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THE ST. LANDRY CLARION. "Here Shall the Press the People's Rights Maintain, Unawed by Influence and Unbribed by Gain. VOL XI-NO. 8 VOL. XINO. 8 OPELOUAS, LA. SATURDAY, NOVEBERNE DOLLAR PER YEAR. tlll GAVE HELPFUL ADVICE. When with Unreasonable People the Practice of Silence Is to Be Highly Commended. "It would be positive impertinence for me to give advice to women old enough to be my mother, just because they happen to be poor," a young dis trict visitor maintained, when re minded that she ought to exercise a moral and spiritual influence rather than be an almoner alone; "I shall not attempt it." Strong in a sense of commendable humanity, she knocked at a door which never failed to open and reveal an anxious, melan choly face. "Oh! come in, miss, come in," said the mistress, even more woebegone than usual; "I want your advice about the best way to manage my husband." Her visitor forgot her recent resolution and entered. "He is coming home to-day from the asy lum," pursued her hostess, "and you could always manage him when he was LI I \ i I ' "COME IN, MISSB, I WANT YOUR ADVICE." here before, and I never could." "I never contradicted him, you know." "Do you think that was it?" inquired the poor woman. "Then, if you were me, you would not contradict him, even if he spoke that unreasonable that you could not bear it." "I am afraid that a person in an unreason able mood would oiever fistebn toi rea~ on," said the younger and more edu cated woman. "Now, that is what I call sensible," remarked the per plexed wife. Thus encouraged, her youthful monitor amplified her text, and spoke of the Perfect Example -who kept - sileen -vher -unreason-ble and wicked men would have provoked .-im to speak inadvisedly. Her mind was so full of this incident that when she reached her home she mentioned the appeal for her advice. "So the poor woman wanted to know the best way to manage her husband!" said her mother. "What did you tell her out of your vast experience?" "I told her not -to contradict him," answered the girl, humbly. "Mol ad mirable advice," said her father. 'Yost pwill be a useful person in th. dis t; ict as long as you preach it. Don't w'ait until you are married, my dear, to practice silence when you are with unreasonable persons. It is the best way of talking to them, as Paddy would say."-Quiver. NESSELRODE PUDDING. It Is One of the Most Delicious of Des serta and Should Be Prepared with Great Care. We understand the making of ice creams, but we do not yet understand the preparation of iced puddings. These puddings differ from an ice cream as much as a simple thickened porridge does from an elaborate boiled pudding of many ingredients. They contain many materials, while an ice cream is made of sweetened flavored cream with the simple addi tion of eggs or some other thicken ing. One of the most delicious of all iced puddings is the Nesselrode pudding, which takes its name from Count Nesselorde, a famous gourmet of the beginning of the century. This pud •ding owes its excellence to its use of chestnuts. Forty chestnuts, boiled, skinned and blanched are used. The large Spanish or Italian chestnut is the one to be used. One of these is equal to four of the largest Amer ican chestnuts. Rub the chestnut through a sieve. Equal parts of wal nuts and blanched almonds chopped and pounded to a paste may be sub stituted for the same amount of chestnut puree, which is about a pint. Beat the yolks` of four eggs with two cups of sugar, and pour in a pint of boiling milk. Beat well. Add a quart of cream which has been boiled and cooled. Add the nuts and a teaspoonful of salt. " Add about a quarter of a pound of candied cher ries and about two tablespoonfuls each of stoned raisins and of cur rante which have been soaked in the pint of milk while it was heating to the boiling point. Freeze the pud ding and serve it by itself or with a sauce of whipped cream, sweetened .ad flavored with orange extract, va ialla or any flavoring preferred. Some times it, is served with a thick cold e sarJi .. If you prefer the raisins and currants can be omitted. Let the I ip.tdding rest in its packing of ice for .h4 least two fours.-N. Y. Tribune. lstes Are Canalbalistie ' lobsters scorn all other food they have a Chance toat one a .`. _. BRAVE NORMA DIORN. rexas Girl Lassoes a Mexican Lion and Drags Home the Body of Her Prey. The talk of this neighborhood is the darirg exploit of Miss Norma Diorn in SlassAino a full-grown lion and drag ging home the body of her prey at'the heels of the mustang pony. The South ern Texas Cattle association has pre sented Miss Diorn with a gold-mounted revolver, and has sent to the City of Mexico for the finest side-saddle "for the grittiest girl on a Texas ranch." e Old John Diorn owns a ranch and several thousand head of cattle. The ranch is located on the western plains of Texas. about the headwaters of the tributaries of the Guadaloupe. He has three daughters who have been looking after his herd for several years. It is the boast of these girls that no mus tang has ever been able to shake one of them from his back. They are fearless riders and can hurl a lariat with a precision that many a cowboy envies. Since the death of their only brother, Julius Diorn, who was killed by cattle thieves a few years ago, these young women have ridden after cattle, re paired windmills, killed wolves, and frequently branded calves. The story of Miss Norma's lion-killing is told as follows: One Sunday morning not long ago SNorma, who is the oldest of the three, started out on her pony to "ride" the wire fence" is making a tour of inspec of miles from the house. "Riding a wire fence" is making tour of inspec tion to see that the wires are all up and the posts solid. As the girl started out she swung the belt of her Winchester over the gate-post, remarking that she was not going far and wouldn't need a gun. She was hardly out of sight be fore an immense Mexican lion sprang out in the road in front of the pony. The beast gave a few loud roars and then disappeared in the direction of a small bunch of cows and calves. Starting her pony at full speed and yelling at the lion as if she possesseai the power in her voice to paralyze all wild beasts she rode straight toward the terror-stricken cattle, coming up with them just as the lion sprang upon the neck of a calf, crushing it to the earth. The old cows instantly charged the lion, and the mother of the calf gave him such an ugly thrust with her sharp horns that he was forced to relinquish his hold on his prey. The sight of the e trembling, frightened little calf aroused the girl's ire, and, swinging her rope over her head, she rode at the lion. e The girl screamed at the lion nd :re- ateheron9.1 ry g Tang FslU -" m l' I The° beast frequently looked back and snarled threateningly, but he failed to failed to find courage enough to offer battle.. Suddenly it occurred to the girl that there was no reason why she could not choke the lion to death. She swung her lariat over her head, and as the trained pony sprang forward dropped the noose about the lion's neck. The pony.inStantly braced him self on his haunches, digging his fore. feet. into the ground, and the lior turned a somersault, striking the earth with his head toward his pursuers The girl hoped that. she had broken the beast's neck, but he was only badly stunned, and the pain that. he suffered seemed to increase his rage and cour. age. Crouching and emitting a roar, he sprang into the air with all hii strength. expecting to land on, the pony's neck, and tear his pursuers to fragments. The agile little horse LION TURNED A SOMERSAULT. turned just in time to feel the claws of the lion grazing his haunches. All western horses entertain a hor ror of those lions, for one of their tricks is to lie in ambush on the limb of a tree near where the horses are in the habit of drinking. From these hid ing places they fall upon young colts and devour them. The Texas pony knows the Mexican lion, and he fears him more than all other enemies. So instantly as the lion sprang for ward the pony began to run. The rope was tense, and if she had wished to do it, the girl could not have unfastened the lariat from the saddle-horn. More over, she knew the chances were that if the lion was released in his state of rage he would tear the pony and her self to bits. She leaned forward and urged her frightened mustang to do his best. She reached the ranch gates at her home just as her sisters, accompanied c by two young men of the neighbor hood, were about to pass through it on their way to church. "There now!" r she shouted. "I have roped and dragged a a lion to death." Her speech of triP umph was cut short by a warning scream from one of her sisters, who noticed that the lion was about to re rain his feet, and renew the bat.:tle. One of the Texans sent a bullet. throuigh a the monster's brain, and ended his ca reer.-Marble Falls (Tex.) Correspond- o ence St. Louis Republic. M Lout of Power Wafted. b It is estimated that the electrical or' a ,an of a lively electric- fish woil4 girve b i discharge of about SOQ volta. . d~y~ A. X*'3 }b't . ý' ., a BLOCK SIGNAL SYSTEM. f It Virtually Prevents Railroad Col r lisions and I. Operated by the Faithful Tower Man. 1 It is much safer to ride on a railway s train now than it used to be. On many roads "lock and block" signals keep a train from being run into from behind, and it is impossible to have a head on collision, because trains going in the opposite direction are on another track. In the old days trains were kept from colliding by sending telegrams, . and mistakes of telegraph operators often cost many lives. Nowadays when an engineer is running his train close to another on the same track he knows it by signals placed every little way along the line, and the telegraph oper ator has nothing to do with it. A road on which these siganls are to be used is first. divided into sections or "blocks," each about two miles long. The rails of each b:ock are separated from the rails of the adjoining blocks by some substance that will not let --. -i I S, THE MAN IN THE TOWER. d electricity through. In a tower mid way of the block is an electric indi cator which is attached to both rails of the track by two wires. When a train enters a block at one end, the indicator, the two wires, the two lines of rails tric circuit along which travels a cur rent from a battery. The indicator ciicks as the current passes through it and the words "Train in Block" appear in a slot in front. The instant that the train passes out of the block the cur rent stops, these words drop out of s-ight-and the -word 'F"-ee a-ppearrs. There is an arm-like signal called a semaphore at the end of the block and also at the tower, and the tower man operates them both by levers. Engi neers have orders to slow down their trains at the first semaphore if it is a danger signal, and to stop at a danger signal at the tower. When the train approaches a block the signals are in the danger position and the tower man cannot change -them without permis sion from the next tower man, because his levers are locked and can only be released by the second man. So he presses a button and rings three elec tric bells in the second tower. If there is a train in that block the answer is five bells, but if his block is clear the second man presses a 'plunger at the bottom of his indicator and completes an electric circuit that releases the first man's levers but locks his own. The first man then signals that the way is safe, and as soon as the train has passed the tower 'he puts up the danger signals again. It is now time for the second tower man to signal to the third by ringing three bells and getting his machinery unlocked, and the third has to ring up the fourth, and so on. The train is thus safely handed along from block to block, with never less than a full block section between trains. On a large railroad the block signals are operated several hundred thousand times a day without a single mistake.-Little Chronicle. AGGY WAS AMUSING. Filipino Monkey, Although Full of Pranks, Was the Pet of an American Regiment. When my brother returned from the Philippine islands not long ago, having seen service in the island of Negros, he brought with him a pet monkey named Aguinaldo. In his native land Aggy was quite an amusing beast. If the soldiers happened to be in want of cocoanuts or mangoes Aggy would will ingly go up a cocoanut or mango tree and shake down any quantity of fruit, when he would come down and look as if he was highly pleased at what he had done. Although Aggy was useful at times. he was very mischievous. For instance, he would hunt until he found some of the officers' best cigars and then proceed to chew a small hole out of the middle of each cigar, making them so they would not draw well. An other favorite prank was to throw razors, toothbrushes and the like out of the window and then take refuge in the top of a cocoanut tree, where he would stay until the razor owner's wrath had somewhat abated. He relished spiders and moths, and i would frequently burn his feet or mouth in attempting to catch the ' moths who were attracted by the light of a candle. But Aggy did not thrive in this climate. He was sent to a man g who took care of all kinds of animals, 3 but in consequence of the voyage over and the unsuitableness of this climate he died about three weeks after arriv. t n hre.-N. Y. Herald, PRANKS OF MONKEYS. Little Simians of Incdt I ndaulg iL Alf Sorts of Sport in an Almost Human Way. ) "When I was traveling in northern India," said a gtntleman who had re cently complete a journey around the , world, "I was constantly impressed with the almost human ways of the monkeys there. You see, they are never molested, which is also true of the birds, and they are as tame and im pudent as spoiled children. "I remember that one morning while we were sitting at breakfast on the veranda of our hotel suddenly we heard the noisiest chattering, and down the main street of the town came a crowd of long-tailed monkeys, ruan ing a race, evidently. They shrieked and chattered at every leap, tripping each other up, pulling each other's tails, and seemed to be having a gen erally • hilarious time. While we left the table to watch their antics some Indian crows that had been solemnly lined up on the veranda rail watching us eat made a dash for the food, and had quite a fight with the native serv ant before they were finally driven away. "But the monkeys of India are sure ly the most irresponsible in the world," continued the traveler. "I can call them people, because they are such ludicrous counterfeits of human be ings. In many of the old temples there are monkey settlements. I remember one in particular which was sacred to the simians. There seemed to be thou sands of the creatures, and I was told that 5,000 had recently been taken to the woods to get rid of them. But in this temple I saw little simian mothers nestling and rocking their babies in their arms for all the world like Christian mothers. I ventured to pick up one of the infants that was running about, and instantly the baby gave a typical infantile squeal and the excited mother came to me, chattering angrily. I put the infant down and the mother, her eyes still blazing with an ger, carried the little one to a corner and petted and rocked it, frequently turning to give me a scornful look. "It is not uncommon for the mon keys in the trees to reach down and seize the traveler's hat as he passes. "Perhaps the most remarkable sight in connection with the monkeys in In dia I witnessed early one morning. We were riding in the highway and by a vacant field. Suddenly from the neigh boring forest a troop of monkeys en tered the field and began a regular May dance ,taking hold of hands and form-. ing a large circle, then dancing round WESTERN EPISODE. Widow of Gen. Cuater Describes How a Horse Killed an Ugly and Vicious Rattlesnake. Fe._of n~ _have ever eeeahorsekil a snake, but Mrs. Custer describes the performance in her story of "The Kid" in St. Nicholas. As they were pushing out of a jun gle on foot one day the colonel said: "Samanthy is a little too attentive, Alf; he shoves himself alongside of me, and when I remonstrate he backs a little, but keeps so close he almost treads on my heels." "Well, father, I suppose he thinks nothing can go on without him. He's been in everything I ever did yet." As they came to- a inarrow defile, with the branches of the, trees fes tooned wLn moss and the ground tan gled with vines and thick underbrush, SAMANTHY KILLS THE SNAKE. Samanthy. forgot his -manners and crowded to, the front. The colonel,. peering into the thicket for birds, heard what he took to. be the whirr of pheasants' wings, and he lifted his gun to take aim. The Kid, pressing on, saw with his keen eyes that it was nothing so harmless as the rising of a covey of birds. A huge. rattlesnake, overlooked by-the colonel in his intense concentration on the thicket, lay coiled directly in front of him, the vicious mouth hissing, the eyes gleaming with fire. Alf was in agony. ire could not fire, for his father dr the pony would have received the shot as they were placed. But a more vigilant pair of eyes than even the Kid's had alscovered the reptile, and with a spring in front of the colonel, and with -the nicest ex- actitude, down came the pony with a buck jump, his hoofs close together on the head of the snake,,crushing in the deadly fangs and flattening the skull into the soft soil-!' Still there was an ominous rattle of the tail, and the little nag gathered himself again, bowed his supple back and drove his hoofs into the mottled skin of the deadly foe of mankind. Tommy Was Philosophical. "Teacher says that rubber trees grow wild in Florida," said a sevena year-old school girl. "Well, s'pose they do," rejoined her brother, aged eve. "Nobody ever has any use for rubber. till it rains and then it's too wet to go out in the woods'ad gther them.* 1 C' A STUDY IN GRAFTING. Appearanee of an Apple Tree, Two Years Set, That Has Been Grafted in the Center. - In top-working apple trees the method pursued is either to bud or graft -them. The illustration shows a tree, two years set, which has been TREE GRAFTED IN CENTER. grafted in the center. Two small shoots may be seen coming up which are the result of one season's growth. This will form the head of the fu ture tree. If started low enough the rest of the branches will be cut off and these shoots allowed to branch out at the proper height, but if the tree has been grafted four or five feet high one or two of the larger branches which show at the left will be grafted. Two years are usually required to work over trees of this size.-Orange Judd Farmer. A HEALTHFUL FRUIT. iedieal Authorities Have a High Opinion of the Grape as a Regular Part of the Diet. We have so manya warnings against lief to know that so palatable a fruit as the grape is prescribed as especial ly healthful and strengthening; says the National Stockman. Eaten with other suitable food in quantities from one to two pounds daily, they increase nutrition,, promote secretion, improve the action ofthe liver kidneys and bowels, and add to the health. The Sugar of the grape requires no digesL tion, but is taken almost at once into the blood, where it' renders up its force as required. Eaten moderately, with a suitable diet, they will not pro duce cathartic effects, but a more nat ural action of the bowels, so they are generally laxative. What more could one ask of a fruit than that it should be both luscious 'and health-giving? There is one word of warning, though, that we might offer: When the grapes are procured from any place other than from your own vines, they should be carefully washed before eaten, for the dust upon them not infrequently carries with it impure and unhealth ful particles. One who has experimented says that borax will preserve grapes in their. natural state for many months, by packing them in layers with a liberal sprinkling of borax between. The fruit should be well selected, perfect and dry, and the borax -must com pletely cover each layer. It can be used repeatedly for the same purpose, after being spread and thoroughly dried. This method is also recom mended for the preservation of cher ries; currants, blueberries, gooseber. ries, etc., none of which would be so desirable preserved in their natural state as grapes. Those who know by experience of the strengthening properties of grape juice will. not allow any of the fruit to go to waste or be eaten by poultry. Diluted with water, sweet ened and iced, it has no equal as a harvest drink. Sueceslona of Vegetables. Vegetables of which every garden ought to furnish a succession are rad ish, lettuce, peas, string beans; beets, cress- and turnips. Every -book that was ever written on gardening has advised "sowing for succession every ten days or two weeks," yet only the gardens managed by gardeners hired specially to see to such things really furnish ,such successions. The farm er, in particular, is apt to neglect the garden, if he does not forget it altogether, after the first sowing. Perhaps it is a waste of time 'to ex hort him to care for the garden, but considering the amount which the garden contributes to the family liv ing, it seems as though it should be worthy of better treatment. Whewe Santowers Pay. The sunflower crop is one of the best paying in Russia. A good crop is worth, as it stands in, the field, $25 an acre. The seeds are sold .by the farmer for ,some $1 to $1.50 a pound; then the merchants salt them and retail them for $3 a pound, and at eiery street cressing in Risiaan provincial cities are stands and ped dlers with baskets, selling to: the passers-by the salted product of the big sunfower, which fa eaten.a- ' Daiy ntensils ashould have the few eat numberof seams possible, and thos)e presesnt abouiL be asmooth soldewjr i · 1I rue" .: PROFIT IN CALVES. Rules for TakingCareeofl te.,nora s Animals That Have Always Brought Good Luck. Those who conduct winter dairying on a truly profitable scale always have a portion of their herd 'coming new milchearlyin the wintermonths. What should be done with the' resulting calves that come to us in this incle ment season of the year? It isnot wise to kill them for-their skins, which will hardly pay -for the labor expended bi removing the hides; neither isi t pedient to attempt to raise them ieg lectfully. The writer has universally bad "good luck" with winter-born calves by adherig to the f.ouing general plan: Male calves not intended for raising, either as steers or bulls, I have profit ably converted into veal. There isnev er a time when a good veal calf will not sell readily for cash or its equiva lent. Do not, however, let them suckle the cows, nor feed them on whole milk. This way of making veal is never truly profitable to a dairyman. Feed on skimmed milk with the addition of cooked corn meal or oil meal. If the skimmed milk is fed warm the animals will relish it better and fatten enough faster to amply pay foi the trouble in volved. The place in which they are housed will have much to do with o successful result. This shiuld always be apart from the milch cows and where the latter cannot see or hear them. The calves' quarters should be extra warm, as the young creatures cannot stand the same degree of cold that more ma ture cattle can. A too cold apartment is one reason why many make a failure with winter-born calves. Provide bed dig liberally and feed liberally and reg alarly. Choice heifer calves not designed for !attening but for raising into future sows, should be kept separate from their veal brothers and sisters, with of :ourse less oleaginous and more nitro yenousfood provided. One's aim should e to keep them in a thrifty, growing :ondition, which, by right manage nent, can be as readily accomplished n winter as in summer. Calves so -eared, when warm weather comes will e in a position to go onto grass andde 'elop into fine thrifty yearlings_-Ohio 'armer. ENLARGING A BARN. - lew York Farmer Describer a Plan i That Is Better Than Shoving Out the End and Side. ' . " end and side, and to cover with a fiat tin roof connected with the former building at the plate. This gives floor room and some room for hay and. grain, but there is nearly always .a scarcity of mow room, and this style ENLARGING A DAIRY BARN. of enlargement does not permit 'of storing away much hay under the low roof. It is depth and height which compacts .hay and vastly in crease the capacity of the barn, ' A few years ago I had occasion to enlarge my barn, which was 26 by 40 feet, with a double-pitch roof;. I wanted more room for both saalls and fodder. I added 14 feet to the width, thus making the barn 40 by 40, feet, but instead of putting on. a shed roof I lowered one side of the shin gle roof and sliding it onto the new plate, raised it to the same pitch as before, and then connected the two sections with a nearly flat tin roof, forming an end view like the one shown in the illustration. The dot ted line indicates the former shapec of the barn. I have never been able to raise enough to fill this barn. There seems to be no end to itsi ea pacity, for the addition is practically in the center and is 40 by 44 by 24 feet. The expense of the alteratioa was $184.-American Agriculturist. StrlpplSagm Rich in Pat. The Farmer's Advocate (Canada) says: That there is a marked differ ence in the quality of milk first drawn from the cow, as compared with that which comes away towards the finish, was clearly shown by an experiment carried out some time ago by a well known dairy expert. This gentleman found that while the average perc ent. of butter fat in the first half pint of milk withdrawn from a cow worked out to only 1.32 per cent., the butter fat in the strippings, or the last half pint, amounted to over nine per cent. There was hardly any difference in the per centage of the other solids present ti the last drawn milk. When Drylng Of a Cow. In drying off a cow, the animal should be put upon rather dry food and the quantity of milk withdrawn at each meal should be gradually lessened-in other =words, a little milk should al ways be left behind in the udder., Aft-. er a few days only as much bshould le withdrawn as is found neeessary In or der to relieve the animal-of an uneoi, fortable pressure of the milk glands, In addition to this the cow shouldl be given about half an ounce of powderdd alum in drinking water twieTe dsaly, nd the udder should be rubbed itha. ointment consisting of oe o refi;: Belladonna extract, tioan owelar -Raural World. 4·-aLiTT~~o~; ` -::. INSULATION FOR WIRES. t lee Is ,ised ona Mnt Bla.ne Telewaplb LinE In IIPlae ia Posts and W Gass I. ul. to.. m 3t is a matter =not` siply of t O Sentence, but o=? ,ita.n e,t. t,,+ . observatories situated on the tops of high mountains should be able to keep up constants telegraphic communiea tion with stations at a lower level. Storms often ragefor days and weeks at high altitudes, with such violence as to defeat all attempts at reaching the observers; telegraph pbsts are swept down by howling winds and buried an der masses of anow, while the wires' themselves frequently give way under the severity of the strain., Realizing these difficulties, .the au thorities of Mont Blanc wisely be thought themselves of inquiring wheth er the ice-which perennially covers the slopes of the mountain might not pos. seas suficient insulating powert to re~ place both telegraph posts and por.e lain insulators. To ascertain this some interesting ex periments were made byR. Iespian at the request of Dr. Janssen, the head of the observatory, A double line~was laid 4 between the Grands Mulete at the sum mit and the peculiar mass of rooks known as the Petite Mulete, near ,bth base. Ordinary galvantird iron. -an eighth of an inch thick in~tiameter was used. It was strethed bare on.,the ice, the two conductors, each of 5,500 fatet i length. lying abot'18 feet apart. For the pwrpose; tf 'testing the. in sulation of the line the two wiret left disconnected'- at the lowerstatanl. while at the upper they were plac d. In nircuit with a delicate aWnmeter, and a battery of 18 large teclauche cellJ. On pressing down the key the needle of the anmmeter+ did' not move at.all, but remained steadily at its. ero.' . The ends of the wires.at the loweýir" station were the~ pinned togetthea and, when the battery was reduced to three -cells the needle flew atf once over ithe limit of the scale and: reained there, pointing to 50 milliampere.. bThesetwo mesaurements. clearly. ,indicated. that the insulation of. t e Ae It Preyenst Spillit g sp n.a tWastd rd Qran. When Horses Have to e Fed oR. the Steed it. 'get at it, and with the idea of preveit ing this loss Thomas A.oward, ofBal-,'' thiore, Md., has devised the..e eed b14g shown in our illustration. The intea-* tion is to supply just enough "feed a ' · timei i tah lowB r ohafaibbr to revn wisth the demand, ther-kt hib der of. the grkdi beint cotitan ed in the hopper shown at the rear. The eopply hopper is suspendid behind the sanf , aial's throat by straps atitahed to the bridle, and th xfioit p0ntl91i oItheld In place by a strap arttaacdd ito the cheek .rein. A stiffening riin is placed~at the topof the feed pouch, and in iie bot tom is a wooden disk hollowe sut on the upper side to throw the feed toward the cen ter and prerent its awtamulation around the sides. It is obvious that the grain will feed by gravity into the feed pouch, and that the supply will be de pendent upon the amount consumed by the animal. An important feature of the device isp that` when the horse lowers its head the pouch. is raised by the action of the check rein, thus allow ing the animal to obtain a good mouth ful with little exertion.--Chicago Daily News. . Making Toast for lavliets. Invalids the world over are given their bread in the form of toast, and there are many persons ignorant of why this is done. It is because toast ing bread until it becomes brown largely converts the starch into dex trine.. It will be found athat the thin ner the slices of bread- and the more thoroughly they are toasted--not burned, but still changed to a deep brown color-itwill be found to be still more easily digested than the orde tary toast. A Slee i Dlhtiaetont. "What Js the differenee between a sweetheart and a igncee?" "One loves £. sweetheart." "Well?" "And one marries a C~i cee."--Tow Topics. , , His Bess r.e. d. "I understand, sir;, that you reofred t . to me asa dog." : "No, sir; you s a wre . .ioed. I consider a dog Jat's t iest sa iz·att.t.z +~5