The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, March 10, 1898, Image 6

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KISSING the rod
O heart of mine we shouldnt
Worry so
What weve missed of calm we couldnt
Have you know
What weve met of stormy pain
And of sorrows driving rain j
We can belter meet again
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Wc have erred in that dark -hour
We have known
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When our tears fell with the shower
All alone
Were not shine and shower blent
As the gracious Master meant
Xct us temper our content J
With His own
lFor we know not every morrow
Can be sad
So forgetting all the sorrow
We have had
Let us fold away our fears
And put by our foolish tears
And through all the coming years
Just be glad
James Whitcomb Riley
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VERY marriage
is hazardous but
I can conceive of
no greater risk
than was taken
by that same
handsome mild
mannered woai
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Judge Watson
was speaking of
a smiling ele
gantly dressed
lady -whom he
had just bowed
out of his office
and to her car-
She
look to
doesnt
me like
ne who had gone through many sev
ere trials in life
I am thinking of the chance she
took and what might have been The
story is worth listening to although
perhaps I will tell it badly
Lets have it by all means I said
Very well answered the judge
Like a cigar and while we are smok
ing I will try to tell you the story
The lady who just left has a twin
-sister who is now abroad When they
were girls together it was impossible
to tell them apart and when they grew
to young womanhood they were literal-
4y as much alike as two peas and their
uiother was the only one aside from
themselves that could tell which -was
which when they were abroad in the
same attire They used to play lots of
jokes on the young men for being so
much alike this was easy to do They
were pretty girls and had scores of
young beaus ready and willing to have
all sorts of pranks played upon them
-for just the sake of their company
Howard Gleason was especially at
tentive to Maud and he admits that
lie sometimes made the mistake of
bracing the wrong sister when he hap
pened to meet her suddenly in a poor
light
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The father old Mr Wardlow was
rich and proud and only knew that
Howard Gleason was courting one of
bis daughters Now Howard was not
blessed with this worlds goods and
old man Wardlow wTas ambitious for
bis daughters so he very promptly is
sued an ultimatum The young man
could have neither of the daughters
until he had toiled Sometimes he felt
tempted to break his pledged word
and write to the girl imploring her to
send him a few words if only enough
to tell him that she was still faithful
And then his pride would come to his
rescue and he would say to himself
No I will not write if she cant be
faithful to me better I should know
it now than when it is too late So
be worked and toiled cheered always
by the belief that a fair sweet girl was
waiting to welcome him home and
counting the hours just as he was do
ing
Luck was with the young man and
in little more than a year he and his
partner struck it rich and he was
naif owner of a mine that promised to
become one of the richest in that
-try Then he determined to go back
borne and tell the girl of his heart of
his good fortune He would be his own
messenger in carrying the glad news
-so without a word he put his things
together and started east
Of course having had no correspon
dence with any one in the town no one
was aware of Howards good fortune
and when he arrived at his old home
be came unheralded He took only
eufficicnt time to brush up a bit and
then be started for Mr Wardlows
Arrived at the bouse he knew so well
ttnd the afternoon being warnv he
found nobody about save the old gar-
- deuer who was looking after his flow
ers
Where is your mistress Howard
asked
The old man hesitated
Cant you understand English
Howard said impatiently Where Is
your young mistress
Shes shes in the grove sir
a readin said the old man bowing
obsequiously and without more ado
Howard went to seek her You can
perhaps imagine the meeting He
came suddenly upon a fair young crea
ture swinging in her hammock under
the trees and reading Coming up
- quietly behind her he Sung his arms
about her and caught her to his heart
as be covered her face with kisses
Then he held her off at arms length
and said
Maud my darling
While she answered Howard and
hid her face on his breast
Howard had waited sufficiently long
- for bis wife and so they were qiuetly
married the next day and left at once
-on their wedding tour
ceased bta atocr aad
Here the judge
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sat silent puffing at his cigar so long
that the other said
Well I dont see anything so very
risky in that
The judge smiled and then went on
Wait It was the other one that
Howard had married Maud had suc
cumbed to the charms of a foreigner
had married and gone away with him
The other one loved Howard had al
ways loved him When she found too
that he had not the slightest notion of
the true condition of affairs she con
ceived the idea of marrying him her
self and explaining to him afterward
After much coaxing and because she
believed that her daughters happiness
depended upon it Mrs Wardlow con
sented to the plot When they return
ed from their wedding tour Howards
wife told him everything Hes a sen
sible fellow and was quick to see that
what had happened was all for his
happiness
Five years have gone by and to this
day he has never quit thanking his
stars that he didnt marry Maud but
married the other one
Twelve million silk hats are annually
made in the United Kingdom worth
live million pounds
Russia possesses at least one luxury
in a breed of dogs which are said to be
naturally quite unable to bark
Liszts great skill with the piano was
in pant due to his immense industry
For years he practiced ten hours a day
The highest masts of sailing vessels
are from 1G0 to ISO feet high and
spread from G0000 to 100000 square
feet of canvas
It costs 574 per million gallons to
pump water to Chestnut Hill Reser
voir The engines pump S938 gallons
on one pound of coal
The Sudbury River aqueduct in 359
days has delivered 14857300000 gal
lons to Chestnut Hill Reservoir and
35500000 to Lake Cochituate
In Geneva Switzerland many build
ings have been fitted with electric let
ter boxes which ascend and descend
automatically in a shaft and deliver
the letters destined for each story
There is much trouble and conflict In
the South over the proposition to put
cotton up in round bales Nobody is
exactly clear as to the result Several
round bale compresses have been built
There are 124 bridges in the city of
Boston The city owns and main
tains sixty four of this number The
railroads support thirty three Besides
these there are also eighteen bridges
which begin in Boston but end in some
other city or town
Poisoned by a Stingaree
There is a fish inhabiting tropical
waters and often found along the Flori
da and Gulf coasts known as the stin
garee Along its back and tail are sharp
spines which inflict serious wounds and
at the same time poison the flesh As
a rule these wounds are very painful
but not dangerous being much like the
sting of a wasp or hornet
Dr Charles Spratt a physician living
in Jacksonville Fia was fishing the
other day at the mouth of the St Johns
River and caught one of these stin
garees While removing the fish from
the hook he was stung on the left
hand near the little finger The pain
was intense and Dr Spratt ordered his
boatman to row for Fort George Is
land where Dr McAuley lives Be
fore the island was reached Dr Spratt
was unconscious Dr McAuley was
unable to restore the injured man to
consciousness so he sent for the sur
geon on board the United States ship
Wilmington which was anchored near
The doctor concluded that artificial
respiration was the only way to save
Dr Spratts life and a number of ne
groes were employed alternately rais
ing and lowering his arms This was
continued for ten hours at the end of
which time Dr Spratt wakened up and
in a short time was out of danger
This is the first instance in which the
sting of the fish has threatened serious
results New York World
First Princess to Ride in Bloomers
Princess Louise of Saxony is the firsl
princess to wear bloomers The bi
cycling craze early took hold of the
women of European royal families just
as it has of women everywhere Tthc
Bang of Italy was opposed to it and
Emperor William became angry when
bis sisters and cousins persisted ir
wheeling around the country lanes ol
Germany but they were forced to per
mit it Princesses cannot do as othei
mortals and so they had to foregc
bloomers and cling to the drop frame
bicycle But now Princess Louise has
thrown over the conventions and ridei
in comfort The princess is the wif
of George the heir to the throne and s
brother of the king She herself is at
archduchess of Austria Hungary She
is 55 years of age and has two sons
French Device Against Fire
The Theatre Francais at Paris has
peculiar device to insure the greatest
possible safety for the audience Nof
only can the scene be separated from
the audience by a hermetically closing
steel curtain but the roof of the seen
can be uncovered at a moments notice
so that a draught of air is produced
which carries away the smoke and nor
ious gases produced in the fire These
it is said constitute the greatest dan
ger to the audience often rendering es
cape quite impossible It is on th
scene that the fire usually breaks out
Useful There
Hopsmith ought to take his wiri
with him to the Klondike
Any special reasons
Yes lve noticed she always doe
their snow shoveling at home De
troit Free Press
rne sweetest smiie is aiwu ys uesiow
ed cm somebody else
A GKICULTUML NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOWIE
After Producing Fine Fruit Xcarn
How to Eell It for the Most Money
Plymouth Rock Hens Have Many
Points ofExcellcncc Brief Notes
Fruit Growing
An apple tree will nearly care for
itself but the man who wants good
frees in the future will thin his fruit
If a tree bore one hundred apples I
should remove fifty If the next year
it bore two hundred I should leave one
hundred to ripen and the next if ithad
a thousand I should leave six hundred
This will get the tree into the habit
of bearing A peach tree that will set
a thousand peaches needs to nave sK
or seven hundred thinned off Thus
you will get more bushels to the tree
The more you throw away the more
you will have and you will practically
get 4 for 1
After producing fine fruit learn how
to sell it for the most money The
fruit which brings most is that which
is neatest fullest and most honestly
packed Pick your fruit carefully and
in the cool of the day Pack in a cool
place and in tight packages for the less
air that reaches the fruit the better
Then put the crates in a cool place In
packing grade your fruit the finest
first then medium etc The three or
four grades should be uniform through
out Ask your dealers what kind of
packages sell best Next get a good
dealer and tell him you have a good
thing Have your commission man go
and see your place The business side
of fruit growing means belief in your
self and then making those with whom
you trade believe in you Finally do
not go into the business until you have
thought it out and made up your mind
that you will suceed Grange Homes
Profitable Hens
In ray operations in the poultry line
1 have never found any breed to pos
sess so many points of excellence with
the ordinary treatment of the average
farmer as the Plymouth Rocks They
pay me I have had a flock of forty
Plymouth Rock hens average me 145
per hen for the year with a country
market for poultry and eggs They
had the run of the farm and barn with
an abundance of sour milk and such
grains as the farm produced This
seemed to furnish all they desired ex
cept grit which was supplied in plas
ter scraped from the walls of an old
house Now with a larger flock I am
feeding buckwheat mostly raking it
deep into chaff and straw with bone
and meat scraps obtained from butch
ers The liens have plenty of warm
water to drink and they take lots of it
too My hens are kept in what was
once a hay bay now fitted with win
dows and devoted to poultry It is
light warm and roomy joins the main
barn floor by a sliding door and the
hens are let out a while each day and
given the run of the entire barn both
for exercise and to save scattered
grain It works as well as a more cost
ly arrangement and keeps the fowls in
splendid vigor Last spring there was
scarcely an infertile egg in all my
hatch Maine Bulletin
Straw Stack Stables
Wherever grain is largely grown the
straw left after threshing will make
a cheap and warm stable for stock the
ensuing winter All that is needed is
to set posts in the ground close enough
together so that they will form a good
support for a flat roof and pile the
straw over it and on at least three
sides The side not built up against
may be used wholly as a door for stock
to run in and out or it may be boarded
up and one or two board doors made
Sometimes this straw stable is made
against the side of a stack and the ani
mals are allowed to eat into it This
however is a dangerous practice for
late in winter stock may eat far enough
so as to disturb the balance of the
stack bringing it over on them and
smothering them Where the stack is
built over a stout shed there is no such
danger It can be easily made as warm
as any basement barn and without
much cost except of the straw Ameri
can Cultivator
Sowing Grass Seed
One of the questions being discussed
at the farmers institutes is whether
the old time custom of sowing grass
seed on grain is as beneficial of good
results as sowing the seed alone It is
true that the grain shades the grow
ing grass but the stronger root growth
of the grain crop must to a certain ex
tent affect the young grass Then
there is the advantage when grass seed
is sown without using grain land of
thorough preparation of the soil for
the grass crop which is not the case
when grain is seeded in the fall and
grass in the spring It is possible that
if grass seed is sown on land that is
fine and ready for the seed it will make
much greater growth than when sewn
on grain and thus escape the effects of
he dry season which usually comes in
summer On sandy soil clover and the
various grasses may be seeded down
in August but on clay soil the frost
aiay throw the plants out during the
winter It is a mistake however to
suppose that a grass crop can not be
grown from spring seeding without the
aid of a grain crop
Golden Rod
This native plant deserves a place in
all gardens and especially in those
having a collection of American plants
1 l is so hardy so showy and so easily
grown that it deserves more attention
than it often gets Each little shoot
broken away from the old plant in the
spring and planted in almost any way
or place will become quite a plant by
fall A clump of It lights up the corner
mrtirtrsK
in which It grows like a bonfire Ono
of the chief merits of the plant is its
ate flowering quality By its use we
prolong the season greatly With it
should always be grown a variety or
two of our late native asters The two
plants are boon companions and one
seems lonely without the other Cer
tainly the yellow glory of the golden
rod is greatly heightened by the purple
haze of the less showy but equally
beautiful flowers and between them
there is a contrast that is full of most
harmonious effects
Sliding Barn Doors
There should be no toleration of the
old fashioned swinging barn doors
which winds will soon break from their
hinges making it impossible to operate
them except by lifting the door and
carrying it around The sliding doors
on iron rollers are easily kept in order
and are worked so easily that a little
child has power enough to operate one
of them They have also the advan
tage that the door may be slightly open
ed and kept in that position which
would be difficult to do with a door
swinging on hinges The sliding door
came into use when basement barus
were constructed In such case the
doors on the lower side where they
were 10 to 12 feet above the basement
had to be put on rollers The conveni
ence of the sliding door now makes it
more lesirable on barns however they
may be constructed
Sowing Grass Seed
Clover seed on grain is sown as early
as it can be done It will be an advan
tage to go over the grain field with a
smoothing harrow which will not only
benefit the grain but prepare the
ground somewhat for the seed Do not
try to seed by using the hand but sow
with a seed sower a wheelbarrow seed
sower being excellent If tlie wheat
plants have been loosened by frost sow
the clover seed and run the roller over
the land The weather conditions
must of course influence the matter
Many farmers sow clover seed on the
snow allowing the rains and melting
snow to carry the seed down but there
will occur a large loss of seed which
will be eaten by birds some will freeze
and become worthless portions will
not be covered by earth and the
catch will largely depend on spring
conditions
Potatoes After Corn
It is possible to grow a good potato
crop after corn if the latter has been
planted on an old sod heavily manured
In such case a good deal of the virtue
of the sod was not secured by the corn
crop and there is besides a dressing
of well rotted manure to be turned up
by the spring plowing It is much bet
ter to plant early potatoes on such land
and to plant them as early as a good
seed bed can be had Without a fresh
sod to decay and furnish plant food
and moisture in midsummer the re
sult with late potatoes would be that
they dry up just at the critical tinif
for making a crop
Varieties of Peaches
It is believed that failures wlti
peaches in many sections are partially
due to the proper varieties for eacr
section of the country not being select
ed To learn more on the subject th
work of testing the varieties has bee
submitted to twenty four experimen
stations and it is believed that the re
suits will be very beneficial One o
the great difficulties in the way is tha
of procuring varieties true to name 1
is seldom that a peach grower succeeds
in procuring the exact varietes order
ed unless he knows from whom to buj
or has evidence that no mistake wili
be made
The Best Turkeys for Breeding
It is not surprising that turkeys
should soon run out and become infer
ior in every way when we remembei
how so many farmers choose theii
breeding stock All the late birds
stunted by corn feeding while youns
are saved while those that are large
and fine are sent to market The idea
is that the small bird will be fully
grown and as large as the largest by
spring But it never is Saving the
best birds for breeders insures earlier
laying of eggs and an early crop of
turkeys next year
Profits in Blackberries
Perhaps it is safe in asserting that in
proportion to labor and capital invest
ed no crop pays as large a profit as
blackberries Growers who complain
that blackberries do not pay should
first estimate the expense There are
blackberry fields that have borne crops
for ten years which have never re
ceived a pound of fertilizer or manure
and outside of cutting away the old
canes with rough cultivation in the
spring have received no labor What
blackberries would do for the grower
if treated like strawberries Is j et to be
demonstrated by some
Stock that Gains in Value
One of the best rules for profitable
farming is to always keep as much
young growing stock as possible and
to discard early that which because
of age is declining in value Food that
makes growth is always much more
productive than that given the fully
grown animal which only requires to
be fattened In a hog the first 100
pounds cost less than the second hun
dred After a hog gets to be 300 weight
most of its food goes to maintain its
present condition and there is very
little profit to the feeder
Value of the Cow Pea
Analyses made at the Colorado Ex
periment Station show that pea vine
hay is richer in protein than either clo
ver or alfalfa The pea vines contain
materially more nitrogen than alfalfa
and are valuable for green manuring
There is a considerable amount of pea
vliie hay made in Colorado The vari
ety grown for that purpose is known
as itho Mexican pea
The Need Is Pelt
The growing sentiment in favor of
good roads for Saginaw County Michi
gan asserted itself at a recent session
of the Board of Supervisors Supervisor
Gerber a good roads enthusiast pre
sented a resolution providing for the
adoption of the county good roads sys
tem as proposed by the State Good
Roads League The measure which
was finally laid upon the table evoked
a great amount of discussion which
showed conclusively that a majority of
the supervisors are in favor of macad
amizing the principal roads emanating
from Saginaw as soon as the county is
able to meet such an expense
The good effect of stone roads is be
ing unfavorably felt by Saginaw mer
chants Since Bay County constructed
something like twenty miles of stone
road near the border of Saginaw Coun
ty into Bay City farmers in the north
ern townships have abandoned the
Saginaw market and are hauling all
their produce into Bay City The roads
enable the farmers to market their
goods regardless of the wet seasons
Wm L Webber and Zed Rust two
of the wealthiest men in the valley are
earnest supporters of county road im
provement and- offer to donate thou
sands of tons of chip stone for the
work in the county An effort will be
made to adjust the present road tax
so thnt instead of being worked by each
farmer an equivalent in ca h can be
placed in a township fund to build
stone roads
Why Broad Tired Wheels Pay
A wagon going up hill requires more
force to draw it than when it is moved
on a level When a wheel sinks in soft
soil there is an elevation of the ground
in front of it equal to the depth of the
sinking When a narrow wheel sinks
three or four inches in the ground the
effect is precisely the same as if the
wagon was going up the same incline
when the broad wheel is used but if it
does not sink in the ground this obsta
cle does not exist The surface of the
wheel does not interfere in the least
with the draft of a wagon even on solid
hard ground and it must be evident
that the broad wheel will not cut into
a road as a narrow one will and thus
on soft roads must be easier draft By
the use of a broad tived wagon when
a new road is being laid out it will
soon be rolled hard and solid so that
even a narrow tired wagon will not cut
in but attempt to make a road during
the average harvest winter or spring
season with narrow tired wagons and
the job will usually prove a failure
Roy Stone
Good Roads Wanted
There has been introduced in the
New York Senate a good roads bill
which provides for the construction
through each of the counties of the
State a macadam highway that shall
follow the leading market and travel
routes The entire expense of the con
struction of such roads is to bo borne
by the State and the work is to be done
under the direction of the State en
gineer The only expense to the coun
ties is the preparation of a detailed sur
vey of the highways selected
Bad Road a Continuous Tax
Favorable results are reported from
all the States that have systematically
taken up the work of road improve
ment The subject is one that will make
its way if earnestly considered No one
can say exactly what a good road is
worth but all who use roads know
that a bad one is a heavy continuous
tax St Louis Globe Democrat
Indiana Activity
The commissioners of Lawrence
County have awarded the contract for
fourteen miles of gravel roads to Amos
Musselman Co of Anderson at 32
075 When completed Lawrence Coun
ty will have about one hundred miles
of first class gravel roads Indianap
olis Journal
Farmers Agitate for Good Roads
Lapeer County Michigan farmers
are strongly in favor of the L A W
movement for good roads They are
agitating a plan for State aid to be pre
sented to the next Legislature An L
A W book is being mailed to each
farmer
SELLING HIS MEMOIRS
A Tramps Brilliant Means of Raisins
the Price of a Meal
The audacity and wit of the Ameri
can tramp are proverbial and undoubt
edly they often save him from harsher
treatment than his merits or demerits
entitle him to A country house near
Buffalo recently received a call from
one of the species The man was dirty
unkempt and unmistakably a tramp
He also bore the signs of addiction to
strong drink and general worthless
ness The humorous touch that finish
ed the picture as he came up with a
genial smile and a good deal of man
ner was a round and fresh clerical col
lar which had evidently been lifted
very recently from the premises of the
neighboring college
Madam he said I am a mission
ary but lately returned from long
vears of service in China and other
heathen lands For the sake of health
and relaxation I am renewing my ac
quaintance with nature and my native
laud in this unconventional manner
To help pay my way I am selling for
the merely nominal price of fifteen
cents this record of my missionary ex
periences
The fellow made his speech with a
look in his eyes that showed his enjoy
ment of the game The volume was a
pjjjHW
-
dirty castaway rescued from an asfc
barrel but still The J ife of the Rev
So-and-So Many Years Missionary in
the Far East
Dear dear said one of the ladies
Havent you a clean copy
Madam there are others but they
are with my baggage And they are
twenty live cents a copy he added
this is the popular edition
Oue of the company charmed with
the style and impudence of the scala
wag went in to get the change While
she was gone the missionary and lover
of nature leaned against the veranda
lost wiped his brow with a shining
coattail and cheerfully remarked
Ladies the Lord is giving us delight
ful weather is He not Then he took
his money waved his dismantled derby
affably and went on along the high
way The incident was happily closed
by the purchaser of the Life of the
departed brother reading aloud when
she could catch her breath these open
lug lines of the precious narrative I
was born of humble parentage in the
town of Glastonbury Conn March 18
1792 Buffalo Commercial
Fruit of the Grape
We learn from Pliny that there was
in existence a famous wine made 200
years lefore It was so thick that it
had to be dug out with a spoon and dis
solved in water
Scarcely a nation on the face of the
globe has not used alcohol in some form
or other There seems to be an innate
craving in mankind for intoxicating1
liquors The Greeks alone seemed able
to use the beverages and keep sober
The strongest drink was natural wine w
containing no more alcohol than our
claret yet they always added water to
it The wildest diners never drank
wine that was not a third water for
they drank for exhilaration not
cation
The Macedonians however over
threw Greek temperance They werei
heavy drinkers and were led by the
king himself Once when a suit wnsj
being tried one of the contestants
shouted I appeal To whom
asked rhilip contemptuously I am
the king I appeal said the man
from Thilip drunk to rhilip sober
The suit was retired the next day and
decided to the mans satisfaction
The later Romans cared more for
their wine tlian for any other product
There were 125 varieties in use eighty
of fine quality Common wine was very
cheap and it was a joke that it was less
expensive than water It was common
to mix honey and various spices withi
the wine a more surprising admixture
was that of salt which was supposed
to improve the llavor Another and to
ns barbarous habit was that of add
ing resin or turpentine This is done
in Greece up to the present day
Among the Romans for a few
dred years people were temperate winQj
was scarce and poor and was reserved
exclusively for the men over thirty
years of age Women were forbidden
to use it under pain of death for the
alleged reason that it was an incentive
to high living Women were obliged to
greet all their male relatives with a
kiss on the mouth so that it could be
told if they had been to the wine cellar
Pliny quotes the case of one who cudg
eled his wife to death for having sam
pled his wine and was pardoned by
Romulus Four hundred years later a
Roman dame was starved to death by
her relatives for a similar offense
Chicago News
Sparrow Lynched by Swallows
A successful lynching took place on
a farm in Michigan the other day In
the barn a swallows nest was seen
clinging to the side of a beam from
which was suspended an English spar
row hung by the neck with a hair
from a horses tail While two men
wore sitting in the barn they noticed
a sparrow go into the swallows nest
from -which he began pitching the
young birds Three swallows
tracted by their outcry immediately
pounced upon the intruder After con
fining him to the nest for a few min
utes they threw him out He dropped
about a foot there was a jerk and Mr
Sparrow was hanged as nicely as
though an expert hangman had been
in charge The hair was wound around
his neck several times and after a few
ineffectual struggles he kicked his lasfc
Grand Rapids Herald
Tnnnel Under the Danube
The Danube like the Thames in En
gland and the Hudson in New York
is to have a tunnel beneath its bed
The Hungarian Government has jusi
completed the necessary arrangements
for the construction without delay ot
a subway beneath theriver at Buda
Pesth on the same principle as that oi
the new Blackwell tunnel under the
Thames in London There is to be a
footpath for passengers and an electric
railroad The upper way wili be re
served exclusively for vehicle traffiq
and ventilation is to be provided bj
electricity
Had an Answer Ready
By his ready wit under adverse cip
cumstances a Western Senator recent
ly proved himself a modern Chester
field Although he rides a wheel he is
not yet an expert Recently he wa
wheeling in Washington through the
agricultural grounds when he met a
man and two women whom he knewv
Quite propertly the Senator raised one
hand from his wheel to lift his hat and
the next minute he had tumbled intj
a bed of flowers You did that very
graceful Senator was the commen
of the trio of bicyclers I always dis
mount in the presence of ladies in
stantly replied the Senator
Theater Chat
He In China a play is six monh3
long
She Dear me What a lot of good
shoe leather you save in not being therei
to go out between -the acts DetrdL
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