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wmmmm IP Is between 5 and 6 on a sum mer morning that the entrance to Kio bay Is most brilliantly fascin ating. The captain warned us to be up in time to see the sun rise over the city, the jewel of Brazil As it rose, dispelling tl* mist, what wondrous beauties were then unfolded before our eyes! The first thing to greet us was Sugar Loaf mountain, rising abruptly from the water's edge high into the air—lts position much as a sentinel's, standing guard over the city and bay. As the ship slowly entered the land locked harbor, with forts to the right and to the left, the view of the horse shoe bay was marvelous At that early hour little ferry boats were ply ing busily from one end of the bay to the other. The fort to the right, the larger of the two. is built upon a rock which rUes about twenty feet out of the wa ter. Chambe/s are hewn out of the center, and at Intervals large guns project out of the rock In cases of great danger these chambers are used as places of retreat, and at the same time afford means to keep the enemy at bay. The mist had entirely lifted from the city, and the sloping streets, lined with red-filed roofs, snuggled in among the moat luxuriantly green ver dure. couW be Seen Rio is built upon hUs. with Corcovado and Tljuca, two lofty mountains, rising high above the dlfy. The ship had now dropped anchor, and the Inspection officers came on board to examine grips and other small luggage trunks and larger lug gage having to go through tbe eus tom house All Is excitement! Hotel porters sre boosting for the hostelrlcs, and boatmen, who have come from the wharf In swarms, are oJamberlng on beard, bargaining to take ashore These boatmen are the hardest to bargain with in all South America. Their prices are always exorbitant, and it takes some dickering to get them within reason After landing we walked a few short b’oeks which lead to the beautiful Avenids Central Here surprise and wonder overconte the traveler The most modern automobiles fly by—yes, fly by. for their la no siwed limit in Rio. On the broad moaalc aldewaiks you see people dressed In the latest tailored suits, also negroes or negro- Portuguese wearing the gayest of gay fiesta creations The buildings on either side of the Avenlda are fine, substantial five or six-story buildings, often expensively ornamented on the outside with here and there one all In mosaic Brazilian trees line the edge of the sidewalk; also at Intervale they are found In the grass plots, or little Island* In the middle of the street At one end of the broad Avenlda are the library, aft building, and mu nlclpal theater: all magnificent build ings The theater Is worthy of spe cial comment, it shows elegance and richness throughout The best the aters In all these Latin American countries are municipal and no ex pense Is spared to mall* them grand. They are not only places of Instruc tion and amusement, but of social festivities also If you are to linger long in Bto choose one of the hotels back of the city at which to stay It may take time to go and come, but the ride Is north It Our hotel was on the road to Corcovado. and Hie cars make many twists and turns In climbing to It. At eat b turn a new and more beautiful view of the city and bay below us could be seen The scene is especial ly charming at night. as the city is well lighted and the lights 'glisten through the trees We pass many of the native homes, which are plastered on the outside then tinted a pal* pink, blue or blog. The salmon pink predominate*. They are mostly of Portuguese arcblteeturo lth the four straight sides, and gen erally three of four stories high This style ot architecture doesn't really suit tills warm country The patio ar rangement and balconies would be much better, but then this change would spoil tha charm. The street scenes of Rio are Inter esting There is a large fountain in one Of (he mala streets, and all day long men. women and children tramp back and forth with Jugs or paila of water, always carried on their bead*, to be used for household purposes and for washing the clothe*. It is a very common sight to see big negro women washing clothes on the hills with the blazing sun beating down upon them. The native* not only carry water jugs on their heads, but everything else as well It may be a table, a sewing ma chine. or a coffin, as I have seen. We saw men carrying what looked like wire cages on their heads We sup i osed they contained small pet ani Contrary to popular belief more, chickens die from June until Septem ber than in Sill the rest of the year. The man who can raise good lire stock and does not do it la piling up a lot of profitless work for himself. Just the right time to clean up around the lots. It is surprising how much litter can accumulate during tha year. Excellence is always relative. Its relative degrees can only be gauged with accuracy when accurate records are kept . . mals for sale, but a peep int-lde dis closed cakes of various shapes and colors, the wire screen being used to keep out small insects You must noi leave Rio without go ing to the summit of both Tljuca and Corcovado The view you get from either of the-e mountains will stay with you lorevcr VVe. with a party of friends, motored to the top of Tl juca. From the base of the mountain the road zigzags through banana plan tations and still more beautiful tropi cal verdure to the top Near the top there Is quite a settlement with a good hotel and cafe. —G W. S ALWAYS SOMETHING TO EAT If tt* Peach Crop Fall* There My Be “Pun Kins” and So On —No Need to Worry. Kvery member of ihe Oakley Aid so ciety. with one exception, hud some complaint to make about the dry aea son--the blackberries drying up. the tomatoes rotting from sunburn, the sweet corn falling to fill out. or the scarcity of potatoes says Ihe Graphic. In fact, a famine might have seemed Inevitable to one who listened to the gloomy talk. Finally ttoe president of the society tamed to a small woman who had been quilting sway cheer fully but silently through the after noon. the ewe exception to the fault finders "Hasn't the drought hurt youp fruit and garden at All, Mrs Bennett?” she was asked "Oh. ;e. mine I* Just about like all ihe rest." was the calm reply "And don't you ever worry over any thing?" the president asked, most Im patiently Mrs Bennett stopped quilting laid her thin ble down, and. locking around ttie group of women at the quilt, an swered "I'll tell you what cured me of worrying I used to fret over every illng and one spring when it was reported that a late had killed all toe fruit. I sat down to have a good cry, tor our peach trees had bloomed beautifully and I'had been so proud of the abundant crop I was sure w# were to have "Now it happened that my Aunt Martha came In Just then, and asked me what the trouble was. 1 told her. "'Child, what's the use fretting over if? You'll not starve Ive lived eighty years and the world's crop of pro visions has never failed yet If we don’t have peaches we’ll have pun kins.' "1 hare lived half as many yi .rs now as Aunt Martha had lived then, and I've found her philosophy sound. In spite of all the late frosts and droughts, I don't believe any of us has ever suffered for food." The little woman glanced with a smile round the circle of plump, well fed women, and then taking up her thimble went to quilting again They all laughed rather sheepishly, and the president said, thoughtfully: ‘T’d never thought of it that way, but it's true ‘peaches or punklns.' I’ll try to remember that." Hl* Irresistible Humor. Ellis Parker Butler says that his greatest difficulty, now that there is a demand for his stories, Is to find a competent secretary He confided his difficulty to a friend, w ho at once said: •Why, 1 know just the man for you. A good stenographer, temperate hab its, absolutely reliable " “Flue, but has he sense of humor?” asked Mr. Butler "Yes. he has that.” replied the friend. "1 fancy he has a very pretty wit of bis own In fact ''ve heard him get off one or two rather neat thing* of his own.” “Tm sorry to hear that,” replied But ler “He won't do, that's plain." "For Leaven's sake, why not?" asked the surprised friend. ••HI tell you—Just in confidence,” said Mr. Butler "I had one secretary oiice with a sense of humor, and it was t> Siren* that between us we could no t do any work because of his laugh ing at ihe thing* I dictated I really can't afford to pay a chap It a day for laughing.” Explaining Flow of Bsp. There U quite a mystery surround ing the solution of the forces which start tbs flow of sap In the trees In vestigations made in the case of the maple, which starts as early as. If not earlier than, any other tree to flow, lr has been found that the tempera ture seems to have only an Indirect Influence. The conclusion has been reaches that neither expansion of gas in the wood, nor expansion of water, nor expansion of <he wood Itself. Is the underlying came of the pressure which produces the flow, but that this pressure arises from the effects of temperature tn altering the osmotic permeability of the pith-ray cells. Cooking will improve turnips for fattening hogs because it takes out ! considerable of the water. The coldest weather does not kill the Insects. Therefore spraying is the safest method of killing them. For seed production cowpeas should be planted in rows so that an oppor tunity 1s given for cultivation. Bell wheat, clovcrseed and timothy, hut feed all the rough forage and use your straw for feed and bedding. + THt * SCRAP Friends That Never Fall. Remarking on the human tendency to excuse faults in those persons who are beloved or useful, Macaulay wrote: “Just such la the feeling which a man of liberal education naturally en tertains toward the great of former ages. The debt which he owes to them is Incalculable. They have guid ed him to truth. They have filled his thoughts with noble and graceful im ages. They have stood by him in all vicissitudes —comforters in sorrow, companions in solitude. "These friendships are exposed to no danger from the occurrences by which other attachments are weakened or dissolved. Time glides by; fortune is inconstant; tempera are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are dally sundered by Interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human Intel lc<ls. That placid Intercourse la dis turbed by no Jealousies or resent ments. These are the old friends w'ho are never seen with new faces; who are the same In wealth and In pov erty, In glory and in obscurity. Plato la never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opin ion cun alienate Cicero.” Rigid Rules in Germany. Ignorance of German opera regula tions got a party of American vis itors into trouble at the gala perform ance before the kaiser In Berlin on New Year’s night. One of the party v. as a girl of seventeen, who wore a iilsglt necked dress, as became her age. The regulations have for some five or six years past required all ladies at gala performances to wear decol lete dresses, and all gentlemen white, not black, ties. The gendarme at the door of the opera stopped the party, and after a short discussion produced a pair of scissors and was evidently about to effect the necessary change in the girl's robe -himself. The matter was finally settled by the woman In charge of the cloak room, who turned in the neck of the girl's dress all round so us to give an appearance of conformity with decol lete rule. The gendarme explained that when (ho kaiser looked round the house he liked to see all the ladles with bare necks. Day of Judgment. If by any chance there Is a person who would like to experience the sen sations of a man about to he hanged I can tell him exactly how to get them. Cowards die many deaths before their time, it has been said, and I died so frequently shooting the rapids of the Salmon river between Salmon City, Idaho, and the placer diggings of the Salmon River Mining company, 150 miles below, that the grave no longer holds any terrors for me. Even the distinction of being one of the first two women ever to attempt this hazardous trip was no solace to me at times when I was less than a foot from my everlasting punishment, and at such moments glory seemed a puny thing, indeed.—Caroline Lock hart, In February Outing Magazine. Plan to Beautify Cleveland. Cleveland, through its forestry de partment, may save the Buckeye state from becoming a buckeye state In name only. City Consulting Forester Horvath has announced plans fur planting rows of buckeye and horse chestnut trees on the narrow streets of the city. To carry out such a scheme the city will have to raise much of the stock In Us own nursery. Horvath asserts specimens for gener al planting are becoming more and more difficult to procure. The plan of making Cleveland a city of buckeye trees is not only viewed with favor by Horvath because of the sqiitlment at tached to the name in Ohio, but be cause in his opinion, the tree is one of the noblest of all shade trees.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Bug-Power. A man is consdered strong if he can drag a mass weighing three or four times as much as himself, but the beetle will walk with 500 times bis own weight. If a man were placed under a w r ooden box with five times his own weight on top to hold it down, he would remain there indefinitely, but to retain a stag beetle prisoner in the same way one must pile on top of the box at least eighteen hun dred times Its weight.—Exchange. Decided. "I’d buy a car If it weren’t for one thing.” "What is that?” "Having to look out for the other fellow.’ "But If you had a car, the pther fel low would have to look out for you, also.” "Gee! I never thought of that! I’ll buy one.” —Judge. Milk rapidly. Cowpeas are profitable. Th© work horse needs care. On© thing that can be given the fowls, and which they lack very often, is pure drinking water. You can tell a laying hen as far as you can see her. Her comb is alwaya bright and healthy looking. NOTES MEADOV/BROOK -fSI FARM Use fresh eggs in the Incubator. Weeds delay the curing of grain and hay. Fowls will eat quantities of sand and gravel. Sweet ensilage is said to be a safe food for work horses. Plenty of exercise for the ewes In the winter time is Imperative. Finely broken charcoal occasional ly, makes an excellent conditioner. About an ounce of food a day Is needed for every pound of hen weight. In fitting horses for hard work in crease the grain ration but not the hay. At present prices of corn and hogs, hog feeders are Just about breaking even. To not have the trees come before you are ready to put them Into the ground. Sheep should not be kept with horses or swine, for they are liable to get killed. Sheep do best on high, rolling ground; low ground produces foot-rot and parasites. Millet will yield between three and four tons of hay per acre under favor able conditions. Fruit trees are slow-growing plants, and therefore do not need quick-acting fertilizers as a rule. A herd of good dairy cows Is the bert insurance against hard times or a slump In prosperity. Filthy cows, and In many cases un clean milkers also, have their effect upon the milk produced. The cow that Is to do her best in the winter must be well fed, well shel tered and well cared for. One of the best forms of Investment on the farm is the liberal feeding of farm animals of all kinds. Tlie winter feed of the ewe should contain the essential food nutrients In their proper proportions. If a heifer Is to make the best dairy cow, she should freshen when she is from two years to 30 months old. Roughage for calves should first be fed at two or three weeks of age, when the calf begins to eat grain. A few turnips, cabbage, beets, etc., will relieve the monotony of dry feeds and help the milk flow wonderfully. Ice-cold water checks the milk flow and so affects the cow that It Is apt to be detrimental to her unborn calf. Cleanliness Is an exceedingly Im portant thing In carrying horses thieugh the winter In good condition Feeding Is a most Important part of the pure bred live stock Industry and one to which not enough attention Is given. Silage is strong In carbohydrates, the principal food requirement for all animals, but needs protein to bal ance it. Corn silage may he fed out-of-doors In bunks, in the stall, or, In fact, any place where animals can eat It with out waste. Provide a scratching yard or a scratching shed in which wheat or oat straw Is strewn at a depth of six to eight Inches. Do not let the ewes crowd and push through tight doors and openings. Many an ewe has lost her lamb as the result of a squeeze. Pure bred animals will almost al ways reproduce their good qualities, while the scrub will invariably repro duce their bad qualities. A little tankage mixed In makes a better egg food of the mash and this Is a good way to furnish the meat por tion of the laying ration. Good young horses are always in demand on the market, and can only be supplied from the farms where colts receive the proper care and treatment. No matter at what price you sell the poor cows It Is generally safe to say you get all they are worth and a little more, particularly if she Is to he classed as a dairy animal. Rotted stable manure for the aspar agus and rhubarb beds will make these crops double their yields. If put on now the rains will wash It into the soil ready for the plants next spring. The colony plan of housing and yarding is in general use; portable colony houses being used where the range permits. In cold climates these portable houses, which are scattered over the farm In summer, are drawn In convenient to the other buildings that the fowls may be readily cared for in winter. FARMER CAUGHT BY A PUPIL Finds Out Weight of Moon, Depth of 6ea and That He Thought He Was Talking to Twin. A farmer calling at the village school was asked by the master if ho would like to question the scholars. So he said to the class; "If either of you can tell me the weight of the moon, the depth of the sea and what I am thinking about, I will give a prize of sixpence.” There were twin brothers in this class named Sam and Joe. Now, Joe put up his hand and the farmer said: “Well, Sam, what Is your answer?” Joe replied: "The weight of Ike moon Is four quarters, the depth of the sea is a stone's throw,” and thou be paused. The farmer respond! d; “Well, Sam, what am I thinking about?” “Why, you are thinking you are talk ing to Sam, when it is his brother Joe!” —Ideas. Help From Johnny. “What were you and Mr. Smith talk ing about in the parlor?" asked her mother. “Oh, we were discussing our kith and kin," replied the young lady. The mother looked dubiously at her daughter, whereupon her little broth er, wishing to help hla sister, said: “Yeth they wath, mother. 1 heard 'em. Mr. Thwlth asked her for a kith and she thaid, ’You klu.’"—Ladies’ Home Journal. In the G'acial Age. First Primitive Man—-I tell you, these women are getting so they want to be coddled like a lot of dolls. Second Ditto —That's right. Look at Stonehtnge’s wife. He knocked her down a few times, threw her over a cliff and dragged her around a little by her hair, and now she's suing him for divorce on the ground of “exces sive cruelty!”—Puck. Seeking a Job. Applicant for X’osltion—l have here a letter of recomniendaiioii from my minister. Head of Firm —That's very good, so Car as ll goes, but we won't need your services on Sunday. Have you any references from anybody who kuows you the other six days of the week? American Style. “When Indian princes marry, the ceremony takes place in the open.” "How unlike some of our American millionaires." "What do you mean?” “Many of them appear to try to keep their wedding under cover.” A SLOW PROCESS. fy <gsS> "Wlggs went out this morning to clean otf the snow.” ‘‘Yes." “Every two minutes he'd run In the house to warm up." “Did he clean o.Y the snow?” “He dually cleaned o.f (ho little that he hadn't carried into the house on his feet.. Changed. Tm glad to dud you as you are,” said the old friend. "Your great ■wealth hasn’t changed you.” "Well,” replied the wealthy man, "It has changed me In one thing. I’m now eccentric where I used to be im polite, and delightfully sarcastic where I used to be rude." —Tit-Hits. Very Foolish. “Last night my wife and myself had the most foolish squabble of our mar ried career." “What was the subject of your dis pute 7” “Kow’ we would Invest our money If we had any.” Identified. "That was the spirit of your uncle that made that table stand, turn over and do such queer sMints.” "I not surprised; he never did have good table manners.’ Free. "I see that Gladys Piffleton, the beautiful actress, Is free.” 'ls that so? Let mo see, was sho being tried for murder or suing for a divorce?” Nothing Serious. “Made any mistakes in the new' year as yet?” “Well. I’m MtiU writing It 19U.” JB I ft | ! msmm lundiUllln I For Infants and Children. 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