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FRANKLIN TlET: nnii 1 .rlillik3)cr FRANKLIN. N. 0., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1906. NUMBER 49. VOLUME XXI. THB BURNING HEART. I, whom the flros of life each dajr Do heat to pallor I. who sway ; Forever In the bread of strife, ; Not matter, but tho slave of life,' ;. A burning heart I bearl , . , Tet death will full xllnetlon Rlvo, . e Or kindly ae a bound will acti, : i ., So, It 1 live, I shxll outlive: And If I die, I shall forget I shall not always care! . Not then, as now, at Aiuter's shock This burning heart Its walls shall knocR, Nor shall Its hopes, o'erdarkcneo soon, . , Amidst a crucifixion nvon, ,.; Waste Into mounlns lrl 3 I, Passion's conipasswt fugitive, Bhall And release or refuge yeti For, If I live, I shnll outlive; And If I die, I shall forgot - ' I shall not always cure I -Edith M. Thorni In the Scrlbner. "When Mrs. Thorpe : tame upstair from the parlor, she found her middle aged, housemaid dusting the upper hall.' The dusting had been finished an hour before, as mlBtress and maid both knew; but Mrs. Thorpe, in the face of larger Issues, Ignored this faot "Amanda," she Bald, with mild re proach, "I hope you feel satisfied. That call cost me sixty-five dollars." "0 Mrs. Thorpe, was she a book agentt" Amanda inquired, guilitly. "You know perfectly, well that she was, Amanda. It does seem as if, after living with me for eight whole years, you might have learned to protect 'me little! A sweet, little, frail old lady like that, going round trying to sell books! You knew I'd be utterly M her mercy. If she had offered me a white elephant at a thousand dollars down, I ahouldn't have known how to refuse. And the point is Amanda, you knew it all the time!" i "She looked so awful tired and white, Mrs. Thorpe!" Amanda protest ed, Industriously rubbing the clean rungs of a mahogany chair. "And she didn't say she was a book agent." j 'As If she needed to! Amanda, it you were to go into my pocket-book and rob me of sixty-five dollars, I sup pose you'd feel you'd done wrong; but when you call me down-stairs for a matter like this, it amounts to the same thing. It was all right to give her the glass of water she told me you had. when I offered her one but after that you ought to have turn ed her away, firmly but kindly, as I've told you a hundred times before." ' "Yes, Mrs. Thorpe." Amanda tried to look repentant, but succeeded In looking completely satisfied, as she meekly turned away, and Mrs. Thorpe, passing on into the little sitting-room, allowed her own face to relax into an apologetic smile. "That's Amanda all over," she said to the sister who had come only that morning to pay her a visit. "She's too soft-hearted to live In a city that's the truth of It She simply can t bear to shut the door on anything or anybody that looks pitiful, no matter how much I try to train her. Well, 'twas luck for me that the poor old lady was trying to sell Stevenson! Elinor wants a set, you know. She waa speaking of it only last night, and It will make a lovely birthday present for her. But, dear me, I knew the minute I went Into that room that I'd have to take it, no matter what it was! Now what were we talking about when I went ' down t" ? "We were talking about your going abroad with me this summer. My chief reason for coming just now was to get that settled." "Oh! But the truth Is, dear, I can't afford It this year." ' The face of the visiting sister took on a determined expression, "Has Stanley turned miBerly?" she probed. "Doesn't he give you the same old allowance?"-" "Miserly, no! But my expenses here at home are something terrific. You don't know." "Yes, 1 da Slxty-flve-dollar calls. , "Now, Cordelia!" - "It's the same old story, you sweet, generous thing! You never had any thing for yourself." "Cordelia Mann, you never were more mistaken in your life! Truly I'm not a bit the way I waa before 1 was married, living in a big city all these years has hardened my heart so you wouldn't know me; but, really, U'l the only way to get on. You have to abut your eyes to the misery all around you. Oh, I'm Just a practical and cold-blooded now! If I could only get Amanda trained" "Excuse me, sister interrupted Cor delta Mann, "but a trampy-looklng boy Just went round to your back door, and now he's standing out In front here, looking as if he wanted to steal your lilacs." "Let me aee!" Mrs. Thorpe hurried to the window. "I declare, I've a mind to get a policeman to guard that lilac ousni reopie act so aouui n inai . "Mrs. Thorpe," broke in Amanda's rolce at the ... door, "there's a poor starred-looking boy down there asking if we'd give him Just one little sprig of lilacs. He doesn't want another thing, but he says the lilacs make him think of home." "One little sprig!" echoed Mrs. Thorpe. "Make him think of home! Amanda, get me the garden shears, qulckl ioor fellow!" Two minutes later Cordelia Mann, at the window, saw her sister pressing a huge bunch of the fragrant blossoms Into the hands of the surprised boy, and nodding and smiling brightly at him as she did so. Tney stood and talked for a little, then disappeared r around the side of the house; It waa some time before Mrs. Thorpe come back and dropped into a rocker. ' "There it ia again!" she exclaimed. "Do yon suppose Amanda could turn that sick-looking boy away when he asked for a sprig of lilacs? Not she!' And aow I've got him on my hands to look after and find work for, all be cause of her foolishness! Of course it would have taken a heart of stone not to bring him in and give him a cup of coffee after he told me his story; but the point is, I needn't have heard It at all, W eh la1 been firm, don't yon ft? t can't get her trained. I'm I' ttlng him rake the back yard now. I:e was so eager to pay for h la break t -it and that was all I could think Will, lhrr' pne ''': Thn All Amanda's FanlL . Ej CIU.CE I CODY. j Prltchards want a boy to help about the barn, and perhaps they'll try him, I think I'll call them up right away. But I want you to notice how it really Is," she added, as she rose. "I'm not a bit the way I used to be. If it weren't for Amanda's dragging me Into these things I should be perfectly selfish and indifferent. That'a what city life has done for me, really 1 "Now about going abroad, Cordelia," Mrs. Thorpe resumed, coming . back from the telephone, where she had suc ceeded In pledging the Prltchards to try her new protege. "I have some-, thing to tell you that'a been on my mind ever since your hat was off. I didn't write It because I knew you were coming soon, nv.i I thought I could ex plain it better face to face. But it' nearly noon now, and I really must have you know about it before What's that, Amanda? Oh, yes, I laid the dollar right on the corner of my desk. Be sure you tell her I'd have; brought It myself only my sister had Just come.. Say that I'll Bee her Tery soon. You're taking the fresh eggs, aren't you? That'a right. It's a poor old lady who got on Amanda's nerves," she apologized, turning back to her Bister. "I heard about her over at the church. She's destitute, hasn't a relative in the world, but she'd sooner starve than go to an institution ; and , after I had foolishly told Amanda about her, I found she waa Just lying awake nights about it poor sympa thetic creature that she is! So now, mostly to pacify Amanda, I'm trying to keep a roof over the poor old lady's head and help her Bell braided rugs to people who don't want them. You needn't smile that way!, Amanda forc ed me) into this. "But I was starting to tell you, Cor delia, about what happened late in the winter. I was sitting here by my bright, comfortable fire one day when In came Amanda, with her usual lack of Judgment, to tell me that there waa a poor little baby girl down at the door, trying to sell shoe-laces. Think of It. ShoeJaces! As many times as I've told Amanda that 1 had shoe laces enough to reach round the world, all owing to her soft-heartedness! Only the day before I had given her a regu lar lecture, and directed her never again to come and" tell me of another poor old man or woman at the door, trying to sell miserable shoe-laces or worthless needles. But of course this wasn't an old man or woman that was how she got out of it. "Well, I went down, cross as could be! 'Twas no credit to me. I couldn't help myself, you Bee. And Buch a poor little mite of a half-frozen girl! Her toes were actually coming through her shoes and stockings! I brought her right up here to my fire, and told Amanda to get her a nice warm break fast. Then 1 thought of the little warm shoes and stockings I had pack ed away after Jamie died. At first, you know, I couldn't bear to part with them, and perhaps I wouldn't have done it even then, but I saw In Aman da's face that she was thinking I ought to put some of them on those cold lit tle feet. So I told her to bring them down, and we made the child com fortable. You ought to have seen her put her thin little arms round my neck and hug me! "it was pitiful. "Of course, after that, I had to find out about her. Amanda never would have let me rest If I .hadn't. And I found she had a mother whose bus band had deserted her, and the poor woman was dying. Think of it! She was of a respectable family, but there waa no one left to help her; and two weeks from the time that baby came to our door , her mother was dead, and Bhe waa absolutely alone In the world. We brought her home for a little while and then it was a case of putting her in a foundling home or " "Winifred Thorpe, you've adopted her!" "Cordelia Mann, you're a mind-reader! She's in kindergarten this morn ing, and I wanted you to know before she came back. It was all Amanda's doing, of course, but there waa no good reason why I shouldn't take her. Elinor's fourteen, you know, and, Cor delia, dear, since Jamie and Nora were both taken away. Oh, here she ia now ! Come In, darling ! " ; The unlatched door waa pushed opea and a tiny girl with large. Questioning dark eyes stepped inside. She hesitat ed; then the solemn little face lighted, and she ran Btraight into Mrs. Thorpe's outstretched arms, where she was caught up and cuddled close. "You 'see, yourself, Cordelia," said Mrs. Thorpe, tenderly stroking the small, dark head, "you see, dear, why I can't go abroad with you this sum ra.r." - Cqrdella Mann tried to look stern, but suddenly her eyea blurred. "Yet you're so practical and selfish!" she murmured, gently satirical, as she felt for her handkerchief. . "Oh, I am!" waa the honest response and the clear eyes Bhone sweetly above the blessed armful of babyhood. "I am if they'd let me alone. It's nil Amanda' fault! "Youth's Compan ion. ; ; ' , :. An Official Opinion, r Rear Admiral Longnecker, who rec ently retired, was talking one day at League Island Navy Yard about dis content among soldiers and sailors. "Men are often discontented without reason," ha said, ."but oftener they have ' good ground for ihoir grum bling, and It Is because their officers are stupid or laxy that conditions do not improve, i "I remember once visiting a pomp ous, handsome, stupid army officer. ' "During my Yislt a private - ap proached the officer; with a full cup and saucer in his hand. -"Well, Bllnka, my man?' said the, officer in a condescending tone. "'Captain,' said the private, saluting. 'I'll ask ye to taste this here 1 wont make no complaint ' I'll Just ask ye to taste this slop, and if ye don't say, by ' "That "will do Blinks,' the Captain Interrtipted in his dignified way, for Blinks waa getting angry, and he took the cup from the man, bent iorward stiffly, and twaliffwed a couple of mouthfuls of the liquid. "Then he looked at the private calm ly. . "'Tills in not bad.'he said. 'I can't taste anything wrong Willi this. Mink. I'v the way. what Is it? Tra tit ?' phl!a-)fli'hlij Bulletin. j'EST TURNED TO PROFIT AUSTRALIANS MAKING MONEY OUT OF RABBITS. 6klns- and Carcasses Now Find Ready 8ale One Meana of Employment of Labor Prosperity of the Rabbit ' Trappers Plana to Kill Off the Little, Animate, By the Irony of circumstances, Just at the time when Dr. Danysz, tho famous French bacteriologist, has ar rived in Sydney with his tubes of "pasteurellas" mysterious ; microbes which he thinks will obliterate tho rabbit pest In Australia by the spread of a contagious disease the rabbit la becoming a valuable commercial as set One exporter, estimates that al ready it brings 2,000,000 a year to the Commonwealth, hut "Mr. C. C. Lance, who was not long ago the com mercial agent In London for New South Wales, prefers to put the figure at 1,500,000. . ; The Industry, it is to be remember ed, writes a Sydney correspondent of the London Dally Mall, Is still In swaddling clothes, but, Judging from the development of the last few years, the million and a half of today should , quickly grow into millions. There are Immense possibilities ahead. But, of j course, there is Dr Danysz to be reck oned with. It Is exceedingly doubtful, however, whether he will be permitted to proceed to any length with his ex periments. Apart from the existing fear that he will set loose a disease which may be dangerous to human beings and to other forms of animal life, there Is a strong feeling that with the great and increasing demands for the carcasses and skins of rabbits the rodent will in the ordinary course of events cease to be a pest. And, moreover, It it coming to be recognized that not only will the Industry bring millions of pounds to Australia annually, but that It will afford profitable employ ment to. a vast army of men. For this reason the Labor parties, Federal and State, are bitterly opposed to Dr. Danysz and his scheme. Already the pastorallsts are com plaining of a scarcity of rural labor. They are no longer able to obtain the services of able bodied men for 10 shillings a week and their "tucker." For rabbit trapping has of a sudden become a remunerative profession and it is characteristic of conditions here that within the last few days a Rab bit Trappers' Union has been formed. The freezing and export firms in Sydney and Melbourne are sending hundreds of men away Into the coun try every week to districts whore tho local supply of trappers Is Insufficient and thus there is a steady absorption of the metropolitan unemployed. Like ly applicants are provided with traps on time payment and the newcomers are placed at first beside experienced men who teach them the routine. At Narrabrl, Ounnedah, Tumut, Dubbo and some other places good trappers are earning, according to one authority 5 aweek. Another authority puts it at "17 or 18 shillings a day." Men with young families to assist them do even better. In this connec tion the report of a country Inspector of State schools to the Public Instruc tion Department of New South Wales is significant "At the present Junc ture," he Bays, "it is a difficult task to get children to do any home lessons. The high price of rabbit skins induces parents to employ their children for half the night In trapping rabbita. Many families In this district are earning as much as from 12 to 20 per week at the business. In many of the towns there is a 'wood fam ine,' it being impossible to find car ters willing to 'waste , 'time' drawing wood when they can earn bo much at trapping rabbits. From this cause also the attendance at country schools during the Quarter now ending will be greatly reduced." So much for the workers' point of view. The individuals and companies who are finding the capital have equal reason to be satisfied. The State gov ernments of New South Wales and Victoria have provided cold storage accommodation In Sydney and Mel bourne respectively, but of late, this has been found ridiculously Inadequate and private enterprise is supplement ing it. Among the firms that supply cold storage In Sydney are the Fresh Food and Ice Co., turning out 1800 crates a day; the Metropolitan Ico Company, turning out from 500 to TOO crates a day, and the Inland Freezing Company, which has branch works in several country centres, turning out 1100 crates a day. In ad dition, the Government Cold Storage Department turns out 900 crates a day, and there are a large number of smaller stores and freezers with dally outputs varying from 100 crates to BOO. - There are twenty-four rabbita in a crate, and recent prices paid in Lon don range from .15a. 6d. to lis. per crate, according to the classes in which the carcasses are graded by Government graders. Considerable consignments are, sent regularly from Brisbane and Adelaide, and these like those from 8ydney and Melbourne, go to the United Kingdom, South Africa, Hongkong, Japan and the Philippines. It ia to be noted that the exported car casses are Inspected and graded under official supervision. But the profit accruing from frozen carcasses is only a part of the whole J oflt. Thore Is good money In canned rabbit The greatest return of all, however, Is derived from the skins. Last year the value of the exported sklna slightly exceeded that of the frozen carcasses, and this will again be the case during the present year. Every week 130 to 140 tons of aklna are sold in Sydney and about 100 tone In Melbourne, and the prices have ad vanced 60 percent since January. The prices are now from twelve pence to fourteen pence a pound, and on an average, seven skins go to a pound. . The buyers come mostly from the United Kingdom and from America but tbe hat manufacturers of Sydney and Melbourne are large niirchaHers. Just now 2,300,000 rabbit skins, rep resenting an approximate value of 20,000, are weekly Rrrlylns In, Bj'd So profitable, indeed, has become the akin industry that many trappers, especially those in the far out dis tricts, are devoting their attention en tirely to It By retaining the skin and discarding the carcasses they avoid the cost and risk of forwarding the latter hundreds of miles to cold storage. The effect of this ia that ex porters are often apt to be unable to get sufficient supplies of carcasses. ' Of course, an incidental, but Impor tant, advantage will be that the Indus try will serve to keep the rabbit pest under control. In fact, news comes from Carcoar this week to the effect that, owing to the activity of trap pers, rabbits are, for the first time in the recollection of tbe oldest inhabi tant, no longer a nuisance In that cen tre. Another advantage will be that tbe British householder will have larger supplies, at a smaller cost, of a good, wholesome, palatable article of meat diet THE ZOROA8TRIANS OP.PER8IA. These "Jews of the East" Perse cuted and Urjustly Judged. People. Zoroaster, the prophet of ancient Iran, arose about the middle of the seventh century before Christ as a reformer of the older creed of Persia, a primitive form of nature worship which had become debased through corruption and crass superstition. His birthplace ia believed to have been In the province of Azerbaijan, to the weBt of the Caspian Sea, a region abounding In volcanic mountains, hot springs, naphtha wells, and other ig neous phenomena. By inheritance he was a member of tho sacerdotal tribe of the Magi and by calling, a fore runner of the Wise Men from the East who worshipped centuries later at the cradle In Bethlehem. Inspired by ecstatic visions of heaven and warned by prophetic signs of the ter rors of hell, he came to teach his peo ple tbe ethical meaning of the con flict between good and evil under the form of Ormazd and Ahriman as god and devil. Filled with the hope of an eternal existence after the general resurrection of the dead, he sought to lead his followers to a more spiritual life and to teach 'them the moral significance of the motto of his faith, "good thoughts, good words, good deedB," and to gu!'"3 them also in practical ways, inculcating the practice of agriculture, kindness to animals, especially the cow; habits of thrift and Industry together with those of bodily cleanliness and the observ ance of certain rites and ceremonies. in their daily life.,, His death is thought to have occurred at Balkh In eastern Iran about 583 B. C, during the religious war between Iran and Turan which was called forth by, his teaching. Zoroaster's creed became the re ligion of an Eastern world-empire. The law of the Medes and Persians, which knew no change, molded tha history of the early kingdom of Iran and the same decrees prevailed In Bacteria. It was by Ormazd'a will that the sovereign rulers of these lands held Bway, kings by divine right. Cyrus the Great is called the Lord's "anointed" and his "shepherd" even In the Bible, and "Kins by the grace of Auramazda" was Darius's' own proud claim. The inscriptions and the Avesta alike exalt the sacred majesty of the king. But many of those who once were kings of Zor oaster's line are now known only by name. Persia is Mohammedan, the Persians are Mussulmans by faith, and Islam has blotted out much of the ancient history and creed. The Zor oastrlans of Persia, stigmatized as Gabars, number not more than ten thousand souls. Yezd is the home of about eight thousand of these. Kir man, a smaller city to the southeast, claims about .two thousand more. Te heran, the capital, near where Zor oaster's mother Is said to have been born, has less than three hundred. Shlraz numbers not fifty of the ancient belief Isfahan a half dozen, and some of the minor towns can each add three or four to make up the talesman's count Frowned upon as "Fire-wor-ahippers," which they really are not, despised or persecuted aa Infidels,' sur rounded by business restrictions and social disabilities, these "Jews of the East," as they are sometimes called, maintain their lives at high cost. And yet they possess admirable quali ties, and It is these characteristics that have preserved" their religion from being utterly effaced. Through ages of misfortune and distress they have remained true to it and by their sterling traits of truth, uprightness, generosity and devotion, they still exemplify what wag best In it From A. V. Williams Jackson's "A Re ligion Nearly Three Thousand Years Old" in the Century. i,- City of London Churches. Within the narrow limits of tha City of London, with ita mere handful of residents only sufficient to peopla a small provincial town there are sttlll so many churches that you might wor ship In a different one every Sunday of the year without putting foot inside them alt. Within the Rural Deanery of the East City there are today no fewer than ten churches, each of which minister to a population of less than two hundred, the aggregate number of parishioners being 1473, while the churches have accommodation for 2730 thus providing almost two seats for very possible worshiper, including the Infanta in 'arms, Sunday Strand.':, Animal That Wear Spectacle, . Many birds are provided with natur al spectacles, a transparent membrane called the third eyelid. This third eye lid, when not in use, lies folded In the inner corner of the eye. Two rmiscies work it, spreading it over the cornea, or forcing it up again much amere cleverly than a man can put on or take off his spectaclea But for thia third eyelid the eagle could not look at the sun. The spectacled bear belongs to Chili. It Latin name, la ursus ornatus. It Is black, and around its eyes pale rings are drawn, which have exactly the ap pearance of a pair of goggles. Classes for the study of Gorman and Yiddish have been organized y LflO'W fflnimlsstyner i. police. , A Christian Science Shrine. fVyN ft I 41 V f flaw m 'sllitiiti ii EXTERIOR OF MHS. EDDY'S HOME, "PLEASANT VIEW," CON CORD, N. H. To Catch the Unrnly Hog. Chasing hogs Is exceedingly amus ing when the chaser is bent on pleas ure only, When it becomes an every-day duty the funny feature dis appears, and Instead the air is gen erally laden with expletives not suit able to polite society. The hog is an elusive beast Being round and fat and also slippery the chaser is not afforded any point of vantage to obtain a firm hold. This is true with but one exception, and that Is his tail. But here again '.he chaser is handicapped. Hogs' tails are bo lit tle and at the same time so frail that Subdues the Hog. not Infrequently the hog emerges from the chase minus his tfcil. A more sensible method is the use of the Implement Illustrated herewith. The inventor, an Iowa man, claims that ,no difficulty is experienced in getting the noose in position. When once it is securely clamped In the hog's nose it Is an easy matter to lead the antmal to any place desired. Philadelphia Record. "Chevreul's Black," Which is Black er Than lilack Velvet A simple experiment is one on blackness. You know that no paint or any other subBtauce in the world ia perfectly black, but there hi a way to make a figure appear so that it Will look blacker even than black vel vet. Paint tho Insido of a pasteboard box black or cover it with dead black cloth. In the lid of the box make a hole, being careful not to make It larger than one-tenth of the surface The Black Box. of the lid. If now you hold the box so that the light will not strike the hole directly and look through the hole into the box the hole will ap pear intensely black. - - - - Make the hole in tha form of a de sign or an imp or a brownie, and even if you paint tbe lid black, when you look through tha bole you will see the figure darker than the dark background. . ; The black produced by thla method Is called "Chevreu! black," after the Frenchman who invented ft. A Starch Box Barn. . This barn la just the thing far rainy day. Our elder readara taa make it for tha younger children of the household and ;et a great deal of pleasure out of it tor themselves. Take a wooden bot not longer than How Your Barn Will Look. twelve inches' an4, knock oft the ( and one end. Buy at the drug;!:irit a five-cent .package of red dye, dis solve a littlo of It in warm wafoc ' rub tha color nil over the box ou l'"ir.:i. $'S3& New Work For Girls. Strenuous girls are finding a new and lucrative profession In teaching their own sex games and physical ex ercises in schools. ;.' At St. Bride's Institute there is a prosperous school, with four or five teachers, where girls are given a two yeare' training In the work, and from It they go forth to earn from $400 to 11200 per annum. Thirty girls are -at present going through the course. More than twenty of their predecea sora now certificated are at work, for there is a steady demand tor these young women. This training Is no child's play. A girl who enters for the course has to be at work either in study of gym nasium for five hours every day of the term. Sixteen Is the minimum age for entry, but most of the girls are eighteen when they start. There are also games to be learned cricket, hockey, and basket-ball. Swimming and rescue work are taught. London Dally Mail. Mercury and Water. Get a number of glass tubes, vary ing in size from a quarter of an Inch in diameter to the slim thermometer tube. Thrust them Into water and see the result as shown In the ac-" companying picture. The water will rise higher in the smaller tubes than A isss Sis . a&f -3 in the larger, and it will be higher at the sides of tne-tubeB than In the middle. This is due to the-pressure of the air on the surface of the water, and to what is known as capillary at traction, this last .causing, the water to rlae tn-the sides of the tube.' , Now thrust tha tube into mercury and an exactly opposite effect will be produced, as shown in the darker picture, for the mercury will have a lower level inside the tabes than out side, and as It has a tendency to slip aay from the glass, surface rather than to cling to it there Is no capil lary attraction, and it falls downward at tha aide and curve upward 'la the centre. Besides, it will rise high er In the larger tubes than in tha smaller onea. , - A similar experiment may be made with two fat pieces of glass, placed together ilka a wedge, and held so by a broad rubber band, a piece of wood being placed at the top and tha bottom' of the open part,: aa shown In the Illustration. , Now dip this wedge into water, and you will find that the water will rise higher -wiiere tha pieces of glasa come together than at the open part, thua making a'curved surface. Dip it into mercury and tha curve will be reverted, tbe mercury having a lower level where the places of glasa cams) tottiJr-New York Mall. . t Witb at dull lead .pencil oi.l ruler- draw line on the insijl represent bricks Per the rotf Ue four etraw e eringi which are utod to protect bot tles from breakage; out the atrlngi, so that they will open flat and-tatk them in position on top of the box: The three-cornered hole which I found at tha back' Just under the roof can be covered with the "'Jd of tbe box which was removed. Green tissue paper makes a good floor cov ering. ,-:..-.( - You may cut out domestic animal by the score from old books, maga zines, or newspapers and stand them up about the- barn, using as propa piece of visiting cards bent and- fast', ened to their backs, as indicated ia the picture. New York Mail. . ' ." Must Have Faith. The Indiana State Board of Health recently analyzed 889 samples of food and drugs and found 3S9 of them Impure. But how la the avor ane Htioslor going to know wh.'tlinr he Is fM'Ips; oi.e of t'ii 500 or oiif of t:. t:3?-c:cv'- -ir:-''i v ? PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Endurance 1 the fruit of endeavor. Eternity is In. my heart Mae- faron. - , , . Hatred always hurts the b,ater meat of all. ' - 1 ' ' Secret sins do not have secret conse quences. ,'...' .V ". M ' . He want worth who dare not prali a foe. Dry den. .. . , .' J r Love measurea life by its chances to give Itself away. ' ' One never knows a man any better by tearing him to pieces. All the great work in the world ia simply doing the best that la in us. He la always a poor man who knows no more in life than malflng money. He who can put his soul into a neck tie seldom has any heart for the needy. How many could be made happy with the blessings which are recklessly thrown away! ' Some men will miss heaven because they ait so long by the wayside dis secting their guide-books. . There is a but In every man' for tunes, because there is a but in every man's character.1 Maclaren. We do many things because they are called pleasure, which we should hate if they went by any other name. There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards the love of others, which, if it be hot spent upon one or a few, doth natura ly spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable. Lord Bacon. I call that mind free which sets no bounds to its love, which is not im prisoned in itself or In a sect, which recognizes in all human being the image of God and the rights of hia children, which delights in virtue and sympathizes with suffering. W. E. Channlng. Disappointments will make us con versant with the noble part of our na ture. It will chasten us and prepare us to meet accidents on higher ground the next time. As Hannibal taught the Romans the art of war, so Is all misfortune only a stepping stone to fortune. Thoreau. We could never have loved the earth so well If we had no childhood In It . . . Our delight In the sunshine on the deep-bladed grass today might be no more tnan the faint perception of wearied souls', if It were not for the sunshine and the grass in the far-off years which still live in us, and trans form our perception into love. George Eliot THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN. Hints Derived From Strange Objects Found With Hla Bones. . Thirty or forty years ago parts of a human skeleton were discovered In a huge cave near Spy, Belgium. They were embedded in earthy material which had accumulated there slowly, but evidently hadt not been Intention ally burledi Further explbratjpir re-' Bulled In uncovering numerous object which indicated that the cave had once been a regular place of residence for a number of people', though they did not possess a high degree of civilization. On the contrary, they represented very primitive modes of living.. Otb,er cir cumstances Indicated ,; 'that the time when the 'Spy man '"made, use of thla queer home must have been many thousand years ago. Among the bones associated with his were some that .'were' identified aa belonging to an elephant The climate of Northern Europe does hot' permit such an animal to exist there, (wRhoiit shelter as the elephant requires semi tropical surroundings. Again, the rudeness of his weapon and utensil showed that the Spy man must have preceded even the barbaric, age of Eu rope... Home of tho unverified guesses which were -inspired by these discov eries were that he dated bade any where from ten thousand to one hun dred thousand years. ' Excavations have recently been' Ve sumed. ln.,the cave, wfilch,po-w, haa a world-wide Interest These are con ducted under the auspices of the Royal Museum of Brussels. According to "Records of the Past,", work during the. first half of 1905 brought to light, aoout mineen mouaauu miu imple ments. Some undisturbed beds were found containing v feast remain (broken bones), flints and ornament. In one of these, at a depth of more than' eight feet, a heart waa found in tact full of flints and feast remain, among which were pieces of elephant' teeth .(molars.) . - In the disturbed earth were found a piece of bronze rolled Into a spiral, two fragments of pottery, evidently of-vasea not, turned, but, still .very smooth, some human bones and stone beads from a necklace.. Belonging .to the upper layer of the palaeolithic epoch the following, have been found there. ' Flakes ' and, flint Chips by tbe thousand, a kind of flint saw, ; Instruments sharpentd on one edge, bones of various animal, among' which were .the lynx, bear, elephant and rhinoceros, pointed instrument of bone and ivory object and waste from cutting Ivory. Among the Ivqry pieces ' were -ornament- whloh were evidently made on the spot for they have been found, in all ' stages, from the small stick of material to the fin ished ring, bead and pendant Of the lower level of the palaeolithic epoch there were feast remain, bone of animals .of 'several1 specie, Includ ing molar of' an ult' mammoth and thousands of chip of flint. New York Tribune.' - '-. New England Amenities. . Two New England farmers met at the poatofflce one morning! . "Mornln' St". ,, , , "Mornln", Josh." "My boss is allln', St What did yot feed your'a on when he wus alliaT "Benzine, Josh." .. , , .'.-. "Mornln", 81." , ' "Mornln', Josh." ( . Two day later: "Mornln'. Si." , "Mornln', Joah," . ' "Sny, 81, my nous died." "So did mine, Josh." t "Mornln', SI." k , ' "Mornln", A'tvah." "Unrti-r tho FprcarPrT Ches'n-.t Trt ," K orrVin y' ;,., -irfr.o. NITRATE'S FROM ATM08PHERI. Electrical Production for Fertilizing 'Purposes. A the demand of the white race for wheat as a foodstuff Increases the ' acreage devoted to wheat growing in creases, but at a. less rapid rate, and, - , being limited by climatic condition, It will in a few years, perhaps leas than thirty, be entirely taken upT Then aa Sir William Crookes pointed out in bis presidential address in 1898, there will be a wheat famine, unless the world'a yield an acre at present about 12.7 l ishels an acre on the aver- age can be raised by the use of fer-' tlllzers. Of such fertilizers the chief is nitrate of soda, exported from niter beds in Chill, The demand for this has, risen front 1,000,000 tons in 1892, to 1,543,120 tons in 1905, and the sup ply will at the present rate be ex hausted In less than fifty years. .Then the only chance of averting starvation . lies, as Crookes pointed out, through the laboratory. , . In 1781 Cavendish had observed the nitrogen, which exists in illimitable quantities in the air, can be caused to enter into combination with oxygen, and later he showed that nitrous fumes could tie produced by passing electric spark through air. Although, this laboratory experiment had doubtedly pointed the yay, ihou chemistry of tbe arc flame haV investigated In 1880 by Dewaff though Crookes and Lord Raylelg both employed electric discharges cause nitrogen and oxygen to enter into combination, no commercial pro- ' cess had been found practical for the uynthesls of nitrates from the air un til recently. - , " ' ! After referring, in passing, to the tentative processes of Bradley and ' Lovejoy, of Kowalski, of Naville, and to the cyanamlde and cyanide proces- -ses attention was directed to the pro cess of Birkeland and Eyde, of Chris-" tianla, for the fixation of atmospheric ' nitrogen, and their synthetic produc tion of nitrates by use of a special elec- . , trie furnace. In this furnace an al ternating electric arc was produced at between 3,000 and 4,000 volts, but -under special conditions which result ed from the researches of Professor ' Birkeland, the arc being formed be tween the poles of a large electro-magnet, which forced It to take the form of a roaring disk of flame. Such a disk of flame was shown in the lecture theatre by a model apparatus sent from Christtania. In the furnaces, as used In Norway, the disk of flame was four or five feet . ., in diameter and was Inclosed in a metal envelope, lined with fire brick. " Through this furnace air was blown, and emerged charged with nitric oxide fumes. These fumes were collected, allowed time further to oxidize, then . . absorbed in water towers or In quick lime, nitric acid and nitrate of lime be ing the products. The research sta tion near Arendel was described, also" the factory at Notodden, in I dal, where electric power td tent of 1,600 kilowatts was ' already takenfromshyt'J'in.nfoss waterfall for the produrtsWof nitrate of lime, This product in several forms, includ ing a basic nitrate, was known aa Norwegian saltpeter. Experiment had shown that it was equally good as a fertilizer with Chill saltpeter and the lime In It was of special advantage foi certain soils. The yield of product in these furnaces was most satisfactory and the factory at Notodden, which had been in commercial operation since -the spring of 1905, was about to be enlarged, the neighboring waterfall of Svaelgfos, being now in course of -Utilization, would furnish 23,000 horse power. The Norwegian company had further projects in hand for the utili zation of three other waterfalls, in cluding the Rjukanfos, the most con- ' -slderahle fall in Telemarken, which would yield over 200,000 horsepower. According te- the statement of Profes-' aor Otto Witt, the wield of the Birke- land-Eyde furnaces was over 500 kilo grammes of nitric acid a year tor every ' kilowatt of power. The condition in Norway were exceptionally good for the furnishing of power at exceedingly low. rates. Hence the new . product could compete with Chill saltpeter on the market, and would become every veif more valuable nfi tha Hanond fat unrauyi,uiurBHSBQ, ana toe natural sup plies became exhausted. Professor 8. P. Thompson, in The Scientific Ameri can'., . ( . ( , : ... -,;. ."; ;; !' Value of Dead Leaves. According to tests recently made iu France dead leave posses a highet ' value aa fertilizers for the land than . ordinary manure. They are extensive- -ly used by the market gardeners about the'eity of Nantea. Pear leave rank the highest in nitrogenous "matter, oak 'leaves come next, and the leaves of vines stand lowest in value. Ex periment have shown that 44 pounds of pear leaves, eighty pounds of pop lar leavee, fifty-one pounds of peach leave, eighty-two pounds of elm leave and eighty-three, pound of, 'locust IeavSs ire reapectlvely equivalent In -nitrogenous matter to 100 pound ot ordinary manure. Vine leave alon are less valuable than manure. Could Thin Them Out. The Hon. H. L. Dawes, in his young . manhood, waa an Indifferent speaker. Participating in a law case toon after hi admission to the bar, before a North- Adams Justice of the peace, Dawes was opposed by an old attorney whose eloquence attracted a large crowd that packed tbe courtroom. The Justice waa freely perspiring, and drawing oft hi coat In the midst of the lawyer' eloquent address, he aid: , - . . ' "Mr. Attorney, suppose you ait down and let Dawea begin to speak., I want to thin out thla crowd." Boston (Jlohi ' ; - to Clever of Him. ' - "Yea, ' when Dultfey , tells -anirlsh atory there' bo mistaking It." N- "You know if Irish right awav, -ehT" "Yes, Indeed; he anye 'Be JublicM after every sentence. Catholic St n dard and Tlms. A proposal to rnact that no nnwuns. per shall be edited, composed or r r, cd from Faiuiday ntldn: lit mi n -rise on Monday morning, 1ms ha n nrpotlrfil in thn '! 'i (. 1.