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Show J BEAVER STILL THRIVES -- 1 I m- Fonr Footed Engineer Floodih In Inhabitant of Halna Great En l IIUNa rcvand Cunning-Indi- an oral Enemy, and II I Alio Hunt 4 by lb Vnfal Lumberman. -- HIS DAM -- 2&S- BUILDING METHODS. water. When they are plastered with mud they are about tbe size and shape of a haycock. I have seen as many ns thirty houses In one pond. When winter comes the pond freezes solid. The beaver Is then safe from all enemies save man, and a man must be a cunning bunter to get tho furry and chubby little quadruped. The chamber of the house Is above water, and is oat-sid- e lined with moss nnd leaves. The door comes out under the water, close to the brush pile. The houses are not connected. The beaver lives In winter upon bis store of hark and tender shoots gathered In the fall, add does not come out until spring. On the upper side of the dam he hns large quantities of material stored, to use In repairs, should any damage he done to his dam or house. It Is said that the beaver sleeps In Ills chamber with his tall hanging In the water. If anything happens to the dam, he knows It at once, for his tall telegraphs him, so to speak, when tho water begins to fall. TRAPPING BEAVERS. The modern way of trapping beaver Is to cut a hole In the Ice between the woodpile and the housp. A set steel trap is then lowered by means of a split stick, until it sinks Into tho mud nnd Is thus concealed. The chain of the trap Is fastened to a dry stake, driven solidly Into the pond. The heaver discovers the stake, aud In trying to remove It gets caught. As he cannot readily gnaw a dry stick, be soon drowns. I have known boa ver to occupy ponds where lumbermen have built dams In the woods, but they generally prefer to do their own work. A few years ago some beavers were discovered In the pond ofia mill on HardMe. wood Creek, near t rarkhurst. Someone hoisted the gate, but no heavers camo out. Next morning, however, the flume was found to be choked effectually with stumps, logs, stones and mud, and the water thus stopped. As there were only two beavers there the work they did In one short night was remarkable a good days work for d two men. Philadelphia Record. V,V.VV.VAV.V.VAV.V.VA UNCLE SAM FURNISHES i household 9 ? 5 matters BACTERIA FREE FOR FARMERS i; mirrors are severely molding, but this quaint, fanciful conceit in and gilt, and Is decidedly tbe usual commonplace effect ' all-gi- lt 7 Th Ideal Kitchen The kltcWn la Indeed the of Drapery. law, Arranerant of the of the house. It Is the sour The keynote of the Interior In health, comfort, and . one tnhh Its character house beautiful forms of the draper- happiness of the household, the artistic arrangement Times. The Of tbeousehoM calls for such ies, says the Los Angeles such hygienic conditions as do! kitchen. Extreme cleanliness and J PACKAGES FOR SOIL INOCULATION TO AID IN CROWING RICH CROPS TO BE SENT OUT NEXT YEAR IT MEANS CRIATLY INCREASED VALUES IN CROPS. air are generally conceded to i , of any particular crop he desires. WASHINGTON, D. C.-- The Misfirst considerations. 1 Nearly everywhere east of tbe canGovernment has In store The ideal kitchen should have.,, find that they River farmers for the farmers of the souri floor or on covered with It Is the country an Interesting gift. not make alfalfa grow, though known. The wnlls should, If possible lyJ crop most like be H seem profitable forage To many It will of of or acres 1 to ten plaster. from forty have Them who To others Anywhere inagic. be whether should Income, and a ing exposed will the It there of large ,3 abreast yield for a few years kept be an ample sink to prevent th ' not sold as hay or fed to five stock. In subject of soil Inoculation It will tbe of greasy water on the ; West far of the soils ping alkaline the . seem so marvelous. are should be a large-sizeand so There l, rapidly bacteria multiply In 1885 a German scientist, the rango to allow all sinoke and: announced that he had discov- so favored In the environment that sucto escape through the chimney ered that there exist In the soil a vast alfalfa may he sowed anywhere without In the The furnlshlugs of the chit, East, But number of minute macroscopic organ- cessfully. not do tubercles root tushould be complete nnd should inoculation the In homes isms which make their of numerous shelves holding K form and the little alfalfa plants of sist roots on the or nodules, bercles, wither and die. for the kitchen supplies. There jt leguminous plants,, such as clovers, It will not he until next year that be bags for soiled towels and ir vetches, peas, beans and locust trees. to supundertake will Government the clean drawers to put them and perhe showed, These little creatures, Accurate tests In. form a valuable service for the plants ply cultures generally. of all cultures These rudimentary suggestion! In which they live. They pay for ave now being mndts will be and the safeguard sound rather superfluoc from every employed ARTISTIC DRAPERIES. catching probably subsistence their by ' The expectations. the housekeeper, hut they expert air nitrogen which the legumes could taken to fulfill found a new method arrangement should give the form of prove of value to the numberleu not themselves take into their systems Government hns is It as lu what is an Idea. This is as important who do not observe these first In gaseous form, reducing It to a ni- of producing the cultures and the to produce a harmonious color scheme, medium a called nitrogen-freother some with combination winter. pies. trate In tone In blend colors so that which makes the When a kitchen is so attractive The townspeople were enraged at the element taken up from the ground, process will not be patented, line curved One music. In the chords be like enjoyed by a member of the fnm(ly will take dea' action of the dam nnd have ofand the legumes easily digest this the benefits may another. with lu harmony luxwhole country without cost or favor. ought to he Into a cozy corner of it , fered rewards for the detection of the plant food nnd make rapid and a scheme to sewing It has been found that it Is not so The Illustration presentslower must be an Ideal oue.- -y men who exploded the dynamite, while a kitchen uriant growth. nnd yet as the make a high door look All this was taken up qulekly by much the quantity of bacteria lean Queen. several citizens have gone so far as to The If maintain its stately appearance. threaten to shoot the first man caught scientists throughout the world, and character which tells for success. virulent nnd material used Is fifty inches wide and fresh are the cultures Hundreds In In or To Exterminate Mlc, this country. Injuring Interfering any way with especially thormore service their any practical draper can cut and drape which are rethe furry of experiments were carried forward, they perform Stop up the mouse holes with satisfacIt. and It Is now fundamentally estab oughly and the returns are garded with affection by all tbe people 'uto carbolic add nnd icnr dipped there. fished that this Is one of the greatest tory. The amount sent out in the shelves with diluted floor and of Fnrnltnr. Plec A Quaint those PECULIAR TO NORTII AMERICA. discoveries known to scientific and packages described are usually of In acid the the part proportion of a tables, Washington Irving plays required for a bushel of seed of the setAn Aroostook County man, who hns practical agriculture. a bucket tf water, which sj to and cozy ful to this namesake alquaint or clover as such Nitrogen Is the most .expensive fer ordinary sort, spent his life In the woods and knows tle. Hence we cannot but fancy It is be hot. Tbe acid should be s tllizer required in farming. The aver falfa; but the applicant may increase Intended for the library. It must be well Into the water so that It may? all about heavers, speaks thus Interestamount the the quantity by increasing age price per pound Is seventeen cents, ingly of the little animals: "The beaver wa-and keeping a part of the admitted, however, that It will be thoroughly. Carbolic nc'd Is i while phosphorus and potash, the two of Is a nntlve of North America. In some or living ful corrosive and great care iho, solution be over, to very much as yeast may equally admirable in ball other requisite fertilizers, are other countries there are animals that of is wicker, taken in handling It. American q It As room. pictured, had for two and three cents a pound. be Increased by the housewife or tbe stained forest resemble them, but their numbers are cushioned in and green, baker. earths I On every square Inch of the limited and their works are InsignifiA AVWe Old Moum Grass being the money crop of the Nankeen twill of a harmonious shade. surface there rests a column of air con cant compared with those of the AmerVie of mlceltlir think "When of be willow, ebony, whether soty in hay or live- The stain may ican beaver. All over this country, slating largely of nitrogen and weigh country, of the trouble they cause m; w, this stock, Inoculation Is expected to add weathered, sealing wax red, Indian yelWith fourteen pounds. from the grent lakes to the Gulf of about ing not apt to credit tbe rodents with soft the or delft blue, though to the grass and hay low at hand, and with the means to catch untold millions Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the York New of whole the country. It, the farmer has a most abundant crop Pacific, the works of the heaver are source of the most Important fertilizer Sun. found, the little animals still existing In many States. They are very prohe needs. An Obliging Sheriff. lific, and If undlst'rbed by their natural Tbe way In which the Government becu spending part of the A have "I enemy man their numbers Increase Intends to make use of these partied Island of on summer the Nantucket," them rcry rapidly. lar bacteria is by propagating said the summer girl, and among "The red man was, nnd Is yet, the under artificial conditions and sending A to curious characteristic other Interesting relics of early New peculiar Inall In of the heaver. The parts greatest enemy them out In small quantities dians believe that the flesh of the beav- the California redwood tree Is that If of the country for the use of fanners. England life I saw the old massive er, when cooked nnd eaten, will prolong the head Is cut off by lightning a new A large laboratory has been provided wooden Jail, which has so far departed one will gradually grow out In Its the use for which it was built life, and they will go long distances to li Washington with n competent staff from as to become one of the sights. bunt tbe animals. The white hunter place as shapely as the first. who have already of bacteriologists "There are many interesting stories comes next, nnd kills vast numbers made nearly all preparations for the In a Berlin Insane asylum Is a pa work proposed. In a small pasteboard connected with the old prison, nnd the every year for the fur. When undisturbed In a wooded country the ani- tleut, it is said, whose hair changes box four inches by six aud half an most modern Is the funniest of alL mals multiply rapidly nnd build so color with her temperature. When she Inch deep, they will be sent free wher- It sounds improbable, but I was asmany dams that the timber ou large Is coot and quiet her lmir Is a light ever the United States mall goes, to sured by several persons whose word tracts of land Is killed by the overflow yellow, hut when she is restless and the farmer who desires to Introduce a I could not doubt, that It was quite excited It becomes auburn. true. of water thus caused. leguminous crop hitherto impossible It happened some years ago that of culture In his region. At the time of the Roman occupation an Islander was convicted of some contain three will box The packages United the States "Thirty years ago of Britain five distinct species of dogs Government removed the Bad Water In tin foil. In one is a wad offense, and the Judge who came to were there, most of which can with done up of cotton on which the cultures or the Island from the mainland for the Indluns, who then resided in the north ern part of Michigan, to a reservation certainty be Identified with those of germs of the bacteria have been dried trial, decided to make on example of the present day. There were the house In the Far West. Seven years afternnd in the other two are nutrient salts him, and sentenced him to Jail for the greyhound, the bulldog, the which are usually magnesium sulphate, three months. ward 1 traveled over their old hunting dog, terrier and the slowhound. A couple of mornings later, when grounds with a surveying party and potassium phosphate or ammonium the of mixture small a Judge was walking to the pier with was surprised to see tho destruction Some beetles are as good as phosphate, hold the cultures. to take the boat to return, accomnnd to that bad been caused by beavers In circular large solidify sugar saws. seize a branch or A sheet of instructions and a franked panied by the Sheriff, who was the big timber all through that section. twig with theirThey deeply toothed Jaws, Nantucketer, they passed a man sawaccompany the package. envelope ENEMY OF TIIE LUMBERMAN. and whirl round and round until the farmer ing wood by the roadside, who touched The every aks department "Tbe lumbermen hate beavers, and 1 twig is sawn off. They have been in this way to his hat politely and said, Good morn' cultures receives who am told that a movement Is now being known to saw a twig as thick as green Is much more attractive In most Intelligence, said a lady at the ; take notes on the result of Ills experi- Ing. Judge. mude by the laud owners In Maine to walking stick in this manner. The Judge stared at him in surprise eyes for the general run of summer circle, but I recently had u ment nnd report. The instructions are link . have them destroyed. They not only tj said to the Sheriff: Isnt that the furnishing. Of course the delft blue ienee which shows that the and of admit to On & newly erected memorial stone simple and practically a will be of kill the growing timber, but their dams a in bit touch Dutch ures a very happy good possess man to I sent 1 nutrient for Jail No. the of months? three failure. Fnckage room (though Antwerp oak color or ter all. I had been annoyed lk obstruct the streams and brooks down In Yarmouth appears this Inscription salts is first Well, yes, It is, said the Sheriff, to be dissolved in a half In memory of , who died of dis would suit most of us better, as time by a family of mice which the logs are driven, 1 have ebony gallon of pure water at ordinary tem hesitatingly, but, you see Its this there will be helped to cut away tho dams aud clear ease contracted In South Africa. The plenty of blue In such a In the walls of the bedrock We a in dissolve dont way. to very salts Judge. have happen perature. The away tho bouses that obstructed some Lord be praised." Wiltshire has this few minutes. Then the xvnd of cotton anybody else In Jail, havent had for room). As for the bright red that fur- nibbled my clothes, disturbed! hold nishes well where theres lots of rich and when streams, and, returning three weeks epitaph: Beneath this soil a lump of Is to be they grew so nt ! placed In the solution nnd left years, and we thought It would be green. and Record. Philadelphia later, fouud the dams and houses re- clay lies Arabella Young; who on the to stand for twenty-fou- r Into the cage and sorter canarys hours, expensive to hire a man to keep of May began to hold her tongue." built, and the streams again full of seed my patience gave out sod next the other package of nutrient Jail for this fellow, so I gave him the tj A Colonial -brush. Mirror, to fix them. I bought Stanislaus Meunier, a scientist, an- salts is emptied Into the solution. In key and told him If ho would sleep In securing the proper atmosphere mined wall The dams and bouses are built of J the In set it by the bole fj hours the cultures there tights I guessed It would be all another twenty-eigh- t with the reproductions of charming mud, sticks, stones nnd the green alyzed soil thrown up from beneath are ready for use. The solution. If no right New York Times. I caught a mouse, then nights the de la Dace Colonial Republlque, in Paris, branches of trees. The bearers do not Interiors, so often seen nowa- days hns occurred, will have turned passed without catching i days In the modem house, are necesuse their tails for trowels, as some France, nnd fouud considerable depos- mishnp Jews like in much Many a white Jerusalem, very though they were still there, M cloudy sary quaint old cabinets, queer shaped would have us believe; the mud is car its of sulphur. Now he tells the Aca themilky of their noise, although The up of y oysters. kept Jerusalem population liquor couches and tables, old linen closets tied between the chin nnd paws. They demle dea Science that It Is really room any more. J Into the In which two I Is, my are There should Ing ways suppose, double what it cannot make a stick lie at tbe bottom budding Yolcnno that runs underneath, cultures I found that the trap was be applied. The appli- was twelve years ago, the increase beof a pond unless they lond It with not only of the riare de la Republlque, cant mustmay vn the hole in the wall h4 but what attributable ing particular apeclfy entirely or almost en tones and mud, and then It often gets but also the Boulevard SL Martin, closed from inside. I pulled tJ rlety of leguminous crops he desires tirely to the lntlux of Jews, by far the away from them, and comes to the out. It was not easy work, w that been found has to of establish. It whom Ruscome from greater rart When the Lord Mayor of London surface again. They cannot make fambeen evidently put there to iT, rfi common to certain sia. It Is somewhat difficult to ascerthe trees fall in nny direction they choose, paid his visit In state to Sheffield the ilies bacteria not was made of bits of plaster their make will tain of what tbe legumes population of hut, ns most of the trees along the other day, he saw many strange prod home on the roots of red clover. The the exactly or how a blsh. I kept the hole open a j Is of city large it In part the curiosity rooms of the bnuk, lean toward the stream they will uctg will on One of Jewish. red close to It, but next d! bacteria however, the best clover, informed trap and various manufacturers. At the Rodgnaturally full iuto the water when ers filled again. I repeated this f house he was shown the largest Inoculate white clover, crimson clover, most reliable of the Jewish citizens gnawed off, the of all In and buffalo clover told me out alslke, conversation process five times, and J" that there DESTROY DAMS BEFORE MOVING pocket knife In the world. It has now trlfollum clovers. The bncterla on were probably fewer than 30.000 the filling was replaced. Itf 1000 blades, and ten new blades are Jew "Neither do the beavers live In one added to It every ten years. He will bird clover, which Is common In some and that the common estimate of dently the work of the mother ooo Inoculate will or When 00, of the tho white birch, also see tbe smallest knife In the parts was exaggerated, but to prevent her little ours frffi place always. country, willow and other trees on which they world., It baa of soy beans faund later that -- is own printed figalfalfa. bacteria The through what had proved hole seventy blades, ropro similar ures In an almanac which lie feed begin to get scarce the colony, to so many. And I left the published sentlng all tbe shapes ever given to will work on cow peas anil reckoned the Jews of Jerusalem at CO,. after tearing a hole In the dam, will the Sheffield whittle." yet It Is so members of the bean family. for the mice did not come Into s 000. the Lest of The The disband. This always happens la tbe small that when closed It Is first Informed New York Times. applying way outsiders claim again. only one Is to spread the seed out thinly that there are at least ll.ooo Jewish spring time. One visiting the deserted Inch long. Among the Royal plate at r. Works will see tho bottom of the empty Windsor Is a knife with more than on the table and sprinkle tbe solution families In the city, which would sup-poBcbel os a Prophet the larger estimate. If this figure During tbe Franco-Germapond covered with short peeled sticks, 100 blades presented by the Sheffield over It; then, when dry, to sow as , bel, the lender of the victor-and tbe round bole in each bouse, near cutlers to George IV., and another usual. The other way Is to take a he correct then the Jews of Jerusalem man Koetnllsts, opposed tbe tff fan the bottom of the stream, that was Sheffield, trophy Is a knife with 1840 quantity of soil In place out of he are more than twice as numerous as of the French as foes; he f used for a door. Go along up stream bludes, all closing Into one handle. sciishlne, sprinkle the solution over It, all the other Inhnbitants-Mosle- ms and w stir it up and scatter It broadcast oer Christians combined. and you will see several holes In the nounced os a traitor, and he New York .arrested UV seeded. knecht were finally bank In Which the beaver bides when rost ground to be IP "Smith's Juke's. Pnccessful Inoculation can be secur'd his vlfingA Is attacked and the houses charge of treason which tollalj When r.inoe Ranjl Slnhjl was at Mot nf Them Ar In Nd, But Bismarck by taking soil from a thrifty field of destroyed. The entrance to this hole TY mlnlously. "I dont put much faith In proverbs," In linvlug him locked up for is alwayd under water, If the dam Is Cambridge he was known among bis legumes such as nlfnlfa, clover " as Smith." his full ve ches nnd senttering It over the fled sold Brown to Jones. "For lustance I on the charge of preaching Intact; but If you tuko tho palus to name being considered much too long where cither of these rrops may be de- look at the one, 'A friend In follow ft up you will find thut It terdoctrines and of plotting Pj" H use. A good story Is told sired. State. But Hebei was ri? i Owing to the cost of freight need Is a friend Indeed. Now most of minates bneuth some large tree, near for everyday nn of bow lie once scorrd off Jackson, the this Is an expensive method, but It my experience with friends In need Jins forecast of the rrsults of tho surfait of tho ground. Here In and l,inl' r summer the young beavers are horn, Cambridge captain, in a mutch played has been practiced with success many been that they wanted to borrow. Give me me the friends that are not In need." Cambridge r.ml tho M. C. O. times. have coi and not In tho bouses, as sonio writers between Miss Sellers, Buys One of the M. C. C. batsmen sent a ball The experiment stations In Illinois Strap Stories, this polut of view in the tell us, with lightning swiftness close to wher and Ohio, after years of failure to 111 THEIR WINTER RESIDENCE. Your lirtaln V, , 111. Ranjl" was standing. Every one. In- establish alfalfa sent out beyond the If not f U snkes. own Is our Tor A sign ttneit, colonial Minnon. "When autumn draws near the hear-er- s cluding the batsman (who started to In Missouri and secured quantities of of an office displayed In the elevators we to restore must building to migrate, generally up stream, Washington, run) concluded that the ball had gone soli from fine fields of alfalfa, and .1 Incfs we have conquer0"; which su.vs: "A this is a public car r.m.crr''1,01'1 some convenient spot, and a now dam near the ;;8 te. With these, m.t boundary, nnd ns "Ranjl still then succeeded In making nlfnlfa grow. Ir,Ul1 ;";'Uh' need not remove their lists. " and houses are rapidly constructed. stood motionless, wlih his hands In his gentlemen f ; n ,1,U'k These stations have In turn supplied Lut OH con- - hold back but a nfnslo vUInJ; " A The trees along the hauk are felled, pockets, the hlotent w.th ti, treatment shouted angrily; earth for inoculating purposes to farmA New Industry, nnd to he drive the French ami huge piles of wood are heaped up "Dont stand captain v there grinning like a cat, ers and other stntlons further east. The catching of snakes and the 0ri a V sia nnd transform n11 liefore tho doors of tho houses, always Smith-- go ni,'cr after the ball!" RnnJI's only This method is one which the Individof their venom, whleh rote!. d.Sn of trlctly Coloulnl huge cn under water. Tho houses are built reply was to take th ball out of his ual fanner can use to nip." New lor advantage after $t a grain. Is new ledustry iq wore from the bottom, aud rise alms tbe pocket One of Gie most effective I, ho has one established a small area of these A cook In the kitchen mirrors Is sh0Wu herewith. Often these In an emulovment offle' spite of all the destruction by K poachers and the cutting olt of the forests In many UO&K$ sections the Maine beaver continues to thrive, and of late years he bus been remarkably busy In the construction of dam and snug winter quarters, the work In Borne places being of such magnitude nnd so cleverly done that people have traveled miles to see nnd admire It. At Cnrihou a colony of beavers built a fine, large darn, and were Just completing their houses when some miscreant destroyed the entire works nnd killed many of the animals by the explosion of a heavy charge of dynamite In the stream. The beavers that survived were neither alarmed nor discouraged, however, but set Immediately to work rebuilding the dam and the little houses, so that In a few weeks the colony wus better prepared than before for the long Blcge of CrrANCOn. B home-builder- ME.-- Ia D hard-finishe- ! d Hell-rlege- e , J T able-bodie- Admirable For the Hall. 1 to-da- CO.-0- ft cil-ture- rt n u fellow-graduat- ' "Quests, fciliiiv-eoimtrynie- ' i |