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Show Z56e INDEPENDENT. XK C. PabllahaaV 8PRINQVILLE. . . . UTAH Shamrock doesn't seem to be a wy lucky name for a yacht. Don't give up. As a usual thing, F?.te Is kindest to the man that fights back. "When men get together they talk shop; when women meet they talit shopping. Russia doesn't want Manchuria. So many people are looking that it Isn't convenient. Birds are said to be Hetty Green's favorite pets. But she Is not throw ing money at them. Now that the smallpox germ has been discovered, steps should be taken to vaccinate him at once. Why is it that so many really pretty pret-ty girls seemingly cannot keep their shoes from running over at the heel? Blessed are the women who do not talk and thrice blessed are those who are in the same room with them. It Is evident that Andrew Carnegie will have to give it away faster, un less something happens to clog his in take. Agricultural dreamer.you may not be able to hitch your wagon to a star, but you can hitch your plow to an auto mobile. There Is a strike in a Philadelphia Pihlr prjrfiTic hmmr- NBir'e shall hear of labor troubles in an arbitration factory. Mrs. Sage says that she is proud be cause Russell never smoked. But is that a virtue, when a man cant afford to smoke? There were eleven people killed in the late revolution in Honduras. That is almost as bad as wounding a man in a French duel. The New York stock exchange has moved into its new building, where it -is hoped the wind will be tempered to the shorn lamb. Andrew Carnegie has left London for Skibo Castle, to which place all mendicant appeals should for the present be addressed. Peter Stanley, aged 110, died the other day in Ohio. He waited as long as he could, but the presidency did not get around to him. Mr. Carnegie denies with some heat that he belongs to New York s "smart set." Possibly Andrew considers Mr. Harry Lehr a "puir fule body, after The story that a Los Angeles news paperman's house has been entered and robbed of "a number of valuables" looks like a sarcastic dig at the pro fession. The officers or the Arkansas say that they find the fishing in the Missis sippi river tolerably good, but they would enjoy catching more trout and fewer catfish. But if Ralph Waldo Emerson had never written things, would he have gone xiowri 1 Hp history as the discoverer discov-erer of the great truth that pie is a breakfast food? The Boston Globe warbles a spring madrigal beginning thus: "April freezes hurt the treeses." The Hub still has a firm grip on the literary primacy of this country. "Better the barking of a kennel full of dogs than the wrath of one Richard Harding Davis," say the natives of Marion, Mass. And Mr. Davis is in the far-off Balkans at that. Now that a Chicago publisher has had the Bible set in type, for the first time In that city and the first time In twenty years in America, will the Chicago papers review it as new litera ture. There Is strong ground for the sus picion that somebody connected with the Colombian government thinks Uncle Sam has not yet been properly shaken" down for the canal building privileges. Hard as an American may try to re member Russia's historic friendship for this nation, the frequent repetition of incidents like the massacre ot Kishl-neff Kishl-neff have a tendency to cause tempo rary lapses of memory. The Paris Journal des Debates sug gests that citizens of the United States be called "Unistatistes" instead of "Americans." The rank and file of Frenchmen will probably continue. however, to call us lobsters. A man named Peter Schwartz has been dismissed from the New York police force because he neglected duty in order to parade with the Irish volunteers vol-unteers on St. Patrick's day. There seems to be something wrong here. Here's a chance, girls. "Personal" advertisement from Paris in the New York Herald: "For a nice-looking, strong, well-educated marquis, aged twenty-three. I seek a young, rich, well-educated, nice-looking American lady." Ask papa to buy him for you, quick! It has been demonstrated that the Chicago girl can live on $3.50 a week. Inasmuch as pickles are still low in price and as nutritious as ever, the demonstration was hardly necessary. Miss Stone is about to demand damages dam-ages from the Turkish governmenL and the sultan may be expected to put in a claim for royalties on her lectures. . "' Count Cassini says the Russians have no prejudice against the Jewish race. Possibly the massacres are an expression of affection and esteem. In spite of the fact that since the beginning be-ginning no man has ever escaped death the Chinese highbinders' society has taken the trouble of sentencing 300 San Francisco men to death. A team of horses drawing a street car ran away the ether day in New York the only city In the country where such a thing could happen. The Rev. C. Dalies, who has preached preach-ed twenty-five years in a Ripon church, undoubtedly holds the record. But why should he be named Dalies T 1 magged down by a warship, How It Feels to Be Sucked Unde Water by a Foundered Steamer. In the Edinburgh Medical Journal James A. Lawson gives an interesting description of his thrilling experience when he was dragged under water by a sinking ship. When he was far down in the swirling waters he struck out for the surface, but only went further down. This exertion was a serious waste of breath, and after what appeared to be ten or fif teen seconds the effort of inspiration could no longer be restrained, and pressure of the chest began to develop. The most striking thing he remem bered was the great pain in the chest. which increased at every effort to ex piration and inspiration. It seemed as if he were in a vise, which was gardually being screwed up, until it felt the sternum and spinal column must break. The "gulping" process became more frequent for about ten efforts and hope was then' extin guished. The pressure after these gulp seemed unbearable, but gradually the pain seemed to ease up, as the car bonic acid was accumulating in the blood. At the same time the efforts at inspiration, with their accompany ing gulps of water, occurred at longer and longer intervals. The writer'! mental condition was then such that he appeared to be in a pleasant dream, but still had enough will power to think of friends at home, etc. Be fore finally losing consciousness the chest pain had completely disap peared, and sensation was actually pieasant. vvnen consciousness returned re-turned he found himself on the sur face of the water (probably from the action of the life belt), and finally managed to reach shore. ONE MAN'S ODD EXF'ERIENCE, How Provision He Made for His Tak Ing Off Helped Him in Gettina On. "It may seem odd to you." said a man who 'has money enough now to boy a dozen cemeteries If he wanted them, "but the first great feeling of relief and gratification that came to me with my first little accumulation of money sprang from the realization that now, for the first time since I had been married, we had money enough to bury any of us who should cue. "For years I had been dead noor. rtght down to hard nan all the time. using up every dollar of the few I earned as last as I got it I never had a cent I never took a gloomy view of things, however, even in those days, any more than I do now; in fact, I used to smile over them, sometimes. when I thought of how devilish hard up we really were; but I used to woo- aer, sometimes, too, what we shouM do In case any thine should haDDen: and it was a blessed feeling of relief. Indeed, that I experienced when final ly I had got together that first little pile of savings. 'Now we could bury any of us dtod- erly and with all due observance and with the gentlest care, without asking help of anyone; at last we were so fixed that we could afford to die. 'And to be freed of that anxiety I found, when I did come to be free of it, was not only a great relief, but it was an actual help to me in a busi ness way. It made me feel safer and easier and more secure about every thing; It gave me greater confidence and helped me In every way; and so this provision for our taking oft helped us greatly in getting on." SAID "AMEN" BETWEEN BLOWS. A Street Exhorter Who Wlllinqlv Took Hard Knocks. There was a negro exhorter in Maryville last week whose religion is proof against hard knocks. 'I'm one of God's cranks," he told people as they passed. "You all think I'm actin' foolish, but you'd act fool ish, to, ef the Lord wuz to get hold of you." Mayor Garrett apparently did not approve of this sentiment and ordered or-dered the man to end his sermon. He refused, and the marshal was called. He resisted arrest and the marshal hit him. "Amen," shouted the preacher. The marshal hit him again. 'Hallelujah," replied the evangelist, still pulling back. The marshal attempted at-tempted to close his mouth, which called forth a triumphant "Praise the Lord!" Probably he would have been shout ing yet, but he was offered the alter native of leaving town or working 100 days on the rock pile. His zeal, which was proof against blows, immediately im-mediately succumbed to the threat of compulsory labor, and he "hid out," Kansas City Journal. Numbers of the Commandments. One of the best-sustained debates of the session in the Massachusetts house of representatives at Boston occurred oc-curred on Thursday on the bill to repeal re-peal the clause of the libel law which permits persons sued for libel to bring up matters not connected with the subject in mitigation of damages or to remove the charge of malice. It was a battle between lawyers. One of the funny Incidents was Mr. Maloney'e citation of the Ninth Commandment as the -Eighth. The Protestant side of the house laughed, and referred him to the Bible, which was near the speaker. Mr. Maloney pulled out a Catholic' catechism from his pocket and showed there the words "Tfhou shalt not bear false witness agrlnst thy neighbor" were numbered as the Eighth Commandment. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. On the Way. Never mind how dim the way-It way-It is leading to the day; Weariest winter dreams of May ! Forever! Not in vain the songs we sing- Crosses cold to which we cling; Sweeter rest each cross shall bring Forever! Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitu tion. Convenient. At the reception given at the open ng of the new Stock Exchange vast throngs were threading every portion of the new building, Inspecting and admiring its details. "This Is the barber's shop," re marked a visitor, who In company with others had entered its inviting precincts. pre-cincts. "Very convenient," observed a meek. lamblike-looking Individual. "Thoe whom they are unable to shear they can shave." New York Times. Got Near to South Pole. Capt. Scott with the Discovery has penetrated 100, miles nearer the south pole than any previous explorer and discovered an extensive mountainous region hitherto absolutely unknown. He thinks this indicates that land stretches to the pole in a series of re?y lofty mountains. Became Wealthy in Old Age, Remarkable Career of Capt Ford, -the Pioneer Plate Manufacturer Business Success Achieved After Man's Allotted Span of Life. ThiB city is the cradle of the plate-glass plate-glass industry of the United States, says an Albany (Ind.) special to the Indianapolis Sentinel. The first polished pol-ished plate-glass manufactured In the country is still in use In the front window of a New Albany clothing store. There are two plates, each about 6x14. Capt. John B. Ford, who erected here the first factory In the United States for the manufacture of polished plate-glass and whose name is a household word throughout Southern South-ern Indiana, is still living at 91 years of. age, at Tarentum, Pa. He came originally from Kentucky, and located, at Greenville, near' here. He was a "natural born" inventor and invented and manufactured a machine for chopping straw. He scon moved to New Albany, where-he built steamboats. steam-boats. His attention wag attracted by a little factory at Lenox, Mass., which was manufacturing a crude form of "rough plate-glass for skylights. He set his wits to work and designed the first machinery for the manufacture of polished plate-glass. This machinery machin-ery was made at New Albany foundries. foun-dries. He Interested his cousin, Washington Wash-ington C De Pauw, a man of large means, and they operated the first plate-glass manufactory, which was a huge success, but they could not agree as to business policy, and Ford sold his interest to De Pauw. Ford then established factories at Louisville and Jeffersonville, which failed. Capt. Ford's history from this time furnishes the most remarkable instance in-stance on record of a man building Up an immense fortune in his old age. He was 78 years old when he started for New York, but was smooth-shaved Short Name Is an Advantage, Of Very Great Practical Value if You Should Happen to Be a Presidential Cabinet Officer Abbreviations Generally Used in Signing Official Documents, The present cabinet is made up of men with shorter names than any set of cabinet officials in many years. Five of the nine advisers of the President bear names of only one syllable each. These are Secretaries Hay, Root, Shaw, Postmaster General Payne and Attorney General Knox. Secretary Moody has not a long name; neither has - Secretary Wilson. Secretary Hitchcock has nine letters and two syllables in his name. Secretary Cor-telyou Cor-telyou has nine letters and three syllables. syl-lables. His is the hardest of all the cabinet names to pronounce. Ay the others are plain. The predecessor of these men, however, did not have long names, and if the letters of all the men who immediately preceded them were put together the results would be almost the same as at present in fact, just one letter's difference. Secretary Sec-retary Hay succeeded Secretary Day, the same number of letters. ' Secre tary Root succeeded Secretary Alger, a gain of one letter. Secretary Shaw took the place of Secretary Gage, the same number of letters. Mr. Payne came into the cabinet when Charles Emory Smith went out, the same num The Might Task of Overtaking an Untruth Has Well Been Described as a Hopeless One How Fabrication Wrecked Political Career of John G. Carlisle, Probably the most impossible, hopeless task on earth is to overtake a lie. The other day ex-Speaker John G. Carlisle, now a successful lawyer for great corporations, with an old-fashioned old-fashioned home in North Washing ton square, passed along Pine street with the easy gait of a plow horse. Two citizens saluted him and when he had passed on one remarked: There used to be the making of a president in that man. The entire country looked up to him. If It had not been for his Cynthiana speech the northern democracy would have been solid for him, and, of course, he owned the southern wing. The speech ruined him. He retired from politics with a broken heart and settled in New York to make a little money." Here is an extract from that fa mous, heart-rending speech: I deny that the United States is a nation! It is a vicious system that has destroyed sovereign states and oppressed nine millions of people in the south. If a state has no right of secession she certainly has no right of revolution. The most infamous order ever issued was that of the attorney at-torney general pnly a few days ago, which caused sixty companies of sol- SHEEP CLIPPED BY MACHINERY. Hand Shearers a Thing of the Past in Arizona. Arizona's sheep are no longer clip ped by hand. According to the Baltimore Bal-timore Sun power machines have almost superseded the old-time hand shearers. At the main shearing plant there are twenty machines run by a gasoline engine and operated by as many skilful shearers. A day's work for one of these men, with his clip pers, run by gasoline, is to clipfrom 100 to 125 sheep. In the hands of an expert the work is done better than with the hand shears, and the sheep are left in a better condition than after a hurried shearing in the old-fashioned old-fashioned way. The clippers are much like the or dinary horse clippers, and seem to fairly peel off the fleece when run at full speed. Then there is an economy econo-my about the machine clipping in the fact that the wool is taken off evenly, making a uniform s.taple and taking away all the growth, instead of leaving tufts and patches on the sheep. So closely may the wool be clipped that sheep have been known to blister from the sun the next day, but, of course, this can be avoided by regulating the shears. Buncoing the Innccer.t Babe. Little Margery ran into the house, her eyes sparkling and her cheeks flushed. Mama," she cried, "mama, can any body be arrested for cheating a baby?" Why," answered he mother, "why do you want to know?" - Well." said the little girl, "I saw the lady next door fixir.g the baby's bottle for him, and she put a lot of (vater In it!" 1 and looked much younger. He dAatootf have money enough to buy his rait road ticket He arrived in New York-penniless, York-penniless, but his wonderful genius for organization enabled him to Interest big New York capitalists, who furnished fur-nished the money with which he built and put in operation two immense plate-glass factories one at Tarentum Taren-tum and the other at Crelghton, Pa. Later he founded Ford City, Bixty miles east of Pittsburg, establishing there a factory employing and Introducing Intro-ducing all modern accessories.., About four years ago he sold his factories, which were all In his own name, to the' plate-glass trust . for $ 10,000,000, and he has been living In retirement since. He was the first man in the United States to discover that natural gas could be used as fuel for manufacturing manufactur-ing purposes. He built his factory' at Tarentum alongside a coal bed, expecting ex-pecting to use it for fueL His workmen, work-men, in making soundings, discovered gas, and he was not long In harnessing harness-ing the new fuel and making it do ftf work. In his long career of large mro ufacturing endeavors he never Jr t a striKe, oecause he always paid V hfirhpst wne-ea that r-rmlrt t tinlJr the business. It is difficult for Albany people to realize that the old man who left here without a penny; borrowing money to buy his railroad ticket, is now a multi-mUlIoaa3CHya publisher, recalls the story of George Is afflicted with "cancer, which will soon end his career. He has built ai Greenville, Ind., his old home, one of the finest Methodist churches In the state, and his other bequests within the last two years amounted tor at least $500,000. ber of letters. Attorney General Knox took the place of John W. Griggs, a gain of two letters, and Secretary Moody followed John D. Long, a loss of one letter. The five men named have two letters less in their names than the five men who preceded them. The value of a short name In departmental de-partmental work is appreciated by heads of departments and their assistants. as-sistants. The thousands of documents to be signed daily make It laborious and tedious work to repeat a long sig-1 nature so often. In fact, hundreds of men have wished that they could he , attained equal fame and important under shorter names. It is nearly"! ways the case that when a new cSO,, net officer takes charge he will beArn by signing his name in full, like "BenSj jamin B. Smith, but he will not keep this up long, and in a month will have reached the conclusion that "B. B. Smith" is good enough for all official papers. In some especial document he may sign his name in the full style' but he reserves that as a sort of special spe-cial affair, like a Sunday suit of clothes. of a Lie, diers to march to South Carolina to take charge of the ballot box and overawe the voters of that poor, down-trodden state, the paradise of carpet-baggers and scalawags. But the day will come when South Caro lina will rid herself of the barbarous political buzzards of the north that have fed on her carcass for the last eleven years and robbed white and black without discrimination." For ten years Mr. Carlisle tried to run down that report of his Cynthiana speech, but It had too big a lead. At one time he thought it overtaken and side-tracked, but several years later the Tribune of this city resurrected It in the original form. Mr. Carlisle explained: ex-plained: "I did not say that the government gov-ernment is a 'vicious system,' but that at that time the policy of the admin istration was vicious; I always held that the constitutional right to secede did not exist; there was no verbatim report of the speech, for no reporter was present; an opposition paper picked up from the audience a few stray recollections of what I said, strung them together and published them." But the lie never was nailed and Carlisle's hopes of political honors were dashed. - KNEW HE WAS A COWARD. Indian Had His Opponent Properly Sized Up. An Oklahoma man once told an Indian In-dian that a desperate white man was after his scalp. He smiled and shook his head. "A few days later," continues con-tinues the narrator, "we were talking to the white man when the Indian came up to join the group. He had spotted the stranger and knew him by sight. Without saying a word to him he walked up within arm's reach and struck the white man in the face with a rough, heavy glove. He paused for a few seconds and hit him again. 'Ugh! he exclaimed as he wheeled around and walked away. The hite man looked at the Indian In amazement, amaze-ment, but made no show of resentment. resent-ment. Later in the day when we asked the Indian why he didn't follow up the insult with blows he told us the white man was a coward. In explaining ex-plaining how he knew it he said the man's 'jaw dropped' when he struck him in the face the second time with the glove, and that this, with the Indian, In-dian, was an unfailing sign of cowardice." cow-ardice." Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. Another R. "Well, talking about names," said the oyster, "I like May better than Mary." "You do?" replied the plain lobster. "Of course. Now, if it was the month of Mary it would, shorten my vacation fearfully." , The Making of Him. "It's ridiculous." remarked the tailor, tail-or, "to say 'clothes don't make the man.'" "Think so?" "Sure," replied the tailor; "why. they've made me. ' nt mjns in on "Ambition b circle where men ran. Each boping be the leading place may find. Each SaCkward glance snow him the winning one: Each, forward lookvteUi him he is behind, Be quaffs be time the red wine of success And then aside he casts the empty cup Another round, and ia bis eagerness That which he flung away he would take up nabitioo is circle where men run. Each fancying himself may hold the lead A race with prised guerdon never won; Where no one is contented with his meed; Where men go, curving ceaselessly, the round. And think at last their efforts are complete. When, following, they hear the warning sound The falling of a aearing rival's feet WAS BARABBAS A PUBLISHER? Incident That Recalls Jest of" George Augustus Sala. The recent news of the arrest at Budapest of a notorious gang of thieves, whose chief turned out to be Augustus Sala's presenting a Bible to a certain London publisher who had handled some of his books, says Harper's Weekly. The publisher was at a loss to understand just why he should have been singled out for this peculiar gift, until some time after he discovered a slight change In the wording of John xviii., 40, where the phrase, "Now, Barabbas was a robber," rob-ber," was made to read "Barabbas was a publisher." When Miss Cor-illi's Cor-illi's "Barabbas" appeared with the text on the title page a reviewer, quoting the words in his review, evidently evi-dently indistinctly written, received the proof with the amazing statement, state-ment, "Barabbas was a ratter." Correcting Cor-recting it, he deemed it wise to see the review through to a finish in print, and asked for another proof. Either the proofreader was not given to searching the Scriptures, or his zeal for truth led him to overconscientious-ness, overconscientious-ness, for the writer found his correction cor-rection garbled to read, "Barabbas was a rotter!" LIPTON IS NOT DISMAYED. English Newspaper Tells of Hopes of the Challenger. Here is an account, from an Eng lish paper, of the disaster which be- ell Shamrock III. recently: ."The accident to Shamrock III. has ked a chorus of sympathy with the ner of that vessel, whom ill-luck so The Disaster to Shamrock III. doggedly pursues in, his efforts to raise the cup. Sir Thomas Lipton is still most sanguine, both as regards the rapidity of the refitting operations and the ultimate performance of the boat in the all-important contest off Sandy Hook. He declares, moreover, that there will be no necessity for postponing the date of the races. The yacht, he told an interviewer, is the most wonderful boat ever built in this country, and nothing like the best has been got out of her. During her trials up to the time of the accident Mr. Fife had expressed himself as highly gratified with the display she had given." What the White House Is. To the American people the white house represents the personality of the president of the United States. To the politician the magic words may stand for the goal of an ambition too often associated with the deepest and most poignant disappointment, while to the historian the name may typify decisions that have marked epochs in the affairs of nations. In the mind of the people, however, the official character char-acter of the building has always been subordinate to its domestic uses. Popularly Pop-ularly speaking, the white house is the place not where the president works, but where he entertains. Charles Moore in Century. CURIOUS FREAK OF NATURE. Double Caff Captured on North i-wiiha Shore. The accompanying curious illustra tion represents a double catfish given many years ago to Prof. Silliman, an American scientist. The fish was captured alive in a shrimp net at tjp mouth of Cape Fear river, North Carolina. Car-olina. It took the form of two complete com-plete bodies, joining at the breast, Siamese twins fashion, the point of anion being marked with a dark streak. . Between the viscera of the fishes there was no connection at all, but the joining integument was hol low and flexible, and the two could swim easily together. The bigger of the oddly united couple seems to have had the start of the other in the battle of life, and to have annexed the lion's share of the good things which fell to.beir joint lot. A new system of wanning the pass enger compartments on an English railway is being tried. It consists of cylinders charged with chemicals. 1 IT J veW StfnxtVt, rue 8"i HSr I RAILROAD OF THE NORTH. Line Built to Facilitate Shipments of Iron Ore. This sketch map shows the route of the Ofoten railroad, opened for through traffic In November last between be-tween Lulea, on the Gulf of Bothnia, and Victoria Haven, at the head of Ofoten Fiord, on the Atlantic ocean. The road penetrates about one hundred hun-dred miles north of the Arctic circle, and is the most northern railroad in the world. Its total length is about 250 miles. The eastern part, between Lulea and the famous iron mines at Gellivare, forty-four miles north of the Arctic circle, has been in operation for over fifteen, years. It has now been extended to the Atlantic, to facilitate facil-itate shipments of iron ore. Lulea, on a narrow arm of the Baltic, is closed by ice for seven or eight montns every year. At Victoria Haven, however, there is not only deep water for the largest vessels, but, like all the Atlantic ports of Norway, Nor-way, it is Ice free the year around, so that ore may be forwarded in every month to the blast furnaces of England and Germany. Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. HE SAID TOO MUCH. Senator Lodge's Local Hit More Than Touched the Spot. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts is noted for the tactful local hits he introduces into his speeches, says the New York Times. He is very observant, and takes care that his addresses shall bear some touch that will show that he has the interest of the particular locality in which he is speaking well In hand. Speaking in Springfield, Mass., during the last political campaign, he dwelt especially on the patriotism of the city. "As I was driving down State street of your city this afternoon," he said, "I noticed a big boulder in Benton Park. It was placed there by the Sons of the American Revolution in this city to mark the spot where Shays' rebellion took place. Every time I Lave been In your city I have noticed that big boulder," and he continued to dilate on the patriotism that actuated actu-ated the marking of such a spot. After the speaking was over one of the prominent citizens came to him and said: "You're all right, senator! Your reference to that boulder was pretty good,, but you went a Httle too far." It was all right to notice it to-day, but you should have trcsr contented with that and not spoi;en of seeing it on previous visits, for that boulder was only put there day before be-fore yesterday." CHINAMAN AS A FARMER. Mongolian Who Has Set Good Example Exam-ple to His Race. There is one Chinaman in the United Unit-ed States who does not believe that selling gimcracks and tea, or doing washing for the "Melican" man, are the best outlet for his talents. Instead of following the time-honored custom of his countrymen, this Mongolian has Ycst Lung's Home. established himself in a little thirty-acre thirty-acre farm near Boston. The Chinese farmer's name is Yuet Lung, and it took him twenty-five years to decide that the joys of country coun-try life were better than living on Oxford Ox-ford street with his little Chinese wife. Mrs. Yuet Lung, however, is not of the same opinion, and while her husband is tilling the farm she remains re-mains at the old homestead antil Yuet comes in from the suburbs. The Chinaman's farm is worked by himself and a number of his compatriots compatri-ots who are trying to get back their health by life in the open air. All kinds of vegetables are raised, and Yuet Lung keeps the Chinese restaurants restau-rants supplied with fresh garden truck. . Looking Up the Creek. An Ominous Phrase. f "I hope you will excuse what may seem to you to be a liberty," said th young man. "Certainly," replied the merchant "I am sure that you will not presume on your position as a trusted employe em-ploye " "It is just that that I desire to mention. men-tion. I heard you speaking of me to one of your friends the other day as a 'trusted employe, and I wanted to ask you as a special favor to call me something else. After all that has been happenirg I can't help feeling that it causes me to be regarded with suspicion which I do not deserve." New York Times. Munchausen a Real Personage. Few people l;ncw that Baron Mu chausen, the hero cf so many extraordinary extraor-dinary adventures, was a real perso, a member of an ancient Hanoverian family. He served in the Russo-Turk-ish wars of the latter half of the eighteenth century. Municipal Development Pays. Municipal development of water, gas, electricity, street railways, markets, mar-kets, baths and cemeteries in Nottingham, Notting-ham, England, has showed an average annual net profit of $158,000 for the last four years. The money is applied to the reduction cf taxe3. LIVESTOCK CIRCUMVENTING THE CATTLE TICK. Prof. W. H. Dalrymple of the Louisiana Louis-iana station, in an address to Nebraska Ne-braska stockmen, said: ; We in the South consider, so far as our cattle Interests are concerned, and we, might also say, those of the Northern North-ern breeder who aims at creating a market in the South, that perhaps t he-most he-most valuable discovery ever made, Is, that when a few drops of blood fcre drawn from one of our native tick-infested tick-infested animals, and injected underneath under-neath the' skin of a susceptible one, it will produce in the latter a mild attack at-tack of Texas fever, from which, In the great majority of cases, the animal so treated will recover, and afterwards after-wards be , able to withstand subsequent subse-quent attacks of the disease, brought about by transmission of the specific organism through the medium of the common cattle-tick, or, in other words, become Immune. I do not know just how It Is up here in Nebraska, but down our way, there ace still to be found a few people, the exact number num-ber I have never attempted to estimate, esti-mate, who have a sort of Ingrained aversion for anything to which the term "scientific" is applied, but who, at the same time, seem absolutely ob- livious tothe fact, that scientific in-vestigatio-ipKijt which they appear to possesditions, atntls notions, and at which tLie sledges HLed to sneer, as if thee dogs having lsleight-off-hand jugglin S it, is nothing more euucAtw taking searching rsistent, pains- the truth, the whole truth, ana hing but the truth. In this very work of immuniza tion, we have an excellent illustration: illustra-tion: Texas fever, the hitherto dreaded dread-ed bane and bugbear of every Southern South-ern stockman, below the fever line, whose desire it was to purchase, in northern latitudes, pure bred cattle for the purpose of upbuilding and improving im-proving his degenerated herds, either of beef or dairy animals, has almost as many names as there are breads of cattle, and Just as many theories as to its cause and methods of treatment. And it is probable that such a chaotic state of affairs would still have existed had it not been for the indefatigable, dogged, and persistent efforts of the scientist in his search after truth, which has resulted in the accuracy of the knowledge now possessed relative to the true cause and nature of the disease, and the more intelligent and effective measures by which to combat com-bat its ravages. As has been previously hinted, the actual, or exciting, cause of Texas fever is a germ a malarial type of germ belonging to the protozoa, the lowest form of animal life. Technically, Technic-ally, this organism Is known as "piro-plasma "piro-plasma bigeminum," and it can be found within the red blood cells of any of our native southern cattle that have been exposed to tick infestation. It may be of interest to state at this point that we have Southern natives, na-tives, however, that are non-immunes. This may appear rather strange to some of you, as it did to many, including in-cluding some of our leading stock-journals, stock-journals, when a South Carolina herd of cattle became infected with Texas fever after exhibition at the Charleston Charles-ton Exposition In 1901. The explanation explana-tion of such an occurrence, however, is quite simple, when we realize that the tick is, so far as we know, the only intermediary host of the disease-germ, disease-germ, and that there are many places in the southern states, as, for example, ex-ample, the alluvial lands of my own state, or lands subject to periodic inundation, on which ticks are rarely to be found. Consequently animals born and raised on such tick-free places are non-immune, because they have not had the opportunity to become be-come inoculated by the natural method, meth-od, viz., through the Intermediation of the tick. But, if animals so raised are afterwards placed upon ticky pastures, pas-tures, they will contract the fever just as surely as if they had been Imported Im-ported from North of the Federal Quarantine Line. In short, it is, with us, a question of ticks, or no ticks. PRACTICAL VALUE OF TUBER-CULIN. TUBER-CULIN. While the use of tuberculin as a diagnostic of tuberculosis of cattle has been undoubtedly abused in many instances where forcible entry was made Into private stables by unprofessional, unpro-fessional, uneducated emplosres of state officials, the fact remains that it is, properly used, a reliable and valuable valu-able agent In detecting the presence of tne disease. There need be nothing hidden in the use of tuberculin. Any intelligent farmer may use it successfully success-fully himself with a little Instruction. We have given such instruction many times and results following the first use of the agent have been more than successful. This being the case we have always advised that tuberculin should be employed when there Is reasonable rea-sonable suspicion in the mind of an owner that one of his cattle may be afflicted - with tuberculosis and more especially when the udder is the seat of the trouble. We find that it Is a common thing for a milch cow to show the following symptoms: The udder becomes caked (gargettyX now and then and recovers without treatment. There is no good reason for the attack. The cow suffers suf-fers no chill or fever. She eats well and appears healthy. ' The milk from the affected teat or quarter is changed in quality for but a few days then becomes be-comes normal again. Tuberculosis is never suspected by the owner, but In these cases we always suspect it and consider It by far the most dangerous danger-ous form of the disease so far as users of milk are concerned. Quite recently a cattle breeder sent us the following report of a cow owned by him: "A four-year-old cow dropped her first calf, carried full time, mir-teen mir-teen months ago, and has not stood to service yet. She was a very poor milker and the calf was taken from her when three or four months old and the cow dried off. In a short time it was noticed that one of her rear teats was larger than normal, as though it might have been caked a little in drying dry-ing her up. It has gradually increased in size until now that quarter of the udder is about five inches across, hard and hot. What shall I do for it? The cow seems in first rate general health with the exception of one eye which became irritated while on pasture last summer and seems blind now. She has had no grain for several months, as I thought it possible she would be more apt to breed if reduced in flesh. An examination shows the mouth of the womb so tightly closed that I have been unable to introduce a hard rubber dilator about inch in diameter. di-ameter. What do you think of the case?" " The owner was advised by us that we suspected tuberculosis and given full instructions as to the making of a T7 tcberculln test. He acted upon, this advice, procured the necessary thermometer, ther-mometer, hypodermic syringe and dose of tuberculin and made the test of which the following is a report: Temperature of cow prior to Injection Injec-tion of the tuberculin, 6 a. m., 102.2; 11:30 a. m., 103; 6:15 p. m., 103.3. Injected In-jected 3 cubic centimeters of tuberculin tubercu-lin under skin of neck at 9:30 p. m. same day preliminary temperatures were taken. Next morning tempera tures were again taken with following resnlts: 6 a. m., 106.8; 9 a. m., 107.5; 12 noon, 107.2; 3 p. m., 107.3; 6 p. m., 107.8 . This is a most Interesting case. Cow reported to be "in first rate general health" with not the slightest suspicion sus-picion of tuberculosis on the part of the owner was by the above tuberculin test proved to be very dangerously tuberculous. Her udder was doubtless the seat of the disease, but glands throughout the body were also no doubt involved in the disease. , The cow that has stood next to this cow in stable for some time was also tested and showed by her reaction to the tuberculin that she is to be considered consid-ered suspicious and a subsequent test in a few months may show plainly that she has contracted the disease without doubt. There is surely a valuable lesson to be learned from this case. Farmers Review. THE AMERICAN ROYAL STOCK SHOW. From the Farmers' Review: Kansas City, Mo. Breeders and importers of draft and coach horses are taking a . lively interest in the coming American Ameri-can Royal Live Stock Show, to be held In this city October 19-24, and the Indications In-dications are that the exhibit of horses will be a large one, and one of excellent excel-lent quality. Messrs. Wolcott Beers & Co. 'Of K-firfsas C&jave offared $500 In cash prizes for the horse department de-partment of the show. McLaughlin Bros, of Columbus, O., and Kansas City, have just announced that they will contribute $300 to the fund for prizes, and that they will exhibit 30 to 40 of their best animals. Crouch & Son of Lafayette, Ind., and J. W. Robison, have also signified their Intention In-tention to enter large numbers of animals. ani-mals. It is expected that the Perch-eron Perch-eron association will offer a liberal sum in prizes. The success of the sheep department, one of the new departments de-partments to be added to the show this year, is assured. Dwight Lincoln of Milford Center, O., secretary of the American Rambouillet Sheep Breeders' Breed-ers' Association, and F. W. Harding of Waukesha, Wis., breeders of Shorthorn Short-horn cattle and Rambouillet sheep, are working enthusiastically to get a large representation of their favorite breed. They have raised $100 by individual subscriptions to be added to the amount offered by the Kansas City Stock Yards Company for prizes. The stock yards company offers $200 in cash to each of the breeds of sheep exhibited. Leading breeders of Cots-wold, Cots-wold, Shropshire, Southdowns and Oxford Ox-ford Downs have signified their Intention Inten-tion of taking part In the sheep exhibit. ex-hibit. The erection of a new barn to be used for the sheep, goat and swine exhibit, has just begun. This will take the place of the tent used last year for the swine and goat exhibits. ex-hibits. Jno. M. Hazelton. TREATMENT OF THE SOW. Young sows should be liberally fed on flesh and bone-producing foods, such as ground oats and wheat bran. In summer they should have a run on. clover, and In winter comfortable quarters, quar-ters, with access to the yard. It should never be forgotton that exercise is essential for breeding sows. Sows -should not be mated before they are nine months old. At all times they -should be kindly treated. A good brood sow Is worth caring for, as she is more profitable than a brood mare. Her progeny mature more quickly, do not require such expensive stabling, are exposed to less risks, and a ready market is always obtainable for them. In winter a ration of grain roots and clover hay, with access to a yard for exercise, is an economical and suitable suit-able way of caring for brood sows. The farrowing pen should be roomy and warm, with just a sufficiency of litter. In very cold weather it is a good plan to heat a couple of bricks and put them in a basket, cover with chaff, and then put the young pigs on this until all are farrowed, when they may be placed near the teats. For the first twenty-four hours after farrowing give the sow nothing but perhaps a drink of warm water, as food or slops may kill her. The act of a sow in eating her young is often the fault of the owner in feeding heat-producing food prior to farrowing, and giving little, or no exercise. Prof W. J. Fraser. SCOTCH AND AMERICAN AYR-SHIRES. AYR-SHIRES. I have recently received the report of the officUl milking tests of Ayrshire Ayr-shire cows la Scotland for the year 1S02, and have selected the five giving the highest lecord for butter, also the five giving the highest record In the Home Dairj test in the states for the year 1902, a comparison of which is of interest, all being official and supposed to be among the best of the breed In either country. The natural conditions in Scotland are more favorable for a large dairy yield from the same cows than in America on account of the more uniform moisture in Scotland, and the consequent succulence of pasturage. pas-turage. The record in both countries shows a good degree of uniformity and a good class of dairy cows. The five Scotch cows gave per day of milk (pounds) respectively 60, 52, 30, 45, 46. an average of 46. Their milk tested In butter-fat, 3.87, 3.50, 5.92, 4.47. 3.30. Butter made per day was (pounds), 2.73, 2.11, 2.05, 2.03, 1.76, 2.13. an aver-age aver-age of 2.13. The American cows gave per day in pounds, 51, 42, 46, 42, 47, an average of 45. Their milk ' tested 3.80, 4.60, 4.00, 4.50, 3.80. The butter made per day was 2.26, 2.25, 2.14, 2.10, 2.08, an average of 2.16. C. M. Winslow, Secretary. Tales From the North. The Eskimos were very angry with the arctic explorer. "What did he do?" asked the member mem-ber of the relief expedition. "He petted our dogs," explained the little native. "Is there any harm In petting your dogs?" , "Yes, their tails were frozen stiff and when they went to wag them they broke off." Retort Courteous. Husband (during the spat)I wouldn't would-n't be a fool if I were you. Wife (calmly) My dear, I can readily read-ily understand that if you were me you wouldn't be a fool. The "saddle'. Is the posterior part of the back, running to the tail in a cock and answering to the cushion In a hen, cushion, however, being restricted re-stricted to a very considerable development, devel-opment, as in Cochins, while "saddle" may be applied to any breed. |