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Ancestral Wisdom
Our ancestors, so scholars pay.
Were wont to live in trees.
"Where they might comfortably sway
"With every papsins breeze.
They wore no collars-, stiff and hot;
They shunned the fiery drink
In faith, it was a happy lot
To be a missinp link.
Where branches screened them from the
sky
And kept awar the heat.
With wardrobe that weie very shy
They dwlt hi blis complete.
Xow science ansnirs to our call;
And et I sometimes think
Th- ver-v smartest of us all
Wii Grand Dad ilisySns Link.
Washir-ston Star.
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fCopyrisht. 1303. b Daily Stor Pub. Co.)
LITTLE SUNSHINE.
The Sensational Serpentine Dancer,
After a Successful Tour or the World,
Returns to the Scene of her Former
Triumphs.
This announcement, in gizantic let
ters, is seen on all the hoardings and
bill-posting stations. It is read with
interest by men about town who are to the scene of her former triumphs."
familiar with the career of the dia- j Tin- wretch who had lured her into
mond-decked beauty, whose noto- j uie glamor of the footlights had al
riety has been lar more profitable J ready lound means to make her
than any little talents she is supposed beauty and her grace a source of
to possess. It is read by hosts of en- j profit.
vjous young artistes wnosoaciuiuuiw
are centered on becoming a star in
tli- vaudeville world, no matter what
the cost. And it is read early each j
morning lry one man infirm, rasged. i
decrepit old John Maudley as m- ,
chanically he creeps along toward his ,
place of business, idiotically mutter-
ing the words of Thomas Moore:
"Sunshine, broken in the rill. j
Though turned aside, is sunshine j
still."
i
Very little sunshine had ever come ,
into John Maudrley's life. The office
in which he had worked since boy
hood, from early morning until late at
night, appeared to have been buried
in a Mock of big buildings for the
express purpose of shutting out an j
stray rays ot sunshine which might
otherwise have striven to penetrate j
the everlastingly unwashed windows ,
The head of the publishing firm which
he had served long and faithfully
seemed to have acquired the habit of
stifling anything in the least resem
bling sunshine, probably as the result
of their systematically smothering the
hopes and ambitious of budding au
thors. The home which, with much hus
banding of his scanty income. John
;Maudsley had built up, sometimes
stole a stray ray or two which fell
foul of the smokestacks of the big ,
tenement house and tumbled down
the airshaft. but even these were dead
when John returned from his work.
So it had happened that the sun shone
only once a week for John. That was
on -Sundays.
It was during one of the brightest
of these, in summer time, that John
first met a little living sunbeam. A
girl who seemed to make the sun
shine brighter: to absorb the rays of
the great liiegiver; and to shed them
again on the innermost recesses of
th poor fellow's heart. Then it was
that he besan to dream wild dreams ,
of how his little home might be
brightened with a perpetual sunshine,
always on tap. so to speaK when he j
ought to have known that it is a dan- j
g.-rous experiment to bottle up sun- ,
shine, of the feminine gender, in such
obscurity. I
u it "was who first called her "Lit-
tle Sunshine." and when he had won '
hi'r consent to illuminate his home, it
n,,i to him th.it henceforth every
- "-"-" - - i
day must be a summer Sunday .
There was great caiwv in the here- ' ""-" "" b- auu "u "? miuw
tolore dismal little flat, both when i ' identity of that broken-down man.
John wa, at nome anci wiien he was I that wreck of humanity, who each
away at his work, for the golden glory j uight occupies a back seat in the pal
.if that little head must have sub- lery. No one hears him as he mur-
jects to shine upon.
Then came to John what was the
mystery of mysteries. It was no
eclipse. It was simply that while the
man's whole soul still circled around
that first sweet sun. another lesser
orb of love was born and shed new
rays of gladness on his heart. Sun
shine! The skies, the home, his life
was full of it
Hut oh! The pity of it! The sun
which with it brightness transforms
crawling worms to butterflies, also
breeds such vermin as one might
shudder at'
The sunshine of that little home
was broken in the rill and turned
Very little sunshine had ever come
into John Mandsley's life,
aside by one of these reptiles. John re
turned from his work one night to
find it night indeed.
"Little Sunshine" was gone, but the
lesser oro was left. Cruelly deserted,
husband and child together sobbed
through the first dark night. Dawn
came and brought no Sunshine. Nev
er after that came sunshine to their
hearts.
It was always night. Night to the
child vfco lived her little life, intend
ed and uncared for, in the gloomy
home. Night to the man who saw
that baby life fast fading r.way, while
be Eiust wort even harder than before
'4 i; I , r:1B
gr mzzPjy'
to provide such luxuries as might pro
Ions that life, which really needed the
lost lityiiry of a mothers love.
"Heavens! Give me sunshine! Little
Sunshine, come hack to me!" he often
cried aloud. "Come hack, if only to
keep the last little ray of happiness
Irom lading from my life."
lint Little Sunshine never "returned
'-Mamma! mamma!" murmured the
iTE.A
"Sunshine broken in the rill."
fever-stricken child. "Me wants my
mamma!"
Hut those tiny tones never reached
the woman's ears, in which were ring
ing the plaudits of a brainless, heart
less throng, as she posed and pirouet
ted in a state of semi-nudity. No
longer a sun, she had degenerated
into a star.
The little one died. The last gleam
of sunlight sank beyoud the horizon
of John's life, as his baby girl was
lowered into the grave. But secretly,
that same night, he went to a vaude
ville theater, a gay and garish place
where the "Sensational Serpentine
Dancer" was to i.iake her New York
debut.
He saw huge bouquets of costly
flowers passed across the footlights.
to "Little Sunshine." He had been
too poor to purchase more than one
solitary sunflower to place upon the
casket of their child,
He never even let the mother know
of his loss. Why should he? She
looked so bright and happy, even as
snt Jia(1 I'or-' He had dared to hide
her brilliancy for a time in the ob-
scunty of his dismal home
Again she has "returned to
the
Per-
scene 01 ner lormer inumpns.
"! uie greatest 01 ner inumpns is
murs:
"Sunshine broken in the rill.
Though turned aside, is sunshine
still."
Morris Shot at Connecticut.
i A young woman who has been em-
j ployed in collecting material for a
man who is writing a history found
I something the other day which amus
i ed her very much, as illustrating the
I tender and brotherly feelings which
existed between the different colo
nies prior to the Revolution. It was a
passage in the will of Lewis Morris,
recorded in the Surrogate's office of
New York in the year 1760, arid ran
as follows:
"It is my wish that my son. Gouver
neur, shall have the best education
that can be furnished him in England
or America; but my express will and
directions are that under no circum
stances shall he he sent to the colony
of Connecticut for that purpose, lest
m his youth he should imbibe that
low craft and cunning so incident to
I the people of that colony, and which
I are so interwoven in their constitution
that all their wit cannot conceal it
fiom the world, though many of them,
; under the sanctified garb of religion,
j have attempted to impose themselves
i on the world as honest men."
"Looks to me." said the investiga
tor, "as if old Lewis had had some
dealings with Connecticut people and
come cut second best."
Cosmopolitan Production.
Clyde Fitch was talking about two
young playwrights.
"Riter." he said, "is always stealing
his ideas from the French and making
money, while Swett. an honest fellow,
writes original comedies that rarely
pa their way.
"These two men met the other day
and at once began to talk shop.
"Riter. the plagiarist, declared that
his latest farce, 'Little Bo-Peep,' was
having an extraordinary success.
" 'And an Enclish manager has put
it on in Liverpool, too,' he ended, 'and
it is having a superb run there, but the
Englishman hasn't yet forwarded me
a cent let royalties.'
" 'It is also having a superb run at
the Odeon in Paris.' said Swett. 'Have
yott received any royalties from
there?' "
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THE JOCKEY AND THE KING.
Royalty Not Always Accorded First
Place in Life.
King Leopold of Belgium told a gcod
story on himself and Tod Sloan some
time ago which has just found its way
into the French newspapers.
"I was dining in a Paris restaurant,"
said the most democratic of kings,
"and on looking arourd saw Tod
Sloan, the American jockey, whom I
had seen often riding at Longchamps,
dining in solitary splendor at the next
table. While waiting for my dinner
to be brought I watched the little
American and saw him, after tasting
some tried potatoes that had been
brought him. summon the waiter an
grily anu bid him take the dish away.
Now, I had ordered fried potatoes
also.'and I had no difficulty in discov
ering, when mine arrived with sus
picious promptness, that the very
same disn Tod Sioan had disdained
had been brought to me.
"I suppose." saiu a .listener. "Your
Majesty summoned the restaurant
man anil had the waiter dischargeI7"
"Oh. no." replied the king, smiling.
"I tasted the potatoes, and I discover
ed that Mr. Sloan was quite right.
They had been cooked with rancid
butter, and were very bad. But I
knew that if I sent them away it
would seriously injure the business of
the place, so I went on eating them.
You see. therefore, that nowadays a
jockey can afford to be more particu
lar than a king."
NO ONE TO RUN IT.
Simple Explanation for Stopping of
Alarm Clock.
An Irishman who had been unoccu
pied for some time induced his friend
Patrick to try to secure him a position
with a contractor. One evening about
a week later Pat went around to
Mike's boarding house with the news
that the contractor had granted Mike
a trial.
"But." said Pitt, "he is avery par-a-tickler,
and e moost be sure to be at
the oofice by 7 shar-r-p Oi'll git ye an
alarm clock and then ye'll be sure to
git up on toime."
So Pat bought the alarm clock,
wound it up and set it at C:C0. It went
off sntisfactorilj-. Mike went down
and worked all day. "When he went
home at night he wound the clock, but
did not bother with the alarm, think
ing that it would go off automatically.
The next morning he slept until S
o'clock, and when he went to the office
the boss gave him his pay and told
him to leave. Mike went home mad,
swore at the alarm clock and finally
took the back off. A lot of springs,
wires and wheels fell out, and, last of
all, a dead cockroach tumbled over on
to the table. Mike looked at the roach
in surprise, and then burst out:
"Be dad! No wonder the thing
wouldn't go off. The injineer is dead."
Protection from Tuberculosis.
A leaflet on "The Hygiene of Con
sumption" is now being largely cir
culated, containing facts that every
one should know about tuberculosis.
Certain rules are given, which, if lived
up to, will keep the lungs healthy, and
very greatly lessen the possibility of
their becoming infected with tuber
culosis. Every one's help is needed
to make war against consumption,
and. first of all things, against the
habit of spitting in improper places.
1. Gjt plenty of fresh air and sim
ple food.
Fresh air in plenty prevents con
sumption. Sunshine kills the germs.
Choose sunny rooms. Raise tl
windows and let the air in. Keep th
house clean.
1'. Live a regular life. Get plenty of
sleep.
:'. Never neglect dyspepsia or a
"cold."
4. Avoid the company of any con
sumptive who is careless about spit
ting. T. Before moving into a house for
merly occupied by a consumptive see
that it is properly disinfected by the
Board of Health.
C. Never put coins, pencils or simi
lar articles in your mouth; they may
have been used by a consumptive.
7. Always wash your hands before
eating.
A Bud of Promise.
A few Sundays ago a well-known
minister preached in a village church.
After the morning service, while
strolling through the village, he came
across some small boys playing ball.
"My son," he said to one of them,
"don't you krow that it is sinful to
play ball on the Sabbath day?"
"No. sir," replied the boy, innocent
ly. "It is. my boy. and very sinful." said
the minister. "God knows all things,
and He therefore sees you and vill
punish you for your sin."
"Do you really believe, sir." asked
the 1kv. "that God knows everything?"
"Most assuredly," said the good
man.
"Does He know that my Uncle John
has got a cow?"
"Of course He does, my child."
"That' where you git left, for Un
cle John hain't got no cow!" cried the
boy. as he started after the bill. New
York World.
Song of the Baldheaded Man.
Grfai C.ivsar's classic head was bare.
And likewise Socrates':
Peter and Paul were forced to wear
l rin i-ipihar nieces;
Shakespeare, earth's literary kinp.
And Johnson. Tope and Gibbon,
Being; short of hii.-ute covtiinp
Wort wips tit-d doft with ribbon.
But Achan. J. Iscariot.
Anani.f '-f truth chary).
Herod, the 1'haiisees I wot.
AH si-orted caputs hairy;
Later came Danton. Robespierre.
And Marat, bloody trio;
Guv Kawke and Jeffries. Glencoe Stair.
Thick-thatclud like riddling Nero.
Nor will the ee. in sooth, oft see
Bald Hottentot or Arab.
KamchatLan. aborisinee.
Kurd oi man-eatinp Carib;
Xay. nay but of the human breed
The prcater in earth's story.
Are tho who lead in thought and deed
CrowiieJ not with hair, hut S'orv!
Monroe Guy Carleton.
Caught in the Act.
Rushins into the smoking car, an
old man ;ried excitedly:
"A co'kscrew! Who's got a cork
screw?" A sco of kindlv hands sought poc
kets ani a score of kindly voices said:
"Here you am. sir."
"I thought so." shouted the old man.
"And ".s" T lay before you. gentle
men, .fifty temperance pledges. Who
will sizr the first?"'
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A Sanitary Milk Pail.
Herewith we illustrate one of the
sanitary milk pails in use in some
parts of the country. As wiil be ob
served, the top of it is almost entirely
covered. The place into which the
milk is thrown is the strainer, so that
the milk is strained as it enters the
pail. The top being covered prevents
the falling of hair and other dirt into
the milk. Any tinman can manufac
ture one of these pails, as it is so sim
ple that there is no patent upon it.
Two general principles need to be
kept in mind, one is to cover as much
of the top of the pail as possible, and
the other is to have a rim around the
orifice through which the milk enters
the pail. It seems to us that the
strainer is of little value in a pail so
protected, for if the udder is clean the
milk is not likely to be contaminated
with dirt. There are many forms of
these pails in use, some of tliem dif
fering very much from this. One that
we saw in use on the farm of H. B.
Gurler simply had a large part of the
top covered, while the balance was
covered only by absorbent cotton
placed between two layers of gauze.
As is known, the Gurler milk is very
clean and therefore has long keeping
properties. Some of this milk, bot
tled, reached Paris, France, in a sweet
condition. It had only been kept in a
refrigerator, had not been pasturized,
and had in it no preservative. It did
not begin to turn sour until the 17th
day after being drawn. On the day it
was used in Paris, it was compared
with some of the milk produced that
-ay in Paris, which began to sour
when only twelve- hours old. This
shows the difference between clean
milk and milk that has been con
taminated. The use of the big open
uouthed milk pail is the source of
much of the souring of milk. Hairs
from the cow and minute particles of
dust drop unseen into the pail. These
contain spores of the lactic acid fer
ments, which are always present in
the air during summer. We believe
the universal use of sanitary milk
pails would very greatly improve the
quality of our milk, and consequently
improve the quality of our butter and
cheese. Farmers' Review.
Pumpkins as Cow Feed.
In all of the eastern states where
pumpkins are extensively grown they
are used for cow feed in the late fall
and early winter months, and as long
as they can be kept without deteriora
tion. Possibly they could be kept all
winter under proper conditions of cold
storage, but they are such a bulky
food mat a very large place is re
quired to store enough of them to
last a large herd through the winter
months. Thej are not only hollow in
side, but their round shape makes
them space-consumers in storage. I
regard the pumpkin as equivalent to
silage for feed, but when we have the
problem of feeding many cows, it is
much easier to build a silo that will
hold several tons of silage than to
build a receptacle for several tons of
pumpkins. Moreover, the pumpkins
must be cold enough to prevent them
from decaying, for the air will get in
to any receptacle in which they can
be placed. With silage, the tempera
ture makes little difference If it does
not reach the point where it freezes.
I have found in the feeding of pump
kins that we can feed about 40 pounds
per day per cow to advantage, and
with seme cows the milk production
will be greatly increased. I have, how
ever, had occasional cows where the
effect of feeding pumpkins was to
cause the cows to lay on fat and de
crease their milk production. There
are very few experiments to which we
can point relative to the value of
feeding pumpkins. In one experiment
that I have in mind there was a gain
of C per cent more milk when pump
kins were fed than before they were
admitted into the ration. This was
the result, too, when the dry matter
was so decreased in the ration that
the increase of milk, based on the
units of dry matter in the feed,
amounted to 10 per cent. The milk
did not in any way deteriorate in
quality. In another test with which I
am familiar the cows fed on pumpkins
prouueed about 5 per cent more milk
than cows fed on silage, and when
compared with dry bay the increase of
milk was very great. The health of
the cows was not impaired by this
large pumpkin ration, nor did the but
ter made show any bad effect. The
great advantage about feeding pump
kins is that the men that have no silos
can feed them, and nearly all men
that keep cows have no silos. Silos
are numerous only in regions devoted
very generally to the making of but
ter. Gprge Ellis.
Caldwell Co., Ky.
Cucumber Salad.
Our cucumber salad is a dish we rel
ish all the winter. To make it peel
about 100 cucumbers and a quarter
peck of small onions and cut them into
thin slices; cover with salt and stani'
in the sun for six hours, rinse and
stand in clear, cold water for one hour
For the dressing, take a box of tlu
best mustard, put into it a little salt
pour in enough olive oil to stir easily
and add vinegar and oil alternately til'
thin enough to pour smoothly. Put the
cucumbers in jars, cover with th
J dressing and seal the jars. S. A.
'ton fls.T jf rj$' i- 'iLftBEEfSKv
Organizing For Egg Selling.
It has often occurred to me that we
farmers should take measures to dis
pose of our eggs in a systematic man
ner. I have been reading a great deal
about what Denmark is doing in the
way of egg associations, especially for
those that are to be exported. Their
plan is probably familiar to many
readers of the Farmers' Review. I
need only say that large syndicates of
farmers are organized for the collec
tion and sale of eggs by a central
bureau. Every farmer that belongs to
one of these syndicates has to conduct
himself according to the rules laid
down, and on the third violation of the
rules is expelled from the syndicate.
As membership in the syndicate is
very valuable, the members are care
ful to conduct themselves according to
the general plan. Even egg that is
laid is stamped with the number of
the farmer, the number of the syndi
cate, and the day on which the egg
was laid. These eggs all go to the
central agency and are sorted accord
ing to the dates of being laid. The
consumer knows just how old the egg
is when he gets it. If by chance a
farmer puts in an egg that is past its
prime he is fined heavily for it, and
the third repetition of the mistake will
cost him his membership. This pre
vents bad eggs getting into the con
signments. The result is that the buy
ers know about their eggs, and the
consumption of them is increased. I
believe that it would be perfectly
cates in this country. We Americans
feasible for us to organize such syndi
do not readily fall into the syndicate
idea, because we have found it so easy
to dispose of our eggs without making
very much effort, but I am certain that
the price we receive for eggs is very
much less than it would be under a
systematic collection and sale. I
think the consumer pays enough for
them, but there is too wide a differ
ence between what the consumer pays
and what the farmer receives. When
the fanners dispose of their eggs, they
are competing with one another, while
many of the buyers are members of
syndicates of produce dealers that
have eliminated the competitive fea
ture from the buying side of their
business. They agree upon a price,
above which they cannot go, hut which
may be reduced as much as possible.
I believe that this is to the disad
vantage of the fanners, and that it
we had a large number of syndicates
for the collection and distribution ol
eggs, we would be able to sell to a
little better advantage. I believe that
the producers of the eggs should re
ceive a higher price than the man
that simply handles them.
Phoebe Caldwell.
Butler Co., Ohio.
Water Glass.
From time to time we receive in
quiries relative to the use of water
glass as a means for preserving eggs.
We can, without hesitancy, recom
mend this as probably the best pre
servative to be found, this being
proved by tests made both in this
country and in Europe. Water glass
is really soluble glass. It has two
forms in commerce, one known as
silicate of sodium, and the other as
silicate of potassium. This may be
purchased in the form of powder, or
in the form of a liquid which has the
taste of syrup. It has long been used
for rendering fabrics incombustible
and for hardening petrified woods. We
believe that many of our readers
should give this a trial. There should
be about ten times as much water as
water glass, and this water glass
should be thoroughly mixed with the
water. This may be placed in a jai
and the eggs placed within it, but they
should not come nearer to the top
than two inches. As water evaporates
very rapidly, and would soon leave
the tops of the eggs uncovered and
exposed to the air, the jar should be
kept tightly covered. Farmers' Re
view.
New Colors in Poultry.
We hear a great deal about new col
ors in poultry, nearly all of the stand
ard breeds now having buff or some
other color grafted onto them. These
new colors are very fancy and very
pretty, but the farmer should under
stand that they are not at all so en
during as the old colors, so far as
their continuance in the flock is con
cerned. Thus the new colors do not
re-appear in the young birds very
largely, and it would take very many
years to fix these colors so that they
would re-appear as often as do the
standard colors. The farmer, when
he buys fowls, needs something useful.
If he is to breed to a standard, he
wants a standard that is not variable.
These new colors make it very diffi
cult for the farmer to breed his flocks
true to color. Unless he wants to
produce breeding birds for sale, or
show birds, we see no reason why he
should forsake the old colors.
Good and Poor Breeders.
The quality of a hog as a breeder de
pends largely on the conditions under
which he is born and reared. There are
enervating conditions that take the
breeding force out of a hog. One of
these is lack of exercise and the other
is the deprivation of a food that makes
muscle and strong bone. There are
several elements that it is necessary
to combine to make vigor. One of
these is potential energy, which we
get from the fats and starches oi
.oods. The other most important one
.s the nitrogen, which is of prime im
ortance in making a muscle that will
oe able to use the potential energj
lerived from the starches and fats.
Too much energy and too little muscle
.s as bad a combination as a great
steam power in a weak boiler. Dis
aster is sure to result.
A Temple for Serpents.
In a little town in the kingdom of
Dahomey is a temple devoted to the
.orsbip of serpents. There are always
nore than 1.000 snakes in it, which are
arefully tended by priests. The
:nakes are fed on birds and frogs
rought in by natives as sacrificial
-fferings.
BWEN1WN
AND
nPfeYtMW
Skating Boat a New Invention.
After submarines, supermarines.
The French, and one of the French, a
M. de Lambert, invented the innova
tion and call it a skating boat, be
cause of its gliding along the surface
of the water by means of five in
clined planes fixed on its bottom at
certain distances. When the boat is
not moving these inclined planes are
several centimeters below water, but
as soon as the twelve horse power
motor engine starts the inclined planes
are raised and the boat soon glides on
a mixture of air and water until, as
the resistance is diminished, it is re
ported to attain rapidly a speed of
from twenty-six to twenty-eight knots,
a velocity which motor boats of fifty
horse power cannot always compass.
The new boat is said to be handled
with much ease and pauses as soon as
the engines pause, for the planes be
ing immersed suddenly form a most
powerful brake with almost instantan
eous action. The largest boat in the
world for times past or present is to
come from England, an Atlantic liner
measuring 7S0 feet in length, with
four propellers and CO.000 horse
power, developed by turbine machin
ery and requiring about thirty months
to build.
Swinging Cradle.
Nobody receives more care and at
tention than the baby, everybody
seeming to vie with one another in do
ing everything possible to make life
for it comfortable. Still, at times the
mother has other duties that need im
mediate attention, and unless she has
somebody to help her to take care of
the baby these duties are left undone.
Vn Iowa man has devised a swinging
cradle, which, he claims, will be a
help to all mothers. The cradle is
suspended by means of rods on a spir
al spring, the latter being attached to
a beam and brace fastened at any
convenient place. A slight push of the
cradle sets it in motion, the spring
keeping it moving up and down for
quite a long time. Oftentimes all the
bah' needs to keep him quiet is a
slight rocking movement of this kind,
and, no doubt, this device would lully
serve the purpose intended. This de
vice can also be detached and re
moved from one room to another, sep
arate permanent fastenings only be
ing necessary.
Cold Storage Sunlight.
Cold storage sunlight in the form
of coal versus the fresh article as
sources of energy interest a man of
Bombay, who says that "the various
sources of energy in the earth may be
'ivided into two kinds viz.: income
as arising from the daily receipt of
thermal energy from the sun. which
consists in the growth of vegetables
ot all kinds, of stored energy in ele-
I vat-d water, etc.; and of 'saving.'
which corsists of stores of vegetable
products, such as coal and petroleum,
etc. At present we are making a most
inordinate use of the latter, while in
the main ignoring the lavish annual
donations from Helios. After many
years study it has been found cheap
er to plow and sow eucalyptus than to
import coal, the dry timber being as
serted to be far more efficient than im
ported coal and greater in thermal
value, bulk for bulk. This is a specula
tion over which we have been exercis
ing our minds for over twenty years
and for which we believe there is still
a solution to be found oi value ines
timable to humanity."
American Cookery in France.
If Americans have sat at the feet
of Parisian chefs to be instructed in
cuisine there are those in Paris who
are now getting points from Uncle
Sam's kitchen. Two American shops
selling popcorn and other Yankee
dainties have opened in the French
; capital and have caused Parisians to
J devote more serious attention to
j maize, which with wheat and rice con
stitute the world's principal cereals.
On the recommendation of physicians
the cultivating of maize as well as Its
industrial uses, which are as yet in
their infancy, are about to undergo a
beneficial change. This is particular
ly the case with the confectioners and
oatissiers. who for some time have
been experimenting with the new food.
Many agreeable surprises are in store
for gourmets, and all ttude Irom
maize.
Odd Form of Coal Discovered.
One of Colorado's greatest discover
ies in the form of innovation in coal
is interesting experts and scientists in
that state, where a deposit four and
a half feet in thickness has been pros
pected for two wiles in extent and
has yielded coal la the strikingly pe
culiar form of little cubes and hexa-zon-shaped
columns. It separates eas
ily, the seanre give off little dirt or
dust, it burns with a blue flame, re
tains heat o tong time, and makes lit
tle ash. It breaks to a small nut size
and is considered suitable for hard
coal burners and grates. Many regard
the now coal as one of the most valu
able find in this almost unknown em
pire of riches.
Reduces Cost of Steel.
An ironmaster in South Wales
claims to have invented a process by
which the cost of making steel can be
reduced 20 per cent.
TO HOLD 4,000 BUSHELS.
Design for Granary Easily Filled anc?
Kept in Order.
What dimensions would a granary
have to be to hold 4,000 bushels of
grain, and is it necessary to have the
bins made Inside? Can you give a
plan of a cheap building (lumber), to
be erected some 30 or 40 miles from a
railway? One thickness of boards
would do.
A granary to hold 4,000 bushels of
grain should be 34x40x10 feet high. It
is a good plan to have bins on each
side and a passage through the cen
A Passase C feet wide.
15 Iims !xU ft.
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ter. When filling, fill the bins first
and if more room is required the pas
sage can be filled. This will help to
keep the grain from heating as well
as being handy. Have ventilators in
the roof. The frame of the building
can be built with 2xC-inch studding,
care being taken to have a good solid
foundation, with sleepers or cross sills
running underneath the joists, eight
feet apart, so as to prevent the floor
from settling. Have sleepers or cross
sills running underneath from plate to
End iVew.
plate every eight feet to keep the
building from spreading. A gable roof
is suitable.
Painting a Frame House.
Please publish directions for paint
ing a frame house outside, eitner white
or light yellow. Would you recommend
raw or boiled linseed oil? Which oil
will wear the best? Would you use
any turpentine? Would it make any
difference if it had previously had a
coat of paint? What is the cause of
paint peeling off?
To paint a house first give the knots
a dressing of shellac, then apply the
paint in two coats, allowing the first
coat to dry before applying the sec
ond, which is composed of about four
gallons of oil and forty pounds of lead
for every one hundred yards of surface
to be painted. Raw and boiled oil
mixed equally are generally used.
Either cue will do for outside work,
but the boiled oil will dry much quick
er than the raw oil. There is also less
danger of the work being damaged by
rain when the raw oil is used. Not
unless it is necessary to thin the
paint. Not unless it is scaling off. If
this is the case remove the scales.
The pulling off of paint is usually due
to the use of an inferior brand at the
outset.
White People Growing Smaller.
Size and sufficiency are not neces
sarily associated, as is shown by the
way the Japanese have outwitted and
outdone their Russian enemies in
strategy and in combat. Neverthe
less, it is not a good sign to find a
people diminishing in size, and the
English people are properly disturbed
at finding that such is the case with
them. There improper nourishment is
supposed to be the leading cause, but
Dr. Anna Shaw reminds us that the
American people are on the verge oi
taking the same turn. A Brockton
shoe manufacturer already claims tc
note a sign of degradation in a falling
off in the demand for the larger sizet
of men's shoes and predicts that il
nothing intervenes to prevent we shal
be no larger on the average in another
100 years than the present Japs oi
Frenchmen. Nebraska State Journal.
Ants Built Cow Sheds.
One of the most interesting studies
of insect life is the relationship be
tween ants and plant lice, or aphids
These plant lice supply honeydew
from the juices which they take as
food from plants. The ants are very
fond of this sweet substance, and care
for the aphids in a manner that seems
to us surprisingly intelligent. They
sometimes carry them bodily to a bet
ter feeding ground and drive away
certain of their enemies. It is claimed
that they even build sheds of mud in
the crotches of shrubs and small
trees. On account of this insect rela
tionship one may truthfully call the
ants "farmers" and aphids "cows,"
and these protecting mud cases "cow
sheds." St. Nicholas.
Aristocratic Milkmaid.
Lord Carew, the English nobleman,
is a farmer of renown and owns a
herd of Jerseys of rare strain and
milk-giving qualities. It is Lady Ca
rew's delight to go. milkmaid fashion.
in short nkirt and low-cut bodice, and
fill a bright tin pail with the creamy
yield. Sh is an expert milker and
fan put Jiany of the dairymaids to
blush ii. rapidity and in obtaining
milk frcm the most fractious cow of
the herd. Of course, it is pure sport
for her ladyship and nothing pleases
her more than to invite aristocratic
friends to watch her as she plays the
part of milkmaid.
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