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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.
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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!
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Rhapsodies.
One way to lose your rich relatives
is to stay poor.
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A telephone girl will accept a ring
from any old man.
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That man who comes up on a New
York elevator is well brought up.
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A man who has been divorced al
ways takes especial interest In prob
lem plays.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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"
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