Do It Now!
When you’ve pot a job to do.
Do it now!
U tt*a one you wish was through.
Do it now!
If you’re 6ure the Job’s your own.
Don't hem and haw and groan—
Do it now!
Don’t put off a bit of work.
Do it now!
It doesn’t pay to shirk.
Do it now:
If you want to fill a place
And be useful to the race.
Just get up and take a brace.
Do it now!
Don’t linger by the way.
Do it now!
Tou'll lose if you delay,
Do it now!
If the other fellows wait.
Or postpone until it’s late,
Tou hit up a faster gait—
Do it new!
—Frank Farrington.
Thought Reading by a Watch.
A most puzzling trick is “thought
reading by a watch.” Place a watch
on a table, ask some one to think ot
m certain hour, and then to consider
that he has counted up to that num
ber. Tell him you will point at vari
ous hours on the watch, and that he
vr^st add the number of times you
point to the number of the hour of
which he thought. Instruct him that
when he reaches No. 20 he must tell
yon to stop pointing, and you will
then be pointing at the hour he se
lected.
For example: Say he thinks of 7
o'clock. When you have pointed 13
times he must stop you, because he
has then counted to 20. Now it does
not matter of what hour he thought;
at the 20th count you will have ar
rived at the correct hour if you re
member always to let your eighth
pointing be to 12 o’clock, and from
there to follow the hours around
backward, i. e., frcm 12 to 11, and
■o on till you are told to stop.
Home-Made Switch.
Get a piece of board 4x5x^z in thick
mesa. a piece of copper and some
screws and wire; now we are ready
to start.
The switch E is made of a piece of
copper % inch wide. It is pivoted at
F with a screw.
To the end of E is fastened a cop
per wire (No. 25). which leads to the
upper binding post.
This switch has six contact points.
These consist of brass screws and
copper or tin washers. Having F as
a center, draw the arc of circle that
has a radius of 4 inches. Place the
contact screws along this arc and
about % inch apart, center to center:
the last screw foims a part of binding
post A.
This switch can be also used as a
speed regulator for small motors or
Anmmo&.
Mystifying Card Trick.
A simple and mystifying card trick
Is the will power trick. You let any
one shuffle the card3, then take them
Into your own hand and ask another
person to cut them. Now throw them
on a table, but as you do so get a
glimpse of the bottom card, which is,
we will say, the nine of hearts. Scat
ter the cards a little, but carefully
note the position of the nine of
hearts.
Now say that you have the power
to will that a person shall, unknown
to himself, select the card you want.
You can call for the nine of hearts.
Some one hands you a card without
looking at its face. “Thank you,” you
say. “Quite right—nine of hearts.”
Really, however, it is the jack of
spades; so you now ask for the Jack
of spades, and get, let us say, seven
of diamonds. You then say that you
will pick a card from the table your
self—the seven of diamonds. You
take the card, however, which you
know to be the nine of hearts. You
then show the three cards, which are,
■*1 course, the three you named, so
knot it appears that you actually have
-nade your spectators pick out the
«S7da you wanted.
Holland Customs Unchanged.
Almost every fishing village in Hol
land has its special d?ess and its own
quaint customs. One can *ee from
old Dutch pictures that these y.'ave not
varied for the last 200 ya&rs. One
most Interesting place is the island
of Marken, a tongue of land on the
margin of the Zuyder Zee, which can
well be inspected in a couple of hours.
It la so little above the sea level that
the clusters of houses, or tiny villages,
are built on mounds connected by
bridges, and nearly every little house
has its own little moat and its own
Httle boat—everything, except the
people, is on a diminutive scale in
Holland—moored near the door, so as
tu be handy in case of flood. The
houses, with the exception of the
church and the clergyman’s house, are
built of wood on high piles. They are
none of them very old, as the place
has often been flooded and burnt; in
Vinter Marken is often under water
and the inhabitants use boats to pass
from one village to another. The cot
tages, which are painted blue, green
or black, with pointed gables, and
roofed with red tiles, are all exactly
alike and possess only a ground door
built on high piles.
Fudge Recipe.
A recipe for fudge, the ever fasrtn
atiag candy which girls love to make,
fs sent in as follows:
Two cups of white sugar, three ta
blespoonfuls of cocoa (mix, wcil),
about two-thirds cup of, milk, a piece
of butter about the size of a small
egg. Cook until it gets stringy, or
else sugars around the edges. Just
before taking off the stove add one
balf teaspoonful of flavoring. When
taken off the stove beat it fer a min
ute or two, or until it gets just hard
enough to turn into buttered pans
without hardening. This Is flne with
nuts in. When almost cool cut in
squares.
Circle Puzzle.
These are the three equal squares,
each containing five of the small cir
cles.
Simple Experiments.
A very interesting branch of study
Is vibration.
A vibration you know, is defined as
an impulse, but if a series or num
ber of impulses are produced singly
and at irregular intervals, very little
effect upon anything can be produced.
If the reverse is true, however, results
often astounding will be noticed.
And that, by the way, teaches an im
portant lesson. You cannot do any
thing of any account by means of a
single effort. You must “keep at it,”
regularly and constantly.
Did you ever, with a playmate, cross
a stream walking over a plank, keep
ing step the while?
What happened? Why, the plank be
gan to jump and bounce until you
both came near falling Into the water.
Your regular footfalls set up vibra
tion, and the plank was obedient to
its law.
Probably you know that as a rule
soldiers are obliged to break step
when crossing a bridge. If they con
tinued marching such vibration would
be set up that the bridge would prob
ably fall. In going over a great
many railroad bridges the speed of lo
comotives must be slackened, because
the regular swing of the pistons re
sults in the same manner.
Stubborn Paper Wad.
Did you ever see a paper wad that
is so stubborn that it will fly in the
face of one who tries to compei it to
go into the neck of a bottle?
The more you try to blow It In the
more it leaves the bottle.
You can try this with any large bot
tle, and a paper wad or cork small
enough to fit very loosely in its neck.
Holding the bottle so that it points
directly at your mouth, and placing
the cork in the neck, the harder you
blow on the cork for the purpose of
driving It Into the bottle the more
forcibly will the cork rush from its
place in the neck.
Try this stunt and see if you can
tell what causes the peculiar action
of the paper wad.
A Tangle Party.
A tangle party is a jolly idea for
parents. Lengths of ribbon or colored
twine are twisted all over the house,
and the children are told that if they
can find the end of the thread they
can have whatever they will find at
the end of it. The ribbons begin in
one room and end in another. They
are passed through keyholes, twisted
around balusters, and perhaps one end
is in the garret or in the kitchen.
If presents cannot be bought for all
the children two handsome prizes can
be purchased instead, one for a
girl and one for a boy, and secured to
the end of a blue ribbon and red rib
bon, respectively. But a little present
each is more pleasing, on the whole,
as children like to carry home some
little souvenir of a party, if it is only
a tiny toy or a pretty red notebook
or a nice little box of sweets.
Riddles and Answers.
P-scribe the wise man’s head (col
loquially) In five letters? Level.
Something worn by baby in three
letters? Bib.
A palindrome for the neck in six
I letters? Tippit.
A man’s name in abbreviated form,
three letters? Bob.
A word meaning before in three
letters? Ere.
A sharp, sudden noise, three letters?
Pop.
One who resuscitates in seven let
ters? Reviver. .
A feminine name occurring in the
Bible in four letters? Anna.
A diminutive form of the preceding
ia three letters? Nan.
A form of address for a lady in five
letters? Madam.
The tramp’s way of saying the
above? Mum.
Part of a ship in four letters? Poop.
The small boy’s way of saying it in
three letters? Mam.
How Biddy, just over, would say it
in three letters? Mim.
A powerful scent in four letters?
Otto.
Floating Triangle—A Trick.
Here is an interesting experiment,
boys and girls:
Take a wet lead pencil point and
draw on thick paper a triangle
(which need not be mathematically
perfect).
Take a basin of water and lay this
paper on the surface of the water,
with the drawing up. Very carefully
fill the space inside the lines with
water. (The water will not fiow be
yond the lines which you drew with
your wet lead pencil point).
Next take a needle or pin, afp the
point of it into the wet triangle near
one of the angles. But don’t let it
touch the paper.
Now an odd thing will happen; the
paper will be sure to move on the
water until the center of area cornea
directly under the point.
You should previously have found
where the center of area is by draw
ing lines from any two angles to the
centers of the opposite sides. (See
the picture.) The point where the
two lines cross will be the center of
area.
Try this interesting experiment.
LIVING PICTURES.
To make living pictures provide
yourself with a sheet of stiff white
cardboard and a spool, one end of
which you cut off squarely. Stick the
spool on a piece of strong wire, and
bend the wire in such a way that the
longer end serves as a handle, while
the other end keeps the spool from
sliding off (see B). Now take your
compass and draw a circle seven
inches in diameter on the cardboard.
Cut the circle out carefully. Draw
fit over the end of the spool which is
cut off squarely.
Now to make the living pictures.
We out out circles six inches in di
ameter and copy C and D as they ap
pear in the drawing. Fig. E shows a
circle with a design pf living pictures
attached to the large circle with the
little windows.
D is a wheel with seven spokes.
We attach the circle to the large cir
cle on the spool with the help of a
little wax and stand before a large
B
c
a second circle three-eighths of an
inch from the edge of the first circle
and divide it with a pen into eight
parts, which you connect with the
center of the circle by lines. A third
circle which you draw is seven
eighths of an inch from the edge.
Between the twro inside circles, at
. each of the divisions, cut out square
windows, as shown in A. Cut out a
squire at the center of the circle to
mirror, turning the front of the cir
cle toward the glass. Now wre give
thr circle a quick turn with the hand,
looking through the little windows at
the same time. The wheel^will appear
to have all its eight spokes instead
of seven and will turn in the opposite
direction from the circle we hold in
our hand. Pig. C will show the pen
dulum of a clock in mofton. Fig. E
a ball flying through a ring.
USED BY JAPANESE CENSOR.
Peculiar Double Envelope in Which
Letters Are Inclosed.
Inclosed In a peculiar double en
velope, typically Japanese, every let
ter received in Louisville from Miss
Frederica Straeffer, who is doing mis
sionary work in Korea, bears the
murks of the Japanese press censor,
and shows how carefully the Japanese
are protecting their information and
throwing every safeguard around the
inside facts which might tend to as
sist the Russians.
It is really two envelopes skillfully
fastened into one, both sealed so that
it is hard to get into it. The inner en
velope is made of rice paper, and on
this account cannot be written on
with ink. The outer envelope is of
a different grade of paper, thicker
and stiffer, and on this is the address.
The Louisville missionary is near
Seoul, and her letters are sent through
that city. They are received by the
censor, are opened and read, and then
sealed again in the envelopes of the
Japanese government.
If there is nothing in the letter to
which the Japanese could object, it is
marked by the censor with a number
of letters which mean nothing to the
American, but which show the postal
authorities of Korea that the letter
has been officially passed by the cen
8or.
After this preliminary it is allowed
to come on its way across the w'aters,
arriving about two months after it
was posted.
Miss Straeffer writes that for sev
eral months just before the war be
tween Russia and Japan broke out she
did not receive any letters, even from
her relatives at home.
She then made complaint to the j
American minister, who took it up ;
with the representatives of the Japa- j
nese government, and in a few days
a boat landed at her station and a
large bundle of letters was brought
to her. All of them had been read
by the censor.—Louisville Courier
Journal.
“The Legend of the Onions.”
A strange ceremony is always cele
brated in the Abbruzzo—one of the
gayest regions of Italy—when the
onions have reached maturity. Onions
form the staple product of this part
of the country, and the legend runs
that long ago a hermit planted in a
soil that was absolutely sterile some
of these vegetables, which, by the
blessing of God, grew' and multiplied,
and that those who ate of them re
mained immune from the plague
which was then ravaging the country.
So every jear an old villager, nude
to the waist, personifies the ancient
hermit and lectures his hearers on the
old legend, after which they gather
some seeds and take them home to
plant them, in order to insure a good
crop for the coming year—London
Graphic.
Proctor’s Sense of Honor.
United States Senator Redfield
Proctor'*! strict regard for the laws,
even those of minor fmpcrtance, is
well known. An illustration of this
happened recently. The Senator and
his son, Redfield Proctor, Jr., were
hunting rabbits in the mountains east
of Rutland a few months ago. Tho
younger man. who had become separ
ated from his father, shot a large rac
coon. and when he next met the Sena*
tor he proudly exhibited his prize.
‘‘My son,” said the Senator, sternly,
“the open season for coon hunting has
not yet begun. Come with me.”
The Senator thereupon marched the
young man off to the residence of a
justice of the peace, where he ap
peared against him, and the boy was
fined for the offense, the money being
advanced by the senator himself.
The Earth Stopper.
Through soaking Helds and gateways
deep
He plods, this toller of the night.
That luckier others now asleep.
Where he has sown the seed, may reap
Their full delight.
The air is damp and chills hts bones;
Across the moon a black cloud flees;
The wind, unresting, sobs and moans.
Swishing, with dismal, ghostly tones.
Among the trees.
An5 sounds, unnoticed In the day.
Come echoing clearly through the
gloom.
A farm dog's bark, a horse's neigh.
A sheep’s hard cough, and far away
A church clock's boom.
But In the covert silence sits
Enthroned in solitude complete.
Save when a brown owl past him flits.
Or when a dead branch snaps to bits
Beneath his feet.
Tet on he goes with fearless stride.
To work when foxes hunt his rule
Through brushwood thick, o'er ditches
Until at length he stands beside
The still, dark pool.
And there above the water’s rim,
Where in the spring the bulrush crows.
His lantern's light, snbdued and dim.
Peopling the glade with shadows gTim,
The great earth shows.
—R. G. T. Cochrane.
The Freak Seasbn Opens.
Remarkably late season has retard
ed the approach of the sea serpent
to our shores, but Stony Run. Md.. has
come gallantly to the front with a bit
of news in the freak line in the shape
of a wild man. clad in yellow canvas
overalls, whose specialty is kneeling
in an attitude of supplication on a
large bowlder near a dismantled ice
house. Glad to hear from other sec
tions.
Largest Stone-Arch Bridge.
The largest stone-arch bridge in the
world is now in course of erection at
Plauen, Saxony. This bridge will have
a span of 295 feet, exceeding by 20
feet the famous Luxembourg bridge
opened last year, and by still more
the Morbegno bridge in Lombardy and
the Cabin John bridge near 7/ashing
ton, D. C.. which have held in turn
the record as the longest stone-arch
bridges.
Oil and Coal in California.
The recent report of Dr. C. T. Deane
that the total output of the California
oil wells last year amounted to over
23,000,000 barrels only partially repre
sents the important influence and
value of the industry. Its true signifi
cance is pointed out by J, W. Harri
son, a prominent local coal dealer, who
says it practically displaces 6,000,000
tons of coal as fuel.
Increase in Cotton Mills.
The number of cotton spindles in
use in the United States increased
last year from 15,500,000 to 20,000,000,
owing principally to new factories in
the cotton belt.
POULTRY
Ponds and Rape for Ducks.
Last year was the first season that
we ever used a pond in connection
with the raising of ducks, and the
result was so satisfactory that we will
give an account of it for the benefit
of the readers of your paper,
began the season with seven Rouen
ducks and two drakes for breeding
stock. Back of the barn there is
quite a good sized pond, and, as we did
not need the water for the stock, we
allowed the ducks to enjoy it. They
spent their days in it and very profit
able days they proved. They found ail
the corn they wanted at a crib near
the pond, and all the care they re
ceived was that they were brought up
to the duck house near tho house at
night and were fed a bran mash each
morning. More often than not we
found seven eggs each morning. We
sold a good many eggs and raised
ove. 110 ducklings. So much for the
utility of a pond for breeding stock.
We were a little afraid of turtles
in the pond, so kept the ducklings
away from it until five or six weeks
old. They were kept in a yard near
the house and the well, so the work
of feeding, watering and caring for
them was as light as possible. Dur
ing this time they were at first fed
four times, afterwards three times a
day, and were given lettuce, onion or
beet tops, endive or cabbage leaves
from the garden for green food. What
a jubilee there was when we first
drove about fifty of these fellows to
the pond. Such darting about, diving
and splashing. Only those who have
watched the antics of ducks in water
can imagine the scene.
After that they were fed every
morning with enough drinking water
to wash the food down so they could
eat a good breakfast, then were driven
to the pond, which soon became an
easy task. By feeding time in the
evening they were anxious to be
turned back, so they could come to
the house for supper and to their
house to sleep.
Our neighbors laughed at us driving
our ducks to water. There was a lit
tle yard containing some blue grass
and more weeds near the pond that
was disced early in the spring and
sown with Essex Rape. The ducklings
needed no teaching as to the useful
ness of this plant, but freely helped
themselves as had the old ducks all
spring.
When tt was not convenient to leave
them for an hour or so in the rare
patch, the rape was mowed and car
ried to them. They were as anxious
for it as for a feed of corn or mash.
We never had ducklings grow faster
or seem hardier. If our yards had
been so arranged that the ducks could
have gone freely to the rape patch
and the pond, without being let
through the gates, it would have been
less trouble and no doubt have been
better, but there was other stock In
the yards, making it necessary to
keep them closed.
One thing absolutely necessary to
success in raising ducks is that they
must all, young and old alike, have a
clean, dry sleeping place. It does not
need to be warm, but it must be dry.
A littlo carelessness in the matter of
supplying plenty of dry bedding when
ever flfis needed, and the little fellows
have cramp, or with either young or
old, rheumatism, and then we have
dead ducks. This is about the only
disease from which ducks suffer, and
with reasonable care can be avoided.
Danger from sudden storms at
eight, also from marauding animals,
can be in a great measure avoided by
yarding the ducklings so they cannot
wander far from their house at night
Now a few words for the Rouen ducks.
What is more beautiful? The drake,
witn his bright green head, claret
breast, ash-gray body feathers, the
black of the back and tail, the blue
ribbon band of the wing; then the
pleasing contrast of tha beautifully
penciled brown of the female, make
them birds to be admired by all who
see them. Then they do not pull their
feathers before picking time. They
are hardy, will sit on their own eggs
if allowed and make good mothers.
They are good eating ana sell well on
the market
J. H. Howarth & Son,
Appanoose Co., Iowa.
Bad Eggs Have Good Uses.
The career of the egg may not be
romantic, but frequently it is Inter
esting. The full and perfect career
is without doubt to develop into a
lusty young chick.
But the full and perfect career is
as rare among eggs as among human
beings, for many things intervene to
cut it short, and its usefulness is di
verted into channels of which few
housewives and poultry-raisers dream,
says an exchange.
It may be that the egg is broken on
its way to market or its shell is
checked sa that it will not sell. Then
it is broken with countless others into
five gallon cans and frozen. The ru
mor is that these frozen eggs are sold
to bakers in the larger cities to be
used in winter.
Should the egg survive until it pass
es the zenith of its existence and en
ters into a decline it may be sent to
some of the Tkrge coffee roasters of
the east and be used to glaze coffee.
Even should the egg survive the
first period of decline and enter into
the last stage it is not without value.
It is used commercially for tanning
kid gloves and other fine leathers.
The usefulness of the egg is not «x
haused when it has met with one of
these several fates. The shells, where
large quantities of eggs are used are
carefully gathered and the portion
which it not used for hen food is
ground and forms a common adulter
ant for spices. The shell can be roast
ed to the desired shade, is absolutely
harmless and is very difficult for any
but the chemist to detect.
Vermin attack hogs in the places
where they find the greatest protec
tion and whore the skin is most sus
ceptible to puncture. They are com
monly found around the ears, inside
the legs and in the folds of the skin
on the jowl, sides and flanks.
LIVESTOCK
Locating the Sheep Pen.
John Campbell, speaking to an audi
ence of Canadian farmers, said: In
building a suitable pen, as In other
successful farm operations, notice
should be taken of the preference of
sheep for resting on dry roads as
compared with grassy plots. This
characteristic demonstrates that the
building site of a sheep house cannot
be too high and dry for the best com
fort of the stock, for if there is one
thing more than another that sheep
do not like it is dampness; and to en
sure perfect dryness in a pen it must
be well lighted. Another character
istic of sheep to remember when
building a house is that they require
a lot of exercise during their whole
lives. Notice how well lambs grow on
the roadside, where they have to fol
low the dams over considerable dis
tances. Especially do pregnant ewes
require exercise. These are points to
bear in mind in selecting a site for
buildirfg. The house itself can then
be built of the desired material, but
wooden walls are to be preferred. The
place must not be made too warm,
and must be well ventilated, else the
sheep will show their disapproval of
arrangements by sleeping out in the
yards. The feed racks may vary, ac
cording to the variety of stock kept
With the short wooled sheep the side
of the rack from which the sheep feed
should be perpendicular, to prevent
the chaff getting into the wool. Be
neath this rack there should be a
trough for feeding grain and roots
Mangels should never be fed to preg
nant ewes, and never more than two
pdunds of turnips per day to the small
er breeds, nor four or five to the
larger breeds, gradually accustoming
them to this amount Always look well
to the water supply, in order to pre
vent the sheep acquiring an appetite
for snow'. Clean the pen out fre
quently, if roots and other succulent
foods are fed.
Strength of Formaldehyde.
A report from North Dakota shows
that much of the formaldehyde sold in
that state has been under strength and
that the farmers have in the last few
years lost many thousands of dollars
in the way of paying for what they
did not get. Formalin is supposed to
exist in formaldehyde to the extent
of 40 per cent, the rest being water.
When the strength falls below this,
the treatment of the various grains
with it for the prevention of smut is
not effective and the losses from the
continuance of the smut in the fields
are very great. The state experiment
station has taken up the matter and
has made some analyses which showed
that some of the formaldehyde sold
contained only about 26 per cent ot
pure formalin. WThat is true in North
Dakota is doubtless true in other
states and the matter should be looked
into by our other experiment stations.
As they are recommending the forma
lin treatment for the prevention of
smut, it is to the interest of the
recommenders to know that the for
malin is in proper abundance to do
the work. If a large amount of the
formaldehyde sold is too weak to be
effective, the farmers will declare that
the professors did not know what
they were talking about when they
recommended the formalin treatment
for the prevention of smut There is
another phase of this matter that will
bear looking into in all the states and
that is the giving of short measure by
the druggists. One Dakota druggist
declares that in many instances only
ten ounces of formaldehyde are sold
for a pound, but as the liquid is in a
bottle the farmers do not find it out
and do not reweigh it. This further
reduces the chance of the treatment
with formaldehyde being effective.
Cactus for Stock Feed.
Recently the city daily papers have
been printing long articles cn the use
of cactus as stock food, representing
this to be a new idea. The fact is,
the cactus has been used quite exten
sively as stock food for at least ten
years and perhaps longer. In the
Southwest the variety principally used
is the Nopal. The spines have to be
singed off with fire or the cactus
boiled till the spines can be rubbed
off. Within the last few years exten
sive experiments have been made in
Australia in the feeding of cactus, the
boiling process being most used, in
preparing the cactus. Several years
ago the Farmers’ Review expressed
the hope that the government would
undertake the breeding of cactus,
with the object of getting some varie
ties without spines. The government
stations have not yet taken up this
work so far as we are aware, but we
believe it will be done in the not far
distant future. A eood-sized spineless
cactus of the variety liked by stock
would prove of unestimable value on
our western plains, where the rainfall
is insufficient to clothe the plains with
grass. The time may come when
those same plains will be clothed with
miles of spineless nutritious cactus.
American Horses in Germany.
Germany is at the present time im
porting more than 100,000 horses a
year, but few of them come from the
United States. It was hoped a few
years ago that we would catch a great
deal of the German horse trade, but
that hope has not materialized. In
stead of gaining, we are losing. The
latest figures we have are for the year
1902, but there has been little or no
improvement since that time. In 1899
we sent Germany 4,343 horses; in
1901 we sent 553 horses, and in 1902
only 137 horses. This is near the
vanishing point. Germany’s sources
of supply and numbers of horses im
ported from each country in 1902 were
as follows: Belgium, 20,963; Denmark,
21,691; Russia, 35,131; Austria-Hun
gary, 14,485; Netherlands, 10,785;
France, 6,213; Great “Britain, 1,020;
Switzerland, 840; United States, 137;
all other countries, 402; total, 111,667.
American consuls in Germany are told
that the reason American horses are
not being extensively Imported Into
Germany is not the price, but the
quality or lack of quality in the draft
horses that can be picked up on Amer
ican farms.
A Gambler Worth $5,000.90?.
For the next two years at least
there will be little done in the gam
bling business in New York that is.
there will be few, if any, large houses
maintained. Since t=ie Jerome wit
ness bill was passed and signed in
New York state it has become a very
dangerous bvisiness. Richard Can
field is not to run a house there while
Jerome is in power. He has sold a
piece of property for $125,000 that he
would not have taken $200,000 for six
months ago. It is understood that
Canfield is to part with all his real
estate in New York and expatriate
himself. Canfield is said to be worth
$5,000,000, and the least figure placed
on his fortune is $3,000,000. Since
he has never been engaged in any in
dustrial or commercial business the
inference is that he made all his
money in speculating on the turn ol
cards—he supplying the cards.
He Spoke Too Soon.
In a magazine article on Max Yen
Pettenkofer, who has been callc i the
founder of scientific hygiene and.
next to Humboldt the most popu.ar
of all German naturalists, Max Gru
ber tells a story of the profe.s. >r i
absent-mindedness. He lost a f r
tune in umbrellas, seldom brin- ,■
back that which he had taken away
Once, however, he made a trip a~
far as England and was very proud
of having actually succeeded in bring
ing back bus umbrella to German}
At Augsburg he stopped on busim
but sent a telegram reading: “At *i
o’clock I return with my umbrella
He did return at 6 o’clock, but as . o
entered his house in Munich he saw
to his dismay that he had no timbre a.
He had left it at the telegraph sta
--on.
Mr. Albee’s Opinion.
Alpine, Cal.. June 6.— Mr. T. M. Al*
bee, our postmaster, has expressed an
opinion based on his own experience
which will no doubt be of interest to
many. Mr. Albee is a man of few
words, but his well known truthful
ness and uprightness of character
adds much weight to any statement
he makes. He says:
"The first box of Dodd's Kidney Pills
that I used convinced me of their
good qualities and I used altogether
four boxes with the very best results.
I can heartily recommend this rem
edy.”
This voluntary expression of opin
ion will doubtless find an echo in
many homes in California for Dodd’*
Kidney Pills have been making some
miraculous cures in this state.
From the evidence already publish
ed it seems safe to conclude that tt *
medicine will be found to be a per
fect cure for rheumatism, urinary
trouble, backache and any and every
form or symptom of kidney compiaint.
—
Won “By a Close Shave.”
Archbishop Ryan's telegram of
congratulation to Arckbiahop Glen
non of St. Louis was read at an ec
clesiastical dinner recently. When
the see at St. Louis became vacant
the names of two auxiliary bishops
were sent to Rome on the slate of
the clergy and prelates. The two
were Lishop Dunn of Dallas, Tex.,
and Bishop Nessmer of Green Bay,
ooth o* w’hom, contrary to the general
custom of Roman Catholic prelates,
wear beards. Neither of the candi
dates pleased Rome and Archbishop
Ryan was consulted. The Philadel
phian’s choice was Auxiliary Bishop
Glennon of St. Louis, who has been
called the polio of the American hi
erarchy. Archbishop Ryans telegram
of congratulation read: “You won it by
a close shave.”
A Future Mikado.
Perhaps the'most interesting small
boy in the world is the little Prince
Micchi, grandson of the Japanese mi
kado and destined himself to be a mi
kado some day. He will be 4 years
old next month. The heir presump
tive to the great eastern throne has
the distinction of being the first baby
of the royal house of Jimmu Tenno
wuo has been allowed to grow his
hair like an English baby. Both his
father and the mikado, when babies,
had their heads shaved daily by their
nurses.
Russian Papers’ Scare Heads.
The present war has produced the
first heading containing more than a
tingle line ever published in a Rus
sian newspaper. Previously the most
important news had never been so
honored and the death of Queen Vic
toria was announced without any
heading.
One secret act of generosity, one
sacrifice of inclination to duty, is
worth all the mere good thoughts,
warm feelings, passionate prayers, in
which some people indulge' them
selves.
Always say your prayers before g>
ing to bed—if it’s a folding bed.
Any man who gets married a sec
ond time didn’t deserve to lose hla
first wife.
Willing “They say Smith treated
that man like a brother.’’ Billing_
“la what way?” Willling—“Kicked
him out of the house.”
Nature has wisely arranged matters
so that a man can neither kick him
self nor pat his own back.
The man who uses religion as a
cloak will sooner or later be warm
enough without it.
A man who has no time for charity
In this world, will have time to burn
Vn the next.
It is better to start right at the be
ginning than to go kack and do it all
over again.
Jimmy—“What would you say if I
kissed you? Mabel—“You are only
pasting time by asking.”
Don’t judge a man by his tomb
stone. for he did not write the e\>I
taph on it.
Your dearest friend is naturally
the one that costs you the mos3
money .
Why is it that the lightweight al
ways accuses the scales of being
wrong? 6
