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MILK RIVER VALLEY MEWS
HARLEM, MONT.
Nrwa Pnb. Co., F. N. Wild. Mgr
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The longer n bride run nrold doing
the cooking the longer the honeymoon
Will Inst
If the good -die young what's the
matter with the parson who Ilves to a
Upe old age?
One way for a young man to make
a hit with the girl's father Is to strike
him for a loan.
It la a wise woman who cnn refrain
from reminding her husband of the
fool things he said during his court
•hip.
The Sultan of Turkey Is demonstrat
ing the possession of n backbone.
Which brand.of breakfast food lias he
been taking?
The fact that the Cingalese nre a
child like people Is shown by the sweet
name they gave their mountain capi
tal of Kandy.
The Interest In other quarters has
been so active that the Sailtan of Tur-'
key has not been required to apolo
gize for some time. .
The legal profession may be over
crowded, but If u young man once gets
a foothold as a railroad lawyer he
need pot mind the crush.
A innn may be footless and legless
and still succeed in climbing to the
top, which is victory.. If he Is but the
happy possessor of a ladder-head.
A man in Oregon tried to kill him
self because he wns too old to snw
wood. Yet ns lie was wortli halt a mill
ion he must have kept at it fairly
well.
Peary has deferred ids next arctic
trip for a year. He is convinced that
tile pole will keep, owing to the excel
lent cold storage facilities In that vi
cinity.
In the matter of pecuniary rewards
for heroism, let us consider the case of
the stage hero He jierforms prodigies
of valor, and too often his only reward
Is stage money.
A California expert offers to exter
minate the gypsy moth In .Massachu
setts for $60,000, by Importing para
sites from Europe- And then how
does he propose to exterminate" the
parasites?
Physicists have determined that pos
itive electricity in the air Is good for
us, and negative electricity Inf? a de
pressing effect. This Is true only of
mild doses. Both kinds are rnther de
pressing if they come too suddenly and
in large quantities.
An explorer who han devised a plar.
for reaching the south pole by the use
of horseless carriage thinks be has im
proved on the old methods. Docs he
not know that horseless vehicles have
always been common in the arctic re
gions? They use dogs there, or rein
deer.
The scientists have discovered that
the use of soft foods Is ruinous to the
teeth nnd If generally persisted in
would result in a nation of toothless In
dividuals. This rule, however, works
but -one way and does not apply to
liquid foods. The path ot safety lies
in the direction of hard foods and soft
drinks.
Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis tells his
parishioners that they do not pay their
housemaids wages enough for services
rendered. This inny be true, but the
Information would come with better
authority from Mrs. Hillis. Not infre
quntly the mnn overappreciates the
eook. The wife looks at her in a more
practical light
For the first time in 500 years there
is no cause of war or serious dispute
or Jealousy between Great Britain and
France. On the other hand, the rela
tions of the two countries have be
come ns friendly ns could lie desired.
In this hnppy condition both will be
relieved of the enormous strain of
maintaining va»t fleets nnd armies for
protection against each other.
The poverty of rural clergymen is
traditional In this country, but In
earlier days the people among whom
they worked were as poor as they.
Everybodj- had land, and If Ilie land
was fertile the farmers' families had
good and abundant food. The people
In the parsonage did not eat poorer
food or wear poorer clothes than the
people of the congregation. The posi
tion of n rural clergyman was one <>f
relative comfort ns well as of dignity
and honor. Hut for forty years at least
the general level of expenditure has
raised, while cash plays a larger part
*a nd barter and self-production a small,
er one in the support of families even
ip the country. Yet in many cases the
salaries of the country minister J^ive
not been raised, although the nbmoy
of the minister of to-day will got go
nearly so far as It would have done
forty or fifty years ago.
The Governor of New Jersey recent
ly counted the bill boards between
Trenton ami New York along the Ilm
of a single railroad, mid found a total
of more than sixteen bundled He
rightly considers each one n blot upon
the landscape, and insists that homes
which can be reached only by rnntllug
such a gauntlet of ugliness lose dis
tinctively In value. "Trees have died,"
says Charles M. Robinson in a recent
issue of the Atlantic Monthly, "that
their dead trunks might advertise n
pllh romantic scenery has been forced
to offer reminder of ache or appetite;
the glory of the sunset silhouettes
against the sky the title of a breakfast
food; and the windows of the defense
less home look out on circus girls, cor
sets, and malt whisky." The crusade
of the Governor of New Jersey against
the rural bill-board, the present outcry
In New York City against permitting
posters to be displayed upon the fence
round the uncompleted public library,
and the propositions before many State
Is-glslatures to regulate the size and
location of bill-boards show that pub
lic attention is awaking to the abuses
of public advertising One great rail
way company plants quick-growing
trees to hide the hoardings erected on
adjacent lands; farmers have begun
to regard the leasing of barns for ad
vertisements ns a sign of the poverty
of their owners; the advertiser himself
Is learning that clever Jingles, well
drawn pictures and harmoniously ar
ranged colors are more Impressive
than mere bigness of letter, blaze of
color or multiplicity of signs.
When In uoubt consult your mother.
That advice.applies to children gener
ally. but It applies especially to girls.
Your 1 mother, young woman, has had
the advantage of experience which you
hick. She knows the ways of the
world, which you do not know. You
see things from your point of view.
It Is necessarily a narrow point of
view. Your mother knows. She has
gone by the way you are coming. Hap
py that daughter who confides In her
mother. Happy she who can go to her
mother with her little secrets and mis,
givings, her girlish hopes and fears,
and talk of these, freely assured that
mother will understand and advise ten
derly and sensibly and rightly. Happy
that mother who lias won and kept her
daughter's confidence, who knows bow
importnnt it is to listen sympathetical
ly to her daughter's doings and plans.
Happy the mother who has not driven
her daughter away by speaking of the
girlish notions as "silly" mid “prei>os
lerous." or by scolding the girl's petty
delinquencies. The bond between
mother and daughter should never be
broken. The bond of comaraderie be
tween the two is a natural one. If It
binds them together the daughter's
problems become the mother's prob
lems and the solution will be a wise
one. A son is a son 'till he gets a wife;
a daughter's p daughter all the days of
her life —If the bond bolds true. The
old song says: "A boy's Is'st frleud Is
his mother.” That’s true. But a moth
er is in a peculiar sense the best friend
of a daughter. And the girl who for
gets this Is likely to make a mistake In
life. Always ask your mother.
A subscriber writes the editor to
know If the latter "really believes that
women are better than men.” Sure!
And the editor hnd supposed all right
thinking men would agree In that be
lief. True, there Is a sort of philoso
phy which says when a woman sinks
into the depths of crime she sinks
lower than a man can sink. It Is not
true —only apparenely. Woman falls
from a loftier height, that Is all. Go
to the slums and find the lowest wom
an creature. ’ You need not search long
to find a man lower down. It Is also
true that the older school of fiction
was forever teaching the doctrine that
In every crime there was “a woman
at the bottom of It.” The newer school
Is beginning to see the truer doctrine
—that woman Is at the bottom of
nearly all the good there Is In the
world. Woman Is the better half.
Fancy what society would be with
out her. Remove the might of her
gentleness. Masculine force would
clash with masculine foreev The stono
age would be restored. For this la
true: Man has force. It Is his chief
virtue. Woman has tenderness. It is
her chief virtue. The sexes thus sup
plement each other. Take either away
and humanity Is lost. Together they
make mtn what he Is. It is not good
for man to live alone. Alone he is
selfish, domineering, unjust. He needs
the refining forces of woman’s gentle
ness. All through the centuries wom
an Ims wrought upon him—and her
Job is only begun. The only reason
why the hateful law of the survival of
the fittest does not rule our civiliza
tion is—woman! Better than mnn?
Think of your mother.
Population of Japan.
The population of Japan was esti
mated nt 43,152,098, according to the
last census, taken In 1898. There tire
four classes, in the following propor
tion: Imperial family, 53; nobility,
4,e01; gentry, 2,105,096; coutmqn peo
ple, 41,050,568. In these figures are In
cluded 17.573 Ainos, of Hokkaido, 70,-
801 Japanese living abroad, and 12.Q04
foreigners. InTaddltlon, however, are
the 3.(KMt.oo<| Inhabitants of Formosa,
so that thu.present population is esti
mated nt 50.0tX1.000, Hondo, the chief
island. Is the most densely populated
part of the empire, having 381 people
to the square mile, and its southern
districts have 475 inhabitants to the
square mile. Of recent years there
has.lteeu a rapid concentration of pop
ulation in tile cities. There were 78
towns, according to the census of 1808,
having a population of 20,000 or over.
Forests of Greece.
In ancient times Greece possessed
about 7.5txt,000 acres of dense forest,
and she was comparatively rich In tlni
bi r until about llfty J’cars ago. Much
of It lias, however, now disappeared.
Tlie Miss and Her Mission.
"What sort of a girl is she?”
"Ob. she is a miss with a mission.’’
"And her mission is seeking a man
with u mansion.’’—London Tlt-Blts,
I Kinds of Corn to Raise.
TLfc lowa Agricultural College at
A mm] gives the following list of varie
ties of coni for the State:
Reid’s Yellow Dent, average letigth
0 to 10 Inches, average circumference
7 to 7% inches, average time to ma
ture 120 days; Learning, average
length 9 to 10 Inches, average circum
ference 7 to 7% niches, average time
JfiCmature 125 to 12S days; lowa Gold
Mine, average length to 8% Inches,
average circumference 0% to 7%
Inches, average time to mature 125
days; Legal Tender, average length
to 10% Inches, average circum
ference 7 to 8 Inches, average time to
mature 125 days; Boone County White,
average length 9 to 10 Inches, average
circumference 7% Inches, average
time to mature 130 days; Silver Mine,
average length 8% to 9% Inches, aver
age circumference 7 to 7% Inches,
average time to mature 120 days.
Calico corn, average length 9 to 10
Inches, average circumference 7 to 7%
inches, average time to mature 115
days.
These are the varieties that are gen
orally grown In the State, although
there are several other varieties In
different localities In the State receiv
ing favorable mention. Among the
earliest of these are Longfellow’s Yel
low Dent, Farmers’ Reliance, Pride of
the North, and Minnesota No. 13; and
among the later varieties, Mills County
Prize, St. Charles White, Brown's
Choice, lowa Cropper. lowa King, etc.
In our Judgment the Boone Qounty
White Legal Tender. Learning, and
Mills County Prize are better adapted
to the southern part of the State, say
as far north as the Rock Island Rail
road. Here again elevation must de
termine. The higher divides south of
the Rock Island will not grow as early
a corn ns some of the river bottoms
north of the Rock Island. The Gold
Mine, Reid’s Yellow Dent, Silver Mine,
and Brown's Choice will do well In
the territory between the Rock Island
main Hats and the main line of the
Illinois Central, while the earlier va
rieties are to be preferred north of that
line, and In'the corresponding latitude
east and west.
A Dirt-Holeling Device.
Mr. J. H. Arthur, ot Macon County,
Missouri, writes to the St. Louis Re
public ns follows: "I send you a
sketch of a device with which dirt
cnn be hauled out of a well while dig
ging or cleaning out. The same can
be used for lowering brick or stone in
walling a well. It Is cheap and Is far
/ fe
DIRT HOISTING DEVICE.
better than a windlass. Take a post
14 feet long, set it in the ground 18
Inches and fasten the top with guy
wires, each 30 feet long. Make a trlan
gle of pieces of 2xo and bolt or hinge
to the post. A screw eye Is fastened
at one end of the angle on which to
hang a pulley and another Is fastened
nt the foot of the post. A rope passed
through these pulleys on which is
placed a bucket completes the device,
save a singletree to which a horse
can be bitched. By placing the trian
gle high on the post the dirt may be
unloaded In a wagon and drawn off
out of the way.”
Early Feus.
The first crop usually planted In the
farm garden is one of the earliest va
rieties of peas. On account of tbo
hardiness of the plant no amount of
cold weather will do-much injury af
ter the peas are once up, but when
planted extremely early a part of tbo
seed will rot In the ground, causing
many gaps In the row. Early In the
season usually there Is little nitrogen
In the soil and the plants grow very
slowly at first, A little nitrate of soda
applied in the row at the time of sow
ing will hurry the growth of peas.
The market value of the crop depends
largely upon its curliness. The kinds
which do not require bushing are most
popular for farm use. The late kinds
often do not produce a crop until warm
weather comes, and for that reason are
often attacked by blight, which may
be prevented by spraying with bor
deaux mixture, same as for apple trees.
A Good Gruftin^ Wax.
For a good, all-around grafting wax,
to be used for any purpose for which
such wax is used, try the following:
Take four pounds of rosin, one pound
of beeswax and one pint of linseed ol'.
Put these in an tron kettle, put over a
slow lire and mix. thoroughly while
beating. Then pour in the mass some
cold water and pull the wax with the
hands until it is the color of light
molasses candy—a light cream. I’ull
Into the form of sticks and put away
In a cool place until wanted for use.
This wax is cheap and of the best
quality. quite as good ns that made
from fallow In place of the linseed
oil.
Dump Bed. Had for Pig..
Damp bedding Is bad for pigs «>> J
yet there are many pig raisers who
neglect providing dry beds f<* tbelr
porkers.. Sunshine Ik one of the best
I things that pigs can, have and it Is not
’ always possible to obtain it. Some
I years we are woefully short on sun
shine. Sometimes we have the sun
shine and no way for the pigs to enjoy
| it. It requires some planning to con
struct a good brood bouse for pigs.
Cold drafts are damaging to pigs and
cause a great deal of mortality.
Experiments with Potatoes.
During the last year a test in potato
growing was conducted at the New-
Mexico Experiment Station with the
Idea of finding out something about
the" best time to plant, best method of
culture, as well as testing u large num
ber of varieties. Two plantings were
made, the first one on March 30, and
the second on April 30. In each case
part of the potatoes were planted about
four Inches deep and the furrow was
plowed back on them, while those on
ridges were put In with a garden
trowel about the same depth. A few
of the potatoes planted In furrows
were covered with straw and then
with dirt. Immediately after planting
all were irrigated to start them sprout
ing. The potatoes on ridges sprouted
first, and a good stand as well as a
fair growth was secured. Those
planted in furrows were very un
satisfactory. and, on the whole,
the stand was poor. In fact, the re
suits from these potatoes were very
unsatisfactory; the small-sized tubers
and poor yield were due, to a large de
gree, to the soil packing so much
around the plants after eneb Irriga
tion. The cultivation given between
the irrigations did not seem to nelp
very materially to keep the soil loose
in the middles. On the other hand,
the potatoes In the ridges ripened ear
lier. during tlie first week of July,
nnd the tubers grew to a fair size and
the yield was good. The early plant
ing did the best. On the whole, the
results of the early planting and ridge
system of culture were very satisfac
tory and encouraging.
Out of the thirty-nine varieties plant
ed, the Rose Seedling, Triumph, .par.y
Six Weeks, Early Ohio and New Yer
mont Gold Coin did the best. These
are all early varieties.
It seems from these results that
early planting, ridge culture and a
suitable early variety are among the
more Important points to be consld
ered In potato growing, at least in the
Mesilla valley.—Fabian Garcia.
Rations for Horses.
The New York Farmer says tl.e
United States army feeds Its cavalry
nm| artillery horses 12 pounds of oats
nnd 14 pounds of hay per day per 1.000
pounds of weight, nnd Its mules 9
pounds of oats and 14 pounds of hay.
The Wyoming station feeds Its driv
ing horses 21.25 pounds of alfalfa’ and
3.2 pounds of straw, and its carriage
horses 10 pounds of oats and 12 pounds
of hay per 1,000 pounds of horse per
day.
The Boston fire company feeds Its
horses 9.38 pounds of grain and 18
pounds of hay. and the Chicago fire
company feeds 4 pounds of oats and
15 pounds of hay, all per 1,000 pounds
of weight, per day.
The Richmond (Va.l Express Com
pany feeds Its horses 4.67 pounds of
corn, 5.33 pounds of oats. 8 pounds of
bran. 4.1(1 pounds of corn meal, and
15 pounds of hay.
The Jersey City Express Company
feeds 2 pounds of corn. 19 pounds of
oats, 1.15 pounds of bran and 9.5-
pounds of hay. •
The Boston Express Company feeds
12 pounds of corn, 5.25 pounds of oats
and 20 pounds of hay.
The Wyoming station feeds Its farm
horses 13.75 pounds of alfalfa and 2.25
pounds of straw per day.
The Utah station feeds Its farm
horses 25 pounds ot alfalfa and 10
pounds of bran, or 22.8 pounds of tim
othy bay and 10 pounds of bran.
It will be noticed that at all these
Western stations alfalfa hay Is a pre
ferred feed for farm horses.
At Chicago the dally rations of the
draft horses of large companies is 7.5
pounds of oats and 20 pounds of bay,
mid In South Omaha 15 pounds of oaN
mid 12 pounds of hay.
How to Keep Milk Cool.
A good milk cooler on Ihe gallery or
under the shade of n tree is a pleas
ure during the summer to every house
wife. It Is so hard to keep milk at
a low temperature during our hot «um
mer weather. It Is’liot from 8 o’clock
In the morning until 11 In the evening.
There Is no place about the house
that Is cool enough unless we have a
cooler.
Water tends to keep everything cool
so long as it evaporates. Wrapping
milk vessels in porous wet cloths will
temper the hot air. The Mexicans cool
all their drinking water In tills wny.
A number of devices have been pat
ented for keeping milk cool and are
sold to people who cannot use ice in
cooling milk while it is creaming.
Milk must be kept at GO or 70 degrees
to cream well. Every housewife who
troubles with milk ffurlng the sum
mer and makes butter of any sort
would do well to use one of these mllk
coollng devices unless a hand sep
arator is kept which creams the milk
while It Is hot and fresh.
For a Swampy Place in the Yard.
Many yards and lawns have low,
wet or moist places, which It does not
pny to drain, and In which ordinary
plants will not grow. Such persons
are to be envied, as they can have a
class of flowers which an- denied In
tbelr best form to others. For the wet
spot use the Japanese and German iris,
Montbretins, Heucberla Sangulne.i.
(’alodiums and Flags. The soli can
be well enriched by working in well
rotted manure and leaf-mould. They
can be protected over winter by put
ting on brush first and covering it wttll
straw.
Indian Boyhood.
"What boy would not be an Indian
for a while when he thinks of the
freest life In the world?" asks the In
dian writer, Charles A. Eastman, in
his book, "Indian Boyhood." Hut
while Indian boys have the freedom
of the woods, they have a more severe
training than white boys, to fit them
for what their tribe believes to be the
duties of manhood. Mr. Eastman thus
recalls his own experience:
It seems to be a popular Idea that
all the characteristic skill of the In
dian Is Instinctive and hereditary. This
Is a mistake. All the stoicism and pa
tience of the Indian are acquired traits
and continued practice alone makes
him master of the art of woodcraft.
Physical training and dieting were
not neglected. I remember that I was
not allowed to have warm beef soup
or any warm drink. The soup was for
the old men. General rules for the
young were never to take their food
very hot. nor to drink much water.
My uncle, who educated me up to the
time when I was 15 years of age. was
a strict disciplinarian nnd n good
teacher. When I left the tepee in the
morning he would say, "Hakadah, look
closely to everything you see.” and at
evening, on my return, he used often
to catechise me for an hour or so: “On
which side of the trees is the light
colored bark? On which side do they
have the most regular branches?”
It was his custom to let me name
the new birds that I had seen during
the day. I would name them according
to the color or shape of the bill or their
song or the appearance and locality of
the nest; in fact, anything about the
bird that impressed me as character
istic.
“Hakadah,” he would say to me.
“you ought to follow the example of
the shunktokechn (the wolf). Even
when he Is surprised and runs for his
life, he will pause to take ofie more
look nt you-before he enters his final
retreat. So you must take a second
look at everything you see.”
All boys were expected to endure
hardship without complaint. In sav
age warfare a young man must, of
course, be an athlete, and used to un
dergoing all sorts of privations. -Hie
must be able to go without food and
water for two or three days without
displaying any weakness, or to run for
a day and a night without any rest.
He must be able to traverse a pathless,
wild country without losing his way
either In the day or nt night. He can
not fall short In any of these tilings if
he aspires to be a warrior.
Interesting Ring Tricks.
A boy of our acquaintance aston
ished his host and the guests at a
party the other night by asking that a
bowl of water be brought into the
parlor.
“You may have the bowl of water,
ot course," said the host, “but may 1
ask what you are going to do with it?"
“I want to show you a trick," an
swered the boy. "I promise not to spill
the water or muss up anything, so you
needn’t be afraid to let me try It.”
"Now,” he said, “I want to borrow
a finger ring, and I’m going to put it
Into that bowl and then take it out
with my bund without getting my
band wet.”
"Oh, you can’t do It!” cried a dozen
of his companions. “Whoever heard
of putting your hand Into water with
out getting it wet?”
“Of course I didn't expect you to be
lieve me,” said the young experiment
er, "but wait and I'll show you a thing
or two.”
One of the girls handed him a ring
and having put It into the bowl he
stood back so that they might all see
it Then he took a little paper pack-
LIGHTING BY ELECTRICITY.
Ga. la No Longer the General lUumi
nant in This Country.
The public Is accustomed to think,
says, the Electrical World and Engl
neer, of gas as still the leading lllu
mlnant, but while this Is probably true
In Europe, In the United States the
scepter of light has definitely passed
to electricity. The figures Just Issued
by our census office are, Indeed, start
ling. Gns had nearly seventy-five
years’ start over its competitor, but it
now appears to be decidedly in second
place. Yet there is no denying the fact
that the Introduction of the brilliant
electric light has stimulated the use
of gas. There are now close upon 4,090
electric light central stations in Amer
ica, but by the census of 1900 there
were then only 877 gas plants, and the
number was not growing perceptibly.
The gas plants were earning, an in
come of $75,000,000. Last year the
central stations earned SBS.<KXI,OOO.
The cost of construction of both was
ever $500,000,000. Gas employed 22,-
100 mon and electric light 23,300^
But this is only half the story. It
Is estimated that there are over 50,000
Isolated electric light plants In this
country, and that they represent as
many lamps as do the central stations.
New York CIV lias 1,000 of them and
Some. like thalln the Waldorf-Astoria,
would run many an ambitious Western
city. Hence the figures against gas
are doubled lu most respects. The 20,-
000.000 Incandescent lamps burning
nightly become 40,000,000. The 400,-
LITTLE STORIES
AND INCIDENTS
That Will Interest and
Entertain Young
Readers.
age from bls pocket and emptied from
It a powder, distributing it over the
surface of the water.
“What’s that?” naked his host.
“Oh, that’s my patent antiwet/* an
swered the boy. “Now, watch me: l'n>
going to take that ring out with my
hand, and if the band gets at all wet
I promise to drink the water, ring,
powder and all.”
And he did take the ring out with
his hand and he did not get his hand
wet.
Of course you want to kno^t how he
did it so that you may astonish some
of your friends. The powder that be
threw on the water was lycopodium,
and as he plunged his hand Into the
water the lycopodium covered it like a
waterproof glove, for that substance
and water havex.no affinity for each,
other. Try it.
Washing the Dishes.
Our Polly goes a-Hshing, be the weather •
what it may,
Not less than twice, and often thrice. on
every holiday;
She always starts right after meals, and
singing merrily,
She fishes and she fishes in her little
Soapy Sea.
She’ll catch the best pink china cups and
play that they are trout,
And when she drops her line again she’ll e
draw spoon-minnows out;
Th.e plates, of course, nre flounders fso
round and flat, you know).
The kitchen knives are hungry sharks
out watching for a foe;
Each saucepan is a polliwog, with , han
dle for a tail, ? J
And—“ There she blows!”—the frying-1
pan! how very like a whale 1 ’
There’s nothing left—pour out the \ sea e
and put the fish away, \
All high and dry and waiting to Jbe
caught another day. k
—Youth’s Companion. \
Troublesome Porcupines. |
A wail is going up from Maine overa
tlie invasion of the State by porcu
pines. During the last twenty-five
years they have come across the Cana
dian border from New Brunswick,
where they have been as thick as ants,
and now are such an army in Maine
that* they .are killing young spruce trees
by the thousand. These porcupln e s
seem to be gnawers by wholesale, for
they have been known to eat the han
dles from baying tools left in the field
over night! And fight! Why. when
gathered in packs they fight as savage
ly as wolves. There does not seem tc
be any alternative save a bounty on
porcupines—and then woe to porcu- ‘
pineland. Every man and boy in
Maine will be on the tracks of th«
spiny little pests.
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Conservatory of the King.
King Leopold IL, of Belgium, Is in
tensely fond of dowers, nnd often risei
early in tlie morning in order to- get\
through state business quickly and \
have more time for his gardens and
green houses. He has over u mile of
conservatories connected with Ills pal
ace at Laekln. One conservatory is
fitted up ns a church, and during ser
vice birds fly about among the foliagt
of the palms.
000 arc lamps—Shelley's "Insistent sis
ters of tile day”—become 800. Were
It not for the universal use of the gas
stove and the prevalence of the gas
engine one marvels what would have
become of the illuminunt of our fath
ers.
Such Is the pace at which we live
to-day that, while millions of people in
this country have not yet got up to
the stage of “civilization” represented
by the use of gas, but when they en
counter It casually employ It suicidal
ly, other millions have outgrown and
discarded It and will have none of It.
even for a curling iron or a chafing
dish, let alone for lighting. To put it
briefly, the use of electricity for light
ing In New York State alone lias in
creased over 2,000 per cent In ten
years, and the use of electricity for
power, also from central stations, lino
Increased In the decade nearly 1.200
per cent. And yet electricians are In
clined to think they have only Jus*
shirted In.
Fresh Air Tablets.
Fresh air tablets are a preparation
discovered by a Ffench scientist, it
was wlille Investigating acetylene that*
he found that he could combine certain
chemicals Into a tablet which, On being
dropped Into water, dissolved and gave
forth pure oxygen.
A very neat' person's idea of some
thing impossible Is to get used to wear
ing stocking with boles In them.
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Good wives and loving ones ar**
synonymous. *