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Show LIFE 8AVED THE ENTERPRISE. John L. Their Idol racD JOMIMUf, fiUMM mn BrSBAIM, CHEAP CATE FOR FARM. Easy to Make and Satisfactory In Every Way. I send you a drawing of a cheap farm gate I find to be easily made and satisfactory In every way. I have several such gates on my farm and have used one for eight years. The frame is made of 2 by 4 Inch scant' lings, morticed together. The brace Is of the same material. My gates are strung with barbed wire, but woven wire could be used equally well. 1 snake my own gates. The usual length la 14 feet. A gate of this length costs $1.50, including the hinges, besides the making. Gate posts will not heave or tip If set four feet In the ground When 1 first went to Tahiti." said a traveler from the South Seas, "I landed on one of the remote Islands. The first night 1 went in state to visit the chief. "He was a fine old fellow, fully 6 feet 2 In height, and a man every Inch of him. I happened to know people who had lived on his Island for a time. Through an Interpreter he asked me all kinds of questions about them If they were well, If their hair was getting gray, how much money they had, etc. Then eonversation langu'shed. "At length I heard him repeating to the Interpreter a word that sounded like Yonelsulwan. The Interpreter seemed to catch It finally. He said: "'He wants to know how is John L. Sullivan? Is he fighting as bard as ever?' " "Oh. no, I said truthfully. 'John I Sullivan Isn't champion any more. He was beaten by a big man from the West, and a man from the Rig Islands beat that man, and another big man from the West beat him.' When this was told to the chief he looked me all over and said something In a very positive tone. "He tells me said the Interpreter, 'that he doesn't believe you. He thinks you don't like John L. Sulli- found that I was an Jjnerican they all asked for John I "Some of them knew who was pres Ident of the United States, though most of them who had any Ideas on the subject thought It was Cleveland. Hut every one thought he knew who was champion of the world. In sever a! native huts I found little old fash' loncd prints of the Boston boy. "It appears that the Americans first began to come In numbers to the Isl ands about the time when John I was supposed to be unbeatable. These Americans introduced the boxing game. "It was a great hit. Every. native wanted to learn. And when the Americans told of their great champion the natives took It all In and made him a tribal tradition. "Its a study In the growth of legend. If they arent killed off by clothes and consumption. I suppose theyll have him a kind of on Odin some day. "When an American beachcomber strikes those shores, he has to put on the gloves with the natives. If he cant beat them, theyve no use for I have a pasture F. C. Treat him. I e y Mowing the Ox-Ey- Daisy e All Alike. ;j (I infested am now Daisy, and mowing them all down before they this will eradi ripen. Do you think Ox-Ecate the pest? Te Daisy Is not a' native here, but has come, I am informed, from manure from cat tie fed upon Imported hay. with Ox-Ey- MONKEY. Wives as a Help Daisy. e PEt Simian Wrests Knlft from Crazed Keeper, Attempting Suicide. Lraplag from hit cage to the ground a largo ebampanzee attached to an animal farm la Jersey City wrested from the hand of Matthew BrocxscH a knife with which tho man, In a fit of temporary Insanity, was attempting suicide. The creature saved IJroee-sell- s life. II rocs sell had been training the monkey for a number of years, and the animal was greatly attached to him. For the last few days the man had complained of the heat and declared that hla reason would not last much longer. While cleaning the cage of his pet he suddenly began to scream. He picked up the knife and slashed hla throat several times. The monkey jumped through the open door of his cage, and was wrestling with the man for the knife when the other keepers came. Broessell la in the hospital In a serious condition. "Luckily, the natives are about as poor with the gloves as they make em. It doesnt take much of a beachvan. comber to whip the champion of TaEverywhere I went on the islands hiti. That fact saves the faces of our A Farm Gate. It was the same story. When they countrymen." and a piece of plank is spiked on each I side as shown In the drawing. always set gate posts and end fence J. II. posts in this way. Ox-Ey- DY before "George," said his wife triumphantly, as Mr. Candidate walked in late for dinner, and with a tired look on his facet "you say tht.I always do the wrong thing.' Just before election, but I didnt make a mistake this time. I met old Diggs this morning and cut him dead. "What! all shouted her husband, the seeds are ripened will prevent trree of exhauslon vanishing. the crop of seedlings for that year, Why, George! gasped his wife, but the plant Is a perennial and the "you said only last night, Never temand roots will produce new plants new flowers another year. However, It does not root deeply. The best plan for clearing Infested land Is to break It up and seed down to clover. In this way the old plants are destroyed and any young plants from seed which should flower the second year, will be cut with both the first and second crops of clover before the seeds are ripe. Then, when the clover sod Is plowed down, the Daisy plants will be killed and the ;l&nd be clean. porize with an enemy; let him understand that you know him, and " "Do you mean to tell me," Interrupted the enraged politician, "that you refused to speak to the man who casts the entire labor vote? But, George, commenced his wife, if he is against you "He's not. Hes for me or was, he added, with tragic emphasis. "He will now support the other fellow. I deserve this for being fool enough to discuss my affairs with my wife." "Thats just It, George," said his wife, resentfully; if you were more Ants In a House. candid and had only told me be M. L. A. would like to know what was for you this time It would have Is good to prevent ants staying been all right." around the place. Mr. Candidate groaned. "I am very sorry, of course," resum When ants appear In a house, the first effort should be made to cover where their nest Is generally Inside a wall or beneath a floor or some object close outside the building. If the nest can be found, it should be drenched with boiling water; out of doors bisulphide of carbon has been' used with success, a spoon- A grouchy and crotchety, fussy old man. Whose stick on the walk beats a ful being thrown Into the hole which Is then plugged with a little clod of The cut of his coat on an earth. If the nest cannot be located, plan, A shiny, red nose and a worn beaver as many insects as possible should be hat, destroyed. For this, small pieces of A blare of defiance, he trumpets his nose. He clears his hoarse throat with a sponge are moistened with water containing some sugar and a little But the girl on his arm, she3 as fair as rose vinegar or borax and placed In the such a flower on such a How grew ants. The the spots frequented by stem! gnarled ants will collect on the sponges, several He bushes his eyebrows and scowls upon which should be collected me, s times a day ' and dropped Into scalding the walk His stick with a Ox-Ey- e ed Mrs. Candidate. "I hate to snub people, but its done now, and really I hardly feel that I am to blame. But I made up for my bad treatment of DIggsv by being especially cordial a lew minutes later to Mr. Snobbs. "Snobbs! yelled her husband, this time pushing his chair back from the table. "Why, yes; your great friend and" "Read that, Mrs. Candidate," throwing her a printed circular, whlcn he took from his coat pocket. "In it my friend Mr. Snobbs, calls me a trickster, a corruptionist, and a liar. Thousands of them are on the street. He watched her with a kind of frenzied calm, while she realized the character of the paper. she stammered, Really, George "this is too bad; but I am so interested in your race and so anxious to help. She paused a moment, then added tearfully, You do think wives help a little, dont you, George?" "Yes, he responded grimly, "as helps .to beat a man for office I put them against the world!" Mrs. Candidate wept not loudly, but distinctly, while Mr. Candidate savagely attached his dinner. New York has not yet risen to the dignity of shoe shining parlors," and (Gothamites, great and' snmll, patron Ize the street stands. The New York World artist has here sketched James J. Hill as the finishing polish was placed on his shoes. Ways of Lovely Women, A Chicago woman mortgaged her freedom the other day by marriage to a convict who Is beginning an imprisonment of fourteen years for murder. Jailers whistled a wedding march and jailbirds flung old shoes after the oddly mated couple. The husband went back to his cell and the wife wandered out into the world and possibly to serious reflection. When will psychologists give us a stable basis upon which to anticipate the results of the relationship between a man and a woman? , rat-a-tat-t- at. ed click-beat- water.', f . - Coal Ashes for Grass Land. J. V. B. Are hard or soft coal ashes a proper fertilizer for, grass lands? Wood ashes are frequently used by fanners, but no coal ashes aj'e used. as we pass. His scowl wastes the bloom of a smile I 866 And freezes it stiff on the lips of the ISLSS. He raises his hat with a Chesterfield air. The sweep of his arm is chill courtesys sign. But his eyes pass me by with an unseeing stare. If blood were for spilling hed dabble mine. In Theres pride in the white crest uplifted so high. Defiant the tilt of the old beaver hat. Contempt In the stare of the unknowing eye And the click of his stick ' with Its He spurns me, he scorns me, he hates me he knows Im nursing in secret some pilfering plan To pluck from its parental arbor the rose That rests on the arm of this fussy old rat-a-tat-t- man. So he passes mo by with an unseeing stare. His cane beats defiantly He trumpets, his nose with a furious blare. Theres pride In the tilt of his worn beaver hat. Love may laugh at locksmiths, nor haz-an- d a care In bridging most' gulfs of despair with a span But love needs more courage than mine has, I swear. To laugh at this crotchety, fussy old , man. J. W. Foley, In New York Times. -- rat-a-tat-t- In a small boat like this a bold Moorish sailor will attempt a lonesome voyage from the Mediterranean to America during the coming sum- mer. Hens Were Dyed. of Hope Valley, R. L, Maine Bert as a shelter for his barrel a used of hens. The barrel had small flock once contained dye. One morning af- ter a recent rain his hens appeared colored a bright blue. They had entered the shelter in a drenched condition and the dampness had loosened the dyestuff from the sides of the |