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Show TT an he ng fa- - A .ha rd-- ea fWB of by olj aly ids Pa A. CONAN by ar Dr av ling - to) rgi ipk pa son t, hup ciai JNTERNATimL till th la t ot 4 1 un-- t li iyst ican lern- - the rch, for red the day Bat s ot wed cus one nan CHAPTER V. (Contincsd). It is a very , welcome invasion, ma'am, said he, clearing his throat and pulling at his high collar. "Try this garden chair. What Is there that I can do for you? fehall I ring and let Mrs. Denver know that you are here? Pray do not trouble. Admiral. I only looked In with reference to our little chat this morning. I wish that you would give us your powerful support At our coming meeting for the Improvement of the condition of woman. He "No, maam.tl can't do that. pursed up his lips and shook his grizzled head. And why not?" Against my principles, maam. But why? Because woman has her duties and man has his. I may be "but that Is my view. Wrhy, what Is the world coming to? I was saying to Dr. Walker only last night that we shall have a woman wanting to command the Channel Fleet next. That Is one of the few professions which cannot be improved, said Mrs. Westmacott, wlh her sweetest 'smile. Poor woman must still look to man for protection. ideas, I don't like these ma'am. I tell you honestly that I don't. I like discipline, and I think every one Is better for it. Women have got a great deal which they had not In the days of our fathers. They have universities all for themselves, I am told, and there are women doctors, I hear. Surely they should rest contented. What more can they want?" You are a sailor, and sailors are a s chivalrous. If you could see how things really are, you would change i your opinion. What are the poor things to do? There are so many of them and so few things to which they can turn their hands. Governesses? But there ' are hardly any situations. Music and I drawing? There Is not one In fifty who j lias any special talent in that direction. Medicine? It Is still surrounded with I difficulties for women, and it takes I many years and a small fortune to ill qualify. Nursing? It is hard workcan paid, and none but the strongest stand It. What would you have them Sit down and 5 do then. Admiral? new-fangl- rery iher hint con- - vei that f uth, me, 1 of ! rove jL starve?" Tut, tut! It Is not so bad as that Thlt-:lu- The pressure Is terrible. Advertise lady companion at ten shillings a week, which is less than a cook's wage, and see how many answers you get. There Is no hope, no outlook, for these I struggling thousands. Life Is a dull, sordid struggle, leading down to a cheerless old age. Yet when we try to bring some little ray of hope, some chance, however distant, of something 3 better, we are told by chivalrous gen- tlemen that it 1b against their princl-"- J pies to help. winced, but shook his i The Admiral j bead in dissent.- - ' i 'There Is banking, the law, veterinary surgery, government offices, the civil service, all these at least should Y be thrown freely open to women. If they have brains enough to compete successfully for them. Then If woman ; were unsuccessful It would be her own 1 fault, and the majority of the popula-tlon of this country could no longer r complain that they live under a differ ent law to the minority, and that they are held down In poverty and serfdom, with every road to independence sealed to them." What would you propose to do, nnce I for a nnis ;d a ther ices, i esey illed ?n a arm man the f ilngf t' oung nose your C got - ;otag ?- PRESS ASSOCIATION. " bli ma'am? ently if the quite eness the as at "To set the more obvious Injustices right, and so to pave the way for a reform. Now look at that man digging 'in the i neither I know him. He can read nor write, he Is steeped In e ' whisky, and he has as much as the potatoes that he Is digging. Yet the man has a vote, can turn the scale of an election, and may help to decide the policy of this empire. Now, to take the nearest ex-- '' ample, here am I, a woman, who have I bad some education, who have traveled, i and wbo have seen and studied the In- stltuttone of many countries. I hold property, and I pay more II considerable taxes than that man spends In Imperial I In whisky, which Is saying a great deal, '4 and no more direct Influence have yet I upon the disposal of .the money which 4 I pay than the fly which creeps along the wall. Is that right? Is It fair? The Admiral moved uneasily In his j. ' chair. "Yours U an exceptional case, said he. But no woman has' a voice. Consider that the women are a majority in the nation. Yet if there was a question of legislation upon Which all women were agreed upon one side and all the men upon the other. It would appear that the matter was settled unanimously when more than half the population were opposed to It. Is that right?" Again the Admiral wriggled. It was very awkward for the gallant seaman to have a handsome woman opposite to him, bombarding him with questions to none of which he could find an answer. Couldnt even get the tomplons out of his guns, as he explained the matter to the Doctor that evening. Now those are really the points that we shall lay stress upon at the meeting. The free and complete opening of the professions, the final abolition ef the zenana I call It, and the franchise to all women who pay Queen's taxes above a certain sum. Surely there Is nothing unreasonable In that Nothing which could offend your principles. We shall have medicine, law, and the church all rallying that night for the protection of woman. Is the navy to be the one profession absent?" The Admiral jumped out of his chair with an evil word In his throat. There, there, ma'am," he cried. Drop It for a time. I have heard enough. You've turned me a point or two. I won't deny It. But let It stand at that. I will think It over. Certainly, Admiral. We would not hurry you In your decision. But we still hope to see you on our platform." She rose and moved about in her lounging masculine fashion from one picture to another, for the walls were thtcklv covered with reminiscences of the Admiral s voyages. Hullo Bald she. "Surely this ship would have furled all her lower canvas and i refed her topsails If she found herself cn a lee shore with the wind on her field. lntelll-genc- pos-slb- ly ies, a i said bat climb and ssary yard; Cant yo srvlnf s irank-- , yon Keep tat as iU re- - lie across nor-es by." lav, busy 5 alow e way. r, how me-- d And eaklng 1 pa t. tue to rk, N. asked me to uplied r that id the in, am lug at for it! 1 than ae my ' quarter. POPULAR .SCIENCE STORYORamk ac- - 3 more of him than he had told her on the evening before. It was Impossible, then. And yet what could his aunt mean by this discussion of his private affairs? Do you not think yourself," she persisted, that a young man of is better married?" I should think that he la old enough to decide for himself. Yes, yea. He has done so. But Charles Is just a little shy. Just a little slow In expressing himself. I thought that I would pave the way for him. Two women can arrange these things so much better. Men sometimes have a difficulty In making themselves clear. DOYLtI really hardly follow you. Mrs. Westmacott. cried Clara In despair. Of course she would. The artist was i He has no But he has never past Gravesend. I swear. It'bttie 'nice tastes. He profession. reads Browning every Penelope as she was on tne uth of. night- - And he Is most amazingly strong. June, 1857, in the throat of the Straits When he was younger we used to put of Banca. with the Island of Banea on- on the, gloi es together, but I cannot the starboard bow, and Sumatra on the persuade "him 'to 'now, for 'he says he port. He painted It from description, icannot play light enough. I should of course, as you very sensibly, say. low him fire hundred,, which should be all was snug below and she' oarrlbcT enough at first. storm sails and double-reefe- d My dear Mrs. Westmacott. topsails, cried for It was blowing a cyclone from the Clara, I assure- - you that I have not sou'east. I compliment you, ma'ap. I -- the least tdep what it is that ypu Are do Indeed!" ' 'talking of.v "Oh, I have done a little saHering 't Do you Vfflnk your sister Ida would myself as much as a woman can as- - have my netorw .Charles?" ptre to, you know. This Is the Ray-- ' of Her sisterflda?,. Quite a little thrill Funchal. What a lovely frigate.!1 i of relief andvof pleasure raft through love- 'her at i the-- thought. Ida and Charier Lovely, you say! Ah, ly! That is the Andromeda.. I was.jp' Westmkoott She had never thought of mate aboard of her they It. And yet they had been a good deal call It now, though I like the old nanle together.' They had played tennis. They best. had shared the tandem tricycle,- - Again What a lovely rake her masts have, came the 'thrill of joy, and, close at Its and what a curve to her bows! She heejs the cold questionings of conmust have been a dipper." " science. Why this joy? What was th The old sailor rubbed his hands and, real source of It? Was it that deep his eyes glistened. His old ships bor- down, somewhere pushed back In thi dered close upon his wife and hie son black recesses of the soul, there was in his affections. the thought lurking that If Charles "I know Funchal, said the lady care-- prospered' in his wooing then Harold "A lessly. couple of years ago I had a seven-to- n cutter-rigge- d yacht, the Banshee, and we ran over to Maderia from Falmouth. : "You, maam. In a With a couple of Cornish lads for a crew. Oh, It was glorious! A fortnight right out in the open, with no worries, no letters, no callers, no petty thoughts, j nothing but the great silent sky. They ( talk of riding, Indeed, I am fond of horses, too, but what Is there to compare with the swoop of a little craft as she pitches down the long steep side of a wave, and then the quiver and spring as she Is tossed upwards agafn? Ofi, If our souls could transmigrate Id, .when he sets himself to do It he will do be a seamew above all birds that fly! it. He Is very much fti love with her, 1 But I keep you. Admiral. Adieu!, , assure yob. These little lively people ah The old sailor was too transported ways do attract the slow and heavy with sympathy to say a word. He could ones, which Is nature's device for the only shake her broad muscular hand. neutralizing of bores. But they are all She was half way down the garden path going in. I think if you will allow me before she heard him calling her, and .that I will Just take the opportunity saw his grizzled head and weather-staine- d to tell him that, so far as you know, face looking out from behind there .Is no positive obstacle In the the curtains. way. You may put me down for the plat- ( TO SI CONTINUED ) he cried, and vanished abashed behind the curtain of his Times, where his wife found him at lunch time. , (, PLANT CAUSES TROUBLE. "I hear that you have had quite a chat with Mrs. long Westmacott, said Remarkable Spread of the Water Hyshe. acinth In Louisiana. Yes, and I think that she Is one of the most sensible women that I ever An assisted immigrant is making a lot knew. of trouble in Louisiana. It Is a plant, which a man from "Except on the woman's rights ques- ,a ' New Orleans saw and admired about tion, of course. "Oh, I dont know. She had a good three years ago while on a visit to Codeal to say for herself on that also. In lombia. He brought some bulbs of it fact, mother, I have taken a platform home with him and grew them In tubs ' In his front yard. In about two years ticket for her meeting. patches of the flower appeared In the CHAPTER VI. Bayou St. John, which connects New ('Orleans with Lake Pontchartraln. In AN OLD STORY-another year the bayou was full of It, UT THIS was not so that navigation was Impeded. Now to be the only eventr alj the canals near New Orleans are f 1 conversation overrun and covered with this Invading which Mrs. West- -' flower; great masses of It are floating In macott held that the lake; rivers running Into the lake day, nor was the with It, and It has traveled Admiral the only X00 miles westward of New Orleans. It person In the Wild- grows enormously, spreads like rabbits erness who was des- In Australia, chokes all the bayous and tined to find his streams it gets into, and is a tre I n opinions consider--, 'dous'nuisance, the limitations of which ably changed Two are not in sight In Colombia It Is a neighboring famll- - harmless, flowering plant that grows in les, the Winslows from Anerley, tubs, but In Louisiana the conditions and the Cumberbatches from Gipsy have developed It Into the most flourish-Hil- l, had been invited to tennis by Mrs., ,tng and obstinate pest the state has Westmacott, and the lawn was gay In known since she lost the Louisiana the evening with the blazers of the young men and the bright dresses of the girls. To the older people, sitting Horae Leaps Into the River. round In their wicker-wor- k garden Runaway Two huncfred people saw a runaway chairs, the darting, stooping, springihg white figures, the Bweep of skirts and horse attached to a buggy leap Into the twinkle of canvas shoes, the click of the river at Division street bridge, Chicago, rackets and sharp whiz of the balls, the other evening. It had been hitched with the continual fifteen love fifteen to a post not far from the bridge. It beall! of the marker, made up a merry came frightened at a covered wagon, and exhilarating scene. To see their broke the hitching straps, and started sons and daughters So flushed and on a run toward the river. It was going healthy and happy gave them also a at a break-nec- k speed when the glow, and It was hard to say proach was reached. The bridge was had most who pleasure from the game, open and a crowd was waiting for it to those who played or those who watched. turh.' The horse did not slacken Its Mrs. Westmacott had Just finished a pace when the open draw was reached, set when she caught a glimpse of Clara but leaped out Into the open space and Walker sitting alone at the farther end landed In the river. The horse was of the ground. She ran down the court, drowned. cleared the net to the amasement of the visitors, and seated herself beside her. Life Id MaHicbnHtU. Clara's reserved and reflned nature r shrank from the boisterous frankness A unique entertainment was given and strange manners of the widow, and last evening lp the Second Universalist her feminine Instinct told her that Church la Lynn, says the Boston Heryet beneath all her peculiarities there lay ald.' It was called a Tom Thumb' much that was good and noble. She .wedding, and the "contracting smiled up at her, therefore, and noddthe title by their parties 'Justified ed a greeting. - of shortness stature, which 'almost "Why aren't you playing, then? Don't equaled the shortness of the term of the for goodness sake, begin to be languid marriage contract. The bride was Miss and young ladyish. When you give up Ruth Williams, 5 years of age, and the active sports you give up youth. groom was Master Thomas Case?, I "I have played a set, Mrs. Westm- years ot age.- - The ceremony took place acott" beneath a daisy bell In the auditorium Thats right, my dear. She sat down of the church, which was prettily decobeside her, and tapped her upon the rated. - The bride and groom were atarm with her tennis racket. I like you, tended by Hazel C. Towne, 4 years old, my dear, and I am going to call you maid of honor, and a groomsman, six Clara. You are not as aggressive as I bridesmaids,' six ushers, two fiower-gtrlshould wish, Clara, hut still I like you and two pages, all attired In full Is all very court very much. costume, completed the bridal well, you know, but we have had rath- partyi which passed beneath three floral er too much of It on our side, and arches to the altar, where the bride was gphould like to see a little on the other. given away by her father," Mastei do think of What you my nephew, Harlan Drown, 4 years old. Charles?" .The Ceremony was performed by the The question was so sudden and un- rector, the Rev. Harry Dale, 4 years expected that Clara gave quite a Jump old, attired In clerical vestments. In her chair. I I I hardly ever have After the ceremony the bride and thought of your nephew Charles." held a brief and a wedNo? Oh, you must think him well groombreakfast wasreception served. over, for I want to speak to you about ding n him. , , Makln To me? But why? Himself Useful f It seemed to me most delicate. You 4A woman residing in a flat ordered s see, Clara, the matter stands in this of ice from the grocery. Th way. It Is quite possible that I may soon piece Who brought it was a German And myself In a completely new sphere youth., He put It on the dumbwaiter In the of life, which will involve fresh duties basement to he hoisted up. She pulled and make it impossible for me to keep up a household which Charles can awhy. Gracious!", she exclaimed, how share. ice is. The grocer must havt Clara stared. Did this mean that she heavy this me good weight, wa? about to marry again? What else given By great exertion she succeeded In could It point to? dumbwaiter up. To her the Therefore Charles must have a getting she found the toy seated household of his own. That Is obvious. on the Ice With what breah she had Now, I don't approve of bachelor esleft shd demanded: tablishments. Do you? did you make me pull you up I have hereWhat Really, Mrs. Westmacott. for?': never thought of the matter. Why. replied the boy. I thought Oh, you little sly puss! Was there he too heavy for you to ever a girl who never thought of the the cake "would I came tip to help you off with lift, so matter? I think that a young man of It. ; ought to be married. The Clara felt very uncomfortable. Artificial eyes were first made Is awful thought had come upon her that this ambassadress had come to her as Egypt. They were of gold and silver, a proxy with a proposal of marriage. and cheaper ones were of Ivory and copBut how could that be? She had not per. Hundreds of years later, In the spoken more than three or four times sixteenth century, they were made, in with her nephew, and knew nothing Europe, of porcelain. s she-wa- nt - seven-tonne- r? water-hyacint- h, - i , s, FOUNDATION OF GROWTH. What we call ceils make up the body of all plants. Rome of tike very smallest forms of plant life are made up of few cells, but most plants have millions of these. Take a compound microscope, and place under it a section from any plant; It will be found to consist entirely of cells arranged aide by side or one over another. Some of the cells may be alive and some dead. In large plants most of the cells are dead, even though the plants themselves may be growing vigorously. A cell Is a minute globular bqtiy with a tough wall Inclosing a fluid Interior, . which Is called bioplasm. Thiq bioplasm has the power to draw to' itself more fluid 'through the cell wall and thus Increase the size ot the cell. When the cell can grow1 no larger It divides itself Into two by the drawing In of the cell wall, just as a sausage maker divides his sausages by twisting and tbus contracting, the skin. Each of these parti-cell- s then grows to the sise of the original cell and itself divides. This explains the rapid growth ot plants at some stages, after they have got a good start, as we say, and it also explains their slow growth at first Any scholar that has ever tried to double a number for twenty or thirty times will understand. Said a man to the Give me a grain king of Burmah: of wheat for the first square on the checker board, 2 for the second, 4 for the thlri, and so on for the whole 64 squares. Said the king: "Certainly, I command that It be done. His ministers found there 'was not wheat enough in tbe kingdom to pay the bill. That Is how cells multiply. It is why we wake up some morning to find that the weeds have got ahead of us that they have overrun everything. ' He who understands this and is wise will assail the weeds when they are at a stage of slow growth rather than wait till they are on the gallop. In time most cells lose their power of division or increasing in size. These walls become thicker and harder and their Interior solidifies. They have been squeezed Into various shapes Growth having ceased, they are knpwn as dead cells, when they are of use only as supports to those that are growing. When vitality la great and nourishment abundant cell growth goes on rapidly, but when either of these la lacking the growth is slow. , OF PRINCIPLES. In any A man to be successful branch of plant culture must under stand the principles of plant growth. Most men do not understand these principles and whatever they do Is done either because their experience seems to pronounce it good or the course has been recommended to them by someone else. It not infrequently happens that a man will describe bis methods to another and that latter will adopt them to his loss. Thus one man said that the use of potash on hts land would give very good resulta and urged his friends to go and do likewise. The men put on the potash, but could get no Increased resulte from It, and they forthwith declared the fertilizer worthless and that the first man waa mistaken. That showed a lack of the understanding of the principles. A man that looked into the case found that the land of the first man was deficient In potash while on the land of the men that bad used It unsuccessfully there was an abundance for every purpose. The men should have known the conditions of their soils In the first place. Unless a man makes a systematic study ot them he is little likely to learn the principles of plant life and nutrition. 'A principle Is a law that applies In all places, yet Is modified Thus one kind of by circumstances. plant needs one kind of pruning and another plant needs another kind, jet both must come under the law that says "winter pruning tends to increase wood production and aurnmer pruning tends to increase the fruit Principles have been made yield. known by the experiences ot the A KNOWLEDGE many. ABSORBING POWER OF ROOTS. When a seed sprouts .the first thing it does is to put forth a root for the purpose of absorbing water and other mineral matter necessary for the further development of the plant This root pushee itself into the soil by cell multiplication at ita Up, and gets thicker by new layers all around it We thus see that the root extends Itself into the soil by almost lrrislsU-bl- e force, and is able to penetrate bard substances that it never could penetrate if It grew from behind and pushed Itself forward as the nails of our fingers da This mode of growth alqo makes the soil tightly packed around the entire root surface, even to the minutest fibers, and thus enables them readily to absorb such nourishment as the soil' may contain for the plant. The power to absorb is greatest In the small root fibers, or spongloles, as they are called, and gradually diminishes as the roots grow older and thicker. Now, when we remove a plant from the soil we break off thousands of these no matter how much care we take or how much we believe In the whole root theory; and thus the power of the plant to absorb Is greatly diminished. When we place it In the soil again, we are unable to make the soil come Into such close contact with the roots as it was when the roots had extended themselves Into the soil by their growth; but this may be done to a certain extent by having the eoil well pulverized and then pouring water around the plant immediately after it has been set la the pulverized soil. , This will cause the soil to settle around the roots, though the roots will not press against it till they resume their growth. Prof. H. W. Specking. spon-gtoles- , Only Two Europeans Honored. Gen. Gordon and M. Prosper Giguel are the only Europeans to whom has ever been granted the right to wear the Chinese yellow jacket. ' Latest Things In Hens' Nests.- When asked the bqst remedy for From The Farmers' Review: Our preventing hens from eating their an old poultry fancier is said to nursery brooder is 15i) feet long, 24 eggs, off. feet , wide, A heater at one end with have remarked, Cut their heads four hot water pipes running the But, as this would, mean- cutting) off of eggs as well, a Califorwhole length down the middle. Over the supplyinvented dials what he believes to these is a board walk about four feet nian be a better remedy: for this form'-o- f one inch pine. wide, and Heater pipes are 6 inches from ground cannibalism, if. such ftjnay.be called. floor.' They gradually rise until at The machine which be has designed farther end they are over 12 inches for this purpose fs'bhown !h the drawfrom floor. Every 5 feet Is partition- ing, consisting of. the nest proper 'and ed off for. a pen with cloth tacked a series , of popkts or ifpeptacje on each pide ot walk to keep thL with an automatic mechanism which warm air tfnder pipes. This cloth la presents each ot the pockfcts' in iurn the opening in the bottom of slit nearly to top every S or 4 inches, beneath to receive, the newly Ibid eggs so ducklings can go in or but- - by the nest ,4 pressing on same. The first one or two days we keep a board up edgeways about one foot from hover. ! This la to keep them pear the heat until they learn to go in and out themselves. After this they have the whole pen, 6x12 petition in center of walk under pipes, one pn each side walk until two weeks old, when they are let run in pens 6x50. Our first feed is equal parts cornmeal, bran and broken crackers, If we can get them, with Has a Rocket for Every Egg. a little fine aand like granulated sng&r, Interposed In the. passage through the whole mixed with warm water irhtch the egg falls on the journey, to that has stood In sun an hour. We Its pocket Is a trigger, which releases feed four times dally what they eat the rotary frame carrying the pockets up quickly first four days on flat so that as soon as the egg reaches the boards, after that in small bottom of its receptacle an empty troughs. pocket replaces it beneath When ducklings are four weekn old opening ot the nest. Ip .addithey are removed to the cold brooder, tion to' pieventing the bens from which baa a hot water pipe running smashing or eating their eggs, fid's araround house on Inside one foot high, rangement will afford a protebtfon in summer this Is not heated. This against rats and other animals which house should be SO feet wide, petition, have been known to appropriate the ed In the middle, pens running both eggs to their own use. As the pockets ways 6 feet wide, 100 feet long. Duck- and operating mechanism ot this nest lings are 'watered and fed out- are concealed from view by a wood side If weather will permit or metal casing, theie is nothing. to troughs 6 Inches wide Indicate to the hen that the nest dif' and four feet long are used for fers from 'the ordinary kind. feeding, and same size for water. Pipes running through pens furnish How Fahrenheit Wbrked. water. Inside troughs for feeding In Fahrenheit's thermometer owed Its with a fountain beginnings, to the invention of a ther nursery are for water holding a pail of water. In mometer by Newton, which was a tube cold brooder ducks are led equal part filled with linseed oil, and the starting cornmeal, bran, ground oats, with point of the scale was the temperature e flour to make it of the human body, which , Newton enough ball up nicely, and 8 per cent beet called 12. He divided the space bescrap. When six weeks old they are tween his - datum and the freezing removed to pens 25x100 and fed and point of water Into twelve equal parts watered In trough same aa for breed- and stated 'that the boiling point of ing ducks. For two weeks they are water would be About 30 of these defed equal - parts cornmeal and bran, grees on., the scale. Fahrenheit, ;wherf e with some flour, and 10 he began to work with. Newtons therper cent beet scrap. The next two mometer, 'did not find the scale minweeks they are fed cornute enough for his purposes. He first meal, bran, some doubled the number of degrees, makflour and 12 per. cent beef , scrap. ing the scale number 21 Instead pf 12. They are now ten weeks old and Finding he could, by mixing ice and should be ready for market, weighing salt, obtain a temperature below fre'ez-ln5 to 6 pounds each. Some use a shed Fahrenheit next adopted this for for them to run under In last pens. his starting point and counted 24 deOthers not any, but have pens well grees up to, body heat, making the drained. When ready to kill, ducks freezing point 8 and calling boiling are driven into a shed and fattest water 63. Later on he again divided ones are killed by hanging up by the his degrees into four. It will be seen feet and a silt cut in throat crosswise, that if the above figures are multiplied the head being held firm by a wire by four the result is the thermometer run through the ,nose When through scale called after him which la still ia bleeding, they are taken down and given to the pickers, who scald them In hot water, then remove the feathTrack Laying Machine. ers quickly, after which they are A story is going the rounds of an plumped by plunging into hot water, Englishman's- - visit to. an - American then Into ice water. They now city during the past winter just after placed In tubs of water for two or an electric railway franchise had been three hours, until animal heat is all granted, and his fnterest In the jubila--' out, then packed in barrels ot loe t:on of the citizens. X On seeing the water and kept until shipped to mar- streets lighted with bonfires .at night ket, which is every day In the after- he remarked tha it was almost too noon. W. R. Curtiss, Niagara County, cold for snch s celebration, ' and wa New York. told the fires were lighted by the contractor to thaw the grounu preparaPOULTRY POINTS. tory to commencing work 'In the mornThe ing. His comment; . You will be colbreeds are generally poor sitters. The lecting fares before we would .have men that have handled them for some broken ground. is a good illustration centuries back have done their best to of our usual manner pf doing work. In drive out of them the sitting procliv- the picture we present an apparatus ity. This will have to be taken into designed to expedite the work of layconsideration by the man that la try- ing lines of rails when once (ha roadbed has been graded to receive them. ing to raise chicks from any of the Mediterranean class of fowls. , Too This machine consists of a number of often such a fowl shows an inclinacars to carry the rails and ties, with s tion to alt and la given a sitting of derrick, on the forward car adapted eggs. She hovers them for a few to haul the material over rollers on days, and until change haa begun in the sides of the cars, and place It la the eggs; and then, some morning the proper position on the roadbed.,, With owner goea out to the poultry house this apparatus in use there U no need end finds Mrs. Leghorn sitting on the roost and tha eggs chilled beyond recovery. In raising this class of chicks an Incubator or one of the feathered matrons from another breed Is desirable. ' CULTURE. DUCK NO. IL 2 , one-quart- , 2 out-do- e - low-grad- low-grad- two-thir- of power has more nearly approached' perfection.' The glacier is thus a mine! of stored energy, and its ice has been somewhat poetically termed "whitej coal. But if the researches of somei recent French and German scientific men are to be relied on, the glaciers may fail us some day as well as the coal mines. It appears that the glaciers, not only of the Alps, but also of Other. continental mountain ranges, are shrinking, in some cases Imperceptibly, and In others almost visibly. Of coarse,1 this may be only one swing of the pendulum, and continued obserYhftbn 'may,. show that It will be followed in future years by a proportionate increase, so it may be as well not to Indulge In too dismal forebodings. i ! Elect rlo Perfume Extraction. Professor Elmer Gates, founder of l, thd Elmer Gates Laboratory at has completed an Invention by meads 'of which sweet scented blooms are made to yield their perfume. Delicious ; essences are now secured straight from the blooming plant without injuring the flowers from which the! perfume U extracted. With an electrical apparatus Professor Gates secures the particles as they are breathed upon the air by the flowers, them down several and drawing Charged wires to glass jars, bottles the various scents which distinguish the rose,, the lily and the violet. This electrical method of extracting perfume from blooming plants, besides utilizing the blooms to better advantage than can possibly be done by the method'now in use of crushing the flowers, also assures a much superior quality' of perfume. ' Wash-ingtof- Improved Railway BrakS. While the exertions of railway officials to Increase the speed of the trains have resulted in many changes as regards dhe'loiffnotive, cars and roadbed, bnt' littYo Improvement has been shown in brake appliances since the introduction 'of the airbrake. When this brake Is applied gradually, as In bringing the train to a standstill at stations, tqe friction lies between the shoe and the surface ot the wheel, but when danger requires a quick stop the wheels are often madq to slide over the rail, the resulting friction wearing a flat place On .the rtm. In the drawing we show a brake mechanism which,- while-- ' greatly Increasing the .friction obtainable, transfers the wear from tbd surface of the wheel to the shoe provide especially for this pur- - low-grad- e one-thir- d ;e - The best egg producers are supposed to be those that have large combs. The presumption la that a supply ot blood must be kept for reinforcing the organs that produce eggs. But these large combs are very .r . susceptible to the effects of frost This is especially true of the single For handling the Ralls and Ties. combs. This baa led to the breed- of large' gangs ot laborers to carry ing of rosecomba, but these, when the rails and .ties, as the derrick very large, are also easily taken by handles them from the time they leave the frost The only effective method the cars until they are, ready for the of preventing this la to have warm spikes, and a comparatively-- , small quarters for the fowls and have them number of men can .perform all the free from dr&fta. manual labor that- - Is required. iO .' The fowls of the Mediterranean class are great foragers. On this account they bath need less corn than most other breeds If they be permitted to forage, and are less Injured by a heavy corn ration If they do get 1L Being very active, they burn up the surplus carbon, using a large amount of energy in getting around, scratching and so forth. So It Is not surprising to learn that one eastern station haa actually found that for Leghorns corn Is a good ration. Steel Hardened -by Electricity. The latest method- of hardening the face of armor plate is by beating the fate with electrical currents by means of large carbon anodes Instead 'of applying the heat in a furnace. It has been found that during the electrical treatment a portion of the carbon of the anodes enters into the- composition of the steei, producing great hard-tee- s of that metal. The depth to which the .hardening proceeds is regulated by the length of time during which the treatment Is applied. It Is Dairying rightly conducted tends to claimed to be superior to the Harvey Improve the land. This means the system cr Cat of Krupp. By the lab use of rotation crops In providing feed ter process plates require fifteen to a- -: for the animals and the purchase of twe-With the concentrated feeds to balance the pro- electrics! ir''tKnd the desired result tein that Is carried off in milk. is accomplished iu five hours. - , . Are tha Glaciers Shrinking? European engineers have been congratulating themselves that, although the coal mines may fail, they have in the Alpine glaciers inexhaustible sources of energy, says Success. The melting of the glacier ice gives ris Mossy Is the term used for con- to mountain torrents, whose fall k fused or Indistinct marking in the being utilized, mere ard more, since the electric transmission plumage- - By pruning away a. part of the leaf buds, the fruitfulness of a tree may be Increased; and by pruning away the fruit spurs, bearing may be pro vented and more vigor thrown into the remaining shoots. ejpe-ciall- pose. This shoe fs in contact with tha surface of the rail, and is applied in conjunction with a shoe gripping the leverage between the ahoea being such that the weight of the car is transferred from th wheel to tha' rail shoe. To decrease the shock, caused by the Sudden appliance of this brake a spring buffer forms the connection between the car frame and tha brake. It will be seen that the two brake shoes are pivoted on the same lever, and a pull on the rod connected) to the upper end of this lever will throw one shoe into contact with tha wheel and the other . against the, surface of the. rail. ' t V i ,! Coal Production In the South. ' It is only within the .last few years, thaf one has heard much of the devel- -' Opment of coal mines In Tennessee,, yet' the production there has morei than doubled In the past decade, Ar-- i kansaa has Increased her tonnage! from an output of 300,000 tons in 1892 ! to 2,125,730 tons in 1902, and It lal said' that the production there is likely' to be greafly Increased atill, aa Some prominent Pennsylvania men are: making large investments there. The output of coal in Indian Territory in, 1890 was 750,832 tons, while in 1901 the Output had grown to 2,400,945 tons.' The mines of Texas and other South- 'em Estates have likewise shown a remarkable development, which,' If kept up, must prdre' a great source of wfalth.and profit to the South. ' , . ; 4 l i i Temperature of Insects. The body temperature of Insects, unlike, that of mammals, varies greatly; 'A recent Investigator, P. Bach inetiew,' finds that when the Insect la St, rest the temperature Is near that of the, surrounding air, but that it rises rapidly with active movements. The temperature endurance of insects proves to be about the same as that of plants. The species' tried were immovable at farenheit, began to move tbe wings at about 53 degrees, commenced to buzz at 68 degrees, showed eigne of uneasiness at 104 degrees and died at 113 degrees. . , J -- - For Wireless Telegraphy. From California It is learned that the rigging and- spars for the government tests ot wireless telegraphy have been- completed 'at 'Mare island, and one set shipped to the training station on Goat islqnd. Jhe other set will be installed near Point Bonita light The main masts are 80 feet 6 inches, topmasts 50 feet in length. These masts will be anchored by Iron tars cemented together In pyramid shape. The instruments for equipping these masts are expected to arrive soon from the naval observatory, at - Washington. Electric Anesthesia. Electric anesthesia proves valuable In sui gery. as well as In dental operations. By alternating currents 'a French surgeon has proy duced insensibility so lasting that a serious and difficult opeiatkm vm performed, the patert feeling nothing. ' |