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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1905)
March 5. lftos. TITK OMAttA ILLUSTRATED- ItEE. Youthful Corn Breeders at Work in One of Omaha's Suburbs I small boys, and In another field l l"ri"""- insiiuHiion came up, What harm doeTj the sucker d'j? When we gathered our corn of nbout thirty five acre and noticed any grain on a sucker tarurl we saved It. a poor, sickly-looking mess, not a tassel In the lot with one-half the corn on it of those In the illustration. Tho grains were bird-pecked, worm-eaten, mou'.dy and smutty. It whs evident not half the seed would grow, but we put It all In the planter nnd drilled It thick enough to get a fair atnnd on about three acres; It earnr? up. delicate-looking, like popcorn, hut iiftrr a few days li tool; a surprising growth, quickly surpassing In vigor corn of l.ic same sorts grown from carefully to ileted I'.ed. We picked seventy-rive bushcla to the acre, dry ears, averaging nbout one and one-fourth pounds each, unusually well filled at the point, with a decided tendency to make th ears larger at the liutt, tnper Ing to the point. We also noticed a slight tendency to put pollen-bearing tasrcl en the topa of the com far, ns shown In cut. There whs an Increase of sucker, but theso seemingly kept' pace with the mala stalk Hnd bore equally ns good. ears. We jucigo It would not lie vrry d'lftlcult to produce a variety of corn, stoollng out Ilka wheat and hearing all Its grains on top, on small cobs or enclosed In husks like those Illustrated. Children AreIn terested. Our children have been much Interested In tho breeding of new fruits. It takes too long with tree frultsi for little folks to fol low from pollenatlon to first fruits. We hairs turned for relief to the corn field, where results can be obtained tho same season, and have taken all the typos 0f corn and brokrn up the types by breeding and rcbrcedlng together until the whole were In a slate of evolution, from which ne-.c and distinct types might be originated-. This conglomerate corn mixture of all sorts we called Evolution corn. James Walsh of Benson, Neb., seeing some on our place, and the growth steers mode fed with It, took some to the Nebraska exhibit at St. Louis last summer, where It was awarded a silver medal.. We raised about 4,000 bushels last season, twenty acres giv ing about 100 bushels to tho a re. This corn Is of mixed colors. Wo grow It for feeding Only, nnd have found In practice that steers will continue to fatten on It after rejecting the common white and yel low sorts. The Evolution corn yields more because It ripens continuously through the season, furnishing plenty of acceptable pollen. Other 'things being equal, farmers can increaso their yield of corn a little by planting about three-tenths early, five tenths medium, two-tenths late sorts, mixed and planted together. The three sorts should be of the same color and appear ance, so as not to Interfere with market value. Ilreedlnar Sew Types of Cora. We have been breeding some new definite types out of the Evolution corn. It Is won derful how willingly tho lesser mind of the plant yields to the stronger mind of the human being,' and with kind treatment and proper directions one can create almost as desired, within certain natural limits. The eax cannot be made too large, or it will not dry out before frost. Nor must it be too long, for Its weight will bend It. down before 1t matures kernels; If tod wide they will not go- through the planter; if kernels are too long and narrow It Is too ' chaff)'. A medium type Is most natural and productive for the climate. - Wh 'have fixed a few' new and exceedingly" v productive early types. One, White Flint, , bred from the little flint popcorn, has ears fourteen Inches long, weighs twelve Ounces and has eight rows of kernels. One, Milk White Dcntneld, bred up from the little hardy Blue Mexican sweet corn, ears twelve-rowed, weight one pound, length fourteen Inches. The little girt at the left in. the Illustra tion has an ear of this new white sort In her hand and Is going to try and make a yellow dent field corn with the same wide ys if S " j-r- is "W "" . ,1-sJrwrt. - V v - - c . CL:..n V f ( m , J- TOUNO CORN BREEDERS SELECTING 8PECIMEN GRAINS TO CREATE NEW FORMS AND COLORS OF CORN. kernels and long ears the white now has. she has compiled. The third sort Is an early yellow field We have It so odd that we hardly dare corn bred by selecting from all sorts having show the best ears, people are so anxious a long ear with good kernels and small cob. to pocket It. Imagine a seedsman offering This sort Is good enough to grow for sale; seed corn of green corn for cribbing. the kernels are very thick, almost square; One of the Corns in exactly the color of the best ears are fifteen Inches long, sixteen rows and weigh one and one-foucth pounds. The girl at the right has sji ear of the early yellow in her hand. It needs further breeding to fix tho type for gen eral planting. Real Fan In the Corn Field. The real fun In the corn field Is In breed- browned coffee and the fittle corn breeders have been making a drink they try to call coffee out of It. Next season we shall plant five or more the house plenty of the best Hght-colore4 eating apples, but she would go way up In the orchard to a special Missouri Pippin tree that bore an especially beautiful red apple, hard and green, nor more fit to eat than a green Ben Davis. Day after day she would bring them down by the dosen and eat them. One time In the fall we tied In some buds with red and some with white string. Im- Iff i . ' acres of a type we call Maiden Blush; this mediately the grasshoppers ate the red Is a white corn on which we have bred a transparent pink blush across the top and sides of each grain; It Is remarkably odd ing pretty corn. The children hunt for bright and beautiful. It Is large and late. We colors In their crayons, water colors, etc., gather the seed and dj-y It out before se- to get bright colors to Imitate In corn and vers freezing. We are obliged to take they do Imitate and have corn of every great pains to keep the mice away; we color one can think of. Some of the colors have a bushel of ears on hand that the are as follows: Lavender, dark green, light green, white, maroon, pearl tint, purple, brown, blue, red, coffee color, yellow, amber, wine, black, slate, pink, agate. James Walsh of Benson at the Trajismls- slsslppl fair pnlnted some bunches of corn bright green to draw attention to his fine string all off and never touched the white. Last winter in sorting out some corn for a neighbor to plant we threw out a bushel or so of ears (large white nice corn) for the hens, horses or cattlo to eat. We were feeding some steers on a full feed of Boquet corn for thre weeks. The white com re mained untouched by hens or cattle until the pretty corn was gone. In selling fruit to people color snd ap- ,hat we cannot meet these grand old friends TV., unaersiana. dui wnni me piaum - ... . TASSEL CORN IN A Ht'SK. TASSEL CORN. TTFICAL MAIN STOCK ' EAR GROWN FROM TASSEL KERNELS. And the maize field grew and ripened Till It stood in all the splendor Of Its garments green and yellow, Of its tassels and Its plumage. mice have been at and eaten off the pretty pink from every ear. I believe the little corn breeders have about fifty market basket of sorts of corn hanging on nails pearance goes rurtner man quality, ine , . nnrt. d of ours, the trees, the simple violets i ii,. ,rnrv .nri everv vear we olant birds attack our brightest colored fruits ers or naiure i. ,nv. , , ..rnmrnrtes. we b more com than we need just because there are so many fine sorts. One time we had a girl working for us K our Dngntesi coiorea jruu. " ""i:. " " ,"!, and do not under- say to them. "Comrades, we believe you 'Thane 'n"thValrfrey,h:r: VTr census know, you live, and believe you are striving o thin the Wrt.' nl.T. and lov. of admiration In the plant as In the to do your mission as well as ourselves. Douglas county agricultural exhibit. We who came direct from northern Europe. She have asked nature to paint us some had never seen sucn neautirui appies bunches of green corn that are real and some of our Bun-tinted ones. We had at first. Someone mortals be. no more so insects. The Japanese girl paints her Hps and face to be looked at and admired. Men look and person that makes them like to be beauti ful. Strange that our minds are so constituted The Doctrine of Kindness. With the insects, birds and animals, we Wonderful Achievements of a Blind Student L twnrw Kh March 2 Social similarly situated they are nothing less ties on tho platform this spring against like a fairy tale, but to hoar him tell I of the It Is true , that I have made . pert of my INCOLN. Neb.. March 2.-Specyrt s nillarly 'T " . , Rt. tui. nt endeavors that have placed him In his pres- expenses through college. hlle In the mrtblind'af the . ot 7 h"nks iTtt li of ""th Iat record he ha's the University of Iowa. Those who have ent enviable position Is like getting it from school for the blind I learned piano tuning !C.k:b"e"Lat .11 kXZJL made and remarks philosophically that it heard the young man . speak sny.ther, is the fairy herself. Clarke Insists that peo- and during the summer I have done this. k i uu un v . as viii ' w, -'- School for the Blind at the age of 17, entered the University of Nebraska the succeeding fall recommended' tot grad uation with the "class of ( 136, . worked through the summer months to pay a part of his, expenses In college, won the gold medal for oratory, in the Palladlan Liter ary soc'tety.. last year,, chosen to represent Nebrsska on the. Interstate debating squad, which Is to meet, the University of Iowa .and Washington university, this spring these are a few of the remarkable achieve ments of Willard Leroy Clarke, the blind student- of the University of Nebraska This,. In . a nutshell, la the extraordinary . record of achievements that rival those of the far-famed Helen Kellar. In any other person they would not seem so great, but when It Is considered how this blind boy has climbed the educational ladder, fighting against a handicap that would have discouraged the majority of people Is all in "keuping at It ! Blindness Cnnte After Birth. Clarke was" born at Omaha, Neb., De cember 6, 1882. While he was yet a child ' his parents moved 'to Strornsburg, where they still live.' It was there that, when but 4 years-c-f -age: a severe attack, of mem-- braneous croup settled In one of his eyes. little likelihood but that he will be chosen pie generally exaggerate the difficulties ex- as well as solicit subscriptions for maga- on one of the teams, perlenced by the blind and little realise now wnes. By tins means i nave reen ame to 3 . many opportunities they enjoy in schools pay the expenses of readers. After gradua- I.ooVi Little on Dark Sides. . conducted especially for their benefit. When tlon I will go Into business at once,' prob- It is doubtful If there is a man In the n flrst entered school, a boy of 7, he was ably In a music house. I do not want to whole country who looks less oruthe dark taught to write by. the "New York point" teach, although I have had some flattering side of life than does Clarke. ; V system. In this system, which Is rather offers. A life of activity Is what I desire, ..c -. t,nj' -a ahaA complex! so many dots or. perforations in with a good deal of outside work mixed in." ,r-f .h. o. ,t,Ir h.ni. . Th frt the paper stand for a certain letter of the Clarke's father Is a thine von know thev will fora-et It also, alphabet or combination of letters, mere 0n the Burlington railroad. lie liaa a The physicians were unable to save the and V(JU wlI1 get aiong. through life better ar aoi tor the small letters, for the cap- younger sister, born blind, soon after he sight or mis eye, ana mree t;ian you ever dreamed." the nerves, in the other became affected1 ,8 th, advice he gives to fellow also and the light , of day was shut out affllete(J. He Is not more cheerful than' forever. His father immediately sent him other peopie. ile doe, not need to be.' But to the State School for the Blind at Ne- he ls interested in his work, he Is interested braska City, where the boy's education , fei intensely Interested, and he is was begun. Before that time he had gone demonstrating dally that although a man to school but a few months. That he made may ,oge hls most neceasary and highly good use of his opportunities at the school przej rns., he can still ie a useful cltlsen. where his youth was spent ls shown by Clarke is as enthusiastic a student as the his early graduation. At the .age of 17 university holds. He Is liound up In his ne naa compietea pracucauy aii ino ch0Sen field of work, but yet he finds time perceive snd admit thfs becauss through out all moving life some individuals develop a special fnculty that equals man's intel lect. All living things ik up to the su perior Intelligence rf the human being, and when treated kindly exert themselves to please. All living nstiire should be treated kindly snd with respect. Vile snd disrespectful words will break down the spirit of n horse, even where no blow Is struck. One should nut even swear at a comstnlk. Planters have selected their seed corn with care for generation after generation until It has beecme the best bred of all the grains planted. ' There, cannot probably be found farms In eastern Nebraska or western ' lows,' with corn In their cribs si poorly bred as to be unable to yield 100 bushels to the acre If the land Is sufficiently fed and cultivated. In 1S6 Lemuel Franklin lived at Fort Cal houn. Neb., on the rich valley land. He got large yields of com and vrry large ears. Many that he exhibited nt the fairs weighed Over two pounds, andthen, about 1875, after the grasshoppers had Injured his com for a year or two. he sold out nnd went to the raclflc slope and located where the corn would not grow at all. The largn ears of corn that ate spontsne out along the Missouri have been gathered In by seedsmen and sold for planting from that day until this. A simple way for farmers to test the different breeds of corn is by plowing four or five rows, four feet apart, through the field. .In these rows a large number of sorts can be planted. If desired, and easily kept separate by planting all the rows to the same sort for a short distance. Even If there is but an ounce of seed to a sort they will be In small blocks, from which sny that prove valuable can be taken and bred by Itself. $ Types of Feeding; Corn. Tn the illustration Is shown a basket of corn ears such as we plant together to get a good yield of feeding corn. The ears; are from eight to fifteen Inches long, rows Of grain from eight to twenty-four, fin and compact on the cob. A farmer cannot raise pedigreed cattle and sell them for beef as cheaply as grades. Nor can he secure pedigreed com, carefully breeding It te some theoretical shape, shouldered ears, with rounded tort and butt, and sell It as cheaply In the market as grade com. This mixed com, ripening gradually through the whole season, la a surer crop and will yield some more than any one type that matures all at once.' We have never tried to gef the most bushels possible from an acre, but th most we can for the least expense. ' We prefer fall plowing, anyway. V'e wish to disk and drag enough to destroy; several crips of weed seeds before w plant. We regard one cultivation of a corn field before planted as of more value than two after the corn Is up. With our ground firm and moist enough to germi nate grass seed, we plant. We cultivate with disks and weeders quickly and often, aiming to leave enough corn roots near Vhe surface tp carry the crop through even on light rains and heavy dews. In the January 14 number of the Orange Judd Farmer attention is called to I. S. Long of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, who has grown enormous yields ot corn for the last twenty years. This year's croo of eighty-four acres averaged 125 bushels per acre, over 10,000 bushels. Mr. Long plants Chester county white com, using' two distinct types, mixed and planted to gether. He has the ears stand upright Western ' nintjki-a Imln their corn to a short ooenl. locomotive engineer . . . klvl f. . ... hflI., dr.w t " k out the rain and for ease In husking. and Tersely Told Teles Both Grim end Gay studies required for entrance to the uni versity and successfully passed his en trance examinations. His work since his entrance to the uni versity has been of a high order and he for class meetings (being vice president of the senior class at the present time), musicals and sport. Every foot ball, base ball or basket bail game numbers him as one of the spectators. More thnn this he The tailor's Explanation ORMER Secretary of the Navy Moody tells of the account of an explosion of one of the big guns on the Massachusetts, a year ago, which was given by a sailor in jured by the explosion. "Well, sir," replied the Jacky to his ques tioner, "I reely can't say that I knows very much about It. I was standln', you see. with me back to the gun, a-facln' the port side. All of a sudden I hears a hell of a bolse; then, sir, the ship physician he says. 'Set up an" take this "Harper's Weekly. Impressed by a Dream. Congressman Ollle James of . Kentucky has on Ms place at home an old darky who has been with the family since antebellum days. One day he came to bis employer In much distress and said ho feared there was no negro heaven. "Oh, yes," said Mr. James, "all good niggers go to heaven just the same as white people." The darky shook hi head mournfully as he replied: "I dunno Masse Ollle. I done had a dream las' night. I thought I was dald an' gone to heaven. It shorely was a beaut'ful place. Iere wus de white genmens sitttn' sround In dor chairs an' de niggers down on dere knees shlnln' up dere golden slippers. Den de dream ktnder changed, an' I thought I wus In do odder place. ' What you t'luk I see dere? Every white man hsd a nigger a holdin' him 'tween him and de blasln' fire. I dunno, I dunno." , Cnnldn't Fool the Old Man. Uncle Cyrus had come up from the coun try to visit his nephew, Charles. In town. Charles hsd shown the old gentlemen tho sights until he was at his wits' end for further entertainment. One morning, how ever, he noticed In the paper that the Im 'rerlal Italian band was still giving Its cele brated open nlr concerts. Uncle Cyrus said he should llko to hear them play. As the concert progressed Uncle Cyrus waxed en thwda:tle. Toward the end of the program aolo on the slide trombone wss an nounced. It was a really fine performance and the audience demanded an encore with a Storm of applause. Charles noled that his unc'.e was among tho most apprecia tive, but he was somewhat pusiled by the . smile which played around the comers of tho old man's mouth, for the selection had been mournful rather than gay. At the con ;luslon of the encore, when the plause tad finally died away. Charles turned to his inclc: "That was fine, wasn't It?" "Mighty In, mighty fine." was the reply. "But you ;lty folks are easy fooled. He dldu't fool me a bit. I knew all the nme he wss play ing that he wasn't really swallerlng that thing!" Youth's Companion. lie Hnd His Or. . At a reception given for President Had ley one Individual ssked him whst he thought of a recent base hall game. As Yale had met with a disastrous defeat the subject might be railed unpleasant. Without hesitation President Hartley said: "There was a boy living In a village whiae uncle died. The next day a man driving along the road was surprised to find the boy working Jn the .field. Think ing this did not show proper respect for the dead uncle, he called the lad to him and said: "Johnny, didn't you know your uncle Was -dead?' Johnny slowly ap proached and drawled out: 'Yes, I know it; I have cried." " A Stalwart. ., "t-ncie uavy Kankin of Kansas, the success, biggest firmer in the west. Is regarded as the most militant republican In all his region of country,- Some time ago he drove a young friend over some of Ms dosen ranches and every few minutes ut tered some quaint observation showing his stalwart republicanism. . To a foreman who was complaining that he could hot get help, Mr. Rankin said: "Well, I guess we'll have to vote the democratic ticket. Then we'll have two men looking for every Job." Finally hU young friend said: "Now, see . here. Uncle Davy, you have been pretty hard on the democrats to day. Don't you know that I'm a demo crat?'" ' "I'm glad of it, son, glad of It," Rankin replied. v "It s a good thing for a man to bo a democrat when he's young. Then he won t expect so much when hes old." Without Ceremony. There Is In Philadelphia a young archi tect who. though entitled by birth and breeding to enter the sacred precincts of Quaker City society, has always affected a supremo indifference to social distinction, even going so far as to evince a disinclina tion to observe the conventionalities. This young man tells a good story on him self. It appears that when he had proposed to, and been accepted by. the young woman who is now his wife, he began at once to talk of the wedding arrangements. "We will," suggested the young man, "do without some of the ridiculous fuss-and-fcathor business of marriage; we will go away somewhere by ourselves, my dear; ' there will be no flourish, no cards, no cere mony" Whereupon the girl Indignantly Inter rupted with this observation: "My dear, we may dispense with tho flourish, but I shall certainly Insist upon the ceremony!" Harper's Weekly. Ko Way to Get Even. A New York Journalist went down to At lanta recently to Interview Joel Chandler Harris. When he told the creator of "Uncle Remus" that he was going to "write him up," the kindly southerner was Imme. diatnly reminded of the experience of his old friend, Simon Sugg. "Simon Sugg." he said, "was an odd old fellow who used to live down-state. I knew him well when I was a boy. One day a friend met him. .... " 'Simon,' said he. 'do you remember Jim Hooper that went to school with us down at Montlcello?' " 'Jim Hooper? Of co'se I 'member Jim Hooper. Little, slim fellow, wa'nt hT ' " 'Yas. Well, Jim's gone snd noveled you!' " "Noveled me! Hes he? said Simon. Well, ding his hide!' "-The Outlook. lacked but a few hours of having sufficient understands the srames and knows tl, v,m. credits to graduate with the class of 1904. ties of the players. A friend alwavs ac- Hls decision to remain another full year companies him to tell him what plays are was made after he had won the gold medal being made, to serve. In other words, as his for oratory, offered by the Palladlan Lit- eyes, but he can hear the swat that tells of erary society, against a field of thirteen the home run and can trace th scurrvw competitors. While in the school for the feet that are chasing the pigskin down the blind he had some little experience In de- field. No- partisan of tke home team sits bating, and this year he entered Into the more breathless than he while the men are contest in earneBt and with remurkable taking their places for the eleventh-hour itals. for the numerals and for combinations of letters, which are used the same as .In shorthand. ; Hijtv He Reads nnd Writes. "People generally misunderstand our. means of reading and writing," he said In an Interview the other day. (,We read books by means of raised letters, but they" are not the sort of raised letters you are used to. There are merely "points" or per forations on the paper, and to the unltlated they are as much Oreek as so much short hand. While in school I used point text books, and I learned to write this system. My studies In the Nebraska City school, were restricted of course, by the limited Cumber of point text books. A great many 5f the ordinary school books have been translated Into the "point" any means. We had the through Virgil and through Trigonometry lost his sight at the age of 7. THEODORE WILLIAMS. Benson, . Neb Quaint Features of Current Lile A Modern Olant. immodesty If she sees a man wear such a HE biggest man ever seen" was garment, especially If he be ill. The Jury brought In a verdict for the de fendant for $2,000 damages. The "nightie" was seen to be the regulation length and in every respect acceptable as a proper gar ment for a sick man. It ls made of flan nel, with red and black stripes running up and down, and buttons down tho back. This last feature did not seem to attract the, official description of Feodor Machnow. who, to the amazement of porters and passengers at Vic toria station, arrived In London on his way from Germany to the Hippo drome, where, he is to appear for several weeks. Feodore ls nine feet eight inches high and weighs 320 pounds, and certainly the metropolis has known notlilng to equal the attention of the lawyers, for they never him. Josef WlnkelnuUer, tho Austrian, alluded to It In their arguments to tho but not all by Who favored London with a visit in 1887, Jury, but everyone In the crowded court Latin books could- only boast of eight feet nine Inches, room noticed it. MIsn Kerstlng Identified the mathematics The once famous Chinaman, Chang, who the garment as thst worn by her em- In the geometry, presented himself to the Inhabitants of ployer. ine ngures given to explain mo meureniD England rorty years ago, was compara are raised lines, while the letters at the tlvely a dwarf, measuring but eight feet. angles are made with dots regular t'polnt l.(t... Th ntu.lt, r9 vAnrnnhv im a) till HRiAnlnir with f t, 1 1 .1 Although there were fifty con- attempt at the drop kick that is to save th lnM.'lln Th. m. nr. I.r.a ones hnut A nnhlle. -.l,rrl teacher cHvea the fnllnw- testanta for the places on the teams, game, and none rejoices more or grieves three feet square, which t-tand up on stilts. Ing experience: "This theory of governing which the court of appeals-of St. Louls'set Clarke was chosen as one or the fifteen more according If tho attempt ls a success The various states In a map of the United children by appealing to their reason Isn't aside when it reversed the case. The case. This ls the third verdict obtained In the Clayton circuit court within the last three years against Mr. White on the garnet charge.. Tho first (11.600) was set aside osj being excessive. The next was for (3,600, States are made of plaster of parts and all It's made out to be. I teach In a men from which two squads of four each or failure. . . . i . i . xt.km i - i . mi. - . . are , uo w.i.u ..uv . .wry ol irus young man's life read, are detachable, so that the student can primary class, and It's my conviction that pick out any state and examine It, thus a youngster actually needs a good spank- :7 - , 1: " I . . .1 I ... I -J., - ' J ' . . .. .... - ' '.:'' .. r ' . ; .'.''; - .;' . " ..'' . ; ,' . v ,; . : ... .. . . . . , f ". ... . . t . ";. f. . " " ': "V . ... . J--. . - .;,-- f J ' t ' , '..,' ' . : : ....'- . - V. ' ..' '. i,..--,i.v..Wr - - " - getting an accurate Idea of Itn boundaries. There are smooth creases for the rivers, tacks for the towns, and small cones end serleg of cones for the mountains. In the library there are many books beside text books for the students to read, all of them translated Into point." ing ones In a whllo for his health. IX does cheer up tho child as nothing else will. Here Is an Instance: . "One of my boys had skipped his classes, deceived his mother, been found out and caused much unhappiness nil around. I l took htm aside nnd we had a heart-to- Here Clarke gave an example of writing heart talk. Johnny sat still, looking at by the point system. A wooden board or nio intently ami seeming to be deeply im-' "elate" ,1s used, which has two narrow pressed. I thought I was making great sheets of metal, arranged to slide up snd headway snd that my little sermon, was WILLARD LEROY CLAKKJS, KKURA5KA BLIND DEBATER. down. The paper la placed between them, and held firmly In place by clamps. The top sheet of thin metal has live rows of apertures about one-fourth Inch square. Instead of a pencil a iimall awl Is used, and the writing Is done from right to left. The lower plate is filled with little dents, so thst the awl can drive the hole almost through the paper. Clarke proceeded to write his name and address by the "point" syptrm. slmcst as swiftly as It could have been done with a pencil. Then he turned the paper over and drew the index finger of his left hand across the row of bumps left by the awl. "You see I read with my left hand," he remarked, "but I 'also use the Index finger of my right hand to go ahead and point out the way. it Is Just as you urw your eyes. You read ahead with one and pick up what Is left with the other." Ills tntrerslty Work. "Here in .the university," he continued, "my work has been hindered In a measure by my loss of sight, and I have been com pelled to take certain studies. I con 1.1 not take the sciences even if I had wanted to beeau I would not use the apparatus nor see the experiments. My studies have In cluded English and English llierdture. po litical economy, philosophy and sociology. I cannot use the text books here as other people do, but that obstacle Is surmounted by means of readers. You will notice thst I have chosen only rtudies where I could learn by hearing the text read. 1 choose students -from my own classes as readers and pay them so much per month.. That makes It easier for both of us. as we csn Study together. ', "Preparing written lessons Is eitslor tliun you would think, as I use a ttwilter. II Is a foreign make of machine, but that Js not ersential. A blind person rati learn to write on any machine. Most, of my examlra- lions ar oral, as It Is much quicker, but when the Vnstrnctor wishes I lake the ex amlnstlon In class with the rest of the stu dents, writing It In point anl afterward reading it to ths professor. . surely penetrating Johnny's brain. I never saw a child who seemed so absorbed, even fascinated, by my line of argument. "But you never can tell. Just as I had reached tho climax In my appeal to his better self, a light of discovery broke over Johnny. " 'Hay, teacher,' he said eagerly, 'it's your lower Jaw that moves. Isn't It?' " Eccentricities of Eggs. The bettlhg man suld to the waiter: "Boll one egg. Cool It, and put It among half a dozen raw ones. Then bring all the eggs together In to me on a plate." The eggs, In ten or fifteen minutes, came In. They were examined carefully by every one In thn room. "I will bet 110," said the betting man, "that no one here can pick out tho one rooked from the six raw eggs." There was a silence. No one would ac cept such a bet. "Now I will bet 110 against $1, said the first speaker, "that I can pick out the cooked egg." This bet was taken. Thereupon the man spun the eggs, top like, on thn table, one by one. All spun poorly, with a wabbling motion, save a dark egg, which spun as steadily and truly as a top. "This dark egg Is the cooked one," said the hotting man. He opened It, and so It proved. "A Ixilled tea," he explained, "spins beautifully. An uncooked, liquid one, spins In a poor, unsteady way. The difference is plain, and any one csn tell It." lan's light Shirt on Trial. The night shirt worn by James C. Elms, wss sent back for retrial and occupied tho attention of the circuit court for two days. Don't Care for the Money, "The wealthy do have their worries,'" said Mrs. Cynthia Nicholson of Bridgeport, Conn,, who Is worth IfiO.OOO, looking up from tho steaming washtub over which aha. had toiled for many years to support her family, and which she finds it difficult to leave In spite of her snug little fortune. "I have a whole lot of money now, and I don't know what to do with It," she cotitln- und. "I have put It In the bank, but good ness, burglars rob banks, and so do bank officers! I want somebody to watoh tho hank officers) snd somebody to watch, tho watcfiers." Judg Henry C. Stevenson sought out Mra Nicholson, who is a widow, in her rooms on the third floor, rear, of a tene ment house In Harriet street, and told her , that her uncle, William Oermond of Mid dletown, had died, leaving an estate; qf which her share will bo between 140,009 and S50.000 and handed her a certified check: for H.Ono as the first Installment of her fortune. "I tollei for forty years," said, thin ener getic widow, who Is now 69 years old, "without being able to have a single penny for a rainy dsy, and I never can get used to having money. It troubles me. It makes ine auspicious and I keep thinking every one Is trying to swindle me out of it. I would like to build myself a comfortable home, but I am afraid of the real estate agents and builders, and I know X could never trust a lawyer. "Of course I am glad I haven't to work any mom, and the children will be able to live well on the money whim I am gone, but I, was happy enough before I bncaintt wealthy. Now I am worried half to death." Trick of n Ventrlloqolat. Sam Johnson, a Centervllle (Md.) negro. Is a ventriloquist. Recently he went to Denton and was Invited to a funeral. Tha parson was reading a psalm and the pall bearers had started to lower the body Into Its final resting place when suddenly with out warning csme In stentorian tones from the casket: "Iet me down easy, boys." In a few moments the cemetery waa hair dealer of St. Imis, which he wore minus mourners and preacher. Only John- while Miss Louisa Kerstlng. his hnusn keeper. reul the HI bio to him. and while, it Is charged, she Ironed his back to rease his lumbago pains, was exhibited to the Jury In the damage nult brought by Miss Kerstlng against Robert Whits for slander In the Clayton court house. It was In troduced for the purpose of showing thst a young woman need not be charged with son remained behind. Finally, some of the mourners decided to give thn corpse air to keep It from smothering. They burst In the coffin lid. After several hours' delay the corpse wss finally burled. The trick was discovered later. Bain waa arrested, and after being given a hearing before a magistrate waa consigned) t ibm care of the sheriff at Dentocw I r