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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1906)
PREPARING CORN FOR CALVES. It 1® useless to attempt to bring up the calf on whoie ear corn yet it is much bet ter to cut It in the ear than to feed it to calves shelled. A corn cutter can be made home which, if there are but a few ani mals to feed, will answer the purpose as well as a cutter costing several dollars. Take the cutter from an old plow or a ■blade of a scythe or even an old cleaver ouch as is used by butchers and sharpen well. Make a little bench and nail a small board to the side of it cutting a hole at the 4ower edge. Through this hole the ear of oorn to be cut is passed. One or two small blocks of hard wood arc na'.led to the main / JL_j board of the bench back of the upright pieces three Inches to keep the blade In a given grove for action. Another upright would answer the same purpose though It might not he no easily kept In place. In the Illustration, which makes the plan and description clear, A shows a hole cut In the board to allow the cut p'.eces of corn to drop through Into tho basket which Is to be placed underneath. Figure B shows the manner of fastening the blade to tho ■lever and M tho bolt securing the lever. The whole Idea can be worked out readily by anyone possessing a little Ingenuity. WHY THE BOYS LEAVE THE FARM In commenting on a recent magazine ar ticle covering this subject the editor of an agricultural journal remarks that the rea *on for leaving the farm Is given by many boys as "because they do not Uko frtrm ■tng” and that such being Ihe case the farm >1» bolter off without such boys. We do met believe tills Is a logical deduction, for. u the majority of farms are managed there Is no reason why a boy should Uko farming. A hoy with any sort of a head »n his shoulders Is not content to settle down as a farm hand; on the other hand give him a chance to learn how ho can use tils brains In farming and you will sec his idlsUkc (?) for farming disappear very fast. .As a, rule youth wees the rosy side of life and It takes a long time of hard labor he «fore a farm born and bred boy concludes 'that ho docs not like fanning. Give the * boy a chance to get an agricultural educa tion, something that will tit him to man ■*ge a farm rather than be a farm hand find tho chances are nine out of ten he will aot want to leave tho farm. There are ex ceptions, of course, but It Is well worth ithe effort to ascertain by agricultural cau sation If the boy Is not Inclined to bo a (farmer. . J 4.0OK OUT FOR SCaLE MILLERS, j One or more firms are sending represen- 1 tallVes throughout the country who offer for a money consideration to treat trees for Injurious Insects. The process con sists of scraping the bark from the trunk ■of the tree In whole or In part and then ■painting It with some substance which Is •claimed will kill the disease or prevent . Insects from attacking It, whichever your tlree suffers from. It Is not probable that tthere Is the slightest merit In the material •applied, and the one fact that the bark Is •scraped from the tree, destroying the cam bium layer, Is sufficient to brand the ■scheme as one well to avoid, to put It ■ mild. Unfortunately our ornamental trees dill through the country are threatened ■ with destruction and every town should •take the matter seriously In hand through •the proper local officials. One way of as certaining just what to do Is to apply for ■feel? to the experiment station of your -state and by all means avoid the remedies ■offered by the people of whom you know ■aothing. wm-uc i « uwu vnur iu varcv^w. In Bectiohs where It is possible to raise a fair crop of millet, and It does well on any good corn land, it is one of the best •crops to raise for tho dairyman and the upoultryman while It may be fed with l>roflt to swine. Horses, however, are made - «lck by It at times and it ought not to be fed to them. Tho German millet furnishes the best crop and It la fed to cows, both «talk and head, not threshed. It is not a good plan to feed It regularly for then the cow* get somewhat tired of it and will eat the heads only. We tlnd it best to feed it about twice a week and thus it be comes something of a delicacy and the -cows cat it up clean. We thresh a certain ^portion of the crop and feed the seeds to (poultry. In this connection we use it in several ways; as one change in the ra tion by itself, mixed with cracked corn and wheat and in the scratching shod; in the latter case a certain portion is thrown hi from the lot reserved for the cows, that Is, unthreshed so that the birds may spend their time in picking out the seeds and scratching over the lot for any seeds they (have missed. The straw of the threshed (portion is used for bedding and as it rots readily when put in the manure pile It returns to the soil a valuable vegetable jfertilizer. When fed to hogs It is given •only oeasionally and then unthroshed. If <iot too much is given at a time the swine will eat it up clean. WHY CONSUMERS DO NOT LIKE OLEO. One of the mo?t prominent packers c! meat in Chicago has Issued a book in de fense of h'.s business. No comment is •necessary on the recent exposures of ihf •condition of affairs in the meat packing houses of the country; they may have beer better or worse than reported. What w< have to do with here Is the attempt of th< writer in question to defend oleomargarirn which he does unetlntingly, calling it puri land wholesome. He says the prohlbitior pgainst coloring it is wrong and that tin •fconsurper does not like it uncolored. Thi; • fcs the whole case In a nutshell. The dairj Interests had little to say against the pur tty or wholeeomeness of oleomargarine; tht: doubtless had their opinion, but took th< broad ground that oleomargarine shouh tsel! on its merits and not be colored to rep recent butter so that the consumer wa under the lmpieraion that he was buyinj Ijutter. That the sale* of oleomargarine ’have fallen off very greatly since the pass Ifur of the law prohibiting the coloring of *. represent butter, is proof positive tha W*M, consumers do not want oleomargarine. Any article that lias not sufficient merit to fipd a place for Itself strictly on its merit surely has no place among the foods which we consume dally. Dairy interests have no quarrel with the consumers of oleo. Those who prefer it to butter have that privilege. WHEAT AFTER POTATOES. Possibly the best preparatory crop for wheat is* a field where clover sod has been turned under, although wheat following potatoes that have been grown in a soil which was well fertilized and which is reasonably rich in humus will bring good returns. Next in Importance to the proper seed bed is the preparation of it, and here is where many wheat growers, and espe cially those who grow wheat on a small scale, fall. As a rule, provided the pota toes have been well cultivated, it is un necessary to plow the field for wheat, har rowing four or five times being sufficient. What i« necessary In the way of addition al fertilizing must, be largely determined by the richness of the soli, although, as a rule, it is generally safe to drill in with the wheat three or four hundred pounds of fertilizer, of which 40 per cent, is phos phoric acid. It is also a good plan to cover the wheat field in the spring with 150 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre, which will stimulate the growth. COMMENT ON ATTRACTIVE PACK ING. Commenting on our Insistent articles ! urging that growers of farm produce pack atractlvely, a reader says: “The one trou ble with your idea is that we lose fruit, that Is, if I have a bushel of strawberries, for example, by packing them after your plan, I find a number of quarts which can not bo marketed at any price, and this does not pay." We do not agree with our friend for If, out of a bushel or 32 quarts of berries we sell 40 per cent, at 12 cents, 30 per cent, at 8 cents, and have 30 per cent, left as unsalable, which, by the way, Is a very large per cent., we make more money than if wo sell the entire 32 quarts for 6 cents or less per quart, and wo have the added satisfaction of knowing that our selected fruit found a ready sale and that there will be a demand for more of it, while on the other hand we might have found considerable difficulty in selling the mixed crop even at 0 cents a quart. Think /t over before marketing the fall fruits and vegetables. CURING COW PEA HAY. Thero Is always more or less difficulty In curing cow pea hay, but the crop Is well worth the trouble of going about cur ing it In a careful manner. The general rule Is to cut the cow peas when the leaves first begin to turn yellow, the cut- ■ ting being done as soon as the dew luta dried In the morning and always on a sunny day. Rake Into small, rather flat piles, and by the afternoon of the follow ing day It will be ready to haul into the barn. If one has a number of sheds which are open at one or two sides the curing may be finished under cover, should a storm threaten. Unless the sun is very , warm and bright during all the period from cutting to the next afternoon we always cart the hay under a shed and leave it there two days, turning three or four times during that period, and And it . well worth the trouble. The Idea in cur- i Ing cow pea hay Is to retain all of the I leaves possible and thus cured it makes I one of the best possible rough feeds for cattle. CAPONIZING FOR PROFIT. It Is an open question whether it is prof itable to caponlze. In sections where the demand Is considerable for capons, and such sections are only near the large eltk»s, it undoubtedly pays to learn the art. It is quite simple and all people will not learn It so expensively as did the writer who killed Afty-slx birds before he operated on one that survived. However, the lessen was well learned for we rarely lose a bird now. There are a number of books on the subject of caponlzing, more or less valu* s able, but the best plan is to buy a good | set of caponlzing Instruments and follow the directions which come with them. Un less there Is a good demand for capons It pays better to give the young roosters the range aa long as possible then fatten them quickly for the late fall market and sell them for what they will bring; this is us ually more prolltable than to feed them a great abundance of home grown grain. COVERING FOR LIGHT SOILS. Whether in orchard or not It Is not wise to allow light soils to lay fallow during the winter and this month Is the time to sow the cover crop, which should be one of the nitrogen-gathering sort If possible If a stand of crimson clover can be ob. talned this Is by far the best crop to sow', but If there Is any doubt about it then sow the vetch, which makes a largo growth and is more certain than the crim son clover. For the best results the soil should be well prepared and this prepar ation consists in the thorough loosening and lining of (he soil and the sowing, with the seed, of a commercial fertilizer, rich in potash and phosphoric acid. Ul vetch ten pounds of the first grade seed to the acre will be sufficient. CHESTER WHITE SWINE. Breeders who'have grown the Chester Whites believe them to -be more profitable than any other breed and largely so be j cause they are comparatively small feed ers, yet fattening readily and quite willing to thrive cn almost anything that they can eat. It Is probable that the breed comes nearer to being the Ideal bacon hog i than any other, with the possible excep tion of the Tumworths. In certain m*r kets they are favorites, especially when marketed at about 175 to 200 pounds, al : which weight they bring the highest i ' prices. As a matter of fact there is some ' question If it Is profitable to r.Bse swine • j beyond a certain weight. Certainly It la • - not unless the food supply can be obtained ) 1 at the minimum of cost, which Is only 1 possible when It Is grown on the home ■ farm. Swine raisers ought to look care i fully Into this question for there Is nc r doubt but what many hogs are being mar. ! ket'-d at an actual loss If we take Intc ■ - consideration the time spent In caring foi : them. Investigate the matter before an - other season of Indoor feeding. THE LAST JOURNEY. By Octave Mirbeau. Having found an empty first class compartment, ptace^ my grip and rug on the seat and tipped the conductor not to allow any one else in my com partment, I went up and down on the platform to look at my fellow travelers. There was the usual crowd of fat, noisy Germans, nervous Americans and stolid Knglashmen, whose faces wore no expression, and though traveling for pleasure looked as if tney were bored to death. I had seen this class of people so aften that they were thoroughly un interesting to me, but I was attracted by a group of three people who stood outside a third class car. One was an elderly lady dressed in black. A thin shawl eoveied nor bony shoulders, and though it was warm she was shivering witn cold, and a dry cough seemed to shake her whole body. She was accompanied by a younger man and woman. The man had a very unpleasant face, with coarse features. The woman was tall and slender, with a long, narrow face with protruding cheekbones and a pointed chin. "Oh, my diar children,” sighed the old lady, "I feci so miserable, really I am not well at all.” "You only think so. It Is all Imagina tion. You will bo all right in a little while—won’t she, Adcle?” "Why, of course, dear. But you know, mother must always complain; she would not be herself if she did not." "But why should I leave today; it was not necessary at all when 1 feel so bad.” A violent attack of coughing racked her poor body, she held a hanakerchiof to her mouth, and I noticed a bright red spot on It. "Oh, God, I am sure something will happen to me,” she cried almost with tears. “Nonsense, mother, what should hap pen to you—it Is nothing but a cold.” "I know better, and It was not nec essary to send me off today, but, of course, I know I was In your way, and a burden to you.” "Why, the idea, mother!” "You c-!y need a few weeks rest In the country, p!enty of food and good fr*»sh nlr ” snlrl thA man. “Tf it had. not been for that you might have stayed with us.” “But you might at least have given me a cup of beef tea this morning be fore I left—I feel so weak." “Now that is your own fault, mother. Why didn’t you get up in time instead Df waiting until the last minute. You would have missed your train if we had not hurried you off.” The old lady sighed. A tear glistened in her eye. "Oh, God! Oh, God!” she moaned. “I know something is going to happen.” “What foolish nonsense!” exclaimed her amiable son-in-law. "Oh, if I had only had my beef tea before I left! I will die on the way, and no one will be with me in my last minute.” ”1 wish you would be a little more sensible, mother. 1 hate to hear you talk like that; it is ridiculous. It i3 time you got into the car now.” "Goodby, my child. God bless—both of you.” The conductor ushed her roughly into the compartments as though she had been a bundle and slammed the door. 1 hurried back to my comfortable seat, indignant at this heartlessness. How could a daughter treat her mother in this manner? It was outrageous. Her poor, suffering face haunted me. I could have thrashed this monster of a son-in-law who had taught his wife to abuse her own mother. At Versailles, where we stopped for fifteen minutes, I left the car and walked along the train. I stopped be fore the old lady’s compartment. She had fainted, and some friendly person was bringing her to and handed her a cup of beef tea. which she swallowed eagerly, as if she was starving. I clenched my flat at the thought of those brutes she had left behind. The beef tea seemed te revive her. She was less pale; there was even a tinge of color in her emaciated face. Muybe she would get over it. I slept all night in my comfortable berth and only woke up when we ar rived at Rennes, the end of my trip. Mechanically I followed the porter who carried my things. Suddenly there was a commotion. Trainmen and passengers hurried to ward the third class car. "A doctor—a doctor, quick!” I heard the conductor cry. I rushed to the car. There was the poor old woman, dead, holding In her cold hand a handkerchief covered with blood. Two trainmen lifted up her body and carried her into the waiting room. "What is it—an accident or a mur der?" an Rngllshman asked me. “A murder," I answered—" a murder for which no one can ever be pun ished by human justice. She was mur dered by her own child as surely as if she had been stabbed In the Heart.’’ A Bad Mixup. Clyde Fitch was reading extracts from one of his many volumes of newspaper clippings. “Here,” he said, “is an account from a Bay City paper of the presentation of a gold-headed cane to the Rev. John Hop kins, D. D. The story must have gotten mixed somehow with another about a pat ent hog killing machine. At any rate, this is how it appeared: “Several of the Rev. Dr. Hopkins’ friends called upon him yesterday, and after a brief conversation, the unsuspi cious hog was seized by the hind legs and slid along a beam until he reached the watertank. His friends explained the ob ject of their visit, and presented with a very handsome gold-headed butcher, who I grabbed him by the tail, swung him round, slit his throat from ear to ea#rf and in less than a minute the carcass was in the wa ter. Thereupon he came forward and said there were times when the feelings over powered one, and for that reason he would not attempt to do more than thank thcx-e around him for the manner in which such a. huge animal was cut into fragments was simply astonishing. The doctor concluded ais remarks, when the machine seized him, and In less time than it takes to.write it. the hog was cut into fragments and worked up into delicious sausage. The oo i sasion will long be remembered by the doctor’s friends as one of the most de 1 lightful of their lives. The best pieces can ' he procured for 15 cwus a pound, and we | are sure those who have sat so long under i his ministry will rejoice that lie 1ms I con treated s* handwomcly.’’ | “Blue Jeans’ was first produced at the Fourteenth street theater, October G, 1890. The following was the cast: Berry Bascom, Robert Hillard; Colonel Henry Clay Risencr, George D. Chap lin; Ben Boone, George Fawcett; Jacob Tutewiler, J. J. Wallace; Jim Tute wiler, Jacques Kruger; Isaac Hankins, W. J. Wheeler; Seth Igoe, Ben Deane; June, Jennie Yea mans; Sue Etidaly, Ju dith Berolde; Cindy Tutewiler, Allot Leigh; Samantha Hankins. Marion Strickland; Nell Tutewiler and Beleena Kicker, Laura Burt. The supplement ary people included the Columbia quar tet, F. B. Berrian, Albert E. Coldwell, F. S. Winthrop, George L. Leeds, T Walker, J. J. Marry, Anna E. Williams Ada Chester, Bertha Dowling, Editli Raymond, Ida Wagner and Ada Fran •is. I Running a Railroad by Balloon. Running up the side of a mountain, near Salzberg, Germany, is the most unique railroad In the world, say* Technical World Magazine for Sep tember. A single steel rail has been j laid from the base to the top of the j mountain, ana over it runs a sliding ! steel shoe. Between this shoe and a j big hydrogen gas balloon, which floats I about forty feet above the ground, is I a heavy steel cable. Below the bal- , icon is suspended a car for the con- : veyance of passengers to the top of the ! peak. The descent is caused by the pressure of water, which is poured into i a large tank at the upper end of the i road and serves as ballast on the re- } turn trip. Ten passengers may be car- i ried at a time and tlie speed of the I car, in either direction, is regulated by I i the conductor. I __* I . : BACKACHE IS KiDNEYACHE. j 1 j Get nt the Cause—Cure the Kiduryu. j Don’t neglect backache. It warns \ ■ - - In kidneys. Avert ' i uring the kidneys with i Doan’s Kidney Pills. J. A. Ilaywood, a well- ; ( known resident of Luf kin, Texas, says: “I wrenched my back ' working in a sawmill, was laid up six weeks, and from that time bad pain in my back when ever I stooped or lifted. ' The urine was badly • disordered and for a long time I bad at After I began using l Doan’s Kidney Pills the gravel passed < out, and my back got well. I haven’t ‘ bad 'backache or bladder trouble since.” " Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. ; Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 3 Ambition. Sam Small, the eloquent evangelist 5 whom Dr. Torrey reconverted, was talk ing in Atlanta about human nature. “Human nature,” he said, “has a lot of ( cussedness in it. Men like to do bad things rather than good things. They even take a pride in being bad. They boast about their wickedness. They seem to be born that way. “I once saw a handsome, bright little chap of S or 9, sitting under an apple tree reading a book. “ 'There’s a fine little fellow,' 1 thought, ’a clean-minded, manly little chap. I’ll see what his ambition is.’ “And I approached the boy, patted him an the head and said: " 'Well, my young friend, what is your ambition ?’ •' ‘I’d like,' said the boy, ‘to have people tremble like aspen leaves at the mere mention of my name.' ” Inti Pinch, Use Allen’s Foot-Base, A powder to shake Into your shoes. It rests' the feet, Cures Corns, bunions. Swollen, Sore, Jlot, Callous, Aching, Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nail*. Allen's Coot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all liiiigglsts sud Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, l.e Roy, N. V. GLIMPSE OF THE METROPOLIS. Peddlers’ Association Lays Down Rules —Only Widows Can Push a Cart. From the New York World. 1. No woman shall be allowed to peddle unless she Is a widow. 2. No peddler shall send out his wife with a push-cart. 3. No peddler shall shout his wares in the street; he might spoil the others’, prices. 4. No peddler shall take another’s place on the street. 5. No owner of a store or a stand shall send out a push-cart. 6. Men under 20 years shall not be allowed to peddle; let them learn a trade and go to work. Such were the rules, as Immutable | as the laws of the Medes and Per sians, unanimously adopted at a crowded mass meeting of the New York Peddlers’ Benevolent association at No. 02 Pitt street yesterday. Hereafter each peddler In good stand ing in the association must wear on his coat a button picture of its presi dent, Joseph Leaf. The color of the button will change each month. Bathing Dresses Reminded Him. “Some of these bathing dresses,” s said Marshall P. Wilder, "make ine I think of Princess Clementine,the moth- k er of the princess of Bulgaria. v "The princess said one day to her t sailor brother, the Due de Joinville: 1 “ ‘Bring me, on your next trip to the South Seas, the complete costume b of a king’s wife.’ 1 “ ’I will gladly,’ the duke answered. "He returned from the South Seas c a year later, and handed to his sis- e ter a string of glass beads. I “ ‘These are very pretty,' said the princess, 'but you promised me a com- ( plete costume.’ “ 'This is a complete costume,’ said j the duke. I've never seen them wear ] any other.' ’’ > GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP. \ So Medicine So Beneficial to Brain { und Nerve*. l Lying awake nights makes It hard to keep awake and do things In daytime. To take “tonics and stimulants” under such circumstances is like setting ‘.lie ' house on tire to see if you can put it j out. ( The right kind of food promotes re- 1 freshing sleep at night and a wide- 1 awake individual during the day. 1 A lady changed from her old way of > eating to Grape-Nuts, and says: ( “For about three years I had been a , great sufferer from indigestion. After ! trying several kinds of medicine, i lie doctor would ask me to drop off pota toes, then meat, and so on, but in a few , ] days that craving, gnawing feeling would start up, and I would vomit ev- i erything 1 ate and drank. "When I started on Grape-Nuts, vom iting stopped, and the bloating feeling i which was so distressing disappeared 1 entirely. “My mother was very much bothered with diarrhea before commencing the Grape-Nuts, because her stomach was so weak she could not digest her food. Since using Grape-Nuts she is well, and says she don’t think she could live with out it. "It is a great brain restorer and nerve builder, for I can sleep as sound and undisturbed after a supper of Grape Nuts as in the old days when I could not realize what they meant by a ’had stomach.’ There is no medicine so ben eficial to nerves and bruin as a good night’s sleep, such as you can enjoy after eating Grape-Nuts.” Name given by 1’ostum Co., Dattle j Creek, Mich. “There’s a reason.” • THE LADYBIRD BY CRETE HAtiti It was all so absurdly trivial. In ’act, she had almost forgotten what it vas about. They had quarreled be ore, lots of times and over more seri >us matters, but they had always nade It up again directly afterward intil now. Now she came to think of It, it was ilways she who had begun the quar el and he who had begun the mati ng up. And quite right, too, she said to her ;elf. When he proposed to her he had old her that he worshiped her, that le was her slave till death, that for ler sake he was ready to go through Ire and water. She had only to com nand, and he would obey. Very well, then; she had taken him ,t his word. She had commanded and ic had obeyed—until now. She had never asked him to go hrough fire and water for her. No, he was much too reasonable for that. She had never demanded the impossi ile. The things she had expected him o do were all quite simple and easy. “I wouldn't order George about quite o much, if I were you, Kate,” her sis er had said to her the other day. "What do you mean?” she asked in mazement. “Well, I don't exactly know how to xplain it," said Em. “You know you’re uite a pleasant, easy-going sort of erson, generally speaking, but with leorge you’re a perfect tyrant. I some imes wonder why he puts up with ou.” "You don't understand,” returned fate, loftily. “When a man is in love ,dth his wife it is the greatest pleas re and privilege in the world for him 3 do her bidding." “Even if it makes him look like a 30l ?” asked Em, whereupon Kate pre erved a dignified silence. Of course, Em had never been mar led, never been engaged even, and con equently knew nothing about the feel igs of people in love. Yet, somehow, those words of Em's ankled. She thought of them now, as she I The womgn, as well as the man. must j be prepared to give and take. Up tc ' the present, he had done all the giv ! ing, she all the taking. | How blind, how selfish she had been! She saw it all now. Why, why should the man be always on his knees to the woman? Why | should she be the queen and he the j slave? She had never questioned her ! right until now, and she could find no reasonable title to the claim, i Surely the woman who loves her i j husband should bo as ready to serve , | as to be served. There could be no w question of commanding or obeying on I either side. The ladybird was balancing itself in | a. reckless manner on the edge of George's white collar. If he moved his head ever so slightly, the tiny thing would inevitably be crushed. In the midst of her remorse she was seized with a sudden solicitude for the ladybird. Stepping up behind George, she flicked it lightly and dexterously from his collar. He felt the gentle touch, and turned his head in surprise. The next moment a pair of soft arms were flung about his neck, a hot cheek laid caressingly against his own. I "George, I want to make up,” she whispered, “and—and there’s such a lot I want to say to you.” When she had said it, with her pretty head very close to his, he turned to her with a glad smile. "I’m the proudest, happiest man in the world today,” he said. “I didn’t realize, until this moment, what a sen sible little woman I had married. Don’t think, dearest,” he added, hastily, “that I ever regretted the vows I made to you when I asked you to be my wife. There is nothing I wouldn’t willingly do for you. It was only when I found that my love was in danger of spoiling you that I began to resent the—the—” “The horrible tyrannies I practiced upon you,” she interrupted quickly. I'&cofioe, j 1''"^=S=~SS^|^r «« 1 tole into the garden, where George ad taken refuge alter dinner. She new where she would find him. He ras sitting in his favorite place, under he old apple tree at the back of the iwn, unconscious of her presence. Noiselessly she stole up behind him, nd stood watching him, as he moodily uffed at his pipe. A ladybird had dropped from some verhanging bough, and was crawling lowlv up his back, in the direction of is collar. Had sne really made George look a ool? And did he mind looking a fool -for her sake? Surely the Ideal, the erfeet husband, should shrink from othing, not even ridicule, incurred in is wife’s service. And yet—-and yet— o man likes to be made to look a fool, t isn’t in human nature. Thoughtfully she stared at the lady ird as it made its slow, laborious jour ;ey across George’s light coat. After all, perhaps she had expected lira to do a little too much fetching nd carrying, and all that sort of thing. Of course, man should wait on roman. That was perfectly right and iropcr, but—there are limits to every hing. Was George beginning to rer ■gnlze this? Was that the reason why ie had not been as ready n3 usual to latch up their last little squabble? Mow she came to think of it, she re nembered how the squabble had orig nated. She had commissioned him to get a ertain back number of an illustrated >aper that contained a portrait which ihe admired. \ The offices of the pa nor were in Fleet treet, and George hfid an office in loiborn, so that it would have been he easiest thing in the world for him 0 get that paper. But no, he had sim )ly forgotten all about it. He had had 1 busy, harassing day, he said. He vas awfully sorry, and he would be ;u" - to r member tomorrow. Mow, she ha 1 particularly wanted he paper that very day, but what up ;et her most was not so much the want f the paper, as the fact that he should lave forgotten to fulfill a wish of hers. His business worries had. for the ime, obliterated the remembrance of ler! The thought was unendurable, he had told him so, and that is how ho squable had begun. The ladybird had by this time •cached me rim of George’s coat collar. Well, certainly, he had been looking •at ler worried lately. Pc maps it wa i l.ule unfair to expect him to devot : i s ealhe tnoughts to her and hsi . .shos. : h? began t> remember a hundred q tiuu oi when sne had eitor ;.ol and t^ which ho had submitted aiicnt-Iv. Harm.ess little tyrannies, a -sv < f t out quite unnecessary, . .i>- — sin- :.ad practised smi le be u-so sue 1 >ved to see aim at aer . q. . he rom xnV'raJ reading somewhere on o ’. iUL i .e true k:vi < i marrio! .;i ;. UK* pr.iicipla of ’give ..m lUi'u;. "Geoigi, what a selfish little wretch I’ve been!" Strange Work for Women. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. "Girls are uisplacmg men in walks o) life undreamed of only a decade ago,’1 said August H. Kaems, deputy stats factory inspector of Sheboygan, Wis. "Up in my own city girls have been working in the varnish rooms of the chair factories for almost twenty years and within the last ten years many others have found employment in one of the foundries enameling kitcheri utensils. Barring the intense heat in the rooms, the work is comparatively easy, though it does seem strange to find women in foundries. "The bottling departments of the breweries also employ girls in prefer ence to boys, and the work being almost entirely automatic, where other condi tions are wholesome, little criticism can be made. "It was not until I entered upon my present duties that I learned that girls a re also being employed in tanneries. I am a tanner by trade, so that It was quite a surprise to me when I saw frail women perform work which fell to sturdy men in former years. These girls are principally employed in the chrome departments. In northern Wis consin some of our inspectors have found women employed In the sawJ mills.” Not His Fault, Though. "It is a very fine thing to be brave and generous and noble,” said Bliss Perry, the noted writer, editor and teacher of Harvard, "but sometimes we are generous and noble against our will. Then, of course, we deserve no credit. • . "Of thi3 type was a young married man whose father-in-law, a reputed Bh millionaire, hurst in on him one day and groaned: “ All is lost! I am utterly ruined!* “‘Ahem,’ said the son-in-law; ’thev I married for love, after all.’ ’’ Two Miles a Minute. Twomllesamlnute, Geehowwefly! Swlftasameteor Streakingthesky. Whatlsthatblur? Onlytlietrees, Lookatthemwave. Mywhatabreeze! Ahonkandarush, Atlashandasmell— W hatdldwehit? Didsomebodyyell? Ajarandascream— ltlookedllkcahorse; Notelltngnow, Kt-epto thecourse Outof theroad! Glveusashow! Twomilvsa minute, c.e howwego! i —Newark News.