YOUR FRIEND TODAY
Elizabeth and Martha were friends.
Elizabeth said the word should al
ways be written with a capital F.
Martha declared that every letter that
went into the making of so precious a
name should be a capital, whereupon
Elizabeth kissed her affectionately,
and they both declared that no matter
what the years might bring them they
would keep their tie of friendship
pure, and true, and lofty.
“And,” said Martha, w-ho was the
more ardent and imaginative of the
two, ‘there are to be no secrets be
tween us; not even thought secrets.”
To which Elizabeth agreed in an ab
stracted manner which did not quite
satisfy her friend.
So Martha suggested that they draw
up an agreement of eternal love and
loyalty to be solemnly signed by each
of them, and when Elizabeth said she
didn’t see the use of such a thing, her
friend burst into a storm of grief that
quite took the less intense girl off her
feet.
“Why, you darling Martha,” com
forted Elizabeth. “Of course, we'll
write the vow, and sign it. I only
meant that all the vows in the world
couldn’t make me truer to our friend
ship, or more certain that I shall al
ways love you just as I do now.”
Whereupon Martha dried her tears,
and spent many weeks in the compo
sition of a vow of friendship which
Martha listened as one might listen
to treason.
Then, remembering Elizabeth, she
abruptly left the room.
"She is young,” remarked The Wise
Woman. "She will learn.”
It came to pass that the personal
interests of the friends conflicted for
the first time since, in that far away
yesterday, they each signed the vow'
of eternal love and loyalty.
They fell in love with the same man.
For a time The Man, knowing the
closeness of the tie which bound the
two young women, was very nice to
both of them.
Then it became apparent that he
was more interested in Martha, and
after a little he asked her hand in
marriage.
And for the first time in her life
the girl, Martha, found it difficult to
open the deepest chamber in her heart
to her friend. Instinctively, she
hugged her secret. It was so precious
a thing—this matter of loving and be
ing loved—that she did so want to
cherish it for just a little while against
the knowledge of all the world. But
she remembered the vow, the letter
of which she had kept for years, so
shyly she told Elizabeth that she and
The Man were to be married.
"And you have the audacity to tel!
me this, you sly minx!” hissed the life
time friend of the girl, Martha.
“You're a perfect little sneak, that’s
Gut He Doesn’t Know You as I Do. He Doesn’t Know You.”
Would h^ve seemed more like a con
tract of the relinquishment of all per
sonal liberty than a promise of undy
ing love to an outsider. But the docu
ment quite satisfied the friends, who
considered it a masterpiece in its own
way.
In the weeks and months that fol
lowed confidences became almost an
obsession with the girl, Martha. An
overconscious little soul, she spent a
deal of her time in self-examination
for fear that she would depart from
the letter of hei«- promise and hold
back the admission of some thought
or action ffom Elizabeth.
The vow was taken less seriously
by Elizabeth, upon whom friendship
sat with lighter meaning. Not that
she did not love the girl, Martha, or
was ever found lagging in her defense
of the other girl whenever occasion
demanded.
Martha, in her frank and girlish ar
dor. would have called her friend a
traitor, had she known that she did
not share the deeper life of Elizabeth.
Elizabeth would have said that she
merely protected a God-given right,
and that the matter of the vow was a
silly thing, to which she had agreed
merely to humor her friend.
So the years went by, and the
friends became women grown.
Their companionship had been very
close, and their affection for each oth
er was a matter for admiration among
their associates.
People said that they had never
seen such remarkable confidence be
tween two young women.
So far as Martha was concerned this
was true. She shared her every
thought of consequence with Eliza-i
beth. She unveiled her weaknesses as
well as her strength to the elder girl,
nor did she notice that every year had
brought Elizabeth more reserve, so
great was her absorption in her own
confidences.
One day The Wise Woman, who had
heard much of Martha and Elizabeth,
sat quietly by while the former ex
pressed it as her belief that friendship
is the greatest thing in the world.
“The sort that will stand the test
of actual self-denial is very rare." said
The Wise Woman.
“YOUR FRIEND TODAY IS OFTEN
YOUR ENEMY TOMORROW. THERE
FORE, NEVER TELL YOUR FRIEND
WHAT YOU WOULD NOT WANT
YOUR ENEMY TO KNOW.’*
what you are! You’ve enticed him
into this with your confiding little
ways. But he doesn't know you’ as I
do! He doesn't know you!” she cried,
beside herself with rage and disap
pointment, for the girl, Elizabeth, also
loved The Man and wanted to be his
wife more than she wanted anything
else in all the world.
Because of the vow which Martha
had always kept to the letter, and
which the wiser girl had always set
aside as a «ri|hty foolish sort of thing,
Elizabeth was as familiar with the
weaknesses of her friend as she was
with her own. She knew her as she
knew herself, for in her interpreta
tion of the word friendship Martha
had always uncovered her very soul
for the other girl's inspection.
And, so it was that the confidences
which the girl, Martha, had given in
the sacred name of friendship were
made the property of all who cared
to hear them, and bounded back like
boomerangs to hurt her a thousand
times with a hurt so poignant that
sometimes the injuries done her
seemed more than she could bear.
And The Wise Woman shook her
head gravely and remarked again that,
so long as human nature is human na
ture, it will never be safe to tell your
dearest friend anything that you would
not want your bitterest enemy to
know.
In Mexican Houses.
There are rarely fireplaces or stoves
in Mexican housss. Of course, in the
tropics these are not required, but in
the cities of the uplands it is often
bitterly cold. There is a popular be
lief that warming the air of a room
by artificial heat in the rarefied air
of the uplands induces pneumonia, but
it is doubtful if this has any real foun
dation. And the Mexican prefers to
shiver under cover of a poncho rather
than to sit in comfort and warmth aft
er the European or American fashion.
Testing Water.
Following is a simple way to test
the purity of water: Put half a pint
in a perfectly clean .bottle and add a
few grains of lump or loaf sugar.
Make tight—a glass stopper pre
ferred. Place the bottle in a warm,
well lighted room. If it remains clear
after an exposure of eight or ten days
it is safe to use, but if it becomes tur
bid it is certainly impure and unsafe
to trink.
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(.Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.)
A HOMEMADE PUSHMOBILE.
In building a pushmobile, the
wheels are of first importance.
Fig. 3 shows the body framework.
The side raiis A should be 2 by 2’s or
2 by 4's. Cut them to whatever
length you wish. Upon these rails
are mounted two grocery boxes, a
long box on the bow end, and a box
as long as this one is wide, on the
stern end. Fasten the rails to the
bottom of these hexes (Fig 3). The
crosspieces B and D, provide for the
mounting of the wheels. Nail one to
rails A at the bow end, and the other
so it will come under the center of
the stern box. Crosspiece F forms
a foot-bar.
The front iron axle must be at
tached to a pivoial wooden axle (E,
Figs. 4 and 5). This must have a
hole bored through the center of its
length for a %-inch carriage bolt.
Screw a pair of screw-eyes into one
edge (G, Fig. 6). Fasten the iron
axle to the wcoden axle with iron
staples, or with bent-over nails. Bore
a hole through the center of cross
piece D (Figs. 3 and 7) for the car
riage bolt :o run through. Then, in
mounting the axles upon the frame
work, slip aa iron washer over the car
riage bolt so it will come between axle
E and crosspiece D. The rear axle
must be fastened to a similar wooden
axle tC, Fig. 4). Nail this wooden
axle to crosspiece B.
The steering-gear should be made
next. A sewing machine wheel is
best for the steering-wheel, but a
wagon-wheel will do. Cut a broom
handle for the shaft (I, Fig. 6), and
mount the wheel on one end. Then
cut a crosspiece (J), and a square
block (K), bore a hole of the diameter
of the broom handle through the cen
ter of each, and nail K to .1 Slip this
crosspiece over the end of the shaft,
and fasten it 12 inches above the end
with screws driven through the edges
of J and K. as shown. Cut a hole
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through the bottom of the bow box
for the end of, the shaft to run
through, and another hole one-half Inch
deep In the center of the edge of the
crosspiece D (Fig. 7) for a socket for
it to turn in. Screw a screw-eye in
to the end of crosspiece J (L, Fig. 6),
and one into the under side of each
side rail A (H, Figs. 4 and 6); then tie
a four-foot length of rope at its cen
ter to screw-eye L, and run the ends
through screw-eyes H, and tie to
screw-eyes G in axle E (Figs. 4 and 5).
Figs. 1 and 2 show how the hood of
.be pushmobile is completed by fas
tening a pair of triangular pieces upon
the top of the bow box, nailing boards
across them, and tacking screen wire
over the lront of the box for the ra
diator front; also bow the seat is
made.
THE GAMES OF JACK-STICKS AND
RING-TOSS.
No doubt you are familiar with the
game of jack-straws, in which a pile
of tiny sticks in the forms of ham
mers, saws, shovels, picks, etc., are
placed in the center of a table, and
then in turn each player tries to re
move by means of a small hooked
stick as many of the "straw’s’' as pos
sible, without disturbing any other
"straws” in the pile.
The only difference between the
“straw” game and our "stick” game
is in the substitution of real hammers,
saws, etc., for the small ones. Fig
ure 1 shows the large assortment of
articles that may be used—brooms,
umbrellas, coat hangers, pans, pot
covers, pails, dustpans, etc. Throw
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these articles in a heap, crossed and
recrossed as in the illustration. For
the hooked stick for removing the
articles from the pile take a broom
handle and drive a long nail into it
near one end, as shown in Fig. 2.
Taking turns, each player should
try to remove, one at a time, as
many "sticks” from the pile as she
can without disturbing anything
else. The turn passes to the next
player the instant she disturbs other
than the article she is trying to re
move. The player securing the larg
est number of articles is winner.
The game of ring-toss requires an
easily made target (Fig. 3). The tar
get requires a. grocery box, two stick
uprights to support the box, nine
thread spools for pins, and nine nails.
The spool pins should be placed
4 or 4% inches apart. The heads of
the nails for fastening them will likely
be 6maller than the holes in the spools,
and ip that case, in order tr make the
nat*s hold, it will be necessary to cut
small squares of cardboard and run
tnese over the nails as far as the
heads (Figs. 3 and 4). After nailing
the spools in their proper positions,
number them with black paint, ink or
pencil, as indicated in Fig. 3. Each
numuer represents the score of the
spool pin above it.
The tossing rings have a hole
through their centers, and are filled
with beans, like beanbags (Fig. 5).
C’ut two pieces of cloth eight or nine
inches square for each (Fig. 6). Fold
each piece in half diagonally, so as
to bring corners A together (Figs. 6
and 7); then fold corner B over on
to corner B (Figs. 7 and 8), and fold
corner C over on to corner C (Figs.
8 and 9). Cut off corners C and D
as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 9
(Fig. 10), and, unfolded, the piece will
have the form shown in Fig. 11. Sew
the pair of cloth rings together, both
around the outer and inner edges,
leaving but a small opening between
the outer edges. Fill the bag solid
with beans, through the opening, then
sew up the opening.
There should be three rings, so each
player may have three tosees each
turn. The distance from which the
rings are tossed may be ten, fifteen
or twenty feet away from the target.
The "Wonder Tree.”
California growers of the “wonder
tree,” the eucalyptus, which while
growing ten times as fast as hickory,
oak or mahogany, yields lumber hard
er and better than these native trees,
met in convention in the Lumbermen's
Building or House of Hoo-HoO at the
Panama-Pacific International exposi
tion.
Officials and members of the Euca
lyptus Hardwood Association of Cali
fornia—representing the cultivators of
about 26,000,000 of these trees, took
*
this means of educating the public and
lumbermen in the value and hundred
or more of uses of the eucalyptus of
which there are 200 varieties. Some
10,000 eucalyptus trees grew on the
exposition grounds.
Restful Travel.
"Been all over the country, ehT”
“Everywhere the trains run."
“I guess you can sleep as well in a
Pullman berth as you can in your bed
at home."
"Better, in fact. My wife snores."
SERIOUS DISEASE OF CALVES
Diphtheria Is Due to Specific Infection
and May Appear in, Animals Only
Few Days Old.
(By DR. M. H. REYNOLDS. Minnesota
Experiment Station.)
Calf diphtheria is due to a specifio
Infection, and is always a serious mat
ter. The trouble may appear with
calves from three to five days old.
Such calves refuse to drink milk or
suck. They show more or less dis
charge of saliva from the mouth and
Inflamed patches inside the mouth.
These patches gradually develop into
ulcers covered with a dead, granular,
or cheesy mass, which does not peel
easiljr from the raw surface under
neath. There is considerable rise of
temperature and an offensive odor
from the mouth. The trouble may
easily extend to neighboring parts,
to the lining membrane of the nose,
and then there appears a yellowish
discharge. In some cases the lining
membrane of the digestive tract is
similarly affected and then there is
tendency to diarrhea. Little pigs show
similar symptoms.
So far as now known the germ is
a normal Inhabitant of the intestines
of healthy hcgs and cattle and prob
r
Healthy Calf.
ably always virulent. When the dis
ease is prevalent, the virus is. of
course, scattered everywhere. Very
young animals are most easily and
roost seriously affected, but cases
hrve been reported in oalves and pigs
six or eight* months old, and even oc
casionally in adult cattle and adult
hogs.
The sores may be cleaned with two
per cent creolin in wavm water, and
then treated with Lugol's solution, ap
plied twice a day to the ulcers. Per
manganate of potash may also be
used, two ounces to each gallon of
water; make up fresh each time, as
the mixture cannot be kept from day
to day. Either treatment should be
given to valuable animals about twice
a day for from four to six days.
Frequent and thorough disinfection
of calf pens and calf yards is one of
tne first essentials in management.
DATA ON BREEDING FOR SEX
Expert of Maine Experiment Station
Gives Result of Investigations
He Has Made.
For ages untold the subject of the
control of sex has been discussed and
studied over, with very little progress
except to discover that many theories
do not work. At that, knowing what
not to expect is a great deal. The
most promising theory now relates
to the influence on sex of the time of
breeding. Of that Dr. Raymond Pearl
of the Maine experiment station writes
in a private letter which Hoard's
Dairyman quotes:
“My own investigations on the re
lation of the time of service in the
heat period itseif, that is whether
early or late, shows that it. does have
an effective influence on the control
of sex. We are collecting extensive
statistics on the matter by ipeaus of
co-operation with breeders all over
the country and the more data we
get. the more clear does it become
that in this matter, time of service
related to the heat period is a sig
nificant factor.”
FEED FOR MILK PRODUCTION
Common Cows Frequently Capable of
Returning Larger Yield Than That
Secured by Feeders.
(By T. L. HAECKER. Minnesota Ex
periment Station.)
Common cows are frequently capa
ble of producing a much larger milk
yield than the average feeder se
cures from the average common cow.
For ten years back we have always
had a number of cows with no dairy
heredity in the dairy herd at the uni
versity farm. The average of 23 year
ly records of these cows is 5,000
pounds of milk and 222 pounds of but
ter.
The value of 222 pounds Of butter at
27 cents a pound is equal in round
numbers to $60. The average com
mon cow of this state produces a re
turn yearly of but $46. She is. there
fore yielding $14 a year less than if
jiven the same care and feed that the
cows in the university herd received.
Lends Zest to Game.
The man who keeps accurate track
of his cows’ production always has a
record to beat, and beating a former
record lends zest to any game.
Don’t Overlook Ice Cream.
Dairymen who are so situated that
they can produce a high grade of
cream should not overlook the possi
bilities of the ice cream trade.
Fly Swatting Campaign.
Keeping the barn and surround
ings free from manure is a good lick
in the annual fly swatting campaign..
Keep Calf Growing.
There should be no marking time
while the dairy calf is growing to ma
turity.
VALUABLE AID.
J
Bronson—Da you help your wife
clean house?
Woodson—Well, sometimes I knock
the scot out of the stovepipe hat.
Judging Him.
It Isn’t the way my brother lives.
It isn’t the foolish words he speaks,
Nor the foes he makes and his wild mis
takes.
But the goal in life my brother seeks
Optimistical.
The footpad grinned as he ran
sacked the pockets of the lone pedes
trian.
“What are you grinning at?” queried
the victim.
“Oh, nothing in particular,” an
swered the footpad. “You see I’m one
of those chaps who are unable to take
things seriously.”
In Old Kentucky.
The Coroner—But why are you so
positive the deceased was accidentally
killed, colonel? Perhaps it was a
case of suicide.
The Colonel—Youh seem to have
ovahlooked the fact, suh, that a quaht
bottle full of liquor—full, I repeat,
suh—was found in his ovahcoat pock
et, suh.
The Rara Avis.
“Blinks is a most remarkable man."
"In what way?”
“Moved into the country and hasn’t
said even once that he had to sleep
under blankets.”
No Loss.
Mrs. Rosenbaum—Oh, Jacob, little
Ikey has swallowed a dime.
Rosenbaum—Send him to bed wid
out his supper. Dot vill make it
aboudt efen.”
Quite a Few.
“I have just been reading the consti
tution of the United States."
"Well?”
“And I was surprised to find out
how many rights a fellow really has.”
Business Advice.
“Every employer wants a square
peg. my boy."
“Yes, dad.”
“In other words, there Is no place
for the rounder.”—Judge.
Has Other ’Jres.
“The human forehs.ad is the seat of
reason.” /
"That’s the popular conception.
Sometimes it is merely used as a prop
for a whim of fashion.”
Spoiled Her R'eisure.
Trott—Well, my dear, did you en
joy your shoppirg trip today?
Mrs. Trott—No, I didn’t. I found
exactly what 1 wanted in the very
first store I entered.
A FULL HEAD.
Haroiu—i have an idea.
Hattie—You seem to have a rush of
thoughts to the head.
Service.
Tlie grafter is a creature queer.
A most suspicious elf.
Who says he serves the public dear,
But simply helps himself.
A Bird of a Family.
He—Doctor Quack’s daughter has a
swanlike neck, hasn’t she?
She—Yes; and his wife has about
as much sense as a goose.
He—And the doctor has a bill like
a pelican.
A Common Occurrence.
“Brutus certainly did one of the
most contemptible things a man can
do."
“What was that?”
“Cutting an old friend dead.”
Paw Knew the Brand.
Little Lemuel—Say. paw, this paper
has an article headed, “A Woman With
a Mission.” W’hat does that mean?
Paw—It probably means, son, that
her husband is a dyspeptic and has
holes in his socks.
Don’t Do It.
“They say that human beings have
many of the characteristics of the brute
creation.”
“That may be true. But I don’t see
why any man should wish to imper
sonate a crab.”
A RECKLESS SENTIMENT.
“Here is a book tbat ought to be in
every home." said the persuasive'
agent.
“What’s it about?” inquired Farm-;
er Corntossel.
“Political economy.”
“It oughtn’t to be encouraged.
They’ve been slightin' appropriations:
so much that it doesn't look like we’d
get any chance at government money!
out this way. What I want to see isi
somethin’ that’ll whoop it up feT old-;
fashioned political extravagance."
Safety First.
"My wife told me to drop in and get
her a new flatiron.”
“Here is the latest thing in flatirons.!
It is called ‘The Husband's Favorite.’
: "What's the reason for the name?"
“The shape of the handle makes it
absolutely unthrowable.”
Way of the World.
Old Singleton—When I was a yonng
man, 1 felt that I didn’t have enough,
money to get married.
Flubdub—But you surely bava
enough now.
Old Singleton—Yes; but now I have
other uses for it.—Judge.
Another Face on It.
"We ran across an old friend of
yours the other day.”
"Who was It and where did you
meet him?”
"It was Mr. Toddler, and we didn't
exactly meet him—he wouldn't get
out of the way.”
THE REASON.
Mrs. Askitt—Mrs. Bjones says she
i-p\y dresses for sense and comfort.
Mrs. Wise—That’s a blufT. Her hue
kand only gets $15 a week Haiary.
Two of a Kind.
I know a brave one-legged man.
And he is hard to beat:
He always does the best he can
To get there with both feet.
The Path of Charity.
“He was a very charitable person,
wasn’t he?”
“Very. After he died each of his rel
atives had to hire a lawyer to break
bis will.”—Detroit Free Press.
Something Wrong.
"Is this a studied insult, or what?"
"How now, girlie?”
"This fellow writes on his card
Sweets to the sweet' and Bends' me
n package of lemon crops.”
Th.ee-Act Monologue.
“It’s a winder nobody has ever
dramatized ‘Robinson Crusoe.' ”
‘You're right. A three-act play like
that ought to be just the thing for a
papular star.
The Real Toil.
“I used to practice five hours a day
on the piano,” said the musician.
‘You are through with that drudg
ery now.”
"Drudgery? Those were times of
restful leisure. Now I have to work,
fourteen hours a day giving lessons.”
Expensive Eating.
'Your husband is very fond of lux
urious eating, isn’t he,” said one
woman.
"Yes." replied the other. “If them
is such a thing as reincarnation. I
fancy he will turn into a moth.”
Distinction of Terms.
"Of course you favor the uplift?”
“1 don't know,” replied the busy
man. “I’m a plain, practical person.
Sometimes I think the uplift depends
too much on literature and acienca.
What 1 favor is the boost.”
His Guess.
Church—Did you ever notice when
frogs jump how Quietly they land on
their feet?
Gotham—Perhaps they wear rubber
heels.
Close Figuring.
Postal Clerk—Your letter Just bal
ances, miss; if it weighed any more,
you would have to put on another
stamp.
Pretty Blonde—Gracious! f’r glad t
didn’t sign my middle name!—Judge
Educating Our Girls.
“Don’t you think every girl ought to
be able to cook?”
"I think every girl ought to be
able to talk intelligently on the sub
ject, anyhow," said the society lady
addressed.
Not Much.
Church—It is said the telephone
voice travels at the rate of 56,00#
miles per second.
Gotham—Oh, well, in that rflflc ,t
doesn’t make much difference If % fC|.
low does stutter.
Newly Married.
Bimm-whtft Is the reason f0P
Jinks sudden pseudo-pompous dlrnt
fled marmerV '
Bed manner?
Tilton—He
recently married,
he’s trying to live up to h7s“wi^ *?*
ion of him.-Judge ** °vi*\