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PRESS, AOliUMB-XXt FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. MAY 23, 1906. NUM13EU 21. FRANKLIN THE The Lion That Went Through ttte Mill. Alt that a left: Of the one-time nourishing feint-Vie gold-mining camp was a line of empty cabins, a Vast and Vacant mill. One Jack Ste vens, With hla wife and two chlldreni Knit myself: It Was Ibneiy id the deserted campi terflbly So at times; the canon was deep add narrow, and the twlilsht i Satly In the aftefaou gathered round the dam spruces which lined the aides j bf tha creek.- Yet: the place had a : buck nd dreary grandeur of ita own, that held on' In eertan fasoinatlorti W five mortals were aore put to it at times ta Add occupation which ,, would tak Otir minds from the fact that we Wore cut off from the rest Of humanity. Every -piece of necessary work was elaborated and spun out to the extreme limit. But of course It would eventually corn to an end, and then wa were obliged to invent some taak. . On afternoon, as we ware busy constructing a small water-mill Jack atopped In his whittling and tossed the knife to ..is boy. saying: t "this thing wouMn't cut warm but- ter, Run over to tlii mill, Willie, and : give It a rub on the f,rt idstone. Sally. yOu go, too, and turn the Etoao for your brother." The children trotted cheerfully oft, and were soon swallowed up in the " cavernous mill,, while Jack and 1 sal j down to rest, watching the sunlight creep up the eastern canon wall, i Suddenly shriek after shriek rang out from within, tha mill. Jack fairly , flew, in that direction, grabbing up an ax as he ran. I made for the cabin to get the rifle. "Something wrong with the chil dren!" I Bhouted to the astonished " Mrs. Stevens, as I dashed Into the house. I snatched Up the rifle and rushed out again, followed by the ; frightened mother. Half-way to the mill we met little Sally. She was almost out of her wits with fright. "What Is it, dear? What is it?" ask ( ed her mother, shaking her vigorously, ; from excitement. "Great big dog tried to tried to jump on us!" cried the child between ; gasps. That was enough for me. I knew ""'there, were no dogs round, but sevenv) times lately we had heard the squalling of rnoujjtakpttCTjNsto haiPSnso seen the prints of his padded feet In the soft earth of the rrec't banks. We paid little attention to . these 'signs, for the puma, generally - speaking, is a cowardly brute, with lut little stomach for attacking a strong foe, unless urged on by the f pangB of hunger. Then, however, with Ma great strength and agility, he be , comes a very formidable antagonist indeed. "Evidently," I thought, "the brute M haa made his den in the mill, where there are so many nooks and crannies ." that he could stay a year without our being a whit the wiser, unless he chose to reveal hlmfelf." ' - By the time I had thli reasoned out I was at the door of the building. "Where are you, Jack?" I called, for It was darlt as pitch in there, and at first I could fee nothing. "Here by the first set of stamps. Got the gun?" "Yes, Indeed! What hnppened?" "Willie says that he nnd Sally were sharpening the knife, when they heard noise and looking up, saw on the blacksmith's Ls-nch a" "Great big'yaller animal!" burnt in Willie. "Most as big as a horfe. And he ,042011 to kind o' wriggle his nose , at ua an' holler, and Sally she screech ed, an' I picked up the knife an' got ready for him. But ho didn't like the noise t-hat Sally made, 1 rsckan, for she Jumped clean over the boler, an' he's in behind there somewhere now." ' This little story without stops was effective. "Weren't you seared, Willie?" I asked, rather In awe of the youngster. -"Well kind o'," he ariltted. "But I was going to stay with him just the israe." , , - , "Pretty Sndy boyeh?" said Jack.. ' with fatherly pride. "Well, t ahould say so! But what do you tllnk It was, Jack mountain lie?" "Sure." ' "What are you going to do?" "Dig him out," responded Jack, promptly.'. ' "Um!' aald t. "What' the matter? Ain't afraid, are you?' . "No no Not at all," I answered, earns -"Of course not. Why should 1 The worst that he could oe to schtter mo all over do would the mill J To be aure, I should prefer more fcouecum ena, as it were. What's you plan of campaign?" "Why, tWillte will run up to the cabin and get some candles and my sIx-boojter, and then we'll drive him Into a corner and plug him full of boles." I whistled. - "Well," said Jaok, "don't yon ap prove of the Idea?" "Approve? ' Approve of chasing a full-growa .puma .through, this mess of stamps and beams and truck by candle-light?,, Why, I think It Is noth ing less than genius which suggests the scheme, The only thing that I don't like is the idea of shooting Mm when we get him cornered or he geta o cornered, as the case may be. I think It would be more sportsmanlike to take him by the tall and snap his head off." .flix ," ,: . - ;.: -.:.,:- ; .- "Oh, quit your nonsense!" aald Jack. "We ean handle him all tight Now, Willie, hustle up to the house and get a handful of candle and my revolver. See that every chamber Is loaded and fetch a box of cartridges besides, Tell yon ma that we've got the hunt of our lives on handt - Skip now, eon!" . ' i f t Awaj. went Willie In grant glee. It cms that he got the needful article without attracting Jj(s mother's aUen- .n until It. was too late for her to - re; h had a ell-grounded sua- k k fiEHBf W1LUCE PHILLIPS. M it plclon that she would enter a pfbtest: t tried to convince Jack that it Would be tho' part of wlsdoiri to wait for daylight, but he refused to listen: Jack was one of the best-hearted fel lowers in the world, but he possessed a lack of caution which Was very Ir ritating to more intelligent people. Willie returned only too aooit witH the munitions of war. and we begad ouf preparations: "Are you going tb get that candle lighted r asked Jack impatiently. I felt like answering, "Not if t can help myself," but t withstood the temptation, and said instead: "It's the funniest candle I ever saW; I think it must bo made of marble. Match doesn't seem to have ariy effect on It." "That's cause your hand jiggles so," remarked Willie. I bent a stern brow On the young man. "Willie," said I "is It possible that you can make sport of the nervous agitation brought on by the knowledge of th? danger through which you have Just passed?" "Beg your pardon," said Willie hum bly. Then I heard a sound that cheered my drooping soul. The mill door whjch Willie had closed'--8av Us! s6 that the lion could not get out, was opened, and a feminine voice shrilled through the echoing building with: "Jack Stevens, come right out of there, and Willie, and you, too, Henry! I never heard of such foolishness! Come out. I say!" "Look out. Mollle! Shut the door, quick! There he comes!" yelled Jack, in well-simulated fright. Slam! went the door, and a rapid pattering of feet showed that my only ally hud deserted me. Then the hunt began. It Is a strange fact by nature that the man who Is the least interested la an occasion of this kind Is always the one who finds the quarry. This time went by the rule I discovered the nicuclain-llon. We had poked around for about a quarter of an hour, with the candle shadows flitting strangely and un- about, and the foolish red my brain that perhaps only a creation of the agination J,hstsfcrej re pliant guard of the rear and plunged carelessly ahead. As'l stooped to pass under one of the big braces of tho mill, a yell as of forty seven demented Sioux Indiana assault ed my ear -drums, and I was knocked on the flat of my bark in a twinkling. "There he goes!" yelled Jack. "Aro you hurt, Henry?" "Oh. no!" I answered, cheerfully. "Nothing but a fractured skull and a few dislocated vertebrae. I hope the lion hasn't crippled himself. 'Twould bo too bad to spoil the fun right at tho start." "Come on! Come on!" howled jBck. "Don't He there talking!" And with that he and Willie tore after the flee ing beast. Tha chaso led up the rickety r.teps to the second floor of the mill. The Hon made it In two jumps nnd Jack in four. I took It in a dignified one step at a time, not being In so much of a hurry. The scene which presented Itself to my gaze aa my head roso above tha floor was a lively one. The big cat, crazy with fright, hound ed round the place in great leaps. After him went Jn-k nnd Willie, wild ly excited and without any thought of possible consequences. AH myself In cluded, as I found to my astonishment were screeching and yelling their loudest. The dust rose in stifling clouds from beneath the hurrying feet. The lion s-rambled up one side of the mill, and gal'oped across the beams toward me. "Head him off! Head him off!" shrieked Jack. I let bIx bullets fly In the general direction of the animal before one could say "scat." I didn't hit him but the fountain cf fire and noise caused him to change his mind. Ho stopped midway between us, throwing quick glances first at one, then the other. Ho was a beautiful shot as he stood there, but the last shell had Jammed In the gun, and I couldn't get It out to save me. As I tugged at the ejector Jack began to howl: "Shoot! Shoot! You idiot! Why don't you shoot?" he waved his revol ver over his head In a frenzy. I dropped my rifle and regarded him calmly. "Think a moment," said L "What's that In your right hand?'. He brought his hand down and look ed at it. Then, I am pleased to state, he looked exceedingly foolish. "Ohr' said he, and pulled up to fire. Before the hammer fell, though, the cat had jumped one last beautiful spring of at least forty feet, right down into the open door of an ore; chute that seemed to present a means of escape. .; He landed fairly la the opening. There was a scratching and flurry, and then he slipped down to the floor be low. - With a whoop of triumph Jack and I rushed to the chute. He wa our cap tive now, beyond peradventure, aa the chute, a mere box of wood, about four feet square, that led-from the top floor of the mill' to the stamp floor be noath ua, was closed at its lower end by a hopper-shaped spout with an opening too small for anything larger than a house cat to crawl through. The upper part of the chute, that portion above the door, was filled with partially crushed ore, which had jam med Instead of sliding down, aa It should have done. We were ready at the doorway, In case the brute man aged to crawl up the nearly perpen dicular sides. Thus his escape was Cut off In every direction. We bent eagerly over the doorway, and peered own through the dark ness at our victim. There he was, his eyes shining green In the candle-light, growling and sputtering. As, rifle In hand, I leaned to get a btir yiewi' I tost my balance, ao ' pleasantly nolloilente tho lit-ft Wat lnxcd my nearly pitched head first ddwii to that Incarnation of fury beldw; I struck but vigorously to recover myself, anil in the flurry managed tb discharge the rifle.' The bullet smashed into the ore" In the top of the chute, in an instant the whole mass) released by the shock bf the bullet, Slid down the Chute with h dUii roar. Clouds of dust puffed out intd Our faces, covering its with 4 coat Of grime, there came It squawk from beneath US: "HOoray!'1 said Jack: "MOW we haV got him Aa there Was about five tons of dirt pressing down oh the beast, 1 accept ed the conclusion: ' After the Jubilation bf victory cani & council Of war'. Should we leave sui Victim td die i proldnged deafh fforii sUffocatiorii or pull a board Off and give blm a more merciful end by bul let? While w4 were arguing a bril liant thought came to me. "Why not take hind klivef" said t. ''Old fironson, up at Deadwood, wbtild give twenty dollars for such an addi tion to his menagerie." That Caught Jack immediately. We heeded the money, for one thing, and then there Was something novel in Capturing a living puma. We hlahed dOwn stairs and started to hunt tip material for a cage. For tune favored US: WO soon found 4 strong crate, iu Which machinery had been shipped, that with a little chang ing served the purpose well. We put the open end of this over the mouth of the hopper; then, working '''with a crowbar between tho. slats, we pried the top board off the hopper. A little round patch of yellow Head showed above tH amooth surface bl the dirl We dug round It with sticks until at last we had the whole head uncovered. At first we thought the brute was dead, but soon he opened his eyes and gazed about him. His expression was meek and hum ble. Indeed his experiences were enough to break the proudest spirit. It Was Impossible for him to move In the closely packed earth. Then we fell to work, and Completed the excavation. When at last the puma" Was free, he shook himself vi gorously, Walked Into the cage and lay down. He paid no attention while wt moved the cage out and nailed the front on. Willie and Jack went out to bring Mrs. Stevens in. We had completely forgotten that the coating of dirt al tered our appearance remarkably, Therefore Jack didn't know what tc make of It when his wife, after cast ing a glace upon him, gave one pierc ing shriek and shut herself up In the closet. It took some time for Jack to convince her that he was of a verily her husband, and not some strange, new" fclPtlfltlndlan. Then she and jack ana Willie aTO-WMfrr'eajiljeople admitted it reluctantly, for he to the mill Now I had watched the beast and can testify that he never moved a muscle. We all stood round the cage. wondering and admiring. The puma certainly was a fine animal. His body must have measured four feet. Hb'b been as quiet as a cow ever since we caged him," said Jack. "Dear mo, Isn't that strange!" said Mrs. Stevens. "I should have thought that he would have raised ructions." At that moment, as if the words had ronvlirced the animal that he was not acting a proper part, ho sprang to his feet with a yell that stopped our cir culation. Jack, the hitherto unterrifled, grab bed his wife and Jumped backward. Willie and Sally ran behind their pa rents. I was too astonished to move and watched open-mouthed. The puma went ramping, tearing mad. He bit and tore at the cage with such speed and fury that ho roll ed it over tho place, snarling, growl ing, coughing and roaring, until it seemed that all the Unpleasant noises of the World had been lot loose In the mill. The cage was fairly strong, but it W8 never Intended to hold such a compound of active volcano and con centrated tornado as now raged In Its midst. The're came a sharp crackling; some slats flew across the floor; then, with a farewell yell, the puma sprang over the heads of Jack and his family and vanished through the open door of the mill. "There goes our twenty dollars," said I, as soon aa I was In a condition to speak. "Yes," piped up Willie, in a tone that showed his disappointment, "and I don't bellevi he'll ever come back again, either." This was a true word. He never did. Youth's Companion. A Nw Poet. We take pleasure In announcing that D. M. Clark of Angelua is now regularly on the staff of the Carolina Citizen, occupying the chair of poet ry. ' Mr. Clark will furnish at least one original production weekly. We present thia week "November Nine teen Pour." a pathetic bit of Terse, which the author ha dedicated to the memory of a lady. In the order named we will publish the following verses by Mr. Clark: "Friendship," "In Good Old Summer Time," and "Choosing One of Two." These will be followed by others, and a spring approaches we think we can promise our readers some choice sentimental productions from tha pen -of our bright young friend. Cheraw CIU sen.r a A Disgusted Editor. If we had a son and he were ever to acquire the office seeking habit we would borrow a large-size pair of hob nail boots and proceed to kick to frazzles the aeat of his Sunday panta loons. And if that didn't cur him we would take slippery-elm club and hammer about two gallons of turkey dressing out of his cerebellum. Some men are chronic office-holders, and II there ia a class of men more disgust ing It ha never been called to our attention, Odlbolt (Ia.) Chronicle. " At Horn. "uauae ana uarice are in a ter- rlble predicament," . . : . -v "How ta that?" "They paid so much for their go-Inf-away outfit that they can't go away." Louisville Courier-Journal. Ribbons and passementerie to tb value of IH.000,000 were produced In fMM at 8t. EtlMhe 'France, DIED LIKE A SACHEM. ON HIS FEET, IN WAR BONNET, ART.T.D WITH WAR CLUB: Falling Djyv Head if the 8rllp Clan of the Senecas, Kert th Faith cf His Fathers -Handed 6n Tradl' tlon cf Washington, Chancey Abrnms, sachem of the Jnlpe cl.i.i of the Seneca Indiana, died teccntly ort tho Tonawanda reserva tion and wni burled with the riles of the tribe. Nls-Nya-Net, Falling Day, waa his Indian came, and.as Falling Kay life should be krtown in death, for he died a pazan. A man of educa tion, well read, living, and dressing af ter the manner of the whites, ho clung, as la rK'ht for a sachem, to the god Of his fathers. Mbst of the Seri ccas have listened to the missionaries of che tribo or another, but ttcvef Falling Day, who died of 8 bfoked heart. Last month his wife died, and Fall' ing Day wept himself Into the grave. He retired (o his own house and mourned, and presently fie toolt to bis bed. It was a fortnight ago when that white man known to the Indian as Gyantwak.i "The Planters! a full member of the trl'ic. went up to the reservation on a visit. Ma heard that Falling Day was sick and Went to vis It him. The Other pagan Indlaris of the tribe were squatted about the room, watching, nnd on a chair near the bed were Fulling Day's leggings, his bead b.'lt, his war club, his head dress, with the enzle feather at It crest, all the paraphernalia Of Snipe sachem. To tho eyes bf adeh cca this showed two things. First, the old chief expeotod death, and second, he was going to die in the faith. For when a chief of the Senecas dies he fuces It In war regalia and on his feet. It was Monday moraine When the white physician who had attended him Instead of a medicine man. told the watchers that the end had come. His two oldest friends were Waiting. They clasped on his legs the leggings of old time government broadcloth which had been hlg father's: they slipped his moccasins on his feet, his war bonnet on his head; about his wit they slipped the belt with beads woven In the woof, and to it they hung his war club. So they put his arms over their shoulders and lifted him to his feet. A Weary while they waited, for he was a long time dying; but at last he drew a long breath and hla head fell on his breast. Ho had faced deali like a chieftain. For n sachem, his life was a peace able One, He was just a farmer, a power among his people, and a good Indian, the traders said that tie was honest and straight, nnd the mission rejected CTirlsTIaiiftyr-- He JwrrHf jramUon of Chief Blacksmith, who saw Washington on behalf ot the Sen eca and to whom Washington prom ised a perpetual reservation for the Senecas a promise which stands out imong promises to the Indlnns in tiat it wa kept. Falling Day, as a boy, used to sit on tho knee of Black imlth and hear tho tale of the visit to Washington.. Ho has often repeated It to Planter as his grandfather, an Indian of the old school, told it in his grand, eloquent Indian Speech: "He was a tall man and strong, with the look of a chief. He stood before us. His heart was good and his words were straight. And he said: " 'You and your people shall have these Innds of the whito man forever. None Bhall take them from you unless he conquers tho whito man. As long as tho waters run and the beavers build', as long as the leaves fall and the ensle flies, ns long as the grass grows and the rabbit runs, so long shall these lands belong to the Sene cas." " When ho was young Falling Day went to a mUsion school and was ed ucated. He resisted conversion, but the learning he kept, and he was fond of reading, especially history. He could write an intelligent and inter esting letter, and though he had an Indian's reserve, he talked delight fully when tho shell was broken. In later years he became sachem of the Snlpo clan by election of the women, for woman suffrage prevails among the Senecas to a dejree which would delight Susan B. Anthony. The wom en elect the sachem. It Is true that the council of men has the right ot veto and can force the women to make a second choice, but rarely does. ' Falling Day was burled yesterday. No news came out of the reservation about It, but It must have been a sim ple ceremony, because the Ceremonial of a Seneca death Is not at the grave, but at the death feast, ten days later. The chief Is laid away In his war re galia and with very little ceremony. A hole Is drilled in the grave from tho body to the surface, for souls do strange things sometimes, and the soul of the dead may wish to revisit the body. The great ceremonial observance Is the "Adia-Kow-Ha" on the tenth day after death. For those ten days the soul la bovertnz abo.tt the earth, lingering nutr Its old haunts, watch ing everything;, listening to every thing. 1 But on the tenth day It de parts, nnd In the feast the tribe bids it farewell. For two or three day before this feast runners of the 8nlpe clan will go to every part of the res ervation, Inviting the people of the Wolf, the fJeer, the Turtlo, the Heron, the Boaver and 'the Hawk. They will assemble In the Lons House of the Snipe people. Everything will be done according to ancient ceremonial. The women will enter from one door, the : men from another. They : will eat corn bread whereof the meal is beaten, out a their mother beat It in wooden mortars. For although the Seneca live In modern fashion, they go back to the old custom at their ceremonial feasts. The people wear any blta ol the old dress which they own, and the women of the clan work all the day before, with the pestles. .The mortars are hollowed from the trunks of trees. The bread of meal and benn ' Is boiled up In kettles and baked over the Are. They make, too, a soup of meal and beans. All ' this M ready when the guests arrrve and seat themselves about th Long ' The last great death feast was held In November,, 1904, tor Mr. Harriet Maxwell Converse, a white woman and an adopted member ot the tribe. She Also was of the Snipe cian. She dad died a year before. If anything prevents the fenit on th tenth. J y It is held one year after tiie death, be cause the soul Comes back once a ear. On this occasion the food was dis tributed among the mourners, and then Chester Lay, a head man of the Wolf clan and a friend of the deaa spoke her eulogy, and the Senecas Wept, for they are a peoplo of soft heart. Clow, tho "preacher" of his tribe, expounded the doctrine of Ga-Nia-Cclo, the Seneca prophet and teacher, and others who had known her followed In the Seneca tongue. At the find ' the Snipe clan gave 'resent to the runners, the chief mourners, the friend of the dead and the women who bad prepared the feast. Something like this will be the death feast of Falling Day, known to tin whites as Chauncy Abrams, and to his own people as Nls-Nya-Nent, the sachem, and the faithful follower of tho qld ways. Then the Snipe women will meet and choose a man, the council of men will approve him and there will be a new sachem. New York Sun. A STREET SIGN HINT. How Minor and Multifold Thing Carl B Made Objects of Art. Minor And multifold things, like street Signs, can be made objects of art, however simple their chnracter. Caro mUy easily be had to give them proper proportions, an agreeable color compatible with legibility and good lettering. In the case of way side guide-boards there is yet further opportunity to make them attractive In doslgn. In Boston, when street signs stand detached from buildings, a pleasant decorative effect is given by some simple wrought lron scroll work In the anglo between board and post. In many parts of Boston are to be seen bronze tablets with appropriate Inscriptions, marking some historic building or commemorating some not able event. Certain patriotic orders, like the Sons of the Revolution, have made the placing of such tablets one of their du'.es. In various New Eng land communities local historic socie ties mark notable sites in a similar way, perhaps at first with painted legends, to be replaced, when means permit, by Inscriptions more enduring. This service might well be extended. Street names often bear Intimate re iatlons with local history, but for lack of record the circumstances of their designation are likely to be forgot ten. Here, then, Is a rich field of work for1oc! ocleHoJjilaclng In each street that bears a name of-bds-torlcal purport an Inscription giving the facts of the case. Lincoln street, in Boston, for instance, might now commonly be supposed to be named in honor of the great President. But a suitable inscription would recite the fact that the name was given, on such a date in honor of Levi Lincoln, governor of the commonwealth, etc. On 8chool street the ' Inscription would be to the effect that the first public Latin school in America stood there. In such ways the streets ol a town could be made a veritable book for the public, In which literally they that run might read. These tab lets could be given attractive shape, as simple or as ornate as desired, and perhaps fashioned after some stand ard design, aa street signs are. Or, where tho street bears the name of a person of note, the tablet might In elude a medallion portrait In low re lief. The thoroughfare Itself would thereby more fully serve the function of k commemorative monument, in scriptions might at first be affixed In temporary shape, gradually to be re produced In bronze, perhaps a certain number each year. 8uch a work would add greatly to the Interest of a place. Particularly In the older parts of tho country, as In New Eng land, the historic character of which attracts tourists from other parts of the country in increasing numbers every year, it would be a remunera tive outlay for a community to under take the task as completely aa pos sibleFrom Sylvester Baxter'a "Art In the Street" In the Century. QUAINT AN DCURI0U8. The old stvle sham pointed shoe ot Spanish origin has nearly dlaappeared In Mexico, naving oeen repiacea oy wt American lasts. The cabinet makers of France are artist, but they keep reproducing, year after year, the atyles which their forefathers have made for centuries. There Is a compulsory Character League In . England, the business of which Is to urge .on Parliament the passage of a bill making It compulsory for all'mployera to give a written character to their employes when leaving, ..... .... ;u ,; : A nrlsoner ' accused In an EntflBh court of burglary presented to the ludee a written defense when he was placed on trial. It began: "I hope and trust these few lines will nnd you quite well." He got three year penal servitude. ', '' ': VLtxiem girl are somtlmes curious ly wooed. Their lovers walk up and down on the . opposite side of - the street for hours staring at their win dows. It the young lady Is agreeable she appears at the .window after a few days, and they soon became acquaint ed. . One of the oddities of our nomen clature la that the combination of met al known as German silver contain no atlver In Ita composition, and la of Chines and not of German origin, saya the American Machinist It wa first Introduced Into Europe by the Germans, and for some time It W not generally known that they had sim ply borrowed It from the Chines. Dr. Laurence I. Flick, an expert on tuberculosis, I planning an Inter national convention, ta be held In waMfiton. la 10?s, For San Joss Ceals. Many fruit growers know the Snn Jose scale from sad experience. These and any others whose plants arc af fected with this pest, should prepare at once to spray them with the lime sulphur preparation. If this work is postponed it may not be done at nil. The formula recommended for use In this state is as followB: Lime (unslncked), 30 pounds; sul phur (flour or flowers), 30 potinds; salt, 10 pounds; water, 100 galbns. Indianapolis News. Loquid Manure. When a fainter makes up his mind to post himself upon the value of manures, about the first thing he finds o':t la thi't the liquid portion of the manure is tho moat valuable. Up on finding this out the first thing to do Is to devise some ways or means In which this liquid manure can bo saved and kept p that the greatest percentage of Its hlsh value may be i made use of. Any plan that will ac complish this is good, and he quick er a man adopts It, m puts It Into op eration, just so r, Ah sooner will he find his land greatly Improved in ! value Weekly Wltneas. Fruit by Weight. Hereafter bananas ao to be sold wholesale by weight and all quota tions will be given by the hundred pounds and the quality will bo given by grades: Firsts, seconds, thirds, ct-v This Is the only fair wsy to sell all products. Even small fruits could bo put up In boxes holding approxi mately n given weljht and quotations would then mean something. Where as as ttsls now tho case, boxes of all kinds varv so much that quotations by the case or box eives no definite idea of the market. Then, 'too, laws could be made reguiattngw these weights, the same as In thewse or other, commodities. National! Fruit Grocer. Ths Plo's Early Life. Vt At one of the Canadian InstttuiAa a sneaker, who had as his topic "Swine Breeding and Feeding.' said, among, nthr thln?a. that "when nlfS affr rowed a common weight Is t pounds (although we quite freque rtiu-e ""'-h f"-r'- litter. pigs wfflC Irty ''pounds, and when theTffFYour weeks old, it they have been well nursed, they Will WeigU UlglllL-VU IWUIlUO n.., making a gain of ISO pounds in 28 dnvs. or the sow producing an aver- ago of five and a half pounds per day. So that you see the sow should be a milker and be fed with an eye to milk production. The young pigs will sometimes commence to eat at 1 two weeks old, but usually about four, j If you have only a limited supply ot milk to feed them. It is a good plan to set a shallow trough where tbu ' sow can't get at It, and the youn 1 pigs can, and feed them milk, or they j will do very well on scalded shorts mixed with a thin slop; they will In this way gradually learn to bo self dependent." Weekly Witness. Practical Poultry Points. j If you should meet with the misfor tune of havlnz the combs frozen, use ; upon the frostbitten part the follow ing preparation: Sweet oil, one tea- spoonful; turpentine, one teaspoon ful. ! It Is verv necessary that the hens ahould be supplied with grit, as this Is really their teeth. Throw gravet, oyster, shells and old broken white dishes where they can get It. Pure water ahould be available at all times: cold water In summer and warm water In winter. Do not neg lect this. A large percentage of the egg la composed of liquid. Glv a supply of green food daily cabbage, pulped turnips, apples, beets and lettuce. Table scraps or all klnda can be uaed to advantage wnen thex. are not too salty. Avoid using pepper or peppers except on a very told day. Egg breaking 1 sometime caused by the Iaak ot oyster shell. It you have not used this you do not know it value. Tb last egg of summer Is good, but the first egg of winter sounds more to the point Al ter the moulting season feed for egg production. Farmers' Home Journal. Unthrifty Calves. ' A reader,, Frederlckton, Ohio: Pleaae advise me what to do for my calves. I do not consider them sick, but they are not doing well. When I bought them last Octover they were very thin In flesh and had beeu .un nlng on very short pasture. From October till December they had fair paature, and slrce then have been fed clover and timothy hay, mixed, once a day, and nice, bright corn fodder once a day, also one and a halt pocks of nubbins, given - at two ' feeds each day. They are salted once a week, bare access to good water and are warmly , housed at night. They have access to a wheat straw stack, but 1 never see them eating It Their dropplnga aeem normal, but they are not thriving. The backbone of one ot them ta almost sharp enough to hurt the hand when rubbing It The hid la not tight to the backbone, as I have noticed would sometimes be the case when cattle were not doing well. They are last April and May calves. I have bran and oat. Would they, be' a better teed for them than th corn? If ao, how much ahould I feed? v tour feed under ordinary condition would keep them thriving fairly well, yet with the exception of th clover ;hey get in the hay, none of ,your foods are eultable for the best grow ing of calves. Yes, I would, by all mean, chanr th eora nubbin feed ing to cats and bran, nnd also get some Unseed oil meal. These calves were thin, na you say, In October, hence were not In condition to start in on foods that were not exactly bal anced, like crn fodder and corn nubbins, which are never very good calf foods. The quantity of the grain you should feed depends largely upon the calf. I think a very good rule would !e to ml onts and wheat bran equally by measure, then to every hundred pounds of the mixture add ten pounds of the linseed oil meat. Start In with this on a pint to each calf twice a day. When they eat It well Increase until you aro feeding two quarts twice a day to each calf. This, of course, should be varied as tho Individuality of the calf would seem to ree.nire. If one is dainty, caro should be used In not overfeed ing It. yet with this class of grain food there is little danger of one's feeding too much after they get used to it. You will got valuo re ceived In growth, provided they are not scrub bred calves. In short, good feed to Eood, well bred calves means value received; eood food to scrubs means a tight squeeze to get the money back. O. D. Smead, in the Tribune Farmer. Latest Egg-Laying Contest. Tha latest egg-lnying contest Is that Just concluded at the Kansas ex periment station. The leading breeds were represented each with a pen of a male and six pullets. The methods were those ordinarily employed, the idea being to bring out comparative results such as might be obtained by an experienced poultryman. The usual mixtures of grain and soft feed were given, also vegetable food, oyster shells, grit and meat meal, but no fresh meat, pepper, patent foods or other stimulants. During the twelve months of the contest the pen of White Leghorns laid 8S5 cs'gs; the Rose Comb White Leghorns Intd 828, laying, however, a larger proportion of their e'ggs in the winter than the single comb pen. The American Reds laid 820 eggs and showed the best winter egg record. The White W.vandottes laid 779. the Buff Wy'andottes 704. Barred Plym uth Rocks 619, Light Brahmas 539. The Plymouth Rocks were not fairly ipe.Y'J'd, the females being yejr lings, wliile'TTli Mlf 'llnetfter breeds were pullets. The Brahmns were, as usual, slow In developing, but contin ued to lay well except In the spring. Probably for a longer time their rela tive showlns would havo been bet ter. lndlanapoli9 News. An Observant Horse. Another champion of the reasoning power of anlmals'has come forward with a special instance. A retired farmer living in Kansas City Bays that he once had a farm horse that un doubtedly possessed reasoning facul ties. "This horse," he says, "was once injured by barbed wire, and he had a wholesome dread of barbwlre ever after. Hu could not be Induced to stop across a wire lying on the ground. One day, when this horse was grazing In the pasture, I started with another team to water them at a pond. To reach this pohd I went through a gate into n field, going out on the other side by crossing the fence wires low ered to the ground and fastened. The horse In the pasture, seeing that I wa3 driving the team to water, fol lowed until ho camo to tho place where I crossed the wires. He re fused to do it and went back and around tho field. The next day he followed the team again going to wa ter, having forgotten about the wlrea that lay in the way. While down in a bollow out 'of sight of the fence In either direction the cogitative horse suddenly remembered that those wires were probably lying in the same posi tion they were the day before. Toss ing up his head with a disgruntled snort, he turned and trudged back around the field. That was a caae of reason. From cold facts and proposi tion retained In his memory and not excited by any new perceptions, be reflectively reasoned out that he'd have to make a detour sooner or later, and he might aa well start now." Kansas City Times. , Ths Duchess and the Dustman. Before municipal dust carts came In to being, the dustman waa a familiar and Independent figure, with a charac ter of his own, who became the sub jret ot many anecdote, says the Lon don Globe. , The dustman most famous in hla war la probably he who paid ao happy compliment to the Ducheaa of Devon shire of a by-gone day, who waa eo famous for her beauty. A the waa stepping out of her carriage one day, a dustman who was standing by, and who happened to enjoy his pipe, caught sight of her, and with the readleat wit and -happleat Inspiration at once ex claimed, "Love and bless you, my lady, let me light jdj pipe at your eyes!" . : The duchess ft said to have been so much' pleased with this unlooked-for compliment that more than once after ward ahe checked the flow ot admira tion which was her .constant tribute with the remark, "Oh! aftor the dust man's compliment all other are In slpid." - . ; ; . Reassuring. Doctor Well, how does tho eye feel this morning? Patient It' ' exceedingly painful, doctor. I'm afraid I'm going to have trouble with It DoctorOh, don't worry; - It will come out nil right Philadelphia Ledger. . ' An olive complexion ts the correct thtttl In Fnitlsnd Bow. NEW YORK'S LETTUCE SUPPLY. A Winter Luxury Now Brought to Market by Carloads Dally. "Car lots, solid trains, In fact, of a single kind of fruit or vegetable, are, so common nowadays," salld a com mission merchant, "that we don't, think anything about them. And still as you say, such a thing as lettuce by the carload may seem Interesting, . anyway. "I know, you run around the, corner to the market and buy n head of let tuce; that's all you want, and you aeo there maybe, fifty or n hundred head or less a little pile making Just ono' Item among Innumerable other things and It doesn't seem to you as If it would take stich an everlasting lot of . lettuce to supply all New York. "But this is a big town, lots of peo ple In It, and we eat here now Iota of lettuce in winter, and at this sea son receipts of Florida lettuce In car loads are common. There may be days when we don't get here more than a couple of carloads, but re-, celpts of five, ten, fifteen, or more car loads of lettuce In a day are common, . and they run sometimes to forty cars, "Florida lettuce comes in tall, round baskets made of thtn wldo slats, rising diagonally from the bo;- . torn, so that they cross Jattico wise, leaving openings for. Ventilation, and these tall baskets are built with a slight flare from the bottom to the top, so that there may be ventilation all around them throuehout tho load when they are stacked In a car. "They pack from twenty-four to for ty head of lettuce In a basket, accord ing to the size of the head, and you can put about 225 baskets Into a car. So in a car running sny thirty beads to the basket you would have approx imately In the carload about 7000 heads of lettuce, and on a day when forty cars arrived the receipts here would be somewhere about 300,000 heads. There are single commission" merchants here In whose business tho handling of one or two carloads of Florida lettuce In a day would be nothing out of the usual. "We begin to get Florida lettuce about the middle of December, and the supply from that Btate continue until April 1, sometimes until May, depending on the season. Then, as is the case with so many other vege tables and fruits, as the sun make more and more nothern, we get let tce from points further and further north from Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia until we come to receive It from local and comparativlye local sources of supply, from Jersey, Long Island, western and central New York. "From western New York we get lettuce as late as October and No vember, and then for our lettuce sup ply we begin to work south again, until we come once more In winter to Florida. And so we have lettuce In the market the year round. inter supply lncrwiesT-toOv es that from tarjiajioston let. tuce, In the neighborhood of which city lettuce has long been, as It still is, grown at this season under glass. "Winter lettuce from Florida gets up sometimes to $(i a basket; it has sold as low as 75 cents, the prfs de pending largely on the supply, which in turn may depend largely on the . weather. They might have continued warm weather in Florida, which would make great quantities Of the lettuce plants head up all at once, all to be rushed together to market. "They might have around Boston a season of continued mild weather la which the srowth of the plants could not be retarded by raising the glass, with the result that the bulk of that, lettuce would come In not distributed along, but within a comparatively short time. But commonly the whole sale price of winter Florid" lettuce In . this market ranges between 11.25 and $5.50 a basket, depending on the quality as well as the stock on hand. "Winter lettuce, with Improved fa cilities for transportation, is now, like so many other like products, brought to this market in far greater , quantities than formerly, but the de mand keeps pace with the supply." New York Sun. English in ths Mountains. Last summer some personB from the North were spending a month In the mountains of "West Virginia In a , log cabin on the mountainside. One morning aa they sat on the porch ad miring the view, r little mountain girl In short blue calico dress, and bright pink sunbonnet bounced round the -side ot the cabin. "Howdy!" she said. "Mammy want to know if you-all don't want a poita-. ot snapples thia mohnlng.' . "A what?" the Northerner asked, In amazement "A poke ot anapples," sissy repeat ed. Then evidently overcome wit n shyness, she darted through ;the un derbrush before the nvweomer could decide whether or not they wanteda "poke of snapples." The expression got into the system of the visitor until curiosity made one of them take ber way to the little farmhouse. ' "I will take a poke of snapples, please," she said, fearing all the while the mountain woman would laugh In her face or think her an escaped lun atic, v V:::.: . ;" t-;v. But very gravely the woman disap peared, and soon returned, handing the caller a bag ot atrlng bean. Tho . beans, which anap in the finger, are ftntimt "-ninnies" bv " the mountain- eera; and "poke" which is a good old word for bag that ha survived from the Shakespearian English of the early English settlers. Youth's Com panion. Big North Carolina -fo'plsr. Last week up In the mounttrhvous part of Elk township Molt Jones, who" ia in the logging business, cut a large yellow poplar a week or so- ago asd from it he got fifteen cut. .Ton eft th cut were 1J feet long, four Were 14 feet long and one was 10 feet long. The butt cut was 6 feet In dlrjniter and the top cut at the little end was 20 (nchea in diameter, The tree will make-more than 5000 feet ot lumhm- Wllkcsboro Chronicle. Th letters In th alphabets of t! d'"irnt nations vary in nun;br.
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