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"FEW QUEER ANCicMT RIDDLES
'Archimedes, Famous Mathematician,
Spent Leiiiure in Production and
Solving of Puzzles.
; Centuries ago . Samson proposed a
riddle the earliest of which history
treats to the Philistines, allowing
them a week in which, to answer it, "a
iength of time that would have been
Insufficient bat for the assistance' of
Samson's wife. .
Hiram, kin? of Tyre, had a mania
for constructing riddles, as also had
Solomon; and the wager of an im
- mense gum of money between the two
; as to which could construct the most
perplexing one was won by the latter.
Archimedes, the famous mathemati
cian of Syracuse, passed most of his
leisure to the surprise of many of his
friends In the production ; or- solving
of puzzles and his discovery of how
much alloy its maker had mixed with
the gold of King Hiero's crown was
nothing but the solution of a puzzle.
The Greeks had a curious puzzle.
"If Achilles, racing with a turtle,
gives the reptile 100 yards start, and
' runs ten yards while the reptile runs
one, when will vhe overtake it." -"
Theoretically, never; as a matter of
fact, he must in the course of time.
A perplexing question, one well cal
culated to catch , the wise as well as
the unwary, was that proposed to the
Roman senate: 9
"Why does a pall. of water, with a
fish swimming in' it, weigh no more
than the same pail of water without
the fish?" .
It called forth much' discussion from
the members of that august body, who
explained the lingular circumstance in
different ways to their entire . satis
faction, but found by experiment that
the pail of water did weigh more when
there was a live fish In it.
An excellent, if an old, puzzle is:
"How can a window having a .height
equal to its width be made twice as
large without increasing its height or
width? - . -
Impossible! O, no. In the first in
stance it Is shaped like a "diamond,
then it is changed to a square.
HOME FOR LITTLE SQUIRREL
Nothing Conduces to Keep Young
People Contented More Than Few
: Animals as Pets.
A great deal has been written re
cently concerning the discontentment
of the farm boys and girls and their
Inclination to follow some business
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Home for Friendly Squirrel.
course in the big -Cities. Whether this
desire should be .encouraged or other
wise is a question that will probably
never be satisfactorily settled. It is a
fact, however, that the country youth
will be more contented with his life
if allowed a little more freedom. An
excellent way is to allow them to have
pets, such as squirrels, rabbits, chick
ens, pigeons and even horses and
cows. A comfortable home for the
friendly little squirrel is shown in
the illustration.
Superior Officer.
Jamie and Mary, aged six, were
"playing ship." They paced their re
spective porchea grandly, arrayed in
borrowed yachting clothes.
'"I know a nice play," Jamie sug
gested. "Let's be admirals, and com
mand all the ships in the navy."-
True to habit, his next-door neigh
bor shrewdly exacted conditions. "All
right; only I must be the highest ad
miral and give commands to you,"
she announced, firmly, and Jamie gave
. gTudging assent
Victory, thus assured, Mary soften
ed and-modified the - letter of her
edict. "I'll tell you, Jamie," she
cooed, 'let's play I'm the admiral's
wife. That'll do Just as " well."
Youth's Companion.
...... Evading the Law.
To make sure the youngster was not
disobeying the bass fishing law, tha
earn e warden took his string of fish
. out of the water and found only cat
fish, perch and suckers on the line.
A few feet further down the stream
he found a. large black bass wriggling
on a string weighed down with a
stone ar.d asked the boy . -what ho
;.. was doing with the fish.
"Well, you see," answered the boy,
"he's been taking my bait all morn
ing, and so I Juiit tied him up there
. till I got through fishing." National
.' Food Magazine. '.
Foresight.
"It you children are good," said Mr.
Bliggins, "I'll take you to the circus."'
"Make it a bai l game.", replies thi
eldest. ."There might not be any mori
circuses thl year."
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PLACE SAIL ON BOY'S WAGON
When Good Breeze Is Blowing It Will
Oraw Five Boys 'at Rattling '
' . . ' Rate of Speed. ;v -,- ''- J
Every boy, who loves a boat and lia
only a wagon, can make a combination
affair in which he can Bail even though
there is : noc water for; miles "around,
writes Arthur Gunthers of Oberlin, O.,
In the '.; Popular Mechanics. '-: One toy
accomplished this as shown in the il
lustration, aid the only assistance he
had was in making the sails.
The box - bf the wagon Is removed
and the boat deck bolted in its place.'
The deck Ih 14 inches wide and five
feet' long. - The mast consists of an
old rake handle six feet long; the
boom and gaff are broomsticks, and
the tiller Is connected with wire to the
front axle, which gives perfect con
trol" of "the "steering: "The sails are
made of drilling. ' -
On a brick pavement the sail wag
on can .draw two other wagons with
two boys in each, making in all five
Sail for a Boy's Wagon.
boys. Of course a good wind must
be blowing. With two boys it has
made a mile In five minutes on pave
ment. RIDDLES.
What does an ironclad vessel ist war,
with four inches of steel plating and
all her guns on board, weigh just be
fore starting on a cruise?
She weighs anchor.
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Why is a man with a cold on his.
chest not a man?
Because he is a little horse (hoarse).
Wljjch of the West Indies Islands
does a confectioner resemble?
Jamaica (jam-maker).
How would you increase the speed
of a slow boat?
Make her fsist.
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, When is a boxer's eye like a bar
rel? When it's bunged up.
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Why is credit not given at an auc
tion? Because all goods brought to the
hammer must be paid for on the
nail!
How does a pitcher of water differ
from a man throwing his wife over a
bridge? . '
One is water in the pitcher, and the
other is pitch her in the water.
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When are weeds not weeds? '
When they "become" widows.
Why are old bachelor bad gram
marians? Because when asked to conjugate
they invariably decline.
What is the difference between
Noah's ark and an archbishop?
One was a high ark, but the other
a hierarch.
FLYING BICYCLE IS LATEST
Arranged With Steering and Driving
Wheels arid Carries a Large .
"Lifting Propeller.
The "flying" bicycle comprises a
pair of bicycle frames, with steering
and driving 'wheels, and a centrally
located shaft, rising to a considerable
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height and carrying a . large lifting
propeller. A steering rudder is ar
ranged at the. rear.
j;v ' Familiar Example.
Will Crooks, M. P who has been
giving- us a list' of the ;'don'ts" he ob;
served in his daily life, was once ask-'
ing a little girl some questions in ele
mentary science. V
"What are the effects of heat and
cold?" he asked. ' ....
' "Heat expands and cold contract,
was the prompt reply.
."Very, good," jthe labor member re
marked. "Now give me an example."-,
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"After a few' minutes', thought, the
child replied: . l"In hot weather the
days are long, ' and when it is coid
they are short" -Pearson's Weekly.
' H Knew Women.
Teacher Bobby, Is this sentence
correct: 'SheH go whether she wants
to or not"? ;-" s. . . ... ..
Bobby No, ioiss.
Teacher Why not? - . '
' Bobby Because she won't go If she
don't want to.
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HEED TIER FAITH
Belief, That Made Early Church
Overcome All Obstacles
V Must Come Back. - : : .
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O the critical the abiding power' of
the Christian church remains an
enigma in view of its origins. The
first believers were simple folk,
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and theunlearned and ignorant com
posed the' majority. They had a the
ology, as-all men must have, but they
were not theologians:,, it was not the
mere statement of orthodoxy, the tell
ing of the facts of Jesus' life and death
and resurrection, the teaching of doc
trines by them that made the. Church
and compelled their hearers. It was
the telling of theise facts, which they
believed in, of Jesus Christ, whom the
resurrection had Vindicated as supreme
truth . and purity and righteousness
not as so much experience, history oi
record, but out of the consciousness bf
a living, abiding, personal relation
which they had with him. On the oc
casion of his martyrdom, SL Stephen,
the Hellenist, affirmed, the great Tacts,
but the secret source and the root' of
.his power were found in the sense of
his personal relation to Christ, his re
ligious belief declared In the words,
"I see the heavens opened and the son
of man standing on the right hand of
God." SL Paul more than other of his
time developed the theology of the
Church, but intellectual giant that he
was he is not reckoned as an altogeth
er consistent theologian. He was first
of all a religious genius. The apostolic
Church was primarily a religious or
ganism, hence its power; it was not a
charitable organization, but the love of
each other as brethren in its members
because of their strong personal love
of the risen Christ made for a strange
and wonderful communism.
First, a Religious Organization. .
The Church today, as always, must
avow the belief that It is first of all a
religious organism, and only as it is
does it have power, Sometimes it has
been overmuch of a doctrinal institu
tion as in the eighteenth century, when
its -spiritual life was at a very low
ebb. -Too much of the theological is
not the danger of today, as overmuch
if it may be so . put of the socio
logical. There is a tellef in the Church
that men may be saved by making
them members of an organization rath
er than by making them living parts of
an organization, and there is a fal
lacy. The Church cannot save men
by parish, houses or attractive serv
ices desirable things,' but not neces
sary to salvation and yet such non
essentials have become a mania with
some people. Men want more in the
Church than a sociological unit or a
charitable association; they ask for a
religious society which Implies a per
sonal relation of its members to a liv
ing, present, risen- Christ, and that
means power. Such a relation of sim
ple folk to Jesus Christ made at the
first a Church that defied the Roman
empire and conquered every obstacle.
If today the same faith in the risen,
present Jesus and the same sense of
personal union with him come in large
measure to many more, it will conquer
kingdoms here, and effect a national
and political regeneration. Men, too,
with such a spirit will conquer king
doms abroad, and enly as their cam
paign for missions is fundamentally a
religious one will It succeed. The
Churchman.- 1
- Keep Pure the Heart.
.Upon the outward appearance "m
anJafter
looketh," but "the Lord looketh upon
the heart." And blessed are the "pure
in heart for they shall see God." God
does not make our character. We
ourselves do that. And what we are
can be known only to ourselves and
to God. Character is that record
which is being written day by day, en
graven deep on the soul the immortal
part of one's being. V-It stands rc la
for time and eternity. Nor can we re
write it in the ragged years of the end
of a mis-spent life. Christ can forgive
the sins of a thief la his dying hour.
But he could not. give him the character-,
of an honest j man. The Bible
does not record the ,agony of remorse
that must have swept the soul of the
dying thief as he .recalled . his . mis
spent years and lost opportunities of
virtuous living and useful service. . But
we who are yet in the flesh hold those
golden opportunities and can spare the
needless regret for their neglect Let
us, then, pay heed to our character
building, keep pure, the heart which
holds the issue of the life. "The time is
It must be now." - f '
Grace of Our . Lord, 7
"The grace . bf our Lord Jesus
Christ." Do we stop often enough to
consider what that grace was and is,
whereunto we. are -commended, and
through which we attain ? ... In tnat
grace are blended all Christian beau
ties and perfections As in the spec
trum, every glory of color is reflect
ed, so in the grace of our Lord is ev
ery glory of soul, , ijvery beauty - of
character caught and radiated. AU
loveliness that the mind of man can
conceive is beheld la him, the all-perfect
one," the only begotten : of - the
Father. And the help for us Ilea in
this tnat beholding hlm, by the eye
of faith, following pn,ln his footsteps,
though oft with falteilng feet, day by
day, we can rejoice that we-shall be
"conformed to the Bame image," shall
see the- king In his ; beauty : face to
face.-- Let us . then remember, as Dr.
Watklnson has put it, "that we live in
the Master's presence;: and therefore
in his strength, for his sake, let us
show in all cur dealings with men the
graciousness which won ail hearts ta
h!zmelf," ; : : . .
MAKING rBUTTER DURING THE HOT SEASON
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. : This Illinois dairy maid knows how to take care of a cream-separator
and other, dairy utensils. Every part Is first washed In tepid (not hot)
waterand is afterward scalded and dried In the sun.
During the hot weather many farm
ers fall to give their cream the prop
er attention. - In order to have it in
the best condition the milk mcst be
clean, that is, the cows must be clean
and free from any" dirt that might
drop into the milk during the process
of milking. The milkers should ' have
clean, dry hands and the milk pails
must be clean. . .
. The cream separator ; should be
taken apart and thoroughly cleaned
each time it is used and just before
using it should be flushed out ' with
clean hot water.
Experience teaches ine that it is
better, to run the milk through the
separator as soon as possible. i after
milking, while it is yet warm,' this
leaves the skimmilk in prime condi
tion for feeding calves and pigs and
the cream should be' cooled at once.
Those who have the dairy building
with running water will have no trou
ble in cooling the cream . and those
SCALES ON FARM
. GOOD INVESTMENT
Average Farmer Does Not Real
ize How Much He Loses Each
Year by Lack of Device.
(By R. B. RUSHING.) I
I do not believe the average farmer
realizes how much he loses each year
because he has not a pair of good,
reliable scales located on the farm.
Nearly all' of the farmer's produce is
sold by weight, and it Is not enough
to stand by and see it weighed on the
buyer's scales. You should have a set
of your own in your yard so that you
may be tfure you are getting all you
are entitled to. I do not mean to in
sinuate that buyers axe dishonest.: but
mistakes are sometimes too easily
made. .
. If you feed a number of hogs you
should have a pair of platform scales
to weigh them on when you com
mence to feed them, and then by
weighing the grain that is fed them
you should .be able to tell whether
you were doing it at a profit and how
much. When you are ready to deliver
to market it takes Just a few minutes
to weigh your wagon empty and again
the hogs are loaded, and then
you are able to tell where you are.
Of course you must allow a little for
shrinkage. From my. own experience
L would say fat hogs will shrink about
two pounds apiece, "drawing .four
miles. . v-
Here in; southern Illinois many of
the hogs and cattle are sold to the
buyers, who come and buy them at
the farm, and unless a pair of scales
are at hand they are generally lump
ed off. This, of ceurse, is jtoo uncer
tain. The buyers are ,buylng ' all the
time and are very, apt to make a price
that Is more than safe for themselves.
Besides there is not the satisfaction
In the deal that there is where ..you
see them weighed 'on your own
scales. .
'When you go to the market to buy
a piece of meat or to the grocery for
sugar it is never lumped off; but care
fully weighed, and I believe that It
Is a poor rule that won't work both
ways. If It pays these people to have
scales, why will it not pay you? '
If; you are a farmer that does - hot
feed stock, but sell your - hay and
grain to feeders, .you . certainly : do
need a pair of scales. You cannot
afford to guess off a load of hay. What
you would lose in this way In a year
would usually buy a pair of good
scales If j you do much business. r If
you sell your corn to feeders you ire
liable to lose money by guessing off
a crib of corn or by measuring:; it.
This, as you plainly see, is not a safe
way to do business. , ,
When you draw your wheat, oati or
rye to market and try' to., load ..about
the same every time you may nd
that, the loads vary 200 pounds j or
more. No . use to kick, unless you
kick, yourself because you have not
bought a pair "of scales, for they lire
constantly being advertised , in the
best farm Journals.;'
The first year I had my scales I i;ot
enough more money on two deals 'to
half pay for the scales. One was a
load of wheat that" fell short 100
pounds, and the other was wool and
still some will say it does not pay to
bother with weighing everything you
sell. They are satisfied as long :as
they, can see the weighing done, lut
vn this is not alwayB safe. " j,
i Vkve in mind a pair cfcales that
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who have not these facilities can
cool it very , readily in a can placed
in a cask of water. For this purpose
the ordinary shotgun can does very
well, patricularly if the cream is
stirred, and for stirring it a tin dish'
with a perpendicular rod from the
center for. a handle is very effective.
For farm butter-making the churn
ing should be r done not less than
three, times a week In the summer.
Ripen the cream at 65 to 70 degrees
and then cool it and keep it cool for
a few hours before churning.
Usually it Is a good plan to begin
coolfiig the cream before it Is quite
sour enough to churn because it will
sour some while cooling. '
The proper temperature for churn
ing varies with different localities,But
in. most cases from 50 to 54 degrees
will be all right for the summer
months.
In the early summer churn at 51
degrees.
can be thrown short 200 pounds right
in front of your eyes and eleven men
out of every dozen would not notice
it. When I first purchased my scales
ten years ago my neighbors thojught
I was "Just sinking that much-tnoney
In the ground, unnecessarily, but I
have learned to consider them a good
paying Investment. :
My custom" weighing at ten cents
a draft paid good interest on the in
vestment the first year, and has every
year since. Perhaps there .will be
some that will be interested in the
cost of good wagon scales. I bought
a standard make of five tons capacity
and the scales, timbers for the frame
and platform, stone and mason work
cost me about an even $100, including
a 50-pound test weight.
When you buy a set of scales be
sure and get a test weight. Then if
you keep them tested up your scales
will be as standard as any and -you
need not take a back seat for short
weight. A pound is a pound, and you
are entitled to it Usually, when farm
ers are buying and selling among
themselves nearly everything is lump
ed off, but you cannot afford to do
thi3, or at least I think I work too
Iiard for my dollars to swap them oft
that way.
: When you get ready to buy a set of
Ecales do not let a few dollars' diff
erence in price stand in the way and
lead you to buy an inferior article.
j,It you are buying a set ofr wagon
scales for a lifetime, which you are,
get a set that will stand 4ip; and one
that "you can stand behind, and be
sure that the weights are correct.
When you set your scales put them
where they will be handy to use;
don't put them off in one corner where
no one can get to them. Have them
handy to drive onto and collect ten
cents for all custom weighing. There
are so many reasons why scales
should be on every farm that It
seems . to : me that every wide-awake
farmer should see, at least some" of
them, enough to cause him to get in
action. " .
LIMESTONE IS OF -MUCH
IMPORTANCE
Recent Experiment Conducted at
Rhode Island Station With .
. : H Poultry. ;
; A recent experiment by . the Rhode
Island experiment station with poul
try, feed emphasizes the great need
of permitting the fowls to have plen
ty of bone-forming material ;
To compare the effect of 4he .addi
tion of . bone ash ;; and differea t
amounts of ground limestone to the
ration of poultry, three lots each of
14 two-weeks-old Cornish Game-White
Wyandotte chicks were fed. the same
basal ration of corn . meal, cracked
corn mixed feed and alfalfa, . supple
mented, with; cotton-seed meal on an
equal -protein basia with animal
meal. - - - " . : '
' Lot 1 received no added ash con
stituents, lot 2 enough bone ash and
ground limestone , to supply phos
phorus and calcium equal to the . ani
mal ration, and the ration of lot 3
the same ration, but with three times
as much limestone
The experiment was begun the lat
ter part of October and by the ; first
week. in December all the chicks .In
lot 1 had died. The chicks in lot 2
began to show signs' of leg weakness
the' .middle of December: and three
afterwards died. None of lot S died.
(Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
LIQUOR SELLER IS GREEDY
Industry Is Not Only Non-Productive
of Good, but Produces Dangerous
. Class of Non-Producers. '
The liquor i seller knows full well
that were it not for the nickels and
dimes of the : workingmen which ag
gregate in a year many more dollars
than the spenders are apt to think
many a saloonkeeper might shut up
shop, many a groggery - be turned
into a grocery. It is the hard-earned
money of the day laborer, the me
chanic and the clerk which, pouring
steadily into the till" of the liquor
seller, makes whisky trusts and beer
syndicates possible.
And what does the " liquor dealer
give In exchange for the working
man's earnings of which, with other
merchants, he greedily claims a share?
Food, clothing, shelter, happiness, Im
provement? No. He gives In ex
change that which robs him of all
these. He gives his customer that
which makes him poor indeed, in that
it reduces the capacity of hand and
brain (as employers are finding out
to their cost) and produces a mental
and moral degeneracy which Venders
"labor" less competent to protect It
self against the autocracy of "capi
tal." .We claim that no Industry has a
right to exist which does not con
tribute in some measure to the gen
eral "welfare and prosperity of" the
nation at large. As In a perfect
physical organism every organ and
every. atom contribute to the health
and happiness of the body as a whole,
so true economic science would de
clare that every human being should
be not only a consumer, but in some
degree, at least, a producer, a con
tributor to the well being of society
as a whole.
Now the liquor Industry is not
only non-productive of good, but It Is
an actual and an active producer of
an enormous and dangerous class of
non-producers. The saloon, the gam
bling den, the brothel, the Jail, the
poorhouse, the" Insane asylum, all fur
nish their quota to the social discord,
all add to the sum of human misery,
and all are to more or less extent the
products of the liquor traffic. .And
still "the trade" bids unblushlngly for
Its share of the earnings of labor!
BEST WAY IS JO PR0HIBP
People Never Go Right Until Theyj
Hava Tried All the Wavs of Goina
Wrong, Says Spencer,
Herbert Spencer once said, "People
never go right until they have tried
all the wavs of enlne wrone " I think
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m mo tauuun iuciuuuq uicu utvn uicu
in dealing with, the liquor problem
than. in any other way. They have
tried the unrestricted sale, and. the
regulated sale. They have tried lo
license, and high license. They have
tried the segregation of the sale tt
restricted areas. They have tried th6
dispensary. They have tried every
thing in the hope( of making the sa
loon acceptable to the better class or
people.- And now, they are trying to
reform it! Jt
We of the southland, along witt
thousands of the best people north an
west and east, decided long agotha
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liquor traffic Is to prohibit it, just a
we believe that the best . method . o
dealing with theft and arson and mur
der is to prohibit these evils.-tSilena
M. Holman, president Tennessee W.
C. T. U. :
WILL BE; A NOTABLE MEETING
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Ninth Triennial Convention of World
W. Q. T. U. to Be Held In Brook-'
lyn In October.,
A notable meeting will be that t
the ninth triennial convention of tl
World's Woman's Christian Temper!
ance Union in the city of BrooklynJ
New York, October 23-28, inclusiveJ
The World's W. C. T. U. was organ j
ized by Frances E. Willard in 1883J
Mrs. Margaret Bright Lucas (sister oi
John Bright, the famous Britisll
statesman) was its. first . president
Then Miss Willard became its leaden
afterwards Lady.. Henry Somerset, ana
the present president is the countesf
of Carlisle. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens cT
Portland, Me., president of the Unitf
edStates W. C. T. U., is vice-president.
Conventions have been held in
Boston (two), Chicago, London, To
ronto, Geneva, Edinburgh, Glaego1.
The World's W. C. T. U. has sent oit
22., round-the-world, missionaries, who
have carried the gospel of Christian
temperance into fifty different coun
tries. These countries have national
organizations and most of them will
send delegates , to the Brooklyn con
vention.,; ' .
Unfit Physicians.
Dr. F. A. MacNichoIs, vice-president
of the-American: Medical association,
says in his address, delivered before
that body at Atlantic City: "A call
was recently made for . young phy
sicians to enter the United States
army. 1 Eighty per" cent., of those ex
amined were rejected , as physically
unfit." He then asks this thought
producting question: . "When four
fifths of the most repereseatative men
in America are pronounced unfit for
war, .what shall we say to their fit
ness to father the next generation ?'
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