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THE CHAMPION OF THE iSIK. Farming at the Top, Bottom, and Middle'. By John K Cowan N one of the poorest wards of Boston is a girl who lias S earned the sobriquet of "The Three-Story Farmer," other- 11 M ise, "Backyard Betsy." She began to till the soil growing flowers in boxes in the backyard of the tenement, for her invalid brother to look at. They were' "halvers," that is, they rented only half the flat, and the back half at 0 that, so Bonny could not look out in- the street. She made the little space so beautiful with green and bloom that the neighbors nicknamed her "Backyard Betsy," and began to itate ber example. Next an Italian woman in the building showed her how to grow some rotables in boxes under the windows, and on the roof, and she soon had a e garden of tomatoes, peas, beans, and lettuce, from which she could Inpt.Benny's poor appetite with fresh, home-grown vegetables. But Bsnny grew wois-e, and she found it l-acessary to stay at home with m more and more. They were so poor that' the loss of her wages was a rious, matter, One day a neighbor said to her these tenement-house ighbors are wonderfully kind and thoughtful "There's a way or raising ushrooms in the cellar. It doesn't take much except care. I could get you me of the spawn from my brother who is gardener for a rich man." And "Backyard Betsy" became "Mushroom Nurse." She found a marketman ho took all that she. could grow, and soon she was able to make five dol rs a. monlh. But Benny demanded more of her time, and she was hard pressed. One ay the marketman told her of a customer of his who had inquired for some ne to take care of a bird. She eagerly accepted the trust, and was well aid. She loved the bird, and studied its wants. A bird man told her it eeded. worms, and showed her how to breed them in bran. She had good uccess, and he took all the worms she could spare. So "Backyard Betsy, he "Mushroom Girl," became "Betsy," the Bird Girl, and the demand for jvormg for. birds grew so that soon she was making enough money to stay it home ..all, the time and care for Benny. It is doubtful if any farm so small as. ever worked so thoroughly or profitably. The Father of Waters ? By Herbert Quick HE extent to which the Mississippi valley In the United States speaks out in the description of its boundaries. Its Red River arm skirts all north Texas, and penetrates New Mexico. Colorado and "Wyoming are reached from it by the Arkansas and tho branches of the Missouri, while Montana, away up to Helena and Virginia City, is a child of Mississippi-Missouri navigation. North Dakota marks the contact of Mississippi drainage with that of the Saskatchewan, and through the Mouse River hints at the annexation of the Canadian waterways system to that of the Mississippi; while through the Red River of the North and the Minnesota, boats may sometimes pass without a canal from St. Paul to Wi'nnepeg, and thence through many watery ways into the wheat fields. Minnesota and Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are scored with easy passages for canals from the basin of the great lakes to the Mississippi vai ley; all of them but Michigan are pierced by fine affluents of the great river; and as for Michigan, her ships now go to Joliet, a Mississippi valley port The Chautauqua lake district in New York is in the Missis. pi basin, and Pennsylvania and West Virginia send down the Ohio more Mississippi River traffic than any other states. Old Virginia sits with one foot on the Atlantic at Newport News, the other on Mississippi waters in the Clinch. Georgia pours out her historic Chickamauga into the Tennessee. All the states within this splendid circle are scored and grldironed by thousands and thousands of waterways actually or potentially navigable; and of the forty-six states, only sixteen are to be Aeft out of the Mississippi's ros ter. We need not think of sectionalism in speaking of the Mississippi. It Is the nation's greet asset in inland navigation. It must be the keystone of the arch of our waterways system, the backbone which must uphold our perfect ed transportation plan, the aorta of our ideal traffic circulation. Reader Magazine. Sensational Educators 5 Condemned i . . Ey Jindrew S. Draper, ' New York State Commissioner of Educa ion if 4 J. ENSATIONALISM has no rights of any kind in a university. Yet we must have learned that it is not to be kept out by v the saying. Novelty of theme or or statement, suuea to P-srnlnitatinn and to nersonal notoriety, is as repugnant to the traditions, the .philosophic basis, the moral sense, and the freedom of a university as illiteracy is a menace to tie. state, or as sreed is renuenant ....y - - ii ' y . fjV 1 v-i .a iii w - - to fellowship In a philanthropic guild. One cannot be al- , iOWea tO propagate niS vaganes uyuii lug wwe auu iu name of a university that would like to be thought prudent and rational. If one wants to be -a professor of myths and ghosts, he ought to go out in the woods and sit on a log and pursue his inquiries on his own time and in the most appropriate place. ' I have no valid objection to a professor being a free trader. I cannot object to his telling students the reason why.. But I have abundant reason for objecting to his hiding from students the argu ments .which support the policy of projection, and to his enforcing his, parti san view against mere youth with the ponderous solemnity of a military exe cution. i Children and Reading 1 2 fy By E. S. Martin & I ;- v i' J FIND it a matter of very general solicitude with parents to find some means of Inducing their children to read improv ing books while they have the chance, I don't find many parents whose success in this endeavor matche-s their ef forts or their hopes. Bookcases with glass doors and mo notonous looking sets of books behind them are compara tively scarce. Of course you may lead a child to a library, and even leave him there, and not be able to make him read; but he is more likely to read a library than he is to read the parlor bookcase, especially if the bookcase is locked because the books in it are so nicely bound. Familiarity with books even if only with the backs of them seldom breed contempt. It is much more apt to breed friendship, and Ecmetirr.es it breeds strong affection like that for dear people. The enormous dimensions of the mass of human knowledge as contained In bocks i:t liable to daunt young readers, and discourage them from even nibbling at eo huge a cake. The long books are so long, and there are so many of them, and life, al! tcld, is but a span! Help the young readers to a ."eic-ase from that burd?nscnie feeling and to appreciation of the truer senti ment that a good book is the record of the thoughts of a good mind, and that whether one reads much or little of it, contact with the mind that made it Is profitable. Harper's Magazir-e. 3? wf"5? - - V - .s Cai-toon by Berrj-man, in the Washington Star. TORTURE CHILDREN WITH HOT IRONS. Charity Agent Reports Harrowing Cruelty to State Wards in Illinois btabbed With Jborks lair lorn Uut andi-imDs Broken Also Among Crimes Against Little Ones Many Sold For Money The Rev. Mr. Virden Relates Instances of Persecution by Foster Parents and Public Institutions. Chicago, 111. How the wards of the State have been abused and tor tured was the subject of a sensational recital by the Rev. Charles Virden. agent of the State Board of Chari ties, to the State Conference of Char ities, held at Rock Island. His paper was entitled "The State Visitation of Children." and said, in part: "During the last two years I have personally handled approximately 550 special cases. Most of the children are well cared for when placed in family homes. The bad cases are exceptions. For example, I have found them tortured with hot Irons, KfnhliPl xvith tnnstlnrr fnrlra anfl sfi's- sors, limbs broken, hair torn out by! the roots, lashed until black and blue from head to foot, face3 cut and scarred and eyes blinded. "Numerous other cases of crime against children in the form of as sault have been prosecuted, and in the three years of my incumbency ten of these offenders have been sent to the penitentiary and numerous jail commitments and fines have been im posed. Many Children Sold. "There has been a wholesale traffic in children in Illinois. I have a re ceipt in my possession for a child who had been sold for a stipulated price. "One of the most distressing cases occurred in Quincy, 111., where a child was taken from its mother, a young girl, when les3 than an hour old, placed in a market basket, absolutely nude except for a covering of an old piece of quilt, carried about the streets and offered to any one who would accept it. The infant finally was given to a woman who had been a pensioner on the county for a num ber of years. "The evidence showed that this was at least the second child that had been sold from this institution. The saddest part of it all f3 that thera is no law in the State of Illinois pro hibiting the sale of a child." In speaking of other specific cases the Rev. Mr., Virden said: "A girl of. thirteen years, commit ted by the i'uvenlle Court, was made a household drudge. Our State agent found that she was being beaten with a horsewhip. The girl was removed and placed in a good home, where she was given a chance for education and religious training. Uurned With Hot Knife. "A girl, having only one parent living, seven years old, was in the home of a family at Alton, 111. The evidence showed that this child was covered with bruises. Her face was burned, her hands were hacked with a red hot knife and the sight of one eye was destroyed. The foster moth er, charged with having inflicted these wounds, was fined fir assault and battery, and will be tried under the cruelty act. "A girl was the victim of her step father's attacks for ten years, after she was seven years old. Her step father was sent to the penitentiary and the girl sent to a good home. "Two girls, aged five and ten, were forced to beg on the streets for their mother, who kept a disreputable re sort. They are now in good homes. "A girl thirteen years old did the washing and ironing for a family of seven. She had no school advan tages. An investigation showed that she wore her, foster mother's old clothes and shoes; was overworked and received no salary; that her life was insured in the benefit of the mother-in-law in the home. The child was returned to the home nn trial upon the cancellation of the life insurance policy, and promised that she was to receive "new clothes and $2 a week. I protest against the in surance of thelivesof these children." WORLD'S RUTHLESS WASTE. Drltislt Scientist Shuiders ct Big Steamers' Coal Consumption-No Substitute Yel London. Henry . E. . Armstrong, professor of chemistry at the Oitv and Guilds of London Central Institute1, addressing the annual meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute at Middles borough, said it was difficult to keep calm when he reflected upon the ruth less way the world's stores of timber, iron, coal and oil were being used up. It made the scientist shudder to see the indifference displayed in all civil ized lands to tho inevitable conse quences of such waste in the nowise distant future. No comment was provoked by the fact that the steamers Lusitania and Mauretania devour daily a thousand or more tons of coal while crossing the ocean. ThH pxtrnvaeaiif" was Kloriad iu as an engineering achieve ment when it ought to be anathema tized. The public comforted itself with the belief that science would dis cover a substitute for coal, and there fore felt no compunction in recklesslj destroying the capital won from th sun in past ages, but science could not at present support the Illusion. - Professor Armstrong earnestly urged serious scientific study of eco nomical methods of fuel consumption, outlining the . direction such studj ought to take. SIGNS OF A COLD WINTER. A CUs; Observer of Nature Tells What 4s Coming in Vm Way of WeaiheJ New York City. "There's no use talking, it's going to be a hard win ter, no matter which Bill is elected," said- the wise young man who had just returned from his vacation in Pike County, Pennsylvania, with a luxuriant crop of tan and freckles. "I forgot I ever knew so much about the country until I got out there again. I was born and raised in the country, and I'm proud of it. "How do I know it's going to.be a hard winter? Well, here are some of the sure signs, and I surprised the farmers when I sprung my knowledge on them: "A heavy crop of nuts. You never saw the like of the butternuts, hick ory nuts and chestnuts that there are going to be in less than a month now. "A big fruit crop and an abundance of wild grapes, the woods are full of this little wild fruit of the vine, and they will be delicious when the frosl touches them. "Heavy husks on the corn. Tht farmers say that is a sure sign. "Wasps and hornets .building theli nest nearer the ground than usual. - "The cricket and katydid orches tras working overtime; that's a sure enough indication of an early win ter, too. "Dams Nature Is a good and thoughtful provider for all the littlf folk of the forest and field, yoi know; that's why there is such a bl crop of nuts and wild grapes and fruit so that the squirrels, the mict and the birds won't go hungrj through , the long winter. -I tell yot what, there is nothing hit-or-misi about the indications I have men tioned. AH you have to be is a clos observer of nature to know what b Coming in the way of weather." Hair Dressing. Japanese women make a frolic of the daily hair dressing. It takes two people and the women visit and per form the kindly office for each other. In France it was once quite the fash ion to be invited to a hair dressing. The elegant lady of th3 days of Du Barry invited her friends to come at hair dressing time. The process took an hour and it afforded a good hour for chat, recreation, visiting and gos sip. Incidentally it gave my lady di version as she sat through the ordeal. New Haven Register. Correct Attitude When Sitting. Close observation of hundreds of the fair sex has convinced me that few women over thirty years of age possess neat, even, straight backs. Yet there is absolutely no need for even elderly women to become real ly misshapen if they will carry their bodies erect and hold up their heads. Take, for instance, the case of a fashionable woman in New York City, the mother of five grown chil dren. She is now sitty-two years of age, looks not more than forty year3, and achieves this by the manner of carrying herself. Though she has grown matronly with the years she Is still erect, and her back is as straight and trim as that of a girl of twenty. Her head is well held up, and the whole effect is that of youth. Close scrutiny of her face shows that youth is far behind her, but the way In which she has "kept her figure," as the saying goes, is worthy of imi tation. Fortunately, any woman may ac complish the same result if only she will hold herself correctly, for noth ing is so ruinous to form as to slouch, either when sitting or walking, and unless the spine is kept straight the body gets out of shape. It is while sitting that women most hurt their figures. They do not place themselves so that they sit on the tip of the spine. Let any woman who Is reading this sentence now drop her paper and .notice if she is sitting on the tip of her spine or four or five inches above it, causing a curve in the vertebrae. ' It is easy enough to know, because if the end of the spine majority of the women are wj,yeg to the men working on the Isthmus, and are provided with married quarters. It Is Only in a very few instances' that women who apply' for positions' In the zone are accepted. If they are not accepted as wage earners, however," they are making a good record for being accepted a3 wives. . Girls who go to the rone to visit brothers and uncles seldom return tcf the United States. There is' such a scarcity of wives in the Isthmus that almost every girl who goes to the zone marries an ambitious young man down there. She ha3 her innings in one way if not in another. New York Times. He Natural. . "I hav-3 not seen Mary lately; Is she away?" a"niother asked .her younger daughter. "Oh, no, she is only so affected since she came- back from school I can't stand her. She rolls her eyes and her voice grows so die away you can scarcely hear It, and she use3 the broad A so hard,' you'd think her mouth was full of mush. Sometimes she forgets, and then all of us girls punch one another. "And just think, mother, she will not even answer her father unless he calls her Marie! Isn't it silly? I don't see why girls have to put on such airs just because they've been at boarding school!" It Is silly, but, fortunately, all girls don't get struck that way. Many of them come home from school as un affected as when they left. Their new friends and experiences do not make- the old life seem something to be scorned. Don't do it, girls. Don't "put on airs." Your home friends are the one3 who will count most in your good times. If they get disgusted with you or think you think yourself too fine for them they will soon drop you. Ee natural. Youth can have no greater charm than simple, cordial,, unaffected manners. This does not mean that you should viot try to improve yourself when at uchool. Soften your voice and refine S- CD 3 Z ; O 3 i - , -? c 3 O o Poor Man's Fruit Cake. A delicious cake, but must oe made most carefully to bring about good results. It, like all fruit cake, is the better for standing. Seed and chop fine one pound of layer raisins. Dissolve a quarter of" a teasponful of soda in two tablespoonfuls of warm water; then stir it into half a cupful of New Orleans molassea: add to this half a pint of thick sour cream and a cupful of dark brown sugar. Sift three and a quarter cupfuls of pastry flour; add to It the mixture and beat thoroughly; then add a tablespoonful of allspice and a tablespoonfui each of cloves and cinnamon; add the raisins, floured. Turn into a square or round pan and bake in a moderate - oven for one hour and a half. Washington Star. f has been made to do It3 work she your intonation as much as yeNtSAiu cannot straighten herself any more Eut do not do It ostentatiousljf. m toe seat, aitnougn sue may De able Ee artificial and you will be laughed Be so natural that young friends- at; will never say of you: "I cannot stand her airs!" New York Press. to throw back ber body more, but if the line of her backbone is as it should be she cannot pull herself up higher on the chair. This is because the weight is already placed at its proper angle. On the contrary, the instant the spine is allowed to ourve toward the lower end the whole figure i3 thrown out of plumb. The abdomen is made to protrude and the hips are thrust up. One of the greatest helps toward getting the correct line for the back bone is to sit back just as far as the lower part of the trunk can be brought. As a rule, persons place themselves in the middle of the seat, and then lean against the chair back. It is this common practice that does most of the mischief, for if the body and skirt is one of the strong fancies is drawn well back into the chair of the hour. tnere will not be so great an inchna- j cl.- , . , t- j. , . .v ! i Stunning sleeveless coats of net or tion to lean, because the spine gets ' Kn(T . ... , t , , , , ,, . " J . j lace are being worn with dance and a brace below the small of the back. dmner gowns uu and the shoulders will support them selves, A dozen napkins embroidered with Partcf holding one's self well is to ; re ln "f11 r the bnde 13 a Dew idea i in weaamg guts. r. 1VJ.'j6 i. RK-1 .1 X 3 . T nffT, j ,m', ir"-iri Yellow is a favorite color for re lieving the sober effect of gray. A cross of gun metal, set with five large' amethysts, is offered as a neck ornament. The winding drapery of the bodice keep the shoulders, back, making the chest broad and deep. But so per fect is the natural balance of the body that once the spine is put at its prop er angle the shoulders stay in place. It is almost impossible to have them droop forward if the back 13 straight. This particular form of training should be given to all young girls, for if they are taught to hold them selves properly they will always have good figures, no matter to what age they live. Washington Star. The skirt of the newest cut i3 straight and plain at the back and scanty as to fulness all the way round. A band of ribbon around the bot tom of a full skirt weights it ever so slightly, according to the approved fashion. Simple net evening gowns are com pleted by wide flowered ribbons run ning over the shoulders and disap pearing beneath the deep girdle of the same. A monogram embroidered in self color on one end of the automobile Wills IusbHnd a Dollar in Four Installments. Chicago. One dollar, payable in monthly installments of twenty-five cents, is the bequest given Andrew Heckler by hi3 wife, Catherine E. Heckler, of Portland, Ore., whose will was filed in the Probate Court here. In the will Heckler is referred to as "the individual who married me in l'J05 in San Diego, Cal., and who ,';ot from mo thousands of dollars and when he could get no more deserted me. " The estate consists of personal j-i'operty. Sending 806,000 Return Postals boutli to Get Work For Aliens Washington, D. C. The distribu tion of aliens is to be promoted by tH Bureau of Information of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor. Sec. retary Straus has issued orders tc start the work at each immigration station, and the bureau has begun the enormous task of getting in touch with farmers, manufacturers and oth. er employers in the South to learu what help they may need. This work will require the sending out of 80 6, 000 return postal card3. Not Wage-Earners; Wives. One place in this world where women seem to be at a premium is in Uen where it ties in a fluffy bow under the canal zone. The women employed j the CQln ,3 the new f labeiinf. In tVio nno aro vprv Tow in nrnnnrnnn t "o . v. . . one s sen. s. Fagotting as trimming has been out of the running for several years. but this season the smartest of the expensive blouses show fagotting for adornment. to the men Of a total in excess of 6500 em ployes of the Government 207 are women. Their salary is about what the average man makes here in our cities, or in actual figures they make S73.90 a month. It is not that the Government pre fers men employes to women, but the eipense of quartering women would Pale blue is well known as a hap pily contrasting color and touches of rose are also effective, while several shades of both lierht hi lift nnrl la von. be so much more than arranging for J er upon a soft gray are a newer and men that the latter are employed in- j Quite as charming a color scheme. stsa1- J In Paris,' despite the comparatively Many of the women are employed i short stature and the plumpness of as stenographers, telegraphers, copy- ! the French woman, the combination ists, timekeepers and clerks, although J of a checked or striped coat with a plain skirt, or vice versa, has for some time been the favorite mode. the great majority of them are either teachers or nurses. The chief woman clerk receives a salary of f 175 a month, whereas the lowest salary is $25 to a matron. The A mole eats as many as 2 0,000 earthworms in the cojirse of a year. ji
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