THE BANNER= D EMORAT.
VOL. XIV. LAKE PROVIDENC-E EAST CARROLL PARI811 LAS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1901. NO. 23
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'Whitle and blow;
Cinder and smoke fron my funnel I throw,
)Ding, dong,
lwing along,
Leaping and rocking and roaring a song.
shriek, hoarse,
Mad with my force;
Drunken with speed as I rush on my
course.
i'eai, blind,
Switcr than wind;
Ebhakma the earth as I fling it behind.
stand! Stare!
Filly and mare
?Nostrils dilated and snuffing the air.
Plunge, bolt!
Clipper and colt;
Hcre is a steed that shall mock your re
volt.
%Wide, high!
Cleaving the sky I
I)rummnýg the bridge into thunder, I fly.
(lang! (Crash!
Onward I dash;
H{ow the wrought girders ring, hammer and
clash.
Strong, slow,
Upward I go, c
Ramping the rocks to the death-rmittcn I
snow.
Strain fight. 1
Grip tse rails tight; }
Now the rim giant shall show you his
might.
" -Isertlaid lhadive1, in the (.Chiago Post.
1 P I L L I l 1 I I n ' , Im [ l ~ i
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ST certainly wns an odd thing to
do, niod the I'"nSonnbys were not
a little surpris.,d when Helen
Waters gave them a bright green
parrot for a i- dding present. They
did not consider it either ornamental
or useful nndt not in the least essential
to their newly married happiness.
"It seems i n bhe a sort of a joke,"
alid Alice Ponsonby to her husband.
"I can't think what she meant by it.'
"Oh, I simply didn't want to dupli
cate any of your other presents," ex
plained Helen when she heard of the
Ponsonbys' perplexity, "and I didn't
think anybody else would give you a
parrot. And besides it will be some
thing for you to talk to, Alice, and to
keep you company way down In that
lonesome Woodlawn flat when Tom is
In town at work all day."
And so "pretty Polly" in a finely pol
Ished brass cage found a place in the
parlor of the 'Ponsonbys' dwelling
place, where he could look down In
the street and scold and fret, parrot
fashion, at whatever went on to incur
Its displeasure. The care of the pet
was a new thing to Alice, and Polly
was allowed to go hungry more than
once In his early days In the new
abode. But Alice soon became ac
customed to the new care, and almost t
before she knew It she had developed
a ecided fondness for the bird. t
In her spare moments of play with a
It she tried to teach it to say a few c
things In addition to the "Polly wants c
a cracker," and the other stuff that t
all parrots seem to know as soon as
they have first cracked their shells. t
And in the course of time the thing u
began to like Alice also, and to slide A
along its perch and appear pleased a
whenever she came into the room. ti
Rut somehow it didn't seem to like p
rom Ponsonby, and always sputtered ot
ai
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'BREAK AWAY."
and scolded whenever he came near.
"Queer brute, ain't It?" Tom would
say to his wife. Then he would tease
it by poking his finger into the cage
and pretending to abuse his wife,
,which the parrot very soon learned to
resent. The bird was jealous, in fact,
and it soon came about that whenever
Tom Ponsonby gave his wife a fare
well kiss in the morning or took her
into his arms when she welcomed him
home in the evening, "pretty Polly"
would put in an oar, so to speak, and
sputter out its angry displeasure.
"Break away, break away." It
learned to say on such occasions, and
seldom failed. Tom thought it was
clever of "the beast," and it not infre
quently happened that he embraced
: woorm Tansa rr.
his wife more for the sake of hearing
the parrot sputter than to demonstrate
his real afrection.
In this way the parrot became an
important member of the household,
and it was really a pleasure for Alice
Ponsonby to report that her pet was
"gettingalong Just fine" when she met
Helen Waters at tea time one Sunday
evening at the senior Ponsonbys.
"Really, I wish you could see it now
and hear it talk," said Alice. "Won't
you come over to dinner next Sunday,
and we'll bring you home in the after
eoon."
- el.. Waterm 46 come the mat
Chill, step, ""
Panting I creep, -
kirti the precipice, cdaring the deep.
Slow y, I wheel;
Loo! fe not down lest yout ceMnsea hal}
Fhriek, hark!
Shrill through th6 dark.
iMlack is the tunnel with never a spark.
tSnree, fear!
Nothingness drear,
Oh, but the cud might come suddenly
here!
Khen! Bright!
wift to the light;
Day flashes radiant, mocking the night.
High, steep,
Plungingz, I leap
Down to the vell;ys, exultant, I sweep.
Ho! IHo!
Whistle and blow;
Pulling the lever and letting her go.
Swing. heel,
Inward I keel,
Flying the clrves as I bend and I wheel.
glaze, burn,
Fmoking I turn;
Roaring in triumph, the mountain I spurn.
S:hriek! Scream!
l)ownward in steam,
Earthquake and thunder and--gne like a
dream.
-Bertrand Shadwell, in the Chicago Poet.
Sunday, but not to dinner, according
to the original plan.
"I'll drop in during the afternoon,"
she wrote in a note, changing the
time, "and If you don't mind, I'll bring
my friend, Mr. Stevens, who has
asked to call on that day. lie is a
pleasant fellow and I should like you
to know him."
Miss Waters and her escort saun
r
"WON'T YOU COMi OVER TO DINNER ?"
tered into the Ponsonbys' fiat about
5 o'clock that Sunday afternoon, and
their first thought, after a few words
about the parrot and an exchange of
compliments between the young ladies
concerning their clothes, seemed to be
to get away again.
"But you mustn't be going way over
to the North Side at this time of day
until you have had supper," said
Alice. "I'm sure you must be hungiry,
and you've been here such a short
time. Tom and I can have the sup
per things ready in a jiffy if you'll
only stay."
"It would be a pleasure for me to
stay," replied Helen, "If Mr. Stevens
doesn't mind."
Mr. Stevens didn't mind, of course,
and the Ponsonbys bustled back to the
kitchen to fix up a Welsh rarebit and
the accompanying indigestibles, leav
ing their guests to talk to the parrot
and look over the books in the front
room.
They had been gone but a moment
when they were startled by the most
excited sputterings and squawkings
that came back through the open door
ways.
"Break away! Break away! Leggo,
there! Break away!"
The parrot was in a fury of excite
ment and was strutting around his
cage at a great rate when AUlce
dashed in from the kitchen. She found
Helen Waters standing far back in
a corner blushing to the roots of her
hair while Mr. Stevens, very much
flushed and flustered, stood close by
awkwardly trying to untangle his cuff
button from the lace at the back of
the young lady's neck.
"Why, what's the matter with the
parrot?" demanded Alice, her eyes
starting with wonder. "What's-all
the racket about?"
"I don't know, Alice, I'm sure,"
stammered Helen, becoming more con
fused every moment. "He's fright
ened me nearly to death with his
screeching. I don't know what startled
him, I'm sure, only-only when you
and Tom went out of the room Joe
I mean Mr. Stevens-got foolish and
put his arm around me and kissed me.
But Alice, Alice, it's all right, Alice,
dear, for we're engaged and have been
for a month, only we didn't want any
body to know just yet, because we
can't be married for a year, and Alice,
dear, you must promise me not to say
anything.about it till I tell you."
"Say anything." ejaculated Allce.
"Of course I shan't say anything ex
cept bless you both, my children. And
you're a mighty lucky fellow, Mr.
Stevens, isn't be, Tom?"
"I know I'm lucky," responded Stet
ens, asillg proudly at the young lady
t6 Whom he had just beetn linked
by the coff button-"but that parrot
scared min out bf a *year'9 growth
gp. all right andi ;Sit- away a closely
guanlisi to cret."
"Yes.'' put it IHelen, "that miserable
anty parrot! I'd like to----"
"He isn't a miserable parrot," intert
rupted Alice. "He's just loV-ely; and
rk. when you're married I'll let you bor
row him sohetimes Sunday afternooln
when .you girl friehda bring their
lenly young atdmirt-r around to rall oil you."
-K, M., in the Chicago Record-Herald:
~ 'thoe.trbn Mane' Story.
;ht. )0 yoou remember the span over the
South Channel at Cornwall, Ontario,
in 18987 I ran tell you exactly the
time--it was almost noon, on the 6th
of September, on a Tuesday-when the
pier gave way. There were sixteen
men killed in that. The bridge was
almost finished, and was ready to turn
cel. over to the railroad people in a week
or two. It had three camelback spans,
and its piers were supposed to be on
blue hard pan. A Cofferdam had been
built over one of these and filled up
with concrete and cement. Big, solid
ke a blocks of stone had been put upon that.
Wost. We had been given the foundations
for it all right, and we'd put our iron
work on that. There was a big trav
eler up, and When the pier gave and
two spans crumbled with a crack the
traveler, of course, came down. One
man on it never tried to jump, and
rode the traveler as it fell, hanging on
to a cord (of steel). He was never
ing hurt. That particular steel bar hap
pened to stop ten feet away from the
a" water, and he simply climbed off.
the "Once," said Billy, returning to his
Ing reminiscences "a man I knew, who
has was working on the ridge of an iron
Sa house roof, lost his hold and com
rou menced to slide down the corrugated
iron. It was a slide of about twenty
an- five feet to the edge, and then came a
- drop of fifty feet, as he knew, on some
heaps of scrap-iron. Down he went,
and just at the edge a rivet caught his
corduroys and held him there."-Les. 1
lie's Monthly.
What Are the Bounds of Creation t
It may occur to some persons that
we cannot conceive of an end of space,
and it is hardly likely that infinite
space would exist without matter; and
hence that the universe necessarily is
infinite, says T. J. J. See in the Atlan
tic. This argument proceeds upon the
supposition that we can conceive all
things which exist-an admission hard
ly warranted by experience. For as I
we can conceive of many things which t
do not exist, so also there may exist I
many things of which we can have
no clear conception; as, for example,
71 a fourth dimension to space, or a
- boundary to the universe.
ut Thus while our senses conceive space
ad to be endless, it does not follow that
ds the universe is in reality of infinite
of extent; much less can the absence of
es an empyrean prove that the cosmos is
be finite, even to our experience; for this
effect may be due to dust in space, or _
er the uniform absorption of light by the n
ty ether. In the exploration of the si- f
d dereal heavens it is found that the I
', more powerful the telescope the more c
stars are disclosed, and hence the prac- c
P- tical indications are that In most di. h
'll rections the sidereal system extends a
on indefinitely. But the possible uni. r
form extinction of light due to the fl
imperfect elasticity of the luminifer. a
ous ether, and the undoubted absorp
tion of light by dark bodies widely dif- ti
fused in space, seem to forever pre- c;
elude a definite answer to the question '
of the bounds of creation. a
01
Rhalifa Coined His Own Money. 01
Henry S. Wellcome, who has recent- s,
ly returned from a seven months' ex- ai
ploratiou in Africa, tells an interest- F
ing story of the financial policy of the
Khalifa of the Sudan, who was the
successor of El Mahdi In command of
the wild tribes in that part of Africa.
It carries a moral of interest to the m
United States and other civilized na- et
tions. This khalifa, finding his peo- tt
ple In need of a currency, coined dol- ha
lars of copper, taking the material t
from the sheeting of boats that had ti
been wrecked on the Nile. It was the th
unlimited coinage of an Irredeemable
dollar, and the khalifa issued a decree t
that the right hand of any one who re- hi
fused to recognize it as legal tender g
should be cut off. On one side the or
coin bore his bust, on the other side a th
pair of crossed lances, and the design cc
Swas not inactlstlc. Mr. Wellcome ob- pe
o tained the dies and brought them with
S him to London.
For several years the khalifa sup- dc
Sported himself and his Government by or
e the issue of this copper money, paying n
r all salaries and for all supplies with gl
i t. After two or three people had had ne
t their hands cut off for refusing to ac- pc
t cept it in payment, it became the cur- an
rency of the Sudan. When the Eng- wi
t lish overthrew him its value vanished me
t and the coins are now worthless ex- tol
S cept as curioslitles.--Chicago Record- sh
Herald.
th
Mint to People With "Places." OP
It is now quite the fashion for peo- ha
- ple who live in the country, says the ha
5 London Mail, to put on their notepaper to
the nearest railway station, telegraph ea
Soffice and postal town. It often hap-thi
1 pens that these are several miles from tal
the address on the notepaper. go
I Lord Salisbury has fallen in with as
this latest device in a very novel and no
amusing way. At first sight the Hat- fn
field notepaper looks like a picture ea
puzzle, but if the little pictures are til
carefully examined it dawns upon the I
Irecipients of letters from the Prime dej
Minister that the railway engine, the gei
telegraph pole and wires intimate that sic
telegrams should be sent to Hatfield, on
and that the latter place is also the do
nearest railway station to the Pre- wi
mier's house. t
do
American Money in England.
Another sign of the American con- of
quest. A fruiterer In the West End nat
is marking his goods in United States 5u1
colnage-strawberries, for instance, :.t o
sixteen cents a basket. This is a trifle
superfluous, for most Americans who
come over here know perfectly well
the val:e of English money, and of b
English goods too. Yet, after all, the b
frluiterer is perhaps only foreshadow
nlag the inevitable. We are having a e
new coinage, and we might as well did
accept the situation-call our sover
eigns five-dollar pieces, our shillings
"quarters." our sixpences "dimes" and
our halfpennies "cent."-London na
"hroalels.
dt= i te lAf11f Borandt
Keepinn g w esh on the Stock.
te It costs just as much to regin the
Un value bf any animal or plant ag to
Sproduce such. A pound of flesh lost
or must first be regained before the niext
eir ound can be produced. In the mean
u time there is loss of labor and time.
Lld When weeds prevent the growth of
plants there is waste of time in remov
ing the weeds, which could have been
the destroyed when they were young. It
rio, I-, not only the loss of the articles
the which diminish the profit, but the
Ith waste of valuable time Cannot be re
the covered, which keeps the farmer at a
enl disadvantage.
gas
S iestroylng Pbtatd Reetles;
>ek Potato beetles are easily destroyed
sek by the use of paris green, and they
on also have many natural enemies. It
el is surprising, therefore; how they
come eve-ry year in such large num
I hers, which may be due to the delays
atn destroying them. If a few beetles
4appear no consideration is given the
fact, and they are thus allowed some
on opportunity to multiply. Every beetle
vd destroyed early in the season or as
he soon as it puts in an appearance will
reduce the work necessary in destroy
no ing many of them that might appear
but for systematic effort with the
en beetles that appear early.
er
P Summeir Crops antd Dirought,
be Some of the summer crops are nh
jured by drought every year, but late
is in the summer rains sometimes Come
10o regularly; that is, at intervals which
)n do not permit of excessive dryness,
n- Such plants as sweet 'potatoes and
ad melons can endure longer periods of
y- dry weather than some others, but
a mich depends on the work of the
ie grower. No weeds must be allowed
t, to grow near plants in the rows, as
is more moisture is taken from the soil
8- by weeds than by some crops, Cab
bage plants should be worked often,
as they thrive all the better by fre
quent cultivation, and it should be the
rule to kill every white butterfly, as
they are the parents of the cabbage
e worms. Much of the injury from
droughts could be reduced if the farm
er would keep the surface soil always
loose.
11 A Movable Trough.
1- A handy trough for watering or e
a feeding cattle in the barn is illua- I
I trated herewith. Hiram Worthley got 0
it is up. It may be of any desired dl- v
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A HANDY TROUGH.
e menslons, but is usually about four n
- feet long and one and a half feet wide. fi
a If built slanting, stock can eat up tl
a clean any feed in it, or the trough n
can be readily cleaned. It is very It
handy for watering cattle in winter, a:
a as the trough full of water can be 8'
rolled down in front of the cattle and 01
from one to another as soon as they it
are through drinking. Where running
water is handy, it can be let into this n
tub and quickly rolled in front of the a1
cattle. With wheels made of hard h
wood this device will last for years,
and can also be used for a variety of tl
other purposes about the barn. It is a'
one of those handy contrivances that O
save labor and add to the pleasure ti
and profit of farming.--Orange Judd P1
Farmer. cc
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Salting Poultry,. (
There is an Impression abroad that ct
salt is a deadly poison to poultry, th
which is true only under certain cir- th
cumstances. It Is not generally known ti
that poultry could be salted as regu- gi
larly as any other stock, and when st
this is attended to there is no danger of
that fowls will eat enough salt to kill at
them. th
Salt Is absolutely necessary to con
tinued health, and where it Is with. n
held the craving for it becomes so th
great that when It can be got at an at
overdose is taken, and after that all
that remains to be done is to bury the
corpse after the inevitable has hap
pened, for death is certain.
In salting poultry the clean salt gl
should not be used as, It this were ul
done, some of the fowls would get an ad
overdose, through the natural greedi- tel
ness of fowls. The salt should be lit
given in some kind of mash; it does of
not matter much what this is com- a
posed of. Cornmeal, wheat, bran or U
any other kind of ground feed, wet up
with water or milk and salted a little
more than the same amount of foou ti
for human consumption would be In
should be fed at least twice a week. an
The reason fowls eat to excess when ha
they begin to crave salt and have an thi
opportunity to get at it is because they re
have no means of knowing when they de
have enough except through inability dif
to swallow any more. They simply
eat until their crops are full before de
they quit. A man eats as long as food sis
tastes good to him because the food
goes to the stomach direct, and as soon
as he has had enough his food does gi
not taste good and he quits. A fowl tlo
find something that tastes good and
eats as long as the supply lasts or un- is
til the crop is filled to the limit. fe
It has been recorded of men long pe
deprived of salt that when they could fro
get it they ate until they were made be
sick, and it is the same with fowls, thi
only death follows an overdose. A su
flock of fowls that is regularly salted tui
will not eat very much clear salt, as W
they do not feel a demand for it, and rio
do not eat It greedily. coI
Once fowls have taken an overdose chi
of salt there is no help for them, and
naturally young poultry Is much more oth
susceptible to its action than older atc
ones.-Farm. Field and Fireside. to
per
Modern Hay Fork. al
Many fall to make use of that great bet
labor-saver, the hay fork, because ir
barns are not properly arranged to ac- ten
commodate the usual hay-fork rig. ch
ging. Many old barns have their tim- fift
bers framed in a way to cause some ar
difficulty in this respect. Still there for
are many barns now without this deg
help that with a little planning might ter
m.ake use of the fork. Our cut shows die
a plan tor usiag an taemporissd rig. cOn
Sging between "bents" having tesgral
timbers. A pulley is located above the
mow to be filled. The rope from It. as
has the fork at its end: The hay 1i
lifted straight up from the load be=
cause held by the rope and pulley (bJ,
operated by the man on the load:
the When the forkful will clear the edge
i to
lost
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It A LABOR-SAVING HAY FORK;
of tle mow, rope 1$ is slacked as re
quired, e~ther to drop the forkful at
the front, the middle or the rear of
the the mow. The rope a, after passing
over the pulley above the mow, is car- -
te rled down as directly as possible to
the horse, which draws It out. The
as direction may, of course, have to be
changed by a pulley In the barn be
oy- low. The cut Is given as a suggestion,
ear to be modified as circumstances de
the mand.-Farm and Home.
Patchwork Farming. A
A good deal of modern farming
might be Called patchwork farming,
because in the attempt td raise about
me everything there can be used or needed
on the farm little thought is given td
R8 making a special study of any single ti
crop or crops. It is all right to have a
of a kitchen garden, where all the vege- c]
tables needed for the table can be kI
he raised: a small Orchard, where sum- m
mer and Winter fruits can be raised hb
sto fill the cellar with lellclous pro- h,
oil ducts of tree and vine for family con- -
sumption, and probably a special field
en, where the small grains and root crops
he can be cultivated to supply the flock
of chickens With food, the few pigs .
andm dairy cows with What they need: f>
go but if all these crops exhaust the re,
sources of the farm and farmer the T
m-T
greatest mistake in the world is made. B
s. Not a single crop is then raised to tt
yield an Income. It is patchwork h;
farming, carried on to make a little of
or everything contribute toward furnsh- hi
s. Ing the family with needed food, Can tb
ot one wonder that sooner or later there he
11- will come a demand for clothes or so
- other needful articles that cannot be ay
raised on the farm, and no money to th
purchase them with: Ye
. There are many such farmers to0 to
day. They never had any moneys he
they exist simply by raising all the isi
food they actually require. There is aIz
nothing to sell, except possibly a few to
eggs or a pound of butter occasion- an
ally. The returns for these hardly Ca
prove sufficient to buy tobacco,
or matches and darning cotton. Such
le. farming is a relic of the past, When
p there was no specialization in busi- to
h ness, and when every man had to be is
y his own carpenter, tailor, bootmaket' the
and tnerehant. We have outgrown hil
such primitive methods in every line sol
od of work, and the farmer who clings to hi,
iy t must be inevitably left in the wake. Pr
ig Now, specialization in farming does up
s not mean giving up all the time and fel
e attention to one crop, but it does mean sis
-d finding out what particular crops the by
, farm is best adapted to raising, and pal
, then making such a special study of it T'L
is as to be able to raise it in perfection, poi
It One may have a rotation of two or mt
-e three crops which he needs to study is
Id partlicularly. These crops are the in- be
come-makers. On them the farmer '
depends for his cash returns. He does Pr
not raise them to eat himself, or to ex- jul
t change for other goods. He raises Du
, them to sell for money, and then uses eni
r. this as he wishes to purchase necessi- em
a ties or luxuries. With the attention faF
. given to the special crops the farmer Du
n stands in a fair way to keep abreast ltt
r of the times, and if he has any time Id
1 and land left he can devote them to Du
the cultivation of a variety of smaller on
. crops for home use, But If both can
. not be raised It is better to become a
Sthorough specialist and devote all the A
a attention to one crop.-A. C. Lalght, Ing
II in American Cultivator. hem
Chuarning Temperatures. tag
Churning consists in bringing the fat the
gt lobules of milk and cream together
under such conditions that they will "TI
aadhere and form butter. When thie ref
I temperature is too high the fat has I'll
e little consistency, and small particles the
of butter formed are so easily torn up mu
. again that separation is not efficient. W1
r Under such conditions, also, the but- ext
ter Is soft and of poor quality. pro
a If the temperature should be above of
Sthe melting point of the fat it will be she
Simpossible to obtain butter by any mo
amount of churning. On the other for
2 hand, when the temperature is too low oni
the fat globules are hard and do not wh
Sreadily adhere to each other, and un- out
der this condition, also, churning is cre
difficult. am
The most favorable temperature will ref
depend upon the melting point or con- the
sistency of thie fat, and as this is sub- ane
Sject to considerable variation it is im- of I
Spossible to fix temperature which will
Sgive the best results under all condl- can
Stlons. last
SThe consistency of the fat in milkl
Sis affected by the breed of cow, by the ha
feed which she receives and by the ia
period of lactation. As a rule, cream the
Sfrom Holstein or Southern cows should t
be churned at a lower temperature ht
than that from Jersey cows. When
succulent feed is given the tempera- q
Sture should aways be lower than and
when dry feed is given. As the pe
riod of lactation advances the fat be
comes harder and the temperature of He
churning should be raised.
The amount of fat in cream is an- A
other factor which affects the temper- don
ature of churning, it being practicable to
to churn rich cream at a lower tem- seni
perature than poor cream. Generally prol
a low temperature gives a firmer and ing
better quality of butter, and a good our
rule to follow is to churn at as low a plea
temperature as possible and have the o
churning completed in from thirty to lic i
fifty minutes. This temperature may ganl
vary, under different conditions, from so
forty degrees Fahrenheit to over sixty deli
degrees Fahrenhelt, and should be de- rosm
termined for the cream which he han w
dlea.-Dr. 8. M. Babcock, of the WI. witi
coduia Alcult~r val Collego..
'Dick's Letter.
i T sheets for my papery the blanket A
my blotter,
My ink just a bottle of night! A
My pen is my finger; my arm the pen
holder
Now dip in my finger and write: I1
"Bedland, The Dark, O
"Sleepy-Time, 1901.
" 'Twas such a nice storyl How can you O
you remember
So many for Little Boy Blue? O
Of all the world's boys I am sure there's
nd other
flas such d nice mamma as yoe. A
"'And when it was ended (I'll tell you a A
secret)
And you kissed me and rumpled my 4
hair,
i sat up-I do always-te hear the frou- A
frouinj
Of your dress going slow pirwi the
stair.
"I' sleepy, sl0d sleepy to write any more;
But I've had such a good time with
you!
So a kiss to you, mamma, and love
without measure,
And good night, I
From your Little Boy Blue."
Now fold it together and seal with a
kiss;
And weigh it-an ounce at the most!
A stamp (oil the footboard), Mamma
the direction-
Now it's off by the evening bed-poAiY.
-W. J. Long, in Youth's Compamon. '1
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A Kste.
Once uponii time a man in the arc
tic regions; Whose dogs Were disabled,
made a kite strong enough had big
enough to draw his sled. And sa his
kite helped him over a great many
miles of ice and snow, where be would
have had to walk, had he not learned
how to tinske a kite when a boy.-New H
'ork Ledgeri'
Hlow a Dog SavedIts Master. hi
In 1758. when Britain and France A
Were at war with one another, an ill- he
fated laIidig was made at St. Cas, a E
few miles to the west of St. Malo.
The British general required it poor in
Breton shepherd to act as guide, and to
the man led the invaders astray. Per- th
haps he ought not to have been ex- Cl
pected to love his country better than
his enemies, At any rate, he played sh
the mis'guide, and the general swore ye
he should hang for it. Whilst the ke
soldiers were fasterilng the rope in
around his neck, it Was pitiful to see
the earnest efforts of his dog to pre= n
vent them. Even the general was la,
touched. He reflected that the shep- ov
herd might have acted from patriot- to.
Ism, So he scolded him again, and
also threatencd to have his dog killed
too. Then he bade the man go free
and take his faithful tyke with him.- to
Cassell's Little Folks.
Prine Edward to Be A Sailor,
The British public is only beginning
to look upon little Prince Edward. who
is just seven years old, in the light of
the future King. The importance of I
his place in the machine of State is gel
somewhat magnified by the absence of ty
his father. According to present pjilfs wa
Prince Edward will be a sailor, goifil ale
upon the training ship Britannia in a Tit
few years. His present education con- D
sists of a few short daily lessons given mc
by Mlle: Bricks, for many years com- bne
banion to the late Duchess of Teck. git
The King is said to be strongly op- q
posed to "stuffing children with too
much . knowledge," Hist recollection
is keen of how unpleasant it Was to
be a "walking dictionary" at twenty. yeS
A story is going the rounds of young prc
Prince Edward's precociotisness, At a "
juvenile party, in the presence of the wh
Duke of Cornwall, he was the recipt- ra
ent of toys of wood, for which he sol- 'Ian
emnly thanked his playmates with old Ph
fashioned expression, whereupon the
Duke of Cornwall exclaimed, "The "ti
little Wretchl He speaks better than is
I do," which is not far wrong, for the lf(
Duke of Cornwall is notoriously nery- It I
oens and unfitted for public speaking. in
The lute and the Vlolina, ing
'All the musical instruments were ly
Ing abopt waiting for the nour of re- A
hearsal to come.
"What in the world are you squeak- she
ing about?" asked the flute of one of
the first violins. A
"Squeaking?" replied the violin. Er
"That is not a very dignified way to the
refer to the beautiful sounds I make. bra
I'll have you to know, sir, that I am the
the king of instruments, and countless tak
multitudes of people applaud my tones, F'
.Wlthout me the orchestra could not gre
exist I am not squeaking, but I am cau
protesting against having all the work one
of the orchestra resting upon my cal
shoulders. I really do many times run
more than any other instrument You, fac
for instance, the oboe and cornet, are coo
only called upon for occasional work. er,
while I am expected to continue with- no'
out stopping, and I don't get half the woi
credit that belongs to me for this ond
amount of work. I have a notion to the
refuse to play just this once to show he
them how dependent upon me they are, I'
and to bring them to a realizing sense stre
of my importance. wln
Just then the leader of the orchestra ha
came in to rehearsal, and, hearing the apr
last remark of the violin, replied: self
"Very well, suppose you do quit. I one
have thought for a long time that the did.
first violins overbalanced the rest of 8ga
the orchestra, and have intended to spa
cut down the number, and since you and
have expressed such a rllllngnee to Nov
quit I'll Just permit you to step down the
and out." mat
Moral-Don't be too sure of your coml
own importance.-Chicago Record. spla
Herald.
Wants Fragramt Wpueati2 ]
A correspondent writes to the loa- o
don Mail: How is it so little is done to
to gratify on a fairly large scale our sup1
seuse of smell? Governing bodies who pur
properly spend large sums in satisafy- la n
Ing our ears with sweet music, and obe
our eyes with well-kept parks and peni
pleasure grounds, might do something. nnr
Surely scented fountains In our pub- mil
lic parks would not be a great extrava- s a
gance. Science or art might devise mn
some additional means of diffuslng the g,
delightful odor of the violet or the ,
rose. tetih
Something to oumteract the polons
with which man pollUtes the air might L
arliy be uskeu4 frm sa, dow
THE IGNORAMUS.
Among his college rivals all SI
A man of mark was he
And now may taper off his scrawl a
With raany a wise degree.
"COum laude was he high enrolled L
The day he graduated, pins
And yet--and yet-I hear it told 84
That he is overrated.
The very simplest things he seems V. C
Unable to make clear- At
He can not tell who sends the dreamar Ti
Or if a tree can hear!
And why the rivers flow and flow,
And why so salt the ocean Don
And how it's kept just full, I trow,
He hasn't got a notion?
tie does not even know the stars 2
Are God's electric lights! a
Or comets are but angels' cars
From point to point, o' nights!
Or why the clouds can float about
Although with water brimming! 6
Or why the sun does not go out
For lack of oil and trimming!
And how the moon got in the sky!
And what if it should drop! 'j
And who made God Himself And why
Our whirling doesn't stop!
and why tho stems and leaves are greens
Yet red and white the roses!
And other matters which, serene,
A boy of aine proposes.
-Edwin L. Sabin, in Puck.
Hucksley-"Why, I hardly knew a
you; you've got to look so round." d
fyfdldI-"The effect of square meals. gm,
my boy."-ife,
He claimed his wait an honored name- d- me
Exalted was his rank. au
O! yes; his name was honored, but
Not honored at the bank.
-Philadelphia Record.
Aunt Julie-"Now, Tommy, that's a
nice boy! Do the churning, and as a
reward I'll let you turn the wringer
for the new washing-machine."
Harper's Batar.
"That rich Mr. Singleton is quite a
big tun, isn't he?" asked Rose. "Yes," gm
>aid lily, "but I can tell you one thing,U
he isn't ia pop-gun."-Philadelphia
Evening Bulletint
Mr. Penu.-"The volunteers are com
ing home, and I suppose they are g'ad
to be back." Mr. Pltt-"Certainly;
they came in transports."-Pittsburg
Chronicle. Telegraph.
Lydla-"Oh, Clarence, dear! It I
should fall Into the briny ocean, would
you save me?" Clarence-"I don't makis
know, darling; I never saved anything
in my life."--Brooklyn Life.
"My son-in-law's rich enough to own
a st'enam yacht." "H'm; my son-in- tool e
law' so rich that be doesn't have to land,
own a steam yacht unless he wants Baltic
to."-Chicago Record-Herald. apa
Carrie--"I suppose you'll think it Spuaa
funny, but Billy White has asked me somas
to marry him." Bertha-"Funny, you Mimbi
dear creaturel Why, it's positively Veetil
ridiculous."-Boston Transcript, DU.l
The frog was once a nightingale- and t
Oh, what a horrid trick
To rob him of his song and wings,
And make him croak and kick. Wu
--Chicago Record-Herald.
Ma-"It's time we thought of Grace J10
getting married-she is already twen
ty-two years old." Pa--"Oh, let her A
wait till the right sort of a man comes
along!" Ma-"Why wait? I didn'tr'- W
Tit tilts,
Mrs. Talkalot--"Bbe called me a com
mon scold, but I made her take it a
back." Mrs. Bjones-"Did she apolo
gize?" Mrs. Talkalot-"Well. she "
qualified it by saying I was an bn- *
Common one." "
Manmma-"The whipping you got :
yesterday doesn't seem to have Im- "
proved you. Your conduct has been
even worse to-day." Willie-"That's
what I wanted to prove. You said I
Was had as I could possibly be yester
!ay,. an' I knew you was wrong."
Philadelphia RecOrd.
"It is my opinion," said one sage,
"that a man who has a college degree
is very likely to be successful In
Ifc." "Yes,"' answered the other; "and
It is a rule that works both ways. A
anan who is successful in life is very
likely to get a college degree."-Wash
ington Star.
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A WILD DUCK'S BATTLE WITH A HAWK
She Bravely Defended Hme newl3 T
Batched Breod and Them Saved Herself. *
A green-winged teal is the heroine of
Ernest Seton-Thompson's new story in * C
the Iadies' Home Journal. After her : c
brood was hatched she started to take * SRI
them across a pond. "This was a mis- a
take," Mr. Seton-Thompson writes. I
"For it exposed them to enemies. A
great marsh bawk saw them, and he C
came swooping along sure of getting *
one in each claw. 'Run for the rushes!' * 5
called out the Mother Greenwing, and a
run they all did, pittering over the sure. *
face as fast as their tired little legs *
could go. 'Bun! run!' cried the moth- .
er, but the hawk was close at hand
now. In spite of all their running he
would be on to them In another sec
end. They were too young to dive;
there seemed no escape when Just as I
he pounced the bright little mother
gave a great splash with all her
strength, and using both feet and THE
wings, dashed the water all over the
hawk. He was astonished. He
sprang back into the air to shake him
self dry. The mother urged the little
ones to 'Keep on"!' and keep on they
did. But down came the hawk again;
again to be repelled with a shower of
spray. Three times did he pounce,
and three times did she drench him. ]
Now all the downlings were safe in
the friendly rushes, the angry hawk
made a lunge at the mother, but she
could dlve, and, giving a good-by
splash, she easily disappeared." A a
VaTrylg Values of ood.
Fourteen oysters are equal to only Dou
one egg. Pea soup is nutritious but
to live on it you would need a daily
supply of twenty-four platefuls. A
purely vegetable diet is too bulky, yet
Is may be good for the gouty and the btW
obese. It is true that the Soottisli 1*i
peasantry, their country's pride, 're Ith@
nurtured on oatmeal, but It Is liberally Mo s
supplemented t y milk. RLational life h I
Is a compromise; you want the happy Obe r
mean "between the tiger pacing its k I
cage and the cow lying upon tin' *6s
rass."-From Dr. Hltchinson's "Die- l
tetice."
Love Is bihsd. and yet tover, pull
SQm the lsd. n A
State Government of L isianal
Governor-W. W. Hard,
Lieutenant-Governor--Albet Esta
pinal.
Secretary of State-John Michel.
Superintendent of Eduoation--John
V. Calhoun.
Auditor-.W. S. Frazee.
Treasurer-Ledoux E. Smith.
U. S. SENATOR:.
Don Cafferey and S. D. McEnery.
REPRESENTATIVES.
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2 District-Ado!ph Meyer.
8 District-R. F. Broussard.
4 Distriot-P. Brazeale.
5 District-T. E. R~ansdell.
6 District-S. M. Robinson.
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