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Show The Maiden's Lesson. A maiden strayed o'er meadow fair. Full pensive she. and sad; Nor could the soft wind's gentle air Caressing, make her glad. "Ah, thou. alas, art fickle, too! She sighing said. '"Oh. breeze. How canst thou thus so idly woo, A maiden's heart to tease?" And from her breast a full-blown rose Let fall a fragrant leaf "E'en thou are like the love one knows So sweet, and yet so brief. Thou. too. art faithless, warbling bird That singest from yon spray; For when one needs thy cheering song, Thou'rt winging far away." But something held the maiden's gown; She paused, and stayed to turn, And. still unknowing, bended down. The hind'rance to discern. And, lo 'twas but a humble weed A burdock rough and old. That paying to her touch no heed. Persisted in its hold! 'Though 'twas a common, ugly thing. The maiden smiled anew; Its message had an honest ring-It ring-It said: "1 11 stick to you!" Invaded by Polecats. A colony of polecats, or rather numerous nu-merous colonies of these undesirable additions to the neighborhood, recently recent-ly Invaded Ellicott City, Md. Their overpowering odor pervades the place. Last night at the nome of Senator William B. Peter a den of polecats was discovered and nine killed. They were found In the boxes beneath the floor. To get at them it was necessary to take up the floor. In the same locality local-ity the men about the home of Thomas Thom-as H. Gaither found it necessary to go gunning afer polecats last night. They aid not abate the nuisance. In the quarter of this town known as Mount Misery living han ben made most miserable by the presence of the same foul odors. Residents of the neighborhood neighbor-hood talk of invoking the aid of the County Health Board to drive out the polecats, which have their dens, it is believed, i-i the caves along a small stream nearby. Their presence has also been discovered in many other lo calities. Until last year a polecat was never seen in Ellicott City. Then one day one invaded the Howard House ice cream saloon to the dismay of the proprietor. The cat was promptly grabbed up and soused into a tub of water. Drowning is said to be the best way to get rid of polecats, but you must first catch your cat Girls Work at the Forge. There is a sturdy smithy at Leeds, England, who has eight muscular daughters, all of whom he has trained to assist him at his work. At present four are at work in his shop. The oth er four wielded the hammer for sever al years and then left the business to take up the duties of running homes of their own. Every day these four daughters of the master smith are to be seen at the anvils following the trade of their fathers. They are up early and spend the working hours in making gas hooks broad bent nails which are used by plumbers for fast ening gas pipes to walls. It is not such a hard task, yet the work requires great patience and enduring strength The heavy part of the work is per formed by a machine worked with the foot. After the mechanical device has finished its labors the fair blacksmiths, with Bleeves rolled up, put the -finishing touches on the hooks with a hand hammer and get them ready for market. mar-ket. The girls are fond of their work. They toil on a piecework basis, and the Ingenious blacksmith calls each a "full hand." A Surprise for Father. Rev. Thomas Brown, a prominent clergyman of Tioga county. Pa., married mar-ried his eloping daughter to J. W. Stone of Alleghany by mistake. Dr. Brown, who is very near-sighted, was spending two weeks at Bowersvllle, in this state, near the state line. His daughter, Miss Susie, a student at Bryn Mawr, he supposed was on a visit vis-it to friends in Philadelphia. She had, however, arranged to meet young Stone and elope. After a two weeks' stay in that city. Stone brought her to his aunt's residence, near Bowersville, and the couple drove to the parsonage. The regular minister was there, but Rev. Brown performed the ceremony, not recognizing his aaughter in her traveling dress. She saw the dilemma she was in, but gave her mother's name, which was her middle name, and at the conclusion of the ceremony cere-mony and the signing of the certiflcnte made known her identity to her father. fath-er. He was extremely indignant at first, but a reconciliation has been affected. af-fected. Binghampton (N. Y.) correspondence corre-spondence Pittsburg Leader. Goose With Arrow in Breast. An Esquimaux arrow of walrus Ivory, found imbedded deep in the breast of a Canadian gray goose, is on exhibition in a gun store at Spokane. The goose was shot a few days ago by John Cochran near Liberty Laker. As he picked up the big honker, weighing weigh-ing fourteen pounds, he was surprised to see a little piece of ivory slicking from its breast for two inches. With difficulty he pulled it out, for the flesh had grown around the arrow. Then he saw that it wj an arrow eight inches long and about as thick as a lead pencil. The carvings on the stem where it was tied to the ar row stick are still visible. No arrow of the sort was ever seen here before. The bird evidently carried car-ried it thousands upon thousands of mile3 from the far north, where it was shot by some Esquimaux. Spokane Spo-kane Spokesman-Review. Long-Lived Birds. The swan is the longest-lived bir3, and It is asserted that it has reached' the age of 100 years. Knauer, in bis natural history, states that he tns seen a falcon that was 162 years old. The following examples are cited as the longevity of the eagle and Vil-ture: Vil-ture: A sea-eagle captured in 1715, and Already Al-ready several years of age, died 104 years afterward in 1819; a white-headed white-headed vulture, captured in 1706, died in 1S26 in one of the aviaries of Schoenbrunn Castle, near Vienna, where it had passed 118 years in captivity. cap-tivity. Paroquets and ravines reach an age of over 100 years. The life of sea and marsh birds sometimes equals that of several human generations. genera-tions. Like many other birds, magpies mag-pies live to be very old In a stat of freedom, but do not reach over 29 or 25 years In captivity. The nightingale nightin-gale lives but ten years In captivity, and the blackbird fifteen. Canary birds reach an age of from 1 o 15 years In the cage, but those f at liberty In their native islands r ch a much nore advanced age. Death Caused by a Rooster's Spun That great danger is ofttimes concealed con-cealed in seeming harmless objects has again been illustrated in the incident in-cident which led to the death this week of James -.W. Carroll, of Lam-bertvllle, Lam-bertvllle, N, J. Mr. Carroll was driving driv-ing tame chickens off his lawn sad stooped to pick up two hens. .At this aiovement a rooster jumped at him Ad buried one of its spurs in his band. The hand began to swell at once and the wound became so painful pain-ful a physician was visited. The swelling was reduced and Mr. Carroll returned horn, laughing at the rooster's roost-er's attac. ' Just after entering his home he was- seized with' a pain in his head and In a moment fell to the floor dead.. It Is believed the rooster's spur pierced an artery and thus caused to be formed a blood cot that went to the brain. Rival to Aladdin's Cave. One of the most beautiful grottoes in Europe has just been explored for the first time in Switzerland. It is tear the village of Statden, not far from Schwytz. It lies at the foot of the hill of Pragel. Many previous efforts ef-forts had been mad a to explore It, but they failed on account of the abundance abund-ance of water, the steepness of the inclines in-clines which separate , the chambers and the frequent caving in of the walls. The four bold alpine climbers who have finally achieved the dangerous danger-ous feat are Arthur Wehrll of Bend-likon, Bend-likon, Saxer, Simmerman and Widmer-Osterwalder, Widmer-Osterwalder, of Zurich. They entered the grotto on a Friday with provisions for eight days, rope, ladders and acetylene acety-lene lamps and came out tne following follow-ing Sunday. Hanged His Wife to a Tree. Because Thomas L. Smith of Sneed, I. T., attempted strenuous measures in forcing his wife to believe in his righteousness, he is now in the Federal Fed-eral prison at Ardmore, held for attempted at-tempted vife murder. " Smith was charged by her with conduct unbecoming unbecom-ing a faithful husband, and he hanged the woman to a limb of a tree in the back yard. In her efforts to free herself her-self from the noose placed around her neck the woman succeaded in getting her arms abovu the rope when Smith jerked her from the earth, and left her dangling in the air, the rope around her watat. She was suspend-ea suspend-ea thus until unconscious, and was cut down by neighbors who were passing. pass-ing. Cincinnati Enquirer. A Deer's Salt Water Bath. A deer taking a salt water bath was a sight to which Ferry Beach residents, resi-dents, just beyond Old Orchard, were treated Sunday. Early in the morning a large deer ran down through the streets of the settlement and made for the ocean. He waded out until the water touched his body and began to perform his Sunday ablutions, regardless regard-less of the large number who were watching him. As soon as he had waded out some distance he began to run as fast as he could through the water. This done, he took a plunge and swim and then, apparently much refreshed, started for the road and was soon lost in the woods. Dally Kennebec Kenne-bec Journal. The World's Ltrgest Currant Patch. The largest currant patch in the world is that In Colorado, which covers cov-ers a field SO acres in extent. The biggest big-gest currant patch heretofore known is said to be located in -Michigan, and it comprises eight acres. The one in Colorado is at Longmont. In it there are 135,000 plants in all. The plants are set out in rows seven feet apart, and iiere are threa and a half feet betwejn the plants in the rows. Big returns are exp3cted from the currant cur-rant crop. J. H. Empson, a prominent citizen of Longmont, is the owner of the world's biggest currant patch, together to-gether with his daughter, who takes an actire Interest in the plantation. J. Knott's Big Rhubarb Stalk. The London Journal of Horticuftur says that Mr. J. Knott pulled up a stick of rhubarb in the rectory garden, Black Torrington, Devon, which meas ured twenty-one inches in length, six inches in girth at the smallest part and seven Inches round at the largest part. while the longest rib of the leaf measured meas-ured thirty inches in length, and the circumference of the outer edge of the lef.f measured eighteen feet six inches It is probable, however, that Ameri can growers can beat this. It seems that stalks this size, though not com mon, are occasionally seen. Meehan's Monthly. Hot Water Clock. One of the most curious clocks In the world is perhaps that which tells Hie time to the inhabitants of a little American backwoods town, and which was constructed some time ago. The machinery, which is nothing but a face, hands and lever, is connected with a geyser, which shoots an im mense column of hot water every thirty-eight seconds. This spouting never varies to the tenth of a second. Every time the water spouts up It strikes the lever and moves the hands forward for-ward thirty-eight seconds. Sawdust as Animal Food. A patent has been secured by a Berlin Ber-lin chemist upon a form of animal fodder fod-der which has sawdust as its chief Ingredient. In-gredient. The inventor argues that animals have a decided liking for young shoots, roots of shrubs, tree bark and other food of the same nature, na-ture, and, since experiments have proved that the nutriment contained in such growth remains in it even after it has become wood, he observes that with a littie salt and water added to it the sawdust will prrve to be a highly high-ly nourishing diet. Pigmy Camels. The western part of Persia is Inhabited Inhab-ited by a species of camel which is the pigmy of its kind. These camels are sncw white, and are on that account almost worshipped by the people. The Shah presented the municipality of Berlin with two of these little wonders. The larger is 27 inches high anqt weighs 61 pounds. The other is four inches less, but the weight is not given. Most Costly Butterfly. There is in the American Museum of Natural History a butterfly which cost its owner, the late Dr. Strecker, of Reading, Pa., between 1,500 and 2,000. This rare insect, a female, exists only in Sierra Leone, and the collector in question had to fit out an expedition and maintain it for over two years with Ho otaer object than to add the insect to his-collection. The north pole is almost as hard to find as the men who get lost searching for it. Dairy Interests of New York. According to the recent census there are at present in New York state 1,501,608 cows, which is a little over four per cent more than the number returned by the census of 1890. The yield of milk has, however, increased over 16 per cent. This would seem to Indicate a decided Improvement In tiie quality of the cows, so far as milk production pro-duction is concerned. In fact, the increased in-creased average of milk production must be about 12 per cent, a very decided de-cided gain in ten years. This is doubtless due to the use of the milk test and the milk scales. On 67,000 farms milk production is returned as the principal source of income for the farms. This is 30 per cent of all the farms in the state. Of the entire butter, but-ter, milk and cheese output about $8,000,000 worth was consumed on the farms where it was produced, while $46,000,000 worth was sent away for sale. In the last census year milk brought over $33,000,000, butter nearly $10,000,000, while cheese brought less than one-fourth of a million dollars. About $312,000 was received for cream. The receipts for milk sold are steadily increasing, while the receipts for butter but-ter sold are as steadily decreasing, showing the trend of economic conditions condi-tions in New York state. The milk trade is proving more remunerative than the trade in butter and cheese. The amount of butter produced on farms' decreased about 23 per cent in ten years, most of it being now made in creameries. Possibilities in Cow Development. The dairy commissioner of Minnesota Minne-sota says that the dairy cows of that state are producing only one-third the amount of milk and butter fat they shouid produce. What is true of Minnesota is true of every state of the Union. The dairy proposition would not be such a serious one to face if we could get men to deal with it Intelligently and develop their cows. Unfortunately for the dairy interest we have a great multitude of farmers that see in the cow no possibility of development. They imagine that feeding her on common prairie hay or on wire grass pasture will make as good a dairy cow out of her as she could be cnyway. But this is not the case. The cow that is well fed from calfhood to motherhood makes a far better milker than does the one that is left to hustle for herself on all kinds of pastures. It has been dem onstrated that even the common cows of our country can be made to yield far more profit than they do at the present time If they are given the care that growing cows need. Cows are generally fed hit-or-miss. Being "young stock" they are considered of no particular moment. Perhaps the only food they have for weeks is dry straw. That theydo not get the nutri ment needed from thin food is a mat tcr of little importance to the owner who simply says "oh, well, they are not giving milk." Right feeding and development must go together. Pure Water for Washing Better. The manager of an Australian butter but-ter factory says that he has found it to be practically impossible to make gooa Dutter with water from creeks and streams. He first experimented with water from streams and rain water caught in 1,000" gallon tank3. He invariably found that the butter washed with stream water got off flavor after it had been in the market mar-ket a little while, but that the water v,ashed with rain water remained good for a long time. He then tried filtered and unfiltered water. The butter was made in two lots and watcned. After seven days both butters but-ters were good. After fourteen days the butter washed with filtered water was good, while the butter made with unfiltered water was slightly off and molds were showing on the parchment. After twenty-one days the first butter was still good, while the other was off in flavor and was bitter near the surface. After forty-two days the butter washed with filtered water was good, while the other was more pronounced pro-nounced in Its bitterness. At fifty-six fifty-six days tne first butter was slightly off in flavor but eatable, with no mold showing. The butter washed with unfiltered water was very moldy and had a rank and very bitter flavor. The unfiltered water. had all the appearance ap-pearance to the eye of being pure. Without doubt much of the bad flavor of butter is caused by the water with which it is washed. Testers That Do Not Test. A big cold storage company in Minneapolis Min-neapolis has been bidding for the cream from the farmers In the surrounding sur-rounding territory. The hand testers were to be used to test the cream offered of-fered for sale by the company. The latter agreed to buy cream by the test, paying enough for it to make it more profitable to sell the cream to the storage company than to sell it to the local creamery. The creameries have become alarmed at the danger to themselvese of having any considerable consid-erable quantity of butter-fat thus diverted. di-verted. Accordingly the hand testers were given a good deal of attention and some of them sent to the experiment experi-ment station for testing. All test3 Ehowed the testers sent out by the storage companies tested too low by from six to eight per cent. Thus the storage company could afford to pay six to eight per cent more for the cream than could the creameries, which would, of course, erive them th.? bulk of the trade. The revelations will probably cause some chanee of tactics on the part of the great corporation, cor-poration, but will probably not put It out of the field of operations. Butterine in England. The English have taken no the use or the word butterine, but are apply ing It In a sense entirely different from its application in this country. We have used It to designate oleomar garine, that is, bogus butter. The English propose to use it to designate! all kinds of butter and butter substitutes substi-tutes if they have in them more than lb per cent ot water. In Ensrland the rule is to go Into effect on the first day of the new year. In Ireland a longer time of grace is riven, as tho Irish have been so long in the habit of brine salting and washing that it would not be possible for them tn change their methods in the few months lett or this year. For Irish butter that has been salted in brine the day of grace Is extended to the first of January, 1904. In the meantime mean-time Irish butter is to be .permitted tn carry as high as 18 per cent of water. we nave yet to see what the courts will do with such a law. It may stand in England. It would not stand in this country. Pure butter-fat is not butterine, no matter how much water may be mixed with it. Black Langshans. From Farmers' Review: You ask me to tell you something' about Black Langshans as summer and fall layers? Now that looks easy, as I have at different times bred one kind exclusively, exclu-sively, then another, until I have bred nearly every variety In the standard, and finally after trying Langshans once or twice have settled on them as the very best all-around fowl among the breeds, not only for table and market, but eggs. I have a carefully selected flock f hens and pullets comprising three matin gs, 30 hens all together, and during the month of January, 1902, they produced on a ccrn and wheat diet 562 eggs and were keeping up their average until the middle of February, when I determined deter-mined to try blood meal and "Red Albumen." After feeding four feeds in warm bran mash at noon as directed, di-rected, my hens stopped laying, so ttat I got but three or four each day,-I day,-I went back to corn and wheat, which I put in a trough morning and night, so they could get what they required and after ten days they came back to an average of 20 to 24 eggs per day. As Bummer and fall layers the non-sitting non-sitting Mediterranean breeds excel a,t that season, though the Black Lang shan outranks all the other Asiatic breeds from the fact that they are more active and better hustlers. They excel the popular Barred Plymouth Ply-mouth Rock from the fact that they are more active and less broody thaa they. But 9 out of my 30 have offered to sit yet this year. I always let each hen raise a brood of chickens as early as they will, as It reduces their flesh and puts them in better condition condi-tion to lay through the fall and winter. win-ter. I find them unexcelled by any for eggs the year around. S. H. Cotton, Cot-ton, St Clair County, Missouri. Cornish Indian Games. Game fowls were imported into England Eng-land from India in the early part of the last century. Many were Aseels or Aseel Indians, the purest of Oriental type. They were then, as they are today, to-day, very muscular and compact In form, low stationed and of medium size, with various colors, including gray, white, black, buff, mottled and laced. From the earliest of these im :ortatIons and other fowls from the same source, though not so pure in blood, it is said the Standard Black-Breasted Black-Breasted Red Malay was produced by careful selection and breeding. . As early as 1870 Cornish Indians appeared ap-peared in the shows of England, though at that early date it is not to be expected they were of uniform type and color, owing to the difference in the ancestry of the fowls exhibited by the various breeders. But the exchanging ex-changing of fowls among the fanciers for new blood and careful selection In breeding soon brought about a wonderful won-derful improvement and the type became be-came as fixed and permanent as that of any fowl being bred to-day. A trio of Cornish Indian fowls was imported into this country in September, 1877. W. S. Templeton. , Avoid Lice. When incubators and brooders are being used in the rearing of chicks every caution Is necessary to kef-old kef-old hens away from the brooders. If they are allowed to run in the same locality or if the chicks of hens and the chicks from the brooders be permitted per-mitted to run together it is almost certain to produce an epidemic of lice. One of the great advantages of raising rais-ing chicks in brooders is that no lice are present. This advantage should be maintained. Von Culin says: "We have known a whole section of brooder brood-er houses to be filled with lice by placing a single brood of eleven chicks, whose mother died, in a brooder with other chicks. The newcomers new-comers were not Buspected of being lousy, and the lice multiplied and spread through all the adjoining yards and rooms before being discovered. We have also known roup to be spread in the same manner in one instance breaking up the establishment. In the latter instance the proprietor was warned, but he knew it all, and had it all his own way. Things that seem small or trifling sometimes make tremendous tre-mendous results. By watching and directing small matters we control greater ones. Development of Broilers. The broiler should not be fed from the first with the idea of making him fat. What he needs at the outset of his career is food that will make frame and muscle. Corn and corn meal should not therefore be given, in any large quantities. Soft food is also said to be not entirely suitable. When the birds have attained a weight of a pound or a pound and a half they may be given a fattening food. The time during which this need be given will be so short that no bad results need come from it. Price for Poultry Products. From the Farmers' Review: What have been the prices for poultry products prod-ucts this summer as compared with previous years? Friends in the city write me that they have been paying at least 50 per-cent more for all their eggs and fowls this summer than ever before. I think if some of us would report these prices to the Farmers' Farm-ers' Review it would be of general interest. Hiram Parks. Reports from the potato growers In dicate that the yield of potatoes is likely to be good, as they are being ex tensively grown this year all over the country where potatoes are grown at any time. The high prices of pota toes during the past year has stimulated stimu-lated the growing of this article of food. Not only has the field acreage been increased, as shown by government govern-ment reports, but the gardens have a larger crop of potatoes than usual. There are millions of such gardens in the country and their output, while not entering into commerce, will cut quite a figure in the totals. New Zealand Dairy Business. The dairy business is Increasing rapidly rap-idly in New Zealand, and the government govern-ment is doing all in its power to boost the trade. Water in Wood. Green wood contains fully 45 per cent of water, and thorough seasoning season-ing usually expels but 36 per cent of tfcis fluid. Nearly every farmer can easily raise all the fruit his family can consume, and it will greatly reduce the cost of living. Anything you get for nothing usually usu-ally is not worth that much. Beautiful Home That Can Be Built far Comparatively Little A beautiful home is not necessarily a matter of lavish expenditure of money with the modern principals of imitative art governing the production of art, metal and stone work and with the assistance of the wonderful woodworking wood-working machinery we are enabled to reproduce from original designs results re-sults that a few years ago would have been thought of only by the wealthy. Yet you secure the same results, the sublime purity of the designs, the lack of any attempt at undignified ornamentation, ornamen-tation, the fascinating repose of the simple outline, have a quiet, restful, homelike feeling that at once enraptures enrap-tures us in admiration of the taste and appreciation of the beautiful. This is a square plan, yet a most beat.tiful, dignified and chaste elevation. eleva-tion. The first story of buff Voman bric t in whitt mortar and buff stone trimmings. The second story, old oak timbered work, with buff cement panels pa-nels corned. The roof is of red Spanish Span-ish tile. -The- hall and three main rooms are finished in mahogany with wood mosaic floors. The walls are bur-lapped bur-lapped and decorated in oil; divans, book cases, buffets, etc., built in; second sec-ond story finished in native hard woods. , Plate and art glass, hot water heat and modern plated plumbing. As good as a house can be built, complete outside out-side of hot water heat and plumbing, $3,800. THIS COIN WAS "CURSED." Misfortunes That Befell the Persons Who Happened to Own It. An old resident of Carthage tells a reporter for the Press a strange story of a cursed coin. Among some money turned over to Dick Griffith, treasurer of Jasper county years ago. was a $20 gold piece with a singular design cut in it. The design represented a cross with snakes coiling around it. The "old resident" says that when it was passed across the hand it caused Vlp Milil!llliiiMiB!lliSIW!K glgijgppigg; j A izrfmi 111 fh (Moo k CAv1 &miZawr:-- FACTS ABOUT WOODCHUCKS. Prefer Hillside or a Knoll in Which to Dig Their Dens. Perhaps no wild mammal is more familiar to country people than the woodchuck. Every hillside and meadow mea-dow is dotted with the small piles of earth which mark the doorway to his home. The woodchuck prefers a hillside hill-side or a knoll in which to dig his hole, for here he can easily make the end of his den higher than the beginning, begin-ning, thus avoiding the danger of being be-ing drowned out. What could be more unlike in general gen-eral appearance than a woodchuck and a squirrel? Yet they are cousins, both belonging to the same family of mammals. mam-mals. The trim body, sharp claws and agrflity of the squirrels make it possible possi-ble for them to lead an arboreal life. jumping recklessly from branch to branch, while the flabby form and snort legs of the woodchuck better adapt him for digging than for running pr climbing. The nature of the food of the woodchuck wood-chuck is such that he cannot lay up 6tores as the chipmunks do, nor is it of such a kind that it can be obtained a "peculiar squeamishness" to pass over one. "Now, the singular part of the whole thing," he continued, "was that every man who held that coin in his hand had a long spell of sickness afterward, and some died. I saw Griffith a year or two later, and he said he had nevor fully recovered, and never expectt-d to. "Griffith got interested in that com when he heard what it had done, srd began to trace back its history. He remembered Cal Davis had paid It fo him, and asked him where he got it. Davis had got it from a man named Holt, and Holt got it from the guerrilla chief, Sam Hildebrandt. "Hildebrandt got the coin from a Spaniard in a stage robbery. The Spaniard told him the coin had been cursed by the Pope, as it-was part of an American booty captured by pirates pir-ates in Chinese waters and sent to Rome as a peace offering. The coin was stolen from Rome by a Spaniard, and he, fearing to pass it, gave it to his friend, who was coming to America. Amer-ica. Hildebrandt nearly died of fever while carrying it, and Holt died from some peculiar ailment which baffled the doctors. "What became of the coin I do not know, but every word of this story is as true as anything I ever told." Carthage Car-thage (Mo.) Press. Art and Athletics. The universally increasing attention now being given, especially in Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon countries, to out-of-door sport3 and to physical culture is a sign of the best omen. No class can have a greater solicitude for the furtherance further-ance of this movement than the artists, art-ists, for they cannot create beautiful forms without having beautiful forms around them from which to draw Inspiration, In-spiration, says a writer in Outing. The art of a nation is a mirror of that nation's ideals, and faithfully reflects re-flects their slightest change. The new during the winter. The case of this creature during the winter seems to e, therefore, "sleep long and soundly or starve." During the winter s sleep or hibernation life processes go on very slowly. Breathing is reduced, and the heart beats become so slow and feeble that they cannot be felt. They come from their winter's sleep about March 1 in New York. Country Life in America. Others Could Smoke. A dignitary of the Scottish Episcopal Episco-pal church who enjoys his pipe had comfortably installed himself in an empty smoking compartment of a railway rail-way carriage. At a station near a fishing village the door was opened by a fishwife. The clergyman, wish ing to be alone, said to l?r, very civilly: "This is a smoking compartment," compart-ment," a remark to which she paid no attention. Thinking she was probably proba-bly deaf, he repeated the remark in a louder tone. By this time the woman had taken the creel from her shoulder and was pushing it Into the carriage. Still no notice was taken. For the third time, and in quite a stentorian voice he 6houted the same Intimation. conception of ' the value of athletics will add dignity, interest and standing, making it a factor second to none in the development of our civilization. It will be a mighty influence in the creation of a new and superior type of men and women. That women are growing more and more to realize this Is evidenced by the athletic tendency of the modern girl. If she will combine com-bine therewith an intelligent effort after well-balanced and harmonious development, the results are bound to be satisfying In the extreme. Decline of German Jews. A statistical return of the religions professed in the German Empire, based on the census of 1900, has recently re-cently been issued- It appears that the number of Roman Catholics has increased in a greater proportion than the number of Protestants, while ths increase in Judaism as compared with the Christian professions has been very small. The Protestants numbered num-bered 35,23i0 in 1900, as against 31,026,81 1890, or an increase of 13.6 per cent; while the Catholics numbered 20,327,913 in 1900, as against 17,674,921 in 1890, or an increase of 15 per cent. The number of professing Jews has only increased from 567,884 to 586,948, which gives a percentage of 3.4. Of every 1.000 persons in the German Empire 625 are Protestants, 361 Catholics, 10 Jews, and 4 of different differ-ent or undetermined religious creeds. A Queer Test. An old lady applied at a registry office for a maid. "I want a little girl, between eighteen and twenty-two years of age, who is fond of mushrooms." "Fond of mushrooms?" inquired the agent. "That is something I never inquire about from my applicants. I don't understand." "Well, I am very fond of mushrooms mush-rooms myself, and there are so many mistakes made. The idea came to me several years ago, and it was a dis-pensriion dis-pensriion of Providence that it did, or I should have been killed. I make my maid eat a portion of all mushrooms mush-rooms brought to my house before any are served to me. I always require re-quire it," replied the old lady. "I have lost two excellent maids from toadstools during the last five years, and, of course, I could not think of taking the risk of eating mushrooms unless I had a maid to test them." Cure for Ingrown Nails. Tardif says that he has been able to cure all cases of ingrowing nail without recourse to the knife. He proceeds as follows: With a flat probe or a match he slips a bit of cotton between be-tween the edge of the nail and the inflamed flesh. Another strip of cotton cot-ton is put along the outer margin of the ulcerated area and the space between be-tween these two strips of cotton, and which is occupied by the ulcer, is thickly powdered with nitrate of lead. The whole is covered with cotton and the toe is bandaged. The dressings are repeated the following day, and every day until the incarcerated edge of the nail is plainly visible. Then, with patience, th Jadge of the nail is lifted away from the flesh and a bit of cotton Is introduced under it to keep it up. As it grows it will gradually gradu-ally take its proper position above the flesh, this having meantime shrunk and shriveled by reason of the application appli-cation of lead nitrate. A dishonest man suspects every honest man he encounters. The woman made no reply, but got Into In-to the carriage, and, taking a pipe from her pocket, she filled it with strong twist tobacco, lit it, and, looking look-ing to the clergyman, said: "Y6 thocht naebody cud smoke but yersel', my bonnie man." Safe witn a History. The famous Humbert safe passed along the boulevards yesterday and attracted considerable attention. It was removed from the Hotel Drouot on a dray drawn by three horses, adorned with flowers, ribbons and bells, and was conveyed to the residence resi-dence of its purchaser. A large band of calico stretched over the vehicle bore the inscription, "This Is the 100,000,000 franc safe," while on the safe itself a rabbit-personification of the "lapin pose par Mme. Humbert" had been roughly sketched in chalk. The men in charge did not appear to be in a great hurry. Perhaps they had been Instructed to make the best possible use of the opportunity offered for cheap advertisement, but in any case they made frequent halts at taverns, while an admiring crowd surrounded the dray: Paris Daily M"f serrp-. ' AS TO NEWSPAPER TRUSTS. Brooklyn Eagle Shows Why They Aro Not Practicable. If Mr. Ochs can run two newspapers In: Philadelphia and one in New York, and if 'Mr. Hearst can run what is almost three editions of the same paper, in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, why may not Mr. Collier run 40 newspapers all the way from Peekskill through Skaneateles and Schenevus? Partly for the same reason rea-son that a man. who can drive a span may not be able to guide a four-in-hand; or, if he drives a four-in-hand, he may not be equal to the requirements require-ments of a 16-horse team. Each one of the 16 horses will have a temper of his own which will need watching. watch-ing. Each one of Mr. Collier's proposed pro-posed 40 newspapers In his combination combi-nation will bear just about as much watching as a healthy boy just out of kilts, who has learned to run. away. A newspaper is au individual product to a much greater extent than a box of soap or a barrel of sugar cured bams is. It is made for one particular local market even more exclusively ex-clusively than scrapple, pepper pcl or catfish and coffee are prepared for the Philadelphia palate, gumbo for that of New Orleans or codfish balls for Boston. If the paper is to be a success, the man who runs It must not only know local prejudices and history, he must be a part of them. They must beat in his pulses unconsciously. uncon-sciously. Then the paper is the voice of the community and a fair share of the treasure of the community finds its way Into the editor's bank fcccounu Brooklyn Eagle. DEFIANT OF UNCLE SAM. Notable Career of a Kentucky Moonshiner Moon-shiner and a Bad Man. It seems strange that a man could for 30 years defy the United States authorities and carry on the business of illicit distillation of spirits, yet such an instance is on record in the Cumberland mountains on the Kentucky-Virginia border where- civilization civiliza-tion Is a mockery and where law and crder are jokes. Will Wallen,. aged 50 years, and known as "Whisky Bill," is a man who has done this thing. Today To-day he is still living in his accustomed accus-tomed haunts and is as free as the deer in his native mountains. For over 30 years "Whisky Bill" has eluded the officers of the government. govern-ment. Both the Kentucky and the Virginia officials have searched for him numerous times, but-they have so far failed to effect his capture. At this. time there is little or no effort made to capture Wallen and his celebrated cel-ebrated whisky resort in the wilds of the Cumberlands, which has becoma the only rendezvous for moonshine lovers for many miles around. Several times Wallen has been in conflict with United States officers. In June, 1880, he and a comrade named Jones fought off 13 officials and shot one of them. He has also figured in some of the mountain feuds and in 1884 killed a feudist named Taylor Vance. Another man who fell before his rifle was Bishop Boggs, who tried to hold the moonshiner up. Ruler's Death Unnoticed. It is curious to note how absolutely unnoticed by the world in general was the death recently of a reigning monarch. mon-arch. Two or three lines only In the papers told us of the decease of the Bey of Tunis. Tunis is a country much visited in the winter by Americans Amer-icans and many tourists have seen this oriental potentate. The Bey was a small black bearded man, elderly, and in appearance somewhat resembling the Sultan of Turkey. His palace in the city of Tunis was furnished with an absurd commingling of oriental and European furniture. The floor ol the great throne-room for example was covered with a gaudy Brussels carpet. In the room adjoining is a life-size portrait of Washington. The Bey used to drive about the streets dressed in a plain blue uniform in a rather shabby coach, preceded and fol lowed by a score of ragged calvary-men calvary-men carrying long spears. One of his "accomplishments" was painting , in oils, and in the palace is a portrait which he made of himself painted upon the mirror, which he looked Into as he worked. Since the French occupation oc-cupation the poor old Bey has been ruler in name only. Tribute to American Literature. Professor Hartmann, a well-known German authority on modern literature, litera-ture, stated In a recent lecture that In no country in the world is literature litera-ture In so healthy a condition as in the United States. The faults of taste, the habit of exaggeration, of loading the page with purple patches, sink into in-to a comparatively unimportant place when it is considered how virile the style is, how searching and complete the treatment of a subject. Hartmann is of opinion that the modern American Amer-ican novel at its best is better than anything ever produced in England or France. For poetry the American people, he says, are not yet ripe. Before Be-fore the nation as a whole can appreciate appre-ciate great poetry or breed a school of great poets, it must pass through much tribulation of trial. Change of Diet Wanted. There are a good many things of which even the very poor may get more than is sufficient. A tired and weary man fell' from utter and sheer faintness by the roadside. A crowd gathered almost immediately, when an officious onlooker hurried forward, shouting: - - "Stand back! Give him air!" The fainting man rallied and sat up. "Air!" he gasped. "Give me air! Why, gentlemen, I have had nothing but air for this last fortnight." Humorous Incident of Warfare. At the bombardment of Alexandria by the British, July 11, 1882, Lord Kitchener, then a young soldier, was on board one of the warships. Toward 5 o'clock in the afternoon white flags had been run up on all the Alexandria Alexan-dria forts, one after the other, and from the Helicon Admiral Seymour flashed the general signal to cease fire. It so chanced that the big gun In the battery in which Lord Kitchener was standing was loaded and laid, and the gunnery lieutenant in charge wired back to the admiral's ship for permission to fire. Assent was given, and the Whole fleet having seen the signal, every glass on each vessel was fixed on the ship. ,The gun was laid straight and true and was fired. The great shell sped to the center of the fort buildings. A huge cloud of smoke, dust and rubble filled the air, and then, says Lord Kitchener, who tells the story with much amusement, an old woman hobbled out of an outhouse out-house and drove in some chldfcens lest they should be hurt. I Beware of the amateur who plays poker with a winning smile. |