IHoru Ilun-JJovrn
Policemen , actors and other pedes
trians should drink a toast to a man
In Australia , for h < has come forward
with n device that
\\l\l \ lengthen the life
of a shoe m. ny
months. This deice is
an interchangeable
heel which locks to a
heel pad by meavs of
pins attached to the
latter. Probably the
HEEL , duel cause oi a snoe
losing its shape and wearing out in tiio
uppers is the running down of the heel ,
'
which throws the foot to one side and
brh'g.s a si rain on a part of the shoe
not prepared for it. Hun-down heels ,
too. are responsible for many cases of
BO re feet and have aided largely in
making the business of ehirojody a
lucrative one. With this new device it
will be possible to lake off an old heel
nnd put on a new one whenever the
first is so worn as Jo bo uncomfortable
or unsightly. Jf people only realize
the Importance of a flat heel there
would be few limps in the \\orld of
walkers.
31 iitt .lolly.
Many persons like anything of a food
variety containing gelatine , and the
usual meat jellies contain such , bht a
eplendid jelly to serve with cold or
warm meat is a mint jelly , the bulk
made with apple * . Cook the apples the
tame as for apple jelly , strain the juke
nnd add a handful of crushed mint.
Boil until the llavor N extracted , strain
twice and add the same amount of su
gar and boil until a thick jelly is
formed. Grape juice can be ilavored
{ n the same manner , and also cranberry
Juice , which is really delicious when
flavored with fresh mint.
Corn Silul.
. Eight large ears of sweet corn , three
large onions , one small head of cabbage ,
? ne bunch of celery , three red peppers
( the seeds taken out without touching
the walls of the peppers ) , one-fourth
of a cup of salt , a quart and a pint of
cider vinegar , two heaping teaspoonfuls
of mustard , dissolved and stirred in
lastChop
Chop all the ingredients except the
corn , boil together twenty minutes , add
( lie mustard and can boiling hot.
Canned corn might be used if one
rould not get the grcc n.
Trench JUIIIM ! Oysters.
Drain twenty-five good sized oysters.
rub an ounce of butter to a smooth
paste with a teaspoonful flour and a
teaspoouful minced parsley. Place in
n siew pan or chafing dish with the oys
ters. add a pinch of cayenne and sea
soning salt and stir and cook until the
gills begin to curl ; then add the yolk
'Of an egg and , still stirring , pour the
oysters over some nicely toasted
squares of bread and serve at once.
Cnlsiip.
. "Wash and stem tart grapes , cook un
til tender and nil ) through a colander.
To every three pints of pulp allow one
pound of brown sugar , one cupful of
vinegar , a heaping teaspoonful each of
ground cinnamon , mace , allspice , salt
and pepper and a half teaspoonful of
ground cloves. Cook steadily , stirring
frequently until the catsup is reduced
to half its original quantity and is
thick. Bottle and cork when cold.
Olive Oil
One gallon of peeled and sliced cu
cumbers , mixed with a cup of salt
Stand for three hours , then drain' and
mix with three onions , peeled and chop
ped. and 1 ounce each of white mustard II I
seed , black peppers and celery seed , and I
pack the mixture into glass jars , press
ing it down firmly. Pour into the jars
( dividing it equally ) a half pint of the
best olive oil. Cover with cold cider
vinegar and seal.
Short SHK
Cold cereals can be fried the same
ns mush ; serve with gravy or sirup.
Nickel may be kept bright by being
rubbed with wool saturated in am
monia.
. \lcohol and whiting make a good sil
ver polish excellent for polishing plate
glass mirrors.
Black lead 'mixed with vinegar will
bo found to give a specially good polIsh -
Ish to the kitchen stove.
To raise the pile on plush , sponge it
with a 151 tie chloroform and it will
look fresh and new again.
A piece of flannel dampened with
spirits of camphor will remove stains
troui mirrors or w in low glass.
To cover the pan in which fish Is
cooking will make the flesh soft.
Honey should be kept in the dark.
If exposed to light It will quickly gran-
u'nie.
To clean silver , mix sweet oil and
whiting to the thickness of a cream ,
put on with a soft doth , wash In hot
soap suds and polish with a chamois
skin or a piece of old soft linen.
A cheap floor stain , which will prob
ably be in demand during house clean-
lug , is made by dissolving a leaspoonful I
of permanganate of potash in ona
- J quart of boiling water. A darker or
lighter stain may be had by increasing
or decreasing the amount of potash.
MOJTEY IS CAHTELOUPES.
former Desert Land Now "Worth
5,000 an Acre.
In some seel ions of Colorado and in
the Southwest , win re only afew
years ago'the land was a worthless
desert , the cuiiteloupe is king. The lus
cious fruit is .it its best where other
fruits and vegetables are not grown.
It is a hermit. Squashes , watermelons
and pumpkii.s grown in its vicinity
cause it to deteriorate , but potatoes
grown in its neighborhood seem to add
to its virtue.
From four districts in the \\'o > L the
export value of eanteloupes this year
will be sI < M > ( ! UoeO. Jn the \icinity of
Glen wood , Colo. , new land , redeemed by
irrigation and devoted to canteloupes ,
is selling * for $3.000 an acre. This
statement seems preposterous until one
is confronted by tire recorded deeds. A
fruit farm of 20 acres which was
bought at $1.000 an acre three years
ago produced in cantaloupes per acre
in the three years $1.300 , $2,100 and
$2.0uO , thus returning the purchase
price each year with 30 per cent profit
the first 3car and 100 per cent profit the
following 3'cars.
The region about f Hen wood which it
is possible to irrigate does not exceed
20,000 acres and most of it has already
been snapped up. The soil is incredibly
rich , but has no rainfall.
Another canteloupe district is the
Suilon Sea , in southern California , for
merly a desert strewn with bleaching
human bones. Part of it is now irrigit-
cd and from one section there w.is
shipped this 3ear $2.000,000 worth of
melons , while as much more rotted on
the ground. This former sun-baked des
ert is now bringing apricot trees into
bearing in two years and giving crops
of barley , kaflir corn , onions and canta
loupes in succession on the same land
in one \-eur. The sun shines . ' ! G3 daya
In a vear.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FARM.
President Askn Many and the Com
mission In Busy.
President Roosevelt wants to know
whether the farmer likes his farm and
why. To receive this information a
commission'on country life , consisting
of six members , is now conducting an
investigation. After the farmer has
made known his advantages and draw
backs , other citi/.ens are to be asked
whether they like their job , their home ,
their m ighbors and wh\ * .
Some of the ip.ie tions now going ovci
the thousands of rural routes are as
follows :
"Are the farm homos in your neigh
borhood as good as they should be under
existing f onditions : "
"Are the schools in your neighborhood
training 'xrvs nnd sirls satisfactorily foi
lif-1 0:1 the farm' : "
"Po the farmers in your neighborhood
get the r < turns they reasonably should
from the sale of their products : "
"Do Hho farmers in your neighborhood
receive from the railroads- , highroads ,
trolley linosetc. . . the service they rea
sonably should have ? "
"Do the farmers in your neighborhood
receive fiom Uie United States pos-tal
service , rural telephone , etc. . Uie service
they reasonably should expect ? "
"Arc the farmers and their wives in
your neighborhood satisfactorily organ
ized to promote their mutual interest ? "
"Arc the renters of farms in your
neighborhood making a satisfactory liv
"Is the supply of farm labor in youi
neighborhood .satisfactory' : ' '
Sonafir > r Culb < M-son of Texas has been
appointed to sticcood David R. Francis ol
Missouri as chairman of the advisory
committee of the Democratic national
campaign organization. Mr. Francis has
gone abroad.
Candidate Taft came out of liis vaca
tion seclusion at Middle Bass Island and
started from Sandusly across Ohio by
train , making many short addresses from
the roar platform of the observation car
in which he lodo.
The Indiana campaign of the Indepen
dence part\ was opened in Indianapolis
Wiliam R ! ! I curst. ThomasL. .
presidential candidate , and George W.
McCaslciin. randidato of the party for
( ! o\rinor of Illinois , spoke
Candidate Br\un has issued a reply to
the pamphj'-t published by President Van
Cleave of til.M snufai Jurors' Association
in the intoie-t of Taft. Bryan says that
the Democratic labor plank is not an
assault on iho cmiris. and asks if the
labor ciuostion is so important as to jus
tify business 1110:1 : in ignoring all other
issiios. Ins'ead of creating the "class
fpint , " as Van Cleave had said the jury
trial clause did. Bryan holds- that it aims
to provoni ha vim. : the writ of injunction
used to create or to favor a class.
In a letter addressed to Rev. R. II.
ilpsnor. rector of Christ Episcopal church
of < > s\\oo. .lames S. Sherman. Republi
can \ic ' presidential candidate , expressed
'limself ui'.eiiui\ocaiy ! in favor of the re-
noir.ination of Gov. Charles ] ' . Hughes.
9
"A prohibitionist dors- not have to be
n tot-il : ! ) . ; ainer.aid Kuuene W. Cha-
tin. prohibition ra-nlidato for president ,
in a specvh at tlio old capitol building in
St. Paul. "The prohibitionist is e man
who votes t-ac prohibit ion ticket on elec
tion day because he believes the princjplf
is rig-lit. "
METHODS OP EOTJSE MOVING.
8V s $ O $ &
v > i &I ? , > * 5PM5 ! %
The first picture shows a California liouso which has been cut infer
for removal , the second n house being ; moved by horse-power , and
the third house moving by boat.
Nowadays when a person wauls to move and doesn't like to think of giv
ing up the old home , he tak-vs the old home along with him. This is not always -
ways easy , but frequently it is advisable to do it rather than go into a new
country and build another home. The group illustrates some of the ingenious
methods employed in moving houses. The California home was cut in two
and moved up the hill on a prepared roadway. The house shown on the
barges was moved a considerable distance up the Hudson from New York , as
shown in the picture. It was accomplished without serious mishap. " 1 he
other picture shous a bouse moving in Winnipeg , where a good many horses
were used as motive power , after the house had been jacked up on rollers
It has long been known , theoretical
ly , that the tides net as a brake on the
rotating earth , and tend to lengthen
the day. The effect , however , is so
slight that it cannot be measured in
any length of time at man's disposal.
It may be estimated with the aid of cer
tain assumptions ; ai-d using the data
available. W. D. MucMillan has recent
ly made the necessary compulation by
the formulas used by engineers. lie
finds for the increase of the length of
the day one second in 400,000 years.
The second largest masonry arch in
the world has , according to Engineer
ing News , recently been built on a new
railway In Austria. This arch Is the
largest span of a bridge over the Isonzo
river and is 27S.9 feet , having a rise
of 7S feet. The arch is of cut stone
founded on re-enforced concrete footIngs -
Ings , backing into solid rock. It Is O.G
feet thick at the crown. The largest
masonry arch In the world Is at Plauen.
Sermany , having a span of 293 feet ,
/.nd the hitherto second largest , at
Luxemborg , with 277.0 feet span.
The expedition organized by the
American Museum of Natural History
which has been exploring the Fayum
Desert , in northern Egypt , seems to
have located the place of origin of the
elephant In the Tertiary age. Remains
of the ancestral form of elephants ,
called the Mccritherium , were obtained ,
and restorations have been made by
Charles R. Knight under the direction
of Prof. Osborn. From northern Af
rica. It Is affirmed , the elephant stock
migrated south through Africa , north
into Europe , and east ami northeast
through Asia Into America.
George Oakley Totten , Jr. , of Wash
ington , one of the American delegates
to the International Congress of Archi
tects at Vienna , delivered an address
nt the convention. In the course of
which , speaking of the development of
pkyscrapers as a result of conditions in
the United States , he said : "Conditions
are likely to arise which will greatly
Influence the architecture of the future.
To sail through the air is no longer a
mere picture of the Imagination , and
th'e day may not be distant when the
architect will have to devote his at
tention to beautifying not only the
fronts of buildings , but the roofs as
well , BO that they may not offend the
eye of the aesthetic traveler through
the sky. "
Oranges and all fruits of the citrus
family in Florida suffer extensive rav
ages from the "white fly. " This insect
first appeared in this country , in Flor
ida , many years ago , and is supposed
to have been imported from China.
It has now spread all through Florida
and along the coast Into Texas. Cali
fornia , fearing its approach , has made
efforts to keep it out. but in May , 1907 ,
it was found established at three points
in the northern-central parts of that
State. The white fly not only directly
damages the trees , but gives rise to a
sooty mold which spreads over the
leaves and discolors the fruit. The
principal natural means of protection
are four species of parasitic fungi ,
which , in favorable circumstances , give
the affected groves ouc clean year in
three. These fungi may be artificially '
disseminated , and fumigation is also 1
employed to combat the enemy. No in
sect parasites of the white fly ara
known to the government entomolo
gists.
gists.'J'h
'J'h S
"P.nchelors are the most sensitive , tht
most scrupulous mortals on earth , " said
the widow. "At any rate , the bachelors
I know are. I dined with one not lony
ago. During the first part of the meai
he seemed uneasy.
" 'If : mv of my friends should so
me now. ' he said , 'they would think I
am out with some other man's wife. '
" 'Why ? ' I asked.
"He pointed to my wedding ring.
" 'Shall I take It off ? ' I asked.
" 'Would yoii mind ? ' said he.
" 'Not at all , ' I said , and I slipped
off the ring.
"Since then when going anywhere
Avith that bachelor or any other bach
elor I save him from embarrassment
by taking off my wedding ring before
we start. I find they all appreciate my
consideration of their feelings. Now. if
that iMft sensitiveness raised to the
nth power , what is- Philadelphia Tel
egraph.
n ClnsKlc IVrm.
"The mob. " an abbreviation of "the
mobile , " which represents the Latin
"mobile vulgus" ( the fickle crowd )
came into the language about 1GSO-90.
ATalono notes that T. Brown in 1090
wrote both "the mobile" and "the mob. "
while in 1092 Dryden ventured the
monosyllable with a sort of apology for
using It. Addlson regarded it as a re
grettable abbreviation , to be classed
with "incog. " According to Macaulay
in the 10SO "our
year tongue was en
riched with two words , 'mob' and
'sham , ' remarkable memorials of a sea
son of tumult and Imposture. "
Aid * n D'vcr to Lin.
The difficulty a diver experiences In
lifting weights beneath the water Is
partly overcome by i > . new Italian inven
tion , which has been formally adopted
by that government. The mechanism
is a diving suit , the artificial arms of
which are worked from the inside by
the wearer. The leverage thus obtain
ed enables the diver to lift objects
heavier than he could otherwise handle.
In addition to this Improvement over
the old method a high-power electric
light that will penetrate the water for
some distance is placed in the helmet.
Jutt fJrowliit ; .
"Why. Mrs. White. " began the sum
mer visitor newly returned to Say-
mouth , "how those maples of yours
have grown since last year ! It's per
fectly amazing ! "
"Oh , I do' know's it's anything to
wonder at , " said Mrs. White , easily.
"They ain't got anything else to do. ' '
Cnmpaigrn Lie Tailed.
"Do candidates really kiss babies ? "
"Only in the comic papers. The only
candidate I ever knew to do a 113 * kiss
ing was Ilobson. and he did it all before
he went into politics. " Kansas City
Times.
Whenever a man fails , his wife te.ls
the public that he was "too conscien
tious" to succeed. What she tells him
In private Is something different.
Better a bald head than a barefaced
lie.
SOMETHING TOE EVERYBODY
The population of the territory now
embraced in the German empire ha
doubled sinc-o 1S3S-
An elephant's burden Is from 1,800 to
2.310 pounds , and that of a horse fron
200 to 230 pounds.
Kobe is now the first port in the Jap
anese empire : it has a population o
not far from -100,000.
The first English regatta took place
upon the Thames , between London
bridge and Millbank , June 2D , 1773.
A two-mile rairoad bridge has been
recently completed across the Columbia
river , in the State of Washington.
A hen attains her best laying capacity
In her third year. She will lay in an
average lifetime from 300 to 500 eggs
In the Yukon mining regions electric
lines for conveying power up to a dis
tance of sixty miles have been installed
The clock at St. Chad's. Shrewsbury
has a record pendulum , its length being
twenty-two feet and. the weight of the
boll 200 pounds.
The Church of England bishopric of
Mackenzie River , in British North
America , is five times as large as the
United Kingdom.
Russia still buys nearly all her tea In
'the form of tablets or bricks , probably
owing to the convenience of transporta
tion in early times.
The importation of cigarettes in Ger
many was lessened for a short time only
by the increase of the duty from 270
marks to 700 marks.
Last 3'car the 123 universities of Eu
rope were attended by 22.S.7. ,2 students
Berlin was in the lead , with l.SS-i
iiext came Paris , with 12.083 ; Buda-
Pesth. with 0,331. and Vienna , with
C.203.
An old judge of a New York court of
record says thatif the law requiring
an attorney of the courts to be of good
moral character was strictly enforced ,
about ninet.v-two members of the bar
out of each hundred would have to go
into some other business.
Sir Walter ITilyer has been appointed
expert advisor to the Chinese govern
ment Sir Walter was born In China
oi English parents nnd is a learnr-cl lin
guist. Li Hung Chang once said that
he spoke nnd wrote Chinese as well as
the most hishly educated mandarin.
Waldorf Astor , son of William Wal
dorf Astoc. is a candidate for a seat in
the British Hou e of Commons , to rep
resent the ancient city of Plymouth ,
from which came the founders of New
England The young -man is a Con
servative , or. as members of the party
are know n by its opponents , a Tory.
Mrs. WS. . Peabody , of Denver , has
been called "Mother of the Mesa Verde
National Park. " This park contains the
most interesting remains of the cliff-
dwellers that have been discovered , and
Mrs. Peabody is largely instrumental
In its being made a national park. Be
fore her marriage to Major W. S. Peabody -
body , a retired army ofiiccr. she lived
In Washington , where she held a place
In the Bureau of Ethnology.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ilaywnrd , of Salt
Lake City , who was regularly elected
nnd served as delegate to the Demo
cratic National Convention in Denver , is
the mother of nine children , and said to
ha7e one of the best managed house
holds in that city. She is an ardent
.advocate of equal suffrage , not because
it "broadens" the views of the modern
woman , but because it gives them the
power to protect and 'improve their
homes.
The vender of ehiclavecd in Paris is
a well-known figure. The sellers are
numerous and their cry is one of the
most noteworthy of those that resound
In the morning In the streets of the
French capital. According to the Bulle
tin des Hallos there are about a hun
dred thousand canaries in the capital
and the daily consumption of chickweed
is estimated at $2,000. This sum looks
large , but it 01113- allows 2 cents for each
ibird. A Paris contemporary points out
that a goodly portion of land -between -
Suresnes and Courhevole is set aside
fcr ? the cultivation of the weed.
An entirel3" new design in the con-
ztruction of electric lamps has been re
cently brought out , the novel feature
of which is the entire absence , so far
as the eye is concerned , of all wires.
One-half of the transformer is fastened
to the underside of a table , while the
other half of the transformer Is Incor
porated in the base of the lamp stand
ard. By proper transformer design , it
is possible to supply the lamps on the
standard with electrical enersry when
both parts o f the transformer are
placed one above the other. The ; d-
vantages vof such an arrangement are
that no holes need be made in the table
or coverings for the passage of wires :
while the lump itself can be removed
from the tablewhen so desired without
disconnecting any wires.
Dr. Charles Perrier , in an article
based on observations made In French
penal institutions , says that criminals
are for the most part of medium height.
Thieves , he sa\-s , he found to be almost
exclusively of small stature , and beg
gars nearly always of medium or slight
ly under that height. "It is seldom , "
he says , "that a fully developed beggar
nature can be found in a large frame. "
Murderers , on the other hand , his ob
servations prove to be above the aver
age In size. All the prisoners under
punishment for arson and for counter-
felting measured by him came under
the head of "small. " These details , the
writer says , while they may establish
certain facts as to French criminals ,
may be valueless when applied to the
underworld In other countries.
MICHIGAN'S EOHEST FIE5S.
f
Million Acres of Timber Land Hav
{ Seen Eimic/d / Over This Year.
' ' This j < H.r'f' ' - st tires in Mich.tran
riin' 'ig thw t de'-tructive that
have ever \\-i * ! * ! the rftate. Fires In
1S71 swept a < tri | > of'forty miles wide
and 1M ) mil , s l i-jr. pxtending across
the central part of the State from Ijaka
Huron to Lake Mi'-higan. At this time
more Unit -KOHMK.tMHX ) feet of timber
in board measure was destroyed , en
tailing a financial loss of $10,000,000
tnd resMltins in the deaths of several
lundred jK'rsons.
Tea years later , in P < r > teinber. 1S81 ,
more than l.Sfxj s-jnaiv miles in various
parts of Miehig.in vere swept by forest
fire < ? . This resulted in a loss in prop
erty ef $2.r 00. < XH > . in addition to the
timber destroyed. The number of lives
o t was estimated at from leO to 500 ,
mil more than j.OOO persons were ren-
dei'ed destitute.
Tins years fires , while not involving
great s.'n-rifire of life , are vrofully dc -
structive f timber. Prof. Roth. Stf.t
"ore'stcr of Michigan , who has visited
[ he burned districts in the -northern
; ) arfs of the State.aj-s that at the low
est calculation a luillion acres of tim
ber have been burned over this \ ar ,
m lutjing between o.OOO and 4.000 wres
of the Michigan forest reserve. To re-
timber this land will cost $5 per a re ,
ind the new growth destroyed was
easily worth as much more , so that the
total lo'-s in the-e two item5 ; alone will
approximate $10.000.000. In addit'im
here w.s the merchantable timber , the
"arm dwelling' ; and even villages that
"ell prey to the flames , bringing the
otal lo s up to startling proportions
Michigan was once the home of mng-
lihVenl forests , but they have been fnt-
cred away until now only a reminder
of their former magnitude rem.uns.
Where the limber barons have not
stripped the land of its wealth forest
'Ires have been permitted to rage at
.vill. aside from the efforts put forth by
settlers in checking their progress , ami
nillions of dollars that might hav
> een saved b3' the exercise of proper
: aution have gone up in smoke.
Forest fires dilfer greatly , but in any
M-ent the results are the same a
) lackened waste that will for a genera-
Jon or more be practically worthless
even for agricultural purposes. The
rich mold covering the ground , and
which may have been accumulating for
iges , is burned over , the nitrogen ex
tracted and the soil rendered use'ess
for years to come.
There is no more magnificent exhihi-
ion of unrestrained force than that
furnished bj * a forest fire. The spee-
; acle is one never to be forgotten , ami
well worth witnessing , provided you
are at a safe distance and have no
Inancial interests in the district devas-
: ated. Onward the flames swe ° p. fo-m-
nir a wall of fire as high as the trees
levoured. The roar is as of a thou
sand trains , and the crackling of the
flames as they leap greedily from trea
to tree. licking up everything iutl un-
mable. reaching out for fresh prey. i3
easily distinguishable above all other
sounds.
Nothing is spared. The higher the
tree , the more greedy the tongues of
lame that dart forth to envelop it.
Filling the air for miles around is a
: lense cloud of pungent smoke that
chokes the lungs and makes breathing
dillicult. The country is hidden from
view , and it is often difficult to see
more than a few feet away. And
through it all can be distinguished at
times the sun high overhead like a
great ruby ball , strangely emblematic
of the often futile struggle for life
: ) ejng Avaged in the plague-stricken dis
trict.
Looks like Bill is going to be elected.
Open s < * abon for political broadsides.
The most popular college this year ia
the electoral college.
The habit of burning letters ought to b *
taught in the schools.
That Dr. Rusrin of Omaha must faav
been a cheerful citizen.
China 1ms decided not to let Franc *
slide down ! ; > cellar door.
No campaign i < ronlly hot until th
election jiHlges begin to fight.
That i > ? an ominous shadow which ti >
cholera is casting over Manila.
Busino'.s 3 = bogiiwin ? to pick up. Look
at the readj ktter-writer industry.
Lots of people can see political rain
bows without goinu up in airships.
Nobofh's heinir kept awake ly th
noise of the csiniijaign contributions.
Airship trips by moonlight. For re
served seats apply to Wright brothers.
The American fleet i = experiencing all
sorts of novelties , iucludinir a typhoon.
The poor little tuberculosis germ will
now Lave time to take a little needed rest.
This counlij"nrordbreaking pump
kin crop oujrht to make pie lovers laugh.
The new Chinese minister-elect , Chung
Men Yew. has a name like a midnight cat.
If die freak .stylt in hats keeps on
next thing we will have a men's millinerj
store.
Things se m to indicate that we ar *
now living in the United States of Stand
ard Oil.
I ivirur $7,000 automobiles to ac-
tre ses a pastime among needy Wall street
brokers ?
Bulgaria thouriit she might as well tak
a slice of freedom while it was goin < j
around.
Who would have believed that the ma-
rhiuery of politics had been so completely
ailed upV
