E0PIC8 OF THE TIMES.
A CHOtCC SELECTION OF INTER-
CTTINO ITEMS.
CNmmH aad Crlt.cieau Baaed Upoa
ha appcniaga at Ik bay Uia
If I aad Ntwt Notea,
"What la the biggest game In your
rtjctoltT" asks a New England corre
spondent. Draw poker.
Spain certainly experience! a ureat
leal of trouble in Manila Bay, but her
war ebips were at the bottom of it.
The Spaniards readily believe the
ram that Dewey was a bad boy. and
fa addition they think be grew worse
M he got older.
The attention of the Harvard prof en
ter who says there are no gentlemen In
America Is called to the fart that there
are a few lighters.
This war may mean more compulsory
sflncation In giving scholars something
additional to learn about the United
ttatca and its dependencies.
Adherents of the Spanish throne
atsndly talk of what Is behind It, but
(tin at present to Its occupant must be
af teas interest than what's before it
The Anstraian government has de
cided that "hello" In telephoning Is Im
polite and roust not be lined. But It
kften Is convenient for abbreviation.
"All honor to the new navy!" ex
flaims the Detroit Free Press. In view
af a well-known occurrence at Manila
we would like to Inquire what Is the
natter with our old navy also?
A local poetess contributes to a West
trn paper a "stirring, martial poem" be
ginning "To war, to war with Spain, I
ay!" So do we remembering always
that Gen. Sherman said "War is beli."
The Wichita Beacon says that "any
girl who bleaches her hair can be
kissed." So can any girl who doesn't
bleach her hair; bat the Job must be
fione by the right party of the second
ftart of course.
"Am I my brother's keeper?" Al
ways inevitably; and it Is generally
Cheaper to help him maintain himself
It home than It is to let him go to the
foorhouse and then support him alto
gether. This applies to nations as well
Individuals.
The Cramps at Philadelphia have se
cured contracts from the Russian gov
ernment for a first-class 12"00 ton bat
tle ship and a first-class G, 100-ton pro
tected cruiser. If we are in a position
to build navies for Europe we certainly
Ihould be able to build a first-class
aavy for Uncle Sam.
sThe nation takes off its hat to the
American navy. It may not number
the ships that ore gathered Into the
Beets of England and the great conti
nental powers, but. man for man, offi
cer for officer, ship for ship, nothing
afloat equals It We are not a warlike
people; owr ways are those of peace,
but there is a satisfaction In the knowl
edge that when the crisis comes we are
not unequal to maintaining ourselves
Ilka men.
It must be remembered that in this
war the private's part Is more import
ant than in any war in the past The
open order formation -In which battle
Is now fought, on account of the preci
sion and rapidity of Are of modern
mail arms and machine gnns. makes
toe individual soldier more dependent
upon himself and less dependent upon
lis officers. He must use his brains as
well as bis legs and arms. Other con
ditions being equal, the army that has
the moat Intelligent soldiers will win.
Spain furnishes to the world a mel
ancholy example of the improvidence
af the policy of unrestricted tree cut
ting. Its arid territory. Its torrential
streams, are. the natural result of in
difference to or ignorance of the de
mands of a wise foresight We do not
want to make a Spain of America
either physically or morally. We do
aot want to strip our timber lands for
(he enrichment of a few speculators
and leave a forestless domain to the
seat generation.
It sometimes requires more and bet
ter courage to stay at home than to go
to war. Many a man who, If duty
would permit him to volunteer, would
be glad to go, Is compelled by the most
solemn and binding of all human obli
gations to stay at home. It Is not a
manly, a wise or heroic thing for a citl
acn to leave bis wife, children, parents
or slaters In want in order to go where
fee la not needed. So long aa there Is a
surplus of men who want to enlist,
and whose p.eaence at home Is not as
aeatiai to the support of families, no
man whose presence Is thus required
baa moral right to enlist
Aa A medium through which to cos-
pessimistic Inferences the essayists
am OTorworklng the subject of reject
ad reiaateers. without other Informa
ttoa the eo Delusion might be drawn
(Mas some o these com meat that the
sili of this nation are rapidly de
tortorating la physical empnbfUtles. Aa
eaJd. this tvbjeet has been
tnrorkad.CM nation to aot
r abort af sn material oapa-
0 f ataadlng the teats of masae,
iVsMtoslK
ftaaaaa aad apned. It la
O ends at fat to select from ft eaaafr
CI bafca any, sdally rigian hi tat ay
llrm at tea tea. We are net ba
taaaafvvstvaca, .'
rXaaf rUtana
C 3 Cj land af C K.iHasafl Ma
f a a ij -j sjr m
yers." It U felt that the frightful In
crease of crime can never be checked
so long as attorneys, who are admitted
to the bur as the sworn ministers of
Justice, are willing to sell their ser
vices to secure immunity for the worst
of criminals, not only by securing the
fair trial, which Is the right of every
accused person, but by using tbelr le
gal ability for the perversion of law
and evidence and the misleading of
Juries. Is there any possible form of
wrong, any dishonest combination for
private or public plunder, which doea
not find able and willing lawyers to
dress it np and parade It before the
courts In the robes of Innocence and
virtue? Yet there have been lawyers,
like Horace Blnney and Abraham Lin
coln, who would not thus prostitute
their powers; and we would gladly give
full credit to the claim made by Hon.
Joseph H. Choate for bis ninety thou
sand brother lawyers, that "you will
look in vain elsewhere for more spot
less honor, more absolute devotion,
more patient IndUKfry, more conscien
tious fidelity than among these."
June 14, 1777, the American flag was
adopted by Congress and the annual
recurrence of the anniversary calls to
mind the first standard of our Inde
pendence, which had represented on It
a snake cut In thirteen pieces, repre
senting the thirteen colonies, bearing
the motto, "Join or die." Patrick
Henry's men marched behind a stand
ard bearing a rattlesnake in an atti
tude ready to strike and the warning,
"Don't tread on me!" Doctor Frank
lin wrote of this design: "The ancients
considered the serpent an emblem of
wisdom. It is quite customary for
countries to be represented by animals
peculiar to that country. The rattle
snake is found nowhere but In Amer
ica, Her eye is exceedingly bright and
without eyelids emblem of vigilance.
She never begins an attack nnd she
never surrenders emblem of magnan
imity and courage. She never wounds
even her enemies until she generously
gives them warning not to tread on Iter.
Her thirteen rattles, the only part
which Increases In nmnler, are distinct
from each other, and yet so united that
they cannot be disconnected without
breaking thea to piece, showing the
impossibility of on American republic
without a union of States." Doctor
Franklin pursues the simile still fur
ther, and in following It the reader is
impressed with the analytical keen
ness of the old .philosopher in bis study
of the fitness of the symbol that was to
represent the character and relation
ship of the thirteen colonies.
New Tork Journal: The
taking nearly two months
the Atlantic fleet when,
Oregon
to Join
had the
Xicarairuan Canal been existent tt
could have made the voyage in
two weeks, leaves nothing to say
ngalast the military necessity of that
short waterway to the United States.
Either we must cut the canal or make
up our mfads to do a more costly thing
maintain a double navy. Every na
tion that maintains a powerful fleet in
the Pacific has us at a fearful disad
vantage now. The voyage from New
York to San Francisco by way of the
Strafts of Magellan Is 13,174 miles, and
by way of Cape Horn 15,(500. By way
of the Nlcaraguan Canal it would be
but 4,907, a shortening as to one route
by 8,267 miles ami as to the other by
10,753. With the canal we could hurry
our ships from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific and vice versa as they might be
needed; without the canal every one of
them will have to follow the same track
that the Oregon has taken the same
that was pursued by the exploring Ma
gellan, discoverer of the straits In 1520.
Commercially the canal Is ns necessary
ss It hi strategically. Its opening would
mean an enormous Impetus to the de
velopment of our Paelfle coast. Well
within ten years the population of that j
region wouiu oe uouoieu una us natural
wealth poured out to enrich the whole
country. New Orleans and other South
ern ports would spring Into greatness
under the stimulus of the new trade
opened to them and the territory which
produces their special exports. The
western coast of Sooth America would
become tributary to us by furnishing a
direct market to our cotton growers,
iron founders, and manufacturers in
general. Thanks to the Suez Canal,
England Is nearer than we are by about
2,700 miles to China, Japan, and Aus
tralia. Open the Nlcaraguan Canal and
our Atlantic ports would be only 1,000
miles further from Hongkong and Cen
tral China generally than Is England,
and from 1.200 to 1,900 miles nearer the
northern ports of China, Corea, and
Japan; 2,700 miles on the average near
er the western ports of South America;
1,300 miles nearer Melbourne, end over
3,000 mile nearer New Zealand. The
canal would bring within trade reach
hundreds of million! of consumers with
whom we have now but scant connec
tion. The commercial face of the world
would be ensnared, and all to the bene
fit of the United States. The canal
will be ect now. The Oregon's voyage
baa been a kindergarten lesson to the
entire country, and the fight With
Spain has opened everybody's eyes to
the cold fief thst the best time to pre
pare for war Is when we sre at peace.
Ton will soon be going off for a pie
nlc. When yon go, behave yourself.
Aa a rule, when people go away on a
picnic, they act worse than savages,
and those living near the plcnle
grounds art dlsgnsted. It ton't neces
sary to go crany la order to enjoy a
A yvrng country fellow's Idea of a
a me seems to be to pile two pret
ty Jte la a ataale-acated baggy, and
ttta fa town on their laps. And, by.
Oa way, we rather dilra his taata.
17a feara known a asaa twenty yean
wtoaaya be la vary atofc, aai Matla at
THE FARM AND HOME
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM
ER AND HOUSEWIFE.
How to Sacceed with Batter Palry
Caring for Rrea ia the t-pring:-Hiata
on Beet Sugar HaiaiBg-Kcep'
lag Old Cow la Unprofitable.
Good Batter.
To succeed with a butter dairy it Is
necessary to have good butter con
not some good ones and some poor oles
and these cows must have good but
tor cow feed and care. One bad butter
cow will eat up the profit on several
good ones; therefore, all unprofitable
cows should he tested out and sold to
the butcher; a duiryman can't afford to
keep them If be is dairying for proilu
Then the cows must be treated with
the consideration due to their Import
ance as a factor of success; and the
milk and cream must be properly han
dled from cow to churn, and those who
don't know precisely how this should
tie doue should stay out of the busi
ness He must know how to make but
ter. There is absolutely no prolit in
uny other grade, because people dou't
want bad butter at any price. Then,
good butter being made at least possi
ble cost, it must be properly pres.-nted
to the market. It must not only lie
good, but must look good. Marketing
requires some good, souud business
sense. Some people could hardly sell
good butler at a profit If it wns given
to them. It requires an all-round niau
to make a successful dairyman.
Breeder and Horseman.
First Food of Hera in Pprioc.
After bees have safely wintered they
first gathei propollis, a reddish sin
stance which they procure from the
buds of trees, and whose its is not
clearly known, though part of it deems
to be to close up cracks which the win
ter has made iu their dwelling. Then
they set to work to gather pollen, the
fecundating dust from the stigmas of
flowers. They get a great deal of this
from the blossom of the maple, and It
is this rather than sweet sap that the
bees frequent maple trees iu bloom to
obtain. Of course there Is no sweet
ness in maple sap after the trees have
leaved out. - The taste is rattier bitter
than sweet. Nature Is an expert chem
ist and can change In a week's time
nil the sugar in a maple tree into the
material for depositing fibre In the
branches and the new foliage that the
tree then puts on. A good substitute
for the pollen of flowers Is found In
very fine rye or wheat flour, kept where
It will be sheltered from ruin, and
where the liees can readily get at It.
, """ " cany spring w
tl..n.t...) t , ... .... .
visit a dish that has a little nc Hour
sprinkled on Its liottom and exposed to
the sun. The bees use this pollen as
feed for young bees when newly
batched. Therefore the queen bee dc,
not begin laying until a supply of pol
len has been obtained. The earlier .jo
queen bee begins to work the sooner
the hive fill- with !ees, and new
s warms are ready to issue.
Meet huicar ItaiaiOK.
Beet sugar experts say that the beet,
In order to be rich in sugar, must have
a chance to setid Its tap-roots down into
the subsoil. The factory wants smooth
roots, not those that are all "fingers
and toes." Thus they expect the grow
er to subsoil his beet land In the fall,
by followtug with some sort of subsoil
stirring plow in the furrow made by
the ordinary plow. Slany farmers will
consider this quite a task, and possibly
be a little, slow to bind themselves to
grow sugar be"tg under them? condi
tions. For most soils this subsolllng
will not be so difficult as It may look
at first glance.. The work can be done
In the fall, and should be done with
greatest care. All msnurfnl substances
should tie applied In the fall. Stable
manure should be well rotted and sp
plied la moderate doses. Suiorphos
phate may be used quite freely with
out detriment. Close planting Is abso
lutely necessary. The Individual roots
should weigh from one to three pounds
only. . Larger roots are deficient In
sugar. The rows ire made about
twenty Inches apnrt, and the plants left
alsjut Ave to eight Inches ifirt in the
rows.
Food for Voong Chlcka.
More than half the young chicks that
die while very youug do so because
they are Improperly fed. Even the
most dreaded of all pests, lice, will nev
er trouble the chicken that is fed as it
ought to be, and has free range to
scratch in the dirt. But proper feeding
does not mean pampering the chick,
and still less does It mean feeding with
soft. Indigestible food, that gives noth
ing for the chick's gizzard to work on.
We never failed to have good success
with chicks after they were big enough
to eat whole wheat After a while we
took the hint and cracked the wheat,
and they would eat thl cracked wheat
the second day. The chie needs noth
ing the first day. Its last act In the
shell Is to store up the remainder of
the yolk and white. It Is these which
make Its body, bones, bill sod feath
ers. In picking Its way out of the
shell the chick Instinctively swallows
some of the shell, and this supplies Its
first grit, for Its gizzard. Bat the egg
shell is Itself dissolved and furnishes
bone for growth. So the first thing Is
to put cracked wheat among coarse
sand or very flue grarel. The chick
will eat some gravel with Its food, and
thus be put In a fair way to lire, tad
soon learn to take care of Itself.
American Cultivator.
KaaotncOtd Cowa,
Oaa of the in all compensations for
the great Injury dona to farmers by
tba taberralosls scare to that It baa tod
to a weeding ant of tbo old cowa. These
an always stoat sabject to baaaaw
lag usually has her health I in pulped.
Slid at some one of these periods. If
there are any tuberculous g-rni in the
air, the cow Is very liable to lake tbiiu.
Youug, vigorous cows, not pampered,
can resist the germs even If ttey do
get some into their systems. It !i curi
ous that the commission pleading for
its life tells of the Increased knowl
edge that the farmers have on this
subject over what they hud before the
commission began Its liilsirs. It Is true;
they do know more ihau they did. anil
so we may add do the veterinarians!
It has been knowledge very dearly jHtid
for. ami at the cow owners' expense ex
clusively.
The Wind Blew in (be Wheat.
A sickle moon hung low and white, in the
etlgt'of a golden tcit,
With clanging bells the herd rame horiM
ami mother bird on the nest
Trilled lo the sung that is never snug -so
wift! so uiidJ)' sweet!
The whiipoorwill iu tlie marshland called,
t and the wind blew in the wheat.
High summer had broken to hedge-row
waves with a fun in of elder blixm,
By waste aiwl wayside the sweelbriur
diars showed faint in t lie tender
giooin.
And nibbling hares crept out to play m
silent velvet feet,
Aa waxing iledro timed the chant, the
wind blew in the w Ileal,
"lieninon to ench lieanW'd
head.
tin-
html of goMi-n grain!
Ye ha!l drink of the mm, in strength and
iiower, nor lark the gralcful rain.
In the bursting mills, in the ocean pressed
w ith the ks ls of a IhiKii fleet.
Ye may rend the smile of the 1-ord of
lliiM." the wind blew in the wheal.
Ilarjei" Weekly.
Cantirtowrr.
There Is no good reason why the
fanner should not grow cauliflower if
he or his family like them Is-tter ihau
cabbage. They require no stronger
soil, no heavier manuring and no more
labor until the time comes for tying up
the heads, and even then the Ialr is
but little, only that they need looking
at almost every day to see when they
are just right to tie up for blanching
and when they are ready for cutting.
If the garden Is where It should Ik-
near the house this extra care is but
a little task, to he done after siiper In
a small garden. Market gardeners do
not need to le told that cauliflowers
are much more profitable, usually than
cabbages. American Cultivator.
Mnntrc on llo.
John C'ruze writes to the Uural World
as follows: "Have Just had some In
teresting experience with mange or
scab on pips. lost fourteen out of
thirty-six from dosing them with every
thing I heard or read about. Wns in
despair until common sonse came to
my aid. I figured if out that It was a
parasite under the skiu, and to cure the
pig the parasite must lie destroyed. So
I mixed up some turpentine and coal
oil, and added guile a bit of sulphur.
Tltfcn, while the pigs were nt the
trough, I squirted the mixture nil over
them from now to fall by means of a
machine oil can. Have not lost a pig
since, nnd have not !een obliged to re
peat the dose."
Controlling Plont Lire,
riant lice are among the most Im
portant of the Injurious Insects. As
plant lice suck their food, purls green
arid similar polsobs cannot lie depend
ed upon when used In the ordinary
manner. Some external Irritant must
be used Instead. Numerous Insecticides
of tills nature are recommended. One
of the most Important Is good whale
oil soap. Experiments during the past
season show that one pound of whale
oil soap to seven gallons of water will
kill plum and currant lice. The solu
tion should be applied in a flue spray
to the under surface of the leaves.
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Choke Ball.
Cows will often get choked with a
small potato or other article of food.
The following peculiar remedy is some
times employed : Take of fine-rut chew
ing tobacco enough to make a ball the
size of a hen's egg. Dampen w ith uii
lasses so that it adheres closely. Lift
np the cow's head, pull the tongue for
ward and crowd the ball as far down
the throat as possible. In fifteen min
utes It will cause sickness and vomit
ing, relaxing the muscles so that the
object will probably be thrown out.
Kansas Farmea
r'erdlntr Steera.
A cattle breeder who has experi
mented In various modes of feeding
states that be estimated the cost of
the food according to the value of the
land and the crop, and with a bunch
of steers on a pasture from May to
Septemlter he cleared $4.N0 an acre.
As no labor was required, the steers se
curing the food from the pasture, the
gain was an addition to that which the
pasture gives ordinarily, while the ma
nure is also on Item of profit
I.et Well Enoaslt Atone.
Novelties In fruit growing serve to
keep growers on the alert for some
thing better every year, but the major
ity of the novelties pass out of sight
after, the first year's trial with tbem.
Many af the so-called novelties are old
varieties brought to the front again.
In venturing upon new kinds let It be
done experimentally. Never discard a
satisfactory kind for another until cer
tain thst a change will be of advan
tage. Taste la Vaedlas C'kJchsae.
After making repeated testa In feed
ing, the New. York Agricultural experi
ment station says: 'The ground grata
ration proved considerably more profit
able than tba whole grain ration with
the growing chicks; nnd the same was
true af capons of equal weight fern
those chicks, and from others of aajaal
weight aad age, fad alike before ea
aoatolac. No dlffareace waa notfeed la
health ar rigor af ohlcka or onpoaa fat
T" ITT
Coat of 4 tone Koada.
In Owen County. Indiana, where
Itone is abundant and very accessible,
it costs t the crusher loaded into the
s-agon f0 cents per cubic yard or
nagon load. To lay a mile of road
with this stone, nine feet wide and
fight Inches deep, requires 1,173 cubic
rards or wagon loads. At that rate
the stone at the crusher would cost
f.V-0O. Then I think 30 cents hT
.ruble yard at an average haul of say
ne mile, would be a fair estimate of
the cost of putting It on the road, and
r- ould amount to JXil.StO, which, udded
Ui the coht of stone, would make
f!i.'J8.4). In a former article on road
building In Owen County. I said roads
were being built at an average cost of
f 1.4)0 iht mile. - According to the fore
going estimate of the cot of puttiug
the stone on the road, that would leave
f-MU for grading, bridges, culverts and
ewer pipes. This would seem to nie
t pretty gKsl margin for profit to the
:imtractor and yet In a rough country
like this, where the grading Is netes
tarlly heavy, and where many culverts
ire needed, It may not be too great, if
the contractor complies faithfully with
ill the specifications Ui building the
road. James N. Hill, in Indiana Farm
er. Broad Iron Ifnite for Knad.
The Covernment has given a vast
Jeal of attention to the subject of gK.i
country roads and has Indorsed the
plan of using steel rails to form a track
HHn which the vehicle can run. No
wood Is used in the construction of the
road and no cross ties for supisirts.
The track consists of a simple inverted
trough or channel of steel for each
wheel, with a slightly raised bead on
the inside to guide the wheel, each rail
resting on a bed of gravel. The rails
are lied together i't regular Intervals to
prevent spreading. Special devices are
used for holding the rails together at
each end.
Ths licaring, or tread, for the wheels
Is eight Indies wide and the thickness
of the rail is seven sixteenth of an
inch. The total weight of the rails is
alKjnt 100 tons to the mile, for single
hack road, ami the cost of the Iron Is
about f,W) per mile. The first order
for rails has been given by the ofllcers
of the New York agricultural experi
ment station, who will make a thor
ough test of the road from every pos
sible mint of view.
flood Koaila Abroad.
Americana must feel some disap
pointment, since their country has long
been famous for its quickness and skill
In adopting mechanical and scientific
discoveries for business purpose,
when they realize that Euroiwan cities
are far surpassing any of ours In the
use of horseless vehicles. T Tn til we
have better roads and bolter street
pavements we ninst submit to the hu
miliation of being distanced by Ger
many, France and England in one of
the most Interesting and Important
phases of modern progress. It Is one
of the penalties we pay for makeshift
highways and for the folly which per
mits the use upon them of destructive
ly narrow tires. Cleveland Lender.
Knrlleal Japan can rH.-nlttiire.
Prof. Ernest F. Fenollosa contributes
to the Century "An Outline of Japanese
Art," with unique and unpublished ex
amples. Prof. Fenollosa says:
By the year 00 of our era not only
had the Japanese empress Hitiko be
come the devoted patron of Buddhism,
but Shotoku, the imperial prla-et him
self a priest, was expounding the new
religion at court, and sending to Corea
for archlUvts, bronze-casters, weavers,
and scholars, with whose bel he de
signed tc erect and maintain Japan's
flrst greai- monastery, Horlujl. .still in
existence it is her finest an museum
to-day, though few parts of Its archi
tecture djte further buck than the end
of the stgentb century. Japanese ar
tists we associated with their Corean
teacbert in this work of years, am) the
temple'i tironze altar-piece, a trinity of
small sUtuos on the Coreun model, is
tald to !&ave been designed and cast by
Japan'! flrst professional sculptor,
rorl.
But tje flrst great original Japanese
statue g aa carved, nearly llfe-slzc, out
f haitj, dark wood, by the prl.ieo Sho
toku hjaaself. It represents the Spirit
of Prasldence, seated in thoughtful al
tituda Severe ami uuortmmented,
wllbojt losing Chinese dignity, It adds
to Ccean spirituality a more human
propettlon and s more human charm
of najve sweetness. Nude from the
waist up, Its abstract beauty disdains,
without offense, all suggestion of inus
julaa detail; and, though It is almost
:lumay In parts. Its presence at the
nunaery ChuguJI Is so powerful ss al
most to compel the obeisance of the be
holder. Development of aabarban Trafflo.
Ajnerlcan corporations hare been
very enterprising In extending their
(ins Into new districts often. It must
be added, where there waa little busl
aces to warrant such extenslous. With.
ul auestlonlng the wisdom of those en
terarlsea. It may nevertheless iw aid
that there baa been, In mott Instances,
I failure on the part of these corpora
Uoai to secure to themselves the enor
BMna local aad aabarban business
which baa grown np la and around our
grant dtlea. A great number of eaaea
ana be cited where thts bnsineaa to
handled ucceasfnUy aad profitably aa
t hum Mal by the steam roads of Bo
repa, establishing beyond a. (Motion tba
assttabfllty af tat aarrlos that oaa be
germ. However, have not aaw dlstvcataV
ed tlls business, but bare artnaltjr Asf
cournged It; and It Is only wltlile a few
years that a proper appreciation of lta
importance sud value has lieeti sfaowa
by even a very few of the leading com
panies. There Is, on the other hsod. an
almost total lack, on the part of tbo
public, of any proper appreciation of
the part which the existing Hues ter
minating In or pa icing through tba
great citU-s should take In the develop
ment of this local and suburban trac.
Ou-jioration have been allowed, and
even encouraged, to withdraw tbelr
freight and passanger stations lo points
fan her from the business centers; and.
with very few exceptloua, there baa
never lcen an effort, oil the part of
either city or State governmcnia, to
take such action aa would lead to any
development In the line above sugsjeac
ed. Century.
WHAT IS TRIPLE EXTRACT?
The
Procrwi by Which the Oder af
Klowrra la Obtained.
Flowers that are to be used In the)
manufacture of perfumes are slwaya
gathered at nightfall or quite early in
the morning when the dew Is upon
them. Before they are gathered, how
ever, receptacles are jircpared for them
In the shape of large frames, over
which are stretched cotton cloths well
saturate! with olive oil or almond OIL
The cut flowers are brought In, and ara
thickly spread on a frame; then anoth
er frame Is fitted over It, and thsl In
turn Is well spread with (lowers; then
a third frame Is fitted over the second
spread of flowers, and thus the work
goes on until a huge pile of flowers la
prepared.
This flower heap Is left for two days,
at the end of which time the flowers
are removed from the frames and re
placed by fresh ones. The frames ara
filled and emptied every two days until
two week have passed. Then the
Cloths are douched from the frames
and placed under great pressure, snd
all the oil Is pressed out of them. The
oil thus obtained is heavily charged
with the fragrance of the flowers, sud
It Is mixed with double Its weight of
very pure rectiilcd spirit and put In a
vessel ciilhnl a "digester," which Is sim
ply a porcelain or block-tin kettle fbst
fits in another kettle. When In use the
ouier vessel Is filled with !ililig water.
In tin's vessel she mixture of oil snd
spirits "digests" for three or four days;
then, after having cooled, the spirit Is
din!i into another vessel holding
the same quantity of fragrant oil, snd
the digesting process Is repeated. After
lH'ing Hum digested three times the
spirit Is found to have taken tip enoufc"S
of the perfume, and II l then decanted
from the oil for the third nnd last time
through s. tube, one end cf which Is
filled with cotton wool to nerve as a Bi
ter. The fluid thus jin-pared la called
"triple extract.
Horse Willi an Appettuv
"An old horse with an Inordinate ap
petite Is one of the curiosities I found
on a recent trip In Eastern Kentucky,"
said Colonel Andrew . YaUn.. "This
ancient animal was ome ridden by a
mail rider. over in West Virginia and
had to go in a Jog from daylight till
after dusk each day except Sunday.
But after long service old Bawley was
traded off to a farmer living on the
Kentucky side of the mountains, and
he recently pensioned the animal, put
ting Bawley on the pasture and letting
him have all he craved morning and
evening at feeding time. An ordinary
meal for Bawley is two racks of hay.
thirty ears of corn, a two-gallon bucket
of bran, a gallon of oats and all the
stale bread and meat In the house,
Bawley Is as fond of meat and bread
as of hay and corn, and, in fact, will
cht almost anything, not drawing the
line at fruit or sweetmeats. The four
legged gourmand once broke In the
hog pen and emptied a large trough of
slop which had Just leen poured In
for the porkers. His owoer said be
once heard the old horsf whining In
pain, and went out and 6m1 Bawley,
his Imprudence In derourjt a bucket
of new-made Jam having r.perlnducvd
a serious Illness, but txy horse waa
read to cat the followlL morning af
usuaL" Ixmlsvllle Post,
Horaea ami Men KIUmi In War.
In regular battles thv proportion of
loss among men and kuis Is quite
ckwe, and in luuid-to hutA combats of
cavalry as well as In sIwto artillery en
gagements for every u,.ii killed or
wounded there Is also 4 Jumb warrior
entltli-d to a place beside him en the
roll of honor. The ligi brigade at
Balnkalava rode In WK .not t;00) strong
and lost 2W wen, but 4 the MO boraes
3(i0 were shot down l.y the Unsidan
guns. In the fierce ctt fges of the Ger
man Uhlans and culiassiers ut lon
vllle, Mars la-Tour, U 170, 1,400 men
and l,00i horses were ki I d and wound
ed. In the fierce artUt-ry contests oa
the same field 730 ija and over kflllt
horses fell around lb guna. At Ora
vclotte, soon after tUrs la-Tour, the
artillery fighting w also terrible, and
1,300 horses were shot down around tba
batteries, though thf loss of the artil
leries was less than 1,000. Our Ani
mal Friends.
A Mai h-Prluad Coppav.
Among numlsmatlata one of tba asset
sought after colonial coins la tba High
ly copper. They ara of severs! vari
eties, and were struck In 1787 by laav
twl Highly, wbo wa a physician and
a blacksmith at Umnby. Conn. Ha
obtained the coppar from a mine aant
by and shaped tba eolns nt bla forga,
Aa ratal as War,
Tbo sudden chaagea of ctfmata aa
countered by asldtort whan troops ara
moTon rrem oaa Quarter of tbo watfJ
(o naouer ara oanmatod aa li
taa annual mortality af amwna
A real boy does aat rare Brack far a.
aa tba taw after img tank-
it toa deUw aa a ha& )
1 , kfT., rf
ttto way.
