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--i' s"'Nir- vVf---K !S. 'Af,iJ? V?v' 3V' .-Vrfjj '"yW's?:"-'''i -;Kr vfci'-- .. .' 'y -- ts S'K ''J1" i ."" ' -iJ frV,-"' ' ' t J, J . The negiected calf becomes the btuiited cow. Prosperous farmers make a prosper ous community. Feed costs money. Don't let the animals waste it by carelsss methods of feeding. Study your flock from now on with viw of porting over for mating in the early spring. The satisfied farmer is the farmer who finds satisfaction and stimulus in iluius everything well. If you want to improve your farm land put it down to clover, field by fiH.-l. and pasture hogs on it. Hens do not relish .-cratching in dump, heavy litter. See that plenty of straw or leaves that are perfectly dry is supplied. Keep the henhouses clean. Great piles of frozen manure underneath the perches is not a very good testimonial for the owner and not much encour agement for the hens to do their best. Leaks in old shingle roofs can be more surely fixed by the use of strips of tin than by using shingles, as the kitti-r are apt to raise the edges of those about it and make the leak worse. Cows that are to calve in winter or fjirly spring should have about six piaiis of some vegetable every day for two weeks before calving. If this course is pursued there will be no milk Tever nor any other of the many noubles incident to calving time. One must understand their incu bator, and must keep close watch of it. ir good results are to be .secured. H is so easy to be careless and lay railure of eggs to hatch upon the incu bator. The best of machines require intelligent handling. Don't let 3'our fanners' meetings drill into a mutual admiration society in which nothing better is talked about than neighborhood gossip, which pats those present on the back and riticises the absent neighbors. Make -such meetings profitable by taking up Veal farm problems and discussing them. Have you taken an inventory of the farm yet? No business house of any size in tho world but that takes an accounting of its stock at the end of the year preparatory to the new year's business. Does not the farmer need to know what he has on hand and what amount of business he has done during the year before he is in shape to intelligently begin another year's work? It's not brawn alone which makes lor successful farming. Brains are needed on the farm as never before. The man who is going to reap the re wards which the farm can be made to yield must be equipped for the task. He must not only have a pretty com prehensive knowledge of the principles governing agriculture, but he must pos sess practical business qualities which v-HI enable him to market his crops aMer b has raised them. , A Caradian inventor is said to have devised a nlow which cuts two slices of soil as it passes through the earth, one from the surface soil and one trom the subsoil. The first layer is turned over into a ditch cut by the previous run, while the second layer of subsoil is turned over on the first laver. In this way seeds and weeds are completely buried, while the rich subsoil is brouahl to the surface. The nlow is formed with two shares, one placed in front cf the other a:id the lear one makes a deep cut. The for waid share is of such form as to force the layer of ceil it cuts to one side, and at the sam" time turns it over, .lust how effective such a plow would prove could only be demonstrated by actual use It sounds gcod. but would Its work? The foo: and mouth disease, or aphthous fever, which has been caus ing so much concern in the east, but which has been held in check by the igorous and prompt quarantine meas ures of tho government, is a highly contagious fever, characterized by 'eruptions of blisters in the mouth, around the crown of the feet and be tween the toes. It is spread by con 'xact with the diseased animals, or with manure, hay or anything else they hae touched, or the buildings or cars 'that have harbored them. Though' ordinarily considered a disease of cat tle, it affects hogs, sheep, goats, horses, dogs, cats, and. sometimes, hu mans. The disease is seldom fatal jo humans, and is confined chiefly to children who have used unboiled milk from infected cattle. In animals tho disease makes its appearance in from three to six days after exposure to in fection. The first symptom is a chill, followed by a high fever. In a day or two small blisters about the size of a pea appear in the mcuth. The mor tality Is usually one to three per cent., sometimes reaching five per cent. It Is more fatal in calves that have ten fed Pfl infected milk. Foul foot or ground itch is quite common with cat tle that stand in filth, but this is read ily distinguished from foot and mouth disease, as in the latter the inflamma tion is in certain spots instead of be ing uniformly spread over the foot The good fanner takes care of his tools. AH your machinery housed? Cowieas make good feed for hogs and other stock and do the laud good, tco. Money in peaches if the right trees are planted and planted in the right place. Provide lots of litter for the hens. Keep them busy and they will be more apt to lay. Founders in horses can be cured, it is said, by administering a large table spoonful of powdered alum. Try it. In the rich prairie soil apple trees are apt to grow too much to tree, at the expense of its fruiting qualities. Be sure your pigs are housed warm ly. They are sensitive to the cold and will not do well if kept in a cold drafty pen. Every year in which the garden is fertilized arid the ground worked it bo comes richer and more capable of : growing crops. i To free cattle from lice, sprinkle with wood ashes, rub with sulphur ointment or whale-oil. or with petro leum emulsion. Some farmers who have tried it think that the best way to get land in condition for alfalfa is to grow a crop or two of cowpeas. Now is the time to make up your mind what kind and how many trees you will set out in the spring. Of course you are going to set out some. If the wound left by the removal of the large limb is not covered with paint or wax it will decay in a few years and cause a bad place in the tree. Not so much danger of overfeeding the poultry at this season of the year as there was during the summer. Feed liberally if you want to get the eggs. Heavy draft teams are not for fast road travel. See that your hired help does not run them ou returning home from town after the delivery of the load. Too much earth in sacked potatoes is judged as adulteration by Kansas officials. We've 'heard of sand in sugar but sand with potatoes is a new adulteration. Be sure of the clover seed you buy Some farmers in Ohio have suffered the past season through sowing Eng lish clover seed which was sold them for red clover. The cheap cotton gloves are a boon for the farm work folks. Buy them by the dozen pairs. They're cheaper, anil in this way you always have a supply on hand. Tile the land and drain off the sur plus water which, if allowed to re main, will sour the land, and when evaporated leave the land hard and unfit to grow a crop. Every thing pertaining to the dairy business will find a place at the dairy show at Chicago in December. Some of the finest stock ever before shown will be on exhibition. Doctoring stock is seldom satisfac tory or profitable. Better see that by proper care and feed they are kept healthy. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Live steam is the best thing with which to scald milk utensils, but where such is not to be had scalding water will do. but be sure that it is hot to the scalding point. An expert butter maker declares that cream should not be kept over four days before churning either sum mer or winter. Cream a week old makes butter a week old. The farmer who is content to work his horses with ill-fitting collars, is the faimer who is always doctoring sore shoulders, and finding that his horses can only pull half a load. In your feeding arrangements have it so that each animal has an equal chance at the feed. Preer.t crowding by feeding the sheep in racks v.Ith partitions for each animal. As soon as any animal shows signs of sickness separate from the rest and put on short rations and watch close. Sometimes a day or two on short rations will straighten them up. A dog with only a bark and a big appetite has no proper place on any farm, but a good dog trained to be of service will prove himself a valuable adjunct to the farm equipment. When the chemists of the depart ment of agriculture succeed in manu facturing paper from cornstalks the farmer may find them too valuable to feed as roughage. Who knows? It never pays to buy cheap harness. You cannot afford to take the risks which go with such goods. Many a serious accident is caused by the har ness giving way at a critical time. One farmer who. during the sea son has vegetables and fruits to sell, has adopted the plan of advertising which is simple but effective. He had a lot of large advertising cards 12xli inches, made at the printing offict When the first crop is ready for sale, that is. rhubarb, he puts a print ed "rhubarb" card on a signboard fastened to a post in the door-yard, where everybody can see it when pass ing by. When the rhubarb season is over, he puts up another card: "Ber ries for Sale." Next he puts up "Plums for Sale" later "Apples for Sale," acd so on. This farmer reports that the method proves very effective and that he sells a large part of his crops to people who come to the farm, which saves him the time and trouble of going to market with them. Here is a plan worthy a trial by other farmers. The Hand-Writing on the Wall Daaiel tke Prophet Iatarrte k for Kiac BeUwxnr. BY TIC "HIGHWAY AND BYWAY" PREACHER (Copy right, 1M, ljr tite Author, W. 8. l&!son. ) Scripture authority Book of Daniel, Chapter 5. Analysis of Book of Daniel. The book of Daniel consists of two distinct vol umes, the prohpecles of the latter bcinpr synchronous with some of the historical events narrated in the former: e. g. the first vision occurred in the first year of Bclshazzar (B. C. V): the second In K3; the third in the first year of Darius tSV); the last in the third year of Cyrus (5."Mj. The historical part (Chapters 2:4-7), is in Clialdco- the prophetical In Hebrew. In the fonr.tr Daniel is spoken of in the third person, in the latter in the first. The bonl: is generally divided into two nearly e(ual part.s. The first of these l-C) contains ehieily historical incidents, while the r.ecoml (7-12) is entirely itpocu lyptie. This division, however, talws no account of the difference of lanKuaRe. nor of the change of person at the begin nir.s or Chapter 8. It seems better to divide the book into three parts. The first chapter forms an introduction. The next si chapters (2 to 7), Rive a general view of the progressive history of the powers of the woild. and of the principles jf the Diine government as seen in the events of the life of Daniel. The re mainder of the book (S to 12), traces in minuter detail the fortunes of the people of God. : SERMONETTE. "Weighed and found want ing!" Tragic words these. They mark a culmination of a career. The period of testing has passed, and now the judgment. The destiny of a life is not de termined by one act. The sum total of a life is made up of the progressive deeds which step by step lead up to the logical and inevitable conclusion. The Belshazzar we see at that licentious feast in which delib erate and studied affront is given to the true God, is the Belshazzar who has been evolved from years of voluptu ousness and godless pleasures. Great light had shone upon him, great privileges had been his to improve, but he had chosen the base things and turned away from the light, and behold, at last, the life goes out in the blackness of a night of ig nominy and shame. He had lived in contact day by day with the man of God, Daniel, who held such exalted place in his father's kingdom. He had witnessed the judgment upon his father because he had dishonored God, and he had heard his father the king ac knowledge the majesty and power of the true God when at last he was restored to his right mind again and given back his throne. But, deaf to all that Daniel might say, and blind to all that might have convinced him of the error of his ways, he plunged on in his downward course until at last the judgment day came. He was put into God's balances and "found wanting." God is weighing men to-day. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year the process of build ing the life goes on until at last God weighs in the soul and finds What? Finds what that life has been putting there during the years of stewardship. We are determining now what God will find when he weighs us in at the last. May we build with God now in order that we may not be found wanting in that great day cf final testing. x 4 0 THE STORY. MflTHO is this Daniel whose name ft seems to be upon every one's lies?" Thus questioned Darius, the Median king, on that first day after his army had taken possession of Babylon, and he and his chief captains were seeking to restore order aud quiet to the city. One by one, as the lords and chief men of the city had been brought before him that he might question them and learn of the affairs of the city, the name of Daniel had been repeatedly mentioned, until at last Darius had asked the question with which our story opens, and before those about him could make answer he broice out with a second question, saying: "Was he the chief adviser of King Belshazzar?" "Nay, he had been great in the days of Nebuchadnezzar, father of Belshaz zar, but when the son came to the throne he set Daniel aside," replied oue of the Chaldean lords who was present at the time. "But how is it that they say he is now wearing the scarlet robes of roy alty, as though he were ruler in the land?" asked Darius, impatiently. "It was only last night, my lord, that such honor was conferred upon him," was the reply. "On such a night and such an occa sion?" echoed Darius, in astonishment "It doth not commend the man to my esteem. Belshazzar hath miserably perished amidst the gorgeous seenes of his wicked revelry. Why escaped the man whom the king delighted to honor on such occasion?" "But the king does not understand, else he would not so speak." ventured the man. half fearfully, lest his bold ness of speech might offend the king. "Nay, do I need to understand more than to know that this Daniel was in favor with Belshazzar?" he asked, with a certain menace in his- voice. "But he was not in favor with Bel shazzar because he spoke good con cerning the king, but ill, for he did tell of thy coming, and behold thou art al ready in possession of the city," re plied the man earnestly. "A soothsayer?" questioned Darius, with growing interest. "Nay, more," exclaimed te man, "a prophet of the great God, sro God of the Hebrews." You do interest rpR. Tell me more." "It was last night while the king was In tho midst of bis revelry and was drinking out of the golden vessels which had been brought from the He brews' temple at Jerusalem, that a mysterious hand did appear and write on the wall of the banquet hall over against the king. And a great terror fell upon the king and he called for all his wise men to tell him what the band wrote, but there was none that could do so. Then it was that the queenreruembered and reminded Bel shazzar of Daniel, who years before had told the dreams of Nebuchadnez zar. And in haste was this man Daniel sent for, and the king promised him great honors and riches if he would but tell him the meaning of that which the mysterious hand had written upon the wall. And behold he did, and scarcely had this Daniel departed from the banquet hall wearing the scarlet robes and the gold chain which the king had placed upon him when thou and thy army descended upon the pal ace, and the rest thou dost know, how that Belshazzar and many of his lords who attemirted to escape were slain, and now the city is in thy hands, even as this Daniel said should come to pass." Darius was silent for many minutes after the man had ceased speaking, deep in thought. "A hand writing on the wall," he re-' peated, as though to himself. "The gods of the Medes were never known to do this." Then, looking up, Darius asked: "Did this Daniel claim that it was his God who had put forth his hand and written upon the wall?" "Yea, he did charge King Belshazzar with wickedly and willfully dishonor ing the true God of heaven and de clared that the handwriting on the wall was God's judgment upon him, telling him plainly that God bad weighed him in his balances and had found him wanting and that the k" dom had been given to the Medes and the Persians." "Wonderful!" ejaculated King Dari us, in amazement. '"And why did not Belshazzar keep such a man as one of the counsellors of his kingdom?" With a deprecating shrug of the shoulders the man made reply as fol lows: "While Belshazzar was a mere strip ling Daniel was serving in the court of Ills father, and in the prophet's solici tude for the affairs of the kingdom he sought to exert a right influence over the young prince and to shield him from the corrupting influences with which the court life was surrounded. This the young prince resented, for he was a strong-willed boy, and when he came to the throne he forced this man Daniel into retirement and had quite, forgotten his existence until the inci dents of last night called him forth." "I would know this man Daniel," ex claimed the king. "Let him be brought hither." With an intensity which marked tho inner movings of his Inmost heart, Darius watched the tall, stately figure as it entered the room and advanced toward him in response to his beckon ing hand. He never could forget that face. Those deep-set eyes, that high forehead, the firm lines about the mouth. Jew it was plain to see he was and. despite the natural prejudice which he held against that race, there was an expression in that face and depth of meaning in those eyes which held him and won him. This was the man who could tell dreams and read mysterious writings, he thought to himself. And then aloud he asked: "Thou art Daniel?" "Thou hast said." "Thy robes speak of regal authori ty?" Darius next said, as he let his eyes move from the face of the man before him to the scarlet robe he still wore. "Belshazzar caused it to be put upon me," was the quiet response. "A thing which would not commend thee to me," ejaculated Darius, "had I not heard of the handwriting on the wall, and of thy interpretation thereof in the name of thy God. Now the au thority and honor with which Belshaz zar did clothe thee I declare unto thee shall in truth be thine if thou will but serve me." "I will," was the quiet response of Daniel. A Woman's Apathy. It is unquestionably true that one of the greatest obstacles in the woman's path of industrial progress has been her own apathy. She is reproached by the men in her trade for her lack of interest in trade unionism; she is re proached by the philanthropist for her lack of ambition her seeming willing ness to remain unskilled and under paid. But in this new movement for the franchise, we have the women who are already in the ranks of the skilled workers, and who have long since proved their capacity for organization taking another great step forward. They have at last learned that their industrial regeneration can come only through their own efforts and the ini portance of this new spirit of inde pendence, this enlarging of the work ing woman's sphere of activity to de mand a "voice in the laws that regu late her toil," would be difficult to overestimate. Edith Abbott in Sep tember Atlantic. Dairies and Henhouses in Architecture Before the young architect fresh from Paris had been with the New York firm a week he confessed to com plete disillusionment. "The only thing I see ahead of me for a year or two to come," said he, "is dairies and chicken houses. When I left America four years ago there were not a dozen dairies in the United States that had received the attention of a good archi tect Now I find that every man who owns a largo estate Is paying a big price to big architects for giving their best brains to cow and chicken houses, which certainly indicates, I think, that in some branches of art, anyhow, America is going some." Big Game Fees. In the German possessions in Africa a permit to shoot costs $205; special permission is required to kill more than two giraffes, four rhinoceroses, and six zebras. In the case of ele phant shooting, the authorities must be given one tusk from each animal killed. The hunter receives a small I Dangerous Job. pcyment if he shoots a lion, panther, j Next to working in a sawmill, the wild bear, oi yena. A persoit to kill most dangerous business is acting as gazelles, antelopes, and monkeys j a judge at a baby show. Chicago Rec costs only ten dollars. ord-Herald. VISITS WITH 4WMBY The Ashes of Death. Charles Dana Knotington, the itiner ant "type sticker," was weary, hungry and footsore but not discour aged. He was a man of many towns, a peregrin ating printer, known from Kala mazoo, Mich., to Butte, Mont. He was not only known of men but his own acquaint ance was wide, varied and rem iniscent. He knew a man who worked with Horace Gree ley and once he had held cases " 'longslde 'o Laz arus" on the Butte Miner. With the A "perfesh" he was a man of many 11 ties, typographical and railroad. In fact his knowledge of great editors and association with "swifts," was as endless as the railroad ties over which, during a nomadic career, he had passed on the bumpers. Thus it was, in jiue course oi v,unts, tie nal landed in Podunk and sought the usual employment. But, alas! the deadly machine had shown its head in the "beautiful little city ou the Cedar" ami Charles Dana Knot ington had been turned down. The al ley wherein once were heard "the si lent messengers" of the gang as they "clicked, clicked" .in the sticks, was no more the invention of man, with ruthless clank aud clang, had usurped the bread and butter of hundreds like Charles Dana K. Having been refused work he asked for a "pan-handle," but the cruel heart of the editor was petrifying fast, and Knotington turned from the office of the "Podunk Mirror" with sorrow in his very soul. Cut he was not discouraged. Had he not successfully combated the stern realities of life innumerable times, and, exultant, rose joyously above the sordid obstacles that barred his printorial way? Aye! aye! in deed! "It is to think," said Charlie, who was a faithful subscriber to the col ored supplement. "It is ten miles to Bumperville and no freight train before midnight" Ere the starry stars hurst through the canopy of night he would starve like a common hobo who chalked gate posts and begged for "dookies" of the kitchen mechanics. "Nay! Nay! Pauline," he would not let the gnaw of hunger eat at the vitals of his in ner self like a rat chewing an old shoe in the garret. Philosophically Charles Dana Knot ington tapped his forehead with the index finger of his right hand and, sinking down beside a pile of ashes in the back lot of the Mirror office, he pulled from his pocket the "Morning Tribune" and began to read! "Horrible! What's this! 'ML Pelee swallows up a thousand lives!' 'Life is but as candles snuffed out in the twinkling of an eye!' 'The entire is land buried in a storm of ashes!' "ASHES!" The recumbent form of Charles Dana arose vigorously to a rectangular figure! "Ashes!" he gasped, "Ashes!" 'Ha! Ha! Ashes!" In a moment he was gone, but in the dusky shadows of eventide a dark form might have been seen diligently engaged at the ash pile in the alley back of where the "Podunk Mirror" had its abstract being! And in the next issue of the Mirror appeared this notice: "A DASTARD'S WORK!" "A miserable tramp printer of the name of Charlie Knotington filled sev eral hundred envelopes with ashes and clinkers from some Podunk ash heap last Tuesday evening and sold them to our inhabitants for ten cents each as souvenirs of Mt Pelee. Hang ing is too good for such hoboes." But many miles away, like Sheridan, Charles Dana Knotington was calmly smoking a clear sauer-kraut-Ieaf cigar in the rear of the office of the "Straw berry Point Herald" and beside him rose, full high, another pile of ashes and clinkers, or Mt. Pelee after the eruption! o o o Rhapsodies. One way to lose your rich relatives is to stay poor. ir. ir t A telephone girl will accept a ring from any old man. it ir That man who comes up on a New York elevator is well brought up. ir t ir A man who has been divorced al ways takes especial interest In prob lem plays. ir ..- ir Some people should play on their pianos as they pay for them. In in stallments. ir ir ir Most people start right What we need in this world is u few more to finish as they started. Improved Mad Dogs. Boston has a hospital for the treat ment of dogs suspected of having rab ies and several cases have been im proved, though the veterinarians do not say they have cured the cogs of hydrophobia. They have merely im proved some dogs suspected of the disease. Worcester Telegram. pMSEerWeMi xV bm " m bV I I b m l fcH 4w JCv"A-B mM m MMMWMWWVVMVWVWWMtfVMvWVWWVMWWWWMMMIM A tv--r- -J. ". r te i. sYV ?XS X w NIGHnTl V V ,Av. To Fairy Sea and Elfin Court And Citadel of Pearl Ycu may quite easily escort My little girl. Jh.ll A?J Mm, it -mmh She vtill explore at any time The Land of Lerring-Do, jP aNKsISbhbewX The ladder into All day vritk With joy she journeys forth to see The Nevcr-Nerer Land; You'll love her best when .you and she Hare Peter-Panned. rvV" v X iff But there's one land for nhich you'll find Her feet are never shod. One country never to her mind The Land of Not. V. H. FritdUender. KSrf l rV NJKiir' . K s. Vf ffn 'K'lT S qp&- Vw MVMMVMMMMVMMWWMMMM0MNM00W0W EAGLE FIGHTS WITH SHARK. Combat Between One of the "Bald" Species and a Monster of the Deep. A haughty American eagle of the species known as "bald," is the latest acquisition of the park board of Bal timore. This magnificent bird, measuring more than six feet from wing tip to wing tip, looks as if he might have stepped out of our national coat of arms. But in fact he was pulled out of the water a dripping, bedraggled, humbled monarch of the air. He has been put on exhibition in the Zoologi cal garden in Druid Hill park, the largest park in the Monument city. The eagle's capture was unique, per haps, in the history of eagle hunting, for he was taken while in a fierce wing-to-fin combat with a large shark in Accohannock Creek, which divides Accomac and Northampton counties, Virginia, and Littell G. McClung tells the story of its capture in the New York Herald as follows: Several days ago, while Capt Charles J. Henderson of the Tangier, a steamboat, was standing in the pilot house of his vessel, directing her course up Accohannock creek, he sud denly saw an eagle swooping through the air half a mile in front of the vessel. A moment afterward he saw another eagle evidently the mate of the first circling above, far up in the clouds. The first eagle hovered over the water for a moment, and then plunged down into the waves like a tern. Al most at once the shiny fins of a big fish appeared above the surface. The eagle's claws were fixed in its body, and there was a furious struggle. Beating his wings, the bird tried to rise in the air with his prey, but his efforts were futile. Instead of an ordinary river fish, the eagle had sunk his talons into a shark. Back under the surface went fish and bird. But in a moment they reap peared, the battle churning the wa ter around them to foam and throwing spray high into the air. The shark must have caught the eagle by his feathers, for over and over they plunged and rolled, one moment on the surface and again out of sight. The crew of the steamboat crowded to the forward deck, absorbed in the fierce battle between the lord of the air and the terror of the sea. Not for a second did the struggle slacken. Mean while the other eagle circled overhead watching the conflict Both fighters seemed oblivious to the approach of tho vessel. At Capt Henderson's orders the Tangier was steered up against a wharf just below where the eagle and the shark were struggling. As soon as the ropes were thrown out a boat was lowered and manned, and the crew pulled vigorously for the scene of the conflict. For awhile it looKed as if the shark were getting the best of it, for he was dragging the eagle down under the water, and holding him there for several seconds at a plunge. But each time the powerful bird, using his wings as propellers, forced himself to the surface for breath. Just as the boat came up the eagle wrenched loose frcm the shark, and struck out for the shore, paddling him self along with his wings. Once or twice he tried to rise from the water, but his feathers were too thoroughly soaked to he of any use for flying. When the boat was alongside one of the men reached out a paddle, and, laying it across the eagle's back, shoved him under the water. Another reached over and seized his feel and head. Then his captors, holding his wings to his sides to keep him from struggling, drew him Into the boat. He still showed fight, but he was so exhausted that his efforts to free him self were ineffecthe. His mate came down close, but did not venture within attacking distance of the men. Later, giving up her con sort as lost, she vanished into the clouds. The big eagle was stuffed into a iMMAMAMMMWMMWWMWMMMVM . 5t n -V3"J' . . " J iTH&?--Jr vs?y- ,j S J : oi t ,f.i :& Dreamland climb f'k you. si. r V large bag, the top of which was tied about his neck. On shore a big box was procured, and, being put into this, he was taken aboard the Tangier and taken to Baltimore. After his feathers were dried the eagle seemed willing to make the best of the situation, and ate heartily the meat given him. An examination showed that he bore no scars from his battle with the shark, but one of his eyes was gone, evidently having been put out in some previous fight with a hawk or another eagle. His head. The Eagle's Claws Were Fixed in Its Body. breast and back were white, while the rest of his body was gray. Next morning 'Capt. Henderson walked into the offices of the steam ship company in Baltimore and asked the officers if they could supply ac commodations for a "canary bird" he had caught. They replied that they could get a cage without much trou ble, but when they saw that the "canary" was an immense bald eagle, they decided that the city might be able to take better care of him. So he was given to the park board for the zoological collection. ( AESOP UP TO DATE. The Old Story of the Hare and the Tor toise in Modern Version. A Hare meeting a Tortoise one day, remarked as he looked at the Tor toise's heavy shell and short feet: "I think I could beat you in a race." "All right," answered the Tortoise. "It is not every race that is won by a hare.' " At the hour appointed for the con test the Hare soon left the Tortoise out of sight, and, feeling sure of win ning, lay down by the roadside to take a nap. After a half-hour's sleep and rest he resumed the race. But the Tortoise had turned into a wayside garage and hired an automobile; and so he soon overtook the fleet-footed Hare. The Hare was going at the limit of his speed, but the Tortoise was going at the speed limit, and won the race i by three miles and seven laps. When the Hare, in the course of time, arrived at the pest, he said with a sigh: "You'll never catch me in an endurance race again." MORAL. Foot racing is healthy, but motor ing is swifter. St. Nicholas. Apologizing for the Baby. Nellie apologized for the action of her new baby sister by saying: "You see, she hasn't got any sense yet." Her mother objected to such an idea, and Nellie replied: "Oh, of course she's got sense, but it isn't working yet" &m)jai l jVlT VjVf-. X k ! PBBBB v iyi sr .