it Is the
doctor.
There are a great many ways of be
coming unpopular, but 0110 of the
surest Is to rush in where angels fear
to tread.
When a man comes home and nsks
if "mother is home" what lie really
wants to know is if she is in the kitchen
cooking.
If there la whipped cream on any old
thing on the table a girl la apt to think
that the requirements for a "dainty"
luncheon have all been mot?Atchison
Globe.
Fill In p: n Fall nottle.
At n race course the other day a
sharper wagered ?5 he could put more
water Into a black bottle than any person
present. An Individual present at
once filled the bottle with water and
passed It to the sharper, Baying:
"There; I think she's as full as she
can get If you can crowd any more
water into her, mister, go ahead."
Without saying a word tho sharper
corked the bottle tightly. Then he
turned It upside down, and In the
large hollow which Is found at the bottom
of most bottles ho poured about a
gill of water. "I'll trouble you to hand
over tho money," he said to the stakebolder
when he had done the trick.
lie received the stakes and coolly
walked off.?London Mall.
JncknlN nnd Crocodile Eitri,
Jackals and hyenas nre very fond of
crocodile eggs. The former Is the more
successful poacher of the two. Natives
of central Africa say that the
Jackal has sixteen eyes, with one of
which he watches the eggs and with
the fifteen others he looks out for the
crocodile. The hyena, on the other
hand, being very greedy, has all his
eyes on the eggs nnd so often falls a
victim to the watchful crocodile in motionless
hiding. The natives say, too,
that the crocodile sometimes knocks
Its prey off the bank or off the canoe
with Its tall nnd then seizes It with its
wide open Jaws.
According to the Book.
Miles?By the way, old man, do you
believe in dreams? Giles?You bet 1
do! One night about a month ago I
dreamed that on angel appeared at my
bedside nnd said, "Prepare for the
WrtlNt " Uion r1<*a
t? iuvu v4toup|/caicu? iJXllUV
Well? Giles?The very next day onr
cook left, nnd my wife has been doing
the cooking ever since.?Chicago News.
A Iloy'a View.
"Mamma," asked the little boy,
"what does this story mean by talking
about a groat-grandmother? Ain't all
grandmothers great?"
Time la Money.
Those who are five minutes late do
more to upset the order of the world
than all the anarchists. ? Saturday
Evening Tost
Men are so constituted that everybody
undertakes what he sees another
successful in, whether he has aptitude
for It or not?Goethe.
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A SILLY TOY.
Tk? War tka To?(hbniih Wan at Ptrat
Hegarded.
Colonial diaries and letters make It
plain that our unfortunate ancestors
uttered much from Jumping toothaches,
swelled faces and the early loss
or forcible extraction of teeth which at
a later period might have been saved
t* render their owners many years of
further service. No wonder, smce the
care of tire teeth was little understood,
ami that Uttio often but negligently
practiced.
Toothpicks were known: the tootle
brush was not, although rough substitutes
were employed, made of flattened
sticks, spilt and pounded at one end
to a stiff, fibrous fringe. Toothbrushes
when first introduced were regarded
as by no means important accessories
to the toilet, but rather as minor luxuries
and suitable for women only.
The diary of a London merchant
tra<ling to the colonics lias this entry:
"Bought a Toothbrush for my wife,
whch, used together with salte water,
very strong, and a waxshe of Herbs,
she is told will keep her Teethe from
falling out or getting hollowe. The
salte and Ilerlies may well prove
strengthening to her Gummes wch.
are tender, but for tlie brush it seemes
but a silly Toy, hardly like to ware
the worth of Its price and scarce cleauley
save when new. But she must
have It, being a new thing late from
France."
In the famous collection of the letters
of the Verney family, as well, the
toothbrush Is referred to as "an elegant
trifle, now used by the ladies of
Paris."
But when Sally Annis, a colonial
belle, wrote of It to her sister she had,
like the London merchant's wife, good
hopes of Its proving of more than
trifling value. Her seafaring father
had just brought her one, along with
other gifts.
"Besides these, nnd ye smalle
coml>e, lie brt. me n new mouth-brush
made of eyvory," she wrote, "the back
parte lnlayed very pretty with silver:
ami ye brlsslcs long nnd stifTe and sett
very urme: wen ne is assureu will neip
me of my Tooth Akes: well, you will
guess deer Judy I do pray It may."?
Youth's Companion.
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
Melted butter will not make a good
cake.
Veal should be white, dry and close
grained.
The colder eggs are the quicker they
will froth.
To make good pastry the Ingredients
must be ice cold.
Nutmegs should be grated at the
blossom end first
A brush dipped In salt water should
be used In cleaning bamboo furniture.
Good macaroni is of a yellowish tint,
does not break readily in cooking and
swells to two or three times its bulk.
A simple and very efficient disinfectant
to pour down a sink la a small
quantity of charcoal mixed with water.
Warm bread and cake should be cut
with a knife the blade of which has
been heated by standing it in boiling
wuter.
Mica Minlnff.
Mica mining Is one of the greatest
Industries In North Carolina. Mica is
found in all sorts of blocks of various
thicknesses and shapes and can he split
and respllt almost ad Infinitum or until
It becomes the thin, tlexlble wafer of
commerce. The material is by nature
Imbedded or scattered through the feldspar
In masses large or small, close together
or far apart, and Is blasted from J
the rocks by means of dynamite, the
purer veins being found between walls
of slate. From the mines It Is taken to
the shops, where It is split Into thin
sheets, trimmed into regular forms and
made ready for the market, the price
varying with the size and color of the
sheets. The average slz.e Is about
4 by 0, though rare sheets of 24 by 18
Inches ore sometimes found.
Nnpoleon'n Bail Handwrltlnjr.
m. uoussaye attributes the muddle
over orders at Waterloo to Napoleon's
execrable handwriting. This was the
opinion of the writing master of-Alexandre
Dumas: "The emperor never lost
a battle except by his bad writing. Ills
ofllcers could never make out what he
meant. Remember this, Alexandre,
and make your down strokes heavy
and your up strokes light." Grouchy
declares that during the battle of Waterloo
he could not make out whether
Napoleon wrote "bataille gagnee" or
"batallle engagee," and he conjecturally
read "battle gained."?Andrew Lang
In London Post.
The Frenka of F?te.
Here Is a unique memorial notice
from a Georgia exchange:
"Once he was nearly swallowed by
an earthquake and shortly afterward
was mown nearly a quarter of a mile
by a hurricane, but he triumphed over
all these afflictions, only to be kicked
out of life by a mule that had a mortgage
on It and was blind In one eye.**?
Atlanta Constitution.
Other Objection*.
"Gladly would 1 die for your*
Her look of hauteur was maintained
despite this plea.
"You are In error,** she replied coldly,
"If you think the color of your hair
constitutes my chief objection to you.**
The good night was brief and soon.?
Philadelphia Ledger.
A Dtfr Difference, ;
Bhe?How much do you earn a year?
He?About $2,000,
"But we can't live on thatP
"You asked me how much I earnest
1 make about $20.000.**?Life.
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A PUZZLING FEAT.
The Wonderful Corn Grnrrlnv Magi* f
of tbe Zunl Indian*. I
The medicine meu among tho Zuul '
Indians perform a feat at the annual
"corn festival" which surpasses the
famous mango growing trick of the
Hindoo. Many scientists have been
present to witness this strange ceremony,
hut have never beeu able to
fathom the mystery of it.
In front of the southern opening of
the medicine lodge a largo square of
clean yellow sand, carefully smoothed
and packed, Is spread. With a ceremonial
arrow figures 'representing the
Great Spirit, the earth, sun, sky and
rain are drawn. There are also the
symbols of the corn and a bountiful
harvest. The indentations made by the
arrow are then tilled in with pigments,
blue for the sky and clouds, black for
the earth and chrome yellow for the
harvest. The middle of the square Is
left vacant. This picture in sand painting
is a most pleasing specimen of barbaric
art.
The hour for the ceremony arrives,
and at the right moment the medicine* ^
man comes forth from his lodge and
takes a seat in the opening of the
lodge, facing the sand square. The
warriors and chiefs arrange themselves
around the square according to
rank. The ceremonial pipe Is then tilled
and lighted, and the medicine man
blows one puff In each direction of the
compass and two to the heavens. lie
then makes an address, going over the
past history of the tribe and the kindness
of the Great Spirit and his care,
llo concludes with a prayer for the
continuance of this favor.
Tho great moment bus arrived. With
Impressive solemnity the medicine man
thrusts the sacred arrow into the sand,
withdraws it and places a grain of corn
into the hole thus made. Carefully ^
smoothing the sand over it, he resumes
his seat, while the assembled chiefs
smoke their pipes in stolid silence. If
the Great Spirit condescends to answer
the prayer of the medicine man?and
he generally does?the eorn will sprout
and send up a shoot. After an interval
of fifteen or twenty minutes the sand
seems disturbed at the spot where the
grain of corn was planted, and soon
the slender green blades of the sprouting
corn are seen above the surface.
The plant continues to grow rapidly
and naturally during the day, and by
the next sunrise the silk and tassels
appear. By noon the stalk and ear
have reached full maturity and the
ripening begins. Finally the blades
and husks turn yellow ami rattle when
the wind shakes them. All this, Ave
must bear in mind, has been done in
thirty-six hours. On the morning of the
second day the corn growing is complete.
The medicine man now addresses
the watchers who in company
with him have watched the plant groAV,
for It is never left alone. With appropriate
ceremonies he sytnboli/.es the
harvest by stripping the ear from the
husks and placing the corn in his bag
for,future use. The stalk is pulled up
by the roots and hung over the door of
the lodge.?Xcav York Herald.
No Holiday.
Teople have different ideas as to
what constitutes a holiday?or a vacation.
Mrs. Pettis had her own firmly
fixed opinions on the subject.
"I don't count Thanksgiving or
Christmas or Washington's birthday or
any of those holidays," she said frankly
to an old friend one day. "What I
count a holiday is when Ezra and Jim
and Bob ami Llplilet go off up to tho
wood lot with their dinner and I know
they won't be back till night.
"I'm not one to deny that men folks
have their good points, but how a woman
can call it a holiday when they're in
the house calling for food by looks
when they aren't by words is beyond
me!"?Youth's Companion.
FoimI For S?|uirroln.
Most people who feed the gray squirrels
In the big parks fall to realize that
it is no kindness to give these pretty
little animals such soft shell nuts asalmonds,
peanuts and chestnuts. Human
beings who do not have to actually
forage for food naturally enough feel *
that it is thought fulness itself to savethe
squirrels work. The fact is, however,
that a squirrel's teeth grow so
rapidly that, deprived of their normal ?
use, they might even through their very
uselessness become long enough to put
this charming rodent of the trees in
danger of starvation. Illckory, pecan
and hazel nuts are the proper food to
throw to the squirrels.?Brooklyn Life.
Where Wn? (lie JokeT
Mabel?Such a jok'e with Mr. Gayboy.
Wo were out on the balcony between
the dances, and he got the sleeve
of his dress coat all over red paint
from one of the posts that were just
painted. Maud?And did you go near/ ^
the post? Mabel?No. Why? Maud?
Oh, nothing; only you have red paint
all over the back of your waist.
i
Tenrf til.
The conversation turned on the effect
produced on the emotions by pictorial
art, when a man remarked, "I remember
one picture that brought tears to
my eyes."
"A pathetic subject, I presume."
"No, sir; It was a fruit painting. I
was sitting close under it when It dropped
on my head."
M9j ? Ruiiiuieni h.
Youth?What do I have to pay for a
marriage license? Clerk?Well, yon
get It on the Installment plnn. Youth
?How's that? Clerk?One dollar down
and your entire salary each month for
the rest of your life.?Cleveland Leader.
Work Is not a man's punishment; It
Is his reward and hla strength.?George
Sand.