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'4 'V TUB ANKL1N ' PRESS; VOLUME XXI. FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 29, 1906. .NUMBEJi 35. FM HI tt Jin't the streets nor the buildings That arj reared 'neath prosperous sktes, 'tf domes wih their splendid gild- Inn For-hou".?."". ndatKlr"Vr.cK, - may sirew ' The pine, 'nenth misfortune's frown; But a great voles erica "We will build anew!" It's the people that make a town. AAAAAAAAaV'; IN THE COURT A True Incident of L By WILFRED FRENCH. Never was I so near "beat out" as . the night when I finally struck the . trail and wallowed Into the alleged "Inn," a day's ride down from' Kal goory and two days up from the coast, In the wildest of the Australian moun tains. Rain? I never knew what rain was before, and have never seen It more than sprinkle since. You could not breathe without sheltering your noso, and I believe one could have drowned standing upright on the ton of a rock. When It began I was out in the bush with two naked native helpers, plot ting a possible path, through those in fernally erratic defiles, for the new railway that was to connect Kalgoory with the coast. Rain? Dear Heaven! The two na tives crept Into a cave and both were drowned there. Four solid hours I waded, swam, wallowed, gulped, then more dead than alive crawled Into the Inn, reminding myself of a rat I once pulled from a mud-hole by the tall after holding him down with a stick long enough for. him to have drowned twice over. .iiiT,T-r''lln'?T"'" y1" In great shape lis a place. Then it (mining corpse Just V It had boomed its Aowd together, with I, a newspaper, and limitation with the las no other connec jasive bridle-trail to Jes up and luxuries 'wnlthout. an,aPj sight, oeciarcirtbat poss ' possible a railway was about to be, and Kalgoory came to life. Lord, how it did rain! I heard later that over in Sydney they had been praying for rain .for one solid week. It came all right, but there was an ,'; error in billing, for In Sydney they never got a drop of It till goodness knows how long later. The Inn which I struck was no place like home. It was only a cook-whlle- .: you-walt shack for transients who were better used and satisfied to dr. their Bleeping in the open. It was kept by a half-cast, a fellow cast half way between a human effort and an ape, who had precious little variety 1 in his larder and less in his vnrabu- lary. There were two more fugitives from the Injustice of the elements al ready established there. One was a young priest on his way to contend with the flesh and the devil up at Kal goory. who gave his time to religious mutterings and paid little attention to the rest of us. But the other was a paragon! a marvel of good nature and unlimited resources. But for him there vrnuld have been hardly an obit nary left of me by the end of the . three mortal days and nights while the beavens stayed wide open and we huddled In the leaking inn. His other name was hard to remember, so I call- . ed him the Elixir of Life. On my third afternoon at the Inn, the fourth day of tho storm, it re ceived a knock-out from the northwest, i and the mud-plastered postman stop ped for r. drink on his wav-four days later to Kalgoory. The Elixir and 1 ;' contributed a bob apiece for an ancient V; newspaper he had about him and set tled ourselves to read. Many a fresh ... Australian dally Is a dead loss at a penny, but this was cheap at two bob. It startled us from our stagna tion with a thunderbolt the murder of Sir Robert Broadley, up at Kal ' goory, four days before; telegraphed . to the coast and printed, then brought back to us as vital news only a day's ride from where It happened. There was no evidence of robbery except that the assassin had cut off the little finger Of his victim, upon which he was known to have worn a unique and beautiful diamond ring. The people ; . looked upon 8lr Robert as their de llverer. They were frantic and prom ised the criminal a real American lynching, splijed with aboriginal Aus tralian tortures, when they laid hands on him, which was sure to be soon, t for the man was murdered Just before 7 the atorra broke and the villain could not bave got far away. Every outlet . from the mountains was now effectlve '.' ly guarded and a minute description ;' wag given of a stranger who had been : aeen following Sir Robert Just before ' the deed and since had disappeared. - My personal interest centred in the effect Ut would have upon the pro- - posed railway and I was pondering It when the outer door opened again. The storm was subsiding as rapidly as it came, but the fellow who entered 'had evidently been out In the whole of It He grunted a kind of salutation and staggered to a rude bench before v the open-fire, where he dropped like a - dead log, calling to the ape-faced land lord: K "HI! you black devil! ' Whiskey! A . Jugful! Quick!" - . ;.- " . It wag a fresh opening for the Elixir, and lie was In tt In an Instant, bend ing over the fellow and gently as a woman asking what he could do for blm. "Ye kin mind yer own business!" ' thefellow muttered.--"I got into a f "our days ago, comtn' dowa Koory. Lost my horse and gin' by toy eyelashes ever ithe postman give me a lltt, done, same's you'd be, but I 4a from God or man and I none from such as you HI, ey! Where's that whiskey? PBOPLI. It Isn't j ptsln nor, the mountain, not the ocean that rolli afar, Nor th, w.Vns Held nor th fountain That makes us the men we are. When the .shadow, of want and ,rl.r , . . -. x. " '" ,hn " we know th. worth Of a-gcnMe heart and stalwart hand: v It's the people that make the earth. 1 Washington BUI. OF LAST RESORT the Australian Bush. Undaunted the Elixir stood, bis soul ful eyes fixed on the poor fellow In unshaken sympathy. The half-caste was ambling slowly across the room with a bottle and glass. The man on the bench sat glaring with bloodshot eyes at the Elixir. Just as the Inn keeper reached him he muttered: "Didn't I tell yer to er Ye lobster-eyed er " With words still gurgling Id bis throat he fell over on the bench un conscious. "It is better so," the Elixir said, gently stuffing a blanket under his head for a pillow and liftlna- his feet to the bench. "Sleep will heln him more than that hell-flre you call whis key. Go heat ud some of the tuff you said was soup this noon." ine Kttxir returned to the window and his newspaper. I watched the un conscious face till the glint of the fire light across it dazzled me and the hypnosis of his steadv snnrlnr made me sleepy. I was beginning to doze when the Elixir touched my arm, pointing to somethinr he had written on the margin of the paper opposite the description of the murderer: "Com pare this with the man on the hench. and If you agree with mo pass it on to ratner Beicner. The only thine which astonlnhsH ma was that I had not thought nt It ho. fore or that the man's own account of himself had not suggested it. The priest read It carefully, then went over to the bench and read it again. He crossed himself and muttered a prayer. ind. nights as in the moraine. Let's InneaT'DicaVh of fresh air together first." We understood and followed him outside. Close upon the horizon the masses of gold and crimson cloud were following the sun away. The Elixir cast one admiring glance over the glorious wilderness, then his being changed to something entirely new, even after all that he had been before. He spoke rapidly and earnestly: "That fellow is stark mad," he said. "He was demented when he did it. It Is like the work of a maniac. Per haps he'd lost everything up there and charged it to Sir Robert. Besides ht is helplessly 111. Do unto others as ya would, applies to us. If we leave him here and go our ways, the fiends from Kalgoory will tear him In pieces. If he Is crazy he ought at least to have a show of justice, and we can secure it for him If you will help me. I have handled maniacs several times and al ways successfully. We two can easily get him to the coast If we are not over taken by a mob from behind. You are starting for Kalgoory In the morn- Inf, Father, and will doubtless meet searching parties coming down. It will insure success If you will tell them that the man Is already captured, In .safe hands, and well on his way to the coast by way of the Lower Fork, where ho will be given Into custody. Keep them from following if possible. If not, then send them by the Lower Fork. The day after tomorrow wire privately to some one you can trust. Say that the prisoner will be at Bald win's by Friday noon. Tell them of his condition, so that they will be pre pared to care for him properly." After a little parley the priest con sented and did his work so well that the plan worked out to the end. It did not rouse the man even when the Elixir made him drink the soup. and relieved him of a rusted revolver, some cartridges, and an ugly knife with black-red rust spots on the blade. Then the moon rose in a clean-swept sky, and the Elixir proposed that we start at once, lest the people of Kalgoory do the same. We borrowed a cob from the half caste for the prisoner, who was evi dently an old horseman for he sat the saddle by Instinct. He would not pay the slightest attention to me, but heed ed every suggestion of the Elixir, to whose watchfulness 'he owed his life many times over during that rapid and dangerous Journey. The officers with a physician met us at Baldwin's, but for the first time the prisoner became ' obstreperous. He clung to his deliverer, fighting and yelling, and kicking every one else, till for the sake of peace they persuad ed him to continue with them, and we parted abruptly, I at least never more reluctantly. Two weeks later, back in the bush, a letter came to me by way of Kal goory. "Before you open thig 1 shall have left the Convict Isle for quarters un dbwoverable, as It was I who killed the demon at Kalgoory, Finding my self In a trap, and, worse, that I waa recognlttd by the fellow who came In on us, looking so like the printed pic ture of my so-different self, I was forced to utilize him, and Incidentally saved his life by getting blm to a hos pital In return for bis getting me out of the trap. I must make this unfold ing to you, that you may stand by hint again If by remotest chance the suspi cion should cling to him. I did It; but, lest you smite yourself for having helped me unwittingly, let me add: if you had been In my place you would have done as I did to the fiend who wore that rlug. I have kept It aa my only consolation through whatever years are left. If I could tell you th stdry of the ring, you would not regret having aided P. ''.'''... "Your Friend of the Mountain Inn." . Llpplncott's Magazine. 1 i n THE CALL OF THE DESERT PROSPECTORS WHO CAN'T KEEP AWAY FROM IT. Grub Staker Who are Always earth ing for Mine and Sometime Find ing Thm But Who Rarely Profit From Them tuck In th Panamlnt Region. "Say, boss, kta ! talk to you tor Jest a minute?" The speaker, write the Loa An geles (Cal.) correspondent of the New York Bun, was tall, thin man with gray balr and whiskers, his face the color of tanned hide. His eyes were intensely blue and had shrewd, good natured expression, aud his face while stern waa wrinkled In Just the places to Indicate a habit of laughter. He was leaning on the marble of the cashier's window in a large bank. "Is It grub stake, or porterhouse, or both?" "Yea; alt," said the man, laughing. "You're a gucsser from Panamlnt."' "I can't talk to you now, but I will meet you at the restaurant around the corner in half an hour," said the cashier. In the restaurant later the grub staker joined him, dead broke, dry, hungry, but good natured. . . "I've been down the Panamlnt way," he explained after he bad cleared out the big bowl' of soup. "Every blame fool la going there to try and see what Scotty's got, but my hands are up. "I lost my best burro there and I've bad enough; but I've got something good down In San Diego county, and that's what I want." "Did you ever make a stake?" asked the cashier. "Found the Red Rose." "What!" "Fact and I kin prove It. D'ye know Col. A. C. Bcltmer?" "Why, yes, ho banks with us," re plied the cashier. "Weil, ask him who found the Red Rose mine, and while you'ro about It you might also ask him who was fool enough to sell tor a thousand dollars, as I'm that man. You've heard the old saying tnal a sucker's born every day, eh? Well, I'm the Friday sucker; I was born that day, sure." "I waa strapped, and I sold out for a thousand dollars. You see a oor man makes a find; how's he, without rent, to get the attention of men it within a mile of Struck the Red Pose I waa dred miles out on tho desert. All 1 had on earth was four pounds of bacon and a pound of coffee. Some chaps came along and offered me that money for my claim and I took it. "I went to Los Angeles, walked in to a barber shop, and got a bath and a shave, then went to a store and told a man to fit me out from head to foot, and I vow when I went out I didn't know myself. I bought a bag and went over to the hotel aud entered my name as John Handy, Red Rose, San- Bernardino county, took the best room gaff llibell boy a dollar, and the next morning read In the paper that 'Col. John Handy, the millionaire mine owner from Red Rose, was in town.' "Well I gained twenty pounds in the next two weeks and at the end of the month I was broke. No, no; I did'nt drink it up. I ran across the wife of an old partner. She was scrub blng floors In schools, and she Is 65 years old. I staked her with $500, hired a little house for her so she could rent a room or two and that cleaned me out. Then I got a stake from a res taurant man, the next day I was walk' ing to the desert; and, d'ye know, there's something about the desert that kind of locoes a man? This time I'll Jet you into it. "You know they have been finding some queer stones down at Mese Grande Pala and different places in San- Diego county; and last week I was sitting In a bar room at Daggett, out on the desert when. a man came in, the picture of hard luck, but when he came to pay up he unrolled from a bag a lot of curious stones and offered to sell them to me. One was the most beautiful blue you ever saw. "Where is It? I sold It for $20 at Indlo one night. I wanted a burro, and I struck an Indian and bought his burro for the stone and $10; he wanted It for bis squaw, "tt might have been worth $1,000 for all I know, but the point Is this. "The man I bought it from gave me a map of the place where he found it; here it Is. He said be knocked It out of the side of a cliff with a stone, and there was a lot of it all broken up and no good. "I kept a little piece and showed It to a travelling Jeweler and he told me that if I knew where the mine was I was In luck and would make my for tune; so there you are. The stone has probably been knocked and ham mered with rooks, and all you want is to put in a small blast and get In to It where It's good.' "How much of a stake do you want?" asked the cashier. "Grub." was the reply, "grub tor two months and some new tools. Hun dred dollars will do tt." "All right," said the cashier, "I'll go you; sign this," and he drew up the following: I, John Handy, agree to divide with anything I may And from January 11, 1905, to March 11, 1905, on account of grub stake of $100 provided by - The prospector signed the paper and said he would make It six months. The cashier took him to an out fitter's and next day the man left for the desert : AH of which Is the story of the discovery of one of the best tourmaline mines In southern California. : " ..v.,,; , There are scores of grub stakers wandering over the desert; poor men, men on smalt salaries, rbh stake men. Tbeae men often keep themselves poor, hoping against hope; many men have Bpent their Uvea wanderlngyer the desert without making a valuabH strike. Again some of the best mines' have been found In this way. Th big Cajon Pass and the pass of Ban Gorgonlo, leading down to the des erts of California and Hojave, are the highways for the grub staker, and hardly a day but you may see him following the track or on the road, and at the desert towns as Baaing, Dag gett tat indlo, he may be seen, The desert, while forbidding, bag Wuable mines, and It, is the grub staker's roaming ground, and along lta pathways you cay see his bones bleaching in the gun or his grave marked by a rude cross. The desert has many phases. ' Now tt is sand, again alkali, again wide stretches of sandy billows, or you may find it a waring field of flowers, again mounds of gravel; but there are mountains al ways In sight, as this section of the desert Is flat, a sandy waste surround ed by mountains, bare, barren, rocky, heat blasted, yet Invested with all the splendors of color the mind can lm glne. . - THIS HOU8E FIREPROOF. Concrete Walls, Floors, Roofs, Stairs, Porches and Pergola. There has been built at New Dorp, Staten Island, a concrete house which is In many respects a pioneer In fire proof resilience construction. With walls and partitions of bollow concrete blocks and roof of reinforced concrete. It Is the first building of this character to be constructed in New York city, says the Fireproof Magazine, the first In which hollow concrete blocks were used as supporting walls. . The New York building code Is very strict upon the subject of concrete blocks, and apparently treats them with the greatest suspicion, believing that where there Is such a chance to make poor blocks or blocks without suffi cient quantity of cement it Is wiser to condemn them all at the start than to permit them to be used in such a manner as to peopard the lives of the inhabitants of the buildings. Three sizes of blocks were used in the New Dorp house; 12 inch for the basement walls, 8 inch for the walls above the basement and 6 Inch for In terior partitions. The floors were supported .by 3x10 inch concrete beams reinforced with bars, and over these Is laid a concrete floor In one continuous slab, having embedded In It nailing strips for the finished floor. Where partitions occur In the sec ond Btory other than over flrst story partitions, they are carried by rein forced concrete girders, which show be low the ceilings of the flrst story. The faces of these partitions, as well as the walls and ceilings, are in the main plastered with pulp plaster, which has a soft and pleasing effect, and can be tinted or adapted to various applied decorations. Some of the walls are mvered with burlap tacked to half Inch strips, p(n u. ,fter tho walls andDar titlons were completed. J" I The house stands by ItsU, fee corner lot, the two principal slleswng flanked by a terrace, the walls f which Is built of blocks with rock faces. The front entrance Is covered with a porch built entirely of concrete, the braces and roof being reinforced with plain round rods. On one side of the house Is a veran da, the columns of which are built up of large blocks and carrying a balus trade of Interlaced blocks. On the same side of the house is a pergola, the columns of which are built up square, with girders to reinforce con crete carrying rafters of small poles left with the bark on. The roof Is of a somewhat novel construction, the fireprooflng Bystem being also carried out here. The raft ers are reinforced with bars, over which is laid a slab of concrete rein forced with plain round rods placed both vertically and horizontally on the roof surpace. The slab forming the roof extends down to form a cornice, thus completing the frame without a single piece of wood. The gutters are formed in the roof by embedding a wire mesh bent to the proper angle and the concrete trowelled arounjl and through this. The services of the tin ner were required only for the running of the roof leaders. The steps to the rear entrance are cast in one piece In place, a few rods being sufficient reinforcement for the purpose. The Interior stairs are also of concrete and there are two cement fireplaces In the dining room. . The house Is as nearly fireproof as Is pos slble. Misplaced Pride. "The late General Joseph Wheeler," said a Southerner, "was one of tho bravest men who ever lived. He was wounded three times during the civil war and sixteen horses were ahot un der him. "Yet it was not his military, but bis literary achievements that he took most pride In. He knew this was fool ish, but he could not help It. He said once to me, apologetically, that he was not the only man whose pride was mis-' placed. "He said that, in a certain engage ment in his youth, he once beard a private swearing and cursing moet frightfully. "Lieutenant Wbeelor, as he was Kien, went up to the private and said sternly: " 'Where did you learn to swear like that?" "The private at this question smiled modestly. '"Ye can't learn It,' he answered. 'It's a gift,' " Good Lesson In Forestry. There Is a pretty sentiment In the selection of a seventy-five foot white pine liberty pole, to be erected on the campus of the Iowa State Agricul tural College here, aays the Ames (Iowa) correspondent of the fit, Paul Dispatch. The tree was planted forty Tears ago by Mr. Ames, whose name this olty bears, is one of at fine a grove at can be found tn the pine forests, and is frequently used as an object lesson by the agricultural college professors as Indicating what the thoughtfulness of one man baa done for posterity and the 8tate, and point lag the .way of beautifying and pro tecting the prairie bomesteada and of furnishing lumber and fuel to future generations. . N. By virtue of special provisions re cently promulgated, the Importation lntohe Empire of Russia, the Grand Duchy; of Finland Included, of all kinds', offirearms except ordinary sporting gnnW such as cannon, shells? explosives it all kinds, gunpowder cartridges, fltroglycerlne, etc,, it ab xoluteJy prohibited. ijiiiy Htavy Lambs the Best. The Missouri station found that the heaviest lambs at birth were from the heaviest ewes, and that these heaviest ewes at birth gained faster in weight than those of -lighter weight at birth. Don't 8llght the Fruit. It Is a pretty hard matter trying to argue that a well kept fruit garden Is not really a necessity to a com fortable existence on the farm. On an average farm the ways and means of securing nice choice fruit generally receives little It any attention, and what a- sad mistake this Is. A great many fanners have got t j that point where they realize that fruit Is not only a source of enjoyment, but Is a means of Improving the health of those dependent upon them. It might also be termed a luxury, but this can hardly be said when we all realize that with a very little space of ground and not an overabundance of work, the evcr-deliclous fruit ought to be almost as common as the proverbial dish-water. Fruit of the best quality Is, no doubt, a luxury to our city friends, but on the farm It should be a "goody" that could be freely par taken of almost every day In the year. Butter on the Farm. At one of the Iowa Institutes a speaker In tho course of his remarks said that "the best churn to use is a revolving barrel or box churn; the butter should not be churned together In a lump, stop churning when the bulter Is in granular form about the size of wheat kernels andthe butter milk should then be drawn off, then pure, cold water must be poured on the butter and the churn turned for ward and backward a few times and the water drawn off and fresh water Is clear of buttermilk; usually water put on three or four times is suf ficient. Now, the butter is ready for the salt. About one and ono-balf ounces of dairy salt to a pound of butter, must bewollnlxed with the butteV but a) Tt be worked shorn than A to mix the salt I with the butterTaldthen put In a cool place twelve hour?' lor the salt to dissolve when It can be rFworked and packed ready for market. Condition Powders for Psultry. The use of pulverized cayenne pepper or capsicum, so often ad vised and resorted to, is discouraged by experienced poultry raisers, on ac count of its strong, penetrating and almost poisonous nature. While it may prove beneficial for the moment, after Its Influence has been dispelled it leaves the system more enfeebled than at the outset and in Its Btead the following compound Is recom mended: Carbonate of iron, 1 ounce; anise seed, 2; powdered ginger, 6; mustard, 1; table salt, 2; sulphur, 2; licorice, 4; powdered charcoal, 14. These should be powdered and mixed thoroughly, making 2 pounds of good condition powders, and it kept In a tight box, will be good for a long time. A table-spoonful In ten quarts of soft feed, or In that proportion, fed every other day In warm weather, or every day In stormy, ct cold I weather, will prove of service. For growing chicks, one-half of the amount of powders In the same quan tity of feed Is sufficient. A table spoonful of the tincture of Iron to each gallon of drinking water should be Provided In all bad seasons. The Sitomlst. Well Worth Trying. Try to have a well-balanced garden. Try to keep all tools in good con dition. Try portable sashei for hurrying the seedlings. Try burning all caterpillars' nests found on trees and shrubbery. Try planting another patch of sweet peas for prolonged bloom. Try the low-growing dwarf dahlias; they promise to be a great success. Try Jackmannl Clematis for the west porch. Try sweet alyssum for edging the shrub bed; It will form a mass of snow white bloom. Try , bunching branches of apple blossoms, In grandma's old blue pit cher, for the dinner table. Try iron stakes and wire pegs, In stead of the usual wooden contriv ances they will last enough longer Try the us of only well rotted ma nure, and spade H deeply; otherwise It will prove too heating for the ma jority of plants. - - Try a large bed of mignonette for fragrance and constant cutting, and plant gay popples In tha background by way of contrast. , ' Try . giving a final grading to all paths aa soon as the weather is set tled; and top the broken-stone paths With a good binding gravel. ' Try taking active measures to or ganize a floral mission In your neigh borhood, no matter where you live, and note results In the Improved con dition of back yards. : - v Try giving the fuchsias a rich patting and planting them where tha midday gun cannot reach them: then If they are kept well watered, pro fuse blooming may be depended upon. Try making some cuttings now of the well-rlpencd wood of , your favorite rose anu stick them deeply in the soil In the shsde of the parent bush, and you will have cause to re joice In tho fall. Feeding Swing In Summer. ' Hogs, in order to do welt In sum mer, want good pasturage. Also, ac cess 40 water and mud to tie in. While mud is very bad for them In cold ' weather, absorblnfg too much animal heat then, It has, on them a southing effect during warm weather, -and will prevent them from "melt rPjg".. however fat. Plenty of grass to eat it' likewise cooling and loosening to them, let alone that It counteracts the feverish properties of corn, tflat Is fed; and if it la desirable to fatten them, corn should be fed, for in con nection with the grass, water,, mud and a certain amount of milk, this is one of the most economical ways of making pork. Without corn, moreover, hogs that have been wintered on grain If turned on pasture In tbe spring would be pretty sure to lose a good deal of the fat which they have stored up. While the succulent grass will stimulate the appetite and correct stomach troubles that have been caused by too heavy winter diet. It would not bo policy, any way, to stop grain feeding and give them all pasturage. Rather the change should be made gradually, and where liberal grain feeding was car ried on through the winter, a moder ate amount should certainly be given through the early spring months when pasturing begins. The danger of the animals getting sick because of the change In their diet will then bo greatly lessened. If young, however, very little corn or no corn meal at all should be fed until tho pigs arc at least four months old. Otherwise they are apt to be come costive, followed by scouring, whereupon, rubbing against every thing they can get to, their skin will have a red and dry appearance; next a dry, black scurf will form, and the more corn and cornmeal they are Riven the poorer they will become. For checking scours In young pigs, lettuce Is good, and coarse flour or middlings from rye or wheat, made Into a thin slop with milk, Is, with tbe exception of bread and milk, a most Ideal food for them. To make It, the middlings should be mixed with the milk at night after the feeding has been done. With a little of the old left in the bottom of the swill tub, to act as yeast, it will be in fine condition by morning to feed, especially if given often and never in larger quantities than the pigs will eat up clean. But, though It Is neces sary tor the swill to be become fer mented in-order to digest well, care should be token never to let It get stale. After fou-months old their food, of course, can bo tnade stronger, and then It Is that oppoTHinltlej grass and corn should be tqzIui most of. Boston Cultivator. Don't Make Garden In a Day. J. C. Whltten, Horticulturist of Missouri University gives the follow ing timely suggestions for garden making: "If the garden is planted all in a day to get the disagreeable job out of th way, It Is probable that only one or two species of plants will do their best. Some will have been planted too early and others too late. "For best results in garden making each kind of plant should be put out at the time when conditions are best suited to It. Lawn grass seed, sweet peas, parsnips, onions, spinach and some other species should be planted as soon as the soil can be worked in spring. Seeds of all these will ger minate, and even make stronger growth, when the soil is only a few degrees above freezing. If It freezes more or less on cold nights after they are planted no harm is usually done. "Other plants, like nasturtiums, candy-tuft, beets, potatoes, carrots, etc, have a larger heat requirement and should be planted In mid spring, or at least later than the mentioned list. They will act redure well If put out on the flrst days when the ground begins to thaw out that they should oe planted before the soil gets very warm. "Com, beans, melons, cucumbers, tomatoes and many others require a warm soil and time will be gained If they are not planted until the soil- is well warmed up to a considerable deptb. If put out too early, the seeds are liable to decay In the soil. Even if the plants do grow they will be come stunted by th cold and will net develop Into good plants. It saves time to- plant ' these warmth-loving kinds after the soli is warm, "Some Bpecles need a great deal of beat. These are lima beans, okra or gumbo, egg plants, and some others. They should b the last vegetable planted. Still other species should be planted,1 at Intervals so as to get a succession of vegetables for the table. Most kinds which grow quickly may be ' planted In succession. ; Radishes, beets, lettuce, peas, and many others are best. only when they are tender and succulent, Seeds of these may be planted every three weeks for a time, ao aa to have them under the first, half of the season. - "No date can be mentioned for planting tbe different sorts. Seasona differ. ' It may be wanner one year on the flrst of April than It la two weeks later another year. If one wilt watch the starting of leavea and flowers on early shrubs, he can get an Index as to the time to plant. - To plant aweet peas when the willow' catkins are coming out Is a good rule, and similar comparisons may be made for other plants. , This la accurate, for. the willows start, not on a given day In March, but when they have received heat enough to grow well." There are four calcium carbide fac tories in Norway.- Their export in 1904 was fff tons, valued at about 53.- 000. tn 1905 the export reached near ly 9000 tons. j ,. . . ; - RADIUM IN MEDICINE. Useful in Therapeutics, But Not a Much as Asserted. Wild claims have been made, re garding the efficacy of radium eman ations as a cure-all In thereapeutlcs, and on the other band , the reaction against Its use has been from time to time equally violent. The contribu tion of Dr. Myron Metzenbaum to th Medical Record regarding the known medical value of radium is therefore timely and of importance to those in terested In its use. The writer bases his conclusions upon an exhaustive survey of medical literature on the subject and two years' clinical ex perience wlhh the substance, and of fers the following conclusions: "That lupus responds promptly to the action of. radium, and that this result Is obtained as readily as with the Flnsen light or the X-rays, and that these results seem permanent. That small affectations of the epithe lium, without glandular Involvement, heal rapidly under the action of the radium rays, provided the tubes of rcdium can be brought into Intimate contact or close proximity to the dis eased area. Large epitheliomatous areas of the mucous membranes may not be influenced to any marked de gree, probably because In large areas the disease Is not only superficial, but the deeper tissues are involved as well. Epltheliomata on the skin respond far more rapidly than those of the mucous membranes; this Is probably because the skin Is kept dry and is not Irritated by moisture or friction of the parts. The healing of epltheliomata under the action of tho radium rays seems to be permanent. The rodent ulcers about the face and head respond better to the action of radium than to any known agent ex cepting the X-rays, and the results are better than those usually ob tained by surgical interference. Deep seated, malignant growths Beem be yond tho Influence of the radium rays, and even when an incision Is made Into the growth and the tube of radium Is inserted into its Interior (as in the case of the late President Harper, there Is then only a histo logical change In that part of the growth surrounding the tube of radi um, as is demonstrated by a micro scopical study of the tissue. Even if the radium rays exerted any beneficial Influence on truly malignant, deep seated growths, the fact could not be used to any great advantage In these cases, for the local action would be so pronounced as to cause an ulcer ation of the skin before it could Influ ence the growth beneath. "in certain cases of total blindness, possibly where some of the fibres of the optic nerve still remain intact, a sensation of light may be noted when a tube of radium of high activity Is placed In front of the eye or against the temporal region. But thus far radium has given no beneficial results In the treatment of blindness. When tubes of radium are applied io jd scars resulting from healed ulcers, It pliable VEC ES. ,n England 'Smashing Rec ords MittOleat Eaters. It would almost seem that athlotic records are set up 1.;' meat eaters in order that they may bo knocked down by vegetarians, says the London Daily News. Last year George Allen knocked seven days off the walking record from Land's End to John o'Groats, and now G. A. Olley has lowered the un paced cycling record over tbe same route by eleven hours, which Is a feat that Is likely to remain unequalled for some time to come. Strict training Is indispensable to those severe athletic feats, and a most important part of that training de pends upon diet. It is not true that diet Is everything, but It is so much that these repeated victories by vege tarians are the best advertisement that caase has. The grand challenge has not yet been won by a vegetarian crew, or even tbe diamonds by a graminivorous sculler, but It certainly seems that the physically active man whose indiges tion Is equal to It keeps himself In best condition without tasting meat. How much Intellectual vegetarians like George Bernard Shaw owe to the things they eat or do not eat Is a question that will take longer to thresh out. At any rate, the day has gone by when vegetarianism was looked upon as a mild but fairly cer tain form of suicide. Hogs or Hippopotami. They tell a story of a real estate man escorting a prospective buyer through some southeastern Texas swamp-land. "What are those dark marks on the trees," asked the prospective buyer. "Oh, that's where the. hogs rub their backs against the trees," said the agent. "Now you see this land will "But wbat made these marks here?" the train was moving rapidly. "Oh the hogs Now, aa I was say ing " ;; , "Look here," said tbe revolting vic tim, "either the bogg down here are seven feet high, or else you keep hip. penotamuses, and thla la a lake on a vacation." The World's Work, , Apples for Franc. - Consul Covert writes from Lyons that $300,000 worth of apples were im ported from Canada to France last summer and tall, and glvea the fol lowing suggestions to Americans at to this trade: " Lyonese, fruit dealers who haye Imported American applet think they would be aw popular aa Canadian apples if they were packed aa well.- I advise packing In half barrel lota, aa suggested by the larg est dealer here. - The many green grocers In every city in France would buy balf barrels If they cam packed in Bue.h smaller receptacles. The American apples thug far received at Lyona have come from California, and after ao long a voyaaa, were mor or legs Injured. THB IRISH NAMES. Names wld the musical lilt of a troll tt thlm Names wld a rollickln' swing an' a roll t thlm Names wld a body an' bones an' a soul te thlm Sure an' they're pothrv, darllnt anthore! Names wld the smell o' the praties an' wheat to thlm Names wld tho odor o' dllllak an' peat to thim Names wld a lump o' the turf hangln' sweet to thlm Whore can yes bate thlm the whole wurruld o'er? Brannlgan,' Flannlgmi, Mllllgan, Ollllgan, Duffy. Mctiuffy, Mulnrky, Mahone. Rafferty, bafferty. Connolly, Donnelly, Dooley, O'Hoolev, Muldowny, Malone, Maddliran, Cuddigan, Hullahan, Callahan, Kasan, O'HnsHn, Q'Houlihan. Flynn, . Shanahan, JjiiialiHn, Fogarty, Hogarty, Kelly, O'Hkclly, McCilnnls, McOlnn. Names wld a fine old Hibernian sheen to thlm Names wld the dewy shamrocks cllngln' green to thlm Names wld a whin o' the honest potheen to thlm Slitire an' they're beautiful, darllnt asthore! Names wld the taate o' the salt 0' the earth to thlm Name- n i.i 11... vi-mth of the anclsthral hearth to thlm Names 1,1,' i.iuud o' the land o' their binh to thlm Where can yes bate thlm the whole wurruld o'er? John Ludlow In the St. Louts Olobe Democrat. Backlotz Does your servant girl oversleep herself? Subbubs Not only that, but she oversleeps us. Philadel phia Press. Major Buffer Lady VI looks un commonly well. Got such a fresh complexion. Mrs. Soratcham Yes. Fresh every day. Punch. Him I donl like young Hlgglns, nnd he doesn't like me. Her Well, that Is certainly very much to the credit of both of you Chicago Dally News. Mary Did she make a good match? Ann Splendid. Lots of money, oood social position, and all that. In fact, the only drawback Is the man. Brooklyn Life. Moscly Wraggs You used to move In good society, didn't ye? Wareham Long I never done any movin' when I could help It, In any kind o' s'ciety. Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Corrlgan Astrolke.isit? Will, thin, bpgorry, yez kin hilp me wld me washln'." Mr. Corrlgan Av coorse, 01 will, darllnt. If the tub breaks down, 01 II nx It fur yez. Fuck. Ethel Think of Mb being a foot pad! He looked like a real foreign nobleman. Esther Whnt did he rob you of? Ethel Everything I had. Es therThen I guess he was. Judge, Related Trnvplpr Whn'n matter? 13 bin an' come off! B. ell, knock off t'other, an' make e beastly thing a hansom! Punch. At the Garage Boy Mr. Smith Is telephoning for his machine. Can you send It to him today? Head man Don't see how we can. Why this ma chine Is the only one around here fit to use! Life. "A politician should strive to be a representative man." "Certainly," answered Senator Sorghum. "The question Is whether you ure going to represent the public or the boss." Washington Star. "Blnx is always mowing his lawn. "Yes," answered the neighbor who takes life easy. "Blnx doesn't realize bow a man in bis shirt sleeves push ing a lawn mower spoils the looks of a lawn." Washington Star. "I don't see anything tn that poet't new poem." "Of course ybu don't," replied the editor in chief, ('because I opened it first and took a 5blll ontof It. Give It a good place trip column, next reading matter!" Atlantic Con 1 a'tutlon. Newltt They say that boy of youra is a pretty bad one, Mose. Unci Mose O! I dunno; ah doan' reckon he so tur'ble bad. Newitt-4Think not,, eh? Uncle Mose No, sun; ah doan' 'spose he's ex white ex he's kalse mlned. Philadelphia Press. "All I ask," said the Muck to the Rake with a gentle dlgn ty that lm- pressed all who heard it, "Is simply to be let alone." Then It hastily and unobtrusively backed up on a little corner where the graft was showing through. Baltimore American.. Two brothers, of whom a writer in the Washington Post tells, got on none too well with each other, for reasons which will be plain to all. "Here," said their mother to the older of them one day, "here la a banana. Divide It with your little brother, and Bee that he gets tbe lion'a share." The younger child a few minutea later set up a great bawling. "Mama," he shrieked, "John hasn't given my any banana!" - "What's thig?" Inquired tbe mother, hurrying In. "Why," explained the older boy, "lions don't eat bananas." Automatic Rifle. Major Cel of the Italian army ha submitted to the minister of war an automatic rifle toward which military opinion la already favorably disposed by the result obtained In practical tests. The new rifle diffe-.s from alt othera of the kind by tta principle of action, which is to utilise the gases of the explosion for producing auto matic action.- This Is done In a way which detracts nothing from tha pro pelling force of the discharge. The six cartridge In the breacFaji be discharged with the rapidity of a chine gun, producing only one pro longed detonation. : ' - The Lackawanna Railroad Company baa Just retired from actlce service "Ben" Knox, one of the old-time en gineers. Knox worked for this com pany thirty-seven years and has rim nearly every train on the road. He h;i driven his engines more than 1,000,0 miles. I S