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,
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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.
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