Show fJ i SCRAPS I Regarding th the lecent recent drought In the west the weather roan of the Western V World says It has been so dry In some sections wagons I were going golm around with their tongues ou out Ice has to O be b soaked In water at r all an night before It is wet wot enough h to make lemonade lemon Th fish In DI Big creek kick up such lIuch a It du dust t that Dean has to sprinkle the creek before he goes fishing A spark from an HII engine set fire to Spring creek and burned a lot Jot of the creek and bullfrogs before it could be bo extinguished And tho the ground Ss is so dr dry and hard that crawfish holes In Jn low Jow places aro are being pulled and used for water pipes Now that the fashionable womans woman's headgear Is regarded res as Incomplete without with out an upstanding feather Leather one is reminded remind remind- e ed that the belle betle sported like like plumage for evening b wear toward the en enof end of the eighteenth century A writer Inthe Inthe in inthe the London Times of 1796 1793 Illustrated the epidemic At all elegant assemblies there Is a A. room set apart for the ladles ladies to don their feathers as It il Is Impossible to wear car them In any carriage with a top Th The lusters aro are also removed on this account account ac ac- count and the doors are carrl carried d up to the coiling colling A well wen dressed lad lady who nods with dexterity can give Rive a friend a little tap upon the shoulder across the room without Incommoding the dancers The ladles' ladles feathers are arc now generally carried In the sword case at the back of tho the carriage e August Bebel who was as one of nf th the greatest t of or In Europe was waft af himself the tho son of oC a noncommissioned of of- of fic r. r The har harsh h disciplinary methods method applied to privates In the tho German army arm sixty sixty years a ago o made an indelible Impression Ion sion on his boyish mind More than once he said have leave I witnessed how young oun and old men who were to receive extra punishment had to submit to the hideous process of or cross locking The delinquent had to lie tie down don on the floor Moor on lily Ills Is stomach and ha had his left hand fettered to his right foot and his right hand to his left foot across his back and In lug that position he h was left for tor two hours Bebel himself suffered from no lack of parental discipline If thrashings thrash thrash- ings ho he said ore am ore the highest Kenco senco of educational wisdom I must havo have become a n perfect specimen |