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Show &e INDEPENDENT. Da C JOHNKOX, FablUhaa. 8PR1NQVILLE. . . . UTAH Even then, living at 10 cents a day would be dear in some places. Since the advent of the auto even the French duelist is becoming fataL Sir Alfred Austin certainly ought to rhyme a rhapsody on the kissing of the 'kings. - "That which wins a man will wean him," says a current novel. Not if it was good cooking. Miss Babie Sugar of Kirksville, Mo, Is going on the stage. She is saved the trouble ofthinking of a name. Policy King "Al" Adams In Sing Sing is said to feel his disgrace keenly. keen-ly. "Well, that's what Sing Sing's for. Wonder if William W. Astor also secured a quit claim deed from the family ghosts when he bought Hever castle. Hetty Green says every woman ought to know how to keep house. Does knowing how to keep house do Hetty any good? If It were not for the general interest in-terest In baseball, some men Would make a very poor showing at a conversazione. con-versazione. Someone asserts that eating early strawberries causes mental depression. depres-sion. It is certain that pricing them usually does. King Edward kissed the king of Italy repeatedly, both at meeting and at parting. He hasn't visited Queen Wilhelmlna yet. A New Jersey woman has been Bent to Jail for husband-beating. Did the court consider the probability of his having needed It? A pair of shoes can be made In a Lynn, Mass., factory in thirteen minutes; min-utes; that is, as fast as a 13-year-old boy can wear them out. Every time the merry yachting season sea-son rolls around the need of a comprehensive com-prehensive dictionary of yachting terms becomes more and more apparent. ap-parent. - There Is a minister in Middletown, N. Y., who claims that he lives comfortably com-fortably on $12 a month. We would like to know where he buys his coal and meat. Whitaker Wright's claim that he would have been worth $50,000,000 if he had operated in this country Is a tribute of which America has reason not to be proud. Parents may die of despair In Limestone, Lime-stone, Me., but the race is not In danger dan-ger of suicide there. Three sets of twins and one of triplets came to that town in five days. A Chicago girl has written to Postmaster Post-master General Payne that she would "like to look into his lovely brown eyes." Let us hope she Is not knocking knock-ing the Chicago men. An Omaha man worth $40,000 killed himself for loneliness. There are scores of people pining for the company com-pany of the dollars which the Nebraska Ne-braska suicide left behind. "Never marry a woman with an artistic ar-tistic temperament," advises a New-York New-York Sunday school superintendent. Possibly he would not object to a woman who is an artist at making bread. Monday Is the day of the week when - the entry in the tired housewife's house-wife's diary takes the same concise form as that of the small boy in the story, namely: "Got up, washed, went to bed." The eastern man who Is growing fish scales on his body has been told by physicians that he has dermitalis exfoliativa universalis," and he cannot imagine where he caught such a terrible ter-rible thing as that. The big steamship trust has decided to take more time hereafter in conveying con-veying the mails between New York and London. . This, however, is about the only particular in which the trust intends to "go slow." A Bayonne (N. J.) man who has seven children is unable to rent a house in that town because of the size of his family. The thing for him to do is to taKe the obvious hint and move out into the country. An Irish setter committed suicide in New York the other day by jumping from the roof of a flat house, rather than live in It. But this is not the first instance on record where a dog has shown almost human intelligence. It Is said that only the very wealthy and the very poor can afford to live In New York. The statement is probably proba-bly built up on the theory that the very wealthy can dodge their taxes and the very poor have nothing to be taxed. An English chauffeur drove his automobile au-tomobile from London to Glasgow in a single day and when his full score in dogs, chickens, cows and human beings be-ings Is made public it is believed he will be found to have broken the best Paris-Berlin records. Warren B. Smith of White Plains, N. Y., who died the other day, left a fortune of $32,000,000. That would be more than $1 apiece for all his namesakes throughout the land. "Kicked by a House" is a headline In the Halifax Chronicle. An old proofreader's rule is: The larger the iype, the greater the liability to error. ' - f Great as George Washington was, he would probably be embarrassed if he should 'come to life today and be Bteod tip against a telephone. Chauncey M. Depew says a man doesn't reach his prime until he is over 50 years of age. It is understood, under-stood, however, that Chauncey in thi statement limits himself to men. The earl of Yarmouth used to be a matinee idol, but since he acquired Miss Thaw he can afford to be a morning, afternoon and evening idle. This is indeed a grossly practical and nnromantlc age if it has become necessary to establish college courses In the art of making love. The Stars on the Flag. Count the stars on the flag as it passes And then number the stars In yon distant dis-tant sky Th number would be the brave hearts that would die For the stars on the flag. - Count the stripes on the flag we weave , k into one, Ti tears and the sighs for the lives that are done. But out of the shadows of each setting sun BMne the stars on the flag. Count the tears for the flag! Were they shed in vain? Wiat now seemeth loss even yet will seem gain. For the nation's great heart will suffer no strain On the stars of the flag. Hats off to the flag! For its life breathe a prayer- That brave hearts and brave hands its loved folds may bear. Till the stars in their courses, their glory shall share With the stars on the flag. How Families Were Divided. The civil war saw many divisions in families, it being no uncommon thing for members of one family to be fighting fight-ing against each other. Here Is an example: Capt. William A. Winder, U. S. A., died at Omaha, Neb., last week, at the age of 80 years. Capt. Winder was a grandson of Gen. William H. Winder, Win-der, who led an expedition into Canada Can-ada In the war of 1812, repelled the British attack at Stony Creek in 1813, but was himself captured. Gen. Winder's Win-der's son, and the father of the soldier who died last week, was John H. Winder, Win-der, a graduate of West Point in 1820, twice breveted for gallantry in the Mexican war, who resigned from the United States army on April 27, 1861, and entered the service of Jhe Confederacy. Con-federacy. Made a brigadier general and given command of Richmond, he had charge of the prisons at Libby and Belle Isle, and was subsequently placed in command at Andersonville. To what extent he was justly chargeable charge-able with the cruelties practiced upon the Union soldiers Imprisoned there has been disputed, his friends claiming claim-ing that he was villified beyond his deserts. There is no doubt that in the North he was regarded as a monster mon-ster of cruelty. His son, who died the other day, went into the army in 1848, remained true to the Union and served with distinction during the civil war. To Indiana Soldiers. Monuments at Chickamauga. The Chickamauga Park commission, consisting of Gen. H. V. Boynton of Washington, who commanded the Thirty-fifth Ohio infantry in the battle and was wounded in the assault upon Missionary Ridge; Major General Alexander P. Stewart, who commanded a division in Breckinridge's corps of the confederate army, assisted by E. E. Betts, an engineer, and J. P. Smartt, a historian of Chattanooga, have been working for eleven years to ascertain the truth and fix the correct locations for each regiment engaged on either side In the conflict. They have, of course, been assisted by many of the officers and soldiers engaged, but the enormous labor they have performed can scarcely be appreciated without personal observation of the seven battlefields bat-tlefields In this vicinity, which are embarked em-barked in the park project, extending thirty miles from Chattanooga to Ringgold, the scene of the final battle of the campaign for the control of Chattanooga and the Tennessee river. When Lee Surrendered. The Washington correspondent of The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch wrote under date of April 8: To-morrow is the anniversary of the surrender of Appomattox,' said Senator Daniel, in his committee room at the Capitol. 'We who followed the fortunes of the Confederacy for four years cannot help feeling sad as we recall re-call that day, he continued. 'We cannot can-not forget the cause we Joved, and love till, though it was lost, " 'I had been at my home in Lynchburg Lynch-burg for some months getting well of wounds when the end came,' said the Senator. 'I was able to hobble around , a little on that 9tn of April. The old darky who woke me up when he brought in my breakfast was dreadfully dread-fully scared. His face was ashy and his voice trembled. "Marse John, ain't dem cannons what's boomin down de river?" he asked. 'I listened a moment and could distinctly hear artillery firing, though It Is twenty-six miles from Lynchburg to Appomattox; "They are cannon, sure enough," I told him, and he went out highly excited and scared. I dressed as quickly as I could and got outdoors, where the sound of guns could be heard with great distinctness. "'About 2 o'clovk in the afternoon I went out into the street. I could not get along very well, but I managed to get to the top of the hill overlooking the river, where I met a Baptist minister min-ister hurrying toward me. I asked him the news. He was greatly disturbed. "'"Eminently unsatisfactory, sir; eminently so' he replied. "It. is reported re-ported that Gen. Leekas surrendered to Gen. Grant down at Appomattox Court House." And he hurried on evidently evi-dently in great distress. " I made my way on tow ard the bottom. bot-tom. When not far from th railroad I saw a group of Confederate soldiers, who evidently had a prisoner. When I drew closer I recognized that they were guarding an old friend of mine, Lieut. John Stockton of the Monticello Guard of Albemarle county. I was astonished, and as soon as I got to the men I asked why they had arrested my friend, Lieut Stockton. "1 got a reply at once." One of the men said he was a deserter. "For God's sake, John, how is this?" I asked. "Well, I just told them Gen. Lee had surrendered," said Stockton, coolly, "and they thought I must be a deserter desert-er " " Th men took up the conversation "fife HXJN'AKTPTF?1 iS.nt-s- and argued that there could be no doubt that their prisoner had deserted. Of course, Gen. Lee had not quit fighting. fight-ing. I asked Stockton to explain, and he said that while the actual ceremony of surrender had not taken place when he left the field, yet the white flags were out at that time. He had managed man-aged to slip Into the biiches and get away. Like a number of others who had fought under Lee, he could not witness the surrender. Of course, we saw then that the news of the surrender surren-der was true. That night we had full confirmation. "I determined -at once to join Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina, and began to arrange for departure, said the- Senator, with a reminiscent smile, 'but when I found I would have to travel in a buggy, being unable to ride, T concluded that my joining any army woull be a joke, so I gave up the idea and faced the music with the rest of the boys. " 'Did you ever hear how Fitz Lee surrendered? You know he managed to escape from the field at Appomattox. Appomat-tox. He and several companions got down to Farmville, and Fitz went Into the hotel, where Gen. Meade had his headquarters. Fitz said he found out the room In which Gen. Meade was, and when he discovered that It was unguarded, he thought it would be a good thing to capture the Union commander com-mander and make off with him. But he soon saw this could not be done, so he walked boldly in and introduced himself. Of course, Gen. Meade was greatly surprised, but I imagined he was glad to receive the surrender of a man whose cavalry had been hitting him such hard blows. Fitz sat and talked with Gen. Meade for some time, and I expect they enjoyed each other's conversation.' " Officers With Muskets. "A most unusual thing," said the Sergeant, "happened in our company in West Virginia. There had been a skirmish In the mountains across the river from camp and our company was ordered up the road. We found signs of the enemy in less than a mile and finally heard the noise of a heavy advancing ad-vancing column. The company was posted to command the mountain road and the captain with two men went forward to reconnoiter. They came, at a sharp turn of the road, not ten yards away, face to face with the enemy's advance guard, and the Captain, Cap-tain, who was carrying a musket, blazed away without an instant's hesitation and killed the officer in command of the enemy. Thereupon the rebels threw themselves bodily on the Captain and his two men and all were sent to Richmond." "I suppose," said the Corporal by brevet, "that the Captain was criticised criti-cised for carrying a musket. But in the Thirteenth Massachusetts, which saw a good deal of service in the Army Ar-my of the Potomac (we were in over twenty engagements), the adjutant, sergeant, major, captains and lieutenants lieuten-ants generally came out of a fight with rifles in their hands and empty cartridge boxes. The boys were In the habit of saying that the shoulder straps picked up rifles to keep up their courage, but we knew they did it from choice. As the most of the commissioned officers had come up from the ranks they felt more at home in a. fight with rifles than with swords. Chicago Inter Ocean. Collecting Confederate Records. Ex-Gov. Allen D. Candler has been appointed to compile the roster of the Confederate officers and soldiers from Georgia who served in the war, and he has appealed to all the camps of Confederate veterans in the state, and every organization of Daughters of the Confederacy to aid him in making it as nearly complete as possible. The roster is intended for the general government, gov-ernment, which will print the lists and those of the Union armies, under the direction of Gen. F. C. Ainsworth. Gov. Candler says: "These rolls should contain not only the names, but as far as possible the military history of each officer and enlisted man. If killed, it should tell when and where; if wounded, when and where; If promoted, when and to what grade; if discharged, when and where; if he deserted,- when and where." The First Shot at Fort Sumter. It has been claimed that the first shot fired at Fort Sumter was by a South Carolina citizen named Ruffln; not long ago it was said that the shot was sent booming toward the fort by a little girl, held in the arms of Gen. Beauregard. s Now there is a story that the cannon can-non was fired by Capt. Jacob Ballen-tine, Ballen-tine, who commanded a battery at Fort Moultrie, on the order cf Brigadier Briga-dier General Roswell Sabine Ripley. This Ripley is said to have been born in Ohio In 1823; to have been graduated gradu-ated at West Point, and to have served in the Mexican war. When the rebellion came he was residing at Charleston, and at once offered his services to the Confederates, and they were accepted and he was made a brigadier general. The Hooker Statue. The final casting for the Hooker statue have been completed, and the statue is now being set up at the foundry in New York city. . Norcross Bros, have the granite pedestal well under way. The Legislature has passed the appropriation ap-propriation of $23,000 for the dedication dedi-cation ceremonies, and 4 the bill is now before the governor for his action. Trouble is brewing for somebody on that inscription adopted by the council to go on the pedestal. The "boys" have no use for it. Thursday, June 23, the day fixed upon for the dedication, is the anniversary anni-versary of the engagement before Richmond in 1862, known as Oak Grove or Williamsburg Road, where Heintzleman, Hooker and Kearney advanced the Third corps lines successfully, suc-cessfully, and where our First, Eleventh and Sixteenth Massachusetts Massachu-setts regiments lost heavily. Not Easy to Stop Large Vessel. Experiments show that a large ocean steamer, going at 19 knots an hour, will move over a distance of two miles after its engines are stopped and reversed, and no authority give3 less than a mile or a mile and a half as the required space to step its progress. prog-ress. A Modern Hercules. Edward Beaupre, a Canadian, at present a resident of Chicago, is so strong that he lately lifted a bors bodily Tff its legs. Th cat began to kill the rat, the rat b-gan b-gan to gnaw the rope. All good little people become poets befor they can very well take part In serious talk with jthose who are older than themselves. For as soon as baby boy or girl can talk at all, he or she is taught by nurse or mother to lisp the little tales told in a sort of poetry which mother and nurse them-J selves used to repeat when they were children. The bards of olden days who used to go from hall to hall tell ing of the brave deeds of knights and squires, and the beauties and good-n good-n e s s of lovely ladies, la-dies, always told their " Pat-a-Cake. Pat-a-Cake.' stories in just this way, but they made up their poetry as they went along or wished to have it thought that thH did and sang their own music while . they played upon the instrument they carried. But we have no bards who travel about nowadays, and few who do not, according to those who are believed to understand all about poetry. But that will not upset the little ones. There are " plenty of rhymes for them to go on with. There always have been, for the songs that mother sings and the verses she repeats re-peats are older than the land in which we live. We have all sung in our time, and every little one yet to live in the world will sing: "Pat-a-cake, pnt-a-cake. baker's man." Nobody knows who wrote this, but the. idea of clapping hands which goes with it is one of the oldest things o f 3fT which men S&1 know today. to-day. It was a sign, this clapping of hands. When men were not so wise as they are to-day, the poor Hushaby. Baby, on the Tree Top. people of the world had not so many words to use, so they had to make do with signs; and the clapping of hands was one which they employed to show that they meant to be friends with anybody who came to them. And so it is with other things we say and sing, whether they be poetry or tales. In all nations, young and old, savage or like ourselves in this country, mothers have always taught their little lit-tle ones some such things as we have for our nurseries. "Hushaby, baby, on the tree top" is a song that we all have loved at some time or other, though it has made us frightened to think of what will happen to poor baby when the wind blows and the tree breaks. It comes from all sorts of pretty notions which the mothers of other nations had the Greeks and Romans, the Ethiopians , all had some idea of the wind acting . a s the living friend o f the little o n e 8 or ' Dick Wnittington." their parents. par-ents. The German mother has a lovely love-ly little song of which ours is not a clever copy, for while in one verse she sings of happy dreams being shaken from the branches of the trees upon sleeping baby, the - next verse goes on; "Sleep, baby, sleep! The sky is full of sheep. The stars the lambs of heaven are, For whom the -shepherd moon doth care." We all like to think of Dick Wnittington Wnit-tington and his fine cat, which ate up RING THE "PANCAKE BELL." Custom Has Been Followed in England Eng-land for Centuries. In the tower of St. Mary's church, Morley, Yorkshire, hangs an ancient bell bearing the date 1169. Every Shrove Tuesday morning it is rung for one hour, and the custom has been followed for centuries, although its origin is quite unknown. The people peo-ple of the locality believe that it has some connection with the baking of The Pancake Be I. -t tj its name, the Pancake Pan-cake Bell." On the last occasion of the ringing scores of people went into the belfry to take a pull at the rope in order that they might claim some share of the traditional usage. Me-Ow. A public school teacher in the city of New York, who wished to select a soloist from among her pupils, took three of them to her private room, and as ; quality of voice was the t only question involved, said to the first little girl: "Sing one verse of any hymn you have learned in school." The child broke forth: Lead, kindly light, amid, the encircling gloom, . ', - ile-ow, me-ow; The night Is dark, and I am far from home, , . Me-ow, me-ow; No one who has not been obliged to fight the garbling of words, sung by children In chorus, will fully appreciate ap-preciate the easiness of the transition from "Lead Thou me on" to "Me-ow, me-ow." S. J. B. In Harper's Drawer Mississippi Is Booming. Mississippi, where the majority of people are negroes, is wonderfully prospering. Twenty-nine banks in the state show deposits for the past year of over $23,000,000, an increase of nearly $7,000,000 over the previous year. This is six times as great an increase as was ever made before in one year. The banks have had the largest capital and- heaviest depoY-ts in the history of the state. There ae in addition 18 national banks, all In a thoroughly prosperous condition. so many rats and mice and made poor Dick a rich and happy man, so that he was able to be Lord Mayor of London. Lon-don. There was once a man whose great delight was reading Robinson Crusoe, and when, in his old age, he was told by a friend that things had not happened quite as set forth in that fine book, the old man was almost al-most broken hearted. So It is no use trying to take away the pretty ideas that cling to the stories o f which we are - all so fond. Some of them h a p p e ned " tattle Jack Horner." as tney are wrjten, although now they have different dif-ferent meanings. There was "Little Jack Horner," for instance. Now he was really a luckier little boy than he is shown to be in the story books. plum which he drew out of the U3 'Sf. reallv a leeal document which nmu nfm the owner of a valuable property, the Manor of Wells. The Abbott of Glastonbury sent as a present pres-ent to Henry VIII. the deeds making the king owner of a number of manors. These deeds he put into a huge pie and sent up for Christmas. Jack Horner had to carry the pie, and he did stick in his thumb and pull out a plum, for he got the papers which made him lord of the Manor of Wells. Little boys and girls of other countries have their "Ring-a-Ring of Roses," and "Little Boy Blue" who is to blow hia horn to drive the sheep from the corn; but they are all afraid o f the subject of which they sing, for they think that there is a RlK-a-RIng of Rosea. "corn spirit," and in their fancy it takes all sorts of shapes that frighten, sometimes being a cow, a wolf, or a demon. But our little ones who play the merry game and sing the old, old rhyme of Boy Blue, know much better. bet-ter. Little folks love to hear of the funny doings of Gulliver in Midget-land; Midget-land; but when it was first set down it was for the purpose of making fun of some people with whose politics Dean Swift, the author, did not agree. The whipping top first came into fashion, fash-ion, the writers of history tell us, as a way of celebrating the cruel custom cus-tom of whipping martyrs at the stake; and there is in the British museum an old rhyme about it, which boys of other times used to sing. It is a proud moment for the little one when he or she can first say the whole of "The House that Jack Built;" but that little one " never thinks that it is repeat ing an English En-glish version ver-sion of . a very old " Little Boy Blue." . longing during ages to another nation. na-tion. The Jews first had it, and it was meant to tell the story of the nation's na-tion's life during all the centuries. And that amusing story of the . old woman who wanted the cat to kill the rat, the rat to gnaw the rope, and so on that, though our great-great- grandparents used to say it, comes from the Jews, .but with them it had a religious meaning. The little people peo-ple in Denmark have the same story as ourselves; and the little Germans who share a great many of the stories on which our best known rhymes for the nursery are based,' have it as well. , OLD MASON AND DIXON LINE. Imaginary Division of North and South Being Resurveyed. The work of restoring and remarking remark-ing the Mason and Dixon line is rapidly rap-idly nearing completion, under the supervision su-pervision of competent engineers appointed ap-pointed jointly by the states of Maryland Mary-land and Pennsylvania. In April, 1901, each state appropriated $5,000 for the purpose. No question of territory is involved In the reconstruction, but the historic interest in this Imaginary division of North and South warranted a remarking remark-ing of the line marked out by Mason and Dixon In 1763. " . Rock and earth mounds used at that time are still in existence to demon strate the thoroughness of the original survey. An erroneous impression ob tains that the line is thirty feet wide, but the fact is that the line is imagi nary. The false idea is due to the face that the original survey necessitated a thirty-foot path through the wilderness, wilder-ness, signs of which still remain. Strange Inheritance. "Certainly," says a Kansas paper, "Dorothy Flynn, just married with so much eclat in Washington, inherits her amiable qualities, if not her striking strik-ing beauty, from her father, the Con gressman from Oklahoma." Which is, passing strange, since the Congressman Congress-man from Oklahoma is only her step father. Kansas City Journal. . Latest of Famous Editors. Arthur Eliott, new financial secre tary to the treasury in the British cabinet, is the latest of six editors who have occupied the chair of the Edinburg Review in 100 years. Peculation of Babylon. Babylon's population could never have exceeded 1,200,000. Probably the number of people in Rome was less J Shan this figure. - OIL MAGNATE'S GREAT BRAIN. The Reason for John D. Rockefeller's Business Success. A copper mining engineer says: "I consider John D. Rockefeller one of the most underestimated men in this country. The man who has done what he has done must possess brains that are not easily compared with the ordinary mind. Mr. Rockefeller can no more miss the point of a financial problem than an artist can fail to see a picture when harmonious lines or color fall under his eye. "I will illustrate the Rockefeller fin'ancial capacity by something which occurred within my personal knowledge. knowl-edge. John D. Rockefeller a few years ago was enjoying his bread and milk In the Adirondacks upon a large dairy farm. An ordinary business man might have said,, 'What is the profit on this milk?' or 'What does it cost and what do you get for it?" Not so, however, with Mr. Rockefeller. He said to the farmer, 'What do you pay for your silo and what do you pay for your labor,' etc., and a few other innocent questions. Then he took a paper and pencil and in a few minutes min-utes looked up from his figures and said, 'Mr. Smith, your milk costs you cents per quart,' and Farmer Smith replied, 'Thunder and guns; it took us eleven years to find that out, and you have found it out in eleven minutes.' v ' "Now," continued the minirtg engineer, engin-eer, "if you will take your own lead pencil and figure the relative efficiency of that Rockefeller lead pencil as compared com-pared with most farm lead pencils at Eleven Minutes vs. Eleven Years, and multiply the organization ability behind be-hind the lead pencil as expressed In the tens of thousand of brain units it has organized and efficiently directed, you will get the mathematical answer to the problem of why one man distances dis-tances all competitors in the race for a billion-dollar goal, although starting from the base of a $7-a-week clerkship." clerk-ship." Wall Street Journal. CHEMICAL ALCOHOL IS CHEAP. New Process Which Decreases Greatly Great-ly the Cost of Production. Advices received by the State Department De-partment at Washington from United States Consul Haynes at Rouen, France, throw more light on the new process that has been discovered by which alcohol may be produced by chemical synthesis. It is predicted that the cost of such production can be reduced to less than 10 cents a gallon. gal-lon. Thus far the cheapest alcohol produced has cost nearly 20 cents a gallon. At this price Germany produces pro-duces quantities of alcohol, potatoes being used as the vegetable base. By the French process no vegetable matter mat-ter is employed. From Carburet of calcium a direct combination of carbon car-bon and hydrogen in the electric arc aetylene is obtained. Sufficient hydrogen then is added to produce ethylene, and by combining water with ethylene alcohol is obtained. While the cost of alcohol by the new process has not yet been reduced much below its cost as produced from vegetable matter, it is predicted with confidence by eminent French chemists chem-ists that in the near future it may be produced by the new process at a cost of about half that which Germany pays to obtain it from potatoes. Philadelphia Record. PIGS MADE TO WORK. In France They Root Out Truffles for the Gardener. All boys know that a dog is a great aid to the sportsman, but not many of them would think that a pig could be of much use in hunting. Yet in France pigs are used in hunting truffles, a delicacy for the table which is found at the roots of oak trees. When a farmer decides to go hunt ing for truffles he takes his pig and piggie goes sniffing about with his nose to the ground just as a dog does when he follows the scent. When he finds a truffle he begins to burrow in the loose soil with his snout. Before he can take the truffle, however, the farmer pulls him away, but gives him a few acorns by way of compensation. As soon as he has eaten the acorns Mr. Pig goes , to work hunting more truffles. Sometimes he will find sev eral pounds of them beneath a tree. A Western Episode. The skeleton of a man was found up at the Botsford ranch in Henderson gulch on the 7th inst. by Will Graham and Jeff Smith, who were with the cattle in that section. The skeleton had been strewn around over a considerable con-siderable part of the gulch by the coyotes,' and from the looks it must have lain there since some time last year. In life the man must have been of large and powerful frame, as the bones are long and large. A bullet had entered the head at the right temple tem-ple and near the body was found a 22-caliber revolver with one chamber discharged. All things seemed to point that the man was a suicide. A letter was found near the bones addressed ad-dressed from Minnesota and signed by Olaf Nerem. It was written in Norwegian Norwe-gian and was from one brother to another. an-other. No one remembers to haye seen a man in that section of the coun try last year who would answer to the probable description of the suicide. sui-cide. Delta County (Cal.) Press. ' To Toil. What are we set on earth for? Say, to toil: Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines For all the heat o' the day, till It de clines, And death's mild curfew shall from work " assoil. God did anoint thee with his odorous oil To wrestle, not to reign; and he as signs All thy tears over, like pure crystal lines, -For younger fellow-workers of the soil To wear for amulets. So others shall Take patience, labor, to their heart and hand. From thy hand and thy heart and thy "brave cheer, And God's grace fructify through thee to all. The least flower, with a brimming cup, may stand And share its dewdrop with another , near. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Perhaps They Do. "Yes," mused the man, wTho occa sionally thinks aloud, "they make life endurable." " " . "What's the answer?" queried the party who never misses an opportunity opportun-ity to butt in. "Unwritten ' poetry and unsung songs," replied the noisy thinker. ; When a Girl Angles. Ethel Fred has broken our engagement. en-gagement. . Maude Well, don't you care. There are just as good fish in the sea, you know. Ethel Yes, but suckers are the only kind that bite now, and I want a goldfish. , POULTRY Exhibition Ducks, From Farmers' Review: I exhibit each year at our annual local show, but I make no more effort to prepare the birds for exhibition than that made to have good breeding birds. If I know of anyone showing better birds than I have I patronize him for eggs to the extent of my means. In that way I !have greatly great-ly improved my stock. I always take first premium at our local shows, but I must say there is slender competition. com-petition. However, my stock serves well. I have free range for my ducklings duck-lings and generally manage to feed them once a day after they are feathered. feath-ered. Previous to that I keep them closer and feed liberally. I do not think ducks receive half the attention atten-tion they merit, and some of these days when I have time, I mean to start a boom, with the aid of obliging editors, edi-tors, in the Pekin duck industry. I would like to hear more quacks from the duck row in the show room. As a matter of fact we can sell all the good breeding ducks we raise, and eggs are much in demand, but no one seems particularly interested In our show record. The size of the ducks Is well looked after by buyers, and there are so many questions about broilers. We do not know a thing about broilers, as all our business has been to raise and sell the nicest breeding stock we knew how to raise. Once a year we picked out some large well-shaped ducks and took them to our exhibition and won a blue ribbon, while most of our competitors com-petitors had their birds disqualified for black spots on beaks. It is not that we are such Ignoramuses about everything that anyone showing should not jinow that blac-c spots In .the beak of a Pekin duck disqualifies, but just gross carelessness. Even the judges say ducks are just a market bird, as much as to say, not worthy of exhibiting. Now I am very proud of my big Pekins and some of these days when the children are grown up I'll b i able to tell you all about exhibiting them. In the meantime I'll have to be satisfied to show them at our local snow only, and devote all my spare time to raising and Improving them, pending that time when I can leave to go to all the big shows. Hattie By-field, By-field, Red Willow County, Nebraska. A Requisite in Poultry Raising. All classes of people may go into the raising of poultry and do it successfully. suc-cessfully. Sex is no bar to success. In fact very many of our most successful suc-cessful poultry raisers are womefa. Some are" semi-invalids who have given up the great lines of business and have been told by their family physician to get into something where they can be out of doors a great deal, but where the amount of manual labor will not be large. These and others may succeed, but there is one requisite for all and that is interest in the business. The writer has known of people intending to go into the poultry business, when they hated the sight of a live hen. Asked as to their reason for making the venture they replied that they had been told there was money in it. The invariable invaria-ble advice given by the writer in such cases is for the would-be investor in-vestor to keep out of the business. Longfellow says "the heart giveth grace unto every art." The person that has a deep Interest in poultry can make a success of raising any kind of fowls, for he will not be stopped by the obstacles that are certain cer-tain to be discovered in the way. The number of people tnat dislike to have poultry around is very large. But there are those that find great pleasure in caring for fowls. Sometimes Some-times it is one breed that strikes their fancy and sometimes another, but whatever it be, they can see beauty in it. The man that n as a real interest in fowls will rrake a success of raising rais-ing them, if conditions be at all favorable, favor-able, but the fowl-hater is about sum to fail. Cream for the Creamery. There are a good many things that our creameries will have to do before they succeed in getting first-class cream for use in making butter, especially espe-cially when the gathered cream system sys-tem Is followed. One manager suggests sug-gests that every creamery should furnish fur-nish the haulers with canvas covers for their cans to keep out the dusl that so often gets into the creast where the covers fit in and are after ward rinsed out with the cream when it is poured from the cans. He also suggests that it would be a paying investment to furnish the haulers with soap-stone stoves or some other kind of heaters in winter, so that the cream will not freeze, as it Is not possible to make first-class but ter from frozen cream. In the summer sum-mer time haulers of cream should be required to be at the creamery at a certain time, as several hours unnecessary un-necessary exposure of cream to the sun's heat is likely to injuriously af feet Its quality. Suggestions. Keep a thin knitting needle by the stove to use in piercing any vegetable which is cooking. It will not leave sc unsightly a mark as a fork. The first time new iron utensils are used, such as pop-over cups, waffle irons, sad irons, griddle or frying pans, they should be heated very slowly or they may crack. To iwhip cream quickly, put the cream in a glass jar with an air-tight cover and after adjusting the cover firmly shake it vigorously. A tiny pinch of salt and a little lemon juice help to make it turn, but it must not be shaken too long, as when this is done the cream may develop into butter. To remove white stains caused by a hot dish from the dining table thrust a shovel into the fire until it has reached white heat, and then hold it over th i stains as near a3 possible without running any risk of burning the table. The color Is restored almost Instantly In many cases in New England, New York and per naps Pennsylvania, well-fixed types have been established by growing one kind of corn for a long period of years on the same farm witnout any change of , seed. These varieties are frequently designated desig-nated by the name of the family by whom they have bee grown, as "Doo little" corn and "Warren" field corn. Not infrequently some particular kin i of corn has been grown on the samp farm for several generations of a fan Ily, without new seed being intrw duced. The Eook of Corn. Sig. Tomaso Salvini will, after " a tour of -the principal towns of Italy, permanently retire irom the stage. OHAHOE OF LIFE. L. r 1 Some sensible advice to women passing through this trying period. The painful and annoying symptoms symp-toms experienced by most women at this period of life are easily overcome over-come by Lydia 1". Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It is especially espe-cially designed to meet the needs of -woman's system at the trying time of change of life. It is no exaggeration to state that Mrs. Pinkham has over 5000 letters like the following proving the great value of her medicine at such times. " I wish to thank Mrs. Pinkham for what her medicine has done for me. My trouble was change of life. Four years ago my health began to fail, my head began to grow dizzy, my eyes pained me, and at times it seemed as if my back would fail me, had terrible' pains across the kidneys. Hot flashes were very frequent and trying-. A friend advised me to try Lyclia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound. Com-pound. I have taken six bottles of it. and am to-day free from those troubles. I cannot speak in high enoujrh terms of the medicine. I recommend it to all and wish every suffering1 woman would g-ive it a trial." JIei.la Ross, 88 Mont-clair Mont-clair Ave., Iioslindnle, Mass $5000 forfeit for-feit If original of aboue tetter proving gtnuineneta Cannot be produced. Mild Winter Not Unhealthy. Contrary to the usual belief, a mild winter does not increase the death rate; on the other hand, severe frosts increase the mortality rate. During the great frost of 1895-6 the London death rate rose to nearly 500 a week in excess of the corresponding weeks of the year before. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Not Too Healthy. Shopkeepers in Old Greenwich village vil-lage have a quaint way of taking their customers into their confidence In the signs they put in their windows. On the window of a little cookshop In that region i3 inscribed in green paint the following legend: "Good things fa eat; healthy, but not too all-fired healthy." Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price, 75c. "The Author Of " "Have you noticed," said the tall girl, "that in several new books the writer is described as 'the outhor of and then follows a list of books beginning begin-ning with the one immediately preceding pre-ceding the present production and running run-ning back to the earliest period? I have in mind now the case of Mrs. Ward in particular. 'Lady Rose's Daughter' is by the outhor of 'Eleanor, 'Elean-or, 'Tressady' and 'Robert Elsemere.' : A year or so ago the previous books have been enumerated in chronological chronolog-ical order, 'Elsmere' heading the list 'Eleanor' ending it. I wonder if that way of putting the cart before the horse is a fad among publishers these days, or Is it merely a coincidence that I have noticed several cases of the kind within the last few weeks?" Enthralled the Congregation. It is related that a stranger once en- tered a cathedral in Sicily and begged to be allowed to try the organ, which was new and a very fine Instrument that even the organist did not understand. under-stand. With some reluctance the organist or-ganist allowed the stranger to play, and soon the cathedral was filled with sounds that its walls had never heard before. As the stranger played, pulb Ing out stops never before combined, and working slowly up to the full organ, the cathedral filled, and It was not until a large congregation .had wondered at his gift that the strangei told his name. He was Dom Lorenzo Percsi, the young priest composer, whose latest oratorio, "Leo," was recently re-cently performed at the Vatican during dur-ing the celebration of the Pope's jubilee. jubi-lee. ' - 1 " ' " Governor Saves Boy's Life. It is fortunate for one Georgia youth that Gov. Garvin of Rhole Island is a physician and surgeon of standing. The governor and a number of north ern friends were at Andersonville to attend the dedication of a monument in memory of Rhode Island soldiers who died in Andersonville prison. While the exercises were in progress a carriage team took fright, ran away and upset the vehicle. Edwin Callaway, Calla-way, one of the occupants, had his leg broken, the jagged bone severing an artery. Gov. Garvin, on hearing of the boy's plight, hurried to his help, tied the severed artery and cut the broken bone, just in time to save the sufferer from bleeding to death. EXPERT TESTIMONY. Coffee Tried and Found Guilty. No one who has studied its effects on the human body can deny that coffee cof-fee is a strong drug and liable to cause all kinds of ills, while Postum is a food drink and a powerful rebuilder that will correct the ills caused by coffee, when used steadily in place of cfrE"3. An expert who has studied the subject sub-ject says: "I have studied the value of food and the manufacture of food products" from personal investigation and wish to bear testimony to the wonderful qualities cf Postum Cereal Coffee., I was an excessive coffee drinker, although I knew it to be a slow poison. First it affected my nerves and then my heart, but when I once tried Postum I found it easy to give up the coffee, confirmed coffee fiend though I was. "Postum satisfied my craving for coffee, and since drinking Postum steadily in place of the coffee all my troubles have disappeared and I am again healthy and strong. "I know that even where coffee Is not taken to excess it has "bad effects on the constitution in some form or other, and I am convinced by my investigation in-vestigation that the only thing to do if health and happiness are of any value to one is to quit coffee and drink Postum." Pos-tum." Name given by Postum Co Battle Creek, Mich. |