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Hoped Minister Had a Sense
of Humor.
When the new minister made his
first pastoral call at the Brownings he
took little Anna on his knee and asked
her if she had a kiss for him. But the
little girl refused to kiss or be kissed.
She squirmed loose and ran into the
next room, w here her mother was put
ting a few finishing touches to her
adornment before going into the draw
ing room to greet the clergyman.
"Mamma," the little girl whispered.
• the man in the drawing room wanted
me to kiss him.”
“Well,” replied mamma, “why didn't
you let him? I would if I was you.”
Thereupon Anna ran back into the
drawing room, and the minister asked:
"Well, little lady, won’t you kiss me
now?”
"No, I won't," replied Anna, prompt
ly, "but mamma says she will.”
Long-Lived Tnglish Family.
Five brothers and sisters, named
Harris, whose united ages total 438
years, met at a birthday party at Rad
nage, Bucks, England. Their ages are
ninety-six. ninety-two, eighty-eight,
eighty-two and eighty, an average of
more than eighty-seven. Five other
members of the same family, who have
died, were aged ninety-three, eighty
nine, eighty-eight, eighty-seven and
seventy-seven.
Family Pride.
Prisoner (to jailer)—Put me in cell
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Some of Continent’s Altitudes.
The maximum difference in eleva
tion of land in the United States is
14,777 feet, according to the United
States geological survey. Mount
Whitney, the highest point, is 14,501
feet above sea level, and a point in
Death Valley is 27G feet below sea
level. These two points, which are
both in California, are less than nine
ty miles apart. This difference is
small, however, as compared with the
figures for Asia. Mount Everest
rises 29.002 feet above sea level,
whereas the shores of the Dead sea
are 1,290 feet below sea level, a total
difference in land heights of 30,292
feet. Mount Everest has never been
climbed. The greatest ocean depth
yet found is 32,088 feet, at a point
about fifty miles north of the Island ‘
of Mindanao, in the Philippine islands.
The ocean bottom at this point is
therefore more than eleven and a
half miles below the summit of Mount
Everest.
Flour of Another Color.
He'd been waltzing with his host's
ugly elder daughter, and was in a j
corner repairing damages. Here he |
was espied by his would-be papa-ip- |
law.
“She is the flower of my family, I
sir,” said the father.
“So it seems,” answered the young j
man. “Pity she comes off so. isn’t !
it?" he continued as he essayed an- i
other vigorous rub at the white spots 1
on his coat sleeve.
She Knew.
“Miss Janet is a long time coming
down." he said to the pretty parlor
maid. “Perhaps she is—ha, ha—per
haps she is making up her mind I
whether to see me or not."
The maid smiled coldly.
■•No,’' she said, “it :s not her mind 1
she is making up."
Winning a Welcome.
“Don't you get tired of talking about
the tariff?"
"No," replied Senator Sorghum. “If
some one would come up to me and
talk about the tariff instead of getting
an office. I’d throw my arms around
his neck.”—Washington Star.
Practical Old Fogy.
Sentimental Young Lady—Ah, pro
fesor, what would this old oak say if
it could talk?
Professor—It would say. “I am an
elm!"—Fliegende Rlaetter.
Quite the Thing.
“Small hats are going out this year.”
“Well, you know-, few people do put
them on to wear in the house.”
Remove the obstacles if you want
things to come your way.
CLOUDED BRAIN
Clears Up on Change tp Proper Food.
The brain cannot work with clear
ness and accuracy, if the food taken is
not fully digested, but is retained in
the stomach to ferment and form
poisonous gases, etc. A dull, clouded
brain is likely to be the result.
A Mich, lady relates her experience
in changing her food habits, and re
sults are very interesting:
“A steady diet of rich, greasy foods
such as sausage, buckwheat cakes and
so on, finally broke down a stomach
and nerves that, by inheritance, were
sound and strong, and medicine did
no apparent good in the way of relief.
“My brain was clouded and dull and
I was suffering from a case of constl
i pation that defied all remedies used.
“The 'Road to WellviUc,’ in some
providential way, fell into my hands,
and may Heaven’s richest blessings
! fall on the man w ho was inspired to
write it.
“I followed directions carefully, the
! physical culture and all. using Grape
Nuts with sugar and cream, leaving
meat, pastry and hot biscuit entirely
ont of my bill of fare. The result—
I am in perfect health once more.
| “I never realize I have nerves, and
i my stomach and bowels are in fine
condition. My brain is perfectly clear
and I am enjoying that state of health
which God intended his creatures
should enjoy 'and which all might
have, by giving proper attention to
their food.” Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read "Ths
Road to Wellville," in pkgs. “There’s
a reason.”
S*« read the above letter? A new
i nae nppenra front time to time. They
j are penalnp, true, and fall of human
Interest.
BEST ROMM
Parisian Engineers Seem to Have
Arrived at a Solution of
Knotty Problem.
ALLOW FOR VARIOUS SPEEDS
Three Tracks, Each Reserved Solely
for Its Special Traffic, Does
Away With Congestion So
Keenly Felt in the
Large Cities.
It Is not generally realized how
enormous i3 the loss incurred every
year in and about large cities by the
congestion of road traffic. Even the
cost of living, so much in the air at
the present time, is becoming increas
ingly dependent upon the cheap and
easy transport of merchandise.
Since It is the various speeds which
apparently produce the undesirable
feature of congrestion it would appear
that a remedy must iie in the estab
lishment of #parate roads or tracks
for each class of vehicle.
To come to practical application of
the special track principle a good ex
ample is the Avenue des Champs-Ely
sees in Parts. The arrangement here
t_ - ’ t
Dimensioned Cross Sections of Roads,
Showing Methods of Distributing
Fast and Slow Traffic.
is shown in the illustration. A center
track 18.5 feet wide is reserved solely
for the use of automobSes traveling
in either direction. On each side is
a slightly narrower track 16 feet in
width for slower traffic, each direction
keeping to its own side. Such a road
requires a minimum tc«il width of 53
feet, but where this i£ available no
better arrangement could be adopted.
A point of some importance brought
out by the division of the road into
special classes is that of simplifying
the problems of the road engineer. It
is well known that one of the great
est obstacles to the correct construc
tion of roads has been the necessity
of providing a surface that would be
suitable alike to the fast rubber tired
vehicle and the iron shod hoofs and
iron tired wheels of the horse drawn.
By confining each class to a special
track the surface can be made to suit
the requirements of that class.
With the advent of the automobile
the old type of water bound macadam
road was found inadequate owing to
the dust. The dust had always been
present, the pounding of the horse be
ing in a large measure responsible, but
the rubber tire of the automobile
raised it to the standing of a nuisance.
During the past decade efforts have
been made to reduce dust by the ap
plication of various sprinkling me
diums, oil being the most successful.
But it was soon found that the real
solution lay in the entire construc
tion of the road. This has brought
about the bituminous road which is
more nearly perfect with regard to
dust prevention than any previous con
structions.
In this type of road, which is grow
ing rapidly in favor, the various lay
ers composing it are bound into a solid
mass by the application of a tar or oil
asphalt preparation.—The Automobile.
Home on a Blow-out.
“A car can always be driven home
on a blown-out casing if an extra tube
is carried, and on a punctured casing,
even if no extra tube is in the car, if
the driver knows the trick,” says an
auto dealer.
“Suppose the shoe has been blown
out and there is an extra tube aboard
but no blow-out patch or shoe is in the
kit. Burlap can be secured without
much trouble. Inflate the tube par
tially, wrap the burlap, cut into
strings, around it fairly tight and
mount the tube and casing in the usual
way. Burlap is tough and hard to cut
and it usually will get you home.
“But if you happen to be caught
without an extra tube and you get a
puncture or blow-out you don't have
to go home on a flat casing and rim
cut it. Take the casing off and pack
it full of rags, newspapers, hay, straw,
beans, oats—anything you can get that
will answer the purpose. The idea,
of course, is to get something into the
casing that will substitute for air and
hold the casing in fairly good shape
until you can get to a repair shop or
a supply station. I think it pays to
know things like this, because they
not only save a man money, but a lot
of trouble on the road.”
• Honest Motor “Vet.”
A good tale from Irleand is about
an honest motor expert who was asked
to “vet” a second-hand car in a gar
age. He went to the place, walked
round the car, and then took hold of
the body and shook it. The result of
this practical treatment was a' most
appalling rattle. Whereupon, says the
Autocar, the motor vet turned to the
proprietor of the garage with some
alarm on his countenance and said:
“Come here and hold this old car; I
am sure it wiil fall down if I let go."
HAS PROFITED FARMER
AGRICULTURIST OWES DEBT OF
GRATITUDE TO THE AUTO.
By Its Use He Is in Closer Touch
. With the World and His Posi
tion Is Improved.
The automobile more than any oth
er one thing has been the means ol
bringing the farmer in closes touch
with the outside world, writes Joha N.
Willys. This point I am sure will be
conceded by the most biased people.
Before the coming of the motor car it
was a common occurrence for a farm
er and his family, living 20 or 30
miles from the raiiroad, to spend theii
entire lives cooped up in their own
little circle, with little or no knowl
edge of the big things going on all
around them.
Today we find the farmer a bigger
factor than ever before in the history
of the world. He is no longer look
ed upon as a mere producer of food
stuffs necessary for the general wel
fare of the country, but as an import
ant citizen to whom we owe the lion’s
share of our great prosperity.
And the automobile is largely re
sponsible Tor the present high stand
ing of the farmer. With it he can get
into the big cities, where he can see
and find out what other people are
doing and keep pace with their prog
ress. There is. too, another angle
that must not be overlooked, and that
is that the automobile is a source of
pleasure for the farmer's entire fami
ly. We all appreciate a change of
scenery once in a while, and the gen
eral atmosphere and customs of the
city people are as interesting to the
farmer and his family as the open
farm country is to city folks.
By traveling about more and more
and rubbing shoulders with the differ
ent people, the farmer has acquired a
vast amount of knowledge. He has
broadened his perspective and learned
by experience that he can combine a
little pleasure with the routine work
of the farm and still accomplish as
much in net results as before. Here
again you find the automobile the best
suited both from an economical and
practical standpoint.
The farmer has also developed into
the shrewdest kind of a buyer—ma
chinery and automobiles in particular.
The modern American farmer can ask
more intelligent questions relating to
the construction and operation of an
automobile than any man I know of,
and what is still more to the point, he
understands and remembers a thing
when you tell it to him.
HOLDS COVER IN ITS PLACE
Device Prevents Rattling, and There
fore Materially Aids in Preser
vation of the Fabric.
This device is both a top holding
and bow separating contrivance. The
standard type is
in black rubber,
enamel finish
with lug for at
taching to body
iron. It may be
attached to apy
make of car. It
does not interfere
with the fitting of
the slip cover and
its use eliminates
all rattling and
the possibility of
torn fabric
through continued friction. Three bow
holders cost $3.25, four-bow. $3.50 and
five-bow $3.75. A cheaper farm costs
$2.50 in four-bow size.—Motor.
“Don’t Go Mileage Mad."
This is the safe and sane advice
given truck owners by O. C. Swander,
manager of a tire and rubber com
pany.
There is nc question that the major
ity of truck owners of all classes are
more or Sess subject to this kind of
“madness.” They are ever calling for
more and more mileage, and do not re
alize that this mileage, beyond a cer
tain point, must incur losses to pay
for the gain.
A tire to give mileage must be tough
and unusually strong. The less pure
rubber there is in a tire, naturally the
less resiliency there is.
The less resiliency, the less capable
are the tires of taking up the vibra
tion of road shock and the sidewise
vibration which is increased rather
than decreased by the springs of the
truck. The more strain there is, just
that much more strain is there cn
the mechanism of the truck. Mileage
may be sought for, but should not be
obtained by using a tire which is so
far worn down as to be unresilient
enough to cause the driving mechan
ism to suffer.
Top Down on Rough Roads.
Most motorists who do much coun
try driving notice the car rides better,
over a rough read, with the extension
top folded back. But it i3 a mistaken
idea to believe that this better riding
is due entirely to the lessened air re
sistance.
The top of an automobile has con
siderable weight, as every man knows
who has ever raised one without the
aid of a second party. When the top
is up, this weight is carried far above
the center of gravity. This tends, of
course, to intensify the rock of the
car as it passes over rough stretches.
With the top folded back and
strapped down, its weight is carried
lower and in more compact form. It
is also carried at a point far enough
to the rear to serve to steady the mo
tion of the body when the car is un
der way.
Bad Practice.
It Is bad practice to fasten a li
cense tag to the radiator filler, unless
the lower portion of the tag is
braced against the radiator frame. A
very slight knoek on the lower end
of the tag is liable to tear the base of
the filler from its fastening on top
of the radiator, owing to the leverage
through which the force acts.
Form Two of a Kind.
Facts are stubborn things; almost
as stubborn as the people who don’t
believe them.
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No One Interferes in the Affairs
of Another.
Remarkable Trait of Burmese Charae
ter le Their Unwillingness to In
terfere in Other People’s Busi
ness—Each Acts for Self.
London.—A remarkable trait of the
Burmese character is their unwilling
ness to interfere in other people’s
affairs. Whether it arises from their
religion of self-culture or no, I cannot
say, but it is in full keeping with It.
Every man's acts and thoughts are hhi
own affair, think the Burmans; each
man is free to go his own way, to
think his own thoughts, to act his own
acts, as long as he does not too much
annoy his neighbors. Each man is
responsible for himself and for him
self alone, and there is no need for
him to try and be guardian also to hts
fellows. And so the Burman likes to
go his own way, to be a free man
within certain limits; and the freedom
that he den^nds for himself he will
extend also to his neighbors. He has
a very great and wide tolerance to
ward all his neighbors, not thinking It
necessary to disapprove of his neigh
bors’ acts because they may not be
the same as his own, never thinking
it necessary to Interfere with his
neighbors as long as the laws are
not broken.
Our idea that what habits are dif
ferent 10 our habits must be wrong,
and being wrong require correction at
our hands, is very far ' from his
thoughts. He never desires to inter
fere with anyone. Certain as he is
that his own ideas are best, he is con
tented with that knowledge, and is not
ceaselessly desirous of proving it
upon other people.
And so a foreigner may go and live
In a Burman village, may settle down
th?re and live his own life and follow
his own customs in perfect freedom;
may dress and eat and drink and pray
and die as he likes. No one will in
terfere. No one will try and correct
him; no one will be forever insisting
to him that he is an outcast, either
from civilization of from religion. The
people will accept him for what he
is and leave the matter there. If he
likes to change his ways and conform
to Burmese habits and Buddhist forms.
Typical Burmese Architecture.
so much the better; but if not, never
mind.
It is, I think, a great deal owing to
this habit of mind that the manners
of the Burmese are usually so good,
children in civilization as th<^- are.
There is among them no rude inquisi
tiveness and no desire to in any way
circumscribe your freedom by either
remark or act. Surely of all things
that cause trouble nothing is so com
mon among us as the interference
with each other’s ways, as the need
less giving of advice It seems to each
of us that we are responsible not only
for ourselves, but also for every one
else near us; and so if we disapprove
of any act we are always in a hurry
to express our disapproval and to
try and persuade the actor to our way
of thinking. We are forever thinking
of others and trying to improve them;
is a nation we try to coerce weaker
nations and to convert stronger ones,
and as individuals we do the same.
We are sure that other people cannot
but be better and happier for being
brought into our ways of thinking, by
force even, if necessary. We call it
philanthropy.
CLOCK SAVES LIFE OF YOUTH
Sound of Alarm at Unusual Hour
Leads Rescuer to Intended Sui
cide Just in Time.
New York.—An alarm clock, which
began a long-continued ringing at the
unusual hour of 6:30 in the evening in
one of the rooms occupied by Meyer
Berman and hia sen, Michael, at 119
Forsyth street, caused Max Rubin, a
tenant, to investigate. Rubin found
the son lying semi-conscious on the
floor with a gas stove tube in hia
mouth. Rubin gave the alarm, and a
policeman restored the youth to con
sciousness quickly.
Young Berman told Detectives Wood
and Spiro on the way to the Clinton
street police station that he had been
out of work two months and hungry
two days. His story was overheard
by a man in a restaurant, to which
the detectives took him for a meal.
The stranger said he was Philip J.
Abrams, proprietor of a hotel in Tan
nersville, and that he would take the
young man there to give him a posi
tion for the summer.
RAISE THE STANDARD OF HORSES ON FARM
Seven-Year-Old Percnerons.
(3y A S. ALEXANDER.)
While some farmers are beginning
to appreciate the importance of using
sound, pure-bred stallions, the equal
importance of using sound mares is
not yet generally understood. When a
mare by reason of unsoundness is no
longer flt for anything else, she is
often set aside for breeding purposes
and so long as this absurd and ruin
ous policy persists, the penalty will be
paid in the prevalence of unsound
horses on our farms. For corrobora
tion of this, one has only to examine
the brood mares on a number of
farms. The unsound mares will be
found numerous and many of their
adult offspring are similarly affected.
The following letters from farmers
will help to demonstrate the lack of
comprehension of the principles of
horse breeding.
“I have a thirteen-year-old mare that
has a knocked down hip, the heaves
Pure-Bred .Stallions Doing Farm
Work. Every Stallion Should Be Capa
ble of Doing the Work That Will Be
Required of His Offspring.
and she is lame. Would it be all right
to breed from her?”
“I have three mares, the oldest ten
and the youngest four which have
been breeding since spring. The one
ten years old has the heaves, is moon
blind in one eye, and has a discharge
from the nose. Her hind legs stalk up
if she stands in the stable over night;
she is wormy, very bad at times. Have
had her two years but have never
done anything for her. She had a colt
which died with blind staggers at ten
days of age. In hot weather it bothers
her to breathe. Would you breed her
again if you were in my place?”
“Can you tell me what ails this
mare? Bay filly three years old, un
broken and always well kept. Became
stiff in hind legs last winter and after
awhile got the same way in front legs
and at present is so stiff she can’t lie
down. Straddles wide both in front
and behind when she walks. Her
knees are bowed backward. Eats
well. Would she do to breed from?"
Emphatically, NO!
The following suggestions may be
outlined for the guidance of farmers
in conducting thier horse breeding
operations.
Commence grading up the farm
horse stock by mating carefully se
lected, muscular, pure-bred registered
stallions. Continue year after year to
use the best obtainable pure-bred
males of the character and breed first
chosen and never out-cross to any
other breed.
Do not use any stallion that is un
sound, unsuitable, partially impotent
unlicensed or not registered in a stud
book recpgnized by the department of
agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Do not breed from any mare that is
deformed, sick, disesed, unsound, un
suitable, a poor milker, or a cross
mother.
Properly feed, shelter and care for
the pregnant and nursing mares and
from birth until ready for market,
nourish their offspring in such a way
as to prevent stunting and insure per
fect development.
Encourage the working of pure
bred stallions sufficient to keep them
healthy, muscular, prepotent and pre
vent pampering, weakness, partial im
potence and actual sterility and so
tend to insure vigor, Etrong constitu
tion and health in their offspring at
birth and throughout life.
As soon as possible stop working
scrub horses on the farm and in their
place use grade horses of good quality
and character, well fed, properly
groomed, furnished with attractive,
nicely kept harness and hitched to
modern implements, wagons and car
riages.
Organize township and county asso
. ciations for community breeding of
i horses of the same blood, character
and quality and to more readily ob
i tain pure-bred stallions and mares
and insure a profitable market for
I surplus horses.
Encourage representative exhibits
at the county fairs, of pure-bred stal
lions and mares ■ and grade mares,
gelding, farm teams, and young stock
by pure bred sires. Discourage the
| offering of classes and premiums for
j grades and mongrel or scrub stallions
I or thier progeny.
Boost for the betterment of the
; horse breeding industry and do noth
' ing to retard its progress.
FEED FOR WORK
TEAM IN SUMMER
—
Bad Management to Stuff Horses
During Idle Season and
Starve Them Later.
One of the worst mistakes a farmer
can make is to feed heavily during
the winter season, when work is
slack, and to fead slightly i summer
when work continues all day and
every day. Only last week, says a
writer in an exchange, I saw a team
owned by a young, but at the same
time rather opinionated farmer. This
team was fed during the winter sea
son all the grain and forage they
would consume.
As the season advanced the price
of grain and hay became higher.
Money might have been a little tight
--perhaps, at any rate feed was sold
that should have been kept. The
working season arrived. Crops must
be put in and cultivated, feed was
short, and the teams suffered.
When I saw them they were living
skeletons, and depreciated 75 per
cent, so far as cash value was con
cerned. This seems to me to be
mighty poor management stuffing your
work horses in the idle season and
starving them at the very time that
they need the best carfe.
Just think a moment, dear farmer,
of the plentiful food that the wom
en-folk prepare for you three times
daily, and most especially during the
harvest season, and then imagine
how the horse must feel that pulls a
plow, binder, mower or wagon, all
day, and on insufficient feed!
There is no economy, or even busi
ness sense in feeding sparingly dur
ing the long, hot and busy summer
season. A pair of strong, fell-fed and
well-kept horses or mules will do the
work of any four head of half-starved
ones you can pick up.
Rye for the Silo.
Rye may be cut for the silo when it
is in blossom and the most advanced
heads are in the dough.
Stimulant for Flowers.
Weak liquid manure is just the
stimulant most floweTs need when
they bloom. Do not stint them in
this respect.
Injurious 4o Cows.
No breed cf dairy cows can continue
as first-class dairy animals if the
calves are allowed to run with the
cows.
Aid to Flowers.
Another aid to profusion of flowers
is plenty of water.
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COST OF RAISING
AMERICAN HORSE
Average Is Found to Be $104.06
for United States—Inter
esting Figures.
Reports have been received from
about 10,000 correspondents of the
bureau of statistics of the depart
ment of agriculture upon the cost of
raising colts to the age of three
years. The average for the United
States is found to be $104.06; or, if
we deduct the value of work done by
the horse before he has passed his
third year, namely, $7.52, the net cost
is $96.54; this is 70.9 per cent, of
the selling value of such horses.
$136.17.
The cost varies widely by states,
from an average of $69.50 for New
Mexico, $71.59 for Wyoming, and
$82.47 for Texas, to $156.60 for Rhode
Island, $149.98 for Connecticut, and
$141.80 for Massachusetts.
Itemized, the cost is made up as fol
lows: f>rvice fee, $12.96; value of
time lost by mare in foaling, $10.06;
breaking to halter. $2.22; veterinary
services, $2.04; care and shelter, first
year $4.96, second year $5.36, third
year $6.35; most of grain, fed, first
| year $4.98, seconfi year $7.14, third
i year $9.56; hay, first year $4.14, sec
ond year $6.61, third year $4.48; pas
ture, first year $2.56, second year
$5.41, third year $6.21; other costs,
55.01; total, $104.06.
The total cost for all feed is $56.30
being $21.69 for grain, $19.33 for hay,
$14.18 for pasture, and $1.21 for other
feeds. The total cost of care and she!
ter is $16.69. Of the total cost, 54
per cent, is charged to feeds, 16 per
cent, to care and shelter; and 30 per
cent, to other items, as enumerated
above.
As more than half the cost of rata
ing a three-year horse on the faro
is chargeable to feeds, it is readily ob
served how important it Is the influ
ence of variation in prices of feed
stufts upon such cost.
To Get Rich Milk.
It is not necessary for the cow t«
give only a small quantity of milk in
order that the milk may be rich. One
can use a breed that is famous for
their yield of rich milk rather than to
get rich milk from a low breed.
Picking Sweet Peas.
The sweet pea demands a daily
stripping of every bloom. Producing
seeds Is done at the expense of
blooms. However, flowers should be
cut witlj sharp shears, never torn from
the plant.