THE GOAT.
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THE SHOPLIFTER
A"W1LBUR P. TJESBIT
SouethinG
COVER FOR BASEBALL FIELD
, Waterproof 8trlp Drains Rain From
Base Lines and Prevents Them
From Getting Muddy.
With tho bnscball season In full
blast, anything relating to tho nn
tfonal gamo becomes of pnramount In
Ureat Hero is a waterproof cover
for tho diamond designed by n Penn
sylvania man that Is guaranteed to
keep tho base linos dry during tho
heavy rains. Tho cover Is n strip of
waterproof material that when not In,
uso is rolled tip from both ends and
placed on a truck, being first laid on
n support having hinged legs that
facilitate Its rolling and unrolling.
When a storm comes up ono of these
strips can bo unrolled over each of
Cover for Ball Field.
tho four base lines and will protect
them from getting muddy and slip
pery. Tho supporting dovice will
serve to keep tho cover raised slight
ly in tho center and drain tho water
off all along the line, so thoro is no
danger of any settling along the edges
nnd seeping underneath. Cables at
tached to tho ends of tho strip fa
cilitate Its unwinding.
ODD THINGS FOR AMUSEMENT
Several Little Tricks That Will As
slot Greatly In Entertaining a
Party of Friends.
Here aro somo things that you
might do to pass away an evening,
or to provido entertainment for a
party of friends when nothing better
offers itself
i To "find (number any ono thinks of,
use the following method: Let a per
son think of a number, say six. Toll"
him to multiply It by three. Ask him
then to add 1; then multiply by three,
then add to this the number thought
of. Tho result will bo C3. Aftor ho
Informs you of the entire amount, you
ttrlko off tho last number, which will
leave six, tho original number.
Oy taking n long plcco of wood,
such as tho handlo of a broom, and
placing a watch at ono end, tho tick
lug will bo heard very distinctly at
tho other end.
By placing a garden snail upon a
piece of glass It will produce, by
drawing itself along, a very sweet
music, similar to tho musical glasses
often heard. This sounds rather
queer, but just try it, and you will
have music equal to tho guitar.
WINGED FEET ON SWIMMERS
Plate Attached to Solo of Foot En
ables Man to Obtain Much Great
er Speed Than Ordinarily.
Mythology tells .us of n gentleman
(named Mercury, who had wings on
bis feet and could run away from any
thing on two legs, but It remained for
Texas man to Invent wings fori tho
'feet of swimmers. Tho Texan'B Inven
tion consists of a hinged plate that 1b
An Aid lo Swimmers.
fastened to the solo of tho foot. There
Is n projecting stop to prevent ha
wings, or soleB of tho plate, from open
ing moro than enough to form an oven
flat surface. Tho buckward kick of
tho swimmer opens these wings and
provides a wldo surfaco of resistance
to the wator, thus enabling the man to
achieve a much greater speed than ho
could otherwlso obtain, so he Is pro
pelled forward with greater Impetus.
In drawing the foot forward again the
wings close and mako this movement
no moro arduous than If the- foot was
unencumbered.
The cow, tt In a model beast.
Its coat Is soft as Bilk.
To get tho butter from the cow
. You have to churn the milk.
A nanny also enn be milked.
Although you'd never dream
To get tho butter from tho goat
You don't need any cream.
NEAT TRICK SAFE AND SURE
Glass May Be Cut Without Danger of
Breaking If Immersed In Tub of
Water While Working.
With an ordinary pair "ot scissors
you can cut a sheot of glass a win
dow pano, for Instance as easily us
you can cut a sheet of pasteboard.
lho secret of this experiment con
sists In plunging your hands, with tho
glass and scissors, Into n tub of water,
and there performing tho operation. In
this way the glass cuts in straight or
In curved lines, without break or
crack, for tho wator deadens tho vi
brations of tho scissors and tho sheet
of glass, says a writer In tho Magical
Experiments. If tho operator allows
the smallest part of tbo scissors to ap
pear above tho wator, tho vibrations
will bo sufficient to prevent the suc
cess of the experiment
I know that many of my readers
will bo Incredulous of this statement,
but lot them try tho experiment and
thoy will bo convinced of Ita truth.
Thoro Is another way In which you
may cut thin glass, with a pair of sets-
Cutting Glass,
sors, without plunging your hands
with tho glass Into' wator. You have
only to cover tho glass with Uttlo
bands or strings of paper, carefully
pasted on and arranged In all direc
tions. ' Theso bands deaden tho vibra
tions nnd prevent tbo glass from
breaking. The experiment with tho
tub of water, howover, is tho safest
and Burest.
REAL MEANING OF MILLION
Somo Figures Given That May Give
Significance to Greatly Used
Term Distance to Sun.
Wo think and do things In millions
those days, yot, though wo are accus
tomed to employ tho term lightly, the
significance of tho word "million" Is
really hard to grasp.
It has been estimated that 1,000,000
persons assembled In tt crowd, wlt'n
due allowance of, say, throe square
feet a person, would cover an area of
G8.8 acres, or, to put It more conven
iently, lot us say 70-acres; or It could
bo contained In a squaro having sides
577.0 yards long. Or, again, allowing
18 Inches to each person, standing
shoulder to shouldor, 1,000,000 Indl
vlduala would oxtend a distanco of
284.1 miles. The population of Lon
don amounts, roughly speaking, to
6,549,000, Allowing 18 Inches to each
person, shoulder to shoulder, this hu
man aggregation would constltuto a
wall 1,860 miles long.
In astronomical calculation it Is
most difficult to grasp tho meaning of
millions of miles, but somo Idea In
this connection may be gathered from
the statcmont of the tlmo that would
bo consumed by an express train or
tho shot from a cannon to cover coles-,
tlal space.
Now, the distance from tho earth
to tho sun Is about 02,000,000 miles,
and light traveling from the solar lum
inary cornea to use at tho rate of 186,
700 miles a second. It traverses this
distance In 8 minutes, but a rail
way train proceeding at CO miles an
hour, would take 175 years to covor
the distance to the sun.
Tho clrcumferonce of Oio e'clipso
forming tho orbit of tho earth round
tho sun Is about 77,760,000 miles In
length, nnd tho 6arth covers this dis
tance In 365 days, traveling at tho
rntn of 65.010 inlles an hour. 1..098
miles a mlnuto. or nearly 1,100 times
as fast as a train going at one mile
a minute. It Is therefore clear that a
train proceeding at this Bpeed would
require nearly 1,100 years to accom
plish tho Journey around the earth's
orbit.
According to high authority, tho ve
locity of a rlflo bullet Is something
like 2,130 feet a second, or 24.2 miles
a mlnuto, and that of tbo projectiles
weighing 330 pounds from a quick tir
ing gun Is about 3,000 feet a necond,
34 miles a minute; so that tho ve
locity of the earth Is 32.3 times as
great as the latter.
COLONY HOUSE FOR CHICKENS
Will Accommodated to 30 Old Fowls,
or From 200 to 300 Young Chicks
Heavy to Handle.
The colony houso shown In tho Illus
tration measures 10 by 12 feet nnd.
may no used either for bousing oia
stock or for brooding-tho young. It
will nccommodato from 25 to 30 old
Colony House, 10 by 12 Feet.
fowls or from 200 to 300 young chicks,
depending upon tho kind and ago of
the brood. Its size mnkes It quite
heavy to handlo, and It probably
marks tho limit In slzo, so far aa con
cerns portable houses. -
Tho runners nro 3x6 timber, and
are 14 feet long, extending n foot be
yond tho wall at each end. Tho siding
Is of No. 1 matchod stuff, and must
fit tightly.
A colony houso should be blocked
up so that tho floor will bo lovel, td
provent tho llttor from being pushed
down to tho lower sldo If there Is any
slopo.
Tho windows are hinged at tho toe
and swing outward at tho bottom.
This permits- tho entranco of ac
abundance of fresh air during rains oi
storms. On tho outBlde tho windows
aro covored with poultry wire, to koep
tho fowls In while tho windows are
open. The long, narrow window,
placed vertically, has the advantage
ovor tho squaro ones commonly used,
In that it better distributes-tho light.
A small muslin window Is set In the
door. It may be hinged at tho bottom
'and swung In when it Is desired to
hnvo It open.
If used for old hens' roosts, nests
and dropplng-board aro located In the
tear of tho house. Hoppors, feed-cans
and wator-pans may bo placed on tho
ends or front
Overcrowding and ovorfocding are
crimes.
Keep tho houso In as cool a condi
tion as possible.
Keep a contlnunl lookout for rats,
weasles, 'possums, etc.
Wo aro apt to neglect the hens dur
ing tho Into summer months,
Do not lot . up In your warfare
igalnst tho destructive louse army,
Not onough Importance la usunllj
Attached to tho selection of laying
hens.
All tho old Block that Is not wanted
ihould now be disposed of before they
po Into molt.
Earnest, sympathetic, Intelligent ef
fort wins. It Is the secrot of auccoas
In the poultry yard.
Tho eggs should bo kopt In tho col
lar where It Is cool. Hot woathei
guickly . stales them.
It may bo that even while running
About on tho farm hens cannot find
lho grit they like, or enough of It.
Fine gravel Is not the proper grit
ror poultry, They want a sharp ma
lerlal with which to grind their food
On tho average farm, fifty hens
bring as big returns as tho best cow
n tho herd with loss feed and caro
There Is danger of mating too many
hens with ono mnle, and thoro la also
Uanger of mntlng too few for boat
rosults.
The length of time that a new male
has been placed In a pen of henB will
have something to do with tho fertility
or tho eggs.
Poultrymen Bhould remember that
hons should always be kept busy
searching for food, so that thoy may
CC sutiicient cxerclso.
Nover breed from small, light stock,
from closely related stock, from lm
mature Block; one parent must be full
grown If tho other Is young.
On froo rango tho hens will get
a good share of their living, but It Is
not best to take it for granted that
tney will support themsolvcs,
Tho fowls shpuld bo Bent to roost
at night with full crops nnd got off
tho roost in tho morning to scratch
In straw or leaves for grain during
mo any.
Fowls should always bo starved for
at least 24 hours before belnc klllod.
bo as to havo their crops nnd intes
tinea thoroughly freo from food of
any kind.
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By JAMES
When Maj. Hyde had lived for
two months In tho placo ho had bought
on tho Hudson, tho most thnt bis
nearest neighbor knew of him wan
that ho had retired from tho army;
that he was n widower; that he had a
handsome daughtor 20 years old who
Bcomcd devoted to htm; that he was
Irasclblo and crnnky; thnt he disputed
his trndosmen'B bills, nnd that ho was
(ond of sailing a catbont that he
owned. On tho major's part, all ho
knew about his noarest neighbor, who
was tho Widow Harper, was that she
was very touchy about her hons, or his
dog trespassing on her property, that
she had n son at college or In South
Africa, ho didn't caro which; that she
clalmod that tho lino fence between
them was a foot over on her land, and
thnt on two sepnrnto nnd distinct oc
casions she had ordered a sorvant to
Jcnld his dog.
Thoro waa no neighboring between
tho neighbors, In fact, they had not
.even Been each other at tho ond of
thoso two months. Tho widow was
.watting for her son Durt to como
homo from a trip to tho wcBt to ask
him If tho green apples thnt had fallen,
from hor trees over on tho major's
,Iand thereby reverted to him, and tho
major wbb waiting for hla dog to como
homo and complain of having been
.scalded while prowling around tho
wldow'B kitchen door. Then any fuus
ho raised would bo suro to havo the
backing of his daughter, Edith, who
knew his disposition thoroughly and
had kept him out of many rows.
On n certnln August morning this
was tho situation on tho Hudson.
Major Hydo and his daughter were out
In tho cntboat with a good brcozo
blowing, nurt Harper, who had ar
rived homo tho previous afternoon and
settled tho green npplo question, was
out in his catboat working up a mus
cle Ho had taken no particular uotlco
of n catboat containing a man nnd n
girl, and Its occupants had taken no
particular notice of a rowboat with a
'broad-shouldorcd young man of 23
pulling tho onrs. At that point the
Hudson Is wldo onough and big onough
for a hundred catboatu and rowboats
to perform all sorts of maneuvers
without colliding, but tho unforeseen Is
always happening. Tho catboat wns
heading across tho river with her star
board tacks aboard and tho major nt
tho helm, when Miss Edith gave a
sudden cry of alarm, nnd tho next mo
ment thoro was a crash. Young Mr.
Harper, without any tacks aboard, but
nulling for all ho was worth to cot the
IcTnks out of hfiPaplno, had plumped
into tno oiucr craiu as no was tax
ing a course of law at Harvard, and
had got as far as John vs. Doe, ho
could have explained matters had the
major given him tlmo. Dut tho major
wouldn't. Ho had learned in wnr that
tho qulckor and more vigorously you
Jump on your enemy tho soouor you
havo him conquered, nnd ho roso up
and blasted tho young man In tho row
boat U any damage had been done
U "was" lo Tho Taller craft, but that
mado no differenco to tho mnjor. Ho
did not swear in tho presence of-bis
daughtor, nor did ho pull off his coat
and double up his fists. Ho simply
used sarcasm thnt cut and hurt Ho
had something to say about llttlo boys
being Intrusted out In boats by their
mothers, and dunderheads who
thought they had tho "wholo Atlantic
ocean to row In, nnd ho politely in
quired If Mr. Harper Intended to run
down tho "Mnry Powell" on hor next
trip up nnd drown all her passen
gers. Mr. Harper turned red and apolo
gized. Ho looked from tho major to
bis dnughter and apologized again. It
was hlB fault, and ho admitted It, and
ho apologized somo more. The ma
lor had no pity, but tho young man
thought ho saw a gleam of it In Mlns
Edith's eyes before sho turned nway
her head. Tho soldier held him for
flvo minutes, doing most of the talk
ing and enjoying his confusion, nnd
then let him go with tbo obscrva
tlon:
"And now, sir, If you havo got a
mnmmn, and you think you can got
back to hor without help, I should
advlso you to head for shore and snare
any; canal boat that may happen t6 got
In your way."
At that hour tho Hydes did not know
young Harper as Harper, and he didn't
know them as the Hydco. He mado
his way to shoro In his leaky boat, and
as ho sat down on a stranded log he
felt thnt ho would give a thousand dol
lars In cash to lick somo one some
ono about .the slzo nnd build of the
major when he wus In his prime. Tbo
words had hurt, but the fact that thoy
had been spoken before tho girl was
humiliating. He had decided from the
first, that they wero father and dnugh
tor, and aftor gritting his teeth for
half an hour he mado up his mind thnt
nothing could be done In tho caso and
wont off homo.
"Father, I think you wore wrong,'
said Edith In quiet tones as tho young
man rowed away.
"What's that? Wrong7 How can I
be wrong7" replied tho major.
"According to sailing Instructions
when you nro calling freo other crafts
must look out for you. You were not
sailing free."
"Dut If ho hnd known enough to
look over IiIb shoulder ho must have
seen us."
"And If I bad been on the lookout
as 1 ought to have been, I should
havo Been him. No doubt ho knew that
you wero wrong, nnd yet he apolo
gized."
NORTON
"Wrong? Wrong? I toll you 1 wnrn't
wrong. Hardee's Tactics say that when
you meet another when you Rro
marching by the right flank when
tho head of tho column"
Edith smiled as ho paused, Ho
thought ho could snll a boat by tho
same tnctlcs thnt drilled a regiment
Ho subsided In somo contusion, nnd
tho young man and tho accident wero
not again mentioned. Thero wero
scores of young mot: sailing and row
ing on tho rlvor dally, and why .should
this ono provo to bo tho eon of their
widowed neighbor. On reaching
homo tho major wejit out nnd looked
at those withered grcon apples that
hud fallen on his sldo of tho lino nnd
generously decided not to claim thorn,
nnd MIbs Edith sought a book and her
hammock nnd wondered If tho young
man wan looking nt her all the time
sho was looking nt tho opposite bank
out of consideration for his feelings.
She finally concluded thnt such wns
probably tho caso, and was surprised
to find hcrBclf a bit plenBcd.
On tho succeeding day tho major
nnd a party of frlonds sailed up tho
river for a little outing, while Miss
Edith was driven to tho village and
went Into tho city to do some shop
ping. Mho had frequently mado such
trips alono. Tho father had no ob
jections to urge, as tt cultivated a spir
it of self-rollnnce, but he had sovoral
times said to her:
"If you ovor got into any troublo In
tho city Just say that you are tho
daughter l or Maj. Hyde, lato ot
tho Seventeenth. That will bo suffi
cient"
There; was trouble nhoad for the
young Indy, but It did not como until
afternoon. 8ho hnd mado somo pur
chases nt two or tbreo stores, had her
tuncn, nnu was jubi leaving nnomer
store after looking over somo goods,
when n hand wns told on her arm and
a qulot volco (.aid:
Dog pardon, young lady, but you
will havo to como with mo."
It was a man. In fact, tt was tho
store detective, as Mlso Edith waB
soon Informed. Ho hnd been told by
one ot tho salesgirls that sho hnd bo
cretcd goods under hor Jnckot. Sho nt
first Indignantly nnd then tearfully de
nied tho allegation. Sho at first hotly
refused to follow him to tho manager's
oirico, nnd thon bethought her of her,
fnthcr's admonition nnd drew horself
up Btlflly nnd announcod:
"Sir, I am tho daughtor of Maj.
Hydo, lato ot tho Sevantentht"
Tho man roplled that Bho might bo
thd daughter of a general for all ho
cared, and Just then two things hap
pened. A policeman camo through tho
storo and stopped to say that ho would
tako tho girl to tho station, nnd nt tho
oamo moment tho young man of the
rowboat pushed hla way Into tho
crowd and stood besldo her and Bald
that bo would accompany her. Ho wns
suro there was a mlstako, but he also
saw that tho easiest way out, and tho
ono to avoid notorloty, was to nccora
pany tho officer. A cab was called nnd
tho station ranched, and a search by
tho matron proved that tho chargo was
without tho slightest foundation. Tho
prisoner was rot at liberty, and many
apologies, nnd with a suit of damages
against tho storo If tho major wanted
to press It, and tho young mnn called
another cab and drovo Miss Edith to
tho dopot Sho was in tears, and ho
did not disturb her. Ho simply Wont
nhoad and did things. It wau only
when sho found horself on tho train
homoward bound with Hr, Hnrpor bo
sldo her that Bho rallied and looked
him In tho fnco and said:
'You you aro tho young man of tho
rowboat?"
"Just so. My name la Hnrpor, son
of Mrs. Nelson Harper of Trvlngton."
"Why, I live there. I nm Mls3 Hydo,
daughter of Maj. Hyde."
Two days later tho major appear
ed at tho widow's houso and asked for
Hurt When he had shaken hands with
tho young man and tendered his
thanks ho added;
"Sir, I was wropg In regard to that
collision. I nm' something of n crank.
Also, something ot an ass. Please
overlook It and como ovor after your
green apples nnd lot Edith thank you
again. Sho can't apeak too highly ot
your conduct In tho affair In town the
other day."
Thero will bo only ono question be
tween tho mujor and his son-in-law,
viz.: Should a sailboat bo maneuver
ed according to Hardoo'D army tac
tics, or should It go skipping along lo
any old way?
Watchdog Over $102,000,000,000.
Charles A. Hanna, Just named ub
chief exnmlnor of tho Clearing House
association, will enhet tho rolo of
watch-dog over $102,000,000,000 repre
sented by tho New York bnnkors. Hl
salary Ib to bo J20.000 a year, and ho
will direct a corps of trained ac
countants. Dy his appointment the
association hopeB to mako a ropotl
tlon of tho Morse, Walsh and Helnzo
banking scandalH .Impossible Prac
tlcally Mr. Hanna's position will bo
slmllnr to tho ono ho recently re
signed (is national bank examiner In
the Now York district He was born
In Cadiz, Ohio, in 1803, did not have
tlmo to go to college, and has been In
tho banking business more or loss all
his life. Ho is a slender, square
shouldered mnn, and It ho has a fad
It Is autor.oblllng.
To tako up Uie strain moro evenly
a Swedish Inventor, has produced elec
tric cables wiui nempen cores.
Ho, outward from the Land of Worka
day Thero lends a llttlo path that winds and
Winds
Where'er It may bo fancying to strny
Until nt last your longodfor goal It
find.
A twilight path tt Is, nnd yet nt noon
Amid tho clty'o endless rush nnd roar
You may fnre forth upon that puth, ami
oon
Kind solltudo upon some distant shore, '
tt finds the Land ot the Knlr Days thnt
were, '
Whore reddest roses nod nlong thn
street, '
Where drifting brooses Idly como and .
benr ' .' c
An Incense that la faint, but honey'
weeti
Where children's Inughtor echoes nlptho
day
And songs nre sung, nnd no ono wi-urj
n frown
Bo over fur nnd fnr and far nwny
Tho Dream Path winds nnd wnnders up
and down,
I
A smooth, brond path It Is, nt times, -uurt
then,
A narrow trail that hides nmonit ,ths
trees ' ,
And taken you bnck to bo a boy ncaln
In fields of Krai n that oilmen nbout your
kncoa; ' '
tt lends you by the wlllow-sha(lee
brook
Where once you knelt to drink In Indi
an sips.
And to tho briars till you find the nook
Where onco tho blood ot berries gaumed,
your Hps.
Bo do you fpot that path theso many
times,
And none may know what Journeys yov
may take,
What songs sigh In your heart In hnltlng
rhymes.
What visions ot tho past form, but to
break!
Dut outward from the Land of Worka
day It luren you In the night, the noon, tin
dawn
The Dream Path that goes wntidarlnu,
away,
Forover nnd forovor on nnd on,'
Scientific Salesmanship.
"How do you manage to boII bc
raauy automobiles?" wa ask . of thu
salesman who wears diamonds and b
silk hat and smokea 60-cent cigars.
"I don't mind telling you, If you
tront It confidentially," ho aayB. "Yon
know moat people Judgo n machine
by tho speed It can mako. Woll,
there's a qulot llttlo stretch of road
about ten miles out of tho city. I.
got tho 'ospoct to tako n rldo in tho
mnchlno I want him to buy. When
wo roach that strotcli ot road I let
hor out for all aho'a worth generally
about 30 mllcri an hour. Protty soon
my partner, dlBgulBcd as a constable,
stops Ub, and assorts vehemently thnt
ho has timed ub and wo wero going
85 mllos an hour. Aftor somo wrang
ling I mnnngo to buy him off, and on
tho way homo I close tho deal with
tho prospect" j
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Mado an Impressoln.
"And you say," asks the husband;
"that Mrs. Illlthors mado the greatest
Improsslon on the audlenco when she.'
epoke?" , ,;
"Yes," replied tho wlfo, who nai
neon attending tho convention ot tbo
combined women's clubs for tho amcl
(oration of something or other.
"What did aho Bay?"
"O, nobody paid any attention to
that Dut sho woro a robin's breast
brown suit with nppllquo of Pompollan
red, and her hat was "
'Out the husband had burled hlmsoll
again In hla paper.
Polyglot.
A dry goods houso In Danville, II?,
advertises special salespeople whe
speak various languages, thus:
"MIsb Jonnlo Vnsscu speaks Dob
glum, French and English.
"Miss Virginia Douches speaks
French, Dolglum and English,"
.Any person who can speak Dolglum
may easily becomo fluent In China
Spain, Itnly, MIosourl, Nyack, Groom
land and Evanston.
Indefinite.
"How do you llko ray now photoB?
asks tho first fair young thing.
"Thoy look Just llko you," nnswor
tho second fair young thing.
Whereat tho first fair young thlnft
1b In a quandary, not knowing whothoi
tho other 1b trying to bo honest or it
simply speaking a compliment