A DOQ'S SOLILOQUY.
DQILTRT
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According to Instructions
By JEAN DICKERSON
KEEPING CHICKENS IN COLD
MA
NEW KIND OF LETTER SCALES
Interesting Experiment for Children
Who Are of That Mind
Works Very Nicely.
If you look at tho picture you will
see a queer apparatus, and whon you
ilearn It la a contrivance for weighing
letters you will any: "How foolish.
It would bo far oaBler to go to tho
,poatofflco and allow tho mun behind
tho window to weigh tho mall and toll
you how many stamps to put on It."
Uut thero aro many children who like
to experiment, and for these I -will
Letter Scales.
describe the illustration, says a writ
er In the Magical Experiments. Take
a worn-out broom. Saw off about ten
or fifteen Inches of tho handle and
plunge it into a deep vase of wafer,
with tho lower end weighted in such,
a way that about three-quarters of it
Is under water. At the top of this
stick nail a stout square of card
'board on which to rest tho letters, j
Borrow an ounce, a two-ounce and a
half-ounce weight from a friendly
druggist and, placing them ono at a
tlrao upon your balance, carefully
mark tho exact water level.
All 1b ready now to weigh your let
ter. If tho broniBtick goes just be
low the ounce, you will know at once
that you niUBt pay a double postage
and ao on. For all ordinary purposes,
Hf accurately gauged, your homemade
balanco will give satisfaction.
GREAT IMPORTANCE OF SALT
Production Is One of Oldest Industries
of World Louisiana Excels
In Purity.
Salt production 1b about tho oldest
Industry in tho world. In Italy, the
cradle of the salt Industry, it has been
manufactured commercially for 2,500
years. Salt is so necessary to exist
ence that in some parte of the world
tribes will sell the members of tholr
families in exchange for salt. Salt
has been tho cause of wars, and so
important has It always been consid
ered that, in some placeB the passing
of salt is established as a token of
friendship, and women throw salt on
a visitor as u frlenaly greeting. In
j some countries salt is so scarce that it
is obtained through the ashes of
:grasses and species of palm and other
; plants. While salt Is produced in al
most every country of the world, it
ls stated that nowhere can salt of
such purity be obtained at anything
like tho cost for mining as in Louis
iana, ALWAYS READY FOR A ROMP
Ferret and Kitten Are Friends and
Playmates Jumbo Is Most
Playful of the Pair.
' The illustration shows a ferret and
kitten that aro friends and playmates.
Tho ferret, which is named Jumbo,
is a most charming pet, being even
more playful than Spitfire, the kit
ten, and together they havo great
games, rolling one nnothor over, rac
ing after a ball, etc. Jumbo is quite
as ready to play with anything else,
Friends and Playmates.
from human beings to the dogs,
though I do not allow tho lattor, for
fear they should bite him. It Is very
pretty to see tho ferret come running
sideways and jumping off all four
legB at once, and saying, "Vut, vut!"
when ho wants somebody to play with
blm.
Home Balh Playing.
"Do you play ball?" asked a visitor
of Binoll Tommy. "Ycs'm," repllod
little fellow, "Mamma and me has had
a game occasionally." "How do you
play It?" asked the visitor. "Oh," on
Bwercd Tommy, "sho makes the bneo
hits and I furnish the bowl."
4m3frEBm$ WSBBBsW
Wo heard that two-legged folks say
three
In not tlin best company.
1 can't help thinking they arc wrong.
We're linppy as the day Is long.
TELEPHONE IS EASILY MADE
Any Bright Boy or Girl Can Construct
Apparatus Suitable for Short
Distance Talking,
We aro bo used to tho electric tele
phono that wo sometimes forget that
quite n serviceable telephone for short
dlstanco talking can bo operated with
out tho use of electricity. Any bright
boy or girl can make the nou-electrlc
telophone. This Is tho way It may bo
done:
Melt off tho ends of two tomato
cans by placing them In tho coals for
a few minutes. Then cover ono end
of each can with a ptcco of soft
parchment or rawhide, so that tho
covorod can ouds look iko drum-heads.
Tho parchment can bo bound la place
by lapping It over tho 'sides of tho
cans and tying It down that way with
twine. After your drum-heads are fin
ished wax enough twino to oxtend
over tho distance between tho two
placos that you wish to establish con
nections between. Then puncture a
ttiuall hole In the center of each drum
head, slip an end of the waxed twine
through each drum-head and knot tho
twine so that It can't slip out. You
will find that your telephone is com
plete. All you will havo to do is to
put tne drum-heads in place, so that
tho twine will draw taut. For in
stance, put one drum-head in one
houso and put tho other in a neigh
boring house and draw the twino
tight. You will find that when you
tap upon tho drum-head in ono house
tho sound will bo carried to tho other
houso, and that If you talk into the
tomato can, or drum-head, rocolvor In
one house, a person listening at the
other end of the lino can hear you
distinctly.
LOUD SIREN FOR A BICYCLE
Apparatus Designed for Motorcycles
and Produces Sound by Quite In
genious Method.
Ailtomobllcs are not the only vehic
les that can havo siren horns. A Now
York man has designed a similar ap
paratus for tho production of sound
Loud Bicycle Siren.
by an Ingenious method. Tho horn Is
clapped to tho front bar of tho cycles
and stands some Inches In front of It,
over tho front wheel. A light alumi
num fan is mounted in the bottom of
tho horn and runs on two sets of ball
bearings, on tho other ond of which 1b
a friction pulloy, positioned closo to
the moving tire. A wiro runB from
this pulley to the handlebar of tho
cycle, where It 1b connected with a lov
er. By pressing this lover the pulley
is brought into contact with the tire
and revolved, in turn revolving the fan,
which generates the air currents and
produces tho tojren. The volume of
sound varies with the Bpeed, tho loud
er notes being produced when the ma
chine Is going at a rapid rate, a time
when a piercing whistle Is most need
ed. Amusing Magical Experiment.
Souk a piece of thread In Btrong
salt water, dry It, ud repeat two or
three times. When thoroughly dry tlo
one end to a chandelier, and on the
other tie a ring or some small but not
too heavy article.
It 1b now ready for the experiment.
Set flro to tho thread, and behold tho
ring does not fall to tho floor, nor
does' tho thread break.
The explanation Is: The thread has
in reality been burned, but the salt
with which tho thread was saturated
forms a solid column, and that sup
ports the ring. Varied experiments
can bo made, using several threads
for one article, and in fact many oth
ers which may suggest themselves to
the readers.
Inexperienced Poultry Raisers Make
Mistake In Furnishing Quarters
That Are Too Warm.
Ono of the mistakes made by nearly
all the inexperienced poultry raisers la
in keeping the cblckons too warm In
winter. They cannot bring themselves
to believe that the hen Is so warmly
clad that It can live In the1 open like
a quail, partridge, prairie chicken and
other wild fowl.
No one would think of furnishing
waim quarters for tho sparrow or tho
wild pigeon. Feathers aro non-conduo-tors
and as comfortable as furs, Thoy
aro so thickly placed on tho chicken
that tho cold cannot get through nor
can tho body boat got out. The only
Bhelter that a chicken really needs is
from wet and from drafts.
A chicken that is Inured to cold
weather Is not so apt to get atok.
Many coopb aro open in front, only
curtains of burlap or somo other cheap
material being provldod to protect tho
chicken from stormy weather.
GEESE ARE MORE PROFITABLE
Give Them Good Pasture and About
One-Half the Care and Worry
That the Turkeys Receive.
If you have got tired of running all
over tho neighborhood hunting your
turkey try geese. Get a good pair of
Toulouse Goose.
pure-bred Toulouse, or if you prefer
white ones the Embdona aro all right,
but not quite as largo. Give them a
good grassy pasture and about one
half tho care and worry you would
glvo turkeys and you will have more
money at the end of tho year. -
Cheap Insect Powder.
, An excellent Insect powder may bo
made by following tho formula given
below: Take three parts of gasoline
and add one part of crude carbolic
iacld. Mix these together and add
Gradually, stirring constantly, enough
plaster of parls to take up nil the
moisture. Stir so thoroughly that tho
'liquid will be uniformly distributed
ithrough tho plaster. This mlxturo,
iwhen dry, will bo a pinkish brown
'Powder, having a carbolic odor. For
jlico or mites on fowls, thoroughly dust
and work tho powder through the
fcathers. On about the third day glvo
(a second dusting. This will rid the
birds of all insects.
Don't soil cracked or very email
Grit and oyster shells should not bo
forgotten.
You can gain two or three cents a
dozen by shipping your own eggs.
A filthy hen houso la the best
breeding place for lice and mites.
If you want eggs in winter we must
breed from hens that lay In winter.
The Idea that water 1b necessary to
any ono who cares to raise ducks Is a
mistake.
In fly season, keep netting over the
egg basket, as fly-specked eggs are not
Inviting.
Stale bread thoroughly dried and
rolled into fine crumbB Is excellent
chicken food.
It Is tlmo for questions about get
ting fowls to come down out of trees
and roost in houses.
Careless and Indifferent systems of
feeding are often tho cause of poor
milk yields and small profits.
It Is absurd to expect pullets to lay
during tho early winter whon they
wore not hatched until Juno or July.
Eggs during the hot weather should
be removed from tho nostB at once
and placed In the coolest spot In tho
houso,
Thero should be provided plenty of
fresh clean water to drink, preferably
water from which the chill has been
taken off.
Cabbage heads or mangles make an
acceptable green feed for thorn to
pick up, also applo and potato parings
are much relished.
In summer tlmo all eggs marketed
should be Infertile. Such a condition
can only exist after tho malos havo
been removed from the flocks.
Many beginners make the mistake
of not specializing In some way in
eggB, for example, or In pure-bred
stock, There Is no reason why the
two should not be combined.
Giles Tower roread the telegram
and then folded It and tucked It away
la his pocket.
"Am detained In town until evening.
Meet Lily Black at 2:20 train. Be a
dear and amuse her until I come.
Bessie."
'"Amuse her,' Indeed!" repeated
Giles wrathfully, waving his pipe at
tho surrounding furniture "May I in
quire why that precious bit of onyx,
Lily Black, must be amusod by me
mountil her mistress arrives? It
this is tho present Btntus of tho serv
'ant question, tho sooner women obtain
suffrage and tho men folks take up do
mestic problems and solve 'em the
better 1"
Thero was no reply to Mr. Tower's
indignant remarks, for ho was all alone
In the room. Ills widowed Bister had
moved Into this pretty suburban villa
and tho houso was hardly settled when
tho cook, Imported from the city, over
come by loneliness and tho hooting of
nocturnal birds, had packed her tele
scopo bag and departed for town loav
ing Mrs. Emery and her bachelor
brother hungry and forlorn.
This morning Mrs. Emory had gone
to town on nn early train hoping to
persuado an old and favorite hand
maid to return to her employment
This ebon damBel rejoiced in tho con
tradictory name of "Lily White," and
It had alwayB been Giles Tower's whim
to speak of hor as "Lily Black" hence
his amazed disgust when he read his
sister's message saying that Lily waa
on her way to Rosclawn, and that he
waa to amuse her until Mrs. Emery's
return.
"J? that Isn't just like Bessie," sigh
ed Giles as he gathered together his
sheets of manuscript and locked thorn
away, "it doesn't appear that sho. has
told Ltly to prepare a decent meal' for
me but there, I suppose Bessie will
dlno In town and I must feast again
from tho 'emorgency shelf!' Well,
hero goes forea lunch of some sort"
Ho went into tho disordered kitch
en where thero wero vislblo evidences
of tho few scrappy moals he and bis
sister had contrived to proparo since
tho departuro of tho owl-haunted cook
the day before. He prowled In the
pantry and from tho sholvco of tinned
foods, bottled fruits and biscuit boxes
ho managed to get together a rather
dry and unpalatable meal.
When it was over ho loft tho debris
for tho further surprise of the com
ing cook, and going to the garage
gqt out the car and started for the
station,, thinking resentfully of his In
terrupted (Work, and frowning dark
"lyJaTthe remembered Instructlonn of
hlB slater to "amuso Lily Black."
Sho can amuse herself by toying
with tho dlshpan and dustpan," grum
bled Giles. "I BUpposo I ought to
amuso her with tho mechanical piano
or Invito hor to a ganio of tennis!"
The big car swung to a standstill at
the, station platform Just as tho train
rushed in. Giles loft his seat and
walked slowly toward tho now arrivals.
Thero wero about half a dozen In all
but nowhere did Giles see the , tall,
commanding form of his sister's fa
vorite handmatdon, Lily White or
Black.
The 2:20 pulled creakingly away to
other and more distant suburbs, and
tho half dozen passengers entered va
rious waiting vehicles and departed
all save one, a slender, falr-halred girl
who now and then glanced curious
ly at Giles as he stood pondering
what to do.
The girl wns surrounded by various
bits of baggage.
Giles sought tho station agent who
was trundling another trunk along tho
platform. Thin trunk was a cheap af
fair of colored metal and peeping from
under the lid were various folds
of many-hued garments ,as If tho
trunk had been packed hurriedly. On
ono end there strugglod a name la
white painted lottors.
"Miss Lily White, N. Y."
Gilos gazed with mock sentiment
at the frowsy looking trunk, ""fls
herBl" ho murmured.
"When Is tho next train duo?" ho
asked the man.
''Three-thirty," waa the reply.
"Didn't see anything of a colored
woman on this ono, did you?" asked
Giles, following the agent to tho bag
gage room whero Miss Lily White's
trunk was Unceremoniously dumped
on the floor with a bump that made
it quiver from rickety end to ond.
"Didn't see any colored woman," was
the gruff reply, and Giles went back to
tho car.
The pretty, falr-halred girl loft hor
baggage and went to the station mas
tor. Giles watched her as she asked a
question, and ho heard tho low grum
ble of the man'B reply, accompanied by
a negatlvo head-shake.
Before sho returned Giles had start
ed his machino for a spin during tho
tedious wait for the next train, Around
Iloselawn station was a wild, pictur
esque country quite unsettled as yet,
but tho roads weis good, and it Ib al
ways pleasant to motor In October,
Time passed swiftly enough for Giles,
and onco moro he drew up at the
platform Just as hla train rolled In.
In one swift glanco ho noted that the
pretty girl was still waiting, and that
she looked tired and borod.
This tlmo thero were only threo pas
sengers for Iloselawn, and not one of
these was the looked-for Lily Whlto.
Just as Giles returned disgusted, to
bis car, the agent, who waa also tele
graph operator at tho llttlo station, ap
proached htm with a yellow envelope
In bis hand,
"Do you happen to be going any
where near the Tower place, sir?" he
asked agreeably.
"I'm going right thero ray name's
Tower," said Giles, taking tho message
and paying for It
He opened It and whistled.
"Find that Lily White also went on
2 J 20 be sure and get her without falL
I will corao down on nine o'clock.
Bessie."
"Lily White also came down with
herself on the 2:201" he groaned. "It
that isn't Just like a woman messing
things up. I wonder If It's some
foolish Joko of Bessie's? Wo in
thunder Is My White?"
"Search me!" ejaculated tho station
master as bo turned away, and as ho
passed tho fatr-hairod girl who was
Btlll watting, ho paused and asked: "Is
your name Black, lady?"
"Why, yes, It Is," she repllod. "Has
somebody come for he at last?"
"That thero gent Is looking for a
lady named block awhile ago ho waB
asklug for a colored lady and i just
took In a trunk labolcd 'Lily White.'
Somebody'c been drinkln', but It ain't
me," he said darkly, and disappeared,
Giles was cranking hla car when
the girl approached him timidly, "t
wonuer If you ore looking for mc," she
began. "I'm expecting somebody from
Mrs. Emery's place."
"Good!" cried Olios .heartily. "I'm
glad to And somebody tor our house.
Bessto baa done a lot of telegraphing,
and I can't make head or tall out of
It" Io pulled out his telegrams and,
with a boyish smile gave them to her.
"Are you one ot these ladles?" he
asked.
She smiled charmingly. "I'm the
first one, Lily Black," she explained.
"Bessie la a .dear friend of mine, and
I' met her In town this morning and
she simply Insisted that I go home and
pack up some things and come down
here for a month or two. Ab I live In
a studio I was surely tempted and ac
cepted on tho spot. She said she would
wlro her brother to meet me, but I
heard you Inquiring for a colored wom
an, and as tho agout didn't know who
you wore I asked him 1 was com
pelled to watt!"
"Woll, I'm an awful Idiot, after all,"
confessed Giles holding out his hand.
"Lily Black 1b my pot name tor our
household treasure, the onyx-huod Miss
Lily Whlto, and I thought It wbb she
whom Bessie was sending that ex
plains why I was to amuso herl"
Thoy laughed merrily an he piled ber
hand luggage in the tonneau, leaving
the trunks to follow later,. Miss Black,
had taken her seat beside Giles when
a local train crept In from the east.
From this train there emerged a tall,
gaunt-flgured woman of sooty black
ness who glanced about ber and made
one dive for Giles' panting car.
"Ah, dere, Mister Tower l' she
shrieked. "Foh do lan' sake don' you
get away wldout me!" and the agitated
MIsb Ltly White, who had been acci
dentally carried a station beyond her
destination, leaped Into tho tonneau
and rode triumphantly down to the
Emery home.
When Bessie Emery arrived at Rose
lawn that night she found her brother
waiting for hor beside the car.
"Did Lily come?" sho asked as she
got In.
"Which ono?" asked Gllea mischiev
ously. "White or Black?"
"Goose I" laughed bis sister. "Both,
of course."
"Yes, thoy both came Lily White
haa cleaned up tho houso like maglo,
and has prepared tho most dollclous
dinner wo aro waiting for you."
"And Lily Black what of her? I
hope the poor child wasn't bore-1, Giles.
I told you to amuse hor."
"According to your Instructions, I
tried to," said Giles, whimsically. "It's
an old gamo, though ns old as tho
hills. It takos two to play It and ot
course you haven't allowed me much
tlmo yet"
"You dear!" cried Bessie, suddenly
enlightened, and sho kissed blm. "Isn't
sho a darling?"
"Sho Is!" sold Giles emphatically.
Rewarded,
"So you have been a newspaper
poet?" asked St. Peter at the gate.
With bowed bead the new arrival
confessed to the error of his ways.
"What have you to say for your
self?" asked tho saint
"I have never parodied Omar Khay
yam." "Very Good."
"I havo novor parodied 'Maud Mul
len "
"Better still."
"And I havo never done violence to
that clnsslo of childhood, "Mary's Llt
tlo Lamb.'"
"En tor I" crlod St Peter, sboddlng
grateful tears. "Tho best is none too
good for you."
Evidence of Insanity.
"Doctor, I want you to come and ex
amine my husband."
"What seems to bo the matter with
blm?"
"1 am afraid he is losing bis mind.
Last night we wore talking about the
necessity of reducing our living ex
penses and be said I would have to
spend less money than I've boeu
spending tor clothes and help In the
houao."
"There's nothing strange about aucn
a declaration."
"I know; but after be bad mode It
he said: 'Got that Imebedded In your
bean.' "
MP'
"Nobody lovos a millionaire." Bugent
Zimmerman,
Clnap linndo with mo, my friend Xugene.
For I, Ilka you, each day endure
A loveless life, all umerene,
IJocauae, forsooth, I am so poof.
Tho auto-agent loves ma not
The Jewel-merchant stands apart
And, knowing what I haven't got,
lie has for ma a marble heart.
Tho denlers In old masters, too,
Treat me with haughty, chilling ways
I fnnoy they've somo love tor you,
Thoy alwayn love tho man who pays.
The steam yacht builders gase on me
That Is, If o'er thoy gaso at all
As folk who cannot even, see, , , .
My name la ono they "can't recall.
And landscape gardeners why they,
Don't oven treat me with respect;
And you should onco obscrvo tho way
I'm snubbed by every architect
My landlord has the cold, calm att-
Korgetfulnesa la fashioned of
You'd think that he had rend somewhere
That pity Is akin to love.
There la a man who holda my note,
He calls me up and calls ma down;
I'm suro on ma he docs not dote,
Because ho views ma with a frown.
Tho butcher, grocer, coalnmn, clerk
"Who selln me clothes marked very .low,
The bona for whom I try to work- -
They never have much lovo to show.
Come, mingle your salt tears wltli mine;
In unison our slghrs exhale;
Let. us In duet style rcplno,
And I shall glvo you wall, for wall,
Nobody loves a millionaire
Alas, I fear that la qutto ao.
Would I wero ono! I should not care,
For I've obaorved they love his doUgD;
Tho War.
It is estimated that the cost of tho
war between Turkey and Italy wil1
about equal Caruso's salary for one
season or the Terrible Turk's share'
ot the prlzo money for one wrestling
match.
Whatever awkward hltcbeB and det
lays there may be In the early,, coar
duct of the conflict are attributed to
the fact that this Is the first war. for
many years that lifts not boon person
ally conducted by Jnmos Croelman. '
Those desiring to maintain a state
ot neutrality will, when they drlnfc
Chiantl with their dinner, conclude
with Turkish cigarettes.
Attempts to Insplro paragraphs to
tho effect that Italy's war ultimatum
may prove to be a promature Thanks
giving proclamation loading to tho dta
mombormont of Turkey has thus far;
signally failed.
t
i
Its Handicap,
"Why avo you so busy?" asks th
ant ot, tho inchworm. "I have always,
boon a symbol of Industry, but you
are evidently trying to make a rec
ord." "Not oxactly that," explains tin
Inchworm. "I nm only trying to leave
my footprints on the sandB ot time
and as a result I havo to cover twelvsj
times as much ground ns heretofore.'
One or tho Other.
Tho traveling phrenologist fingers
tho head ot tho wan llttlo man with
great Interest. Hosting his thumb up
on n particularly largo bump, he ven
tures: "My frlond, If you aro not a mar
ried man you nro undoubtedly gifted
with tho groatoat capacity for com
mand of any man on earth."
The Astute Professor.
"Now," said tho othor membor ot
tho faculty, "If you carry your theory
out to Its logical conclusion, tho pub
lic will"
"Not a bit of It," romarkod tho as
tuto professor. "I'll not carry the the
ory to a logical conclusion. If I do
that the public will novor pay any at
tention to it."
Out of Fashion,
Agnos Appondlcltls 1b not quite so
fasblonablo ns It was,
'Glndys No, ovon a swollen appen
dix would spoil tho sot ot tho present
day gowns.
Land Is at Last Sighted.
Shipwrecked Passonger What do
wo do now?
Shlpwrockod Seaman I awlm ashore
and save myself and then swim out
and save you.