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    !Because
He wasn't handsome, hadn't fame.
He bore no proud ancestral name;
i out figures, at the very most
Could sum the wealth he had to boast.
To culture he made slight pretense.
His wit was rather forced and dense;
His chance for winning her seemed slim.
And >et—she fell in love with him!
Pv no means, row. was he a fool;
•He had a courage calm and cool.
And perseverance of the kind
That shuts its « yes and goes It blind;
But, peace or strife, or sun. or snow,
Whate’er occurs, contrives to go!
Not traits that win a heart, you'll say,
*And yet—she married him one day.
.“He has his faults, as who has not?” x
She said, when friends her reason sought
For wedding him. “He’s plain, ’tis true.
I see ell that as well ps you!
• For while on wedding him I’m bent,
My love's not Mind to such extent
I cannot see his faults and flaws.
And yet. I love him—;‘ust because!”
—New York ITess.
(Copyright 1905 by 1
Marian Loveless was referred to
among her acquaintances as the liv
ing statue, and with good reason.
Beautiful, accomplished, with the fig
ure of a Venus, of perfect health and
strength, she had arrived well into
her twenties without feeling a tremor
of the heart. And it was not that
efforts in plenty had not been made
to arouse the warmth in her gentle
breast, for she had many lovers who
had used all their art to Inspire the
divine passion in her heart.
“I must have been born deficient,"
she said frankly to one of these in
rejecting his suit. “For I certainly do
not have any warmer feeling for you,
nor any other man than hearty friend
ship. I admire you, I respect you, I
have not a criticism to make of you.
But I have no such emotion as you
express, nor such as my girl friends
tell me of, and of which I read in
books. I am lacking somehow. I am
sorry, both on your account and on
my own. I can not conceive of such
a tiling as giving up my independence
and individuality and merging my
life into that of a man. I shall al
ways respect and like you and will
be a sister to you.”
“Sister!” exclaimed the man, and
he went to the Klondike and never
saw her again.
And that was the story she was
compelled to tell her most ardent
wooers.
“I like the men first rate,” she said.
“Indeed their robust way of looking at
things and doing things is quite a re
lief at times from the petty little
ways the women have, and they are
very handy in dancing and rowing
and driving and running automobiles,
and that sort of thing, but to go away
and live with and become a part of—
I simply cannot understand it.
This was the state of affairs when
Gerald Mann appeared on the scene
and was attracted by the beauty and
the personality of Miss Loveless.
When he went slap up against sex
lessness, so to* speak, he was dumb
founded, then interested. He was a
thorough man of the world, widely
traveled and of much experience with
women. That a woman in perfect
health, with red lips and swelling
curves and flashing eyes should be
perfectly passionless was incredible,
preposterous. Hence he was stimu
lated to try his powers and in the
trying he lost his heart.
For the first time in his life Gerald
Mann Was In love. It was the real
thing, too, and a hard attack of it.
^Ie struggled violently and ridiculed
himself mercilessly over his pre
slumber cigar, but to no avail. He
had had many affairs and indulged in
some engagements, but this was dif
ferent. This woman he must have
to complete his .life. There was no
question about that.
In the meantime her adamant atti
tude was not even scratched. Mann
rather interested her with his well
stored mind and his knowledge of
men and places and things, but that
was all. He never quickened her
pulses—unless when he put an added
dash of recklessness into the speed of
his automobile.
Finally, after struggling in the
meshes until he was sore and tired,
he surrendered and poured out his
declaration of love to the object of
his desires.
“Oh. dear, how dreadful!” she said,
calmly. “Just when things were run
ning along so nicely, too, and we were
having such jolly times. And now I
must lose you.”
“Never!" he exclaimed, passion
ately.
“Yes, I will.” she replied in a dis
couraged tone of voice. “I don’t
Ridiculed himself mercilessly over his
pre-slumber cigar.
know where you will go or what you
will do, but you will go away from
me. And you knew It all the time,
too—you knew I had no capacity for
love. Why did you do It?”
He breathed some fervent words
about it being “written by fate.” and
ordained from the beginning of time,
and that sort of thing, and finally re
ceived the inevitable promise of sis
terhood. ,
Bnt Mann was older and more ex
perienced than the others had been
,and the attack having been deferred
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so long may have been more severe.
Any way. he refused to go away, oi
to accept her as a sister. He simply
staid on and announced that he wc*ild
wait for the arousing of her woman's
! nature which, he averred must come
some day.
Things were not wholly. comfort
able or normal, however, and so far
as Mann was concerned, certainly not
joyous, when he met at his club one
day an old friend, an Italian gentle
man with whom he had become very
well acquainted one summer when he
was abroad. The Italian was a must
She was all a-tremble.
cian—a violinist of exceptional abil
ity and high reputation. He had
come to tour America with his won
derful violin. After greetings had
been duly exchanged, the two sat
down and had a long chat, renewing
the old acquaintance most happily.
Mann could not keep back the great
change in his life and the disappoint
ment with which he had met. Signor
Valleti was all sympathy, but reso
lutely skeptical regarding the lady's
incapacity to experience the gentle
joys of love.
“Et eez impossible.'’ he said. "Et
eez reedeeculous. All ladeez have ze
divine passion. Et eez a part of zeir
divine nature.”
“Well, I’d like to find the way to
arouse it,” growled Mann moodily.
“Have you tried ee zeemaglnation?”
asked Valleti. “Zat is zee key to un
lock ze most guarded heart.”
“I've tried everything,” replied
Mann. "I’ve bombarded her with the
most potent love stories, I’ve read her
the most passionate poems, have
taken her to see the strongest plays,
piloted her through the art galleries
where hang the most stirring pic
tures—but to no avail.”
“But zee music—zee vera language
-of lof—have you tried zat?" asked the
Italian.
“Oh, yes, after a fashion,” replied
Mann, “but the girl is absolutely de
void of musical qualities. She does
not sing a note, and does not even
thump on the piano. She is utterly in
different to music.”
“No, no, signor,” exclaimed the
Italian. “Zat is eempossible. No vom
an ees indifferent to music.”
There was a long pause during
which Signor Valleti smoked fierce
ly. Then he said:,
“My friend I—I vill arouse zee vom
an nature in zee lady.”
He went on to outline his plan and
the hopeles lover grasped it as a
drowning man at a straw.
So it happened that Miss Marian
was invited by Mr. Mann to hear “a
violinist—said to be a remarkable
player.” A manager friend of Mann’s
had asked him to hear this violinist,
it was explained, and give his opinion
before a contract was signed. Mann
implored Miss Loveless to go with
him and aid him with her counsel.
Protesting her inefficiency, she yield
ed to his pleading. It was explained
that the new violinist had met with
an accident which had temporarily
disfigured him and he declined to
play before any one unless guarded by
a screen. So it bad been arranged to
hear him in the conservatory of the
manager's home, where the player
could remain out of sight.
The conservatory was most artfully
arranged. The lights were soft and
low and the rays of the moon shining
through the glass transformed the
place into a veritable garden.
They seated themselves on a rustic
seat surrounded by flowers and plants,
the air sweet with the scent of roses
Presently out of the very stillness
and so softly as to be almost a part
of it, came the subdued grains of
music. They were sweet and restful
and seductive. Gradually the music
rose in volume and power and took
a lighter vein. It spoke of green
meadows and sparkling water and
leafy shade. Then with a sudden
charge It leaped into the realm of
passion and told the whole story of
love. The unseen artist filled the air
with love, longing, despair, pleading,
delirious joy. Then with a flash the
strains turned to a wooing song lrre
slstably ardent, tender and compel
ling.
Mann arousing himself from the
trance the music, had thrown him <»
' glanced at Marian. Her eyes were'
cowtcas!, tears were on her flushed
eheets, she was all a-tremble. He
slipped his arm about her. She did
not resist.
‘•Marian, sweetheart,” he whispered.
“Yes, Gerald—dear,” she replied,
letting her head sink on his shoulder.
Gerald afterward told her that the
unseen artist had secured the engage
ment.
Which was true.
HIGH LEVELS REACHED BY MAN.
Heights That Necessitate Artificial
Inhalation of Oxygen.
The highest point at which moun
tain climbers have stayed for any
length of time is 20,992 feet on the
Himalayas, where an exploring party
painfully stayed for six weeks in 1902.
Higher still at 21,910 feet is the ex
treme point of Mrs. Bullock Work
man's ascents, the greatest height
reached by a woman. Mr. Bullock
Workman kept on to a point 23,393
feet high, which is the greatest height
reached by any mountain climber.
The altitudes reached by Mr. and
Mrs. Bullock Workman were above
those at which M. Berson, the aero
naut, began his artificial Inhalation of
oxygen. At 26,240 feet the aeronauts
in general begin the continued inspira
tion of oxygen, and neglect of this
precaution was responsible for the
death of Croce, Spinelii, and Sirel at
28,208 feet, their companion, Tissan
dier, just escaping by a miracle.
Mount Everest, the highest point of
the globe, is only some 700 feet higher,
28.995 feet, and 3.000 feet above that
begin the cirrus clouds that are
composed of spicules of ice. At 35,424
feet is the highest point ever reached
by man. This is the height attained
by M. Beron in his balloon on July 31,
1901.
WAS TOO MUCH TO LOOK FOR.
_
Couldn't Expect Man to Let Religion
Interfere With Business.
Representative Underwood of Ala
bama has a story of a man in a town
of that State who derived a consider
able income from the rental of shan
ties to negroes. This man bore the
reputation of being hard in his busi
ness dealings.
One day two negroes were talking
of him, when one of them, with refer
ence to the reported “conversion” of
the subject of their conversation, ask
ed:
“Do his gittin’ religion make any
diff’rence in him?”
“Ya-as, indeed!” exclaimed the
other colored man, “it do make a great
difT’rence. When he kick one o’ dem
colo'd men out now, he tell him how
much it grieve him to disturb him—
an’ he use to be rough in his manner.”
“But he kick dem out jest de same,”
observed the first speaker.
“Yes, he kick dem out jest de same,”
agreed the second. “But den," he add
ed musingly, “yo’ kin skeersely expec’
a man to carry his religion so fur as
to interfere with his business.” The
Sunday Magazine.
Frost Makes Fat Turkeys.
“Cold weather makes fat turkeys,”
said the poulterer, “because in a warm
fall the ground keeps soft, the vege
tation lingers on and the fields are full
of worms and bugs. What's the re
sult? The turkeys from sunrise till
dark tramp the tempting fields on long
forages, eating the worms and bugs,
which thin them, and walking all their
soft and fine flesh into tough, stringy
muscle.
“A cold fall, with early frosts and
snows, freezes the ground and kills
the bugs. Then the turkeys are not
tempted to wander. They loaf In the
farm yard, gorge an abundance of
grain and put on flesh like a middle
aged woman at a seashore hotel. But
in a warm fall, hunting the irresistible
bug. the turkeys do their fifteen or
twenty miles regularly every day and
become athletes. For athletic turkeys
there is no public demand.”
Healthful Sleep.
The influence which surrounds chil
dren at night should be most care
fully looked after, that they be nealth
ful. The portion of time given by
children to sleep is very important,
for the body continues to grow during
this time Impure air exerts a great
er influence upon children than upon
grown people, and a lack of perfect
ventilation in the sleeping room will
often account for a cross, peevish
child in the morning. As far as pos
sible children should be allowed to
have separate beds, and on no ac
count should a child ever occupy the
same bed with an aged person. If
this is allowed the child will be the
loser in the way of vitality—Seattle
Times.
Advance.
“In the old days,” observes the man
with the dyed whiskers, "the physi
cians believed that blood letting was
a sovereign remedy for whatever ailed
a patient. They would bleed him for
gunshot wounds or anything else.”
“So I have read,” comments the
man with the hay fever.
“But, of course, as human knowl
edge broadened, the medical profes
sion came to the knowledge that-”
“That if a man needed to be bled
they didn’t have to stick a scalpel into
his arm,” finished the man who had
gone to fifteen specialists to be cared
of rheumatism.
Who Can Answer?
Why does the dog turn lound and round
Before his sleeping posture's found?
W hy are the young colt’s legs so long?
How does the cricket pipe his song?
Viewing the springtime. cherry tree.
Blossoms or leaves do first we see?
From which side does pne- milk a cow?
Why do the sun-dogs storm avow?
Why does the tabbit. In a chase.
Prefer uphill to lead the race?
W’hat are the cat-tribe's whiskers for?
Why does the rat have tall galore?
When cows and horses rise, my dears.
Which Is the end that first uprears?
Why does the whale proceed to spout?
How do the lobster's eyes “stick out”?
On which side of the tree-trunk grows
The moss—and why, do you suppose?
Why Is the ocean salt, and why
Does It not o'erfiow nor yet run dry?
Its volume changes not at all!
But wax the rivers great or small.
—Edwin L. Sabin.
A Home Remedy for Asthma.
One tablespoonful of honey.
One tablespoonful of vinegar.
Twenty-four drops of aromatic am
monia.
Give a teaspoonful every five min
utes until relieved. An ointment made
from honey and rye meal is an e:weh
lent remedy for carbuncles or holla.
Creamy Mint Tablets.
These are not difficult to make—
and as delicious as any bought for
sixty cents a pound. One pound of
pulverized or confectioners’ sugar,
three tablespoonfuls of water, and
five drops of oil of peppermint. Es
sence of peppermint will not do. Mix
half the sugar with the water in a
porcelain lined saucepan, put on the
Are and stir until it boils up. Take
at once from the fire, and stir into it
the rest of the sugar and the pepper
mint. When thoroughly mixed return
to the Are and let It boil up once
again. Remove from the Are and
pour into little tin patty pans or drop
on greased paper in wafers the size
of a silver dollar. The pans should
not be greased. If the candy is allow
ed to more than Just boil it will show
clear and be quite spoiled. When
properly made it is a creamy white
confection, and is very wholesome.
The New Turbans.
Some of the most stunning turbans
show for their only trimming breasts
and velvet ribbon. This season brings
us the most perfect range of colors
of all sorts, and the breasts are equal
ly attractive in red, lavender, pale
blue, pink, all sorts of delicate greens,
peacock, and many grades of red and
the all-white breast. It is said that
the great favor which was shown to
the white wing last season has been
responsible for the conAdence placed
in breasts for this season.
The white-winged hat was so un
usually becoming that manufacturers
are banking on a similar demand this
fall. One of the most attractive new
effects in wings is made up of the awl
feathers. Two large, soft wings
spring from a well-tufted owl head,
and give the effect of a breast more
than of the wing.
Luscious Baked Ham.
An exceptionally Ane English recipe
for baked ham is this: Soak the ham,
and after wiping it dry cover it entire
ly wifh a thick paste made of Aour and
water. Wrap in greased paper, tying
it in several places to prevent it from
slipping. Put the ham in a baking tin
and cook in a well-heated oven, bast
ing it frequently over the paper with
warm dripping. If the paper should
get at all burned place another thick
sheet over It. When the ham is done
remove the paper and paste, strip off
the rind, and as soon as the ham Is
suAiciently cool brush it with several
coats of glaze, which is granulated
sugar, boiling water and white of egg,
and put it away to get thoroughly cold.
A fairly small ham should be selected
for cooking in the oven, and one weigh
ing Ave pounds four hours should be
allowed.
White Embroidery.
White all-over embroidery is an in
expensive and pretty choice for a lit
tle jacket to be worn with everything,
and in these days of lingerie trim
mings is as adaptable to winter ma
terials as to summer. One of the
prettiest little empire rigs had a jack
et of simple white embroidery edged
with an embroidery Aounce put on
full, and the kind that washes well.
It was worn over a full but absolutely
plain empire dress and the sash,
which w»s tied high under the arms,
with boW in the back, was of Dresden
ribbon with broad black satin edge.
Modish White Hat.
Very pretty hats are shown in soft
white felt, trimmed in folds of gold
gauze and in wings of mottled white
and dead-leaf brown. This color com
bination appears in one hat, whose
brim turns sharply on right side. The
idea is French and the light neutral
colorings of wings and felt make the
models more appropriate at this early
date than the darker and warmer
looking felts and velvets.
Girl’s Apron.
One of the prettiest little models we
have shown for a long time is the
box-plaited mode having the straps
over the shoulder. While It is very
plain, yet it has a style to it not found
in the everyday aprons. The front has
three box plaits and the back only
two. The use of the belt is optional,
as the garment is Atted by underarm
seams is is quite pretty without the
■belt. The apron Ats the Agure close
ly, and with the exception of the yoke
completely covers the dress. This
will make a charming little apron for
school wear, and then, too, it isn’t like
every other girl’s. Cross-barred mus
lin, lawn, gingham, dimity, percale or
calico are excellent apron materials.
Winter Millinery.
Winter millinery consists principally
5f contrasting tints, and the darker
felts have touches ol very light or
bright coloring. A. shaded brown
loque has brown quills and a huge
cluster of dahlia blossoms in vivid
lellotrope tints, and another of dark
er brown, mixed with chenille, is re
lieved With, bold twists of banana yel
low panne and brown speckled quills.
Emerald green is too becoming to
be lightly laid aside, and a charming
toque of black is wreathed with twists
of green velvet on a raised bandeau,
and there are green wings tilting
backward, and apparently holding a
sweeping green paradise osprey. The
upturned black brim takes off the
really smart and stylish.
White Theater Waist.
Blouse of white silk, shirred at the
top to a yoke of. lace or guipure, form
ing large scallops and ornamented with
knots of ribbon. Below the blouse is
arranged in blox plaits, under which
passes a drapery of white mousseline
de sole, encircling it and forming large
knots between the plaits.
The elbow sleeves are made and
trimmed to correspond, and finished
with ruffles of the silk headed by dra
peries of the mousseiine de soie.
Ever Popular Tan.
Tan and ecru have held the very
center of the stage so long that one
hesitates to see them driven out and
the news that tan is the fashionable
Paris color is welcomed by many.
The French are so fond of the biscuit
and the yellow shades. They like the
burnt bread tones and the shade of
tan which they call mode color. They
admire all'the brownish, soft castor
shades and they like nothing better
than the cafe-au-Iait tones which are
fashionable in Paris and will always
be. The French love all the coffee
tints. They find them adaptable and
becoming and they find that they
combine well with other colors, which
is always a very great point in dress.
It makes it just so much the more
economical. Get something that will
combine well, so any student of dress
economy will tell you. And what goes
better with everything than tan?
A Novel Ribbon Case.
Young women employed in type
writing have invented a novel and
most convenient form of ribbon box.
The reels on which the typewriting
ribbons are wound, when empty, are
used in the same way for dress rib
bons, a purpose to which they are
equally adapted. A dozen or more of
these reels fit snugly into a bureau
box, and each is dedicated to a certain
width and color of ribbon.
The reels can be painted white, pale
blue or pink, to match the lining of
the case, and thus rendered pretty as
well as useful.
A ribbon wound carefully on a reel
gives twice the wear of the one that
is thrown carelessly into the bureau
drawer when removed from hair or
collar.
Trailing Sleeves.
To make one of the trailing sleeves
select a bishop sleeve pattern of the
largest variety, and one which allows
for lengthwise tucks. Hun the tucks
down within a few inenes ot the bot
tom Sew the seam down to a little
above the elbow and then cut away
about two inches of the material the
rest of the way down on each side of
the seam. An inch wide beading Is
put around to finish the sleeve where
it is cut off, and ribbon is run through
this which ties around the arm and
draws the long hanging part up into
a full dangler, which hangs at the
back of the arm. If the sleeve is
cut to allow it cross-wise tucks may
also be run across the bottom edge.
New Coat Ornamentation.
In some of the latest of the three
piece costumes there is a new touch
to the little short coats which is both
pretty and practical. Where a lin
gerie frill is introduced around the
edge of the coat it is attached to a
white lawn lining which is made up
separately and tacked to the inside
of the coat. The frill, which con
sists of a straight, lawn ruffle only
two inches wide including a little
Valenciennes edge, only projects
slightly, and the whole thing comes out
to be washed and ironed. Made of
a fairly good quality of lawn, it does
much better than silk in standing the
wear and tear which is allotted the
lining of even the simplest little coat.
Old-Fashioned Gloria Returns.
A new offering in a silk and woo!
mixture, despite its up-to-date name,
is nothing more nor less than the old
fashioned gloria, which, by the way,
is an economical investment. It
shows striking plaids, softened by
hair lines, and is very wide, cutting
to excellent advantage when the cir
cular skirt is desired. Very few plain
or one-tone cloths are offered for
traveling raiment. Mixed goods are
infinitely more popular and nearly
everything is water-proofed, from
serges to mohair and silk.
Shawls in Trousseaux.
Many trousseaux are including
shawls among their treasures, for it is
the thing now to collect shawls and
the wedding present is often in that
form. The Spanish and Chinese ones
of embroidered silk crepe with deep
fringes are the handsomest, and adapt
themselves best to graceful arrange
ments when worn with tea gowns or
as evening wrappings. But the span
gled and tinseled embroidered Syrian
scarfs are also very charming, com
posing a very smart shoulder dra
pery. and seeming more unusual.
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Tift WORLD?
PROORE JJP
Irrigation Mean* Million*.
Redemption by irrigation, is the
cry of 100,000,000 acres of arid Ameri
ca, whose lowest worth is estimated
at $10,000,000, and. saved will offer
living room to over 20,000,000 addi
tional inhabitants. In the government
project at Yuma Cal., it will cost
$3,000,000 to bring this project to
the self-supporting point. To fully de
velop the system until it shall reclaim
the 1,200,000 acres proposed will cost
$22,000,000. There will be an exten
sive canal system over the entire re
claimed country, nearly 2.000 square
miles. These canals will furnish
waterways for traffic and pleasure
boats. The waterfall will furnish all
necessary water power, for mills, fac
tories and electric lighting, all a3 a
by-product without diminishing the
value of the water to the crops. At
the lowest possible price this land will
bring $120,000,000, the electrical en
ergy $100,000,000, the navigation $10.
000,000, making a total of $32,000,000
of value for an investment of $22,
000,000.
How to Erase Floor Spots.
To avoid the appearance of grease
spots upon hardwood floors subject
the wood to a process of polishing by
applying a mixture composed of equal
parts of linseed oil and turpentine,
combined with Japan drier. The drier
must not be omitted or the oil will
continue with the wax. After allow
ing this mixture to dry over night all
the pores of the wood may be filled
with one of the prepared fillers. The
polish is more even if this is done.
When the floor is thoroughly dry it is
ready for the paste of was and turpen
tine, which may be applied with a
flannel cloth, rubbing with the grain j
of the wood. After this is thoroughly 1
dry apply another coating of the paste, .
rubbing in as before. After which pol- i
Ish with weighted brushes and woolen 1
rags.
To Help the Nurse.
After years of patient endurance, j
the hospital nurse is to be relieved of I
that irksome, arm-rac«ing task of
shaaing down the mercurial columns
in clinical thermometers, a mechan
ical device having just been perfected
for this purpose. Heretofore the
nurse has had to hold the thermome
ter in her hand and sling her whole
To Manipulate the Thermometer.
arm, repeating the operation many
times to effect the fall of the column
below the normal point. The instru
ment that has been devised for the
purpose Is extremely simple, but it
permits the result to be obtained wiui
much less physical exertion and with
more certainty and greater rapidity.
A handle carries a tubular shank bent
at right angles and provided with
discs adapted to receive and hold the
thermometers, it being possible to
manipulate several at one time. After
the thermometer is securely fastened
in place a whirling movement is giv
en the handle, which quickly accom
plishes the much-desired result.
One Fifty-millionth of an Inch.
In recent science nothing Is move
remarkable than the refinement
which has been made in instrumental
measurements. Dr. P. E. Shaw re
cently explained to the Royal Society
an electrical micrometer which, it is
stated, can be made to measure the
two-millionth of a millimeter, or the
fifty-millionth of an inch. This meas
urement, Ihe smallest ever yet made,
was in connection with the move
ments of a telephone diaphragm. The
problem was to find what movement
of the diaphragm produces a sound
which is only just audible. The meas
urement was effected by means of an
electric current connected with the
micrometer and telephone.—London
Standard.
A New High Explosive.
To supplant dynamite, explosive
gelatine, and other high explosives
there has recently been invented and
tested in Bavaria a new substance
known aa ''vigorite ” The results of
experiments seem to indicate that
“vigorite” is ten times as active as
any explosive now known, while it
does not explode either by friction or
on Impact. Also, it is not affected by
damp or frost, and when ignited in
the open air does out explode, but
merely burns. It is formed from a
r. w nitrous compound, which is com
bined with saltpeter, and the effects
of the explosion produced are consid
ered most extraordinary—Harper's
Weekly.
12,000 Miles of Cars for Grain.
Over 12,000 miles of cars Uncle
Sam needs for this year's grain traffic,
and he will still have remaining two
thirds of his fat crops in corn, oats,
wheat, barley, and rye. which never
will see a freight car. The remaining
two-thirds will be hauled to local mills
In wagons or be consumed by live
stock on the farms. The corn crop
alone would call for a train 21.000
miles In length. The wheat and oats
crops of Minnesota and the Dakotas i
ire estimated at #326,000,000 bushels, i
while the yield of corn is placed at <
’ Re6.000.0no bushels. . ,
FOR STABLE UNDER THE BARN.
Plan Shown Provides All Space Ordi
narily Required.
Please publish a plan of a stable
under a barn 56x66 feet In this l
should like a moderately large pen for
loose cattle. Would a well of c'meni
or stone be the stronger? How many
barrels of cement and how much grav
el would the walls require?
To build a concrete wall 8 feet hieh
and one foot thick, with a footing
course under this barn, there would
be required of Portland cement 71 bar
rels, gravel 70 yards, stone fillers 20
yards, and labor six men for twelve
days. For floors for same, there
would be required Portland cement 43
barrels, gravel 35 yards, small stones
8 yards, and labor six men for five
days.
A concrete wall one foot thick is as
strong and will turn as much frost as
a stone wall one foot six inches thick.
In building basement walls for a barn
the selection of material generally de
pends on which kind is the handiest.
For instance, if stone is near where
riwvi ridn OI Darn 30X00 Ft.
A—Pen KxJO ft. for loose cattle; B —
Box stall lUxJO ft.; C—Cow stable wi'h
stalls 3 ft. 6 In. x 6 ft. long: E—Feed
room; F—Feed alleys; G—Gutters behind
cattle; H—Horse stable, lrx.W ft. M
Mangers; S—Stairway leaning to barn
above.
the building is to be built, and gravel
is hard to get, would advise building
a stone wall. But concrete makes by
far the dryer wall and is therefore the
better for farm buildings. A base
ment laid out according to the accom
panying plan would accommodate the
stock of an ordinary 100-acre farm.
Hydraulic Ram.
A spring comes from a rocky bank
and runs down a 3lope toward the
river. It is sufficient to fill a H6-ineh
pipe and does not freeze in winter.
House is situated on higher ground,
about fifty feet above spring. Wha!
is the beset means of getting water
frotn spring to house?
A ram would work quite satisfac
torily in the circumstances here des
cribed. To raise water a total height
of fifty feet, a fall of five or six feet
is sufficient, and it would not be
worth while to secure a fall of more
than ten feet in any event. The sup
ply pipe from the spring to the ma
chine should be laid on the slope
at about one in six so that for a six
foot fall the supply pipe should be
thirty six feet in length. From the
machine to the river good drainage
should be provided to carry off the
waste water. If, as the correspondent
states, the flow of water will fill a
one and a half inch pipe, and if he
wishes a large quantity of water
pumped, it would be advisable to se
cure a No. 4 or No. 5 machine. No. 4
uses eight gallons of water per min
ute, and requires a 1%-inch drive pipe
and a % or %-inch discharge pipe. A
No. 5 uses fourteen gallons of watei
per minute and requires a 2-inch
drive pipe a-/l a 1-inch discharge
pipe.
Power from a Running Stream.
I have a small creek that will keep
a flume 12 inches wide and 6 inches
running half full all the time. I can
get 2 feet of fall. How much power
could I get with a waterwheel and
what sort of wheel should I build?
With a two-foot fall a breast wheel
would probably be the most satisfac
tory. At the same time only a small
quantity of power, probably about
one-fltth of a horse power, can be
gained from the amount of water
specified here, assuming the velocity
of the water in the flume to be two
feet per second. As it is not likely
the correspondent would go to the
trouble to construct a wheel for this
6mall amount of power, it is not nec
essary to give a description of the
wheel that would serve the purpose.
Cement-Anchored Corner Post.
To fix a corner post so thai it wiU
not yield, dig a hole as wide as a
spade three feet deep at corner, slop
ing in two directions in line pf fence.
Second select a good-sized post, cut
from green timber, and set it big end
down in center of post hole. Third,
buy a sack of Portland cement. Make
a mortar, with three parts sand to one
of cement, and fill the hole with
stones laid in this mortar, keeping all
holes well filled with the mortar and
well rammed in. Let the post stand
tor four or five days before stretching
wire. One sack of cement will set
me post if rightly done.”
Raising water for Irrigation.
I have a garden on an island of
ibout two acres. I should like to
earn of an Inexpensive method of
-alsing water unto the land for irri
tation during a dry period. The banks
ire from ten to twelve feet high.
Itould a modern spraying outfit, with
■.ose attached be utilized for the pur
pose?
A large spray pump might be used
is a force pump to raise the water
jrovided one has plenty of power to
un it. Here would be a very sult
ible place for a small windmill by
neens of which a reservoir or tank
rculd be kept well filled with water
■ractlcally without labor.