THE HERALD.
T.J.O'KEEFE, Publlshor.
HEMINGFORD, - NEDRABKA
NEBRASKA NEWS,
FARM FACTS.
Tho wlfo of Jasper McCoy, a one
Mmcd man living on the Niobrara river
north of UjIb place, nave birth to live
babies, four boys and one girl. This Is
considered very discouraging to tho
Spaniards.
H. C. Held, a prominent business
man and respected citizen for twenty
five years, died at Grand Islnnd. Ho
had been ailing for several yearB, but
heart failure was the Immediate cause
of his death. z
Anonunecmcnt Is mnde of the death
of Mrs. M. P. Cannon of Kearney.' Mrs.
Cannon died of apoplexy and paralysis.
She was D8 years of age, and came to
Kearney In 1873. Three sons and one
daughter, the latter at Ottumwa, la.,
mourn her passing away.
News has been received of tho death
of Mrs. J. F. Pugsloy of Ulverton, Neb.,
Who was an old pioneer of Nebraska
nnd Grand Army woman, being wife of
an old soldier and cousin of J. L. Wor
den, commander of the Monitor. Many
relatives and friends mourn her loss.
Plant on txtra patch of rorn for ill
sg, and if you have not one already
build a silo barn.
Tho greener you cure your hay, and
the more green corn fodder cut before
It Is too ripe and woody you feed tho
higher color yellow will your mills
have.
A subscription Is being raised In
Council UIuiTh for the purpose of sup
plying tho mess of the Dodge Light
Guards with palatable delicacies not In
cluded In the rations Issued by the gov
ernment. It Is hoped the sum of $250
or more may be raUed In this way.
The Pawnee county sheriff arrested
Francis Klrchner nnd Dennis McKer
nan of Liberty on a warrant sworn out
by Alfred French, who acctiseB them
with stealing four dozen chickens from
him. They were taken to Pawnee City
for a hearing. Both men belong to re
spectable families.
Hogn thrlvo better for having their
food salted, and hens also need It If
it Is not given them regularly In proper
amounts, when they get a chance at It
they will eat enough to kill themselves.
Who ever knew of a cow tiring of
good silage, clover hay nnd wheat bran,
but they do have whims and spells of
"going back" upon gluten, oil meal and
sprouts, and corn meal oven, and need
to have their nppetltcs humored, but
With the first three, never.
Hope Bprlngs with the springing
grans; spirits rise as the leaf unfolds;
resolutions strengthen as tho tree ex
pands; truBt In nature and her God 1b
purified and Bweetened by the perfume
of unfolding Mowers; In truth, the
springtime Is filled with signs nnd em
blems that fortify mnn for tho strug
gle that HeB before him. Farm, Stock
and Home.
Oonc of the biggest fakes for fnrmcrs
Is the agricultural school In connection
with tho university In Lincoln. It was
started to get farmer legislators to vote
money for the university. Another such
scheme has been decided upon. A
school for domestic Bclence. It 1b hoped
It may prove of more value than Is the
high sounding little doing school of agriculture.
A Missouri Pnclllc freight trnln load
ed with stone collided with a Sherman
avenue trolley train In Omnhn, totally
demolishing the motor. The trailer was
derailed, but not damaged to any great
extent. None of the passengers nor
tho train crew were Injured, although
nil were considerably frightened and
badly shaken up by the collision.
"Willie Schessted, nn olllce boy at tho
Cudahy pncklng house, while passing
along the railroad trucks enst of the
house In Omaha, was struck by a car
on the Bide of the head and badly In
jured. He did not Bee or hear the car,
which was being pushed buck, until It
struck him. He was picked up and
given medical attention, after which he
was taken to his home at the west side
of Hanscom park.
Not long since we were pnsslng a
great barn where a forty-cow dairy
was being kept for winter milk, and at
tho Hide of the barn was a huge pile
of waste corn stalks, which had been
carried out of tho mangers. "Look,"
said our companion, "there Is food
enough In that pile of wnste of re
jected fodder to make 1,000 pounds of
butter, and all rejected for two reasons,
palatablllty and Inability to masticate
the hard, woody material, a condition
which would have boen avoided by the
use of the silo." '
Corn and wheat middlings, corn un
ground, oats, bread, and other slops
from tho house should nil be fed to
fowls, changing as often as twice a
wetk.
Hens should bo killed when threo
years old, ns they lay less eggs every
year after the third, nnd nnturally be
come diseased and not as good eating
when they become older.
A good bronze gobbler mated with
three of four hens of the smaller breed
makes a good cross, nearly equal In
hardiness, size and early maturity to
the pure bred.
Those who are starting Incubators for
the first time will do well to experiment
with a small number of eggs at flrst.If
inexperience cruises loss, It Is well that
It should not be too large.
Chicks can be kept too constantly un
der glass. If being reared without a
hen, they need some dark, quiet place
to retreat to frequently for sleep, which
Is as Important to them as food.
Keep the hens and chickens tame, so
that a visit to the coop will not senre
them through the windows, und they
will do better. A scared hen cannot
do her beat any more than a scared
cow.
of dividing, as the qucn, the most Im
portant factor, is flrht produced and
the colony built up afterwards. Kan
sas Farmer.
Thieves broke Into the store of W.
II. Taylor of Exeter. The only goods
taken, so far ns known, were articles
of Jewelry, consisting of three gents'
gold watches, forty ladles' gold rings,
Btlckplns, etc. One watch was a cheap
affair. A horse was also fctolen from
Charles Roper the same night, likely
by the same party. Two well-dressed
tramps were In town, and suspicion
polntB to them.
Copies of the volunteer army bill have
been received and were examined by
the governor, adjutant general nnd of
ficers of the national guard who are
interested in the provlslonB relating to
the manenr of enlistment, especially on
the point of preserving the Integrity of
the organizations as they now exist and
retaining officers. The friends of the
guard are expressing themselves nB sat
isfied with the terms of the bill and
Governor Holcomb snld thnt he thought
It left things In good shape.
Persons wishing to experiment this
year with beet growing can obtain free
sample of seed, sufficient for planting
one-twentieth of nn acre by sending to
the state university, Lincoln, Neb.
Early application should be mnde as
the amount of seed nvnllable Is not
large and requests will be honored In
tho order of their reception. Analyses
of beets raised will be made free of
charge by the department of chemistry.
Brief directions for planting nnd cultl
avtlng and blank form for reporting
results will be sent with each package
of seed.
Dairy Doings.
All butter should be worked twice.
If you forget to color the crenm
and the butter comes white, put the
color In the salt.
Cream should be ripened at nbout "0
degrecB.
For a starter select some of the best
milk after skimming by sepnrator, heat
it to a temperature of 00 degrees and
have it In a room where temperature
does not go down lower than CO degrees
Rlponlng Croam.
The expert and experienced butter
maker Is able to tell by the appearance
of cream when It has attained the
proper degree of ripeness to mnke the
best butter, but It Is a difficult thing
to tell, In words, others so they can
know. Probably, for thlB reason, most
writers on buttermaklng do not attempt
to tell. We will try our hand at It;
Let us suppose the cream has been
held at a temperature of 60 degrees till
It plainly has an acid taste, but has
not begun to thicken. Now If It Is held
at thnt temperature for about fourteen
hours, It will ordinarily be In about
the right stage for churning. It will
be thickened, have a smooth, glossy
surface, and, when the ladle Is moved
through, It will wrinkle up In front of
the ladle. If some of the cream is lifted
up on the ladle, It will run off In a.
smooth stream, and, when the lost
drops fall In tho cream, they will leave
little pits or dents. As the cream runs
off the ladle It will be left with on
even covering of crenm over It the
cream will not run off In streaks.
Hoard's Dairyman.
HOW THE FLAVOR. IS RETAINED.
"The finest flavored butter Is made
by not washing, depending to expel the
dissolved salt and working to expel
the buttermilk; but If the butter must
be washed always bear In mind that
the less water used the finer the flavor."
The above sets us to thinking, so that
at the next churning there was no
washing done. That has been three
years ago, and there has been no wash
ing done since. The flavor Is now and
has been ever since Al all the time.
The only trouble with me now Is, I
can't make enough to supply the de
mand. I Bell to private families at
25 cents all the year around; the worrl
ment has departed and the business
has become a pleasure.
USES A NEW STYLE STARTER.
In regard to the starter, I take a
quart Mason fruit Jar 1111 It with Bklm
milk, from a cow recently fresh; after
the animal heat is out I screw on the
lid, thus keeping It from all outsldo
influence; in about 48 hours previous
to using It (according to the season), It
will have become sour, the curd nnd'
whey will be separated. I then strain
It, rejecting the curd nnd using only
the sour whey, and I don't want a
better butter started. This whey from
Calf Cholera.
My mode of treatment Is this: I re
move the calf Into a dry, warm place,
and If its extremities are cold, which
they usually are, 1 put some hot bricks
or a Jug of hot water to them, and
over calf and all with a blanket. I
then prepare medicine for It In this
way: Take one ounce each, pulverized
bayberry bark and hemlock bark, pul
verized cloves, cinnamon and ginger, H
ounce each. Put three pints boiling
water over them, after having mixed
them In a smnll Jar; stir, and cover
for a few minutes. Stir again and then
commence giving It to calf. Give one
ounce of the tea In two ounces of a
mixture of milk and hot water, every
half hour, until you give four doses.nnd
then one dose after each discharge until
the discharges become more natural.
By putting the mixture In a small bot
tle you will be able to give It beat. As
the calf Improves Incrense the quantity
of milk, but be careful to not give too
much. While treating the cnlf do not
give any more fluid than Indicated
above. Nature (perhaps, to wash out
the ptomaine), Is throwing too much
fluid into the alimentary tract, and you
must restrain It, and not assist lt.There
are several medicines called hemlock,
land some of them poisonous. It will bo
well to see that you get Plnus Cana
densis bark. The compound should bo
Btlrred each time before the dose Is
taken from It. This Is a good remedy
In ordinary scours. Put a dose In tho
feed once or twice a day. Hoard's
Dairyman.
A BOWERY LOVE TALE.
and where the nlr Is pure. Starter
Bhould be good and thick nnd have a the quart of skim milk will be suffl
It hns been reported In Washington
and the east that ex-United States Sen
ator Charles F. Manderson will be of
fered a major genernlcy of volunteers.
Since the first report was published
General Manderson to several of his
friends has Intimated that If offered
him he could not nccept such an ap
pointment. To a reporter General Man
Uerson said he hnd not yet received
any appointment or word that bucIi an
appointment was coming to him.
Farther than this, he positively de
clined to talk for publication.
It Is possible that Nebraska may get
a representation In the cavalry arm of
the volunteer service. A telegram was
received from Congressman Strode In
Which he says thnt under the proposed
call for 30,000 additional men no addi
tions to the organized mtlltln will be
accepted from Nebraska, but that a
regiment of volunteer cavalry will be
raised. In addition to troop A of Ne
braska national guard, there are In pro
cess of organization, more or less ad
vanced, a number of organizations that
will fill the bill. Colonel Pace of Lin
coln has already recruited enough to till
a troop or more. R. P. Jennings of
Pawnee has enough for another and
several troops are being formed by ex
membera old old troop A.
Herman Blumenthnl a merchant of
Fremont, wus In Omaha In search of
$1,000 worth of stolen property from his
store, and to that end swore out a
Bearch warrant fer the home of one of
the suspected burglars, but the search
availed nothing. The night of April 15
his store was burglarized of $420 worth
of merchandise, and the next day all
was recovered In nn outbuilding three
blocks away. One week later the store
was again burglarized, all of the stuff
previously stolen being carefully se
lected, with enough more to make up
the value of $1,000. Next day the Be
atrice bloodhounds followed their trail
by a roundabout way to the home of
Frank Fuhlrod, for four years previ
ously a dellveryman for Blumenthal
nnd sleeping at the store. The old em
ploye was arrested and his brother-in-law
In Omaha being also suspected, It
was for his house that the search war
rant was secured.
pleasant acid. Kansas Farmer.
If you churn for two hours nnd the
cream foams nnd the butter doesn't
come, reduce the qunntlty of cream
In the churn and see that the cream
is sufficiently acid.
In warm weather cool cream to 65 de
grees, stirring frequently. When the
cream begins to thicken cool to 60 de
grees, leaving enough Ice nnd water
surrounding the cream, so It will be
at the churning temperature, 52 de
grees In tho morning. Crenm should be
held at churning tempernture al least
two hours before the churning.
"Mottles" Is a term aplled to butter
when not oven in color, containing par
ticles having a lighter shade These may
be spots or running through In waves.
They are caused by Improperly incor
porating the snlt Into the butter. Reme
died by even distribution of the salt In
the butter, giving ample time for the
salt to dissolve, and when working see
ing that the butter receives the same
amount of working. Kansas Fnrmer.
After the tenth milking milk may be
accepted from a fresh cow.
Poultry Pointers
The hatching should be crowded from
now on until the early part of June.
Eggs are cheap now and It will be more
prolltnble If proper caro Is taken to
hatch them than to sell them. On the
farm chickens, or In fact, poultry of
any kind, can be raised during the
summer at a low cost. It costs no more
to grow a pound of pork where the
poultry can be given the range of the
farm, and It Is an exceptional case when
the poultry will not bring a higher
price.
As fnst nB the chickens reach a mar
ketable Blze they should be marketed.
In nearly all cases, for awhile, at least,
young poultry sell at higher prices than
matured fowls will In the fall. This Is
especially the case with the cockerel.
It may be best to keep a few of the best
pullets for next winter layers, but all
others should be marketed as fast as
they can be got Into a marketable con
dition. While after young turkeys are reason
ably well feathered It Is alwnys best to
allow them a free range, at the same
time It Is usually best to keep on feed
ing them regularly. While they will be
able to pick up a good part of their own
living, yet It Ib quite nn Item to push
tho crowth. and this can only te done
by liberal feeding. Like all other Btock
Intended for meat, quicK growtn ana
early maturity are essential to securing
the best profit. By ft-edlng regularly
another object Is also gnlned, and that
Is they are kept more gentle and win
be apt to come
no care Is taken
clcnt for about three gallons of cream.
JAMES T. MORLEY.
HOW LONG SHALL COWS OO DRY?
A year ngo we had a fine grade
Guernsey that was a deep milker, that,
for some reason, we had no record of,
so was not dried at all. When she came
In she gave but little more milk and be
gan at once to convert her feed Into
beef. She was from a family of great
milkers, whose ancestors we had upon
the farm over thirty years ago, but
Bhe had to go to the butcher's block.
We have cows In our stable now that
have not freshened, that have shown
signs of It for over six weeks. One of
the best dairy authorities claims a cow
will give more milk or make more but
ter to go dry three months, than a
less time. I would not put the time
over three months, but I would com
mence at least seventy days before she
was due, by milking once a day, and
calculate, she would have a period of
rest of at least sixty days. Hoard's
Dairyman.
When to Spray Fruits.
(Continued from last week.)
How to make and apply kerosene
Emulsion, Paris green, bordeaux mix
ture nnd alkaline wash was given In
laBt week'B Issue, where they will be
found.
FOR CHERRY TREES.
Use akallne wash before the buds
open and when the ophlds appear.
For Curcullo Use Purls green in Bor
deaux mixture when the buds ure open
ing; when the fruit is set, and one week
later.
For Leaf Spot Use Bordeaux mixture
before buds open, two weeks later and
at Intervals of two weeks until the fifth
application.
For Rot Use Bordeaux mixture be
fore flower buds open; when fruit Is set,
and ten days later.
FOR PLUM TREES.
For Curcullo Use Paris green In
Bordeaux before buds open; when fruit
Is set, and one week later.
For Rot Use Bordeaux mixture as
buds are swelling; Just after blossom
ing; after fmlt Is set; ten days later,
and use ammonlacal copper carbonate
as fruit Is coloring.
Ammonlacal carbonate of copper:
Take carbonate of copper, 5 ounces, dis
solve In two quarts of ammonia; keep
tightly corked until ready for use, then
mix It with forty or fifty gallons of
water and use It.
I know not If It be from lack of habit,
but I can never enter the New York
police court without an uneasiness, an
inexplicable heart pang. That grating,
those great courts, that stone staircase
o vast that everyone mounts It In Iso
lation, enveloped In his Individual tor
ment. The antiquity of the structures,
the melancholy clock, the helghlof the
windows, and also the mist of the quay,
that moisture that clings to walls that
skirts tho water, all give you a fore
taste of the neighborhood prison. In
the halls the Impression Is the Bame, or
more vivid still, because of the pecu
liar company which peoples them, be
cause of those long black robes which
make the solemn gestures, because of
those who accuse, and the unintelligi
ble records, the eternal records spread
out everywhere on the tables, carried
under the arms In enormous bundles,
overflowing.
There are great green doors, noise
less and mysterious, from whence es
cape when they are ajar gusta of
voices severe or weeping, and visions of
school benches, platforms black with
caps, and great crucifixes leaning for
wards. Muskets ring out on the flogs.
Sinister rumblings of carriages pass
shaking the arches. All these noises
blended together are like a respiration,
the panting breuth of a factory, the
apparatus of Justice at work. And
hearing this terlrble machine at labor,
one desires to shrink within himself, to
dwindle for fear of being cnucht. even
by a hair, in this formidable gearing,
which one knows to be so complicated,
tenacious, destructive.
I was thinking of this the other morn
ing, in going to see nn examining mag
istrate whom I had, In behalf of a poor
devil, to recommend a stay of proceed
ings. The hall of witnesses, where I
was waiting, was full of people, sher
iffs officers, clerks engrossing behind
a glass partition, witnesses whispering
to ench other in advance of their depo
sitions, women of the people, Impresslvo
and garrulous, who were telling the offi
cers their entire lives In order to arrive
at the affair that had brought them
there. Near me, an open door lit the
somber lobby of the examining magis
trate, a lobby which leads everywhere,
even to the scaffold, and from which
the prisoners Issue as accused. Some of
these unfortunates, brought there un
der a strong escort by way of thp back
staircase, lay about on the benches
awaiting their turn to be Interrogated,
and It Is In this ante-chamber of the
convict prison that I overheard a lovers'
dialogue, an Idyll of the Bowery, as Im
passioned as "lOarystls," but more
heart-breaking. Yes, In the midst of
this Bhadow, where so many criminals
have left something of their shudder
ing, of their hopes, and of their rages,
I saw two beings love, and smile; and
however lowly was this love, however
laded was this smile, the old lobby must
have been as astonished by It as a miry
and black street of New York, were It
penetrated by the cooing of a turtledove.
SCIENTIFIC CHILD TkAINING.
An Illustration of the character of the
young men who are seeking admittance
to the volunteer army was given when
E. H. Lulkart of Madison county, rt
present one of the bank examiners,
made application for a place In the
ranks of company L of the Second reg
iment, the Norfolk company. Lulkart
surrenders a lucrative and responsible
position and offers his services and It
the chance of war demands his health
and his life to his country In a posi
tion where his business prospects nre
for the time surrendered. There are
hundreds of Just such young men in
Camp Alvin Saunders, and tens of thou
sands of Buch will march from all over
the land when the order to the front
comes. When the $13 a month and
hardship and danger exchanged for the
$1,600 per year and life an dcomfort
are compared, and the single Instance
naiiifl Is multiplied by the hundreds
rlmtlar. Camp Alvin Saunders Is un ob
ject lesson which teaches that there Is
something better than the greed for
mere dollars and something held more
nobly than money getting In the Amer
ican people.
To Prevent Swarming.
I much prefer to prevent swarming
by keeping the queen cells out of the
colony. If this Is done regularly the
colony will not swarm, or at least the
exception to this rule Is so small that
It Is not worth consideration. Once a
week will answer to examine for queen
cells, although It may be looked after
more frequently, and all queen cells
should be carefully hunted up and re
moved. It Is also very Important when
colonies become very strong that they
be accommodated with plenty of sur
plus storage room. This of Itself will go
a long way In the prevention of swarm
ing. If we have but one colony and wish
to Increase the number of colonies and
at the same time do not want them to
swarm, we can divide the colony and
this will prevent It from swnrmlng.
Dividing a colony of bees is simply
cutting the colony In two. Prepare a
new hive and take out about half the
number of frames In the old colony and
place them In the new hive, and nil
up the remaining space In each hive
with empty frames, or, better still. If
you havo empty frames of comb,
place foundation comb in them. In
thus dividing remove half of the
frames containing brood to the new
hive. The brood selected for the
new hive should be at least the larger
portion of It brood that Is the oldest
and Just hatching out. Plnce the brood
combs together In the center of the hive
nnd the empty ones at the sides. Combs
containing honey should also nccom
more genue and win tne brood, In thU8 dividing we get
home more regularly. If ,U)0Ut haU- of the bees In the new hive,
n to feed well they win i ,, ,u .DOO nrihim. tr. h0 nnmHu
get Into the habit of straying away.and 8hould go wltn them. It does not matter
there Is always an Increased risk of loss I teHy Whlch part contains the old
If they get Into this habit of straying
away. TurkeyB are good roragers, and
If they nre given a light feed of grain
night and morning can be kept growing
rapidly. N. J. SHEPHERD,
In Kansas Farmer, Eldon, Mo.
queen, but we prefer her to remain
on the old stand. Before closing the
hives we should take one or two combs
from the old and shake the bees off
them In the new hive, so that we may
have equal strength. It always occurs
in dividing that most of the old or
worktng force of bees will go back to
the old stand and the new colony will
,i..o ioim nHlnflir vnnnrr tippn lpft In If
unless we take more than half of the
When marketing poultry, assort them
so that a package shall all be of one
grade If they are to be sold at whole-
cnlo
After goslings begin to feather they . bees from the old one. on account of so
are very hardy and remain so for years, many going back. The queenless part
Before feathering they are rather ten- will rear a queen of their own, but
der J if we have a queen ready to Introduce
The temperature of a coop should not to them they will do much better and
be allowed to be lower than 45 degrees become much stronger In a very short
In winter and should be most of the . time. .,.....,
time up to 60 degrees. Another plan to divide Is to take a
Common sense and kerosene will pre- frame or two from the colony that con
vent more poultry diseases than all the tains young brood of the proper age to
poultry remedies ever Invented will ' produce a queen. With this small col
cure i ony or nucleus set out to Itself they
Feeding with salt fat pork cut up is will In due time produce a queen, after
..!. k. nn nf ttn nninVaaf mathnria which it may be strengthened by add-
of stopping poultry from disagreeable Ing a frame of brood to It from other
Lincoln In a HorseTrade.
When Abraham Lincoln was a strug
gling young lawyer In Illinois, he was
noted for his ready wit and the droll
way In which he expressed himself.
There was at that time a Judge on the
bench who was very fond of a good
Joke, especially If played upon some one
other than himself. One day he ban
tered Lincoln for a horse trade, and be
ing taken at his word, It was greed
the trade was to be made at 9 o'clock
the next morning, both animals to re
main unseen until that hour. A forrelt
of $25 was put up, that there should be
no backing down wnen it came time to
exchange. The Judge quietly gave his
friends a tip that there was some fun
ahead, and as a consequence a largo
crowd was present at the appointed
time and place that morning. The Judge
was the first to appear, leading the sor
riest looking specimen of horseflesh
ever seen In those parts. Lincoln was
seen approaching a few minutes later,
carrying a wooden Bawhorse upon his
shoulder. The crowd set up a great
laugh, In which the Judge Joined, see
ing that the Joke was upon mm. Mr.
Lincoln came up, and after carefully
surveying the Judge's horse snt down
upon the sawhorse and exclaimed, In his
slow, cautious manner, "Well, Judge,
this 1b the first time I ever got the
worst of it In a horse trade."
A party of Stanford professors un
dertook, for a scientific object, to pene
trate Into the depths of an old Tuo
lumne mine. One of the number relates
the following startling Incident: On
his descent In the ordinary maner, by
means of a bucket, and with a miner for
a fellow passenger, he perceived, as he
thought, unmistakable symptoms of
weak places In the rope. "How often
do you change ropes, my good man?"
he Inquired, when about half way from
the bottom of the awful abyss. "We
change every three months, sir," re
plied the man In the basket; "and we
shall change tnis one tomorrow i we
get up safe today, sir."
An Irishman, creeping through the
hedge of an orchard with the Intention
of robbing It, was seen by the owner,
who called out to him; "Here, man,
where are you going?" "Back again,"
said the Irishman.
Aunt Cherry Mallory was recently
put on the witness stand at Adams Sta
tion to tell what she knew about the an
nihilation of a hog by a Louisville &
Nashville passenger locomotive, writes
a corersnondent of the Clarkavllle Leaf-
Chronicle. After having sworn she wns
asked by the wise lawyer If she saw the
train kill this hog. "Yes," she said, "I
seed it." "Well," said the lawyer, "tell
the court In as few words as possible
all you know about It." "I kin do dat
In a mighty few words," said Aunt C,
clearing her throat, and with one eye
on the Judge and one on the lawyer,
said: "Hit Jus' tooted and tuck lm."
An English hostess was entertaining
aboijt 300 people at a reception and had
provided only about seventy-flve seats.
In despair, she said to a compatriot:
"Oh. I am distressed! Not three-fourths
of these people can sit down!" "Bless
my soul, madam!" he exclaimed,
"what's the matter with them?"
Two Irishmen were hunting, when n
large flock of geese came flying over
their heads. Pat. raising his gun and
firing, brought down one of them. "Be
gad!" exclaimed his companion, "what
a fool to waste your shot, when the
bare fall of the bird would have killed
It."
An itinerant parson tells that way out
In the backwoods he came, one day, to
a settler's house, and entered to have a
talk with Ub Inmates. The old woman
of the house became much Interested In
the preacher's discourse, and requested
that he conduct family worship. She
also Insisted upon hunting up her fam
ily bible, to be used upon the occasion.
She left the room to look up the bible,
but seemed to have hard work finding
it. The minutes passed, and she came
not. The preacher had time to grow
impatient before the old woman reap
peared, with a few tattered leaves In
her hand. She handed them over, with
an apologetic air. "I am awful sorry,
parson," she explained, "but the fact
In a listless attitude, almost uncon
scious, a young girl was seated at the
end of a bench, quiet as a working
woman who waits the price of her day's
labor. She wore a calico bonnet, and
a sad costume, with an air of repose
and of well-being, as though the prison
regime were the best thing she hod
found In all her life. The guard, who
sat beside her, seemed to find her much
to his taste, and they laughed together
softly. At the other end of the lobby,
wholly In the shadow, was Beated.hand
cuffs on wrists, her unhappy beau.
She had not seen him at first; but aa
soon as her eyes became accustomed to
the darkness, she perceived him and
trembled:
"Why, that's Tom. Tom!"
The guard silenced her. The prison
ers are expressly forbidden to talk to
each other.
"Oh! I beg of you, only one word!"
said she, leaning far forwards towards
the remotest part of the lobby.
But the soldier remained Inflxible.
"No! no! It can't be done, only If you
have some message to give him, tell It
to me, I will repeat It to him."
Then a dialogue was entered into be
tween this girl nnd her Tom, with the
guard as Interpreter.
Much moved, without heeding thoso
who surounded her, she began:
"Tell him I have never loved any one
but him! that I will never love another
In all my life."
The guard made a number of steps
In the lobby, and redoubling his gravity
as though to take from the proceeding
all that was too kindly, he repeated:
"She says she has never loved but
you, and that she'll never love another."
I heard a grumbling, a confused stam
mering which must have been the re
sponse of Tom, then the guard went
bnck with measured step towards tho
bench.
"What did he say?" demanded the
child all anxious, and ns though wait
ing were too long: "Well, tell me what
he said now?"
"He said he was very miserable!"
Then carried away by her emotion
and the custom of the noisy and com
municative streets, she cried out loud:
"Don't be weary, sweetheart, the good
days will come again!"
And in this voice still young there was
something piteous, nlmost maternal.
Plainly this was the woman of the peo
ple with her courage under affliction
and her dog-Ilke devotion.
From the depths of the lobby, a voice
replied, the voice Tom. wine-soaked,
torn, burned with alcohol:
"Oh, yes; the good days. I'll have
them at the end of my five years."
He knc".v his case well, that onel
The guards cried: "Chut! Keep quiet"
habt of feather pulling.
colonies. This is perhaps the best plan
A door had opened and the examin
ing magistrate himself appeared on
the silt.
Skull-cap of velvet, grizzled whisk
ers, mouth thin and evil, the eye scrut
inizing, distrustful, but not profound, it
was Just the type of an examining
magistrate, one of those men who
thinks he haB a criminal before him
always, like those doctors of the Insane
who see maniacs everywhere. That one
In particular had a certain way of look
ing at you, so annoying, and so Insult
ing, that you felt guilty without hav
ing done anything. With one glance
of the eye he terrified all the lobby:
"What does all this noise mean? Try
to do your duty a little better," he said,
addressing the guards.
Then he closed nis aoor wun a bimrp
click.
The new scientific training for chil
dren demands of the parents a prepar
tlon before the creation of the child.
They must normally exercise each ons
of the intellectual and emotive funo
tlons of the mind, bo as to create In
the brain those structurco which they
desire to transmit to their -children.
During the period of expectant ma
ternity the mother must not exercise
any of the evil emotions, and must
dally bring into activity each one of
the good emotions.
During the first twelve months of Its
life the child should be caused system
atically to functionate each one of lta
nine classeB of sensations, so aa to
build In Its brain the structures which
corespond to each of the sensations
of each sense. To omit any one sense
would leave one part of the brain un
developed and one part of the uni
verse unrepresented In the mind.
Simultaneously with the Intellective
training, there is given a correspond
ing moral training, which consists in
developing the plensurable sensations,
the artlBtlc Images, the moral concepts
nnd the normal affections and emotions
which grow out of them nnd constltue
the moral disposition. There Is also
a parallel conduct-training.
The mind does all that Is done In this
world. And to get more mind and learn
how to use Its different functions are
fundamentally to promote every form
of effort and progress.
ELMER GATES,
Laboratory of Psychology and Psy-
churgy, Chevy Chase, Md.
Baby Elmer Gates at three years of
ago Is a scientific wonder. His train
ing began when he wns three months
old, and his first instruction had rela
tion to the primary sensations of touch,
pressure and temperature. When he
bathed, warm and cold sensations were
applied nil over his little person. This
was accomplished by means of two
small rubber bags, one containing cold
water and the other hot water.
No great labor was Involved In car
rying out the system, six minutes each
day being all that was required. When
any sensation had been repeated dally
for five or six days the corresponding
brain cells were considered to be fully
developed. The training of one sense
was kept up until that was completed.
Then a beginning was made with
the next one, and so on. It Is gen
erally supposed that a human being
possesses five senses, but the fact Is
that he could not get along satisfactor
ily will less than nine. These are
the senses of touch, pressure, muscular,
feeling, heat, cold, smell, taste, sound
and sight.
HOW HIS SEEING WAS TRAINED.
Baby Gates' vision was trained In a
very elaborte fashion. During a few
minutes every day for ten days various
pitches of red were shown to him. IC
a stripe of rainbow be thrown upon
a wall with a glass prism, the coloi
red will cover a certain urea, but tha
lower part of this area will be differ
ent red from the upper. In fact, ther
will be a number of reds In It. Thesa
were shown to the child, and he waa
taught to discriminate among them,
making play of It.
There was nothing like work about
It. What could be better calculated to
amuse a baby than an electric wheel
carrying pasteboard disks of different
hues and showing all possible variation!
of colors? This was one of the toys em
ployed In the nursery.
All of this, be It observed, was ac
complished by giving not more than
ten minutes a day to the task. It waa
a pastime for the child; he cried for
more.
At about the time When he began to
crave another food than milk the child
commenced to taste the flavors of foods
which he was soon to eat.
HOW HE LEARNED SHAPES OF
OBJECTS.
It was considered necessary to give
the child an acquaintance with forms of
all kinds, and for this purpose geo
metrical blocks were utilized. The pro
fessor constructed a box the top of
which was pieced with forty holes of
as many different shapes. With this
were suplled forty blocks of as many
different forms each corresponding
to one hole in the box top. The arrange
ment was such that each block could
pass Into the box only through tho
hole It was made to fit. To any In
telligent adult, tackling the Job for a
little problem to pick up the blocks
in succession and drop them through
their respective holes. Nevertheless,
Baby Gates was able to do this with
not much trouble when he was eleven
months old. This means that at that
age he differentiated forty geometrical
forms.
MOW TO MAKE A CHILD GOOD.
The child was caused to exercise good
and agreeable emotions every day; fur
thermore, It waa not permitted that he
should see disagreeable emotions mani
fested In his parents, In his nurse or in
his playmates. This was the theory
that evnll emotions create correspond
ing structures In the brain, and that
such structures give to the child more
facility In entertaining similar emo
tions subsequently.
The next step was to Induce the child
to take up objects In groups. When
he had formed Images of an appje and
a potato, other vegetables and frulta
were shown to him, and these were kept
In the same room. In a different room
other objects were kept, so as to give a
number of images for each great group
of natural objects plants, animals, im
plements, etc. When Baby Gates was
fourteen months old he had registered
In hlB brain the Images of 11,000 objects.
Of these a written record was kbui.
CONCEPT BUILDING.
The objects having been put into
groups, he was taught the names of
the groups. This was what the profes
sor calls "cocept building." If tha
child's ltnerest was attracted to an ob
ject, the name of It was pronounced a
number of times. At fifteen montha
Baby Gates used 3S0 words, and of these
a list was kept. The best known rec
ord for that age heretofore was twenty
four words. Eleven words Is a very
unusual performance, and many a
child at that age uses only two or
three words, such a8 "Papa," "Mamma"
and "Dolly." At twenty months this
remarkable Infant could give the names
of 360 anlmalB when shown pictures of
them, and could name 4.200 objects in
the house and laboratory. All children
could do as well If properly trained.
Tha municipal guard taken to task,
red, mortified, looked around a moment
for some one upon whom to lay the
blame. But the little girl said nothing
more, Tom sat quiet on his bench. All
at once he perceived me, and as I was
at the door of the hall, almost In the
lobby, he took me by the arm and
Jerked me around brutally.
"What are you doing there, you?"
Little 4-year-old Clara, who had
lived In the country all her life, accom
panied her mother to the city and,
seeing a lady drive in a willow pheaton,
she exclaimed: "Oh. mamma, look at
is. I didn't know I was so near out of that woman In a clothes basket on
bibles," . -.. wheeur
Mrs. Cleveland has never lost her ad
miration for her husband In the Joys of
motherhood; although the birth of a
son has filled the cup of happiness to
overflowing for both parents.
During a visit of one of Mrs. Cleve
land's Washington friends to the Cleve
lands' new home In Princeton, the
mother proudly displayed the new boy
to her guest. "But," said the visitor, in
the course of conversation, 7 thought
the boy was to be named for his father.
The papers said so the day after he wan
born." "No," replied Mrs. Cleveland,
handing the baby back to his waiting
nurse, and speaking in a matter-of-fact
tone, "his name Is Richard Folsom.
There was but one George Washington
and there can be but one Grover
Cleveland."
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