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Show 6 INDEPENDENT. Mr.Batzenlieb AND THE SPRINQVILLK. UTAH f - J noun! For Racing Purposes Only The machine with which Oldfleld re cently lowered the track record to automobiles is simply a unique piece of mechanism of his own devising . made by Henry Ford, impracticable as an automobile because it can never be used on the public highway. WESLEY AND CHRISTIAN UNITY. Helped to Lessen Bitterness and Draw Good Men Nearer Together. It would be unjust to ignore what John Wesley did for Christian unity. Religious differences were more rancorous ran-corous in his, day than in ours. Mac-aulay Mac-aulay often exaggerates, but he did not exaggerate in describing the old-time country squire whose "animosities- were numerous and bitter. He hated Frenchmen and Italians, Scotchmen and Irishmen, Papists and t Presbyte rians, Independents and Baptists,' Quakers and Jews." It did not require re-quire much provocation for a mob to pull down a dissenting chapel or throw j stones at a Roman Catholic priest. In this world of fierce denunciation moved mov-ed a scholar who gt&dly acknowledged his indebtedness to good men of widely wide-ly different tenets. Wesley had learned learn-ed a good deal from the early fathers, he had read the great divines of the Church of England, some of his warmest warm-est friends were Moravians, he admired admir-ed the saintly characters of the Ro-1 man and of the undivided Catholla' church, his sympathies, naturally' quick, had been broadened by reading. read-ing. Since De Maistre warned the Roman Ro-man church not to forget the claims of her Anglican sister, since the Evangelicals Evan-gelicals gave new force to the Church of England, since the Oxford divines made dry bones live, many lessons have been learned. An increasing number num-ber of persons is gradually awakening to the difference between the faith once delivered to the saints and the opinions which merely date from Augustine Au-gustine or Calvin. John Wesley "was In advance of his time. Should organic unity oome within a century or two, lie will be counted among those who ihelped to lessen bitterness, and to draw good men nearer together. The Living Church (P. E.). BRAIN WAS STILL WORKING. Conductor's Eyes Were Poor, But He Was Not Useless. As the conductor received the fares he gently scratched each coin on the edge with the nail of his forefinger. "Is that some now good-luck sign' that you are working?" asked the nan who riddi ob the platform and asks questions. "No; but I'll tell you what it is; thouga. It's one way of beating the company. The fact of the matter Is, I am getting old. The company does! not know how old I am. If they did they'd fire me migthy quick. Then where would I be? I am getting so-old so-old my sight Is failing fast. If I put on glasses it would be a giveaway on my age. I can't tell by sight whether a coin is a quarter or a nickel, nor the difference between a new one-cent piece and a dime; so I just scratch the edge." "What good does that do?" "Why, it's simple enough. The silver sil-ver pieces are all milled on the edge, while the nickels and coppers are smooth." Philadelphia Press. ' The Emperor and I. The German Emperor and I Within the self-same year were Sorn, Beneath the self-same sky. Upon the self-same morn; A Kaiser he, of high estate, And I the usual chance of fate. His father was a prince; and mine-Why, mine-Why, just a farmer, that Is all. Stars still are stars, although some shine. And some roll hid In midnight's pall; But argue, cavil all you can, My sire was just as good a man. The German Emperor and I Eat, drink, and sleep the self-same way; For bread Is bread, and pie Is pie, And kings can eat but thrice a day, And sleep will only come to those Whose mouths and stomachs are not foes. I rise at six and go to work. And he at five and does the same; We both have cares we cannot shirk; Mine are for loved ones, his for fame. He may live best, I cannot tell; I'm sure I wish the Kaiser well. J have a wife, and so has he; And yet. If pictures do not err. As far as human sight can see Mine Is by long odds twice as fair. Say, would I trade those eyes dark brown? Not for an empress and her crown. And so the Emperor and I On this one point could ne'er agree; Moreover, we will never try. His frau suits him and mine suits me. And thousrh his sons one day may rule, Mine stand Al in public school. So let the Kaiser have his way. Bid kings and nations tumble down, I have my freedom and my say. And fear no ruler and his crown; For I. unknown to fame or war, Live where each man is emperor. Boston Globe. Disagreements Among Scientists. Who is going to decide when scientists scien-tists disagree? Here we find one group of investigators, moved by recent discoveries, dis-coveries, such as the remarkable properties prop-erties of the substance known as radium, ra-dium, figuring out that the earth and all that is In ft must resolve themselves them-selves into their original elements or confusion of elements and that we shall have chaos come again. Another group of scientists declares that this ts utter nonsense and those who entertain enter-tain such theories are dreamers. So it goes. Every discovery is met by scientfic doubt as well as scientific belief be-lief and the unlearned is to be forgiven forgiv-en for not knowing where he is "at." But he can probably rest his soul in the calm confidence that the old world will go on for some time to come at least much as if there were no scientists scien-tists and no new and startling theories. Troy Times. Her Vacation. , "You say you don't think you will be any more comfortable at a summer resort re-sort than you were at home?" " "I never could see much difference, said the little woman with the patient smile. "Then why do you insist on going?" "So that my husband will have to make his complaints to strangers about the way the house is run." Other Things In Life. A story is being told at the expense of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, who, though punctilious as to his duties, has his lighter moments. It seems that a retainer once complained of the small attention paid by his confreres to religion, to which the Senator replied: re-plied: "My friend, religion is an excellent ex-cellent thing if a man remembers that It Is not bs regular job!" New York Times. Chinese Sailors. Over 1,500 British vessels plying in eastern waters are manned by Chinese crews. . The Point of View. A boy believed that he was mads To fill a small niche here below. To play his part just as the blade Of common grass, the hidden prain Beneath the sprout, the drop of rain. The fragile little flake of snow. Another thought that all the seas , And every plain and every hill And all the flowers and all the trees. The mountains and the streams and all The things that walk and fly and crawl Were made to serve beneath his will. One of the twain has broad estates, ' And servants run when he commands. The other toils and humbly waits For crumbs that fall from Fortune's hands Which of them, think you, serves and which Is envied by the world and rich? 8. E. Klser. The Marching Card. Take the queen of hearts and fasten to It by means of a little wax a long auburn hair. The other end of the hair you attach to your coat button. Place the card upon the complete pack, shuffle carefully, so that the card keeps its place upon the top, and then lay the pack upon the table and cry "March!" You do not move, and of course the card remains quiet. You repeat the order "March!" several times, but the card Is motionless. You appear to be surprised, reflect a awhile, however, and then say, that probably the card is a lady, and of course not accustomed to obey orders; that she must be treated with more politeness. You then approach the table, take up the top card, when it will appear that the card In question is a lady. You then exclaim "Very well! we shall persuade her, however, for no lady refuses a polite and courteous cour-teous request" "My dear madame, I beg you will have the kindness to promenade a little!" You now walk around the table, and the lady act ually as requested, and to the surprise of the spectators promenades slowly upon the table. $ Soap Bubble Over a Flower. A very pretty experiment is makine a big soap bubble with a flower inside How Did the Rose Get There? It As the bubble ought to last some time that it may be seen and admired by everybody in reach, the best pos sible soap solution should be used 60 that the film may be strong. This may be accomplished by pouring a little grycerine into the solution. Now take a large dinner plate, and pour the solution into it, to the depth of about one-eighth of an inch. Then place a flower a rose, a carnation, or any other you choose in the centre of the plate, and over it place an ordinary tin funnel. Blow gently into the small end of the funnel, and lift it slowly and gradually at the same time. Keep on blowing until a good-sized bubble has formed, and then gently disengage the funnel. This may be done by turning turn-ing it at right angles, but you must be very careful to avoid breaking the bubble. S When the funnel his" been disengaged disen-gaged there will be a large bubble on the plate, in the centre of which is the flower, and those who did not see the bubble blown will wonder how the flower got there. The Obedient Ball. For the purpose of this trick a Wooden ball, two inches or so in diameter, diam-eter, will be required; an old croquet cro-quet ball will suit the purpose admirably. admir-ably. This ball must be bored with a red hot iron, not straight from end to end, but so as to form a sort of angle in the middle, but the points where the hole begins and ends should be opposite each other. Through the hole thus formed pass a piece of thin cord or string, and at ach end of this tie a large knot, so as not to allow either of the ends to pass through the hole in the ball. Now you are ready to perform the trick. Place one end of the string un-fier un-fier your foot and take the other in your light hand, holding the string rather slack. Lift the ball up to the top of the string, and let go of it when It will of course run rapidly down the String. Repeat this, several times in order to show the audience that the ball runs down the string quite freely, and tell them that you can cause the ball to become quite obedient to your will. Again raise the ball to the top of the string and allow it to run down quite freely, as before, until it reaches the centre, then tighten the string; this causes the latter to be, as it were, gripped by the angle in the centre of the ball, which will thereby be prevented pre-vented from falling further down the string. Ask the ball to drop to the bottom, slacken the string, and the ball will obey you. Raise the ball again, and ask it to go down the string slowly; this is easily done by keeping keep-ing the string,moderately tight. Invite any of the company to select se-lect a particular spot in the string at which the ball must remain stationary, this being accomplished by tightening the string as before when the. ball has reached the desired spot. The trick can be repeated as often as desired, as it gives no clue to the secret If the slackening and tightening tighten-ing of the string be properly managed it wlllbe unonticed by the company. The Man in the Moon. There is a quaint tradition about how the belief in the Man in the Moon originated, that is worth retelling. retell-ing. Like so many of these beliefs, it began be-gan way' back in Bible times, and in quite another dress. By many nations the old man is supposed to be the one who first made his appearance in the book of Numbers (chapter xv., verse 32). Then he was found by the children chil-dren of Israel gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. He was taken before Moses and condemned to death. He was taken later outside the camp and stoned until he died. One would think that was punishment enough even for so awful a crime, but superstition took him in hand at that point and con-Signed con-Signed him to the moon, where, with a bunch of sticks on his tired old back, tie is destined to climb forever tip the shining hill and never reach the top. The story goes that his faithful dog was permitted to share his fate, and If you look carefully when the night is clear you will see the pair tolling away upon their endless climb. The face of the old man also grew out of the old-time tradition, but the ttfgures are quite plain if one puts on the glasses of Imagination. Los Angeles An-geles Times. Clock Puxzle. There Is represented on this clock face twelve household articles. When the names of the articles are written in their proper order the initials will spell what Shakspeare calls "time" in his play of "Twelfth Night" How to Raise Rabbits. Wild rabbits are much more intelligent intelli-gent than others, and if you get one or two wild baby bunnies and feed them on milk they will soon get quite tame. . Bunnies should have their coats brushed every day, just like you have your hair combed and brushed, for it makes their fur grow and keeps it soft and shiny. Bran, grain, peas, parsley, carrots, turnip tops and a few cabbage leaves are the things that rabbits like to eat, and a dish of clean water should always be kept in the hutch. The bunnies should be allowed to run about outside their hutch for half an hour every day, and only, one family fam-ily at a time, or else, I am sorry to say, there'll be ructions, as rabbits are rather naughty about fighting. A gbod hutch can easily be made from a grocer's box, by covering the open front with some wire netting and making a little door. The, hutch should be raised a few inches from the ground, and holes bored in the Bottom for drainage. Line it with plenty of clean 6traw, and in wet or cold weather bunny's house should have a cloth thrown right over it at night to keep it warm. Keep the hutch very clean. To Guess Several Drawn Cards. For this trick you employ a pack, consisting entirely of similar cards, from which you let two or three persons per-sons draw cards. They should not sit too closely together, however, lest one should see the cards drawn by the others. They note their cards and replace re-place them in the pack. You turn, and while pretending to look through the pack, you take twb other cards which you must have at hand, place with them a card out of the pack, and approach ap-proach those persons who have drawn cards, asking each, if his card is not among the three. On receiving an answer in the affirmative you point out the drawn card. The Pictorial Letter. Following is a letter which a gentleman gen-tleman sent to his clever nephew. Knowing that his young relative was clever at solving picture puzzles, the uncle, instead of writing his message 1fydt) (GQE) -jU ofay tfjt,fi& f -t S sen. ty affectum,?. In the ordinary way, drew several picture pic-ture puzzles in place of the most important im-portant words. Can you read It? A Composite Game. This is an impromptu game, that is to say, it may be played at any time or anywhere without preparation, and therefore is just the game for boys and girls to have ready when called on for something to amuse a company. Eight players take .part in It. They seat themselves in a row or a circle, and the first player whispers to his neighbor on the left the article "the" or "a." The second player whispers to his left-hand neighbor an adjective; the third a noun in the singular number, num-ber, the fourth a verb, the fifth an adverb, ad-verb, the sixth a number, the seventh EASILY MADE TOY Make a boat of strong cardboard, as shown in figure. The rudder, turning about a pin as. axle, is connected with the sides of the boat by two pieces of thread of uneven length, giving the rudder an angular position. A tub of water is the ocean on which our little boat will steam about Two pieces of wire, bent as shown In figure and fastened to the sides of the boat like hooks, hold an eggshell, the consents of which you have sucked out leaving a little hole on one side, as shown in figure. The shell Is filled with water up to the little hole and an adjective and the eighth a in the plural number. You may Imagine that these whispered whis-pered words, when joined In a sentence, sen-tence, will make an amusing mixture, for no one knows, of course, what word his neighbor on the right has. Snnnnso for examnle. the first player whisners the article "the." the Seconal "Intellectual," the third "camel," the fourth "waltzed," the fifth "amiably" the sixth "fifty," the seventh "down hearted," the eighth "hyenas." Therp-you Therp-you have the completed senteno I "The intellectual camel waltze I amiably fifty downhearted hyenas." I One ridiculous sentence after alp other may be formed in this way until the party tires of the game. Pinhole Photography. Photography without a lens would seem at first glance to be impossible. J It in so eenerallv understood that fOs,f stood that fop good work a good lens is necessari? thoso New Chersey sports shase those that it is scarcely credible that som 'g four little hand-raised baby wolfs! of the finest photographic work is ol .That was a picture for a great artist tained without the use of a lens at al tYworthy by a colored supplement, no? merely by the aid of a minute hole 1 , "It wass one of those curious mani-the mani-the side of a light-tight box, which i4J festations by heredity, no, that when a arranged to contain a sensitive platetf' man hass spent a lifetime shasing dol-Buf dol-Buf the practicability of this method f jars nothing will satisfy his hopeful of photography is amply proved by tlL(feons a little but that they must shase fine specimens that accompany jn jofoxes. This disposition wass kept tide on the subject, by JuanC? . j esa n those parts of the country SLJf- sheap and plenty, ""X . -Tv 7. v . " in apparatus; any kind of a light-tigbC box will suffice, provided it can b& opened to insert the plate. Explfesy' directions for procedure are given i3j the article. 41 here there wass no foxes to shase! - y '"""I haf had the fox hunting sports Needles as Spear. L Yell me a little that there wass no Take a darning needle of mediumi size and stand three yards away fromlfoxea enchoy being shased. That wass i ui 11.. j i i . . ..... a floor, holding tne neeaie Detween the thumb and index finger.. Throw IWJ , to illf the needle like a 6pear and try fasten it onto the door. You wi never succeed, no matter how hard you try. .--. But by putting a piece of thread through the eye of the needle yoq will always succeed in sticking it in the wood. Another spear can be made of a writing pen and four paper wings, as shown In the figure. Suppose. Suppose someone should advertise For children brave and true. Who'd have the courage to say, "No," When asked a wrong to do. Suppose the wrong was something nice,, You'd always longed to do; I wonder If the answers would Contain a note from you? ' Los Angeles Times. Riddles and Things. April March? No, but Can June May. When is a man thinner than a lath? When he is shaving. When does a chair dislike you? When it cannot bear you. Why is a sheet of stamps like distant dis-tant relatives? Because they are only slightly connected. Why is a whale like a water lily? Because It always comes to the surface sur-face to blow. What is better than presence of mind in a railroad accident? Absence of body. A Few Conundrums. What tories have always been successful? suc-cessful? ' Victories. What sects are people striving to exterminate? Insects. What stream of water is made from the union of two liquors? Brandy wine creek. When does a gentleman dress in feathers? When he wears a swallowtail swallow-tail coat. When does a little girl become a' city of China? When she is Pekln (peeking). What tree answers the questions, "Which would beat in a race, a cat. or . a cur?" Dogwood. When is a doughnut like one of Dickens' characters? When it is all of a twist (Oliver twist). Why is a barrel better than a battering batter-ing ram? Because two heads are better bet-ter than one. if one is a sheep's head. What evergreen, placed in the center cen-ter of a forest tree, brings it into good repute? .A TJ (yew) In the center cen-ter of poplar makes it popular STEAMBOAT. represents the boiler, placed on the two pieces o) wire, with the hole to the rear somewhat above the rear wall of the boat To heat the boiler we use half of an eggshell placed on a piece of cork underneath the boiler, with a small piece of cotton In the center. Pour some alcohol on the cot ton and set fire to it The water will begin to boll in a few minutes and a fine stream of steam -will leave the hole of the eggshell. The pressure of the steam on the air will move the little lit-tle boat in the opposite direction that is, forward and we have a steaoboat without wheels' or screw. W OX SSVNTERS "Ach! The resourcefulness of the human mind already I" said Mr. Katz-enlieb Katz-enlieb when the real estate man came in to arrange for an outing trip. "It iss now a club of New Chersey sports who haf risen abofe the difficulties of hunting when there lss nothing to hunt a little. It wass a club for the purpose of hunting foxes yet, and there iss no foxes to shase. But you wass not to get by your head the idea once that they sit down in the dumb despair because of that. That would be mistaking yet the true mettle of the New Chersey sport. "It iss that they haf adopted four baby wolfs and are going to bring 4hem up by ie bottle until they get their eyes open and are able to walk, and then they are going to shase them already once. Ach! The baying of the hounds, the blowing by the horns, and the oxcitement chenerallv. when Vere wass no excluslveness by xorce a uttie as loxes get scarcer where they are not at all it be es a grand passion already. Ach! excluslveness of shasing foxes Cruelties by the sport, but ' that the valuable informations, out i nar my own idea maybe the foxes could gif more competent testimony a little. One of the sports tell me once about a hunt he wass with yet where a fox was shased clear across two counties coun-ties from early morning until the efen-ing efen-ing come. . " Tt was a shase the finest that efer oiwe 9 BaXckelor Girl. The bachelor girl's existence may not be exciting, but it does not necessitate neces-sitate trips to Dakota. ! The moment of disillusionment comes when a woman discovers that a man never runs after a street car after it's caught. One might think better of marriage if one's married women friends would not confide in one so much. The happiest love affair for a woman wom-an is the one in which the man is very much In love with her, and she likes him just well enough to make it pleasant pleas-ant to have him around. When she loves deeply, there is as much pain as nleasure in it for her. If there is anything a woman1 en vies a man it is power of sublime and perfect unconsciousness that he can ever bore any woman. Man thinks home is the dearest spot on earth for a woman. -If he has to stay In it himself for three days running run-ning he resembles a bear with a sore paw. Millionaires and subway men have One point in common. Their chief .topics of conversation are money and women. "The woman tempted me," said (Adam, and men have been laying things off on women ever since. Witness Wit-ness the proverbs of every language. A surviving organism always corre- sDonds to its envirorment. When a ) ?woman has to be at the office every morning at a certain hour she learns to wind her watch. ' ' The heroine of every novel Is beautiful beauti-ful and the hero chivalrous qualities about equally common. It is not as easy to make love nicely as most men think. There have been nice moonlight and .warm weather during the month of July; alleviating circumstances of the poor bachelor girl who can't get away for the summer, but has a roof and men friends for her evening consolation. consola-tion. . Persons truly skilled and fastidious JnJove find the preliminary stages of the game most exquisitely interesting. To watch the thing grow, expand, develop, de-velop, to compare it with other experiences experi-ences at a similar point, is one of the fascinations of, life. Vwhen you have learned to accept ttjNl as they are,x and not as you think Jtki. tShould be, there Is really a great deal oi comiort ana interest to De got out of them. ' The bachelor girl puts up with just much deviltry ' from men as any .iL ' . -I A. 11. 1 . uuien wumsu; uui mere is uue (sptjuiea Ul. ecu i aafc lu blauu iuc uiaoivU- f A bore. tThe most fickle woman is perhaps wf one who knows best what love a?iht, could and should be. ftjUiferior animals must always sur-5.ae sur-5.ae by reason of superior manage-!ent manage-!ent That is the only reason woman her?till on earth. I t(k woman minister out in Kalamazoo iJt. a. hill throiiE-h the lesrislature to ish unpleasant slaughter houses in Buttermilk a Liquor Cure, buyer for one of the largest im- yffri XS compelled to sampie euuugu lfp and spirits every day to put an orLbary man out of business, says fofX buttermilk Is his salvation. "I qjQjonly buy five or. six glasses a day at vfthe dairy restaurants or street 6t ifds," he says, "but I drink it all the tjjJnat home, instead of tea or coffee, j xTer touch beer or anything like I keep a stone crock of butter mjiT In the cellar and let it get just a ijltle stale. It is better then than Pen fresh. A man who insists on ranking liquor will find very little troi3J lf he takes Plentv of butter-tnilB butter-tnilB If be wants to swear off butter- Tnil?111 help him 11 13 a sPlendld tonie Mc. Two quarts of good but- arT,atta day will cure any case of tern. ; jo i ... "as indigestion. 11 When Jupiter Shines. 3snr 12 Juniter reaches his Drtinancy. ai tais nine uc sunset and shines all night. far the largest star to be S ereaCF beingfl W Til) was, he say, 'and we haf only on accident already. That wass when wt wass cutting ' across a cemetery yet and one of the riders broke his neck a little by his horse falling into a grafe which had been carelessly left open wnile the funeral wass coming un once. "'When we catch the fox we find that it was a little mother fox, and she haf by her mouth a little cub fox which she haf carry the whole fifty miles while we wass shasing her, until un-til she wass so tired she could run no longer. But it wass the grand sport! While we wass sheering and the dogs wass tearing the little mother fox to pieces I manage to catch the little cub fox and safe him under mine coat a little. " 'Well, that wass good, anyhow,' I say to him, feeling that the situation wass reliefed a little. "'Yes,' he say. 'I haf take him home, and wass going to feed him by the bottle and gif him efery care until he wass able to run. Then I wass going go-ing to get twenty-five hunters and a hoondred dogs arid will then shase him. Already by my fond imaginations imagina-tions I see the dogs tearing him to pieces, after a long exciting shase, and mineself the triumphant owner of his brush a little yet " 'If it Iss the brush you want, I say to him, 'why don't you get one by the fur store, and leaf the little fox to be a pet by your shildren?' " 'Katzenlleb,' he answer with much of the dignity, I do not belief you haf by your veins one drop of the sporting blood already yet. " 'Maybe it iss so, I say to him, 'but I haf other things to think of a little besides shasing foxes.' ' 'So haf I,' he answer yet again. 'I haf my fads by seriousness as well as by sportingness, and I spend much of my times in writing pieces by the paper pa-per about the cowardice and cruelties of the people by the Southern States, when they shase murderers by bloodhounds blood-hounds yet and sometimes hang them a little . Iss it, or iss it not?' "Philadelphia "Phil-adelphia Ledger. Reflections her town. The housekeeping instincts of women will crop out no matter what profession they go into. Ima gine a minister doing anything so prac tical! A wise guy said that a bachelor girl was one who thought she could get married if she wanted to, while an old maid was one who knew she couldn't He erred in his philosophy. A bachelor bache-lor girl is an old maid who contrives to get enough out of existence so that every one knows she wouldn't have to marry either for a home or an interest in life. The really clever woman doesn't compliment a man on what he can do, but on what he can't do. The latter always pleases him most exquisitely. A man in a white duck suit caught in a rainstorm is worst than a girl with a new spring hat in the same predicament. predica-ment. The first thing he always says is "Damn! I had the thing from the Chinaman only yesterday," and then he keeps on. A famous literary man of New York said in his recent commencement address ad-dress at Wellesley that probably none of the women before him would ever vote. Colorado girls in the class all giggled. Love has as many intricacies as music; mu-sic; overtones, subtle harmonies, chords of the diminished seventh. How can any one expect; to learn it In one lesson, and from a single master? A woman who makes a doormat of herself mustn't .resent being walked over. It is an alleviating item in her spin-sterhood spin-sterhood when the bachelor girl learns of a rich man's wife borrowing carfare of her kitchen girl, or instructing the dressmaker how to introduce imaginary imagi-nary items into her bill, that the patron pa-tron may derive a little ready money from the check handed out in payment therefor. No woman with a grain of sense ever destroys her husband's illusion that he can manage her. . Don't blame the bachelor girl for her low views of married happiness. Blame the married women, who for some occult oc-cult reason as yet unexplained take her for their confidant, while maintaining main-taining a bland and self-congratulatory front to their married friends. South Carolina women are working to have the College of Charleston opened to girls. The students oppose1 it on the grouud that the innovation would "alter the spirit and tone of robust manliness." Men are so funny sometimes when they don't mean to be. The woman never lived who did not love with supreme passion the man who was her master. But he must be this not from any outward, material or factitious circumstances, such as carrying car-rying the pocketbook or imposing his will upon her, but only because his nature is so much stronger that without with-out effort or consciousness on his part it dominates hers. Minnie J. Reynolds Rey-nolds in New. York Times. ' Wanted to Be Suited. George Lawder vouches for this, but he balks at telling the name of the doctor. A small boy was told by his mother that there would soon bo a new baby for him to play with, as the doctor was going to bring It In his black bag. That afternoon the youngster young-ster appeared at the office of th family fam-ily physician and said : "Are you going to bring a new baby to out house?" "Yes, my little man," replied the doctor, highly amused. "Then," returned the small boy, "let me have a look at the kids you have in stock, and 111 pick out the one I think I'll like best" New York Times. Give the Old Man a Chance. j A great wave of gratitude will go up to President Roosevelt from a vast concourse of elders for the order issued is-sued by him eliminating old age as a disqualification for employment as laborers in the government service Give the old men "a chance; the younj; men will take care of themselves.- Kansas City Star. The Way to Success. From Farmers' Review: The lesson the world's most eminent and successful success-ful men have taught us most forcibly is . the Importance of enthusiastic effort ef-fort The accomplishment of any given object In life is based largely upon how intently we are taken up with Its Importance. Our hearts must be in our avocation. He who wills to do with his whole heart, conquers or dies in the attempt Too much of what the world has seen fit to designate desig-nate as pastime or pleasure enters into our everyday existence. Its presence can be traced to every man's dally activities. Each successive duty we perform has its degree of earnestness or indifference. The poultryman who takes the details of his business to bed with him at night and arises with it in mind is not disappointed In his association. asso-ciation. Enthusiasm conquers all problems and perplexities and knows no failures. It finds a way or makes one. Ignorance, false theories, mistakes, all are -but stepping stones to success to nim who wills with enthusiastic, zeal. When the breeder of prize fowls puts determination, intelligence and enthusiasm enthu-siasm correctly proportioned Into his mating, handling, advertising and exhibiting, ex-hibiting, something always happens. What happens is success. Where one fails another is successful. Out of the same soil wheat and tares are produced, pro-duced, from the same family, perhaps, per-haps, the successful business man and the pauper, the reformer and the drunkard. One presses forward to a definite aim in life with enthusiastic zeal, the other drifts aimlessly here and there on the waves of circumstances. circum-stances. As our lot in life Is what we choose to make it, so surely will our poultry operations prove successes ior failures in proportion to the amount of earnest zeal and energy there is in evidence. It is from a fancier's point of view that I speak, and a few things I consider of vital Importance. You must procure the very best of stock. and select for advertising mediums pa pers of known large circulation. Make your advertisements clear and concise. Be sure your have stated convincing facts. When you have received an inquiry for stock or eggs, summon all the common sense, good judgment, business ability and tact at your com mand. You will need them all to properly handle the Inquiry. Right here is one of the most decisive points in success or failure. Always use good printed stationery. A catalogue or goo'd circular is a help and saves an immense amount of writing. A good show record is a very great help. All who are endowed with a reasonable amount of common sense and have a liking for the poultry business, and will press forward with enthusiastic zeal and give it their time and atten tion, will find that success will crown their efforts. Elmer Gimlin, Christian County, Illinois. , Dust Baths. We hope our readers will not forget that there are only certain times in the year when dust may be had from the well-traveled highway. During most of the year the road is either frozen or muddy or In the process of t urying, at wnicn time it is noi yu-slble yu-slble to get dust suitable for the use of the fowls. A few barrels of dust at this time of year will serve to keep the fowls free from body lice all the rest of the time. It will require a little effort to make this collection now, but it will save much work later on dusting the fowls one by one with sulphur compounds or insect powders. This hand work should be avoided as much as possible. Give the fowls a good dust bath and they will take care of the lice question.' It may be necessary to go some distance dis-tance to get the dust desired unless the road in front of the farm house is well traveled. The dust bath should be arranged in a good-sized box and placed in the pen in a place where the sun will strike it and keep it dry. The hens like to lie and dust themselves them-selves in the sun, especially in winter. During the summer months a dust bath may be made out of doors, near the poultry house, but should be protected pro-tected from above by some kind of a protection against rain. Otherwise a sudden shower may turn the whole thing into mud and it will be several days in drying out The greatest difficulty we have found with the dust bath is the inclination inclina-tion of the hens to roost on the edge of the box at night If a cover is put over It they try to roost on the cover. But tills can be obviated by hinging the cover to the wall and having it drop over the box in a' slanting manner. man-ner. The fowls will then find it impossible im-possible to stick on the cover, much as they may desire to do so. We have had hens make the dust bath their laying place, and this is always annoying. We have no panacea for this evil, but It does not always occur. Where it does, and becomes serious, the poultry keeper will have just grounds for experimentation. We would like the experiences of our readers on the, question of dust boxes and dust baths. What have they found the most serviceable arrangement arrange-ment of the box and what has been their experiences . with the objectionable objection-able features? Also how many farm- Uers provide their fowls with any dust bath at ail in winter? Yield of Barnyard Millet Barnyard millet is a heavy yielder of green fodder; from 12 to 18 tons per acre have, been grown upon the college col-lege farm, on naturally moist land in good condition, while as high as ' 35 tons per acre have been reported by outside parties. Our own experience has shown it to yield from 12 to 14 tons per acre upon medium loam in good state of fertility, but not naturally natur-ally very retentive of moisture. Such quantities, however, were produced without the millet appearing to suffer from lack of water; and it is believed that this amount is a conservative estimate es-timate of its productiveness, unless the land Is especially moist, warm and fertile. If the millet is planted in drills 15 inches apart and allowed to mature, it will yield about 60 bushels of seed per acre, of an average weight of 35 pounds per bushel. When sown broadcast, 90 bushels per acre have been reported. Hatch Experiment Station report In order to put a stop to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" shows, the Howard County (Mo.) court recently decided to levy a tax of $200 a day on all such shows. Seventy-seea per cent of th women and 62 . per cent of the men taking civil service examination are able to pass them. Notes on Nut Trees. There is an ever-increasing demand for hickory, chestnut and walnut lumber. lum-ber. The supply of these trees is very short indeed, and the price that a good one will bring Increases from year to year. It is altogether probable that the price paid for such lumber fifty years from now will be very much In advance of the price paid now. It is-therefore is-therefore suggested by men who have looked the ground over pretty thoroughly thor-oughly that It would be a good investment invest-ment to plant quite heavily of these trees now where land is unsuited to general farming purposes. That there is an abundance of such land we all know, for we see it here and theT bearing only scrubby growths cfcnf ferent kinds of trees of small value. If trees are to be grown at all, why not grow valuable ones. Besides, the nuts of some of these trees have some value in the market We realize that it is difficult to grow chestnuts in all situations. The tree seems to be one that will do well only where given proper conditions of soil and moisture supply. Yet there are certainly many waste places where chestnut trees might be successfully grown. The nuts would prove quite a valuable annual receipt while the main harvest of timber was being waited for. He who plants these trees plants for his children unless he himself is a very young man, but most men de sire to do something of the kind. Some years ago an enthusiastic. Pennsylvanian came Into the office of the Farmers' Review to show some targe chestnuts of the Parecon variety. vari-ety. He told of a new company organized organ-ized in his state with the object of cultivating cul-tivating this nut Since that time the company mentioned, the Paragon Nut and Fruit Company, has been doing good work in reforesting hilly and rocky land in that state. They began work about eight years ago, purchasing purchas-ing 200 acres of hilly mountain land. This land contained much native chestnut, which was cut down and permitted per-mitted to sprout from the stumps. These sprouts were then grafted. The 6prout with a full-sized root under it grows with great rapidity, and thei graft will bear some chestnuts In a very few years, and will become profitable prof-itable In a few years more. Other tracts of land were bought in subsequent years and treated as had been the first tract Now the company has about 800 acres of land, on which are growing grow-ing 80,000 trees. There is always a demand for chestnuts, both for eating boiled and roasted and for confectioners' confection-ers' use. The Strawberry Bed. From Farmers' Review: The late frosts got the earliest blossoms, but owing to rush the patch was not worked over this spring, leaving a mat of plants, so the frosts were perhaps per-haps an advantage to us, for while the yield was less, the berries were larger. The second week of berry time was very warm with daily showers, hence the fruit ripened very fast, yielding from eight to eleven gallons daily; but oh, so hard to pick! by being in a mat From a pa-tch 1-16 of an Wre In extent ex-tent we gathered seventy-four gallons of berries, and perhaps eight or ten quarts spoiled. Ripening as fast as they did, a few ripe berries overlooked to-day would be spoiled to-morrow. The quality was fine, extra; and the isize on an average was very good, some few berries as large as common peaches four inches in circumference. circumfer-ence. The yield was in proportion to 4,600 quarts per acre. The bed was not mulched at all last winter or spring; where the bed Is covered with thick foliage, it is better to mulch lightly with straw or leaves in our climate, if at all, excepting with late set bed. Now since the harvest I3 over, spaces two feet wide are marked off lengthwise of the bed; in each alternate alter-nate space the plants are dug out this vacant space is to be spaded or plowed, then mulched with stable ma- nure as free from weeds as is possible. Commercial fertilizer suitable to strawberries and to the soil in which they are grown would be the best possible to use, as it is free from seeds, but we have the manure; hence for economical reasons we shall use it cultivating the weeds out of this path. In addition to fertilizing the vacant place, unleached wood ashes will be thickly sown over the rows of plants. Plants will be left as they are in the plant rows, weeds, grass and clover being all removed, but there isn't much of this, only where the berry plants are thinnest All runners will be kept out of vacant va-cant rows, and straw will be put there this winter. If put on thick enough, this will do away with weed-fighting and also serve some protection to the berry plants. Do not mulch heavily with material that lies close or packs; better risk winter killing than smothering. smoth-ering. Emma Clearwaters. Argentine Corn Crop. The Minister of Agriculture of Argentina Ar-gentina estimates the corn crop of this year, now harvested, at 148,000,-000, 148,000,-000, which was grown on 4,436,157 acres of land. Last year the area under un-der maize amounted to 3,473,746 acres and the total crop to 84,018,341 bushels, bush-els, the average yield being then 24.2 bushels per acre. The increase was 27.7 per cent in the area, 33 per cent In the average yield per acre, and 76.7 per cent in the total crop. The quantity quan-tity of maize available for exportation this year Is not likely to be quite in proportion to the magnitude of the crop produced, as a considerable amount was damaged by wet weather and a portion of the crop was lost for want of adequate labor to gather it while in good condition. In many cases cattle were turned into the fields to eat the standing corn, owing to the impossibility of geting labor to harvest it in time. Nut Growers to Meet The second annual convention of the National Nut Growers' Association will assemble in the city of New Orleans, Or-leans, La., on the last Wednesday (28th) of October, 1903, at 10 o'clock a. m. Arrangements being made contemplate con-template a two or three days' session. A cordial invitation is extended to all those interested in this industry by the State of Louisiana, the city of New Orleans and the officers of the Nation al Nut Growers' Association to meet In convention at the time and place mentioned. Farmyard manure is the commonest ind most important of all fertilizers, but as a rule it is largely wasted before bein applied to the soil. |