•OX FOR CANS AND BOTTLES OF
MILK.
Those who are located in sections wher*
is high iri price know how expensive it
m to keep milk in good condition. This is
especially the case if one Is icing milk In
fcottlc3 as well as in cans. The average
box is so arranged that a large quan
tity of ice is used for cooling the milk in
l&nn and then much more, crushed, to
fool the milk in bottles. The illustrated
dea is worth the consideration of every
tairyman who has to contend with this
problem. Make a frame of the desired
fixe, but not too large or It will be un
wleldly to handle, with legs at the four
Somers. Make it Just high enough that
frhen it sets on the bottom of the ice box
the top edge of the bottle is above the wa-.
ter. The sides and top are made of 2x2
sX ■■ ji i
7
I
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flats. Along the bottom at both sides nnd
Kids a wire Is fastened which will pre
sent the weight of the bottles from sprlng
tng the rack. The bottom of the box !s
Sn&dn of solid light lumber. The Idea Is
<k> make the box or boxes narrow enough
»o that a row of cans may be sot in be
hind them. Place the rack In the box and
place the bottles between the racks then
fat In the cans of milk. Loss Ice will be
ased by means of this plan and it will be
much easier to handle the milk whether
In cans or bottles. The cost for construc
tion Is small. In the drawing A repre
sents the cans of milk and with the bottle
box behind It.
APPLIANCES FOR FRUIT PACKING
The fruit grower, no matter what the
fruit ho grows may be, If he Is obliged to
ftepend to a greater or lass degree upon
hired help will And It profitable to furnish
to the help anything which will enable
them to do their work beter; that Is, any
thing which will enable you to present the :
fruit to your customers In better condi- ;
tlon. For example, It Is not a good plan
rto permit the apple pickers to bring the
fruit to a given point and dump It on the i
’ground. Have a sorting trough into which |
the fruit may be gently poured from one
basket at a time. Have It arranged, If ,
possible, so that the person Intrusted with
the sorting can sit at the work Instead
of standing. He or she will do much bet- ;
ter work as a result. For those to assort
fruit select people you know to bo honest;
<et them understand thoroughly the stand
ard of grading and they will wefrk to It.
This applies to any fruit. Let the sorters
understand that you do not want tine fruit
at top and bottom and poor fruit In the
«nld die. Let them see you are honest with .
your customers and they will likely be
Ihonest with you and take a pride In their |
-work. If, when at work among the fruit, j
•you note where some simple contrivance j
’will help matters or make the work easier
'for some one get it and put it in operation
If possible. Some little trouble may be
inecessary to bring this about, but it al- j
vw^rya ipaya in the round up.
<GET GOOD STOCK IN POULTRY. |
‘ 'There are many people who would ven- j
tore into the poultry business if they could
do so and us© as a basis the mongrel stock
they already have. It has been repeatedly
^proven that mongrel atock is not nearly as
•profitable as well bred poultry. We do :
.not mean to buy the stock which has its
* chief value because of feather markings,
‘tout rather the nearly full-bred with a ree
•©rd for vigor and good egg production.
:8uch stock can usually he bought for
stfrorn $2 a head up and eggs for from $1.50
it© $2 per thirteen. If the cash Is short or
«©»e ts in no hurry it Is a good plan to use
ttoe good mother hens from among the
mongrels and let them cover all the eggs
from good stock one can afford to buy.
Keep the mongrels for the carcass market
until you have the proper flock of better
bred birds and then let the mongrels go.
■Whatever you do. do not let the well bred
birds run with the mongrels for the stock
will run 1 4,;n tinder this plan rather than
be improved,
LUINVIOI LA 130rl ON HOADS.
This may not seem an agricultural ques
tion. hut U is decidedly so for the crying
need for good roads in certainly in country
district!!. It is the consensus of opinion
that convict labor should compete its Ut
ile as possible with free labor and yet, on
the other hand, It is needless cruelty to
place a man behind prison bars for years
ant not give him any occupation. No mat
ter how bad he may bo we have no right
to make a lunatic of him, whtch is the
usual fate of men In durance vile without
occupation. The lack of good roads in
country districts is largely due to the laek
of money to make them better so that If
we employed convict labor here the ex
pense vf the taxpayers would be within
their ability to pay and no free man would
l>e deprived of labor. The convicts would
toe the beter for it morally, the state would
t>e humane to Its charges and country dis
tricts would be greatly improved and farm
values Increased. There is much to gain
In the plan and nothing to lose. The ques
tion U one which will come up In several
•lates the coming session of the law
anakers and the farmer should cast hia
influence to have the hill passed. It is not
politics but ene of the few laws which
would be on the proper basis of the great
est good to the greatest number.
MIDSUMMER BROODY HENS.
Fowls as they get along In years have
the Instinct of motherhood more pro
nounced, and we have seen 3-year-old hens
who w;anted to sit most of the time, when
aa year-old birds it was difficult to got
them to .stay on one lot of eggs the requis
ite time. Although we depend almost
wholly on the Incubator ar.d the brooder,
we cannot get wholly away from the old
hen, and we have several at work every
year. One of the best ways of breaking
up the broody hen Is to have a small en
closure where site may be placed by her
•elf with enough room for exercise and
where she Is protected from the weather.
IFeed her fairly well ar.ll i e that enough
water Is given her then remove the vessels
amd everj thing e se. f lve her rotlli: g but
the bar-.- :;rc..;U to -fi. „» a.-.- w.ll soon
got over the habit. It is a good plnn to
keep a fair sprinkling of grain on the iloor
for her to scratch over if she will, but do
not put even chaff on the l!oor or she
will try and make her Keif believe there
are eggs on It. Sometimes, if these hen*.?
arc a little old, it Is a good plan to feed
them pretty well and a little better as the
broody feeling works off, so that they will
be good and plump and In good condition
to turn onto the market when tin- broody
feeling is gone and with it the high tem
perature of her body.
MAKING A GOOD APPEARANCE.
Part of the education of the writer had
been in commercial lines in the city, so
when we went back to the farm wo saw
tho advantage of applying many of tho
things we learned In city life to the farm.
One of the first things we learned was
the valu-e of a good appearance when of
fering anything for sale, and wc learned
to apply this to farm operations. Our
wagon, delivering eggs and poultry, was
Inexpensive but always neat and clean,
and the eggs and poultry, particularly tho
latter, were so arranged In the wagon
that they were covered from tho dust of
the road. The man in charge wras clothed
In white and always had an abundance of
dean white cloths In the wagon so that it
was unnecessary for him to touch with
his hands the carcasses he presented to
his customers. Our man and wagon creat
ed considerable amused comment at first,
but it was easy to see that the good house
wives appreciated the cleanliness and
henocr we gained trade v^ry fast. It may
not bo possible nor yet necessary for all
to go to this extreme but there is no rea
son why tho wagon and the man In charge
of it cannot be neat and clean. It pays
every time.
NOW THE MOULTING SEASON.
If the moulting fowl lg well cared for i
aiul properly fed sho will come through I
the trial In grood shape and soon settle down
to the business of laying eggs. The pro
cess of moulting can be hastened a little,
but do not try to force it too much. The
fowls who are moulting should be kept in
rather restricted quarters being careful
not to put too many together, and their ra
tion should be rather scanty. Give them
little or no corn and not much meat. Light
grains In small quantities for the first two
weeks with a little linseed meal mixed In
will help them along wonderfully. As
soon as they feel better and tho new coat
begins to show, feed them more heavily
and give them a chance on the range
where they can get a variety of seeds and
more or less in the way of Insects.
SWINE IN CONFINEMENT.
The hogs kept In confinement during the
hot weather do not have nearly as cheer
ful a time as those on the range, hence
need much more care. Especially should
care bo taJcen that the pen is kept clean
aijd free from moisture, and that all drink
ing vessels and the troughs are aa clean
as water and the scrub broom can mako
them. See also that thero is a certain
amount of grass given the swine and that
any other green stuff one has goes to
them, but It must be cl-ean and sweet, not j
decayed vegetables. In addition to this j
green food see that they have pieces of
sod at all times, not any great quantity j
but something they can eat as they will. !
It will help them bear confinement more j
than anything else. Above all see that \
they have a generous supply of drinking
water fresh several times dally.
LOOK OVER THE GRAIN BINS.
If there Is a granary on the farm and j
there ought to be one on every farm, the
room Itself as well as the? several bins for
the grain should be thoroughly examined
before they are filled again. If there is
any grain remaining It should be, removed j
and the bins thoroughly cleaned, looking !
sharply for rat or mice holes; anything j
of this nature should be covered with tin
using a strip large enough so that the
vermin cannot gnaw around the edges. •
These strips of tin should be firmly tacked
over the opening. If any of the grain
was smutty the pen ought to be thorough
ly washed out with a mild solution of car
bolic acid or some other disinfectant be
fore the new grain Is put in. Remember
the good care given now may save loss
later.
SETTING POTTED STRAWBERRY
PLANTS.
That experiment plot, which Is being
constantly urged in this department, can '
bo started this month by setting a few \
potted strawberry plants. These plants !
are prepared by plantsmen by sinking a
pot in the ground directly under the joint
of a strong runner, holding it in place |
with a small stone, so that all of the roots 1
go Into the pot of soli. The runner be- f
yond the joint is cut off and after the 1
plant In the pot Is well rooted. It Us sev- I
ered from the parent plant, turned out *
of the pot and the new strong plant ia
ready to set. As the root growth has beer j
concentrated in a small space the plant !
proceeds to grow at once when it is set j
into the new soil, of course with the half j
of earth around the roots, and has a
long season of growth before winter sets ;
in. These potted plants may be safely j
set In August or September and will fruit
next summer. Three or four plants each i
of the new sorts will enable any one to j
test their desirability ut comparatively
small cost.
AN IDEAL HOG TROUGH.
i Here Is an idea for a hog trough which
Is not new but Is so valuable that every j
one with a few hogs should know' of It.
Like many of the valuable appliances for
use on the farm, this idea is an extremely
simple one. t^ne eider barrel will make
two tubs by cutting it in two. Then take
each half and cut out the staves to within
eight inches of the hea , just half way
around. A hole is then cut in the per
i _
just large enough sa that thp lower part
of the tub will go In, leaving the taller
upper part on the cutsr or the pen to
which It may be fastened a- d down which
the feed may he poured into the lower part
below. The liiustrail'n shows the Idea sa
plainly that no fi.rtn-., e. pianaticn is
needed.
NOTABLE FEATS
| „. OF HORSEMANSHIP
i _
MoreThan Four Hundred Miles
Has Been Covered in Less
Than Three Days.
BY AN ENGLISH RIDER
In 1780 an Officer in British Army Rodd
Fifteen Miles in Sixty-Nine Min
utes With His Face to
Horse’s Tail.
From Tit-Bits.
For combined apeed and endurance it is
probable that two rifling feats of some
• enturiea ago have never l>een eclipsed.
When Queen Elizabeth died Robert Cary
set forth on the l^ng journey to Edin
burgh to carry the news to her successor ;
on#the throne, James VI. of Scotland. Rid
ing out of Whitehall between 9 and 10
o'clock on a Thursday morning he reached
Doncaster, 155 miles away, the Fame night.
On the following day he traveled as far
as his own, house at Wltherington, where
he spent some time in transacting busi
ness, and starting early the next morning
lie eotlld have reached Edinburgh by
midday had not an accident by the way
delayed him. As it was he completed the
whole journey of 400 miles within three
% ays.
Nearly, a century earlier the great Kol
sey, then a royal chaplain, made a re
markably quick Journey to the low coun
tries to interview the Emperor Maxmilian.
Leaving London at 4 o'clock in the after
noon, he traveled by boat to Gravesend,
rode through the night to Dover, and,
crossing to Calais, finished his journey on
horseback, reaching Maximilian the same
owning. On the following morning he rode
post haste back to Calais, and was at
Richmond at sunset, after traveling to
Holland and back In little more than two
lays.
feats, we must come down to the last cen
tury, when South Africa was the scene of
two astonishing performances. In one, Sir
Henry Smith, Just after the outbreak of
the Kaffir war, seventy years ago, car
ried the news from Cape town to Gra
hamstown in six days, riding a distance of
700 miles over a wild and almost trackless
country; and again Richard King is cred
ited with a notable feat of endurance in
riding 600 miles, from Durban to Grahams
town, in ten days, through a country in
fested with enemies and over a multitude
of swollen and bridgeless rivers, every one
of which his horse had to swim.
Some Recent Records.
In recent years the most famous of long
distance rides was that inaugurated by
the German emperor thirteen years ago,
when 2<X) officers essayed to ride from Ber
lin, to Vienna, a distance of 680 kilometers.
The winner was Count Starhemberg, who
completed the long journey in 71 hours 20
minutes, thus securing a silver bust of
:he kaiser, in addition to a money prize of
£1,000. His unforunate horse did not sur
vive the contest. A little later Captain
Spillberg covered the 840 miles between
Saarbrueken, on the frontier of Lorraine,
and Rome in thirteen days, crossing the
St. Gothard Pass and spending twenty
hours each day on horseback.
A few years since five lieutenants of the
Twelfth Hussar regiment of France ac
complished a wonderful feat. Leaving
Gray at 3 o’clock in the morning, they rode
seventy-two miles to Belfort, arriving at
4 In the afternoon. They then dismounted,
put on civilian clothes, and walked to a
town twenty-four miles away; here they
dined, then walked back to Belfort, sad
dled their horses, and completed the jour
ney to Gray, which they reached the fol
lowing afternoon at 3 o’clock, having cov
ered 192 miles in thirty-six hours on horse
back and on foot.
A very memorable performance was that
of Cowper Thornhill, host of the Bell Inn
at Stilton, In Huntingdonshire, who made
three journeys between his house at Stil
ton and Shoreditch church—a total dis
tance of 213 miles—in 12 hours and 17 min
utes, thus winning a wager of 500 guineas,
as was also that ride of Bernard Calverl
of Andover, who, leaving Shoreditch at 3
o’clock In the morning, rode to Dover,
crossed to Calais* and back and, remount
ing his horse, arrived at Shoreditch at 3
o’clock the same evening, after covering
142 miles on horseback.
200 Miles in Eight Hours.
Squire Osbaldeston once covered 20C
miles at Newmarket in 8 hours 40 minutes,
using no fewer than twenty-eight horses)
Mr. Wilde rode 127 miles at the Curragh
in 6 hours 21 minutes; and Leon, the Mexi
can rider, whom many of our readers will
remember, rode 505 miles in less than
fifty hours in February, 1877. In 1754 Jen
nison Shafto won a substantial wager by
riding fifty miles on Newmarket Heath in
1 hour and 49 minutes, using ten horses.
In November, 1789, an officer In the
Ayrshire Light Dragoons put 100 guineas
in his pocket by riding fifteen miles on
the Chelmsford and Dunhow road in sixty
nine minutes, with his face to his horses'^
tall; and as a finish to these riding feat?
a jockey cleverly piloted a donkey over a
journey of 100 miles at Newmarket in
twenty-one hours, though odds of 100 to 1C
were laid that the ass would not do the j
distance under twenty-four hours.
The Largest Camera.
A camera, said by Popular Mechanics,
Chicago, to be throe times as large as any
other in the world, is owned by Professor (
G. R. Lawrence, of Chicago. With it sev
oral noted pictures have been taken, In- I
eluding bird’s eye views of factories and i
towns. It is also used for enlarging other
pictures. Says the magazine above men
tioned:
“The body of the camera Is nine feet
four Inches wide, elx feet high, and twenty
feet long when fully extended, and in its
construction over thirty gallons of glue !
were used. The lens is twelve inches in di- j
ameter and cost $1,500. All moving parts, <
including the curtain slide, run on roller
bearings. The focusing is done by two
panels of glass, which can be moved to all
parts of the Held. The plate holder weighs
nearly 500 pounds when loaded, and Is put
into the camera by means of a derrick.
Great care is used in leading, as a broken
plate would result in the loss of $150. The
plates are made of plate glass, eight feet
|ong by four feet eight inches wide, and j
Kveigli over 2CO pounds.
“In order to dust the plates, a man en
ters the camera through an opening in the
front. A piece of ruby glasj is then
placed over the lens, and the slide in the
plate holder is withdrawn. After the plate
£as been dusted, the slide Is replaced and
the man steps out.
- “In making enlargements, the focusing is
done from the inside and the operator to
mains in the camera during the exposure,
Jin this process the entire apparatus '.s sup
Jx>rted by springs, which absorb any pos
sible vibration.”
SHORT RATIONS.
Optimist—There’s one thing I lhce
about this boarding house. They never
serve hash.
Pessimist—How can they? There’s
never anything left over to moke it out
TATTOOING ROSY CHEEKS.
Needle Also Used to Give Appearai.ee
of Luxurious Eyebrows.
From the London Answers.
At fir3t sight this statement appears ab
surd, unless we Intend to judge beauty
from the pelnt of view of a Maori chief
tain, and it will probably come as some
what of a shock when I affirm that at the
present moment many acknowledged so
ciety beauties owe their charms to the
art of a skilled tattoolst. Such, however,
is the case, and there is no longer any
need for the jaded society beauty to re
sort to rouge to hide the havoc a long and
gay London season is rendering to her
complexion.
I have had the benefit of carefully exam
ining several recent cases, and the result
is so natural that it is impossible of de
tection—especially as the coloring used is
so delicate that the complexion retains all
its powers of heightened color under the
stress of excitement and pleasure. I men
tion this point especially, as the appear
ance of a permanent and vivid blush
would be in no way a desirable acquisi
tion.
Two things- are mainly responsible for
rendering this result possible—first, the in
troduction of antiseptics by Lord Lister,
the great surgeon; and, secondly, the in
vention of the electric tattooing apparatus.
This latter Instrument permits of practi-'
cully painless tattooing, the operator sim-.
ply guilding the needle-holder, and the.
needle being automatically driven into the
skin to whatever depth desired, and with
marvelous rapidity.
In working on a lady’s face it can be
imagined that the utmost care is taken,
and before commencing proceedings all
instruments and the operator’s hands are
rendered aseptic, in the same manner as
before surgical operations, as is also, of
course, the part to be operated upon.
There is-no pain attached to the proceed-i
ings, as in ordinary tattooing, as a certain
percentage of cocaine is used in the col
oring solution, and I feel sure that the
knowledge of this fact has largely helped'
to render the operation feasible, as four
sittings of about one hour’s duration each
have to be submitted to if a perfect resul?
is to be obtained.
Faslrion has decreed that luxurious eye-j
brows are necessary for the proper setting
of the eyes we admire, and here once more
art steps in to the aid of nature. It does
not matter what color the eyebrows are,
the skin beneath them can be tattooed so
that they appear to be twice as thick as
they really are. Do not run away with
the idea that this is a simple and straight
forward proceeding; it is not. It would bt|
if it did not matter if the real hairs fell
out; but this, of course, would be disas
trous, and hence the roots of the hair
must be most carefully avoided in intro
ducing the tattooing needle, or they would
be at once and forever permanently killed.i
Indeed, so much care is bestowed thatf
powerful glasses are worn, and, as far as
possible, the needle is introduced at an
equal distance between adjoining hairs.
A WfS£ GIRL.
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Dilatory Lover—My income is small,
and perhaps it is cruel of me to take
you from your father’s roof.
The Girl—But I don’t live on the roof.
Poets and the Birds.
From Scribner’s Magazine.
Next to our native birds, there are'
probably none of more general interest
to the average American nature lover
than the birds of England. Personally’,
I confess to a more intense desire to see
and hear the nightingale, skylark, black
bird, redbreast and otner characteristic
English species in their haunts than<
that which has led me to the distant
homes of tropical birds. I say “ire
their haunts” with emphasis, for I have
at times with difficulty avoided hearing
these birds in cages; an unfortunate
enougli experience in itself, and which,
having long in mind a pilgrimage ter
their home, would have deprived a first
impression of half its force. This long
ing to meet English birds at home is in
part due to the fact that they live in
England, in part to the place they oc
cupy in English literature, and in part
to a desire to compare them with our'
own birds.
A meeting with the same birds in.
France or Germany would not possess
half the charm of an intial acquaint
ance in England. Nearly, if not all,
that we know and have read of English,
birds, leads us to associate them with
pastoral England, with copse am}
hedgerow, down and moor, with
thatched roof and gray spire. For these
attractive mental pictures we have to
thank Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge,
Cowper and other makers of English
literature, to whose influences we must
largely attribute the widespread inter
est in English birds which, until re
cently, at least, have been better known
by name to most Americans than were
our commonest native species.
So far as birds are concerned, how
ever, the poets can only stimulate our
desires without gratifying them, and
comparison of English birds with ours
is obviously out of the question until
one has seen and heard both.
Got the Quarter,
From the New York Weekly.
Dude (to chance acquaintance)—That
shabby looking fellow is making right
for us. Bet he wants to borrow money,
fie, he! I’ll get ahead of him. Please,
sir, can't you lend me a quarter, or a
dime, to get something to eat?
Shabby Fellow—Certainly—hands out
a quarter. Now, young man, if you are
through begging of this gentleman, I
would like to speak to him. He is one
of the depositors in my bank.
A Substitute.
From Harper's Weekly.
Little Helen, aged four, was in a fright
ful predicament. The nurse, carrying the
cherished iwo-weeks’-old baby up and
down before the house, had paused to
show the new Infant to the bishop, who
had asked to look at it. And then the tall,
grave bishop, of whom Helen stood greatly
in awe, had unexpectedly asked the little
girl to give him the baby.
How In the world to refuse a request
made by such an awe-inspiring person as
the bishop the child did not know. But
presently she wrinkled her small counte
nance shrewdly, moved closer to the peti
tioner, and said, ingratiatingly, "I'll let
you have the next."
! SMOKING OF OPIUM,
! CURSE OF FAR EAST
I
I *
Has Invaded, With Demoralize
ing Effect, the Navy of
France.
MOST OFFICERS VICTIMS
After Once Eecoming Addicted to Use
of the Drug, Victim Is Net to Eo
Trusted With Any Impor
tant Mission.
From the London Express.
"You are going to Toulon?” said an
attache of one of the ministries to me
some months ago. "Then you will see
th» curse of the French navy, the east
ern madness, which our colleagues at
the colonial office and at the ministry
of marines are trying hard to sup
press.”
"The eastern madness?” I asked.
"What is that?”
"Opium smoking.” said my friend,
laconically'. "Ask some of the Toulon
newspaper men to take you round."
It was one of the first things I asked
about when I got down to Toulon, and
the following is an account of what 1
saw:
We were In a cafe near the harbor
A tall and very handsome woman sat
at the table opposite us and nodded
lazily to my companion. This did not
surprise me at all. because all Toulon,
from the prefect maritime to the scav
engers in the streets knew him and
called him by name. There yvas a lazy
weariness, or, if you like, a weary lazi
ness, in the woman’s eyes which was
curiously noticeable.
“Are you coming to smoke a pipe?”
she asked.
He looked at me Inquiringly.
“Oh, bring your friend with you. He
doesn’t belong to the government, doeS
he?”
And so we an three got up ana went
out. I do not know exactly where wp
went, for the back streets of Toulon
are a very Aisatla for intricacy. We
unlocked a door with a key which
madame carried in her pocket; we
climbed three flights of dark stairs and
knocked at another door.
It was opened at last, after about a
quarter of an hour, by a young woman
in a kimono and curl-papers. She
looked even sleepier than our com
panion, and did not trouble to invite
us in. She merely left the door open,
lounged on in front, and we followed.
Appearance of “Joint.”
Imagine a room in which ail you can
see at first is the dirty yellow of some
cocoanut matting on the lloor, a few
cushions covered in bright colors, and
several pairs of feet. It is a little puz
zling at iirst, but you realize after a
moment that the only lamp is o* the
lloor and that it has a heavy shade, sp
that the light does not light up thd
room.
1 became used to the semi-darkness
soon, and saw that I was in a small
square room, in which there were six
or eight people, three women, includ
ing our companion, and several men. 1 1
poticed that the trousers which the
men wore were those of navy officers.
I looked at my friend the journalist in
quiringly.
"Oh, yes,” he said, "and they don't
care. Once an opium smoker alwayJ
pn opium smoker.”
We had spoken in a whisper, but one :
of the men. a good looking fellow, whd ;
j must have been a smart officer not ,
long before, raised himself on one el
bow and glowered at us. "Curse you!” |
he said. "Be quiet. Curse you!” And j
he dropped back on the mat again.
“The second sleep after the first j
pipe,” said my friend.
"How do you know?”
"Because they are always irritable ,
then,” he said. “After the second pipe, if j
takes a good deal to disturb them, and I
after the third, unless they are very sea- j
s-oned smokers, you could let off crackers
next to them before they awoke of them
selves, and they would think that it waS
wind flapping the sails.”
Another of the men sat up, I must ex- |
plain that there was no furniture whatever
in the room. There was cocoanut matting
on the floor, there were a few pillows, and
thatwasall. Butthelightedlampwas in the
corner, and i^i the middle, among the feet;
was a thing which looked a little like a
Turkish hubble-bubble pipe, a lamp of
glass, in which I think spirit was burned,
making a small flams..
Next to it, a little white pot with a dark
brown paste in It that looked like varnish,
and on a small rack, like a pen rack, sev
eral knitting needles. When a man sat up,
the woman in tire kimono and curl-papers,
crawled over to him, took one of thd
knitting needles, put her fingers and I
thumb into the paste, and cooked a ball ot i
it on the point of a knitting needle over j
the flame of the lamp.
Odors Are St.fling.
And I noticed then, as the smell became
more acute, that the whole room had a
treacly sickliness about it. That, of course,
was the opium. Next to the man, where 1
suppose he had dropped it, was a long
cherry-wood stem with a bulb of amber at
one end of it, and a tiny cup at the other.
1 think the cup had a pin in it, hut I am
not sure. The woman put the little ball
of opium, which had frizzled and sizzled
in the flame, into the cup, and held the
ember bulb to the man's mouth.
He drew at the pipe, inhaling the smoke,
hut he was too far gone to hold the pipe
for himself. The woman had to do that
for him. He stopped inhaling after a mo
ment or two, and she tore the neck of ills
shirt open.
"Narrow sque».k that,” said my friend.
"I know that cnap. He smokes eighteen
or twenty pipes sometimes, and then any.
thing might happen to him. He wou.d
rather die of suffocation than take the
! trouble to undo a button.
“But what is the insidious charm of
opium?” 1 asked.
"That I can’t loll you.” said my friend,
“because a first pipe or two won't teach
it to you, and. unless you are a fool, you
will newer smoke a third."
The woman who had brought us in. and
in whose room we were, had just prei an d
a pipe for herself. "Smoke?” she said, and
put her pipe to my lips. I to«k two tr
three whiffs, and then got out of the room
and the house as quickly as possible.
I learned from my friend, who came
after me, that all the men in the room
Were navy officers. i learned, too, the
next day, when 1 felt better, that opium,
which in spite of the efforts made by
the government to check commerce in the
drug, is currently sold in all the ports, and
particularly in those of the south, is mak
ing terrible ravages among the officers of
i..e trench navy.
Your opium smoker is a dangerous man
on board a ship, for he is like a sle'p
.walker. He acts unconsciously, but with
apparent consciousness, and when under
the influence of the drug, anything might
happen either to him or to the ship ur.cer
his charge without hls^carlng. The r.iin
ister of marine is doing his utmost to re
press the curse, and all thinking F.ance
hopes that he may succeed.
It Would Have Been Fatal.
Homer Fort in Leslie’s Weekly.
The late Postmaster General Frank
Hatton was noted for his ready wit and
oftentimes it was so keen and pointed
it made him doubtful friends. Once he
was sick and his doctor, a very
pompous and dignified man, gave him
medicine galore without any appre
ciable effect. The doctor changed the
medicine, making the doses larger, de
claring it would improve Mr. Hatton's
condition. When Aesculapius called
the next day, the ex-postmaster gen
eral was heated by the window, in the
second story.
’’Did you follow my prescription?”
asked the doctor.
’’No; and if I had it would have
killed me," answered the patient.
’’Why, how is that?”
"I threw it out of the window.”
Tip for Expectant Cops.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Here is e tip for the Pittsburg younj
husky: A young man who wanted to
get on the police force, but was six
pounds under weight, applied for ad
,vice to a cop who had been on the force
several years. "It is the easiest thing
in the world,” said the experienced one.
"Just before you go In to take the
physical examination eat a lot of boiled
cabbage and drink all the milk you can.
Water used to be the regular thing, but
it is not so heavy as milk, and the
.stomach holds less of it. Milk and cab
bage are the heaviest foods in the
world. You can increase your weight
.five to ten pounds within an hour.” The
candidate followed the advice, and
passed with two pounds to spare.
Sheep With Wooden Leg.
Bucyrus Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
patch.
A sheep with a wooden leg is a cur
iosity at the farm of Ira Quaintance in
Dallas township.
Early this year the sheep was struck
by lightning, its foot and part of tha
leg being torn off. As the animal was
a valuable one. Quaintance concluded
to try an artificial limb. He covered.
It with wool, and so well does the
sheep use it that people would not de
‘tect the difference except for a slight
Jlimp.
WHAT PASTEURIZED MILK IS.
Simple Home Method of Securing Saf®
Food for Babies.
From Good Housekeeping.
Pasteurized milk is that which has been
heated to a temperature of between 155
and 170 degrees and kept at that tempera
ture from 10 to 30 minutes before be
ing rapidly cooled and put on ice.
It may seem strange that a lower tem
perature than the boiling point should be
the one selected, but bacteria which cause
milk to sour are killed at 155 degrees, and
the disease germs which are likely to be
present are destroyed at 170 degrees.
For the mother who wishes to pasteurize
at home, the simplest and (with care) a
pafe home method is to place the milk in
glass jars, fill a pail with boiling water
und place the jars in this. The water
phoul-d come nearly to the top of the jars
und above the milk.
Set the pail in a warm place and stir-CM*
milk occasionally. The milk is heated t•
the desired degree before the water is low
ered to the 'pasteurizing temperature.
Lastly and most important, cool the milk
by running cold water into the pail, then
Stopper quickly and set on ice.
Remember that pasteurized milk may*
easily become contaminated again, and'
only proper care can insure its remaining
sterile.
Many argue that it is the duty of the
state to insure a clean, healthful milk sup
ply as well as to oversee the water supply.
The French are solving their mortality
problem on these lines.
France loses annually 150,000 of her small
Increase in population from lack of suit
able food. The nation, thoroughly aroused,
is establishing free milk depots similar in
their working to our free hospital dispen
saries.
The mothers bring their babies daily,
weekly, or monthly; the babies are care
fully examined and a milk formula with a
ticket is given to the mother. At the de
livery stations she obtains a limited num
ber of feedings, thus preventing all pos
sibility of the milk sp**ling after it reaches
her home. This is dcf#.e at tremendous ex
pense to the nation, but in its year of trial
seems to have vindicated its value.
SALLOW FACES
Often Canned by Coffee Drinking.
How many persons realize that cof
fee so disturbs digestion that it pro
duces a muddy, yellow complexion?
A ten days’ trial of Postum Food Cof
fee has proven a means, in thousands
of cases, of clearing up bad complex
ions.
A Washington young lady tells her
experience:
“All of us—father, mother, sister and
brother—had used tea and coffee for
many years until finally we all had
stomach troubles more or less.
“We were all sallow and troubled
with pimples, breath bad, disagreeable
taste hi the mouth, and all of us simply
so many bundles of nerves.
“We didn’t realize that coffee was
the cause of the trouble until one day
we ran out of eofTee and went to borrow
some from a neighbor. She gave us
some Postum and told us to try that.
“Although we started to make it, we
all felt sure we would be sick If we
missed our strong coffee, but we were
forced to try Postum and were sur
prised to find it delicious.
“We read the statements on the pkg.,
got more, and In a month and a half
you wouldn't have known us. We were
all able to digest our food without any
trouble, each one's skin became clear,
tongues cleaned off and nerves in tine
condition. We never use anything now
but Postum. There is nothing like It.”
Name given by Postuja -Co., Battle
Creek. Mich. Bend the book, “Tha
Bond to Wellvllle.” “There’s a rea
son.”