Nebraska Newspapers

    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
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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.
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: 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.' ”
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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.