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Show T5J INDEPENDENT. PRINQVIULE. UTAH Sir Thomas Lipton sailed for home without the cup but with his appendix intact. It is the man "vrto lets his wife have her own way that comes the nearest to having his. Before marriage a timid man doesn't know what to say, and after marriage he is afraid to say it. The man who said "All men are liars" had just met a fisherman, a politician poli-tician and a man in love. Under the new football rules the players will be expected to act as their own nose guards hereafter. A Boston woman is a graduate both in law and medicine. This seems a little grasping even for Boston. When it is possible to get telegrams every day at sea one of the great advantages ad-vantages of going to sea will be lost. When the motor baby carriage appears ap-pears upon the scene, the street will be safer for pedestrians than the sidewalk. side-walk. P&rsons of good taste will not regret that cod liver oil, which last year sold for seventy cents a gallon, has gone up to $3. Those Uraguayans ought not to be permitted to have gunboats if they are going to blow them up and injure themselves. "The man who has four children ua-der ua-der 5 years of age i3 certainly qualified quali-fied by experience to accept a position as floorwalker. Boston's champion baseball players prove that unremitting study of Emerson Emer-son has a beneficial effect on one's batting average. The Klondike gold output is $1,000,- 000 short Possibly this may have something to do with those of us who are a little hard up. Doorknobs must possess a nutritious value not generally recognized, or else a New Yorker wouldn't have stolen them to keep his children from stary ing. Sir Thomas Lipton has gone back to England, and there is doubtless many a rich American girl who deep down in her heart considers him a mean old thing. . Comparatively few hunters have been killed by mistake this season. If this is the result of the fencing in of the Adirondacks let the good work proceed. A New Zealand yachtsman an nounces his desire to challenge for the America's cup. Whether he means to enter a catamaran or a war canoe is not stated. A pair of oysters will produce in one season from 16,000,000 to 40.000.000 young oyster 3. From this it will be seen that the oyster ha3 the housefly skinned to death. The young bank clerk who had a stroke of apoplexy when the horse that carried ?2 of his money fell behind be-hind in the homestretch ought never to have bet a penny. Another of the joys of travel on the two-mile-a-minute trolley car will be the fascination of speculating as to whether or not one is going to come out of the experience alive. Very likely man will fly sometime, and to get the hang of it will be just the luck of some persistent experi menter like Prof. Langley, whose mot to appears to be, "Don't give up the airship." The Supreme Court of Nebraska holds that dogs are competent witnesses, wit-nesses, even though they cannot be sworn. And some human beings are incompetent, no matter how many oaths they take. If Japan and Russia fight, can't it be arranged so that a certain percentage of the gate receipts may be used for furnishing the palace which Andrew Carnegie is having built for The Hague Tribunal? i . Edmund J. James, president of Northwestern university, says that a young man looking for a business career should be through with his college work by the time he is 20 or 21. Certainly. Sure. The gentlemanly assassin who made it possible for King Peter to ascena the throne of Servia has just been pro moted to a high place in the army. Peter may nave ms iauiis, oui iugiit itude evidently is not one of them. Somebody, who hasn't forgotten the , Jennie Bosschieter case, may be ex pected to deliver a sermon on its con nection with the flood in Paterson, N. J., which rendered hundreds homeless and destroyed property worth $2,000,-000. $2,000,-000. Men flee from evils that they know to pvils that they know not of. Martin Thir, a Hungarian, luckily escaped the volcanic disaster at Si. Pierre, Marti nique. and turned up in Paris a day or two ago, to be .run down anil killed by an automobile. - We admire the spunk, anyhow, of the Charleston News and Courier in standing up for the South Carolina razorback as being, all things considered, con-sidered, the ' best iuv in the world." Another feature c the gay social season in Washinsr-ou tins autumn will be the appearance of the dashing youns bridegroom. Senator Tozn Plait. Smoke, the army captain who is tb3 military instructor at Yaie, shenid change his nauw to Smokeless to is right 'up to date i;? Lis profession. If the Connecticut lx.y really stoic a bicycle, two rowL-n.-T.:; :i:vl an auxiliary sailboat all - at or.ee, charged. he must have hacL Plmut f.il he could enr-ry enr-ry easily stud pcUiIon-sIy. What makes ar. urbitration treat? of great value is the !arg- collection of artillery, army rf!-?: an.S warships belonging to" ihtf ?igu:i.ry powers. Tumut havintr Ji-Iocted ;.- fire site far its - new vi.H;i! a!! that the Australian T-vinMvr. ;.a tt,. iic. ? tr select a fine r-i-t- t'n- it. A Disease of the Privet. Some of the privet hedges of Stillwater Still-water are being greatly damaged, if not destroyed, by a fungous disease of a sort which is called "anthracnose." The fungus of thi3 disease attacks and kills the bark and wood of the stems, says a report of the Oklahoma station. Starting at a point on the stem, it spreads through and around the stems. When the leaves of the plant first begin to wither, the place attacked at-tacked by the fungus may often be located just below the lowest of the withered leaves and above the green ones, if there are any such on the shoot Close inspection reveals the fact that the bark is slightly shrunken at the point of injury, and, if the stem be sliced lengthwise, the diseased wood and bark will be found to be discolored, dis-colored, while that below, if healthy, will be fresh, and that above simply seasoned. The wood above the point of the first attack dries out, and the fungus seems to spread down the stem to the crown of the plant, and from there to all the roots and stalks. About the point of first attack black spots appear on the bark, and when the bark thus spotted is scraped or cut, it is found that these spots are the open ings of spore-bearing postules. Hedges which have not yet been injured by this disease should be closely watched, and at the first sign of attack by this disease all the injured shoots should be cut off below the affected part and burned. If the crown or roots are affected the plant should be removed bodily and burned. In case the hedge is badly damaged It will probably be best to remove it entirely and not plant privet in the same pi ce, as the soil is liKely to be infected with the spores of the fungus. Diseased hedges are a menace to healthy ones in the neighborhood. It has been recommended rec-ommended that the hedges which are exposed to infection by this anthracnose anthrac-nose be sprayed with Bordeaux mixture, mix-ture, especially in the spring, at the time when the buds are swelling and expanding, and while the new shoots and leaves are tender. To Check the Apple Worm. Spraying alone, though successful within its own limits, cannot ensure the fullest product of perfect apples without the concurrent practice of other methods looking to the final reduction re-duction of the numbers of the codling cod-ling moth. The most important of these associated methods is the banding band-ing of the trees and the destruction of the attracted worms every ten days from the fall of the first wormy apple till the fruit is all in the bin. The second is the immediate destruction of all fallen wormy fruit, and the third is the destruction of as many as possible of the worms wintering over undr barkscales, in old birds' nests, in cracks in apple bins or barrels, or elsewhere else-where In the fruit room. These associated asso-ciated practices are not to be expected to show their full results In the season sea-son in which the work Is done, though the immediate value of the first is considerable as a means of reducing the number of worms of the second or later broods of the same season. E. A. Popenoe. Great Realm of Horticulture. A prominent writer on horticulture says: From the horticultural Bide of the business, there are tlree great series of questions with which the nurseryman nur-seryman has to deal. These are the whole question of soil, the whole question ques-tion of propagation and the whole question of varieties. Any one of these fields is large enough to occupy an Investigator profitably during a lifetime. The probability is that if any. man were to devote his life to either of these series of questions, he would feel at the last that he had touched only the borders of it. Change in Shire Type. Now, as regards Shire horses, I think there has been quite as great an improvement in the last thirty years as in Clydesdales. The type of Shires that wron at London show twenty twen-ty years ago ' would have no chance now, the refining process being most marked In this breed. This improvement improve-ment has been brought about partly by the organization of the Shire Horae Society and its annual shows, accompanied accom-panied by veterinary inspection, but principally through the efforts of a mere handful of progressive breeders who, to tell the truth, took their cue from the Scotch breeders and have been endeavoring all these years to remedy the defective limbs and feet and faulty hock action of the massive English horses. The average Shire breeder still maintains with remarkable remarka-ble persistency that the more bone and hair he can produce the better the animal, but this claim is by no means confirmed either by the show rings or the market, unless the animal possesses considerable quality and activity. ac-tivity. It is frequently found that the extremely strong-boned, heavy-legged horse, whether Clyde or Shire, has a distinct element of softness in his composition, is phlegmatic in temperament tempera-ment and is neither so active nor so enduring as the horse with less hair and fine skin. How often have we seen big, rough horses that when three years old looked like six, and when six looked like sixteen, if they happened to be alive. Such horses never have been and never can be popular in the United States. Alexander Alex-ander Galbraith. i Missouri's Example. The University of Missouri is certainly cer-tainly doing a most excellent work in its efforts to disseminate agricultural information throughout the rural schools of that state. Every year a teachers summer school is held at which the teacher-students are given instruction in agriculture and horticulture. horti-culture. At least 5,000 children in Missouri are learning this year these subjects because of the instruction given to teachers at Columbia during the past summer.- The Department of Education of the state is preparing to work with the College of Agriculture in introducing the study of agriculture and horticulture into the public schools. It is claimed that In this work the University of Missouri is not only leading the state, but the nation as well. It is certainly making a first-class experiment on a magnificent magni-ficent scale. It is demonstrating what can be done in this line. During Dur-ing recent years the policy of the men at the head of that institution has been broad, and energy has been shown In putting It Into practice. The fruition of the work is being already seen in Missouri and the example is being felt in other states. It's a fortunate thing for some men that their ancestors left them an hon-trtd hon-trtd name. Pushing North the Corn Belt. A communication from the Minnesota Minne-sota station says: Owing to the cold, wet season, the com crop la Minnesota Minne-sota and surrounding states is ripening ripen-ing so late that a very serious shortage short-age is threatened in home-grown seed for next year's planting. The experience experi-ence of last year should be taken as a valuable lesson; and every bushel of the best ears of the best yielding varieties which ripen this season should be selected, thoroughly dried and carefully stored for use or sale for planting. The c ars of first quality should be saved Lc grow in hills, or thinly in drills to produce grain; and those of second quality should be saved to plant thickly in drills for fodder fod-der or silage. There is always a good market for the second quality of Minnesota Min-nesota dent varieties to plant thickly for fodder corn, though at a less price than for corn suitable to grow for ears. There is a growing appreciation ot the small varieties of northern dent corn to plant thickly for fodder. It is useful for wIntefig-iiorses-Tid sheep, as well as for cattle. It is very easily grown, cleans the land of weeds for grain crops, and yields enormous quantities of food per acre. When grown thickly, corn does : not bear ears, but the substance of the grain is largely distributed throughout the stems and leaves. It is much more valuable per ton as dry fodder or as ensilage than stover from which ears have been husked, or than fodder corn grown from the seed of the larger varieties. Fodder of these Email varieties vari-eties of dent corn is a strong competitor com-petitor of the hay crop. WTiere the corn is husked into the wagon from the standing stalks, the best ears may be thrown into a box on one end or side of the wagon, or they may be picked out as the corn is being unloaded into the crib. Seed corn is often injured in ways not fully understood under-stood when stored in bins or cribs, even though It Is well protected from out-door weather. The moisture from lire stock which collects on seed corn stored above stables, is generally fatal to good seed. The grain should ref-main ref-main on the cobs until nearly corn planting time, and purchasers should prefer to buy seed corn on the ear to be grown for grain. Minnesota has rapidly Increased the area devoted to corn in the. past twenty-five years, but it is not sufficient to let it rest as it is. There is need for a much more rapid increase in order to supply the demand within the state. Last year and this year have been exceptionally ex-ceptionally adverse to the production of corn, but with the varieties now secured se-cured and improved the corn acreage may profitably be increased to more than double or treble the present area. These adverse short seasons will help to eliminate all the undesirable and poor varieties. Those varieties which ripened this year and last and yielded well in the various localities are of very great value to Minnesota. From these varieties every bushel of good' ears should be saved for seed, and farmers can well afford to pay high prices for such seedrif properly saved. Allowing this opportunity of selecting and properly curing large quantities of choice seed to pass will be a misfortune misfor-tune which will be felt by the entire state, The varieties which have been found to ripen during these two very short seasons in northern Minnesota should be preserved and used as a basis in breeding more hardy and better yielding yield-ing varieties. The dent varieties which ripen this season in the southern south-ern portion of the state are worth millions of dollars and should Interest breeders in every county. The state is Jarge and the amount of seed used annually (about 200,000 bushels of field corn alone) is great, so there is little danger of over-estimating this important work. Seed corn for field grain should be taken southward rather than northward. Bringing the larger yielding varieties northward and adapting them to the new condi tions should be leffmalnly to men who have experience in corn breeding. The corn belt has been and is now being pushed northward by the Introduction and acclimating of varieties and espe cially by carefully breeding varieties already introduced. Corn breeders should use mostly those varieties al ready adapted to their locality. This good. work should be continued, but In a conservative way, by those who are prepared for the work. 1 Pasturing Winter Wheat. To what extent winter wheat can be pastured without great detriment to the crop Is a problem. Much exneri meeting remains to be done to solve it. The Oklahoma station made some tests In this line last year and the ex perimenter's report on the result makes Interesting reading. The plan was to give different wheat fields dif ferent treatment in this reeard. Some of the fields were pastured only when frozen, while others were pastured both fall and spring. Even in the win ter pasturing the ground was badly "punched up." Check fields were not pastured at all. The report of the result says: The following is the yield per acre of the different treatments. Per acre Grain Straw bu. tons I Field pastured 20.5 1.17 neavy winter pastured.. 18.7 1.06 Light winter pastured... 20.9 1.35 Light winter and late , ... spring pastured 10.7 .83 Late spring pastured 14.0 .94 Not pastured 23.2 1.49 The quality of the wheat from the spring pastured plots was aulte in ferior to that of the others, testing 5 pounds, while that from the others tested from 61 to 63 pounds per bushel. bush-el. The unpastured plots were the earliest in maturing, but were very little different from the others, with the exception of the spring pastured plots, and as compared with these there was several days difference. -No rust or chinch bus bothered these plots to speak of and everything was favorable tor a good crop. The continued wet weather might be said to nave made the conditions for Das turinj unfavorable, but It was quite fortunate that tains continued up to harvest SO as not to allow tha rrnnnH to bake after being tramped while wet. j"si aooui me time tne wneat was heading the ground was getting quite dry and if this little drouth had not been broken just when it was by abundant rain it Is doubtful if the wheat on the pastured ground would have been worth onttinp- T tha mn. ditions had been suitable for the de velopment of the rust, the pastured plots, particularly the spring pastured, would have suffered much more than the plots not pasture RAISED A JIMSON WEED. Mean Practical Joke Played on Lever of Flower. Practical joking flourishes to such an extent in the vicinity of Pooles-ville, Pooles-ville, Montgomery - county, Md., that residents of that section of the cov try on constantly on the lookout I some joke to be played on them. I It happened some time ago that number of the residents of Poolesvii became interested in what was saj to be the eeed of a new kind of plal Among those who received samples me seea was a woman wui successful in its propagation. . . Despite all her care, the seed failt to come up. She was telling of he had luck to a mixed company, when one of the jokers said be had met with success in growing the seed and would be pleased to give the lady one of the plants he had raised. The lady was delighted at the offer, and expressed ex-pressed her thanks accordingly. In due time she received a small plant, supposed to have sprouted from the seed which she had tried in vain to propagate. The plant was handled by her very carefully, placed under glass and treated as a pet. It grew and nourisnea Deyona nerv fondest expectations, and when it-ha reached its maturity she, found sfc had nurtured a specimen of thgt Jam town, or Jimson, weed, which A! V2 !fcn. palmed off on netM An Autumn Joy. These are the days when the tired man' Will carry round his gun That weighs about a ton. And call it fun-To fun-To wade through knee deep muck, Beneath a broiling sun. And then Just miss his duck. Had Miraculous Escape. A horse's mad leap down a bank thirty feet deep, and the miraculous escape from serious -injury of - both horse and rider, provided a short sensation sen-sation among the visitors at Scarborough Scarbor-ough the other day, says an English exchange. A gentleman named Churchill was riding along the esplanade, espla-nade, when the horse bolted, galloped madly down the steep asphalted footpath foot-path known as Birdcage Walk, and, after jumping over a seat and iron railings, leaped down the cliff and landed on an asphalted walk. People rushed to the spot, which is near to the Cliff Bridge entrance, expecting to find both horse and rider killed. Luckily, however, besides being stunned and bruised, the rider was unhurt. un-hurt. He was placed in a cab, but by the time he reached his hotel was able to walk. The horse was little the worse for his mad escapade. 1 Jumping Dog. This is a view of a dog which Jumped Jump-ed to the eaves of a building to recover re-cover a stick thrown for him. The dog is owned by Mrs. A. V. Pineo of Kentville, N. S. . 1 Elms Absorb Mucn Water. It has been computed that if the leaves of an elm tree, sixty feet high were spread out on the ground, edge to edge, they would cover five acres of land. These leaves, averaging 7,000,000 to a full-grown tree, will transpire water to the amount of seven tons during the normal summer day. Were It not for the ingathering of the stomata during the night a few elms would soon draw off all the water from a district. As it is every market grower knows what elms are like near fruit or market gardens. . Watch Strangeiy Recovered. Charles Ritner of New Britain Conn., complained to the police Saturday Sat-urday night that a gold watch had been stolen from him. He could not give any details as, to the loss of the watih. His daughter Informed the clarief yesterday morning that the i 1 l- 1 V. . , . 1 . iwaii'U I1H.U ueeu reiuiueu. a. man liv ur ing on uwignt street prougnt it the house. He said thati his found it in the street and brought it to him in his mouth. The Unkind Searchlight. An amusing incident happened recently re-cently one night while a battleship was trying her electric searchlight in a Maine harbor. A citizen was about going to bed when the searchlight chanced to be thrown upon his window win-dow just as he, in his nlghtrobe, was taking hs nightcap from a long-recked long-recked vial. Topsy Turvy. A severe Scotchman wao can easily be made to smile by turning him upside up-side down. f Queer Form of Potato. H. E. Faneuf of White River Junction, Junc-tion, VL, recently exhibited a potato which resembled a human hand uith thumb and thre9 finjrers, the lalter heinc: closed. 1 'I ILY CROSSED THE CHANNEL 1 ontst's Successful Trip From I France to England. jiough Count De la Vaulx's balloon from Paris to Hull was the first rfyom the French capital to in-"ngland in-"ngland it was the seventh suo attempt to cross the English I from the Continent to Eng-ough Eng-ough Col. Fred Burnaby is the jrson who has crossed-, by bal-jm bal-jm England to France, a Vaulx's test was specially tr g, as it was maae during me and as he explains himself, was erely an afterthought, as he had no idea of crossing when ho left Paris. REVIVAL OF OLD CEREMONY. Ancient Custom of "Beating the ,- Bounds" Lately Practiced. This ancient ceremony is supposed fk Jiave originated with the Romans, iind is a survival of the "time when Juch things as maps and charts were nknown and the landmarks were tree rocks and posts. "Beating the bounds" has recently been revived at great Berkhamsted, after being in abeyance for over fifty years. The- parish officers and rural district dis-trict councilors, accompanied by a number of townsmen and twenty of the Bourne school boys, all armed -with willow wands, perambulated the boundaries, touching . each hedge, stone, post or building, with the wands; and on arriving at any open space where the boundary was undefined unde-fined the processionists formed two -lines, and, if any stranger was viewed, he or she was promptly brought up and compelled to run the line, being tapped smartly with the wands as they passed. This was one of the sporting events of the day, for, on seeing the prepara tions for their "entertainment," many of the victims bolted and were promptly chased over hedge and ditch. At other points individuals were "bumped," either on a tree-stumsp or on the ground; walls were scaled, wat er forded, hedges forced, and, in some cases, houses passed through, sta-bly." sta-bly." at Ashridge, where the line cut through the mansion of Lord Brown low. At Haresfoot park, the home of Mrs. Smith-Dorrien (mother of the famous general), the pleasure grounds were thus divided, and the venerable chatelaine obligingly came out and walked the line. The parish clerk was also compelled to run the gant let, also the parson and the squire, whx were bumped six times each, to. the great delight of the onlookers. The distance covered wa3 about twenty-two miles. Sketch. Australian Dog There can be no doubt that the dingo's bite is worse than his bark. He hasn't any bark. That's the kind of a dog he is. No chance for an in junction here. Ancient Family Name. At the second reunion of the John Taylor family at Hadley, Mass., the information was given forth that the Taylor name runs back to Baron Taillefer, the Norman hexov who lost his life at the battle of Hastings in 1066. Like many other family names it has passed through a series of changes from "Taillefer" to "Tayle- fer" and at last to "Taylor," . with variations of "Tailer" and "Tayler. "That Line of Sport." "I hereby challenge any man In town for a clam-eating contest to de cide which is the fastest clam-eater in town. I will make a side bet that I can eat fifty clams quicker than any man in that line of sport. Saturday night I ate two dozen clams in one minute. Challenges to George Kohl-mans, Kohl-mans, 729 Second street." Baltimore Sun. " ' Rare Animal Captured. An animal was captured a few days ago In the steam mill woods, near Leominster, Mass., that is known as a "fisher," an animal of the cat species spe-cies that lives on fish, frogs, etc., but which is very rarely seen In! this cies tl f the country. Large Yield From One Seed. The harvest from one single quash seed, which William J.. Bod well of Augusta, Me., planted last spring aggregated ag-gregated 97 pounds' weight. There were seven In number, ranging in weight fror eight to seventeen pounds. Traffic on Electric Roads. The electric roads of the United States carried last year, three times the population of the earth. They also maintained 353 rural parks, nearly near-ly one for ever day in the year. Pope's Autograph. This is the authentic signature of the recently chosen head of the Roman Ro-man Catholic church. . A Wise Teacher. At fin examination of applicants as teachers before the Minnesota str,te board, one of them, when asked -what country kangaToo leather came from answered: "Kangaroo Is produced in Kangaroo.' History of New York City. A firm has been eris5ed to compi;.' and print the old English records r ferring to the history of hs city New York under Driti"h ril Tin coat will be $4,611, . Wt, USE MUCH GOVERNMENT INK. Official Signatures Consume Quantities of Black Fluid. There has been considerable news paper talk of late about the amount of labor involved in signature signing on the part of certain treasury department depart-ment officials. It Is said that Assistant Assist-ant Secretary Armstrong created a record by writing his name to 6,000 official documents in a single day, while others of his associates have acquired ac-quired hand paralysis and other ills by constant use of the pen. C. F. Adams, the assistant register of the treasury, enjoys the reputation of using more ink and ruining more pen points in his daily wofk than any other person in the government service. In the absence of Register Lyons, Mr. Adams signs all the bonds and interest checks. At certain periods of the year this involves a great amount of work, and Mr. Adams is kept busy from 9 o'clock to the hour of closing. When a "big pile of bonds is brought in for him to sign he pulls an extra large inkwell up near the papers and goes to work. He uses a pen that carries a generous quantity of Ink. Mr. Adams bears down hard In writing, so that the strokes are very broad and consume a quantity of ink. He dips his pen into the well at the conclusion of each slg nature, and when he finishes the final sweep there is very little Ink left on the point. At the end of the day Mr. Adams' Inkwell Is practically empty. and he has broken up five or six pens ATHLETES HAVE FOOD FAD. New York Lunchroom Serves Special Dishes to the Strenuous. In a Hanover square luncheon room patronized by physical culturists, particularly par-ticularly young clerks who belong to rowing and athletic clubs up town, one of the popular features on the bill of fare is whole wheat. In a large bowl of it one seldom finds a broken grain. It Is boiled very much as Chinamen fcoil rice, with every kernel sound and Intact. Ordinary wheat, such as bakers bak-ers use in what Is sold as whole wheat bread, will not do for this purpose. Whole wheat Js supposed to be fattening, fat-tening, as well as highly nutritive, but It is a fact that some men dieting for obesity go to the restaurant every day for luncheon and eat whole wheat bread and nothing else. They do not take cream or molasses with it, as young men trying to build up muscle do, but eat it dry, with a little salt. Another favorite dish with the athletes ath-letes is cake made of unsweetened prunes. Women, as well as men, patronize this physical culture restaurant On Saturday half-holidays, when they enter the restaurant, they check their golf sticks and tennis racquets at the cashier's desk, and, getting them again as soon as the meal Is over, go direct from the restaurant to the play ground. New York Press. KNIVES OF CHINESE HEADSMEN. Types of Weapons That Have Been Used for Centuries. For" centuries murderous looking weapons have been used in China for the purpose of putting criminals to death, and as no country is more conservative con-servative than China "the outlook is that for a long time they will con tinue to be used for this purpose. Every headsman or executioner Is pro vided with a full supply of such wea pons, and he takes pride in keeping them bright and, sharp. Every weapon wea-pon i3 designed for a particular pur pose, and at least two or three weapons wea-pons come into play whenever an execution ex-ecution takes place. Many harrowing stories have been told about the manner in which crim inals are put to death in China, and, viewed from a Western standpoint, such executions are not a very pleas ant sight. It is generally admitted, however, that in almost every case the executioner does his work skill fully, and that It Is not his fault if the sufferings of the victims are unduly prolonged. He knows how to deal blows which will kill swiftly or slowly, and if he does not always kill swiftly and mercifully it Is recause he has received re-ceived instructions to the contrary.. The Garden of Forgiveness. There is a garden, ?ar, oh, far away. Kept for the souls who sinned and suffered suf-fered most. The sword of God forever guards the way. And round its borders camps a heavenly heaven-ly host. , A gentle wind breathes through the tufted tuft-ed grass, Rich with the scent of roses in their bloom ; And, with the wind, all sins and sorrows pass. Leaving & sweet contentment in their room. Here are no troubles; here are none that weep: Here comes no thoughts of sadness or despair; But fairest flowers, in fullest beauty, sleep; And softest sunlight fills the dreaming air. The murmurings of fountains low and sweet. Forever fill the ear and never cease. Soothing the silence with a gentle beat. Like kindly voices, speaking words of peace.. And here, forever and forever, rest The weary souls, unburdened of their sin; And cursed things are here forgiven and bless'd; And wicked hearts are made all clean within. Bertrand Shad well, in Chicago Post. A Feathered Quadruped. The natural history class was in full swing and the schoolteacher was manifesting his usual inqulsitiveness. "Willie Rowlands," he called, "what do we call a creature with two legs?" "A biped, sir," said Willie. "Name one." "A man, sir." "Good," was the flattering comment. "Now are their any feathered bipeds?" "Yes, sir; chickens and ostriches." "That's right Now, what is a quadruped?" "A creature with four legs." "Quite correct Can you tell me if there are any feathered quadrupeds?" quadru-peds?" "No-rer oh yes, sir. I't just thought of one." "Have you? What is It?" "A feather bed, sir." Poor Man's Club. It has been often said that In the tenement districts the saloon is the poor man's club. This idea was illustrated illus-trated by a conversation overheard between be-tween two workingmen on the subway. sub-way. "We was talking politics," said one, and the other interrupted, "Where? "In the saloon, of course. Where else do you talk politics?" New York letter. Primitive Farming Utensils. In southern Greece many primitive agricultural Implements are still In use, including plows similar to those used here in the age of Pericles the pole, bent-bow hayrack, common in America in pioneer days, and handmade hand-made hoes and shovels, the hoes with blades as large and as heavy aa the 4.7ricin Frtade, The four girls were dressed very prettily and were in a whirl of excitement, ex-citement, for they were attending the horse races at a country fair and the darling of all their hearts, Philip, had entered his horse and would drive the animal himself. "I just can't look," said one. "I'm so excited I can hear my heart beat. What if Philip didn't -in!" . "Girls, I'd just cry my eyes out," declared de-clared another. "Oh, look at that horse! : He can't win with all that rigging rig-ging on. What does he have t?jat iron brace over his head for? Looks for all the world as If he had spinal trouble." "S-s-s-h," warned all the other girls. "They're off!" shouted some one in the crowd, and the girls stood up with a rush. "Oh, look, look!" said the girl in brown, "Philip's just beating 'em. Oh, that nasty old horse Is trying to get ahead. Go it, Philip! Go it!" The girl In green clapped her hand over her friend's mouth. "I should think you'd be ashamed of yourself. The idea of yelling like a tough!" "Don't care," snapped the girl in brown. "Everybody else is yelling." "Whoopee!" shrieked the girl wear ing a red; golf jacket "Philip has won, he's won. I just knew he would. You see 13 was his number, and 13 always was a lucky number with him. He was born on the 13th." . "Don't see as that was a particular ly lucky event," growled a cross-na- tured man sitting near the bunch of girls. Soon Philip came on the stand and the girls flocked around him with squeals of delight. He looked sheepish sheep-ish and delighted by turns. "That's only one heat," he warned. "Maybe I won't win' any more." "What's a heat?" they asked, and he "explained that a heat was part of a race. Old Poem The first poem of Whittler's ever printed was "The Exile's Departure," which appeared in Garrison's Free Press June 8, 1826. The next was "The Deity," published June 22 of the same year, and both these are collected. collect-ed. The third, "The Emerald Isle," appeared in the Free Press Aug. 3, 1826, and was never collected. Whittier Whit-tier was 18 years old when these lines were written, and had net yet the advantage ad-vantage of the academy, nor of any library except that of the "wise old doctor" whom he mentions In "Snow-Bound," "Snow-Bound," Dr. Ellas Wold. The unfamiliar unfa-miliar poem is printed in the Independent Independ-ent for October Brightly figure thy shores upon history's his-tory's pages. Where names dear to fame and to science sci-ence long known. Like unsettlng stars through the lapse of long ages. From the sea-girdled Isle of Hlbernia have shone; Fair island! thy vales are embalmed in the story Which history telleth of ages gone by. When Osslan's proud heroes strode onward on-ward to glory. And ocean's wave answered their loud battlecry. The wild vine is creeping the shamrock is closing Its foliage o'er many a dimly seen pile Where entombed on the fields of their fame are reposing The proud, peerless chiefs of the Emerald Emer-ald Isle. Bottle of Mammoth Size The largest blown glass bottle in the United States, or in the world, so far as the makers know, is on exhibition exhibi-tion in a window in Barclay street, just above Greenwich, says the New York Times. It holds sixty-five gallons and is shaped something like a baby's nursing bottle narrow at the bottom, bulging at the middle, with a small neck and mouth. The bottle Is a trifle les3 than five feet high and is about four feet in circumference at its widest part. The man who blew it at the factory in New Jersey is just about as tall as the bottle. If he could manage to squeeze through the neck he could sleep very comfortably inside of it. If the surface area of the glass blown Into the bottle were spun silk it would make a gown for a moderately large and stout woman. Although blowing by guesswork, tempered with long experience, ex-perience, the man exceeded by only half an ounce hi3 instructions as to the size of the bottlo-jsixty-five gallons. gal-lons. The firm read in a Western newspaper newspa-per of a "hitherto unaccomplished feat," as alleged, of a blown bottle holding forty gallons. The Barclay street makers sent one of that size to the Philadelphia centennial, more than twenty-five years ago. Just to show Conceit of Perhaps the most remarfable characteristic char-acteristic of the natives f Somali-land Somali-land is their unbounded, preposterous conceit Englishmen who now their language have been appalled, by it When watering his camel cr bis horse the Somali encourages the animal to drink by chanting to it in a monotone. It is at such moments of extemporary effusion that the man shines in all his glory. ' The subjec t matter may be the experiences of the day's march, the virtues of the animal beside him, the charms of his latest wife or his own prowess in some bloodless tribal raid. By great good fortune the following fol-lowing literal trans lation of one of these chants or Bongs came Into my possession, and I insert it without any comment: "Will you see a mil? Then behold me I I am a Somali, as perfect in sire Those old Richard Harding Davis tell3 of a friend of his who 1ns hmn wedded long enough to acqrire tlje average married man's attituc?3 of ijnicism toward to-ward the written ej presniens of devotion de-votion customarily indulged in ty lovers. According to Ir. Iavis, it appears that this friend. wit!t the assistance of his wife, was recov tly looking over some old papers at home, with a view to weeding out what was unnecessary. They were about to move to another city and ' did not desire to take any of the papers except what were abso-Jutely abso-Jutely necessary.- - The husband came upon several Soon the second heat came. "Now," declared the girl in pink, "this Is the second race in this heat and then well know whether he's won or not" The girl in the red Jacket spoke very gravely. "I believe this is only a brush. They have brushes some times. I've read about 'em and the man that" was in at the death was 'it or something." "You're thinking of a fox hunt," said the girl in green, contemptuously. "Noi I'm not," snapped the girl in the golf jacket "I guess I know the difference between a .horse race and a hunt You act as if you thought I didn't know anything. Just because you've had one more year of study than I you think you know everything." every-thing." "I wish they'd shut up making such a noise," said the girl in green. "Now, just let me tell you that a brush is In a hunt Whoever heard of a brush on' the turf." "Turf, indeed," retorted the girl In the golf jacket. ' "You must be a landscape land-scape gardener. Now, I know what a brush is." A benevolent-looking man spoke very gently to the girls. "Excusb me, ladies, I think I can clear this mat ter up for you. A brush is a lively argument between two young omen, neither of whom knows exactly what sne s . ia.iK.mg buuuu a acai is iuo- point at which these two young o arrive just before they dissolve in tears." ? "Hurrah, hurrah," yelled the crowd. The girls were all glaring straight ahead of them. "Wonder wha they are screaming at," muttered the girl in brown. . "This is. the end of the final heat and Philip has won the race," ssld the benevolent-looking man. "And we didn't see him do it" gasped gasp-ed all four of the girls. by Whittier And in far later years, with the purest devotion. To the high cause of freedom full many a son Of the green shores of Erin, the Gem of the Ocean, Fair evergreen laurels of glory has won. The martyred O'Neal and the . gallant Fitzgerald On the bright list of glory forever shall stand. And fame circle Emmet, the eloquent herald, Who wakened the spirit and pride of his land. They are gone! they are gone! but their memories that linger On the shores where they, perish, no' wretch shall revile. No slave of a tyrant shall dare point the finger Of scorn at those sons of the Emerald Isle. Hlbernia! though tyrants may seek to degrade thee. Yet proud sons of science acknowledge their birth On thy sea-girded shores, whose high genius has made thee The Gem of the Ocean, the wonder of earth. Long, long, has the halo of glory surrounded sur-rounded The memory of Brian, the pride of thy shore; And o'er thy dim lakes and wide valleys have sounded The heart-touching strains of Corolan and Moore; O, soon may the banners of freedom w&vft or thec Green island of 'Erin! may Liberty's smile To the luster of primitive aces restore thee. Isle! that it was still in the ring this slxty-flve-gallon bottle was made. The manager man-ager says that he could blow a hun dred-gallon bottle If he had a place to put it in his window. Pinned to a card at the base of the big bottle is the smallest bottle in the world, its appropriate running mate. It holds just four drops and must be filled with a hypodermic syringe. It is so small that it has to be fastened against a jet-black background in order or-der that persons looking In at the window can see it. More time was required re-quired to make the four-drop bottle than the sixty-flve-gallon one. The substitution of machinery for human labor in glass bottle factories Is not making much headway. For the finer grades of work machinery is no good at all. Skilled mechanics are at work improving it all the time and they promise to succeed some day, just as they did with the typesetting machines. Meanwhile. - the efficient glassblower has the call. There Is a great deal of boy labor in the factories, fac-tories, - which are scattered through New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana. Each blower blow-er requires from two to three boys to carry bottleB from the molder to the annealing room. In some factories the blowers are required to furnish their own boys. the Somali and form as Adam was after God had breathed into him his immortal soul. Look how beautiful my curly hair is, and how majestic I look when wrapped from head to foot ln"r5y snow-white or jungle-colored tobe, . although al-though there be sometimes only one pie (a small piece of money), tied to it. My house is the desert, and I am born a free man. Free as the wind! I know neither king nor master. I am as Adam was, my own master and king. In the jungle I tend my camels and sheep; my only labor is to watch them .feed. In my kerrier, my wife, my dear slave, does all the manual work, while tending my offspring, and woe to her if she forgets to prepare my evening mea!. The jedal (whip) shall then have its turn to make her remember for next day. In such a state is any man happier than I?" Golden Penny. Love Letters huge bundles of letters which he had addressed to his wife in the days when he was striving to overcome considerable con-siderable opposition to his marriage. He drew a sheet or two from one of the bundles 'and read them with a slight smile. "Well," he said, "there's no nse In being bothered with this guff. Might as well throw it into the waste basket, don't you think?" "Oh, Tom!" exclaimed the wife,' "how can you talk bo! Surely you don't want to destroy the love letters you wrote me!; , "Well, all right," assented hubby, carelessly; "but really these seem too soft to file, I J 3 |