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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1901)
I it ; A Massachusetts Mortgage. The last bill is paid, and there Is Juat ono hundred dollar left," and Myra solemnly Jabbed the point ot the Wll.fllo tfcrough that last receipt. Myra bad made that bill file herself, with a knitting needle, a ult ot pine board, and a pinch of putty. "Given a farm of fifty acres" ("pretty well coatei". with atones") In terpolated the Irrepressible Dolly. Myra calmly Ignored the Interrup tion. "A decent houoe, two barns, a pig pen" "sans a pig." "a ben pen " "With forty hens," this quite unex pectedly from Jean. "Ono horse, twoows, and four girls without clothes, means or professions " "nothing bat boundless ambition," murmured Dolly. "And" Myra stopped and faced the rt. "and-" . "The Octopus," they groaned In chorus. "Well, well girls, we must not be too easily discouraged," said Myra, briskly. Her BplrlU usually rose when ercrybody else'a ran down. "We are wmfortably housed for the winter, with plenty of wood, fruit and vege tables, hay and corn enough for the stock, and the Octopus fed for this year" "With sixty good Juicy greenbacks." groaned Dolly. "Why don't you try silver dollars. Myra? They would choke him sure." "What can we do?" burst out Dolly desperately. "If only we lived In town perhaps I might get some music schol ars; but there Is not much hope out here." "That would be Pegasus harnessed to a plough." laughed Myra. "Fancy Dolly counting 'one. two, three,' to Reireless beginners." They all laughed a little at the harrowing picture, and someway the skies brightened a bit. Suddenly Jean looked up almost de fiantly. "I believe we could make a llrlng keeping hens." She expected a volley ot protests, and she was not disappointed. "Hens, why Jean Burton!" "Ugh, the nasty things!" "There wouldn't be a green tiling left on the place." "How many do you think that it would take to feed the Octopus?" Dut Ruthle, their gentle Invalid, was the worst ot all. "You must be crazy, Jean! Why, it would be disgraceful. Fancy one of the llurton girls peddling eggs and chick ens around the streets." "She's a genius," cried Dolly, who had bwn studying the bit ot brown paper. "I know she will succeed. Now Jean could never draw a cow so but what you would call it a wheelbar row, and while we have been talking Octopus and slch, she has been cover ing this page with big plump hens, and the most darling little chickens. Why, Jeanla. dear, I'd know they weren't robins, even if chlckenB had never been mentioned." "I think Jean Is right," said Myra slowly. "For a year before father died I had a feeling that public sentiment In Wilcott was somehow rather against us. Since be died, and I found out ,how deeply we were in debt, and about the mortgage, I have thought that ex plained it I suppose It did seem as it we were selfish and extravagant, for almost everybody knew about our money affairs excepting us. However, we'll live it down; and Jean, I'm ashamed to think that we laughed at you; for at least you have a plan, and that la more than the rest of us can say. Now go ahead and tell us about it" Jean began with some hesitation. She had always been the shy one, and she hated to be laughed at. "Well, you know, girls, that I have taken nearly all the care of the fowls for the last two years. I began when father was Bret taken 111, and before the summer was over I found that I really en joyed It So I watched other people's liens and methods, studied the poul try papers, and I found that systematic care and feeding wont a long way to ward success. You see you must be careful to feed a balanced ration " "Whatover is that? Anything like a teeter-board?" 'Oh, Dolly, don't; of course It lBn't It means the kind ot food that won't produce too much fat, and will give bones and flesh, and by and bye eggs as well." "Perhaps it you fed fish enough they'd grow bo many brains that after awhile we could plant our garden-sass iu their yards, and they'd never touch it" "Go on, Jean; I'm getting interested; t didn't supposo there was any science to keoping a hen." "There's science to everything that brings succoss," answered Jean sober ly. "Then I found that 'bad luck' usually meant carelessness; so I Hhut up my chickens to protect them at night from the skunks and owls, and my 'brood' grew the best ot any about heie. I don't mean to say that I know It all, nor Indeed but very little, but I think that I have the key to success with poultry, and I am sure that If we are willing to go slowly we can build up a successful and in time, maybe, a large business. There Is surely money In hona it one is willing to work for it" "And we've got to work for success, or even a living, at whatever we try. Out what will you do with your wares it you do not intend to peddlo them?" """Mr. Warnor will take them. You know he has a big market In Doston, and he happened along one day last summer while I was feeding my .chicks. He doomed much Interested, and asked me why I didn't ship my wares to the city. 'I would give you a fair price the year round,' he said. 'There is al ways a demand for fresh eggs and ttoort poultry.' When ho loft he re pealed his offer. 'If you ever decide. V enlargo your poultry business, send me the products, and 1 will do the best I can for you.' So you see the market la waiting tor us." Jean's dark face lighted up in one of Its rare moments till It looked al most beautiful, and Dolly threw her arms about her and kissed her, while Ruth, feeling that the die was cast and the family honor forever blem ished, settled back on the lounge with out a murmur. As spring drew near, the plans began to materialize. Jean studied poultry papers, and they talked hens till Dolly declared that fried meat tasted like omelette, and corned beef like chicken pie. Jean bought ten large dry goods boxes, aad hired a carpenter for a day. He Bade four of them over into neat little houses, with sloping roofs and sliding wire doors, according to some plans Jean had found. These vere to hold twenty Chicks each, while they were small To make the rest over, Jean hired the neighbor's boy, who did their chores. He was a handy lad ot fifteen, and by following the carpen ter's pattern and Jean's directions, he managed to convert the rest Into dry and comfortable tenements, It they were not quite as symmetrical as the models, while Jean and Myra found that they, too, could learn to drive nails and saw boards with considerable accuracy. A little later two brooders were made one for the wee chicks, and the other for them as they outgrew the first Jean had begun to hatch out her chickens, when Myra discovered her one day casting up accounts with a very sober face. "Won't thsy balance?" "No; the bills weigh down so," an swered Jean, frowning. 'I'm afraid I must avail myself of your offered loan, after all." "I think you have done well not to need any more; an) business requires Borne capital" "Indeed, there are; you are an old dear, and I fancy we shall need all of your confirmed optimism before we get" "The Octopus burled." chimed in Dolly, who had arrived In time to hear the last words. Only Jean's chicken yard flourished without drawback. She had bought a good thoroughbred In the spring, and several sittings of eggs from straight fine laying stock. Of course this was not "fancy" at all, but reliable and excellent for her purpose. " 'Tis eggs that pay the best, I be lieve, in the long run, and I am going to work for them; and so long as I can not start with flret-class stock I shall use my best hens, and gradually work into eomethlng above the ordinary." She continued hatching until well Into the summer, and the first of Au gust found her with two hundred healthy growing chicks. They were matured as carefully as though they had been "real Incubator babies," as Dolly said. "Why Jean gets up nights to put on their ocks and fill their nursing bottles." But this was early in the spring, when Jean was wakened by a high wind, and went out 10 see if the brooder was warm enough. "I do consider that well started 1b half won," she answered. "If a little more care means success, I am willing to give it" So she fed on the most approved plan, with oatmeal and baked food, kept her houses warm and clean, and by the time they were ready to shift a little more for themselves, the "danger age" was past, thanks to this same vigilant care. But even with no drawbacks, at this stage her poultry brought in no re turns, and the outlook was better filled with promise than with proofs. " 'Tis of no use girls," groaned Ruth, one hot day in mid-summer. "Either the market is flooded, or else Dick Isn't much of a huckster. He has brought home nearly all the raspberries, and every pea and potato. What aro wo going to do?" Even Myra's face fell. "I thought there was always a market tor good fresh garden stuff at some price." sho said vaguely. "There's ono thing wo can do," said Dolly suddenly, "and If grandfather Burton turns over In his jjrave, we phall never know it Wo can take boarders. There Is always an over flow at Mrs. Smith's, and she has nice people, too. We could manar;o half a dozen as well as not in this big house; aad I'll do the cooking, and play for the hops." Ruth was past remonstrating. She merely said: "Jean's business career seems to havo fired your ambition, Dolly, If you aro willing to turn cook." And thus It was settled, and brighter days began to dawn. The vegetables and berries, eggs and cream, found a ready market on the Burton table. Myra'o good Judgment soon taught her how to plan and buy wisely, and her cheery manner never failed toward the most trying boarder. Dolly's slim fingers developed wonderful concoc tions to supplement the good country fare, and the summer which at first promised bo little, grew rich In experi ence, and satisfactory in money. . The wind tried Its best to shako tho staunch old farm bouse that Christmas eve, but within four happy faces wero gathered around the open grate. The only outward change that the past ten years had brought, save a few of tho Inevitable marks ot time, was a very small boy asleep In Ruth's old nest "I'm glad John didn't plan to come over till morning," said Myra, as a specially vicious blast made tho win dows rattle. "It Is a fearful night O, girls, does It seem possible that It has been cloven years slnco wo faced thn problem ot llfo in earnest? And surely wo havo reason to be both proud and thankful that wo can look back on so largo n measure ot bucccss. Failures thorp have been, ot course but tho re trospect BhowB only triumphs." "Especially that" laughed Dolly, taking down the shapely white hands which had been lazily crossed behind her head, and waving one toward the couch, "I never could think, Myra, that it was Just, fair for you, a successful farmeress, to marry the best young farmer in North Wilcott It would have been far more philanthropic for you each to have married some poor soul who couldn't make both ends meet" Thanks, Miss Dolly; Just bear that advice In mind when some long haired professor offers you his soulful self; but you must remember that It was my failure in raising potatoes that first drew John's mind BurtonwartL" "Because we didn't know enough to feed the btur? on parls green instead of potato tops" laughed Ruth. "But after all, while potatoes and boarders helped. It was the chickens that paid the debt" "Of course it was," answered. Myra warmly. "Wo should have pinchod along till doomsday with only the farm and boarders for profit But we could never have made the old place blos som as It does now If It hadn't been for Jean and her biddies. Jean flushed happily. "My hens have paid; but you give me too much credit I could never have won the battle alone; and I feel like saying so, some times, to the people who come here to see 'your famous poultry yards,' or the 'hens that paid the mortgage.' " "Or the "woman who can run a big poultry plant and yet look a lady.' " This was a standing Joke, but Jean could never take it calmly. "I have had Borne queer experiences in the past ten years, and that was only putting into words what most peo ple are too polite to say. As It there were anything unsexlng in keeping hens." "Give us a rcsumo of the whole. Jean. Call It a 'Cycle In Hendom.' " Jean gazed thoughtfully Into the fire, and then began slowly: "Of course, you and Myra know all about the first five years, with their constant struggle to make both ends meet, keep decently clothed, and eavc something toward the mortgage. And then of a sudden, as it seemed, the tables turned, and my poultry began to pay all the bills very comfortably; but there was nothing marvelous in this; we had gained enough experience In our general farming so that we could pay those bills and hire a capable man. I had Increased my flocks, bouses and experience year by year, till I had enough of all three to give me plain sailing. I had learned that in business 'a good name was rather to be chosen.' etc, and that the best never went un sold. "I think that above all else, my suc cess haB been due to the possession of a good business bead, hands that were not afraid ot any work, however dis tasteful, painstaking care 1b details, and a determination to do and have the very best In short. I have suc ceeded because I felt It to bo as much my duty to be an 'artist' in poultry keeping as you do in piano playing. Besides, I could never have done half so well had It not' been for Ruthle's help. How you did mother thooo in cubators the first winters. I should have used them for kindling before 1 ever mastered them." "I didn't mind. I was so glad to help, even a little but go on, Jean." "There isn't much more to tell. 1 paid the last hundred on the mortgage last week. I could have done It long ago, but I preferred making some Im provements first As long as I was sure ot a certain Income it seemed foolish to get along without the com forts wo desired. So I put up the wind mill, fixed up the old bouse, put In a furnace, and owned the fastest horse in North Wilcott, even while thers were some arras left to the Octopus. "You know that Myra had a reason able plenty for her wedding outfit, that Dolly spent two years at the conserva tory, and that Ruth and I have had much happiness sprinkled through the years. Our chief trouble has been to find a faithful man who was willing to stay o".t here; but now that Tom Is so contented we seem to be out of danger. ' fine stopped and looked at Myra. 'Can't you contribute to this experience fund?" "My ixperlencc is patent to all," Myra atswered, with shining eyes. "I am the happiest woman in tho world, with the dearest husband and baby. 1 rejoice that the rest of you have ca reers, but for me " "Love Is king." quoted Dolly, Boftly. "Your turn. Dolly." "I do not know what the future may bold," she said dreamily, "but even Myra, with her 'fullness of life,' Is no happier than I. I have all the concert work I can possibly do this winter, with the entree into the very best so cietybest because it is life that means something. Next year I shall go abroad, and the future is full ot possi bilities." A silence fell on the group, each busy with her dreams of the unknown fu ture, till the old clock struck eleven when Dolly, as usual, had the last word. "I really believe that If grandfather Burton could look in on us tonight, ho'd Bay we were worthy tho Burton namo after all." Annie L. Rogers in Farm Poultry. ' Coin. When there has been a real cut, with profuse bleeding, plungo tbe part In as hot water as can be borne, says Dr. Julia Holmes Smith In tho Ledger, and then take a bit ot absolutely clean cotton or linen, place upon It a little vasollne or lard even, and hold the ed ge of the wound together, and bind it as tightly as possible. Thus tho of flco of tho court plaster or adhesive plaster Is replaced by what Is certain ly to bo found in every farmer's fam ily, I havo known good results to bo obtained from binding upon cuts spid ers' webs, to bo found In every attic. THE JOY OF THE HILLS'. I ride on the mountain top, I ride; 1 have found my life and am satisfied. Onward I ride In the blowing oats, Checking the neld-lark's rippling notes Lightly I sweep From steep to steep: Over my head through the branches high Come glimpses of a ruining sky; The tail oata brush my horse's flanks ; A tire looms out ot the scented gram; A Jay laughs with me as I pass. I ride on the hills. I forgive. I forget Life's hoard of ferret All tbe terror and pain Of the chafing chain. Orlnd on, O cities, grind: I leave you a blur behind. I am lifted date the skies expand: Hero the world's heaped gold Is a pile of sand. Let them weary and work in their narrow walls: I rldo with the voices of waterfalls I I swing on as one In a dream I swine Dawn the airy hollows, I shout. I alngl The world Is gone like an empty word: My body's a bough In the wind, my heart a bird! . . . Edwin Markham. Lake Cities to Be Ocean Ports. The work of transforming the lake cities into Atlantic ports has been res olutely taken up by the Northwestern Steamship Company of Chicago, which has constructed four sister ships 255 feet long to ply regularly between Chi cago and European ports and an nounced their sailing to begin during the present month. These vessels named respectively the Northwestern, the Northeastern, the Northman, and the Northtown, sail from Chicago for Hamburg, Liverpool, and London loaded with machinery, canned and boxed meats, lard and other products of the great manufacturing and pro ducing Bectlon fronting upon our in land seas. These ships, according to a letter received by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics from the manager of the Company, are of the lake type of con struction, but built with a Bpoclal view to combination of lake and ocean traf fic and aro supp.icd with special fa cilities for rapid loading and unload ing. They pass necessarly through the Canadian canals, the Welland and St Lawrence, to the head of deep water navigation at Montreal and will In their trip traverse 73 miles of canals and pass through 4C locks, depending on their own propelling power throughout the entire voyage. It Is estimated that the time occupied be tween Buffalo and Montreal, between which the canal system extends, will be about three days. Communications to the Bureau of Statistics from lake cities and ports express the hope that this enterprise may result in serious consideration of tho proposition to construct entirely within the United States a deep-water canal connecting the Lakes with the Atlantic The pres ent depth of the Welland canal Is 14 feet and the depth of most of tbe har bors on the Lakes is 20 feet, and it Is evident that those 'desiring to see tbe cities located upon tbe Great Lakes made In fact Atlantic ports and con nected by direct steamship lines with the great seaboard cities ot the world will desire at least an American canal with a depth equal to that of the Great Lake harbors, viz.. 20 feet Temperance In the South. It Is said that the South Is rapidly becoming the temperance section ot the United States. In contradistinc tion to tho fact that before and after the civil war more liquor was made and consumed In tho Southern Btates than elsewhere, It Is now true that ot the 200.000 liquor dealers In the coun trv having licenses of various sorts, there are only 1,000 In Alabama, 750 in Arkansas, 400 in Florida, 1,200 In Georgia, 350 in Mississippi, 1,200 in North Carolina, and 325 in South Car olina, where the dispensary system prevails, and in which there has been a very marked reduction in tho sa!e3 during the past few years. In Missis sippi is a tax of six hundred dollars yearly on each saloon', nnu there are now fewer saloons In tho cntlro state than in some wards of New York and Brooklyn. Georgia Is a high-license state, also with absolute prohibition in some counties. Kentucky and Mary land produce whisky in very largo quantities, but the returns of the United States treasury indicate that the larger part of tbo product Is ship ped north; comparatively little is sent south for consumption. A state In which wine and whisky drinking has increased materially is California. Jurs of Apple !' "But apples! You take good, sharp, Juicy winter apples and pare them and quarter and core them and slice them and strew them on the well-worked and well-shortened undercrust, niado out ot good winter wheat flour, and put In a little sweet butter and Just enough sugar and a clovo or two and nutmeg and cinnamon aad maybe a lit tle lemon peel and then Ax on the cover and take a caso-knlfe and trim off the superflous dough around the rim and pinch up the edge with your thumb and finger all around to make It look pretty and gosh the top some thing like a leaf so as to let out tho steam and then set It in an oven that bakes Just right, top and bottom, and let It stay there till It browns tho right 1 shade, and I tell you you've got a pic. says ttarvcy sutueriana in Ainsices, And when ma opens tho oven door to seo how It la getting along, thero Is such a nice smell all through tho house wait a second till .1 swallow; I'm 'most choked and It seems as If you Just couldn't wait till dinner time comes oh, ye3; I guess warm apple pie is about right And cold apple plo can bo got down, especially If there is n ploco of chceso onlhe plato beside It, this kind ot chceso that Is all crumbly and has about a million little stickers In It. "Apple plo Is always In stylo. Go Into a restaurant and ask for n 'cut of stan dard nndtho.waltor will, bring; you a plece"tf apple "pie. ' He knows what standard pie Is. There are times in the year when other kinds make a spurt and run on ahead a little, but apple pie keeps Jogging on, and by and by it overtakes them. This month mince pie Is In the lead because It Is near Christmas, and that Is an orthodox Christmas article of diet. Last month pumpkin pie had the call because It was ThanksglvlDg time. Next spring when pie-plant comes In some people call It rhubarb, but that always sounds stuck-up, and like you were trying to show off everybody will eat pie-plant because It's good for the blood. In the summer ppach pie will forgo away In the front, and I'll never tell why. But, Just as I say, apple pie keeps Jogging on and in the long run wins the race. I mean the -right kind of apple pie. Once in a while you will meet some body that Is always trying to be differ ent from anybody else, and he will go on about English deep apple pie, and how much suporlor It is to tho com mon vulgar thing wo cat because wo don't know any better. Well, English deep apple plo is good; I don't deny that It can't help being good. You cook apples almost any way and they're not bad eating, but law met when you put them in a crock and turn a little cup upside down in tho middle of them and cover It all over with a lid of pastry, that isn't a pie at all. It's Just stewed apples. Don't you see that you must have a bottom of pastry and that there is a Just proportion of crust to filling that must not be devi ated from one iota or your pie Ib Inar tistic and an offense against the laws of tnstc?" llerlpes. Cherry Cream Fill china cases half full of stoned cherries, then fill up with one ounce of gelatin dissolved in one half cupful of milk, sweetened to taste. Set on lec and serve with whipped cream. Spinach Salad Take the leaves from the spinach, wash it in several waters, put it in a kettle to cook without any water aad cook for twenty minutes or until the spinach Is tender, drain and chop fine. Add a tablespoonful of melt ed butter, salt and pepper. Press Into moldri and chill. Serve on thin slices of cold tongue or on lettuce leaves moistened with a French dressing. Strawberry Ice Mash two quarts strawberries with two pounds of sugar. Let it stand an hour or more, then strain. Add as much water as there is Juice. Puck for freezing, and when half frozen add beaten eggs In the pro portion of three to a quart. The wild berries are best for this. Rhnbarb Pie Peel and chop two cups ot rhubarb, mix one and one fourth cups of sugar and two table spoonfuls of flour together and add to tbe rhubarb, also add tho yolks of eggs slightly beaten and one teaspoou ful of butter. Line a pie plate with paste, fill with the mixture and bake In a moderate oven until the fruit Is soft Cover with a meringue made with the whites beaten stiff, and add two tablespoonfuls ot powdered sugar and continue beating until It Is very light Place the meringue on tbe plo and boko in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes. Sunshino Cake Whites and yolks ot six cgg3, ono cup granulated sugar, two-thlrdb cup ot flour sifted soven times, one-half teaspooniul cream of tartar, pinch of salt. Beat tho yolks very thoroughly. Beat the whites about half and add the cream of tartar and then beat very stiff. Stir In tho sugar, stir In the yolks, add the Hour. Bake thirty-five minutes. . Item. A great mending of state tapestries will soon begin in France. The task ot filling in all ot the worm-cnten parts of 233 tapestries will be done at the Gobelin establishment Of these ninety hardly hold together. Tho cost will be ?UO,000. The work will bo spread over twelve years, because there are so few skillful workmen equal to it Tho Btato owns In all 635 tapestries made beforo tho revolution. Astronomers aro discussing the the ory that tho moon is In its glacial epoch. One telescopic expert calls the "craters" Ico cups and tho streams nlong their sides glacial wnter. An other Insists that the signs ot volcanic action are unmistakable. All agree that most ot the moon's surface Is In tensely white. Tho dark regions aro termed beas, but thero is no cvldonco that they contain wnter. Somo writers believe they are covered with tho ear liest forms of vegetation. Mrs. J. K. Robb, a doat-muto ot Grecnsburg, Pa., gavo birth to twins recently nnxl la a day or two began to hear dimly. She has Btendlly Im proved In this respect and now nearly every sound Is audible to her. Physi cians are unable to account for the clrcura&tnnce Mrs, Rabb hns already learned to pronounce slmplo words and thero is uo reason to doubt that she will eventually gain comploto power of speech. Between tho town of Los Angeles and Pasadena, southern California, there has been constructed an over head path for the exclusive use ot cyclists. Tho path Is built o( wood, varies from tbreo feet to fifty fcot In height and has nu average gradient of ono In eighty. Tho path accommo dates four machines nbioast and Is lit thoroughly by cloctrlc light. University chaporons aro tho latest Vlcnneso novelty. In consoquenco of tho riotous nml Insulting behavior of tho malo students when tho women tried to avail themselves of tho nowly granted permission to nttoud locturos many mothora of women students hnvo registered for tho unlvcmlt lectures Iu order to accompany and protect their daughters. Some newly Importod wedding velU aro of thin chiffon, livnutlfiilly om ,bioldeiod at tho border with whlto silk, i THE SEA KINCt. Bine th Golden Hind went round th Horn and circled a world unknown, Wherever the tides of God have beat and the winds of God have blown. Prom tn sunrise seas to the sundown seas, by the storm and the spindrift whirled. The sons of the men who sailed with Drake have ruled the water world. And whether they sail from Plymouth llo or out of the Golden Oate, They are brothers In blood linked heart to heart and to a resistless fate; For the quenchless ardor to rule the sea which time can never stake, Makes the same blood race through Dewey's veins that throbbed from the heart of Drake. And all the way out of Trafalgar, down Into Manila Bay, The Anglo-Saxon has sailed, and fought, and struggled, and won his way; And wherever the tides of God may beat and the winds of God may blow, It will be tomorrow as It Is today and It was In the long ago I James Lindsay Gordon. Little Well Diggers. In wandering about the lowlands an observant person may find a number of little mounds, generally near to the edges of ditches and streams. These little heaps vary from three to six Inches In height and are? sometimes nearly a foot across, and are made up of small pellets of mud and clay. In the center of each Is a hole of an Inch or more In diameter which Is an out let or inlet for the little architect who Inhabits the well. These little tunnels or wells are generally known as snake holes, for they are supposed to be filled with snakes, and they aro avoided by scary children or broken into by bold er ones, but to the thoughtful stroller they are ever a source of Instruction and interest, says Animal World. It is very difficult to discover tho well digger at work, for It Is believed that these little fellows mainly work at night Still I have twice observed tho sly fellows carrying out the soil from their burrows In broad daylight, and the workers may be busy all day long in their underground abodes. The makers of these wells are the fresh-water lobsters, or crayfish, often called crabs by the boys. If an ob server is quiet for a time, while sitting near these heaps, or chimneys, as they arc called, he may sec a claw careful ly raised out from tbe hole and then ono to four pair of legs follow, to gether with a pair of bead-like black eyes. If tbe least suspicious movement is seen by tbe tunnel inhabitor, he drops back into burrow and only re appears after quite a lapse of time If at all for that day. A new observer is surprised to find that the maker of these tunnels is the same creature that he has often seen crawling about on tbe bottom of the streams and ditches Jnst a smaller relative of the big lobster we eat. It Is probable that these wells are begum at the top, but I cannot learn that any one has seen" the beginning of a tunnel Then as the well gets deeper the pellets are brought up and deposited at the- sides aad in lime these accumulations form walls at the side ot the well and take tbe form of chimneys. The limy nature of tho ma terial found, in. tho deeper soil in low lands, causes the pellets to stick to- gether, and the result Is quite like a mud chimney. These tunnels always lead to water, which is generally found at depth of 'two foot or less, but at times tho well is all of four feet deep. TfutrltW Valu nt Recent experiments- of tbe Depart ment of. Agriculture show that fruits In general contain remarkably little stutf that is convertible, when eaten, into muscle nnd blood! Bananas and grapes have about 2 per cent, while apples cherries, strawberries, blackberries, cranberries, lemons- and oranges aro ablo to lay claim to- only 1 per cent this, too, whoa skins and seeds aro put aside. On this account, such ar ticles ot diet aro obviously ill adapted to sustain human, life for any length ot time, though they possess great medic inal valuo and. contribute much to health. Fruits aro, bowover, relatively rich in. sugar and starch, and hence are use ful, as fuel to keep the body machlno going. Bananas have 27 per cent of theso materials grapes 21 per cent, ap ples 1C. per cent cherries and cranber ries 11 perccnt.orangcs 0 per cent lem ons pur cent, and strawberries 7 per cent In this case, as before, only tho edible portions are considered. Black berries aad grapes have 2 per cent of fat, and the other fruits mentioned contain 1 per cent Watormelon pulp is 92 per cent water. Among vegetables Lima beans havo the highest food value, containing 32 per cent of nutrients. Sweet potatoes como next, with 23 per cent, green peas noxt with 22 per cent, whlto potatoes next with 21 per cent nnd string beans noxt with 13 per cent. Green sweet corn has 19 per cent of nutrients, beets 12 per cent, turnips 11 per cent cabbage, cauliflower and spinach 8 per cent, eggplant and lottuco 7 per cent, to matoes and asparagus 6 per cent and cucumbors 4 per cent Dry beans or rice nro about tho most eco nomical ot foods ono can buy, contain ing as they do S3 per cent of solid nu triment. Fish has very high food Talue, In fact, la vary nearly na nutritious ns chlckon or turkey. A pound ot eggs, on tho other hand, yields only hnlt aa much nourishment ns a pound of lean beef, notwithstanding a well-known populnr theory. Acting on tho belief that If you want to break a man of a bid habit you must glvo hint n good ono in exchango for It, tho rla of Westmoreland. Knn., havo established n loafing placa Tor tho young men, with a view o keeping them out of tho "Joints." Lata papers and ningnzmos nro kept on bund and refreshments nro Borved twlco u weolc. So far tho cxporltueut him boon u pronounced success. l7grg5ryK,'c,gg IHsJWMSroWSa5