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Show DAIEY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Successful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm A Few Hints as to the Care of Live stock and Poultry. Oalrr Notf s. Mr. A. S. Mitchell, chemist of the Wisconsin Dairy and Food Commission, Commis-sion, says that in most of the foreign butters sent to England preservatives are used. He expresses the belief that American butter known to be free from such chemicals would fiud a ready sale on the British market. The opinion of Mr. Mitchell should be given weight. People of England, as well as of this country, are opposed to having their food doctored with borax and other stull. They will gladly turn from goods so treated to goods that are pure and free from all other preservatives than salt. The dairy and food commissioner of Minnesota has been gathering statis tics of the creamery industry in that state. He finds the state has 673 creameries, which represent an invest ment of $2,700,000. The number of pa trons of the creameries is given at 52,320. It is estimated that 400,000 cows supply milk to these creameries Lust year these creameries used 1,-3S2,71S,000 1,-3S2,71S,000 pounds of milk and made C2.849.0U0 pounds of butter. Of this amount 50,ou0.u0o pouiuU was shipped uut of the state. The gross receipts for butter sold were $10,370,000. Ope ating expenses were estimated at $1,-191,500, $1,-191,500, leaviDg $8,540,400 to be paid to patrons for milk. A modern dairy has been started in the Philippine islands. An Australian recently transported fifty cows from Australia to Manila. The cost of transport trans-port was more than the cost of the cows, but the man that has the undertaking under-taking in hand will evidently make a good thing out of it. He is reported as being able to sell all the milk he tan produce at about 25 cents per quart. United Slates money. The United States hospital alone pays him $2,000 per month in gold. It will doubtless be a long time before he has enough ccmpeiitiou to compel a reduction reduc-tion of the price of m:lk. The people of those islands use some milk, but it is the milk of the water buffalo or caribou cow. The National Dairy Union Is doing a good work in pushing its fight for the selling of imitation dairy products for what they are. It set out to raise a ruml of about $10,000 to carry the contest con-test into congress at the coming session. ses-sion. Already over $9,000 has been raised. Every butter-maker should be willing to do his part, and should pay something for the benefit of this fund. An attempt is to be made this winter to have a tax of 10 cents per pound put on all butterine colored to imitate butter. The uncolored butterine will be allowed to go as under the present law. There seems no reason why this bill should not pass. At the last session ses-sion of congress it nearly became a law, and doubtless would have done so had not the attention of congress been suddenly called to the necessity of providing pro-viding for a foreign war. The bill will, however, be vigorously fought by the nilmIa.cturersof butterine. " "-&tn a recent Issue the Fanners' Review Re-view mentioned the fact that some so-called so-called butter was appearing on the Minneapolis market that had evidently been made by the use of pepsin or other chemicals. A report now comes from New York city that the worthless - in appearing there. On analysis it is fouu3 to consist of nearly half water, and much of the rest casein, with comparatively little butter-fat. In fact, it is cheese disguised as butter, but it is very poor cheese. A man that will put such stuff on the market Is in every way dishonest. He not only cheats the buyer, but destroys the butter market. After .a man has got a few lots of that kind of stuff he will turn to butterine with a sigh of relief. Every butter-maker should wage war on the men that make this product, for these men are the worst enemies the honest farmer and honest dairyman can have. If such stuff is sold on the market to any great extent, it will become impossible to get any legislation legisla-tion to control the sale of oleomargarine. oleomarga-rine. The only thing that commission men can do with such goods is to remake re-make them, and thus get out the little butter-fat they contain. Poultry Notes. In killing poultry all unnecessary cruelty should be avoided. One would ta.iU: such advice to be without cause, but It a. fact that the modern way of bleeding the fols to death through the mouth and picking them while they are dying is cruel and should be abandoned. P. H. Jacobs says that a blow on the head will render ren-der the bird unconsicous and that the bleeding will not thereby be Interfered with. If the hen gets lame and continues so it is generally better to send her to the kettle. It has been the experience of many that a lame fowl stands round so much that she gets fat and stops laying. The queer thing is that she will be found to have no signs of eggs in her. This seems to be due to the fact that the fat has increased to such an extent that the formation of even embryonic eggs is discontinued. Why a fat fowl should stop forming eggs it is difficult to say. but it is a fact Now that the cooler weather of fall has come, some of our readers will think that it is of no use to look for the red mites that are such a pest in the poultry house. But now is the time to steal a march on them. If you have had them this summer at all, begin a campaign against them now, even though you are not able to find one. A thorough whitewashing of the house should cover up all mites, and by this means perhaps you will be able to exterminate the last one. Many a poultryman conducts his business for years without ever having a red mite on his premises. So it is possible to be entirely free from this pest. Another bad habit Is reported to be gaining ground among shippers of poultry the marking of their shipments ship-ments at a few pounds more than they actually weigh and demanding returns from the commission man accordingly. The commission men have found it out, but do not like to refuse to make returns re-turns according to markings, for fear of losing customers. If the habit is not abandoned it will simply lead to the commisison men getting even with the shippers by some smart practices, fnr which they have abundant oppor- fame of this CeML..tM shipper is certainly not in a posii??n to beat the middleman, and he h.id better give it up. It moreover partak J of the character of a dishonest act at" I will not pay in the long run. What we wain m ue wnoie commission Dusiness is strict honesty in dealing, and we have even had laws passed to force the commission men to be honest. It is not wise for the shipper to thus set the commission man an example in dishonesty. There is no money in the poultry business without work. In many cases it requires more than work study. The man that expects to keep a large flock of hens by simply having good houses and yards will fail. He cannot run a flock of 100 or 200 hens by just running out in the morning, throwing out a few measures of grain, giving them a supply of water and going away at the same quick-step at which he came. That may work for awhile, but he will soon find either that his fowls are not doing well or that they are dying off from some mysterious disease. A man will simply get pay for the time he puts in and not for time that he spends at other affairs. A man who attempts to keep 100 hens will be surprised at the amount of time it takes him each day to look after them. When it is not one thing to use up his time it is another. But there is money in poultry for the man who expects to attend to it as he would expect to attend to any other kind of business. We see that a writer in a noted poultry poul-try journal attacks the feeding of sour miik to fowls. The article starts out with almost a promise of proving that sour milk is a detriment to the health of the fowls, but ends up with the advice ad-vice to feed the milk mixed with the ground food. The chief argument is that when the milk is fed in bulk the hens and chicks get wet in it and then get covered with dirt and flies, on account ac-count of which they present a very sorry appearance. One would think, to hear the argument, that there was no possible way of feeding milk to fowls without doing so in a way that would permit them to bath in it at the same time. But experienced poultry raisers know a good many ways to prevent such an episode. The writer feeds sour milk to his hens in large quantities. He does so by feeding in a large pan, only an edge of which is in the poultry yard. The fowls can come and drink at leisure and at will, but they get no chance to bathe in the milk. The ground around does not become soiled and filthy as the writer in the con temporary complained. The milk is eaten with avidity and we have never been able to detect any but good re sults from its use. Pigs That Go Down Behind. Those pigs that "go down behind" are a puzzle to most swine-breeders, and the common idea is that they have kidney worms. This, however, is a mistake in a majority of cases, for post-mortem examination has failed to disclose a single worm in the kidneys of such hogs. The fact of the matter is that these paralyzed pigs are but the evidence of improper feeding and management. Experiments at the Wisconsin Experiment Station some years ago proved beyond question that a sole diet of corn fails to produce strong bones in growing pigs, and that on the contrary such young animals require a mixed ration of a highly nitrogenous ni-trogenous character in order to develop all of the organs, tissues and bones in the most perfect manner. When pigs are weaned and the corn crop is coming into use farmers are too apt to use it as a sole ration for pigs. It is so easy and handy to use, and the pigs like it so well that the temptation is great, but the price is paralysis and the fictitious worm gets the blame. Mix the rations and give plenty of exercise, ex-ercise, and these cases will become uncommon un-common and the quality of our pork products will be vastly improved. Markets for Dairy Products. Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture is reported , as saying: 'The people in the Mississippi val ley are alive to the new markets in the Pacific for their products. That we may be doing something along this line the agricultural department has sent an agent to China to establish agencies for the sale of our dairy prod ucts. We find that this Puget Sound section imports dairy products from the Mississippi valley. One object of my present visit, therefore, is to encourage en-courage your dairymen to prepare not only to supply their market, but the greater market which is opening up in the Pacific. Good butter, neatly tinned, brings thirty to forty cents a pound over there. We of the Mississippi Missis-sippi valley have concluded that a great change is coming. Our great markets will be to the west rather than to the east." Demand for Texas Feeders. The cattle ranges in Texas have not been in such excellent condition as now for very many years, and as a result the Texas grass-fat cattle are going to market in fine condition and are bringing bring-ing prices that are pleasing to shippers. ship-pers. Those that are held to be fed or to be sold to feeder-buyers will go iuto the feed lots in better condition than usual. As there is absolutely nothing to indicate that there will be any decline in prices and there is an abundance of cheap feed-stuffs in all the slates where feeding is done, there may be expected an unusually strong demand for feeders. The supply from Texas will, of course, be principally young stuff. In Texas there will probably prob-ably be more feeding than was done last season, and more corn will be fed than in any former feeding period. - Texas Stock Journal. Stock Killed by Nitrate of Soda. It should be remembered that nitrate of soda is not so beneficial for stock as it is for soil. Every little while some farmer, either through ignorance or cartlessness, leaves nitrate of soda around, or sacks which have contained it accessible to cattle or other stock. These, not recognizing its difference from common salt, lick or eat it and as a result either die or get very sick. In case of poisoning from this chem ical, the "administration of infusion? of coffee and alcohol and irritant clysters" is rocommended by government govern-ment veterinarians. Ropiness In Milk. This peculiar condition of milk or cream Is due to a number of micro-organisms which often come onto a dairy farm quite suddenly. We can assign no plausible cause for their appearance, and while ropy, stringy or slimy milk impresse us by its unwholesome appearance, it is perfectly harmless. Dr. F. E. En-gelhardL En-gelhardL Clover for Fowls. Plan now for; a good supply of cut clover hay for the fowls next winter it is one of the Terr best green foods for milch cows ana laying hens. The farmer can 111 afford to do without it. Mangel-wur-zels are also excellent for winter feeding feed-ing of either cows or hens and will well repay the keeper in increased health and vigor. Ex. THE FRONTIER MULE. ENDURES EXPOSURE AND ABSTINENCE. AB-STINENCE. Hone Eier Die a Natural Death How the "Skinner" and His Allies Ply the Blacksnakea and Make Lire Miserable ThelT Ws.'rd Sons;. Special Letter. I hare often promised myself the pleasure of pay in? an appropriate tribute to that much ridiculed but indispensable in-dispensable animal, the frontier mule. His usefulness to civilization has been exceeded only by the pioneer representatives repre-sentatives of the human race, whose endurancehehas shared and whose patience pa-tience and enterprise he has surpassed. His character is complex and comprehensive, com-prehensive, and h? who aspires to analyze an-alyze the psychology of the mule and search th motives that actuate him undertakes a problem that no man has yet solved. I have often heard his character and peculiarities discus.-ed by army teamsters and others who are accustomed to handling him. but it requires re-quires a special vocabulary. The amount of fatigue, exposure anrl abstinence that a mule will endure is marvelous. Making long marches across dusty and s'ladcie.-s plains, going go-ing for days with little water and less food, pulling heavy Ioods over rocky hills and through heavy slo-.ighs. subject sub-ject to cruel treatment and neglect, it is no wonder tr:t his soul is soured. He is worked until he is worn out, and then he is turned in with a herd of broken-down animals that furnish as melancholy a sight as one can see among animated things. Gaunt and lean, with drooping ears, disconsolate tail and a woebegone visage that would frighten an inexperienced ghost, the abandoned mule is an ideal of desola? tion. There is a popular tradition that no mule ever died a natural death. On the mountain sides, burdened with a heavy pack or bearing a trustful rider, rid-er, his foothold is firm and sure; but when the earth gives way and the mule goes rolling over and over down the precipice, he has lives enough left to secure him a ripe eld age. I have seen a mule fall in the mud and become be-come buried under a heavily loaded wagon, yet when the wreck was re- moved he got up, shook himself, and began to nibble the grass as unconcernedly uncon-cernedly as if nothing had happened. The ordinary army team, which is imitated by all the transportation "oatfits" in the West, is usually composed com-posed of six mules driven by a single line and a long snake whip, especially the whip. The line is attached to the left bit of the "nigh leader," which may be considered the rudder of the team. The driver, or helmsman, sits astride of the "nigh-wheeler," and if he wants to "gee" he jerks the line savagely. It is a moral certainty that the "nigh leader" will turn his head away from it and take the rest of the team with him. If the helmsman wants to "haw" he pulls gently on the line, drawing the "nigh leader's" head around and he goes "haw." There is nothing easier or more natural in all the philosophy of the sages. The position of "mule skinner" in an army train or a caravan of "team-ers" "team-ers" is conspicuous. His chief requirements re-quirements are to crack a blacksnake whip and swear, and such swearing is never heard under other circumstances. circum-stances. On an ordinary trail the mule team jogs along quietly and sedateiy while the driver snooies in his saddle, but somehow or other he awakens whenever anything goes wrong, or when a bad piece of road is reached. Then he "haws" and "gees" and y.ls and cracks his whip, and jerks the line and digs his spurs into the poor animal he is riding until he gets his team into position; then with a few jumps and a few tugs, under a frightful fright-ful torrent of oaths and a cracking of the whip like the rattle of musketry, the other side is reached, and with a sigh of relief the team resumes its patient pa-tient pulling, just as meek people do when they have passed through great trials and come out purified. I do not know of any living creature whose destiny is so absolutely terrible as an "off-wheeler" in a mule train on the Arizona desert. If fifty whacks are given a team of mules in crossing a bad piece of road or creek, the "off-wheeler" "off-wheeler" gets forty, or when the "cooly" is full of soft mire the ordinary "mule skinner" who rides the "nigh-wheeler" is assisted by a half-dozen gentlemen gentle-men of the same profession, who dismount dis-mount from their teams to encourage the crossing They, too, have long, black whips, and they have a better purchase for their feet than saddle stirrups, so they can whack back harder and more frequently than he. and the majority of their blows, of course, fall on the "off-wheeler." These deputies, as you might call them, stand in the middle of the gulch or "cooly." The wagons go down so quickly that the leading mules run under while their whips are in the air, but the "off-wheeler" comes along just in time to catch the downward stroke, and the tug of pulling the wagon up the other side is so hard and slow that they have time to whack him again before he is out of trouble. While the caravan of teams is at a bad crossing, waiting for their turn to cross, you can always hear an occasional occa-sional bray about one-sixth as many brays as there are mules on the pay roll. It comes from the "off-wheelers" and ia a subdued protest against fate. The most serious objection to the mole, which you sometimes find in human beings also, is the delusion that he can sing. Like everything else about a mule, his song is strictly original. It belongs to no other ani- uial. No one can describe and no or ct-n imitate it. .SIMON JACKSON. AS A BOY. Dewey Invariably Took Sides with the Weak and the Hallled. As a boy George Dewey was alert, bright and vivacious. He was not a hard student. He was often mischievous, mischiev-ous, but never malicious. He was fond of all outdoor sports, and was not averse to a fist fight when he considered consid-ered that he was in the right But he never pitched into a lad smaller than himself. He was always on the side of the weak against the bully. Mary Dewey, his sister, was his frequent companion in the milder amusements of his early boyhood. She remembers that he was always chivalrous and kindly to her and the other girls. She has said that even as a child he was never afraid of the dark. "When his sister emphasized this characteristic," ays Mr. Barnett, who tells the story, "I thought of the dark night when he took the lead on the Olympia and sailed sail-ed into Manila Bay past Corregidor, without fear or hesitation." During his first year at Annapolis Dewey did not hold any high rank. He was not exactly indolent, but he was so engrossed en-grossed with the pleasures of student life and its good comradeship that he had Utile time left for plodding. He took in good part, however, a letter from his father urging on him more assiduity to study, and, as a result, when graduation day came he was third in his class, with Howell and Keed respectively first and second. HOW EUROPEANS TRAVEL. CerniHiiH (idling Into Line as Tourists at Watrrlujr Places. The Germans are beginning to form one of the largest elements in the traveling trav-eling world of Europe. Up till a short time ago even Switzerland was never much patronized hy the children of the fatherland, out that has changed now, and it is said that the Reviera would have been a complete failure last season sea-son if it had not been for the Germans, who sprnt much time there. And it was not time alone that the foreigners spent while in the beautiful district. They were free with their money, and it is said that this advance guard of Germans who are beginning to scatter over the European continent is slavish in the matter of money. The Eoglish, who have grown into the habit of considering con-sidering themselves the best and most untiring travelers of the world, have come in for no end of criticism, especially espe-cially from the Swiss, for their close watch on their pocketbooks. One pension pen-sion proprietor in the Taunus-Wald was heard to say that she wanted no English guests, for "they bargain." This has been declared all the more peculiar from the fact that the English Eng-lish hotels at home are famous for their high prices, and a man who will consent to extravagant charges at home is a trifle unreasonable when he haggles over a night's lodging abroad. As an evidence of the increase in the German travelers there were 2,890 people peo-ple of that nationality at Lucerne from June 16 to 30 this year, to 2,298 for the same period last. In the same time 1,811 English were in Lucerne, as compared with 1,556 of last summer. The increase of all foreign visitors at the same place and time for the present pres-ent year was over 1,200, showing that Switzerland is having its full share of tourists. The wealthy Russians are said to be extremely profitable to hotel ho-tel and shopkeepers In the lands in which they are traveling. A Swiss authority au-thority Insists that 200 Russians will spend more in a month than 1,600 English men and women for the same period of time. St. Louis Star. SHE OWNS $5,000,000. Miss Elsie French, the fiancee of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. is a very pretty girl of 18, possessed of an independent in-dependent fortune in her own right, amounting to nearly $5,000,000. She is of excellent family, and in nowise objectionable ob-jectionable as a match even for the principal heir of the enormous wealth of the Vanderbilts. The late Cornelius MISS ELSIE FRENCH, advised his son to wait until after he had finished his studies and travels before marrying, and the young man wisely acquiesced. Alfred fell In love with Miss French while he was still a student at Yale. She was then a mere slip of a girl, but promised to develop into a beautiful woman. Although even yet a little immature, the future Mrs. Vanderbilt is very charming. Miss French is a sister of Elizabeth French, who was famed as a beauty and who became the wife of Colonel Francis Eaton of the Grenadier Guards. Both young women are daughters of the lata Francis Ormond French, who was president pres-ident of the Manhattan Trust Company. Com-pany. ' 0AMPFIRE SKETCHES GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. When Johnny Keb Went Bone Former Confederate Telia of the Return of Southern Soldiers After the Biff War Kilpatrick In a Tight Place. Old Letter. The house was silent, and the light Was fading from the western glow. I read till tears had dimmed my sight. Some letters written long ago. The voices that have passed away. The faces that have turned to mould. Were round me in the room today And laughed and chatted as of old. The thoughts that youth was wont to think. The hopes now dead forever more, Came from the lines of faded ink As sweet and earnest as of yore. I laid the letters by and dreamed The dear dead past to life again; The present and its purpose seemed A fading vision full of pain.' Then, with a sudden burst of glee The children burst Into the room. Their little faces were to me As sunrise in the cloud of gloom. The world was full of meaning still, For love will live, though loved ones die; I turned upon life's darkened hill And gloried In the morning sky. F. G. Scott. When Johnny Keb Went Home. At a dinner party the other night several former union soldiers and one ex-confederate sat down. The latter had ridden with J. E. B. Stuart. He is now "riding" about for a northern con-tern. con-tern. The talk turned on the homecoming home-coming of military heroes, and the outhern man said: "I was asked the other day in Pittsburg as we watched he welcome of the people to the Tenth Pennsylvania back from the Philippines what sort of a reception we Johnny Rebs got when we went home after the civil war. Whipped soldiers are not often required to march in bodies when they go home. The confederates con-federates did not as a whole. They did not in any way so far as I ever heard. They went back in twos or threes but oftener one at a time. You will know some day that the civil war was unlike any other war of history. When the confederates realized that they were whipped they were heartbroken. heart-broken. I am not making any argument argu-ment for the cause. But you must consider con-sider the temperament of a southern man to understand what defeat means to him. You people in the north would have recovered if the north had been whipped. You would have been at Richmond, if we had succeeded, with your Yankee inventions and schemes. You would have gotten the contracts for the Confederate States public worku. You would have had the contracts con-tracts for building our navy, for making mak-ing our guns. You would have built our railroads. You would have revived reviv-ed your industries from our coffers. You would have become partners in our commerce. All this would have been characteristic of you. With the southern man it was different. He was whipped, but he was sullen. He moped and would not play. You people peo-ple had the advantage in the play, of course, but you might have given the sulker a show for his white alley if he had shown a disposition to let you inside in-side his yard. But he barred the gate and scowled at you through a knothole. knot-hole. And this trait clung to hini for years, and he awoke one morning to find some of you folks in his field, and on his plantation, working his soil, while he was starving. Then he quit looking back and went to work. And now when you have a trade with a southerner you do not take advantage of him as you did. But just after the surrender he was in no mood to be received. re-ceived. The town from which he had enlisted was in no condition to turn out in welcome and hurrah, even if a regiment had returned, or any body of men. Gentlemen, believe me there was not a healthy hurrah in the whole south after Lee's surrender. It was nothing to brag about for some time before that. Some of us saw the handwriting hand-writing six months before the meeting of Grant and Lee at Appomattox. Your soldiers returned home in companies, com-panies, battalions and regiments. They were received by the populace, as we are now receiving our returning soldiery sol-diery from the Philippines, and as we recently received them from Cuba. But the confederate sneaked back, not because he was ashamed of what he had done, for to this day we are mighty sensitive on that point, but because he had been whipped. It takes a brave man to acknowledge a licking such as you gave us. We acknowledged it all right to you, and at home, but we did not want any hurrah made about it. Our people were in no mood to ring the bells or fire the guns when we went home. A man going into his old home In the night, climbing the back fence and going through the garden, making mak-ing peace with the dog, knocking at the kitchen door, is not an inspiring spectacle. That's the way most of us went back. Very often there were no bells to ring. You Yankees shot them out of the church steeples, or our people peo-ple had to melt them for ammunition. We were mighty short toward the last. There were few house guns in the south during the war. Occasionally a confederate returned to And his town so battered that he did not know it. He met strange faces in the streets. Familiar land marks had disappeared. Sometimes he found the foundation of his old home, and it was overgrown with grass. Whole towns disappeared, and communities removed, in some sections of the south during the war. I know many ex-confederates today who were never mustered out. They bunched us and told us to go, and we scattered in every direction. I know a man in my state who is holding a federal fed-eral office who never surrendered, and who was never discharged from the confederate service. No war ever had as many strange situations, as many curious results, as that war." Boss Talker of the Navy. From the Washington Star: A good story comes up from Cuba about a well-known naval officer.. Wherever the United States navy is known Com mander Lucien Young is known. Young was one of the men who went to the rescue of the shipwrecked sail ors at Samoa after the great cyclone in 1888. He also performed a daring feat off Cape Hatteras when the Huron was lost, and was presented with a sword by the state of Maryland as a result of it. He was one of the landing party at Honolulu when the cruiser Boston sent troops there to support Minister Stevens in his recognition of the provisional pro-visional government which overthrew Queen Liliuokalani in Hawaii. Lucien is a Kentuckian, and as a talker is second sec-ond only to Joe Blackburn of that state. But to get to the story: It appears ap-pears that eome naval officers were together to-gether down in Havana, and a late arrival ar-rival wiped his brow, ordered a drink and remarked that he was completely talked out, as he had been up against the greatest talker in the navy. "I guess you must have struck uciea Young," remarked one of the other officers. of-ficers. -No," he replied. "I have Just been up against plain Smith." "Well, then, you have another guess coming as to who is the greatest talker," responded re-sponded the man who had mentioned Young'e name. "I don't know what your man Young can do," said the newcomer, new-comer, "but I have $5 to back my man Smith against him." "Taken," answered the champion of Lucien Young, quickly, and the money was put up in a third man's hands. It was agreed that nothing should be said either to Young or to Smith, but it was arranged that this group of naval officers should bring them together and quietly allow them to get started on some topic. The arrangements were all made. The men met casually. A drink or two was passed around and some topic introduced with with both Young and Smith were familiar. The others dropped out, leaned back in their chairs and smoked their cigars, while Smith and Young talked against each other over the table. This went on for a matter of two hours, and each apparently doing his level best. Finally, Smith brought his fist down on the table with a bang and said: "Lucien Young, you are the greatest talker in the navy. I'll quit you right here." The money was passed over to Young's backer, and the joke explained, explain-ed, amid loud laughter on the part of those who had perpetrated it upon the two talkers. The "Cauip-I.iar." Soino recent stories of slaughter, sent home by private soldiers in the Philippines, evidently intended to electrify elec-trify the corner grocery store rather than to become the subject of investigation investi-gation at headquarters, have prompted Colonel Huntington of the United States marine corps to relate an instance in-stance of untruthfulness and its retribution retri-bution which fell under his notice. A private in his command, during last summer's campaign in Cuba, wrote home a vivid story, wholly the work of his imagination, of the way in which he "corraled" seven Spaniards. Three of these, he declared in his letter, he had shot, and the other four he had brought in as prisoners. The letter was published by the soldier's admiring friends in his home newspaper, and a copy of the paper was eventually sent to one of his comrades in Cuba, and passed about the camp. As the other members of the company knew that no such incident had taken place, they gave him no peace. A tin cracker box fell into the men's hands, and out of this they proceeded to cut a large cross, with a clasp and inscription, in imitation of the "Victoria cross." The brave Tom was asleep when this was done, but the soldiers called him up, led him out, and formally presented him with it, amidst a great uproar. Then they pinned it conspicuously upon his back and forced him to wear it. He made many attempts to get rid of his decoration, and finally managed to lose it in the woods. It was found and brought to the colonel, who preserves pre-serves it as a memento. Soldier and the Ant Hill. Only the other day the Kansas volunteers vol-unteers got under a fire so heavy that, after spreading out in line of skirmishers, skirmish-ers, the order was given to lie down. One unfortunate soldier flopped squarely square-ly into an ant hill. Thousands of the little pests swarmed angrily over him, biting with the peculiar penetration of Filipino ants. In a second the 60ldier jumped up, swearing and almost screaming with pain. "Lie down, my man," shouted his captain. "All right, sir," and down flopped the unhappy soldier. He could stand it only a few seconds, when he leaped once more to his feet. "Lie down, I tell you," insisted in-sisted the captain. "Blankety-blank, captain, I can't!" protested the poor fellow. Just then a sheet of Mauser bullets flew past him, at all heights, from his shin to his head. It was marvelous mar-velous that the standing soldier was not hit in a dozen places, but he changed his mind swiftly about the possibility of lying down. Down he went, regardless of ants, shouting to his commander: "Yes, I can, captain! By the holy smoke, yes, I can, sir!" And he remained down until the order came to rise. Manila Correspondence Leslie's Weekly. Kilpatrick in a Tight Place. From the Washington Times: The late General Judson Kilpatrick was caught in a tight place near Chattanooga Chatta-nooga during the civil war. The general, gen-eral, with his cavalry division, was outside of the federal lines on a little lit-tle raiding business. Being hard pressed by the confederates it was necessary for him to ford the Tennessee Tennes-see river in order to escape. He knew there was a ford but did not know where to find it. Riding up to a plantation plan-tation house he saw a fine looking old gent! man, with tne ladles of his family, fam-ily, sitting on the veranda. He at once demanded that the venerable planter should lead him to the ford, which the latter positively refused to do. Thereupon There-upon General Kilpatrick told him that unless he complied with the request he would be shot in a minute. At this one of the ladies exclaimed indignantly: "General, have you a father?" Kilpatrick Kil-patrick replied: "Yes, I have, and a mother, too, and they have a boy, and that boy is in a d d tight place!" Phil Sheridan's Objection. Gen. Meig3 was the architect of the pension office in Washington and was inordinately proud of his achievement. When Gen. Sheridan inspected the building, Gen. Meigs accompanied him. Sheridan went thoroughly over thr structure from top to bottom, without passing any comment, but when the inspection was completed he turned to his guide with: "Well, Meigs, I have only one fault to find with it." "What is that, general?" asked the delighted ex-quartermaster general. "It's fireproof," fire-proof," replied Sheridan. Chickens with Croop. The small girl who was in the country coun-try for the first time since she was of an age to take serious observations was much interested in a lot of little ducks in a neighbor's yard. She was more acquainted with infantile weaknesses weak-nesses than with barnyards, so, being a clever little woman, she put her wits to work and soon solved the problem as to why the quacking of the ducks was so different from the peeping of the chickens. "Mamma," she said, when she went home; "I have just seen a lot of little chickens with the croup. I'nconscious Humorist. The unconscious bamors of journalism journal-ism are often more ajrjsing than .the best efforts of the "funny men." A rural paper not long ago contained this statement: "Our friend, B: K. Jones of H street, is seriously sick. He is being attended twice a day by Dr. Smith in consultation with Dr. White, thereby his recovery is in grave doubt" A whale of average size yields about 2,000 gallons of oil. USES FOR SAWDUST. IT MAY BE UTILIZED FOR VARIOUS VARI-OUS PURPOSES. It May Be t'sed for High Kx plosives Sncta as Iyuamlte and Glycerine Is First Made Into What Is Called, In Germany, Wood Flour. S New uses have been found in Germany Ger-many for sawdust, an interesting account ac-count of which has been furnished to a firm in Chicago. The writer says: "Wood flour (in German, holzmehl) is made by grinding sawdust to a fine powder and is used for two general purposes, pur-poses, viz, the manufacture of explo sives, especially dynamite and nitroglycerin, nitro-glycerin, and the manufacture of linoleum lino-leum and papyrolite or artificial flooring. floor-ing. There is no manufacturer of dynamite dy-namite in Berlin, but from the representative repre-sentative of a firm in Saxony it has been ascertained that wood flour has been used in the manufacture of dynamite dyna-mite as a cheap substitute for infusorial infusor-ial earth, which is the standard material mate-rial for that purpose. The entire Germany Ger-many supply of infusorial earth comes from one source at Luneberg. between Hamburg and Hanover, and when that material became scarce and expensive because of increased demand experiments experi-ments were made with wood flour as a substitute. From the best information that can be obtained it is regarded distinctly dis-tinctly inferior to infusorial earth for making explosives and is only used when extreme cheapness of product is desirable or the infusorial earth cannot can-not be obtained. Wood flour has also been somewhat extensively used in the manufacture of linoleum, a kind of floorcloth made by laying a coat of hardened linseed oil mixed with grouud cork on a canvas net or backing, but here, again, it was found to be hard, inelastic and for that reason inferior to cork meal, so that its use has been so far as can be ascertained, abandoned by most German makers of linoleum. If used at all for this purpose, it is done secretly and would be regarded as an adulteration. The third and by far the most important use of wood flour in Germany is for the manufacture manufac-ture of papyrolite or xylolite, a kind of artificial flooring, which is extensively produced by several large firms and companies in Germany, notably the Papyrolite works, Paul Becker, in Loebtau, near Dresden; by Hermann Jaritz & Co. of Bremen, and by Paul Karnasch, at Frankenstein, Silesia. Papyrolite is extensively used as flooring floor-ing for kitchens, halls, corridors and for public rooms, such as cafes and restaurants. It is a substance between wood and stone, practically fireproof, impervious to water, and, being a nonconductor non-conductor of heat, is warm in winter. It is also used as flooring on German war vessels, because it has most of the advantages of wood and does not splinter from shot nor take fire. RAILS GROUND TO DUST. Kffect of the Constant Wear and Tear on a Railroad. As consumers of steel the railroads in the vicinity of Pittsburg lead the world. During the past three months 170 miles of new steel rails, averaging ninety pounds to the yard, have been put down or distributed within thirty miles of the center of the city, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. There are 1,760 yards In a mile, which would mean 299,200 yards for one line of rails in 170 miles, or 26,928,000 pounds, or say 53,856,000 pounds for both lines of rails, or 269,283 tons of steel rails needed need-ed in one year for Pittsburg roads, ninety per cent of which was for renewals re-newals on old lines. There is somewhat some-what of a mystery regarding where the steel worn out on a big road goes to. It is ground down almost to imperceptible im-perceptible dust by the constant friction fric-tion of the grinding wheels, and this friction is forty-five per cent greater on curves than on straight stretches of track. The wear is also much greater great-er on ascending grades on a straight track than on a descending grade. On curves the wear is almost lateral or horizontal, while on straight track it is perpendicular, with a slight inclination incli-nation toward the inside of the rail next to the flanges of the wheels. The millions of tons of steel ground down to dust by the wheels of trains in this country are lost. It cannot be regained re-gained for scrap because it settles down into the ballast, is brushed away by the rush of air caused by the swiftly swift-ly moving train, and, like the star dust which falls upon the ocean, is lost forever. In time, as civilization and the wheels of civilization move on, the railroads of the chief steam railways, as well as part of the adjoining ground, will become thoroughly impregnated with steel and iron dust from the grinding up of rails and wheels, because be-cause it must be remembered that the wheels grind the rails and the rails grind the wheels and this constant shower of iron and steel dust is accumulating ac-cumulating along our railroads at a rapid rate. Pleasant Sensations of Hanging. Early in the century a man came back from the grave. His name was Hugh Raymond, and he was hanged for crime. By some rare chance his neck was unbroken by the drop, and the vital spark was not quite extinct when friends bore the body away and succeeded in bringing him back to life. The message that Raymond brought back was surprising. He said that the real punishment of a man who is hanged is not physical pain, but the terror of approaching death. Hanging itself was merely "the languorous going go-ing to sleep of a drowsy man, wherein were mingled sensations as in moments mo-ments of strange bodily ecstasy." The fact that Raymond's account of his hanging eliminates the element of pain makes it probable that he was telling the truth. If he had felt any pain at all, he would have been inclined to exaggerate It. From Raymond's case physicians have generally concluded that hanging in itself does not cause pain. It is the fear of being hanged that hurts. The convulsions of .the body so often noticed are purely muscular, mus-cular, not the writhings of a man in agony. Pointers on Cellars. The cellar, well drained and aired, must be kept free from rubbish, and especially from decaying vegetables and other foods. Frequent cleaning out the corners and sweeping the walls are essential. All kinds of food, including in-cluding vegetables, should be kept from the light. Jellies and . canned fruits ought to be stored in dark cupboards. Windows enough to air the cellar and screens for all of them are essential. If the sashes are opened at sunset and remain so until the next day's heat, then closed to keep in the fresh air, it will be much cooler than If open all day. But to remain closed continually is to breed foulness and disease. Lime scattered in the corners will conduce to keep a cellar free from mold. A damp basement is a disorder-breeding spot. Evening Wisconsin. " j STANDPOINT OF TWO AOE3. The Tears You ve Lived Makes a DUTes enee la the Oatlook. "Did you ever notice," asked the older member of the group, looking into in-to the gas log at the club, "or, rather, have you not always noticed the markedly mark-edly different effect upon the mind exerted by the coming of the September Septem-ber equinox and that of March? The arrival of the fall equinox seems to fill the whole human tribe with gloom; that of the spring with impatient joy. I contend that these effects are universal uni-versal and that their causes are peculiarly pecu-liarly simple. Of course, I am talking about latitudes approximating our own In the decline of the year, as the sun is rushing south, as the leave3 are growing gray and wrinkled, as the days wane and the nights wax, when nc longer one can comfortably sit out ol doors, the arrival of the raw Septembe: days which are chilled and dampened fills the sensitive soul with anticipatory dread. These heralds of the stiffening year, about to be laid or its slab, lik a corpse in a morgue, give warning no' only that the melancholy days arc come, but that the long northern winter, win-ter, f-hill, desolate and forbidding, will soon begin. It is different in middle March. Then the patter of the dropping drop-ping rain holds out a promise. The song birds are seeking summer homes again. The reviving grass and the tender ten-der mounds which burgeon upon the sap-thrilled branches of the awakening awaken-ing trees speak the incensed language of life and love. The restored brooks babble that they have thrown off their shackles. Daily the sun burns more ardently upon all the pulses of the stirring earth. The air is full ol promise. Man feels hope again, and divine thrills, born he knows not why, move the deeper fountains of his heart." The talker paused and those who listened looked duly impressed by the depth and poetic beauty of his sentiment. That is, they did until an idol-breaking youth of 20, who hopes to captain his eleven this year, a rude thing of brawn and blood, broke in yith a characteristically phrased objection: "Say, major," said he, "that's all guff, don't you know. Winter's the time of all the year. Then's when a real man really has real joy. Didn't you ever skate ten miles on crinkly ice, with your best girl, hand in hand, or drive her behind tinkling sleighbells to the time-beating fact of a fast trotter, and drive with one hand at that? What's the matter with old Thanksgiving day, and the game on the gridiron it brings, or with merry Christmas or glad New Year's? Look at the balls and the operas op-eras and the dinners and the dear little lit-tle dances. Say, major, you're dead wrong. All these September heralds of melancholy you've talked -about are heralds of fun. How about it, fellows?" The major looked long and longingly upon the young man's glowing face. His voice shook a little as he put his wrinkled hand upon the junior's shoulder. shoul-der. "It's all in the point of view, my son," he said. " 'Once I was young, and now am I old,' said the ilebrew of wisdom." The Consumption of Quinine. More than 125,000,000 grains of quinine qui-nine have been consumed by American soldiers during the past year. In some cases men who were in the hospitals in Cuba and Porto Rico used as much as 300 grains a week, and hardly say have failed to use the drug at soma period of their service. It is seated that the people of the United States consume one-third of the quinine of the world, the drug being used ir. the preparation of many patent medicines, tonics, bitters, cold cures, etc., a3 well as in pills and in bulk, and a considerable consider-able quantity is consumed in the manufacture manu-facture of hair tonics. The official figures fig-ures in the treasury bureau of statistics statis-tics show that there were imported last year, into the United States, 1,539,056,-750 1,539,056,-750 grains of quinine, and as there was practically no export of this article, this means that the consumption of quinine was about twenty grains for each inhabitant. As is well known, quinine, Peruvian bark, and calisaya bark are the products of the cinchona tree, which is a native of western South America, more particularly of Peru and Ecuador. Now, however, but a small part of the supply comes from that region. At present two-thirds of the quinine consumed is produced in Java from cultivated trees. For many years the Dutch government was urged to undertake the cultivation of this plant from Peru. Finally this was accomplished ac-complished and a large number of specimens of the different varieties were obtainable by botanists, who took them to Java in 1852. The British government also started cinchona plantations in India which now produce pro-duce large quantities of quinine. Caused of Hysteria. Most people do not sufficiently understand un-derstand that hysteria is a symptom and not a disease, says an exchange. Among the many predisposing causes which might be named are chronic dyspepsia, neuralgia, anemia, depressing depress-ing surroundings and a great mental anxiety and worry. Sometimes hysteria hys-teria is due to ennui, and it is a well-accepted well-accepted fact that it is an affection which chiefly attacks the upper middle classes. Poor people have no time to indulge in the luxury of a display of the emotions. When the cause can be ascertained, the general treatment must be directed toward its removal. Daily exercise in the open air, the morning sponge bath and a good quinine qui-nine and iron tonic are valuable aids toward a cure. A change of air and scene will also sometimes work marvels, mar-vels, and in all cases the patient's mind should be kept interested and amused. A Perfect Foot. New York Tribune: Anatomists say that a perfect foot is as long as the bone in the forearm which extends from the wrist to the elbow. This is the measurement accepted by artists. Arms are sometimes out of proportion, propor-tion, it is true, but rareW. and the disproportion is usually in' ti,irec-tion ti,irec-tion of deficient, rather than of exces-" sive length. In such cases it will be found generally that the foot, also, is too short for the stature of the person. Mot Kxactly Felicitous. Pusher Gusher is not very happy In his choice of adjectives. Usher Why so? Pusher Miss Gumms fished for a compliment by asking him what he thought of her slippers. Ushtr And what did he say? Pusher He said they were immense. Stray Stories. Mow Girl. Indianapolis Journal: Flora Then you do not speak to Angelina any more. Why not? Laura She is so dreadfully vulgar.. She speaks of the Dreyfusards as Dreyfusites. Wheels. ' "I feel as if I had wheels in my head!" groaned the man. "It must be the truck you ate for dinner," rejoined his wife, innocently enough. Detroit Journal. |