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THE NEW MAN ADVISED.
X.lttlo man, little man, do the very best you
can,
Guuge the measure of your pleasure on the
truly pleasant plan,
That puts safety valves on Joy, for a bright
high-pressure boy,
By providing for the impulse which might
mix In cheap alloy.
X.lttlo lad, little lad, be as cheerful and as
glad,
As becomes a Jolly urchin much too merry
to be mad;
In your wildest gibes and Jokes, well con
sider other folks.
You can be both kind and happy without
wearing evil's yokes.
Tho best kind of little boys cultivate true
equipoise,
And forget not other people 'mid their
sauciest pranks or noise;
They are anxious to bo right, sunny, sen
sible, polite,
Hot to riot and be ruffians who prefer to
swear and fight.
They have eyes both frank and true, they
aro faithful and true blue,
And in courtesy's best coin give every
playmato honest duo;
They can halloo, Blng and play, In tho very
liveliest way,
And no hoodlum stuffed with rudeness Is aB
happy as aro they.
Little fellows may be wise, honest hearts
and honest eyes,
TVlth a puro soul clear as crystal all un
stained by filthy lies;
Bo a boy of manly mind, truthful, useful,
careful, kind,
Then your life will be worth living, as you
cannot fall to find.
I. EDGAR JONES.
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Genius in Ibc
-- Oil Region.
DICK WARltER'S WAT OF HANDLING
NITROGLTCERIN.
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"TOiYl would have been nlensed
more times thnn I enn tell if you
hnd only known Dick Warner," said a
talkative mnn from the oil region.
""Dick was a chap worth knowing. In
deed, he wns. Devil Dick, we used to
call him, and I don't know but what it
was a fitting name for him. Devil Dick,
lie wns a nitroglycerin handler in the
early days of that sudden and capricious
explosive agent, so useful to the oil op
erator, but so capable of mixing up
and changing the aspect of things gen
erally when it gets going at the wrong
time and place. Dick's way of hnndling
nitroglycerin was so disingenuous
that when Dick had a load of the stuff to
deliver to a well everybody else at and
nbout that well took to the woods.
Unless it might be Dan Sutton. Dnn
was a chum of Dick's, and had as calm
and unruffled a manner in handling
nitroglycerin as Dick himself. Why,
I've seen Dan and Dick play catch with
nitroglycerin they were unloading
Dick tossing can after can to Dan, and
Dan catching it, just as if they were un
loading brick, although the missing of
a can by Dan would mean that in less
thnn a second you couldn't find so much
as a toenail of either. But Devil Dick
was the better worth knowing of the
two. He was original. He had genius.
He "was great.
"For instance, Dan Sutton would
never have thought of doing such a
thing as Dick did once down at Roen's
camp. Dan might have been willing to
do it, but he never could have thought it
up. A driller named Peterson got n
regular Dutch rolling sknte on one day,
and was blowing around about what
things he could do, when who should
come along but Devil Dick with a lond
of glycerin. The load wasn't for any
well around the camp, but Dick stopped
to listen to'the drunken driller. Pretty
scon he got off his wagon and says to
the driller:
" 'Pete,' he says, 'I'll bet you $20 you
can't hit n can of glycerin with a stone
at 20 pnees once out of ten times, and
I'll hold the can.'
"That was enough to make everybody
around there prick up hisears.and when
Peterson said he'd take the bet and Dick
stepped to the wngon to get the can, we
all mnde tracks for high ground. By
the time we got to a safe place and
stopped to look back Dick had paced oil'
the distance and stood there holding the
can of glycerin at arm's length, nnd
the driller was getting ready to make
the throws. Five throws were wild.
The sixth one struck Dick's nrm not
three inches from the can. That jarred
the can out of Dick's hand, but he
caught it before it reached the ground,
or the throwing match would have end
ed there and then, with the total separa
tion of Dick and the driller from all
further toil and tribulntion. The last
four throws were nil close to the can,
the last one nctually grazed it. Dick
won his bet, got his money, put his can
back in the wagon and drove on his
way.
"That was genius, wasn't it? And
look what it did. When Peterson got
sober and came to think over what he
had done, he signed the pledge, and
never touched another drop of liquor.
He is living, rich and respected. He
never would have been either if it
hadn't been for Devil Dick Warner.
Lots of men profit by other men's
genius just that way. Lot's of 'em.
"In those days the woods all through
the oil region, and the oil region ran
pretty much all to woods, were alive
with wild animals of all kinds, nnd it
was no uncommon sight to see a bear,
or a panther, or a lynx or borne other
savage brnst prowling around the
camps or the isolated oil towns. The
lynx, especially, beemed to have a liking
for oil-well men, and one particularly
big and savage one had its eyes on Devil
Dick almost every day when he was
carting nitroglycerin over the lonely
Corker Hun road, and was watching its
chance to get away with him. One day
Dick was on his way to a well with a load
of torpedoes, and he picked me up on
the way. I was going to Jones' new
drilling. On a stretch of tho road
through Conway's woods, I discovered
u big Canadian lynx stealing along
through the branches of the trees at
one side of the road and keeping only a
few feet behind us.
" 'Great Aaron, Dick,' said I, pulling
Dick's sleeve. 'Look at that.'
" 'I seen it this mile or more,' said
Dick. 'It's hankerin' after me, nnd I
only hope it'll keep on after us till we
git to Keery's opening. I'm nchin' for
it to do that. Then I'll surprise it.'
"Keery's opening was a gap in the
woods, and n ravine 20 feet deep, a mile
or so further on. The lynx kept right
on, nnd when we got to the opening the
animal was still with ub.
" 'Now,' said Dick, 'see me scattei
him!'
The lynx had crouched down only a
few feet from the edge of the nenrest
wall of the ravine. Before I hnd any
idea of how Dick intended to scatter
him, he grabbed up a can of nitrogly
cerin and hurled it with all his might
at the animal, which wns not more thnn
20 feet away. The can struck the side
oi tne jynx wun n uuu tnump, nnu wie
yielding flesh nnd fur did not oiler re
sistance enough to explode it. The
force of the blow keeled the lynx over on
its back, and the can began to roll
slowly down a gradual decline Hint led
from where the lynx lay to the edge of
the ravine wall. I am not nshamed to
say that I stood somewhat aghast at
this display of genius on the part of
Devil Dick, for I knew thnt the instant
the can rolled over the wall and dropped
on the rocks at the bottom the explo
sion that had been averted by the lynx's
body would surely follow, and that the
man I had an important engagement
with at Jones' new driller that day
would look for me in vain.
"Quick as I could do it, and it must
have been pretty quick, I jumped from
the wagon, tore like mad up the ravine,
and stood beneath where the torpedo
would roll. over the edge of the ravine,
with my hands raised to catch it as it
came down, nnd prevent it from strik
ing the rocks. A scraggy bush of some
kind grew on the edges of the rocks
at the top of the wall, and just as I got
to my post in the ravine the can of
nitroglycerin had rolled to the edge
and struck against the main stem of the
bush. The can struck it a little out of
the center, and the heavier end dipped
down until it hung over the wall two
inches, and in thnt position the can
stopped. It seemed as if a breath of
wind moving the bush must dislodge 11.
"All this had taken but very few sec
onds. The instant I saw the can lodge
against the bush 1 started back for
Dick's wagon as fast as I could go, fori
give you my word I was afraid the tor
pedo would drop before we got away
from there and scatter Dick and me as
well as the lynx, and I wnnted to hurry
Dick up. When I got to the wagon,
though, there stood Dick with another
can of glycerin raised, ready to hurl
after the first one. He lowered it,
though, and looked around at me with
disgust and disappointment on his face,
and, merciful me, how he was swear-
nig:
" 'The Infernal varmint hns give me
the slip nnd took to the woods!' he hol
lered. 'Lord! How I'd like to bust one
o' these shells on his carcass!'
"Dick put the can back and we drove
on, Dick swearing till I had a notion to
get out and walk. Before I had made
up my mind fully n roar and a rumble
came following us down the road, and a
shower of rock thumped and pattered
on all sides of us. Wc hadn't got away
half a minute too soon. The torpedo
hnd lost its hold on the bush and
dropped to the bottom of the ravine.
" 'It's too thunderin' bad!' Devil Dick
ripped out before the rocks were done
falling. 'How tliat'd a-scattered that
infernal varmint of a lynx if it had only
struck right.'
"That was Dick Devil Dick Warner.
Genius? 1 should say so! And to think
that after handling nitroglycerin in
his whole-souled and oil-hand man
ner for ten years and more he
should die of a carbuncle. Poor Devil
Dick! You should have enjoyed know
ing him, I'm sure you would." N. Y.
Sun.
Self Sfierlllcp.
As n gladiator trained the bodj-, so
must we train the mind to self-sacrifice,
"to endure all things," to meet
and overcome difficulties and danger.
We must take the rough and thorny
roads, as well as the smooth and plens
ant, and a portion at least of our daily
duty must be hard and disagreeable,
for the mind ennnot be kept strong nnd
healthy in perpetual sunshine only,
nnd the most dangerous of all states is
that of constantly recurring pleasure,
ease and prosperity. Most persons will
find difficulties and hardships enough
without seeking them; let them not
repine, but take them as a part of that
educational discipline necessary to fit
the mind to arrive at its highest good.
Detroit Krco Press.
It
blind
every
Is stated that there are 1,000,000
people in the world, or one to
1,500 inhabitants.
THE FARMING WORLD.
BEES IN THE WINTER.
Thin "Writer 1'refcrn Clinff Hive to
Quartern In tlic Cellar.
Preparation of bees for winter should
be begun some time before winter is on.
If they are to be fed, it should be done
while the weather is yet warm, as
liquids cannot be fed to bees in winter.
If bees arc destitute of food during
the winter proper food may be given
them in the form of candy until warm
weather comes in spring. It takes
about 25 pounds of honey to winter
a colony successfully, nnd this amount
mny be given them in part or in whole
of sirup made from granulated sugar.
The necessary amount of stores in
ench colony should be looked after care
fully in nututnn, nnd furnished in every
case needed, so that they may be placed
in winter quarters before cold wcatlujr.
Colonies may be fed very rapidly if
necessary. In case of late feeding thJB
must be done, and the full nmount of
provisions may be given them in a few
days. A strong colony will store n
gallon of sirup in less than 21 houw.
vBut in case colonics arc fed earlier,
they not be fed so rapldty, and it is bet-,
ter to prolong feeding ten days or two
weeks, as this gives them more time
to ripen nnd seal up their stores, which
is much better, and also gives them an
opportunity to renr brood, which is very
essential to successful wintering.
I much prefer chaff hives to winter
in, in preference to the cellar, and if
you have never tried wintering in the
cellnr, you hnd better leave that to the
expert. Chaff hives if well made are
irood all-year-round hives. They arc
good protection in winter, and in
spring they nre a great benefit in pro
tecting the bees during the changes of
weather, and docs not check brood rear
ing during cold snaps. They arc also
convenient in summer nnd protect the
bees and honey In hot weather.
After using a house apiary for sev
eral years, 1 much prefer it, and would
not again go back to our apiaries. As
for winter protection in the house, 1
pack in chaff after the fashion of the
chnil hive.
Late swarms, and all weak colonics
of any kind should be united until their
combined strength is as good as the
best before going into winter quarters.
It is useless to undertake to winter col
onies that are queenless, and they, too,
should be put in with others contain
should be put with others containing
queens. A. II. Duff, in Western Rural.
DRINKING FOUNTAIN.
Convenient Device Invented by n
Vermont Farmer.
Not every farmer is supplied with
running streams where the poultry can
get-good water when they want it, es
pecially the young chickens, turkeys
nnd goslings. I bought several three
gallon galvanized pails for 17 cents
each and some small pans for ten cents.
A small hole was made in the bottom
of each pail, which was then filled with
FOUNTAIN FOIt CHICKENS.
water and set in the middle of a shallow
pan. A board cover was placed on top.
You ought to have seen how much
the chickens and goslings enjoyed this
good drinking fountain. Do not get
the pan too large. A spnee of y. inches
below the pail and the outside of the
pan is sufficient. This nllows plenty
of room for drinking, but the young
birds ennnot get into the water nnd foul
it. Care should be taken to have the
holo in the bottom of the pail quit
small. The opening made by the point
of an awl or small nail is large enough.
I fill one of these fountains twice a day
for CO goslings. Ornnge Judd Farmer.
Peed the FovfIn Slovrly.
One of the difficulties in feeding fowls
is thnt, as given by the poulterer, the
food is in n mnss and can be gobbled
down far too quickly. In its natural
state, the fowl hunting for food is
obliged to eat slowly, one grnin at a
time. Usunlly, after each mouthful, the
hen is obliged to scratch for more. So
ingrained is this instinct that a hen
with chickens will scratch and cluck
when she comes to n pile of grain. One
of the rensons why corn is a bad feed
for fowls is that the grain is lnrge, and
if shelled nnd thrown out by hnnd
f uls, the fowls eat it much too fast for
their good. The true way to feed hens
m to mix their grnin with chnfl! or
straw, so that they must scratch for
It. If covered with mellow earth, It will
be still better, as the dust thus raibed
will rid the fowls of vermin. American
Cultivator.
During tho fall and winter is a good
time to plan out the farm so as to do
iway with all unnecessary fencing.
NEAT SIPHON SIGNAL.
A Little Convenience Which May Hurt
it Lot of Tro utile.
The float attached to a signal, as Il
lustrated herewith, for use while si
phoning wntcr from n well is for th
purpose of giving notice when water is
Hearing the cud of the pipe in the well,
as it will stop the action of tho siphon
to allow tho wnter to fall below the
suction cud. After the well is "banket!
iu" to keep out frost it is not con
venient to examine the height of water,
hence tho need of the signal to tclJ
when wntcr is getting low, so the flow
can be regulated by faucet at the lowci
end in pipe (d). Mino was made with a
piece of ordinary two-inch plnnk(a)
V.lrili;
RS5S9.t!il.;l;i,V
SIPHON SIGNAL.
one foot squnre. A small staple was
driven in tho center of tho top, tho wire
(b) attached to tho staple nnd passed
through a hole made through the cov
ering of the well (c) nnd attached to n'
light piece of board or lath (a) fas
tened to nn upright. Arrange the
length of wire so thnt as wafer be
comes low the weight of the flat will
pull down on one end of the signal nnd
raise the other end to which n piece of
tin or a cloth is attached as a signal.
H. C. Crary, In Farm and Home.
ASHES AS FERTILIZERS.
They Are Very Uneful on CroM I,lko
Clover mill Grant.
Considerable spnee is devoted to ashes
as fertiliers in a late bulletin Issued by
the Massachusetts Experiment station.
The bulletin states that lime-kiln ashes,
which contain, in one ton, 800 pounds of
lime, 25 of potash, and 20 of phosphoric
acid, might well be advertised and sold
with profit. These ashes are obtained
by burning limestone with wood. They
are very Ubcful on crops like clover or
grass, and farmers who live where they
can be obtained, can well nlTord to pay
53.50 per ton and haul them home. As
for ordinary unbleached wood ashes,
they should never be bought by the
bushel. They should be bought not
only by weight, but on a guaranteed
analysis of potash and phosphoric acid.
The Massachusetts Experiment station
chemists found all the way from one
to 35 per cent, of water in different
samples' of such ashes. It is folly to
buy ashes by the bushel when 20 per
cent, or more of the bulk is nothing
but water. The potash and phosphorio
acid found in wood ashes have, pound
for pound, about equal commercial val
ues. Dealers sometimes state only the
sum of both instead of the amount of
each. This is well enough in figuring
the money value of the ashes, but the
buyer should demand, in addition, a
definite statement of the nmounts of
potash and phosphoric acid as separate
ingredients. Itural World.
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Good cornfodder la better for tho
horses than poor hay.
When the potatoes are dry is the best
time to select the seed.
So long as hogs can be kept healthy
they can be made profitable.
During the fall and winter is a good
time to organize farmers' clubs.
The older the stock becomes before
marketing the more It costs to feed nnd
fatten.
The profit in farming is determined
l.y the difference in prices and the cost
of raising.
Plan to provide work for the teams
every day that the weather will xiermil
through the winter.
If you are land poor, have got more
land than you enn maintain in a good
state of fertility, sell off a part.
Care must be taken not to put tho
sow on lull feed too soon after farrow
ing. Gradually increase her ration.
Keep In a dry and convenient place
where the hogs can help themselves u
supply of ashes, salt and copperas.
Farmers' Union.
lliiriloclc lMuiitM nnd lIortN.
It is a practice of some fnrmers to
let a few burdock plants grow so as io
furnish a green bite for horses during
the early bummer. The horses are al
most crazy at this season to get some
thing, and the slightly bitter taste of
the burdock does not prevent them
from eating them greedily. This will
not interfere with eating dry feed as
green grass would do. In fact, some
horsemen regard the burdock leaves as
a valuable tonic, and declare that horses
eat more heartily and do more work
ufter they have been fed thus.
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WELL-FED PAUPEHS.
Inmate of nn KiikIInIi Workhonwo I)lc
rrom Ovcrcntlnir.
Every free-born Englishman comes
Into the world with the innliennblo
right to a seat at the table and a bed
in the palatial English workhouse. It
has been my good fortune during u
journalistic career now close on 25
years to visit nnd describe for various
publications over 100 British cities and
towns. In nearly every case attention
has been called to the handsome build
ings set apart for tho paupers, or, in
colloquial English, "tho 'ouse." Back
in the good old doys of Queen Elizabeth
tho principle was made a law that no
English mnn or woman should starve,
and thnt, if unable to secure a living for
themselves, the poor and the indigent
and the incnpablcs must be cared for
by tho state. So firmly has the idea
taken possession of the English mind
that the poorer cIbbs, the old, and even
those In tho prime of life, talk with
complaisance of ending their dnya In
tlio 'ouse." They look upon it very
much as our old people might regard
going to n home for Invalids or tho old,
and, indeed, in many of the English
workhouses they arc cared for as well
as In such institutions as our old ladies";
homes, etc. The other week, when ini
Bideford, I waB taken to tho work
house, situated In a beautiful hill over
looking the broad river nnd famousi
bridge. For the moment I could hard
ly believe my eyes. It looked for nil
the world like a Japanese palace. ItJ
was built much ns they build in Japan,,
with plaster between the mnssJvc wood
en bennis, pointed gnblo roof, old-fashioned
casement windows, vines spread
ing their beautiful green tendrils in nlF
directions, nnd iu front a large variety
of dark shrubs and just such stunted'
shrubs as one sees iu Japan odd
shaped and picturesque. And here tho
poor of Bideford cnt, drink and arq
merry.
Quite a number of cases of death
from overfeeding In the Bideford work
house occurred during my Btay in Eng
land, and the Hackney coroner held In
quests on no less than three cases wltlin
in a short time. Oliver Twist is evi
dently a back number nowadays, for,
at the coroner's inquiry into the dcathj
of the latest victim of parochial kind
ness a man 70 yenrs of age, who hadj
lived iu the Bethnal Green workhousw
and noted as assistant librarian, the fol
lowing dialogue ensued between thu
coroner nnd nn inmate of the work
house: Merry Pauper Thursday afternoon;
while we were having tea I saw the dci
ceased, he was cutting some bread nndi
butter, suddenly fall backward off tho
bench on which he was sitting.
The Coroner You don't think the ex
ertion of cutting bread and butter
killed him?
"No, not likely, lie hud cut up a lot
before thnt."
"They give you plenty to cat, then?"
"Aye, they do thnt."
The doctor who was called In to see
the deceased testified that death was.
due to syncope, produced by an over
loaded stomach.
The Coroner One may say that he
was killed by kindness?
The Doctor It mny or may not be,
kindness to overload a man's stom-
nch. '
"Well, it shows he did not go short of.
food."
"Short! By no menns. Why, they
hnve nothing to do but cat, drink andj
sleep." J
The jury returned n verdict thnt de
ceased died from syncope, the result of
an overloaded stomach, and that sucki
death was due to natural causes.
And as the jury gave the decision al
deep, sepulchral voice in the back of
the courtroom remarked:
"What a glorious death!"
The owner of the voice wns a tall,
gaunt, hungry-looking individual, who
had evidently mentally decided that
"the 'ouse" was not a bad place to end
one's days. N. Y. Mall and Express. (
KxcIuhIoii of JnpnncMO I.nhorcrM.
The demnnd that Japanese laborers
shall be excluded from tho United
States has strengthened into a move
ment which has more than once
knocked at the doors of congressional,
legislation, and even yet contemplates
another, and it hopes successful, effort!
there. If it shall succeed and securai
the extension of the operation of the
same laws against the Japanese that!
now obtain in the instance of the Chi-(
nese, without doubt the education ofl
Japanese will practically cease in Call-
fornia, and the great light by which a,
lately barbarous people are largely
finding their way to a higher plane of
civilization will be extinguished. That
this will vastly decrease the influence!
of American thought and methods In the:
orient there is no question; and theroi
are those who also maintnin that it
will greatly impair the relations of
trade which now exist between thoi
two nations. John E. Bennett, in
Chnutauquan.
On the Itlnlto.
Horatio What ho there, Mercutio,
aud whither art going for the coming"
winter of our discontent?
Mercutio Marry, and to the Klon
dike, good sirrah, where nuggets bo,
cheaper than offerings of eggs.
"Gadzooks, but thou wilt reap
fortune indeed." N. Y. Journal.
I'll to Date.
Ten Broke Let's swap bacilli?
Pauline All right.
(And they kissed.) Yellow Book,
