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HOW TO TELL THE WEATHER
Peculiar Actions of Many Animals
- Taken as Sure Indication of
' Rain,' Snow, Wind or Calm.
It a cat sneeze it is a sign of rain.
The goat utters a peculiar cry. before
When the fox barks at night it will
storm. ',
If rats and mice make much noise
it indicates rain. .'".."
If the dog eats. grass in the morning
it will surely rain before night.
If the tracks of bear are seen after
the first snow fall, look for a mild
winter.
The wind will blow from the noint
the cat faces when she washes her
face, and fair weather will follow.
If the bull goes first to pasture, it
will rain; if the cows precede him the
weather will be uncertain. ' -It
is a sign of rain if the cat washes
her head behind the ear. Cats rub
against an object before a storm.
Sheep are said to ascend hills and
scatter before clear weather, but if
they bleat and seek shelter it will
snow.
If the hair of a horse grows long
early the winter will be mild. The
hair of a horse becomes rough before
rain, and they are frisky before a cold
wave, and restless and uneasy before
a rain.
Sailors do not like cats, and they
have a saying when the cat is frisky
she has a gale of wind in her tail, and
a charm is often resorted to in a
calm by throwlnng the cat overboard
to raise a storm.
If cows fail in their milk look for
stromy and cold weather. If they bel
low in the evening it will snow before
morning, and when a cow stops and
shakes her. foot there is bad weather
behind her.
If cattle lie down early in the day
expect rain, also when they lick their
fore feet, lie on the right side, scratch
against posts, when they refuse to go
to pasture in the morning, and when
they low and look at the sky.
ILLUSION WITH SMALL DOTS
Hexagonal Figures, Black and White,
Appear to Be of Different Sizes,
but Are Not.
If we look with one eye only, or with
eyes half closed, at these groups of cir
cular dots they assume the appearance
familiar to us in honeycomb. This
Hexagonal Illusions.
is an effect of the contrast and opposi
tion of the black and white in the sen
ation of the retina.
Although the black and the white
circles are of the same diameter the
Irradiation is in their case so intense
that the white circles appear to be
larger than the black.
When Sea Feeds Land.
Seaweed, at one time thought val
ueless, is a wonderful fertilizer. Tons
of it are collected in carts at low tide
by the Cornish farmers, and around
the coast of Jersey.
After being dried in heaps, it is
spread on the land.' There its nutri
tive properties of nitrogen and pot
ash, in which it is very rich, are ab
sorbed into the soil, and produce
wonderful crops. New potatoes from
Jersey, and spring cabbages from
Cornwall, are raised with seaweed
fertilizer. The sea also furnishes
food for the land in other ways.
' ' . ' Legal Angle.
First Lawyer I was looking over
my boy's geometry lesson last night
1 was quite interested In that proposi
tion that the three angles of a tri
angle are equal to two right angles.
Second Lawyer-j-That Isn't very
complicated.
First Lawyer No, but I was try
ing to think what a man could do if
he had the other-side of the case.
Fuck. - ' '
Unexpected.
The office boy opened the door and
looked in. '
"My grandmother " he began.
"Bah!" snorted the boss.
"Has just died." - v
"Wow!" yelled the boss.
,"Has Just died and left me a lot of
money and I've resigned seer
And he softly closed the door.
: Little Girt Lost. :
Lillian' (aged 4) Mamma, youre
not a girl, are you? ; ;
Mamma No, dear. I used to be a
little girl, but now I'm a woman.
Lillian Then what bsca-me - of the
little girl you used to be? -
In the Midst' of Game. ' '
; TWhaf s de matter wid Jimmy?"
"Aw, he feels disgraced fer life."
"How's dat?" .i
"His - mudder come out yesterday
and took him home right' off secona
baa." .;. . ;
VACUUM EXPERIMHlt v IS ODD
Candle Burns Oxygen, in Glass and
Blotting : Paper i Contracts, Mak
ing an Air-Tight Joint. . .'
A very interesting experiment may
be . performed . with two drinking
glasses, a small candle end and a piece
of blotting paper, says the Pathfinder.
The glasses must be the . same size
and of the thin-glass kind. . The can
dle end is lighted and set ill one glass
the blotting paper is well dampened
and placed on top' of the glass, and
the other glass inverted: and Its rim
placed exactly over the lower one and
pressed down tightly. The candle will
burn up all the oxygen in the glass and
go out .
. The air in the glass being heated
will expand and some . of it will be
forced out from under the moist paper,
Vacuum Experiment.
and then, as the portion remaining
cools, it will contract and draw the up
per glass on the paper and make an
air-tight joint. The upper glass can
then be taken up and the lower one
will' cling to it. :
HOW TO MAKE A BOOMERANG
Amusing Little Toy. May Be Made by
Cutting Piece of Cardboard as
' Shown in Illustration.
Cut out in cardboard a boomerang
as nearly as possible of the size and
pattern given here.
Place it fiat on the back of the first
three fingers of the left hand, sloping
A Toy Boomerang.
them upward; then flick it smartly
with the second finger of the right
hand. It will fly off and return to your
lap. Try it.
Walnut Shell Boats.
Materials required A walnut shell.
a small piece of cardboard, a match,
a piece of white paper, and some seal
ing wax.
Scoop out any remaining fragments
of nut and skin from the interior of
the shell and cover the opening with
cardboard, which must be, first of all
cut the exact size. Thrust a match
through the middle of the cardboard
and fasten it securely to the bottom of
the boat with sealing wax.- The card
board can also be fastened on to the
6hell in the same way. 'A sail . can
then be cut from white paper and
fastened to the 'match by means of
two holes.
Electricity in Rubber.
An ordinary India rubber band
stretched and allowed to spring back
by virtue of its own elasticity devel
ops a negative charge of electricity,
which is retained for a considerable
time. The result does not appear to
be influenced by the quality of the
India rubber, and the same effect is
produced by a length of tube suffi
ciently thin walled to be fairly elas
tic. An essential condition, however,
is that the material' be allowed to
contract suddenly. . If pulled out slow
ly and gradually 'allowed to resume
its original dimensions, no electrifica
tion will be produced..
RIDDLES.
Why are doctors always bad charac
ters? , : "
Because the worse people are . the
more they are with them.
' -
Why is a camel a most irascible 'ani
mal? ; i. .:
Because he always has" his back up.
- -, '' .-.'- - ' 1
- Why are weary people like carriage
wheels? . ''- - .. "
Because they are tired.
1 : ; '.- ..y .
What Is that which every one can
divide, but no one can see where It
has been divided? : .
. Water. . " , . . ' ..
- ' -. ... '
What is majesty deprived of its ex
ternals? ':
: A jest m-ajest-y. '
- Is there a word in the English lan
guage that con tains, all the vowels;?
Yes, unquestionably. - V
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.Why does' a miller wear a white
nat? ,:. ... " v;: -..v;.-.
To keep his head warm.
".V. V. . ...
Why didn't the dog want to go into
the ark? - . . . ....
Because he had a bark of his own.
What makes the cost of tea - so
high? ; . , v : .;.
Because we must pay a steep price.
. .- , ."
Why would a tanner make a good
chemist? ',
Because he understate ox(b)ides.
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CAULIFLOWER IS EASY OF CULTIVATION
AND ONE OF HOST SAVORY OF VEGETABLES
Should Be in Every Garden, Even if Not for Commercial Pur
posesDemands Cool Weather and Soil That Is Fairly ,
Strong in Nitrogen and Supplied With Phosphorus.
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Cauliflower Easy of Cultivation and a Delicious Vegetable.
(By BESSIE L PUTNAM.)
Cauliflower is' one of the crops that
should be in every garden, even if not
for commercial purposes. This vege
table is peculiar in its demands of soil
and climate. In the east, where . It is
grown for market purposes, it Is
thought to be doing well if one-half
of the plants make heads that weigh
from one to two pounds. Cauliflower
demands cool weather and a soil that
is fairly strong in nitrogen and also
well . supplied with phosphorus and
potassium. .
The culture of this vegetable is the
same as that for cabbage, with the
additional work of going through the
field every day or two after the heads
begin to form and tying together the
leaves to prevent the small white
heads from coloring. If this Is neg
lected, the vegetable is ruined for
both market and family use.
Do not allow the garden to grow up
to weeds after the first early crops,
but keep the surface clean and in
cultivation during all the growing
months. . -v .
Home mixed fertilizers are the most
desirable for the market gardener.
Nearly every gardener grows a diver
sified list of vegetables, which vary
more or less in;, food requirement,
and the feeding problem is : entirely
under his control when the rations
are mixed at home.. . '
A firm and compact seed bed,, bring
ing the seed into intimate contact
with moist soil, is the Becret of quick
HEAVY SEED DOES
NOT INCREASE YIELD
Tests Made at Nebraska. Experi
ment Station on Different
Sized Kernels of Interest.1
(By JAMES D. MARSHALL, Colorado
Agricultural College.)
During the past ten years a great
many experiments have been conduct
ed by various experiment stations to
determine the relative effect of different-sized
kernels on the ' quantity
and .quality of grain produced per
acre. The. work at the Nebraska ex
periment station, is worthy of note on
this particular subject. Tests here
were made with wheat, the fanning
mill being used to make the seed sep
arations.
In the tests , Turkey red, a. .hard
winter wheat, . and Big Frame, a . soft
winter wheat, were. used. A lot ' of
seed from each of the above varieties
was separated into two parts, ' the
heavier 4and the lighter halves.
These were again separated Into the
heaviest heavy" and the "lightest
light" being sown. To check results
ordinary seed as it came, from the
separator was planted. ;
The same method was followed each
year for a period of eight years. The
seed from each crop of the "heaviest 1
heavy and the "lightest light" was
separated ; and only the heaviest quar
ter of the "heaviest heavy" and the
lightest quarter of the "lightest light"
were used for seed.
At the end of the experiment the
average yields for the . three kinds of
seeds were practically the same while
the average weights per bushel' from
the crops ; harvested showed hardly
any difference in favor of any one se
lection of the heaviest seed for par
ticular kind of seed. From' the above
results it is evident that the selec
tion 'of ; the heaviest seed for" sowing
purposes will not materially, increase
the yield per" acre or,the weight per
bushel of the crop harvested.
Furnish Pure Seed.
With a view of furnishing the-farm
ers of the state with pure seed,,' the
governor of Massachusetts has an
nounced that the farms connected
with the. various state institutions
would raise seed and sell them at a
fair market price. This will not onW
be of great'benefit to the state,; but
also a source of revenue to the insti
tutions. Particular attention will be
given to the raising of grass seed. !;
Practical Ideas. ;
Ideas -with practical results ; are
what are most wanted in the poultry
germination, providing the ground is
warm and the depth of covering not
too great.
Packages should be heat and clean.
As a. rule small packages are best
early in the season when the prices
are high, and large packages for the
main crop. Use standard sized pack
ages and give full' measure. Nothing
is gained in the end by short measure.
When possible it is best to grow
vegetables on a large scale to sell to
the wholesale trade instead of retail
ing. The ' successful gardener finds'
his time too valuable to peddle his
vegetables.
Crops must be gathered in proper
condition and sent to the market
fresh and clean. Careful grading is
essential. A few inferior specimens
in a package are the first to attract
attention. Even a few specimens will
knock off . more from the price of the
package than they are worth.
Remove quick maturing crops as
soon as they are done bearing and
plant to others.
Cultivation should begin early. Cul
tivators with not less than twelve
small teeth or shovels are best for
smail truck crops, because they leave
the soil in ideal condition and are the
best conservers of soil moisture. A
loose and friable soil ' stimulates a
steady and rapid growth.
Keep out the weeds' and keep the
surface soil stirred and the plants will
grow through dry and wet weather.
WILD FLOWERS MAY
BE TRANSPLANTED
Some Bulbous Plants Bear Re
moval Without Complaint
if Given Good Site.
It is a common rule among flower
growers that a plant should not be dis
turbed when in bloom. Yet in the
case of the bulbous wild flowers,
which die to the ground soon after
blooming and are with difficulty lo
cated, there is a convenient excep
tion; most of them bear removal with
out complaint if accorded a site simi
lar to the native home, and not a few
readily adapt themselves to the cul
ture of garden or lawn.
A notable illustration is that of the
spring beauty, the carmine-peaclled
petals of which appear in. the first
spring days. A little later the yellow
adder's tongue is in its glory. Both
may. be grown in grass or garden, and
as they die to the ground early no ob
struction is offered to the lawn womer.
The bulbs grow about as much below
the surface as the leaf extends above
a fact to be remembered in trans
planting. " Jack-in-the-pulpit, attractive In its
glossy surplice of white and purple or
pale green, is not averse to exchang
ing its native bog for a garden home.
The showy cloak is but an envelope
for the true flowers, which are clus
tered at the base of. the spadix within.
Some plants " bear only staminate
flowers, in which case the plants die
to the ground after blooming, to be
seen no more until the coming 6pring.
If there are fertile flowers, a glebe of
flaming scarlet fruit appears in mid
summer to mark the spot where the
vernal orator appeared.
Value of Sunflower Seed.
Sunflower seed acts both as a food
'and medicineT It is V grain rich in
oil, which produces a redness to the
comb and a luster to - the feathers.
The seeds should never be dried-In
the heads, but always shelled as soon
as ripe and spread out on a dry floor
where air and light will reach it, thus
allowing it to dry before becoming
musty. ; .... '
- f Sowing Spinach. -In
Virginia the spinach is sown in
rows, four to each narrow bed, rows
about, nine inches apart, and in- the
.edge of each bed Is generally , a row
of cabbage set out in December, and
after the spinach Is shipped,- say about
March 1, the cabbages are cultivated,
and are ready for marketing in Apiil
and early June. Millions of cabbage
plants have been so set out in the
spinach bedsl -
0000 III SUFFERING
GodV Purnose Always Best
Though It is Hard Some-
times to Understand It.
Cyclone and blizzard, fire and flood
have lately devastated cities and vll
lages and left large portions of pros
perous couatry life in ruins. Human
life had been faooded away , and the
fairest domestic scenes desolated
The suffering and loss none can ad
qualely measure. . . ' .
Such multiple "disasters .raise ques
tions in the mind about God's rela
tion to thb universe and his interest
in human life. The old, old difficulty
presents Itself to our thought, can
God be good and permit such crushing
sorrows and Irreparable losses to be
fall us.or if he is good is his power
limited so he cannot prevent these
catastrophies? It is easy to sing of
God's goodness and praise him for the
light and the embroidery of spring
and summer and -the harvests' of the
autumn time. But what about eartlv
quakes and volcanoes,' cloudbursts.
tornadoes and lightning bolts, and
overwhelming floods? Where is God
and . what is his relation to such oc
currences? Permit me to offer a few
lines of thought -which have brought
me relief and lit up many a dark hou
and helped me to reason why God
does not interfere to prevent such.
shocking events. 1
Vitalize Our Inventive Faculties.
We are ever at school and God is
our teacher. We are left to work out
our own material salvation as the pu
pil is to work out the problem n
mathematics. -Disaster has often giv
en birth to inventions for public
safety. Our discoveries are leading us
to dominion over nature and bringing
its mighty forces within our control
With the steam engine, - telegraph.
telephone and wireless we are -annihil
ating time and space, with the swift
ocean liners the sea is no more ks
the fathers knew it, and electric light
is almost donig away with the night.
Statistics have been gathered which
point to much progress toward prxy-
tectlon from lightning. It is shown
that the bolt strikes more frequently
In the country than in the city, that
it strikes barns oftener than human
dwellings, and that white colors seem
to be more attractive to it that the
darker hues, and that it will never
enter a bad conductor If there is a
good one to be found.
Modern science has cut in two the
death rate from such diseases as con
sumption, smallpox and typhoid. See
how anaesthetics have relieved pain
and witness the triumphs of modem
surgical skill.
So we are working out our own sal
vation. That God could interfere I do
not doubt, but for reasons good and
wise he does not. By many a fall a
child learns to rise and realize itself
on its feet and after that feat it soon
learns to walk. God could interfere
with the. material forces and prevent
disaster, but if he did man would
never come to mastery and dominion
in nature, nor to the full exercise of
his Inventive genius.
They Educe Our Sympathies.
The word sympathy is the Greek
word for "suffering with." The, root
idea in sympathy is to suffer with
others, to share their losses and sor
rows.'- If sufferihg and sorrow , were
unknown there would, not be anything
to call out our sympathies and so a
large area of human nature would re
main - uncultivated. The sun melts
away the ice and tugs at the roots of
trees and educes the spring buds, so
sorrows thaw out human nature and
tug at the roots of our life and -bring
our sympathies to fruition. We learn
to weep with those' that weep, and
that is a trait of Chiistian character
included in the apostolic counsels.
Job said. "Did not I weep for him that
was in trouble? Was not my soul
grieved for the poor ?" . Sympathy is
a wonderful soul-power and these sad
calamities call it into noblest exer
cise. , . '
The response-at such times has al
ways been electrical.- Famines in
Russia and India, fires and floods in
any land stir human souls every
where and fan into a flame the fires
of sympathy ever burning on the al
tars of-human 'hearts-In all lands.
The brotherhood of the race and the
kinship of humankind . is quickly
evinced in the hour of horrible dis
aster. It is a great gift to be able to
weep not for but with the sorrow
ing. There is Infinite healing in it.
Jesus wept with the mourning sister?.
Such tears have often relieved the
heartache and . brought tranquillity to
the troubled soul. A- callous-hearted
husband who had never seen anyone
near to him suffer, watched his' wife
suffer like a martyr for weeks and his
sympathies were stirred as never be
fore, and the suffering wife said, "It
was worth ; it all because it made a
new man of my husband." In the
midst of ; the stress of lifo there Is a
tendency to selfishness, but multiple
disasters move, us to cam passion and
keep the heart sympathetic and kind
and this - warming makes things go
more pleasantly In many a home, of
fice, and: workshop in the daily round
of life. Every sufferer through flood
or fire or whatever else win. be richer
in sympathy in all the years to come.
Perfection in sympathy comes through
suffering. T
Step fcy Step.
From "a the moment . that the dav
breaks and the Sun of Righteousness
dawns upon the. soul, lleht Is strewn
upon life's way; 'so that the righteous
man advances step by step in the
light. Progresslveness is the law of
spiritual growth. -J. W; Bardsley.
(Conducted by the . National Wo. nan'
Christian Tt-mprsrante Union.)
QUAKER MAKES APT ANSWER
Liquor Dealer Who Declared He Kept
Decent Place Is Told Just What
He Does' to Mankind.
During a lively discussion cn th
subject of temperance In an Alle
gheny mountain Btage, says tho Chris
tian Endeavor World, one of the
company who had hitherto remained
silent, said:
"Gentlemen, I want you to under
stand that I am a liquor dealer. I
keep a public house at -, ' but I
would have you know that I have a
license, and keep a decent house. I
don't allow loafers and loungers
about my place, and when a man has
enough, he can't get any more at my.
bar. I sell to decent people, and do
a respectable business."
"Friend," replied a Quaker, "that is
the most terrible part of thy business;
thee takes the young, the poor, the in
nocent and the unsuspecting, making
drunkards and loafers of them. When
their character and money are all
gone, thee kicks them out and turns
them over to the other shops to fin
ish off, and thee ensnares others and
sends them, on ' the same road to
ruin."
MISTAKES" CAUSED BY BEER
Interesting Experiments Conducted in
Vienna to Determine Reaction
Time in Brain.
A series of interesting experiment!
was conducted by Exner of Vienna to
determine the reaction time of the
brain with and without alcohol, and it
was found that no one's Intellect was
at its best even under moderate doses
of this drug. The experiment was con
ducted as follows: The subject was
placed at a telegraphic table with fin
ger on the key and at . the ' flash of
light was required to press the key.
It was proved that the reaction time
of Imbibers was lengthened over that
of the abstainers even ween small
quantities of alcohol were taken. A
number of complicated experiments
were made on reaction time involving
color signals. A telegraph key wae
placed on the right and left of the
subject and signalized by alternating
flashes of red and -white light. It was
proven that more mistakes were made
arrar rnA intrncnnn nr nno criaaa rT nt-ttr
than before it was taken.
LINCOLN'S NEXT BIG FIGHT
After Reconstruction, Martyred Pres
ident Intended to Wage War on
Liquor Traffic.
At a recent temperance meeting in
"Washington, D. C, one of the speak
ers was J. B. Merwin, Introduced as
"the personal friend of Abraham Lin
coln." Major Merwin dined with Lin
coln the day the latter was assassin
ated, and he stated that during tin
conversation, the president said to
him:
"Merwin, since as far back as 1842
I have waged two fights, one against
slavery and the other against the
liquor traffic. We have won the fight
against slavery and after reconstruc
tion the next great question will be
the overthrow of the liquor traffic.
And you know, Merwin, that my .purse
and my heart and my Influence and
all that I have and all that I am will
go Into that work."
ALCOHOL HURTS THE MEMORY
KaVl Vogt, Distinguished German
Naturalist, Gives Result of Inter-
eating Experiments.
To the "Medical Annual" for 1912
we are indebted for the following:
"Karl Vogt, the distinguished German
naturalist,, found that alcohol had a
deleterious effect on; the memory.
After taking about one ounce of al
cohol after breakfast, he found that
he required a longer , time to learn
off by heart a portion of Greek verse.
If the alcohol was taken on an empty
stomach this action was much more
marked, and was seen with a smajler
dose. , On revising his work some
months later, he found that the lines
learned, under the influence of alcohol
were more . Imperfectly remembered
than those learned on "the days when
no alcohol was used." "v .
Governor ' Sulzer on Temperance.
The days when "a quorum of tho
house of representatives could alwavs
be found at the Capitol bar"1 are gone,
never to return, according to Gover.
nor. Sulzer. "When I; first went to
Washington," said the governor, "a
man who did not drink was under sus
picion: now it Is the man -who drinks
who is under suspicion. The change
came about through the good sense
and better judgment of the members.'
Bureau of Information. "
The" 6aioon Is a bureau of informa
tion for every crime In the community.
It is the first place a policeman goes
when he Is in search of crime and the
last place he goes when he is la search
of. virtue. William J. Bryan, in an
Address ,; to the Presbyterian As
sembly.- . , f .--
-.U Two( Freedom..
There are two freedoms the
where one Is free to do what he likes.
and the true, where he Is free to do
what he ought. Charles 'Klngaley.