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A Remedy For Worms in Sheep. wi
" Sheep are subject to internal as well ju
as external parasities, and examina- he
tion of the flock as to the condition of fi
the members should be made frequent- th
ly. Worms sometimes infest sheep, ax
and the flock will fall off in condition th
before the fact may be discovered. A ha
little sulphur mixed with salt, placed grt
where the sheep can get it at will, is pi
considered a preventive and remedy, sh
but sulphur should not be given during the
damp weather. th
Poultry Breeding, e
The causes of failure in the poultry
business are always readily discovered. is
The experienced, careful, systematic to
breeder does not fail. The Inexpert-t
enced, careless breeder will always fall: th
th
By inexperience we mean to Include th
those who know something about
fowls and who have bred them on a
small scale, but branch out largely.
It is one thing to manage a flock of no
twenty-five hens and quite another to
manage a flock of several hundred, not
to say thousands. Diseases are more
difficult to prevent in large flocks. And
the care of such flocks is much more
difficult than the care of small ones, pr
for we must depend upon hired help, or
and that is not always reliable in such -
delicate work as poultry requires.
Poultry breeding should be entered Ion
to on a small scale and the business
be enlarged only as rapidly as we find
ourselves thoroughly familiar with the
details of extensive poultry breeding.-
The Epitomist.
A Hog ISange,.
An Ohio farmer writer sketches an is
arrangement for hanging hogs when at
scalding, etc. It is made by taking a an
large pole about fifty feet long for th
lever and another about sixteen feet sh
long for post. Set this post four feet ac
in the ground and have a clevis-shaped pl
iron (A) to support the lever on the of
post. This clevis is about one foot fo
long and as wide as the post after ai
squaring, with a crosspiece welded on a
near the middle of the bottom or round re
part. A three-quarter-inch hole is
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aL AnRAGNoaMElT FOB HRANGI HOGS. so
made through the bottom of the clevis pl
and the centre of crosseiece, through b
which an iron pin is run and driven a
into the top of the post, so as to per- ai
mit the clevis to revolve on the post. si
Make a five-eighths-inch-hole in the ti
long pole or lever about twelve feet ti
from the large end. Raise lever up and ec
hang in elevi. Attach a strong chain of
to large end, and have the scalding vat
directly beneath this chain. Set a a
bench or a platform beside the vat, to a]
scrape hog on, and next to this pla:- o.
form erect a post with four cross- w
pieces on top to hang hogs on. Fasten V
a small rope to small end of lever to v
pull it down with when lifting the e
hog in and out of scalding receptacle ti
on bench and to hanging post. a
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Stir the Soil. f
F'At a recent Farmers' Institute In j.
Maine, Professor G. M. Gowell, of the
University of Maine, began by saying ct
that the general opinion had gone 4
abroad that the soil of the State of A
Maine was not f(rtile or productive.
but the chemist had proved, that
this was not the ease by analysis of
the soil from various average Mailne
farm, and in every case it had been
found to contain enough of the essen
tial plant foods to produce maximum
crops for an almost unlimited number
of years: the reason why good crops
were not produced lay in the fact that
these ingredients were in such com
position that while the chemist could
easily find it the plant was unable to
do so; the farmer must. therefore, till
the soil In such a manner that these
plant foods would be available to the
plant; this must be done by turning
the soil and allowing the air to circu
late freely through it. The same thing
might be said of many of the worn omu
farms elsewhere in New England, but
in many there is need for returning to
the soil a supply of organic matter,
which was abundant when the land
was newly cleared. This, by its decay
in the soil not only adds fertility, but
makes it more porous that air may
penetrate into it, and helps to make
available the mineral elements in it.
Where the farm is remote from large
cities and not much stock is kept, the
easiest and cheapest way to obtain the
organic matter is to grow green crope
to plow under. For this purpose clover
stands at the head, where it will
grow, but peas, buckwheat, rye and
other green crops may be used.
Fall-Planted Trees.
Where one can oversee the digging
and transplanting of fruit trees in the
fall there is less likelihood of their
being set back by the change. It is
a crying shame In many parts of the
country to see the utter indifference
with which nurserymen take up trees
sold to farmers and ship them to their
destination In a condition that will
cause total or partial fallure. The only
way to make them more careful Is to
have inserted in the purchasing con
tracts a clause requiring the nursery
man to make good any trees that die
from exposure of roots or poor
packing when shipped. There are
plenty who will tell you that it
does not hurt young trees to be dug up
in the late fall, and even If the roots
are disturbed it matters little. That
sort of talk has just a little grain of
truth in it. It does not hurt the young
trees to be disturbed nearly as much
as it does old ones; nor does It hurt
them so much in late fall when the
roots are frozen; but hurt them it does,
and it will put any tree back from one
te two seasons.
You can transplant a large, full
growing tree without checking its de
velopment In one way only, an that i
I l7 digging up ap *D 11aove111 of
frozen earth with the roots.t The big
and small roots must not be a~sturbed. I
and the ball of earth must be kept
closely clinging to them. If this is
done with great care gigantic elms, W
oaks and maples can be transplanted
without causing them any apparent in.
jury. A knowledge of this should IT
help us in the matter of transplanting
fruit trees. We should follow exactly
the same directions. I have time and
again transplanted young trees from
the nursery in this way, and they w
have absolutely not lost a month's n
growth. Alongside of them I have l
planted other stock that has been b
shipped in the ordinary way, where b
the roots had been disturbed, although
there was an apology for a ball of t
earth wrapped around them. The t
comparative results in the growth a
were such as to convince me that there
is only one true and successful way
to transplant young and old trees. Dig
them up in the fall of the year when
the ground is solid, and leave a ball to
their roots equal in diameter to their
longest roots. If removed carefully
with this ball of earth unbroken, and e
planted immediately, they will lose
nothing in their next season's growth, t
-S. W. Chambers, in American Culti.
vator. t
Walks and Drives Through Lawns,
Walks and subsidiary drives must no
provided where people want to walk h
or where they expect to drive. Neither r
t
DIVERGING DRIVES. b
A. Correct. 1). Wrong. P
is artistic in itself. Every foot of
walk or drive is a trouble, an expense P
and usually a distinct detraction from e
the artistic beauty of the place. They n
should, then, be designed to fit the d
actual demands of traffic about th9
place. The most practicable thing is a
often to await the most explicit call v
for a walk. When a path begins to I
appear through the grass, the need of
a walk is manifest and its general dl
rection pretty accurately indicated.
Gentle curves are better than
straight lines for walks, except upon
small places or in a geometrical plan. I
These curves must be determined by
the exercise of good taste and judg f
ment, on the ground. A design mad 1
on paper is apt to be very unsatisfac.
tory when transferred to the soil, un
less it is made by an experienced hand
from an accurate topographical sur
vey. Even then it may not fit. Curves
made up of arcs of circles are not very
satisfactory, unless the arcs are com
paratively short and judiciously com- I
bined. If a road is properly made, only I
a very short are will be visible from
any point; and this enables the de- I
signer when working on the ground i
to make many curves and combina
tions of curves which would be decid
edly unpleasing if accurately platted
on a map.
When a walk or drive branches, each
arm should take such a course as to
appear to be the proper continuatloa n
of the trunk. Imagine how one arm
would look with the other removed.
Would it still be complete? Would the
whole seem to be the perfectly natural
course for the walk? Such bifurca
tions should not be at too obtuse an
angle; and yet this angle of divergence
is of quite minor importance if the
foregoing consideration is kept fully
in mind. The right and the faulty
way of laying out branching walks is
clearly shown in the accompanying
diagram.-F. A. Waugh, in American
Agriculturist.
Feeding Rens in Winter.
It is so easy, comparatively, to have
hens lay in winter, that it is an inex
cusable waste and bad management
not to have them lay. To have plenty
of fresh eggs upon our own table is a
consideration that is worthy of all the
effort that is required to stimulate the
hens to lay; but the profit on the eggs
we may have to sell in winter is far
greater than the profit we derive from
anything else that is produced on the
farm. It is unnecessary to say any
thing about warmth in this connec
tion, for we all know. that without
warmth, we cannot get eggs. It is
equally unnecessary to mention the ne
cessity of exercise or to mention the
fact that plenty of litter with grain
scattered through it is the proper
means for inducing hens to exercise.
Some other features of the business,
however, may profitably receive notice.
If we expect the highest success in
Swinter egg production, we must feed a
variety. When the thermometer is
!low, we should feed plenty of whole
corn at night. Warm water twice a
day, in cold weather, is very beneficial
In very cold or stormy weather the
fowls should be kept Indoors. The
practice of feeding corn all the time
Swhich is common on the farm-is un
Iise. Corn is not an egg producer.
1 It is a fat former, and for the proldu
tion of eggs, nitrogenous foods are
used. Wheat is a splendid food of this
D character, and it may be fed from
a January to December, with excellent
r results, a statement that cannot be
s made as to corn. Especially is much
e corn harmful to the large, compara
a tlvely inactive breeds. The small
s breeds, which are always active, can
r manage a steady corn diet better, It
II must always be remembered that a
y confined hen cannot be fed large
o quantities of corn as safely as can one
i. that is on the range. Yarded fowls
can be kept successfully the entire
le year without a grain of corn, although
r as already said, corn at night in cold
-e weather is excellent feed. The yolk
it of the egg of the yarded fowls is not
p as yellow as that of the eggs of thf
fs fowls that are on the range. The
it reason, of this, is the lack of green
)f food and coloring matter. Yellow corn
ig will give the higher color, but it is
1h not advisable to feed it in sufficient
rt quantities to accomplish the purpose
ic especially as the average consumer
s, will be satisfied with a lighter colored
is yolk, if the egg is fresh. In the con
struction of houses, it may be said in
ll lthis connection, provision should be
e-made for the admission of plenty of
is smnshine in wlnter.-fl-Horatlq Wood, in
t Agriculturl Epitomist, - -
NEW KINDS OF CLOTHS,
TI
WOOL BLANKETS THAT NEVER SAW
A. SHEEP'S BACK,
Iron Cloth Manufactured bya New Process w
From Steel Wool-Collars Made of Un- s
tanned Leather Boiled in Oil-Blotting
Paper Bath Robes. b<
This Winter you will be able to keep pb
warm under soft, light white blankets re
made from wool which never saw a at
sheep's back. And if you smoke in n
bed and drop sparks upon your new ei
blanket, they will not burn a hole. ui
This new wool is made in an elec- t
tric furnace, kept at a heat so great d,
that the limestone fed into it drops
away like water. A chemical is mixed ai
with the molten stone, and then the fE
white-hot liquid passes under a furious la
air-blast, and comes out at the other al
side as fluffy white wool. An over- oi
coat made of limestone-wool would be di
washed by placing it for an hour or
so in the kitchen range.
Thick as mule hide is, it is flexible, w
tough, and will stand tremendous h
wear. It is made into fingerless mit- F
tens, which are worn by thousands of t<
quarrymen and drivers of engines and I
motors. P
A bird of paradise that never was p
hatched, nor ever flew, may now deco- e
rate a lady's hat. Art has come to the m
help of the societies for the preserva- tl
tion of birds. Hummingbirds, toucans,
sunbirds, or birds of paradise, with d
gleaming, iridescent plumage perfect h
in shape and size, are now made of e
nothing but chicken feathers and coal- g
tar dyes. Their manufacture resem- f'
bles that of tying artificial flies for d
fishing.
Marechal Niel roes, Eucharis lilies,
poppies, and violets, every lovely flow
er that ever bloomed on a lady's hat,
no longer owe their beauty to the many b
dozens of different and-some of them
-expensive stuffs employed. They
are all manufactured of nothing but
wire and goose feathers. The process
is the invention of Miss Prudence de
Witt, who employs over a hundred
hands in her flower factory.
You may turn yourself into a hu
man magnet by having your coat lin- c
ing stiffened with iron-cloth. Iron- e
cloth is manufactured by a new process I
from steel-wool. It is exceedingly use- f
ful for making the shoulders and col- a
lars of coats set properly. It looks m
as if it were woven from horsehair, i
but is much cheaper. The rougher t
qualities of steel-wool are of greati
use in polishing wood.
The boots you bought as porpoise
hide were never cut from the hide of at
porpoise, but of a white whale. Boots
made from the hides of sea-elephants
killed in the Kerguelen Islands, and
tanned in England, are now gaining
popularity.
Without being a scalp-hunting red
Indian, it is still quite possible to wear
human hair as an adornment. There
has lately been a great revival in the
point de tresse lace, which is made
from human hair mixed with fine flax
thread. This lace is very valuable,
especially if made of gray uair. Its
Osual price is £20 a yard.
Golden-brown silk gloves may be
bought which never saw the cocoon of
a silkworm. The material from which
they are woven came from under the
waters of the Mediterranean. It is the
thread which the pinna, a kind of
mussel, produces to bind itself down
to the rocks.
The fourth generation of collars is
with us. First came linen, then paper,
then celluloid. The latest is a collar
of untanned leather boiled in oil. It
resembles celluloid, but has one great
advantage. It does not go off with a
flare when a match comes near it. The
name of this collar is the ''l"Marloid."
SBlotting-paper bathrobes look like
Sthose made of cotton cloth, but are
Srapidly superseding the latter. They
I are made of paper treated by a new
I process, are very pretty in color, and
Sact as bathrobe and towel both.
I Besides, the material that composes
I them is so poor a conductor of heat
that you may wander down any dis
tance of draughty passages, wrapped
in your paper bathrobe, and never take
cold.
Fishskin is the principal ingredient
in the manufacture of the shining pearl
necklaces now so popular. They are by
no means cheap, as the difficulty of
making the imitation pearls to match
is almost as great as that of matching
the genuine gems. Venetian pearls, the
finest imitation ever made, are now
almost as valuable as real pearls, for
the secret of their manufacture died
a five years ago with their inventor, a
SFrenchman. Venetian pearls are so
e hard that they can be stepped upon
e without injury.-Answers.
'- How Chinese Coolies Cat a Free Burial.
. You see, no Chinaman would set
foot on a vessel unless he had every
e assurance that in case he died he
is would be put away in a first-class cof
Sfin and brought into port. It we didn't
Lt all contract to do that none of us
e would carry a coolie, not it we offered
h them free passage, so we promise to
1* supply a "chop dollar" coffin in case
fl of death, and to carry the coolie back
* to the port from which he sailed, and
It that costs money. This business
a hadn't gone on a month before the
re coolie saw his chance to beat the com
to pany, and began to do it. You see a
li coolie who is about to die, or wants to
e pass in his checks, and they can do it
b Just whenever and wherever they
id want to, steps on a steamer, say for
k Hongkong, and he only pays about
of two dollars for a deck passage. Then
z when he gets good and ready he just
se stops breathing, and the company has
a to provide a coffin, and pay the freight
Sback home.--Stephen Bonsai, in Scrib
is ner's.
atAutomobiles Conquer the Alps.
SAutomobiles have conquered the
d Alps. A German has liade his way
- with a benzine motor from Frankfort
in to Italy over the Brenner Pass, with
Sno great trouble.
a The average woman can sweep into
a room more efdletively thR he can
sweep It oet,
POISONOUS DYES IN CLOTH.
Their Extensive Use This Season Fright,
ens the English. Si
Bright colors are very fashionable
now happily for the spirits of those
whose lot in life it is to inhabit cities Th
as gloomy as London or Manchester c
are in December, and the smartest
tints are those known as fondant or E
bonbon shades, pretty blues, soft
pinks, delicate purples and military
reds. The strides chemistry has an
achieved during the past few decades I
make the production of such colors en
easy and their cost inexpensive, but fel
unfortunately it also makes adultera- a
tion easy, too, and the use of poisonous tri
dyes is becoming all too common. au
Anilines are very extensively used, Be'
and very little harm has been traced to al'
fabrics so colored, while chrome yel- pe
lows containing lead, green containing red
arsenic, and blues containing muriete
of soda, have been proved distinctly mi
deleterious. co
Aniline is largely used in coloring I
wall-papers and window curtains an
without bad effect, but a curious case er
has just been made public by the tb
French Academie de Medicine relating nF
to the injurious effects of aniline oil, to
which is used in yellow-brown boot th
paste. Two children wearing these lit
polished boots were poisoned, and the is]
evil was traced to the oil in the paste
which had gradually soaked through en
the leather.
Unluckily, there is no ready way of et
discriminating between dyes that are a
harmful and dyes that are not. Experi- di
ence and consequences alone are a
guarantee of their innocuous or bane
ful influence. Those who do art nee
dlework with silks and colored threads C
should never bite off the end of their t
silk nor suck it in order that It may t
thread easily through the needle's eye,
for to those foolish, though excusable
habits, cases of arsenic poisoning have
been traced.
In cases where there are abrasions
or sores of any kind upon the limbs-
for example, upon the shins or ankles g4
-dyed hosiery should never be worn i1
unless the broken skin is protected. al
Scarlet socks, however expensive, ai
should never be worn until they have ti
been thoroughly washed. All the
clever chiropodists, after cutting a corn t(
or treating it with an acid, protect the 1H
place by means of plaster or lint be- al
fore the patient puts his socks on
again. Clothes, dresses and mantles y
also often reek with poison. Many
people have been made seriously ill af- e
ter a fast walk owing to the dye soak- I
ing through the armpits or other spots fr
and entering the open pores of the
skin. There is an immense amount of v
trickery accomplished in the trade,
where indigo-dyed goods are con- -
cerned. Even '-"worsted-indigo," sold p
at 9s 6d a yard, has occasionally been
found to be something else poisonous,
having not a trace of pure indigo in it.
The test for the discovery of pure r
indigo is as follows: Place a piece of It
cloth half an inch square on a saucer,
plate, or in a porcelain basin, and e
drop two or three drops of strong ni
tric acid on it. If pure indigo Is pres- 11
ent a bright yellow spot with a green
rim is quickly developed.-London
Daily Mall. d
f TROLLEYS AS EDUCATORS.
a Many Motormen Becoming Ambidexter-*
, ous Through Their Agency.
f "Unless the present style of trolley z
1 cars go out of vogue," said a street a
railway official the other day, "they E
s are going to develop a race of left- I
handed motormen. No, I am not jok- I
r ing," he continued, when asked for an
t explanation, "I am simply stating a
t fact. If you will notice the motorman (
a next time you get on a car, you will
e observe that he keeps his left hand on
the crank which controls the current t
and his right on the one connectedt
with the brake. The reason for such 1
San arrangement is that the brake
crank requires considerable more
Sstrength in its manipulation, but the
current regulator comes into play ten
times as often and has to be moved at
much greater speed. As a matter of
fact the operator is continually shift
ing it to and fro for the purpose of in
d creasing or decreasing the power, and
a sort of dial, over which the handle
moves, tells him exactly how much
t electricity he is calling into play at any
rI given moment. All that demands spe
y cial alertness and attention, while with
Sthe brake it is merely a matter of a
h straight pull.
g "The natural consequence of such an
e unequal division of labor Is to transfer
Wthe dexterity of the right hand to the
r left, and with many of the older men
d it has already become noticeable. I
a first had my attention called to the
io subject by watching four motormen
n playing a game of pool. Two of them
held their cues in their left hands, one
used both hands impartially and the
other played in the ordinary manner.
tI questioned the first three and asked
. whether they were left-handed. They
e replied no, and could give no special
. exl)lannation of their manner in hold
't ing the cue. They said it 'came kind
Is of natural.'
d "That led me to do a little investl
to gating, and I found that a number of
me our old employes were gradually shift
:k ing the functions of the right hand to
Id the left. A couple of them have act
s ually become ambidextrous, and write
le as well with one hand as they do with
n the other. The change has come about
a lby such imperceptible degrees, how
to ever, that very few of them are aware
it of the cause; but I am satisfied it is to
" be found in the constant manipulation
or of the current crank on the cars. Ac
t cording to the evolution sharps, that
n ought to produce left-handed men in
t two or three generations. I don't
Sknow that it is any particular disad
ib- vantage. I merely mention it as a
curious fact."-New Orleans Times
Democrat.
he A Young Mark Tapley.
ay At Cherokee the other day a ten
irt year-old boy tried to jump on a moving
th train, with the result of having both
legs cut off. While the doctor waD
dressing his stumps he looked up and
Ito said: "'Say, doc, I won't have to go m
si school R9W' WW ;r-Kaunsaa Cit?
learass,
WOMAN'S POITU QUEST. Ur
Bu
S1TIRY OF HER HUNT FOR WORK
IN NEW YORK CITY.
The Theory That Any One Who Searches asr
Can Find Employment Not Always Verlo an
fled by Facts-Discouraging Attempt to
Earn a Support be
There is a popular theory afloat that
any one who will may find work, and ad
that she who is destitute and out of bu
employment, if in good health, is suf- on
fering from self-imposed misery. In m;
a city of so many and varied indus cr'
tries as New York it is, perhaps, not
surprising that this should be the con- lot
sensus of opinion; but the thene i. not
always verified by facts, as the ex
perience of a woman, told to a Tribune
reporter, proves. She said: As
Circumstances made it necessary for
me to leave my Southern home and
come to New York, and when I arrived iv
I had a snug little sum in the bank "t
and an assured yearly income of scv- ly
eral hundred. It never occurred to me ce
that the wolf was even then creeping PP
up to my door, and that I should be gi
forced to ask, nay, to beg, for work in W
this great city. But presto! the snug n
little sum and the assured income van- A
ished into thin air!
"But who cared? Did I not have tal
ents?
"I had not been in New York long
enough to feel the full force of such
a disaster as loss of income, and so
didn't know that here 'money is your Is
best friend.'
"And I still had my letters, too! Oh,
those letters from high State and ai
Church dignitaries were sure to be
telling things-were sure to bring me
lots of friends and great influence! a
"Armed with these I couldn't fall to t
the ground-I couldn't fall to secure a h
pusition of some kind! 81
"In my own home I had passed for a fi
womean of more than ord;nary intelli- n
gence-had gained a modest reputation h(
in a literary way-had wr'tte1 accept
able stories for different magazines is
and periodicals, and had been paid for m
them. P
"Gathering up my letters I set out ti
to call upon a prominent clergyman. 5'
lie read them, looked severely at me, h
and said sternly:
"'Now, what did you come to New P
York for?' e
"As this was the first time I had b
ever been spoken to harshly by a man,
I felt more bewildered than hurt, and
faltered out:
" 'Why-why, for the musical ad- 0
vantages, and-and things.'
"'Leave me your address. I'll do
what I can to introduce you to musical
people. I can't help you otherwise.'
"Nothing ever came of that.
"Another clergyman was visited. I
was courteously received, my letters
read, and I confided to him that I had
lost my bit of income and wanted
work. A pained look came into his a
eyes.
" 'Oh,' he said, 'I have so many cases t
like yours brought to me. I am in a
despair.' s
"But he wrote me a letter of Intro- t
duction to the head of an employment
bureau, who received me affably, and I
who said he would do his best to se
cure me a place. I have never had an I
offer from him.
"I went to a prominent magazine I
man and showed him some printed E
t sketches and articles cut from the I
P periodicals I had written for, and told I
- him that I had had some experience
- In a literary way and in newspaper
I work.
S"'If you have done newspaper work
3 a magazine office is no place for your I
1 wares,' he answered, roughly.
o "I have answered countless adver
t tisements, walking sometimes miles in
1 the stinging snow and rain-advertise
i ments that seemed to apply to my
needs. But the majority of them
e proved to be places as 'book agents,'
with 'short hours and big pay, if capa
ble.' The salaries and commissions of
fered were most generous-if you could
earn them. I tried-and failed. I was
-either incapable, or no one ever earned
the salaries.
d "I come of a long line of fighting
e ancestors, but I needed all the accu
b mulated courage of those ancestors in
my trial efforts to earn that generous
salary. I even tried to sell books in
Jersey Cltyl
"Next I applied for a situation as
clerk in a drygoods store, one of the
largest in the city. The day I applied
there was a double line of sad-faced
n applicants, middle-aged men and wo
Smen, young men and girls and Jap
anese.
n "'Sorry, very sorry, but we have no
n room-absolutely no vacancies of any
a kind for anyone," said the man in
e charge.
r. "I sought a church mission society
d apd told them I must have work; that
y I was penniless. I didn't want char
al ity, but work, work!
i- "Work of any kind-office work,
ud writing, any kind of mission work,
church visiting, oh, anything.
" 'I am very sorry, my dear madam,'
tf the man kindly answered, 'but we can't
t- create vacancies, and we are now
to straining every nerve to get the money
t to pay those already employed. I wish
te I could do something, but I can't,' and
th he really did look regretful and pitiful
ut as he bowed me out.
S"Being told of a place where they
re employed persons to address en
to velopes, I hurried there.
" 'We never employ girls,' the super
C Intendent informed me courteously.
at "'But I am not a girl,' I retorted.
in "' mean that we never employ wo
men in our advertising department.
aWe found that girls-young women
were too careless, so we have made It
a rule to employ only men.'
"'But I can do a man's work, I per
slaited. 'I can do any kind of writing
-any kind of office work that a man
n-can do,' I said, desperately.
*"'If you will leave your name and
address I will put your case before the
Board. We will let you know,' he
added, as be opened the door for me.
"'Please remember that I mted
worst that I a lg toy work.
that I can't te without work.'
urged, as I backed down the steps.
But I have never heard from him.
"In my desperation I sought the Sal
vation Army and asked for employ
ment.
"'It is a heart-breaking fact,' they
assured me, 'but we can't get work of
any kind for women. The only call
we have is for servants, and they must
be strong young women.'
"Everywhere I went my name and
address were carefully taken down,
but never once was I written to, never
once asked to return, never once were
my efforts to secure a situation
crowned with success.
"Perhaps I failed because I am no
longer young."
THE NATURE OF BLOODHOUNDS.
As Likely to Rend and Devour the Fleeing
Victim as is the Average Pug. i
"It is a peculiar fact," said Detect
ive Frank D. Mitchell the other day,
"that the general public has an entire
ly erroneous idea as to the nature and
characteristics of the bloodhound. The
popular opinion is that he is a beast of
giant frame and unusually ferocious, yo
with a penchant for eating the crimi
nal whom he has brought to bay. to
Another common error is that he can ph
follow a scent indefinitely, through a
thousand sinuosities, though it may be
Intersected by any number of other
trails. ex
"The average bloodhound is no more o,
to be dreaded so far as his fierceness
is concerned than a pug. He is a to
gaunt, raw-boned creature, with a ca
head running to a peak; sleepy eyes
and long, pendulous ears. As to dis
position, he is lazy. His usefulness
lies chiefly in the keenness of his ol
factory nerves, enabling him to follow
a fresh scent many miles. He seldom
touches his quarry when run to earth, c
however, and never does unleas e
starved to it. The bloodhound differs
from the English foxhound, in that he
never 'gives tongue' or bays while fol
lowing scent.
"Bloodhounds are not of much use pt
in tracking criminals in a city, or
r where there is comparatively dense
population, as the numerous cross th
t trails confuse them. This was demon- vc
strated last winter when we were
hunting Will Tony and Sam Barnette. A
The people of Benson had been com
r plaining of chicken thieves. Almost pi
every night some hencoop in that su- w
burb of Omaha would be looted and
finally Detective Drummy and I were cc
detailed to work up the case. We put
in several days on it without landing
our man, and the aggravating part of
it was that the thefts were going right
on, even while we were hunting for the
criminals. Well, eventually we decided o]
to adopt heroic measures. We had a o0
consultation with several prominent ki
citizens of Benson, and the result was
we sent to Beatrice for a pack of blood- i
s hounds. vi
"We kept the dogs in hiding until
d there was another foray on a hencoop,
and then, bright and early one morn
ing, the hounds were put on a fresh
's trail. They followed it about a quarter
n of a mile and finally came to a stand
still on the front porch of a house in 01
the outskirts of the village. 1
it "The family that lived in this house
d bore a good reputation, but we de
cided to go in anyhow and make an
n investigation. We searched every
where, from cellar to garret, but there a
e was no sign of a stolen chicken. Not
d even a feather could be found on the
ie premises. Then we took the dogs back y
Id to the starting point and had them go
.e over the trail again, and again they 5
?r wound up on the front porch of the
same house. Try as we would we
.k couldn't get the beasts to leave that
ir place. The trail seemed to end there. *
If the thieves had gone up in a balloon
at that point they couldn't have ob.
Sliterated their tracks more effectually.
So the dogs were declared a fallare
and were sent back to Beatrice.
"Later we succeeded in catching
STony and Barnette red-handed, with
Sthe evidence of their guilt upon them,
and they confessed. I have never been
Sable to explain to my own satisfaction
Swhy the trail left off so abruptly on
Sthe porch of that particular house.
There is a tradition comes up from the I
South, a survivor of the ante-bellum
g days, that if a fleeing slave tied sliced I
Sonions upon the soles of his feet the
n hounds could not track him. Perhaps
us that is what Barnette and Tony did
on the piazza of that house--I don't
know."-Omaha Bee.
as
,e Decadence of an Overooat.
d "Where do the old overcoats go?"' is
da query that is a natural successor to
'- the old riddle, "Where do the flies go
- in winter?" The old overcoats seem
somehow to fade away, no one knows
o just how. The overcoat starts its
y career on the back of its owner who
in paid $45 for It. It keeps him warm
and shelters him from cold winds and
from storms until it commences to get
t frayed at the edges and the pockets
are torn down the sides. Then the
owner uses the coat for rainy days
only, and no more does he take it to
I call on his fiancee of to recline on the
back of a chair while he Is reading at
the club. He keeps it another sum
n,' mer and the moths get into it, and
't when he takes it out in the fall it has
w holes here and there.
y So the owner gives it to the Janitor
sh -it the janitor is not a cold, haughty
ad man, and the Janitor wears it awhile
ul until his wife gives it to the tramp
who wheeled out the thlree barrels of
ashes. The tramp wears it until the
ey old coat commences to fall apart. Then
a- he gives it to another tramp, and it
falls apart still more. And then, some
r- day, the coat has entirely disappeared.
No one knows how or when. The coat
just simply faded away. That's all
- anybody knows about it.-.Chcago Tri
Sbune.
i The Supply of Class Eyes.
Germany and Bwitserland produce
Sover 2,000,000 glass eyes in a yer;
g and a Paris manufacturer, with a
pn repatation for finer work, some 300,O
C000. They are made in-the shape of a
hollow hemisphere, and the utmost
d skill is required in forming the pupil
he out of the colored glasas. The gret
he majority of arttiacil eyes are used by
" workuien, especially those in trer
*d tondried, where asns y eys pr9 pat
ik, oP teetmrk
D<
JOINED THE PROCESSION.
The fashion he never would follew,
He vowed in a positive tone,
While the top of his skull wasn't
hollow,
But would dress in a style of his
own.
He put himself quite in a passloa,
But to some slight extent he back
slid
IHe never would follow the fashion,
But he followed a woman who did.
-Chicago Record.
DISTINCTION.
Mrs. Cobwigger-So they are not ih
your set?
Mrs. Proudfut-No, indeed. They go
to a gymnasium, while we attend a
physical culture class.-Judges
CRUEL
"They say my face is a dreamt"
exclaimed the girl who wished to go
on the stage. U
"Yes, fades away each night," re- a
torted the heartless young man.-Chi- g
cago News.
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
"Have yoa ever had any thrilling
adventures, Penelope?"'
"Yes; once I stood on the arm of a
couch to fix a window curtain and the 4
couch shot across the room with me."
--Chicago News.
THE MYSTERY OF THE AGES.
Dickerman-There's one thing that
puzzles me.
Rawley-And pray what Is that?
Dickerman-How it happens that
the new woman is generally not a
very young one.-Boston Transcript.
AN EXCHANGE OF CONFIDENCE.
"The Boston girl I was engaged to
picked me up on grammer before a
week had passed over our heads."
"You got off easy. The one I knew
corrected my English while I was
proposing to her."-Chicago Record.
THE VARIETY.
e "Oh, I don't know!" remarked the
1 optimist. "After all, you'll find in every
s one at least some of the milk of human
t kindness."
I "Huh!" grunted the cynic. "What
you do find is usually the condensed
variety."-Philadelphia Press.
HIS USEFULNESS.
Landlady-I rather like having one
f dyspeptic at my table.
r Visitor-How queer!
Landlady-Oh. no; he makes the
a other boarders ashamed to find fault.
Indianapolis Journal
HIS GUN.
Bill-Did you say that gun of yours
would shoot 1,000 yards?
t Jill-That's what I did.
,e "Well, it's marked to shoot only 500
k yards."
0 "Yes, but there are two barrels."
y Yonkers Statesman.
e A CAPITAL IDEA,
it The Poet-I am tired of social life. I
- am going to seek out a quiet nook
Swhere I shall see no one and speak
to no one, and where I shall have per
Steet solitude.
SThe Artist-What a capital idea. I'll
come with you.-Pick-Me--UP.
HE WAS THINKING OF THEM.
Boy-Grandpa, I wish you'd buy me
n pony. I
SGrandpa (a philanthropist)-My soinI
Sthink of the poor boys Who can't even ]
g et bread to eat .
m Boy-I was thinking of them-the I
d poor little boys whose papas have po
iales to sell that nobody will bauy.-
s Gaiety.
t THE AGGRAVATING TROLLEY.
"This snail-like pace," growled the
Irst trolley car passenger, "is enough
o rile a saint"
i "Yes, these cars are peculiar," re
to plied the philosophic man. "When
Syou're in a car it simply crawls; but
Swhen you're trying to catch it it fles
along at top speed."-Phlladelphis
Press.
ORDERING A DINNER.
e Diner (to restaurant walter)-What
t have you got for dinner?
e Waiter-Roast beef fricassedchicken
5 stewedlambhashbakedandfried pota
t toes college puddingmilkteaandcotee.
e Diner-Give me the third, fourth,
a fifth, sixth, eighteenth and nineteenth
Ssyllables.-Answers.
a NOT THE ONLY ON.
r "Yoo used to say," suggested her
yy dearest friend, "that be was one in a
e thousand."
p "I still think so," answered the girl
ifwhose engagement had been broken,
e "but I have discovered that he is not
e the only one in a thousnd."-Indila
it spolis JournaL
ad.A REMINDEBR.
Mrs. Starvem-How do you like the
'. chicken salad, Mr. JoaksmithT
Mr. Jwoaksmith-Oh! that reminds
me, I bought a book, that was to be
sent home to-day. Did it comet
-e Mrs. Starvem--Yes; but why should
r e the chicken salad remind you of it
aMr. Joaksmilth-Well. the book is
i' (lf.-calf.-Phlladelphia Press.
t Belgian poultry formers take ch
great, eare of their hens that the
at i d Brwtuxs" sns for alhoet
,twie the price of ordinary poultry.
OmUe ut1 )1R0 65 4
NState iint of I sA.
Governor-W. W. Iard,
Lieutenant- overnos--A1lbert o
pinal.
Seeretary of Staie--4ohn fgleohl.
Superintendent of Edoeatioa--.hna
V. Calhoun.
Auditor-W. B. Frasee.
Treasurer-Ledoux E. Smith.
U. S. SENATORS.
Don Caffrey and S. D. Meanery.
REPRE:TATIVES.
1 Distriot-l. O. Davey.
Sp)istriot--Adolph Meyer.
8 Distriot-l. F. U3ronasard
4 District--P. Braseale.
5 Distriot--T. E. Rtnsadll.
6 District-S. M. Bobinson.
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