o
.""7 A 17TT
DTP
il1 i: u-M
VOLUME XX.
FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1905.
NUMBER' 52-
, 1 1
PA'S ALMANACK
ThetVa lota at books In oar houaeY Eaop
, nd Thomaa Hood. '
Ibkeptaua. Pot and Parley's tile, and otaart
. ju aa (Don :
la fact, uti In (ho sarrat, for I've mm tbna
1 X i ' thr mywrit .
4r half hunrirtd dual booke pIM ea a
i u jallow ahcir.
Bat Fh ho nmr toaelwa on front eat that
- For when lie ha the chance to read, ha
. rtada -ie Almanack.
. Ba .reads the leading "Hlnta to Health"
and what will cure an arhe
t And when there' urle In your blood tha
. -' pills that joa ahould take.
Tha ajrmntoma of black measlea and tha
point on heart-dleraee :
And.aa l'a tnrna h page hark h think,
ho hai all these,
' "By giim !" he'll tar with troubled look,
... . - "I've aharp pala la iy back,
And that'a the way lumbago cornea It's
la tha Almanack.",.
HI H 1 1 H 14 M H 4t)t44 I O M t M
The Amateur Revolutionist
J- The Revenge of A Lovef and Child,
by JOHN FLEniNd WILSoN.
444M4sj444HH.tll4MIIIl4tllMt44tt
It you should gee bronzed men or
. men with soldierly bearing frequent
ing it certain office In a. small street In
San Francisco, and If you knew who
the men were or what they represent
ed, you could predict to a nicety the
next Central American revolution, Its
leaden, and Its outcome. That Is be
cause San Francisco Is tha place where
everything commences, and many have
their end In the way of troubles In tha
"sister republics."
Three years ago the present govern'
tnent of Guatemala missed overthrow
by just a hair. As the man who had
been financing the Insurrection Bald
bitterly when the bottom fell out: "If
It weren't for women there'd ue no
revolutions, and It it weren't fcr a
woman every revolution would be suc
cessful." He said this to (he man who
knows more about troubles political
where there's money and fighting than
any other man in the world. This mm
nodded his head with a smile not often
seen on bis spare face. The financier
didn't like the look, and he growled
gome more: "They might at least
have let me hold the government up
for my expenses before calling the
whole business off. ' I could have got
everything back and Interest on my
venture."
The other man kept on smiling.
"That'B the way you fellows look at It.
If you can't win sell out at a good
price. But that don't win in the lung
run. One woman can spoil the
scheme."
Two years before this a young worn-1
an landed from the Pacific Mall steam
er Gity of Para, and registered at the
Palace aa from Mazatlan. She hadaj
i little maid whajtlgied adrtalked
.Mexican. 0JBTwTIiggr with Vienna
and Paris hotel labels over It, and the
" manner of a deposed queen. She signed
herself as "Srta Maria Rlvas."
In due time Senorita Rlvas left the
hotel for quiet lodging on Vallejo
street But before she disappeared
from the court, a gentle-mannered old
- man with knotty hands, called and In
traduced a companion. "This Is the
young man I spoke ta your excellency
about I present Scnor Thomas Vin
cent Then the gray-haired man
lipped away, and Thomas Vincent was
, left looking down into the dark face
of Maria Rlvas. He did not know why
' he was there, nor who she was, nor
even the name of the man who had In
. traduced him. But he was not sorry.
. ' tihe let him stand white she glanced
- olm over. Vincent drew himself up
at her somewhat Insolent manner, and
was rewarded by a smile.
"Will you accept an Invitation to
supper tonight if I press you very
hard?" she asked him in Smooth Eng
lUh. .
. . Vincent turned his eyes about the
court. Then he looked down sjt her
again, and nodded curtly. "Certainly,
madam." He flushed, and went on,
"But I failed to catch your name,
am awfully embarrassed."
8hc got to her feet, and held out a
Blender hand. "I am Miss ' Mary
Rlvas," she said, quietly. "My father
'was formerly the president of Hon-
- duras. I went to school at Bryn Mawr,
and J met your sister there. That's
why, when I found you were In San
Francisco, I asked to have you brought
and introduced.". .
Vincent loked at her very soberly,
almost pityingly. Then he offered her
. bis arm, and they went into the supper
room, .where everybody , turned to
watch their progress, knowing neither
; of them.
When she removed to the flat' on
Vallejo street. Miss Mary Rlvas. told
Vincent to come and take the first
dinner with her. "We'll christen the
new place," she said fay ly, "and, be
sides, I hope you'll find that I'm really
American and can cook."
That night at nine o'clock when the
Mexican maid had departed ' giggling
to the kitchen, Vincent's hostess leaned
forward over the table at which they
sat, and rested her elbows on it Her
bare arms framed her face In a sudden
way' that took Vincent's heart out of
Its regular beat. He leaped to his feet
when Maria Rlvas, dropping her .head,
burst Into a torrent of sobs, her white
shoulders heaving as her agony got
the better of her. .
As he stood there biting bis lips she
threw back her head and darted up
and to the window."-He heard her
moan, as if she saw and heard some
thing too awful to comprehend, i He
walked over and stood back of her till
she swung round, and he saw the tear
stained fact relax and the swimming
eyes close. He carried her to the table,
and laid her down across It, and rubbed
her hands. . . Then the maid came In,
still giggling hysterically, and together
they revived her until she sat np be
tween Vincent's arms and slid from
the big table to the floor. Vincent
sent the astonished maid out by a ges
ture of command.
"Now what's the matter?" he de
manded, hoarsely, "if you're In trou
ble tell me." ,
She panted before him. "It was
: what 1 remembered," she replied.
"How can ! forget f " y
"After I had been five years In the
Elates papa' sent for me to axel him
in Colon. I got oS the steamer, and
he was waiting on the wharf. I knew
We Ilka to en Fa winter nights alt by 4ha
, . open grate '".,:..
Aid wad load hit Almanack tad tell 01
! Ika Mat
That Kero plavwl hla dddlt whlla aid Koaja
waa turning rod,
And vara that wlckoi Hnsllah king
. poor lulclgh'a koa.
waa auming roa,
It'a
Utti
Arc Juat tha kind that till each paga of his
Old Aimanaca.
Pa reads tha tide k hundred times and
when'a the neit ecllpae. ' . .
And he has all the weather news right at
his Anger-tins. . .
II knows just when dry spell" kra du and
when wet weather's near.
And sometimes he puts on his gums when
all Ik. wAI.A'a l
"It Is n't rslnlni ret." he'll say, "but It
will mwm I Mt h.fk."
And If It don't we dassn't langh 't was
, In the Almanacs.
Victor A. Hermann, In Pack;
ho would do It just that way. He put
on his glasses with both hands, and
looked at me as If he were very glad,
and oh! I loved it for it was Just like
it was when I was a little girl and
ran Into the big room.
"But trouble came In Panama, and
papa thought we'd better .coma tip .to
San Francisco, 'I've been so busy
down hers one way and another,' he
said, 'that I'm always suspected of con
spiracy. Your mother Is dead, and the
fun of lire Is out of it We will . live
peaceably is befits an Old man and his
daughter.' "
Vincent's voice broke In oil her
story. "When Was thlsf"
"Five years ago. And everything
went ail right till We got to Auapala,
There a friend of papa's came bn board
and showed me a paper. It said papa'
was not to be allowed to Iatld in Hon
duras, as he was plotting an Insurrec
tion. He put on his glasses n read It.
When he looked up at me, ho said:
'We shan't see where your mother is
burled, nor the place where you were
born.' He shook hands with the friend
and said nothing more,
"On the day we were In Ocos, In the
afternoon, I bsw the comandante come
on the steamer with some soldiers.
He said he wanted to arrest papa, but
that If he came along willingly he
would not U8e force.
" "I am under the American flag,'
papa said. 'I know who has done this.
It would 'mean my death If 1 went
with you.' Suddenly I heard, a shot
and then another. I hurried to papa's
room. Outside there were two soldiers
aiming into It. I saw papa sitting on
bis camp-stool and his two revolvers
wgfe-tn hlllsp. He was hunting for
bis glasses7utttle-talDhad slipped
down. He could not see to stoot One
of the soldiers, after a long UnKvJ,re'1
his gun again, and father suddenly
picked up his revolvers, and I cried
out again. He didn't shoot, and I
know now that he was afraid of hitting
me. Then he fell. The soldiers fired
again and ran away, panting and yell
Ing to each other. I went Into papa
and he naked for his glasnes, sitting up
on the floor .very weakly. When I
found them and gave them 10 him, the
blood was running very fast down his
breast He put on his glasses with
both hands, wrinkling up. his forehead
in the old way, and looked at me
very Ho looked. ... Ho said, 'I
am glad I could see you, little one .
before I go.' That was all."
She went to tho window and stayed
there, immobile, while Vincent walked
up and down behind her. At last she
turned around. "That was live years
ago, No one has done anything to
punish them." , . ;
Vincent, because she was suddenly to
him the woman, did what every man
once in his life will do for one woman:
he sacrificed his sense of humor. With
all seriousness he stiffened up. "It
was under my flag he was shot down.
I've served under it. Give me another
flag for Guatemala and I'll go down
there and those murderers shall die
against a wall, with your flag flying
over their heads, Its shadow wavering
at their feet on the yellow sand."
Marie Rlvas, because she was the
Woman In this case, understood per
fectly. "A revolution T" she said, very
quietly. He bent over her hand grave
ly and youthfully. His manner was
confident, as if he saw very clearly
what was to be done and knew how to
do it, not as If he had promised a girl
with tear stains on her cheeks to over
turn a government because of a murder
one hot afternoon on a steamer. In a
foreign port.
This was the beginning of the affair.
Its continuation was In a little town
on the Guatemalan coast, where Vin
cent landed with a ton of munitions of
war, marked ''Manufactures of Metal,"
and thirty ragged soldiers, A month
later be had a thousand Insurgents and
twentjr tons of munitions, "and 'bis
blood 'had drunk In the- fever that
burns up the years In hours. The first
thing Vincent did under Its spell was
to march oa Ocos and take It When
the town was his and the commandante
In Irons, the young man took out of his
pocketbook a little list of names, made
put in Maria RIvas's hand. Ha com
pared this list with the list of prison
ers and ordered out a firing squad.
Half an hour later the shadow of the
flag mace by the Woman in the Valle
jo atreet flat waver over i the sand
on which lay six men la a tangle.
Generalissimo Thomas Vincent went
out Into the sun and looked at the
last postures of the six, anu then out
across the brimming waters of tho
Pacific: A mall steamer lay out there
In the midst of a cluster of canoes, the
American flag drooping from her mast
An Irishman in a major's uniform
came out of the Cool of the barracks
and stopped beside Vincent, "Another
week ought to see us in the capital,"
he said slowly. "But t don't like this
business, general, These beggars don't
amount to anything. Why did you
order them shotr"
A barefoot girl of some tea years
crept around the corner of the sun-!
baked wall. She picked her way ovsr
tha sand, darting hot glances fearfully j
ai the two officers. , Suddenly j she
stooped over the crooked body of one
of the motionless ones, She tujxed at
the sleeve Of a shirt, and aa -tha face
turned slightly npward to. her effort,
she fell to beating on the ground with
both hands, and sobbed in the heat,
dry eyed.
"Vincent strode over to ber, and
gently picked her up. Her quick sobs
did not cease aa Ji carrfed her Into
the . shade, bis own" face drawn and
white. He looked over ht the 'major,
who stood gnawing on his stubby
moustache. He did not reply to the
question until the major repeated It
angrily; "It was because . i . they de
served It. . . ." Vincent stopped and
then went on, almost Inaudibly "God
knows why I did It, and then there's
. . t the " He stopped once more.
for the girl's hard sobs had ceased, and
her little hands bad darted from tho
folds of her scanty gown to the young
generaj's throat, and the major saw
him set the burden softly down, and
fithed all. forward, the blood pouring
round w. blade of A knife deep Id his
throat'" - - '-; 4 v
With ad oath the! majof leaped bvef
to him and lifted his head, Vincent's
eyes looked clearly into his.' then the
wounded man looked over at the little
girl, poised for flight a doxen feet awayi
He nodded at her .with an air of abs&
lue comprehension, and then died. San
Francisco Argonant,
FA8HI0N JN READING,
How the English Woman Makes Up
Arrears.
Great boxes of books are going up
to 'Scotland and the shooting moors
now, addressed to the chatelaines of
historic houses, jfhoy are not intend
ed to augment the resources of the lib
rary or to amuse guests of literary
proclivities upon days of storm and
rain, but are destined for the partic
ular pursuit of the hostess herself la
her own boudoir.
The very exacting duties of the Lon
don season make the pleasure of keep1
ing hp their pursuit of literature ad
impossibility to many women. It
may be practicable to dip Into the
latest hovel when it makes Its ap
pearance during the tow leisure mo
ments that are sandwiched between a
busy London hostess's day, but to de
vote any time to serious reading 14
qulto impossible. - Numbers of biogra
phies, book of travel and of science,
delightful memoirs and interesting
poem 8 must go unread, unless the
modern plan of saving them up for
September is resorted to, as it very
generally Is now.
This resource Is the established
custom Of one very cxaltod persdnagd
who Is devoted to literature and
whose sympathies are so wide that
no good ever escapes her perusal. It
is her custom to keep in a little book
throughout tho earlier months of the
year a carefully compiled list of nov
els, works of travel, memoirs, aut
biographies and so forth that she de
sires to rend, and these her booksel
ler forwards to her in her Highland
home for her delectation during the
autumn. As this princess reads not
.only the best English writers but
those of German?, 'HTli PlUhCB,
the precious hours she spends In Com
paratlve privacy in tho north are most
fully occupied In the penisal of their
works.
System in tho pursuit of literature
Is the best friend the busy woman
Call possess if she is to maintain her
acquaintance with the writers of tha.
day. It is not sufficient for her to
have a miscellaneous collection Of
novels and serious works forwarded
to her lu the country. For these,
though they mn afford her a Certain
amount of recreation, will not further
her alms of self-education, to accom
plish which task is the aim of the
modern seeker after enlightenment,
who holds the view that education on
ly ceases with life Itself,
One . woman makes a specialty of
reading all-the works pf all the lead
ing novelists in Europe, and her task
Is no light one; another gives works
of fiction a secondary place, and de
votes herself to travel; while to the
third 'no form of literature appeals so
successfully .as those volumes of clev
er causerlo that so often appear, and
prove so useful aa the subject of con
versation. London Dally Mall.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
An English police court comevto
the front with an antiseptic New Test
ament for oath-taking purposes.- The
covers are guaranteed to be death to
germs.
Editor Barnett of the American
(Jrocer, New York, Is advocating the
establishment of a school for grocers
and a state board of examiners for its
controh
-The combined salaries of the presi
dents of the 14 lesdlng universities
In the United States do not equal the
amount paid the bead of one life in
surance company.
An elephant . at Jena. Germany,
seized a man who:' was teasing' him
with a knife and dashed him to the
ground. Three .days ;lnter the, man
succumbed to hia injuries. 3
':. .1,... iV'Srtar,
,A couple of cyclists In Spplng, near
London were the prlnolpals at a wed
ding, and they added a new wrinkle
to marriage etiquette. . The bride and
groom, rode to the church on single
machines, but they returned on a tan
dem. r a , (i
The ' English delight In, odd rents,
but the oddest is a tenancy at Brook-
house, In Yorkshire, where the rental
Is one snowball In June and a jrH rose
In December. , The rose Woasljjr ar
ranged and the snowball Is now mads
of shaved ice. - i. -t . -
A rich gold strike In the Kantishna
diggings, 800 miles away, left Fair
banks, Wash., practically without offi
cers. : The mayor and all the council-
men joined the rush. All the princi
pal saloon keepers closed up and ac
companied them. ? v.. f. ;
Algeria has a river of genuine ink!
caused by the Joining of two streams.
one of which comes from an iron re
gion, while the second ' stream flows
from a pott swamp. On ineetlug, the
acid of one stream blends with the
on solution of the other, and Ink i.
result
FEEDING OF CANAL MEN.
J. E. MARKEt TELLS ABOUT HIS
BIO PANAMA CONTRACT,
He, Expects to Provide Food fdr tti
0000 Men at a Time Board Will
Cost from Cents to $1 a Day
All Supplies to Bs Shlpptd from
, New York; Direct
3. B. Markel, who has Just obtained
the contract to feed the workmen on
the Panama Canal, began the business
of foeding people nearly fifty years ago
when, as a boy, he took a contract to
feed workmen on a big flat boat be
tween St Louis and New Orleans, on
the Mississippi, writes the Omaha
(Neb.) correspondent of the New York
Sun. He was raised on a farm near
Mark Twain's place In eastern Mis
souri, and after his sxperlence on the
flatboat h settled down la St Louis
to become a baker. "
Next he drifted to the West, and In
1B72 begad operating eating houses
along the Union Pdciflo, with which
road h continued tdf thirty years. IU
addition to bis Panama interests, Mr.
Markel at present operates the boarding
and eating houses along the line of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the
Illinois Central, the Denver and R10
Grande, the Rock Island, the Kansas
City Southern, the Denver and North
western and the new Moffatt railroads,
and manages a number of. big hotels In
Western cities.
His great experience In ' feeding
crowds placed him in a position to bid
intelligently for the Panama contract.
Regarding the contract and his plans,
Mr. Markel says!
"The contract Is not a $50,000,000 one
to feed any 50,000 men, as the news
papers have reported. 1 don't believe
there will ever be more uian 20.000
men employed at any one timet The
contract runs for five years.
'I was first Invited last March to go
(6 the Isthmus by Mr. Wallac". and 1
was studying the conditions when hfl
left. I kept watch of things and con
tinued my Investigations until 1 found
Out Just what was wanted.
'I spent a whole month down then,
and when 1 finished I knew what was
necessary and knew just what I was
bidding on. The result was that t got
the contract.
"What the commission wanted artd
what I am going to furnish Is a sys
tem of substantial meals at reasonable
prices, so that the employes on the
canal can afford to buy them and will
be In condition to return the commis
sion In labor the worth of their wages,
"For instance, the Jamaica negroes,
now about 4,000 employed on the canal
afe scattered along Irt camps from one
to two miles annrt, there being thirty
camps along the forty-seven miles of
canal. These camps have from 200 to
300 negroes each.
"The houses aro built especially for
the purpose and are thoroughly sani
tary. There are strict rules for keep
ing them clean. The negroes have to
have everything cleaned up by a cer-
tain hour each morning. The houses
are lliiiiiniLlilji in iuIiImTTTITIT lOfhl
and fumigated every two weeks.
They
have comfortable canvas beds,
"But whed it comes to eating, the
only things ihey can afford W buy With
their money, as things now are on the
Isthmus, are sugar cane, bananas and
such stuff, and a man can't stand up
and do a hard day's work on such a
diet and give back the value of his
wages. Eggs are 10 cents apiece, salt
fish Is 40 cents a pound, fresh meat
from 60 cents to a dollar a pound, and
everything In proportion.
"Now we are going to offer then!
three meats a day with sUch stuff as
coffee, bread and meat for breakfast)
tbffee, bread, fish, two kinds of vege
tables-and pie or pudding for dinner;
and much the same for supper, at 45
cents a day or f 14 a month.'
"In addition, we will have a place at
each camp where we will sell cooked
food In bulk to the men with families
who want to take It home, or to the
men who live In clubs and do their
own cooking, or part of it, and want
to buy a portion ready cooked. There
Is no compulsion about buying from
us; the men can buy wherever they
please, but I agree with the commission
to have the food there to offer to the
men at reasonable prices.
"For the white men, Of Whom there
are 1,500 now, and there wilt be 2,000
later, we will run hotels. Two are
how finished and the number will be
Increased to ten. We furnish them
first class board at $1 a day, and rooms
at $6 a month each, making the cost
cv living $36 a month each.
"Before these prices were made we
figured it out with the commission that
laborers generally In this country have
to pay from 40 to 50 percent of their
wages for living purposes; and clerks
and other salaried men In cities about
the same proportion. So we figured
on the canal to keep down the cost of
living to between 40 and SO percent
of the wages.
"The Jamaica negroes' get from (l.TS
to $2.25 silver each a day. This Is from
to cants to $1.10 gold; so the commis
sion held the coat of living down to 45
cents A day, 'Most of the clerks get
from .$150 to $175 a month, so their
living' la also A made comparatively
cheap, ' i i
"I shall assemble all my supplies at
New York for shipment to the Isthmus;
my buying will be done wherever it
can be done to tha best advantage.
The commission ship my stuff for me
on refrigerator steamers at a rate that
just covers the actual cost; It gives me
cold storage, rooms at Colon also at
cost or Just a little above cost -. :
"Practically everything will have to
be shipped. ' There Is absolutely noth
ing that can be bought on the Isthmus.
The natives are too worthless and lazy
to raise anything. As fine fish as I
ever saw can be caught on the Isthmus,
but the natives never catch enough to
amount to anything. .,, - ,
"But Nelleve that the work of sani
tation1 which Is now going on and the
fact that the natives will have to keep
themselves and their houses clean and
do things differently will Induce thorn
to do some work on the canal when we
get, substantial food to them and en
able thein to do hard work. . -?
"As It is now their sugar cane and
banana diet makes it Imponslble for
them to atand more than one dny's
hard work; and that gives them a dol
lar or so and enables them to buy rum
ir.id everything Wy pwi under prgs
ent conditions for several days. Bo
they are not much good now, but I tfe
lleve within the next, two years pur
system of feeding these people will
make workmen out of great numbers
Of them,
"This Is a big contract, bat except
for a difference in climate there Is no
difference other than else between It
and the large railroad contracts I have
been handling tor many years." .
PROBLEMS OF LAW.
Cases With Which . English Judges
v and Lawyers Have Struggled.
Hundreds of years of test cased
have not yet elucidated all the pos
sible points of difficulty in the EngliBh
law.'.,
Here Is a remarkable problem with
which the Blackburn lawyers have Just
been confronted An English gentle
man had twin sons who were born
within a few minutes of each other.
He made a will tbnt his property In
Australia should go to whichever of
the two sons arrived at the age of 21
first,
The younger of the two emigrated
to Australia, while the other on a re
mained in England, and tho former
was still In the antipodes at the time
of his doming of age. Now Aus
tralia time Is some time In advance
of Greenwich, and, therefore, the
young man out there, was 21 before
his elder brother at home. Which
of these two brothers Is legally en
titled to the property? The question
has not yet been decidedv and in the
mean time readers may exercise their
own acumen upon it
Aro eggs eggs, or are only hens'
eggs eggs? This may seem a ridicul
ous question, but nice shades of mean
ing are Involved, and a case which
turned upon It went through two or
three courts of law. A lady sent an
order for a dozen eggs Uf a dairyman
and he sent ber ducks' eggs. She sent
them back as not being what she or
dered, but he refused to take them.
Ehe, in turn, declined to keep them,
and some time elapsing between their
Journeys 'from the house to the shop,
the eggs Went bad, and eventually the
Shopkeeper sued the lady for Is. 6d.,
their value.
The county court Judge ordered hor
to pay, declaring that ducks eggs)
Were as much eggs as any others; but
the woman appealed, and King's
Rench reversed the decision on the
ground that when a party ordered
eggs, hens' eggs were meant, and if
any other contention wero admitted
any kind of eggs might be sent, such
as piegeons', canaries' or even rattle
snakes'. Ducks' oggs, It was decided,
were not egKS In the ordinary mean
ing of the term.
Are the grandchildren of a man al
so his children? In the legal sense
this question is not so absurd as it
looks, and some time ago It was most
seriously and laboriously contended In
the courts that according to act of
parliament they were.
The particular act In question, pass-
ed liv thn relizn of the late Queen Vlc-
lmV. laid It down that "the father
and Ibe grandfather, the mother and
the gmamother, and tho children of
any poor -person beldg of Sufficient
nlillltv ahairwillevo and maintain any
touch noor Person
Tho argument waStrra4bac"'rllnft
tn thn nntet irrandphildretHifite tO
be reckoned as children for this
pose, Just as grandparents were reck
oned aa parents. On the other side
u was argued that If grandchildren
were children, then great-grandchildren
were children sIbo ,and that a
man might In this way be called upon
to Support his father and mother, his
fbur grandparents, his eight great
grandparents and as many grandchil
dren and axeatrErartdrtlldrefl as he
might be lucky or Unlucky enough to
possess.
Is skimmed milk milk? A man ask
ed for a glass of milk to drink and
was given skimmed milk, and the pur
veyor as fined for It; but in a high
er court the decision was reversed,
It being contendod at the time that
skimmed milk was really much more
milk than milk that was not skimmed,
since the latter contained something
that was not milk at all that is,
cream. Tit-Bite.
City Crop of Tan,
There Is a great comparison Of com
plexions going on these days When
ever returning vacationists get togeth
er. The one who can show the deep
est brown is the proudest but this
does not always fall to the lot of the
sojourner at the seaside or in the
mountains.
The girl with the richest snd deep
est tan lu a good-sized crowd the other
day had not been out of town 'this
summer, but every day. had taken a
long walk . hatless through - Central
park. The spending of much money
for railroad fares and hotel bills la
not at all necessary to acquire A
bronze complexion. x: Old Mother Na
ture with summer winds and sun
shine and soft rains Is the one to get
It from, and she gives It just as quick
ly on a city roof or In a city park aa
she does In the distant country or on
the mountain top. New- York Press.
- .-The Typewriters Experience.. .,
A little event fraught with large
significance was the celebration the
other day In New York of the thirtieth
anniversary of the entrance Into busi
ness life of the pioneer woman type
writer. All that innovation of thirty
years ago meant to the business world
no one could nave areamea ai tne
time, and If volumes were given to it
now the story would not be half told.
For the one women has now become a
vast and ever-Increasing host and the
gain to business interests in neatness,
legibility and accuracy, together with
di.H.ini, tA all transactions whera
uin..-, --. -
writing Is involved,, has been equally j
and proportionately great The pion
eer typewriter deserves distinction for
the new and wild field of honorable
and lucrative employment which she
opened to her sex none the less than
for the immeasurable benefits which
her action has conferred upon a busy
world. Leslie's Weekly.
The Rev. C. H. Marshall, pastor , ol
the St Barn&Das episcopal cnurcn.
of Denver, Colo., for 31 years, has
officiated at 6000 baptisms, 3500 funer
als and 1700 weddings. .
Lice on Hogs. .
The most satisfactory remedy for
lice on hogs 1 have ever used and tho
only one I now use, is a mixture of
keroeene oll, lard and sulphur. Mix to
as to be 'easily applied with brush or
rag mop. This remedy is also good tor
lice on poultry. J. R. Jonos, In The
Epltomist-
The Home-Mada Corn Cutter.
The idea comes from Australia where
tho machine Is used In harvesting su
gar cane and sorghum, as well as corn.
The Implement has been tried by a few
farmers In this section and pronounced
a success. It Is made by bolting the
blade of a strong heavy Bcythe to a
sledge or sled, as shown in the illus
tration. A rod of wrought Iron about
one Inch in diameter Is bent to form a
follower, as shown. One of these ma
chines Is expected to cut about 21-2
acres per day. After cutting, the crop
is less easily handled than when cut
by hand, but the total saving In laboi
isconslderable. Massachusetts Plough-
nan.
The Time to Cut Ensilage Corn.
Tn tet the hwt Dossible results with
a silo. It Is Important for the corn to
be cut when It neither too green nor
too ripe. This condition, unfortunate!
does not extend over very many day,
cnneHollv If tha weather is hot and
dry; therefore, when it is ready, the
sooner it can be put Into the alio tne
hotter. A creat deal depends upon
what the weather has been or Is, If it
Is such that the crop matures natural
ly and the lower leaves on the stalks
do not begin to dry up, It is advisable
to leave It until the grain has passed
the milk stage and is in the dough,
and has begun to dent. Put away too
green, anyway, an undue amount of
acid is liable to develop and the eusil
age become unpalatable. But, as said
before, It will uot answer for It to get
too dry. If It does It will not pack
well In the bIIo, whereupon the air
Will enter, mold form, and deteriora
tion of tlie product result. To be ex
actly right, the stalk Should be pretty
full of sap, but the blades and tissels
a little dry. If the corn Is rather on
the dry order, It will be beneficial to
wet It as It goes Into the silo. New
Yorker, In The Epltomist.
Breeding Ducks.
After ducks are nearly grown, only
the most preferable ones should be
kept for breeding purposes, and not
more than half dozen females mntcd
to onn" drake. ' These Should be fed
lightly until about the first of Novem
ber, for to force their growth before
mating tends to destroy tho vitality of
the birds and thai, In turn, the fertility
of the eggs. A good ration for them
consists of one part clover, three part?
bran and two parts corn meal. Sub
sequently beef scraps may be added to
this. Some time In February Is when
g should begto, and It Is not co
impomlit to gel a large numcer oi
eggs, as ttrwli?1" gou ones, unuvr
the most favoraTMondl"""8.- how
ever, the first few esgV likely to
be Infertile. Accordiu"lvTAd-lu(:ks
should be fed about a third clover'frtU.1.
sometimes plain hay and the rest bran
and meal, before beginning to force
tbem for eggs. The point Is to till them
up with something bulky, and then,
when they begin to lay, add 5 percent
Of beef scraps, and thus gradually work
up, until in a week or two they are re
ceiving 10 or 20 percent In order to
have them do well, water should be
kept before ducks all the time.
Fred 0. Bibloy In The Epltomlat.
Young Cows and Richer Milk
The production of milk and butter
fat by dairy cows under normal con
ditions increases with each year up to
the fifth and ixth year, when the cow
is at her best. The length of time she
will maintain her maximum produc
tion depends on ber constitutional
strength and the care with which she Is
fed and handled. A good dairy cow
should not show any marked falling
oft until after ten years of age. Many
excellent records' have been made by
cows older than this. The. quality of
the milk production by heifers is some
what better than that of milk of older
cows, for we find a decrease of one
tenth to two-tenths of one percent in
the average fat content for each year
till the cows have reached full age. It
Is caused by the Increase in the weight
of the cows with advancing age; at
any rate there appears to be a parallel
Ism between the two sets of figures tor
the same sows. , .
: Young animals use a portion of their
food for the formation of body.tm-.
sue and It is expected, therefore, that
heifers will require a larger portion
of nutrients for the production of a
unit of milk or butter fat than do
older cows." After A certain age has
been reached, on the average . about
seven years of age, the food required
for the production of a unit of milk
or butter fat again Increases as re
gards dry matter and the digestible
components of the food. A good milk
cow of exceptional Btrength kept un
der favorable conditions, whose diges
tive 'system has' not been impaired by
over feeding or crowding for high rec
ords, should continue to be a profita
ble producer till her twelfth year, al
though the economy of ber production
Is apt to be somewhat reduced before
this age Is reached, Indiana Farmer,
- Growing Interest In the Horse, )1'
;I believe that one of the strongest
forces which will during the next de
cade tend to popularize and increase
the Interest Id the breeding and de
velopment of the trotting horse Is tho
movement of the people back to the
land, says John McCartney, In the
Western Horseman. Our great cltlea
will became over-crowded and If this
country continues to prosper a larga
majority of the people must go back
to the land. The nearer a people keep
to nature the better will be their health
morals. In all the whole history of the
world the greatest nations have been
those which depended upon agriculture
and agricultural pursuits, and the na
tions which have gone backward have
been those which became so highly
cultured that they forgot that In the
green fields of the country there was
life, and health and wealth. There Is
a subtle force at work, almost imper
ceptible, which will In time draw the
people from the cities, to agricultural
pursuits. In this movement the Influ
ences of' industrial and agricultural
education are playing a very import
ant part. The coming generations of
agriculturists will be better educated
and better equipped to handle the pro
blems of agriculture. The breeding of
lire stock has always been an. import
ant part of agricultural life, and the
future will show increased Importance
along this line. The breeding and de
velopment of the trotting horse will
In the future be conducted by a bet
ter educated and more enlightened
class of men, and in consequence bet
ter -horses will result. For this and
various other reasons the trotter of the
future will be better In every respect
than the trotter of today. He will be
more popular than ever before for this
very reason, and his breeding and de
velopment will be one of the leading
branches of agricultural development.
At tho risk of being called visionary, 1
want to make the prediction that this
back-to-the-land movement will make
agriculture the most popular of all pur
suits, and the breeding of the light
harness horse in fact, all kind of live
stock will occupy a large share of at
tention. The closer we, as a people get
to nature, with the green sod beneath
our feet and the blue sky above us.
the greater will be our love for those
true children of nature, birds and flow
ers and horses and all of the other
lowly animals. The horse will always
be the best beloved of all animals, as
he is surely man's best and most use
ful friend. Back to the land means
better men and better horses, and the
trotter will be the most popular of all
horses, for he is the most useful of all
horees.
8T0RMS BRED IN ARIZONA.
Why Aqueous Vapor Moving EasV
ward from Great Desert Is
Precipitated.
Dr. W. J. McOee, who was head of
the anthropological department of the
World's Fair, was In St. Louts recently
on his way back to Washington, after
a remarkable four months' experiment
in the Great American Desert Ari
zona In which he says he discovered
how storms are bred In the region,
which has long been termed the
"storm-breeding belt."
"A reservoir of aqueous vapor Is
formed over the aclllc coast and the
flulf of California," he said, "and this
swings over the 'storm-breeding belt'
The ground there Is perfectly level,
and the radiation from the earth's sur
face Is consequently regular and even.
The heat radiation from the desert
is, of course, very great. This strong
radiation by its regularity keeps the
aqueous vapor high above the earth
Inj-gble condition.
" WhenUfc-'rWOr nwves eastwaj
over the mountains, and meets "tffe ir
regular radiation that comes from the
uneven surface of the earth, a precipi
tation of the vapor results, causing
rain and storms."
Horse Commits Suicide.
A peculiar incident occurred at La
Pointe, Madallne Island, last week. A
horse belonging to Postmaster Tann
committed suicide. The horse had
been sick tor several days and the
owner decided to put it to death. With
that end In view, he led the steed
to the brow of a hill overlooking
Chequamegon Bay for the purpose of
shooting it When he reached the
scene of execution he found he had
negleoted to bring his rifle along,
and, leaving the horse, he went after
the weapon. ' Upon his return no
horse was in sight. But he beheld It
floundering helpless In the harbor. It
had been seen to rush at breakneck
speed down the hill, on being left
alone, and hurl itself from th i pier
Into the water, where it eventually
perished. Bayfield (Wis.) apodal to
the St Paul Dispatch.
Pennsylvania Bear 8ectlon. ''
. The bear hunters of central Penn
sylvania are ready for the hunting
season, which extends from October
1 to March 1. Formerly brum waa-an.
outlaw all the year round, but, the
law having become his protector for
seven months in the year, his tribe Is
expected to multiply and furnish rare
sport tor the woodsmen. The bear
section of Pennsylvania Is chiefly lo
cated in the counties of Clearfield,
Clinton, Cameron, Potter, Lycomlni
Sullivan. Monroe and. Pike, althoi
bears are to be found In all the
ties traversed by the Allegheny ri
The Beech Creek and Fall Brook1
tricts alone furnished 22 black
to the huntsmen last season.
delphla Record. '
, What Impressed H
"Rivers, there was on
your speech at the )
night that I admlrefl
"I am glad to h
Brooks, becauso 1 1
failure. When I
hadn't the leas''
ing to say."
"That waa I
particularly sm1.
sal nerve in maki.
An appreciation o
ramifications of th
days may be glean
published In Boeto
1200 miles of el'
from the Hub ''a
with.
Wl I'BU 1
U I Ut'1'
V
' TUB uruHE or ran. ' y
Jhe Must Keep Informed as to What
Other 8hops Are Doing. '
"For the life of me," said the girl at
the ribbon counter to the girl across
the way at the chiffons, "I can't make
out whether she is a shoplifter, a pur
chasing agejit or a store detective," "
Indicating a woman who had just
walked away. . -
"You're away off," aald the friendly
alslo manager, "She's not any one of
thoso things. : She's a store spyer. Wo
employ them In this establishment,
ourselves to spy-on other stores, on
ly you don't happen to know it They
go out In various disguises. Some
times they are the most fashionably
dressed women among the shoppers;
sometimes they are quiet, little unob
trusive women, who don't look as if
they knew a bolt of cotton from a
yard of wool, and sometimes the store
spy Is a clever man buyer. They start
out early every morning to see what :
is going on in the other stores. If
Mr. Smith, up the street, is selling
shirtwaists at 39 cents we want to
find out bow be can do it; If the new
est thing in fall suits la going at $17,.
and we have Just put a lot of burs In
for $18, off we send the store spy to
see how it can be done; how much of.
it is cotton and how much wool, There
is not a position In a department :
store which takes more nerve and
more knowledge of goods. No green
hand can go around from the kitchen
utensils to the carpets and be capa
ble of judging all tho fine shadings
without knowing something about the
dry goods business, and, besides, the
store spy has to carry things in her
eye. She has to be able to tell, when
she gets back to her own shop, just
how much better or worse the other
stores are selling tor the same price.
The job's worth all the money they
pay for It." Philadelphia Record,
A Famous Old Elm.
The famous old elm tree in the
grounds of the Llpptncott-manslon' at
Broad and Walnut streetsirhlladel-
phla, went down with a crash recent
ly, a victim of the advance of business
and money making. A large crowd
had gathered to see the fall of the ,
tree which for more than two hundred
years had been a landmark in that
vicinity. As far back as 1764 It waa
known as a tree that could easily af
ford shelter for more than twoscore
persons at a lawn fete. In the days
of the Vauxhall Gardens the great elm
was one of the chief features of In
terest, with Its spreading limbs and
sheltering boughs.
Its crash marked the destruction of
the last real landmark In the centre
of the city, though in Its Infancy the
elm was In what was then know:
the suburbs. Thl trunk, was
Ha In nU ... 1 nn..,HHt. ua
w uc " wo wu vuuuiuuu no
over a hundred years ago. Thi
not a vefittpn nf itarav. and
rings wereas BtiffiHfcUlflg flfc '
only a score of years old. WltEou'C
losovof -4lme furniture dealers - and
others quickly purchased pieces of the
old elm at the. rate of $5 a foot so
that In all the elm will net Contrac
tor James Porter more than $500. In
two years, It Is said, Phlladelphlans
will be paying fanciful prices for fur
niture made from tho wood of tne old
tree. Philadelphia Record.
A Test of Friendship.
The professor was examining a dark
brown substance spread on paper,
when he was Interrupted by a visit
from a friend.
"I say, would you kindly let me
place a Ilttlo bit of this on
-loneue?" said the. man of
to the newcomer, Ut
come bo vitiated by samplliigall
sorts of things." : t- i
"Certainly," responded the friend,
thrusting out his tongue. -i-'
The professor took np a little of
the substance under analysis and
placed It on the other's tongue. The
latter worked It round for fully a min
ute, tasting It much as he would
"Note any effect?" inqujid
professor.
"No: none.
"It doesn't paralyze or prick
tongue?" ' ',5a;
"Not that I can detect."
"I thought not. How d
taste?"
"Very bitter." - , ,
"Um-m; all right",
"What Is it?" Inquired the t
"I don't know. That's what
Ing to find out. Some one has
poisoning horses with it" Tlt-BItS,
Making It Plain.
"There seems to be a mutual mis
understanding," says the patlentwlfe, (
after the husband has explained at
great length his Inability to grasp her
process of reasoning or to agree with
her estimate of the Impulses and in
tentions governing bis actions In sta
ing out late and otherwlsejondiicti
himself as she thlnXi'
OTbaaw jems to-
derstandlng. Wha.
stand Is why you a
what I can't
11 S! HUt
r
r
a
" "d;
pU theSi
his dpi
is wh.jr
1