HARO PROBLEMS IN RECLAMATION PROJECT
omrr* or* tub TArs\ O o>rr noAC>
Tt- -a, k,.'! r-ijBi'nii pro)**.: in Arizona, the greatest ever undertaken by the government, involved the
•* : *m* j? ,• jj.. udoi> magnitude. Some of these roncerned the building of the Roosevelt dam,
■ hirfc mas oywud recently hr the former president, Ifcr whom D was named. In order to render the dam dlte
arremWc and «• coniey to :t the va«t amount of T.t tertal needed the engineers were compelled to build a
• mtarksble wagon rojd. ’be const met ion of which involved to miles of rock blasting.
KANSAS FARM LANDS
acres, as against 2S.041.000 In 1900, an
increase of 4,817,000 acres, or 19 per
cent.
The Improved acreage formed 69
per cent, of the total acreage In 1910
and 60 per cent. In 1900.
The average acres per farm report
ed in 1910 were 244. as against 241
in 1900, an Increase of three acres, or
I 1 per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated
as $40 07, as against $15.45 in 1900,
a rise of $24,62, or 169 per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land alone in 1910, was reported as 1
$35.47, while In 1900 it was $12.77, the
amount of gain being $22.70, or 178
per cent
Of the whole number, 177,299, of
farms reported in 1910, there were
175,618. or 99 per cent., opera
ted by white farmers and 1.681, or j
1 per cent., by negro and other non
white farmers, as compared with a
to'al of 173.098 in 1900, of which 171,- !
232. or 99 per cent., were conducted
by white farmers, and 1,866. or 1 per
cent., by negro and other non white.
The increase in the number of farms
of white farmers during the decade
amcumed to 4,386, and the decrease
in the number of farms of negro and
other nonwhite farmers to 185.
Values Greatly Increased in Last
Ten Years.
tut* Mt«ti Very Favorable Showing
•• Agricultural Statistics Just
libiw—Smaller Farms Hava
Diminished
Topeka. Kaa—Tbe I'nltH States
m—« bureau kaa just issued the sari
si tarsi statistics for tie state of Kan
sas. as -ottected at tbe thirteenth
dm usual 'casus of list April. Tbe
Sat.tr* are pm out a year after the
Sate uben tbey were rolierted. but
tbe uc« of tbe -eosua bureau has
been devoted principally to population
MatuHlra star* tbe uork at taking tbe
cwuas s as completed
Kansas makes a very favorable
showing tn the agricultural statistics
as jost issued- Tbe total value of
(arm lands increased threefold In tbe
deresxnium from 19tw to 191*. or over
Outn« to (be Increase
it population and tbe advances tn ir
Rgation. tbe farmed area Increased
• ur.k« tbe period by four per cent.
There are (,M mors farmers in the
state than ten years age. more farms,
more tenant farmers and more farm
senses Tbe number at farm mort
rage* is about tbe same, which does
net as«ua that tbe farmers are no
neber than tea years ago. but. on tbe
oosttwy. that they have been in
cmtat their holdings aad placing
improvements an their farms. Per
haps a few farm mortgages tray he
tee to autos, but tbe number is prob
tbly not large
Lmnag the ten years tbs number of
unslier farm*, with the exception of
tra-k patches, has diminished Over
sne-tbird at tbe farms of tbe state
are ITS inw and over Tbe number
* negro sad Indian farmers is de
rrenaang The fanners at the state
spent leas for farm fertiliser* in 1916
•tan m 1>*». but this is probably
toe to butter roaaervation of tbe fer
*i«*ty of their farms and tbe use of
bars yard fertilisers
i« relative 'o the acrct{«
sf -top* u4 the yields will b« mad*
later by Ceaeua I* rector Imrand as
utahHos of thli data baa not
k«** COKfittld
Tbe yharlHl rate* of Iscmws in
191b aa 'oje pared to 1900
la tba total value of all farm
ltd per ceat.; la the ar- |
mr acre at farm land
tin, ltd par rant ; la tbe total value
at farm land and buildings. 1«9 per
ant . tm tbe average value per acre of
farm land aad buildings. 1S9 per
c**t : la tbe total eapeodttare* for la
bor. M per ce®t la tbe total value of
farm buildings aloes. 79 per east.; In
tbe total value of all farm implements
aad asrfeisrtr. M per cent.; la tbe
lotal Improved farm arrea*e. 19 per
camt . la tbe total farm arrasr. « per
«Mt . la tbe whole number of farms,
t per rent. aad la tbe avenge acres
per farm. 1 per cent.
Tbe oslj decrease during the decade
oerurrwd ta tbe total expend:lures for
ferttUaera. 71 per cewt
Tbe etaiemeat Shows in detail that
tbe at farms reported in 1910
was 177.299. as eoaspxrrd with 171.09*
la 1Mb. aa lamaae of 4.201. or 2 per
The total value ot farm lands and
buildings was given In !910 as $1,733,
433.000. at against $643,653,000 in 1900,
an Increase of $1,090,000,000, or 169
per cent.
The total value of all farm land
alone was reported In 1910 at $1,534,
552.000. as compared with $532,188,000
in 1900, a gain of f j.002,364,000, or 188
per cent.
’i^»e total value of farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 at $199,101.
000. as against $11*..465.000 in 1900,
an increase of $87,636,00. or 79 per
cent.
In 1910 the value ot the farm land
alone constituted 89 per cent, of the
total value of land t.nd buildings, as
ompared with S3 per cent. In 1900.
The reported value of farm imple
ments srd machinery was $48,244,000
In 1910, as agninst $29,491,000 in 1900.
a sain of $18,733,000. or 64 per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
waa 43.241.000 acres, as compared
with 41.663,000 in 1900, an increase of
1.596,000 acres, or 4 per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amocnting to 29.858.000
CUPID BUSY AT BRYN MAWR
Girls Deny New York Clergyman's As
sertion They Are "Puffed Up"—
Forty Per Cent. Marry.
Philadelphia.—The New York clergy
man who recently declared that only
an infinitesimal percentage of the
graduates of the big women s colleges
were able to find husbands is refuted
by the statistics issued by Bryn Mawr
college, it is asserted here.
figures In the annual register of
r.umnae and former students show
aat 1 per cent of the entire grad
ate body, numbering 3.724. have mar
red. while of three classes graduating
-:nr» 18*9 more than 50 per cent are
married, ar.d of seven other classes.*
also since 1889. neariy 40 per cent
have been wedded, a general average
of about 40 per cent.
The New York clergyman declared
that graduates of woman's colleges
were -inromietent in the domestic
arts, puffed up with a little super
ficial knowledge and entirely too ex
pensive a luxury for »be average man
' to undertake to support." This asser
tion the Bryn Mawr girls Indignantly
deny and point to the siatistlcs to
bear them out.
DOG CATCHER USES AIRSHIP
Hopes With Aeroplane to Trap Stray
Canines That Have Become Wary
—Haa Amassed Fortune.
Montclair. N. J.—David Steinfeld.
who la official dog-catcher In ten towns
in Essex. Union and Morris counties
ind who haa amassed a small fortune
from his work, announces that he has
awarded a contract for a small aero
plane and a large net for use In his
work. He adds that he will try it cut
1 'hr stray and unlicensed dogs in Mont
clair first.
Steinfeld has been hunting dogs so
1 long in the three counties that the ani
mals recognise him half a mile away
and rush for shelter long before he
j gets within striking distance.
He has repainted his wagon, put on
false wigs and whiskers and resorted
to other expedients in his efforts to
fool the unlicensed dogs, but without
avail. Now he says he will try the
aeroplane, soar a few feet above the
ground, load his machine with fresh
beef bones, and then, after all the dogs j
assemble beneath his machine, drop
the net over them and alight and sep
arate the licensed from the unlicensed
dogs.
FLYING TESTS FOR BERLIN
A.rships Will Start and End Summer
Competition at German Capital
Limited to Germans.
Berlin —A great flying competition
limited to German aviators, will take
place early in the summer. The flight
will be over a circuitous course be
ginning and ending in Berlin and will |
include Magdeburg, Hamburg, Bremen,
I)u8seldorf and Dessau. The decision
to hold the contest is the result of the
failure of plans for a Joint competl I
tion by. French and German flyers,
caused by the objections of the chau
! vinists.
1 Withdrawal of the French aviator* :
aroused much bitterness in Germany
and the officials of the Aviation Engi
neers’ Verein. who are in charge of
the preparations, are on their mettle
to make the independent competition
a brilliant success. The contest has
unique interest from the fact that
special attention will be paid to the
military phase of aviation. It is pro
i posed to offer a special prize for ma
; chines carrying two passengers, so a*
j to admit of their taking military ob
i nervations.
Zeppelin to Carry Passengers.
Dusseldorf. Rhenish Prussia.—
Count Zeppelin's dirigible balloot
Deutschland II arrived today from
| Frankfort-on-the-Main and will be sta
tioned here permanently to carry out
; the contract with the municipality for
I passenger flights.
TRAMP RESCUES HUNGRY DOGj
THowtaeds ad Wetl-OrtMrt and Evi
dently Weli-Eed Peoewrians Pm
toy Sowitwl EjrM Canine.
Ctokago —Likt “yon Cml«' hr
toad a Itu n4 keen look, and until
a playful wind Mc« him of ku “pin..”
Wat Madina tlnrt pedettrtana Jocj
tarty rwformd to kim aa “Kos-eo with
•im MMlltii «T«* ~
M kra ka lay Is ttoe ww. with hit
amw* Haply over it* curbing
aod tota bony riba adrkaiageoualy die
ptayod Ik met bit muddy white akin.
m ^,4 catkarad round kiln and "Ro
mo wilt (too aoulfnl tr«" waa given
I
too dirty and bedraggled to entitle him
to the respect cf any Godfearing or
otherwise deserving pedestrian. Ro
meo was too weak to make use of bia
skinny leg* Romeo's eyes blinked
as he looked up at the muddy sky and
down at the muddy street, and there '
didn't appear to be much encourage
ment In either, for he closed his eyes.
Xo one ventured to soothe his poor
reelings, and Romeo might have died a
suffering martyr or hero or something.
If a man whose appearance was not
greatly different from the starring
bound, had not come along and picked
Mm up. As It was. Romeo let his
head rest against the tattered coat of
his unshaven benefactor, and In some
manner gave rent to ribratory glad
ness by means of his tall. The man
and the dog went away, while the
crowd stood looking after them.
—
Girls, Take Notice!
A wealthy Yonkers (N. Y.) man has
lust married Lis housekeeper because
she made such capital apple pies.
BIGGEST SHERIFF IN WORLD
He le 6 Feet 7 Inches Tall ant. j
Weighs About 440 Pounds—Mora
Popular as "Big King.”
Atlanta, Ga.—Certainly not th»
least among the city's prominent
guests last week was W. B. King ol
Anderson. S. C.. widely known as the
largest sheriff in the world. Looming
6 feet 7 inches in the air, tipping the
beam at the 440 mark, he was mak
ing big fellow delegates look like Lii
Ilputians. and even the bulk of the
nation’s chief executive sank into in
significance beside the embodiment ol
the majesty of Carolina law.
Up in Anderson the sheriff is famill
arly known as "Big King" to every
body, and he accepts his nlcknamt
with a ready good nature which has
made him the friend of all. That his
constituents do not think his size af
fects his ability as sheriff is shown by
the majorities which he always re
ceives at election time.
Mr. King visits his friends here sev
eral times each year.
RECORD LAMBS’ PEDIGREE
IN PRACTICAL MANNER
Far More Satisfactory and Businesslike to Keep Numbers
In Black and White Than to Rely on.
Glib Tongue of Sheep Breeder.
The writer visited a pure bred flock
not long ago where the lambs were
not marked and where the owner re
lied on his memory alone to tell him
the pedigree of each lamb. This par
ticular flock was small and the own
er's memory above the average; he
did appear to really know his lambs;
but for the most part it is obvious
that a written record is a great deal
more reliable proof of pedigree, says a
writer in the Farm. Stock and Home.
It is a mistake for anyone handling
pure-breeds not to number his lambs
and keep a record of them. It is more
businesslike, to say the least, and cer
tainly more satisfying. One would
feel much more certain of a lamb’s
pedigree if he saw it in black and
white in a book than if it were re
lated by the glib tongue of the owner.
About the surest as well as the
simplest method of marking is that
of notching the ear. Metal ear tags
for the most part have the habit of
pulling out, in which case their effi
ciency can be valued as nil. but the
notch if made with the right sort of
instrument is there to stay. When
made with a round ear punch, the
two sides of the notch sometimes
grow together but when made with a
tug punch, the opening in which is
nearly an Inch long and about a quar
ter or three-eighths of an inch wide,
they are there to stay.
In notching some arbitrary value
must be placed upon a notch placed
In a given position in each ear. Ex
perience has shown that any number
can be most easily made when the
following values are used;
One notch In top or left ear Indi
cates 1 unit. One notch in bottom of
left ear indicates 1 ten; 1 notch In
tip of left ear indicates 1 hundred; 1
notch in fop of right ear Indicates 3
units; 1 notch in bottom of right ear
Indicates 3 tens; 1 notch in tip of
right ear indicates 3 hundreds.
The accompanying illustration may
help to make this clearer.
to JO
urr caj* miCMT cm
Suppose, now. that one wanted to
make the number 17; this is made up
of 1 ten, 2 sets of 3 units, and I
unit. The notching would then be as
follows:
Method of Making No. 17.
Or if one wan'ed to represent 135
which consists of 1 hundred, 3 tens
and 5 units, he would use the follow
ing marking:
Method of Making No. 135.
One ought, of course, always to aim
to use as few notches as possible;
that is, in making five, for instance,
to use one notch to represent three
of the units, and make but two sin
gle unit notches. Two less notches
are thus used, than if the five were
conceived as consisting of dve single
units. While it seems a simple mat
ter to make the numbers up to the
best advantage, yet tt not infrequent
ly proves quite a little confusing and
one ought to take a sheet of paper
and make a drawing of each number
he wants to represent before he
makes any notches. Then if as he
numbers each lamb he writes down
the name or number of the ewe after
the proper illustration, he can com
plete this record simply by adding
the name of the sire, and the date
of the lamb s birth. Such informa
tion copied and lUed neatly away
will prove very valuable to him. It
will be a great deal more indisputable
than would a statement made from
memory.
PROTEIN FEED
IS DEFINED
No Word In Agricultural Etymol
ogy Is So Often Encountered
and Most Frequently Used
in Articles on Food.
(By CHARLES C. WEXTZLER.)
No word in agricultural etymology
is so often encountered as protein.
To a person not versed in farm
chemistry the term is more or less
confusing and to many others it has
no meaning at all. To such people it
is Just an empty, technical phrase.
The word is most frequently en
countered in articles on feeding.
Protein is the opposite of fat. It is
about the same as albumen.
In feeding we baYe two principal
classes of foods. One is the carbon
aceous or starchy foods. These go to
fat. The ether is the protein foods.
These go to make milk, eggs and
meat. The protein foods are tissue
builders.
In balancing rations we have to
see. therefore, that the animal does
not get too much of one kind of food.
In feeding a cow. for Instance, we
cannot feed her corn alone as this
goes to fat rather than to milk. There
is some protein in corn but not
enough. On the other band it would
not be advisable to feed a cow food
like alfalfa, whose content Is practic
ally all protein. To begin with fat is
the principle on which an animal de
pends for bodily heat and energy. So
a cow. for this reason alone, should
have corn or other grain or hay in
which there is starchy matter. Then,
too. she needs some carbonaceous
food for the milk as there is con
siderable fat and sugar in milk.
If, however, we feed too much
protein some of it is bound to go to
waste. She will use half of It for
maintenance. One quarter of it goes
to milk. From the other quarter her
digestive organs extract the fatty
principle if there is any; if not some
is held by the system in reserve; the
rest passes out of the system.
Of course. In feeding, we have to be
guided some by temperament, in
dividuality, and other conditions In
cluding metabolism. Metabolism is
the way the food is assimilated, or |
rather. It refers to the chemical
changes that the food undergoes in
the stomach. Te can't say here Is so
much corn and depend that it will
make Just so much fat or feed so
much protein with the idea that it j
will be converted into an equivalent |
amount of milk. Some of the fat- ;
making elements may combine with
still other elements and be converted
into meat while the protein may be j
converted partly into fat.
STRENGTH OF GAMBREL ROOF
A gambrel roof will be sufficiently
strong for a barn 34 feet wide. Use
2-inch by 6-lnch by 14 feet for first
rafter. Prom plate to hip of this raft
er is 12 feet 6 Inches. This rises 11
feet above plate and drops in G feet.
This leaves a span 22 feet. Use a 2
inch by 6-inch by 13 feet, giving about
a 7-foot rise and put in a 2 by fl
inch plank for ridge. Use a 1 by S
Inch board and spike on at hip as
shown in plan, at each side of rafter.
You can get two pieces out of a 1 by
S-inch by 14 foot board. This will
ryn about 4 feet each way from hip.
This will carry hay fork or sling.
SHELTERING HOGS
IN HOTWEATHER
Shad* May B* Provided for Swine
by Tarnlns Them Into Wood
Pasture or Orchards, or
by ExecUnt Shed
x iBy WILLIAM F. Pt'RDfE.)
I provide shade and shelter for my
Pigs by turning them into a wood pas
ture or the orchards or by construct
ing a shed. This is done by setting
some posts to support a roof of rough
boards. The pigs seldom hurt the
orchard if they don't run in it more
than a month or two during the hot
test weather.
Sometimes where there are but few
trees in the orchard it is not best to
let the pigs run there too long as they
may kill some of the trees by rubbing
and gnawing them off.
If they start at this I turn them out
and provide artificial shade. But, I
furnish them shade of some kind and
have abolished the dirty wallow holes.
Shelter is also needed at certain
times. There are always a few wet
and cold spells every summer when
the pigs will suffer If they don't have
good shelter and they can easily get
a set back during a cold rain that
will take them a long time to recover
from.
When to Spray.
The proper time to spray fruit trees
can be determined only by watching
the fruit buds and weather. The first
application should be made before the
first rain after the blossom buds have
been exposed, but before they have
opened: the second after two-thirds of
the petals have fallen, being sure to
get the mixture on ahead of the rain;
and the third about two weeks later.
Watch the fruit buds and the weather.
Paraffin Killed Wooly Lice.
An English fruit grower declares
that he has been able to preserve his
apple trees from the woolly aphis by
scraping off the loose bark and apply
ing a thin coat of paraffin. Each tree
requires about one pint of paraffin and
the application is made threa times
a year.
THE NATURALIST
By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY
Miss Gertrude Ainsley put on her
bat that sunny spring day and walked
down the road and over the creek and
up into the woods on the hill. There
were stately elms and beeches and
maples; the spice-bush gave out its
scent; there were violets under foot
everywhere, and the robins and blue
birds seemed to welcome an intruder.
There were paths running here and
there, and as the girl took one of them
she heard a queer sound from the
brush on her right, and investigated to
find a rabbit caught by the leg in a
snare.
Poor Bunny was having a hard time
of it, and it frightened him ttye more
as the girl approached. He bounded
this way and that and into the air,
but the snare held and he cried and
whimpered and feared for his life.
When the girl had come closer and
began to call him poor thing and ex
claim that It was a burning shame,
the captive huddled down and stared
at her with his great big eyes. She
was stroking it with her hand when a
boy of twelve came running to shout:
“He's mine! He's mine! I set the
snare for him last night!”
Up he came, and was about to lift
the rabbit In his arms when Miss
Gertrude gave him a push and de
manded:
"What business have you snaring
the poor creatures! ”
"Business: Business!” he repeated.
‘ Why any one can catch rabbits any
time they want to! He's a daisy, and
the fellow will pay fifty cents for him.
Gee. but I'm in luck!”
"What fellow, as you call him?”
"He's at the tavern. We wants me
to catch all the rabbits and quails and
birds I can.”
"Then he’s a villain!"
“He don’t look like one.”
"I don’t care how he looks! Any
man that will hire a boy to trap such
poor innocent things as rabbits is a
villain, and you can tell him I said
so!”
“I will, when I carry this to him.”
"But you won't carry it! You keep
hands off! It shall have its liberty!'’
“If you let my rabbit go-!” blus
tered the lad.
Miss Gertrude picked up Bunny,
loosened the wire around his leg and
Poor Bunny Was Having a Hard
Time of It.
watched while he disappeared in the
bushes. Then she said to the boy:
"You call at the house in about
two hours and I'll give you the fifty
cents, but if I hear of you catching
another rabbit, or if you capture a
bird of any sort I'll make you
trouble!"
"Maybe you own the earth!" called
the lad after he was thirty feet away.
“You can tell that villain I do!"
She hunted for other snares, and
she found three and destroyed them.
After a couple of hours she started
for home. Just as she left the woods
she passed a young man entering
them. He was well dressed and a
stranger, and the manner in which he
raised his hat and his deferential bow
told her that he lived in the city. He
was staying in the village with some
relative for a few days, probably, and
out for a stroll, the same as she had
been.
That evening the boy called at the
house. His fifty cents was ready, but
he would not accept it. He brought a
note to be delivered and he sat down
with a grin on his face while Miss
Gertrude answered it. It read:
“Miss Ainsley: Your conduct this
tfternoon in the brow-beating a young
employe of mine is simply reprehensi
ble. The terms in which £ou char
acterized me are no less so. I have
yet to learn that you havz been ap
pointed the legal guardian of the birds
aid animals in this locality."
Then there followed a ••sincerely,"
| and the name ‘‘Carroll Denton.”
“The villain! How dare he!" ex
| claimed the girl as she looked at the
| boy.
“He’s an awful fellow,” was the
reply. “When I told him how you
bluffed me out of the rabbit up there
he just gnashed his teeth. He only
wanted five rabbits at first, but now
he says he'll catch a hundred. He's
cross-eyed and red headed, and he's
got an awful temper on him.”
Miss Gertrude was absent from the
room four or five minutes, and then
returned with a reply for the awful
man. It read:
“Sir: I reiterate that you are a
•villain!"
That was all. No "sincerely,”—no
“respectfully"—no “your very ob't
servant." Even the initials “G. A."
were lacking.
Mr. Ainslev was away from home,
and when the mother learned what
had happened she said:
“You were always that way from
a child, and you can't help it, I sup
pose, but I hope you won’t carry it
too far in this case. Calling a man a
villain is slander, unless he is a vil
lain."
“But of course he Is!" was the re
ply. “Would any one but a villain
hire a boy to murder a poor rabbit?
If he catches a robin, a blue-bird or
a quail I'll—I'll—!”
Miss Gertrude clenched her hands
and breathed hard and left it to be
understood that something very ter-]
rible would happen to the cross-eyed
and red-headed man. Next morning
she went up to the woods again. She
went in the forenoon because she sus
pected that boy would set snares over
night and visit them early. She walked
the paths and found four, and the
wlrea were thrown far away. They
had snared no victims.
As she was on her way home she
met the young man of the day before.
She looked at him mose closely this
time, and she liked his appearance.
Surely he was a gentleman. The boy
was not seen until mid-afternoon. Then
he brought another note, and as he de
livered it he said/
“I was lying up there In a brush
heap this forenoon when you destroyed
the snares, and oh, wasn't the awful
man awful mad when I told him of
it!"
And the note read:
“Miss Ainsley: I must again politely
request that you cease to meddle with
my affairs.”
The same name was signed as to
the other, but the “sincerely” wa3
lacking. Carroll Denton was no longer
sincere. He was grumpy.
A reply was sent as promptly as be
fore. It consisted of a few stirring
words:
"And I must repeat that you are a
villain!”
It was afternoon of the next day
when Miss Gertrude went up to the
woods again. Almost at once she be
held a robin with a broken wing flut
tering about. She had picked it up
and seated herself on a log and was
crying over it when a soft voice at her
elbow said:
"Please give it to me. I thing I can
do something for it.”
It was the young man. He took the
bird, made a brief examination and
said:
"The wing is broken, but I can use
splints and make it sound again after
a bit. Nature is very kind to animals
and birds. Hope that old maid won't
hear of this. She’ll say I used a club
on the bird and call me more villains."
“What old maid?" was asked, forget
ting that she was facing a stranger.
“A Miss Ainsley. She's close on my
trail."
"Why—why, I am the only Miss
Ains.ey, and I am not an old maid.
You can’t be the—the villain!”
Then of course it came out. The *
boy had lied for revenge. There was
no old maid, and there was no cross-!
eyed, red-headed man. Mr. Denton
was a naturalist, and he wanted his
specimens alive and sound that be
might study their habits. He was
merciful to a degree. Miss Gertrude
heard his explanations with blushing
cheeks and downcast eyes, and at the
end she was generous enough to re
ply:
“Well, that makes a difference."
And it did. The naturalist found his
way to the house to tell her how the
robin was getting along, and the day
the bird flew away on the restored
wing be said to himself that he had
discovered a “specimen” worth all
others put together.
Without Naming Names.
An alienist says that one out of
every 279 residents of this city is in
sane. And each of the 279 is abso
lutely certain he knows which one.—
New York Herald.
PROFIT IN “BATTLE RELICS”
Greater Part of Mementoes Said to
Have Been Fou<dl on World’s Great
Fighting Fields Are Spurious.
A careful observer who has visited
many of the world's great battlefields
declares that the greater part of the
mementoes, of which there seems to
be an inexhaustible supply, are wholly
spurious: but so well are they simu
lated that the average visitor is con
tent. Pieces of shell are made by
casting hollow spheres and cracking
them with a sledge. The fragments
are then treated to a bath of diluted
nitric acid and allowed to gather rust
in the open air.
The appearance of verdigris is easily
procured, when desired, by the use of
copper In solution. The writer was
shown several basketfuls of pieces of
shell, all of which seem to be at least
30 or 40 years old. The add has slight
ly honeycombed the edges and they
’coked exactly as If corroded by long
-trial beneath the soil. Such trifles
as single bullets and mlnie balls are
made with the greatest ease in an or
dinary mold. They are dented with a
small hammer and given the requisite
discoloration by remaining for a few
days in a bucket of lime. The more
elaborate relics, such as sword belts,
spurs, pieces of harness, bayonets,
canteens and so on. are turned out
by individual workmen, who make a
good profit out of the business.
Easily Spared.
A German in a sleeping car was un
able to rest on account of the snoring
of fellow travelers on each side of
him. Finally one of them gave a
vociferous snort and stopped still.
"Tanks!’* exclaimed the wakeful Ger
man. “von is det!”—The Housekeeper.
Very Well.
"You say she did well?"
"Yes, she was engaged to a spend
: thrift but married a millionaire"
