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■WATER AND SHADE.
iJhade is as essential to the health
and cotpfort of the hog, cow or sheep
as it is for humanity. Hogs should
*n a pool of water in the shade in
. which to cool their systems. Hun
dreds of hogs die for the want of
water and shade.
• A GOOD HARNESS DRESSING.
The Government harness dressing
ts made'as follows: One gallon neat
loot oil, two pounds Bayberry tallow,
"two pounds beeswax, two pounds beef
tallow. Put the above in a pan over
a moderate fire. When thoroughly
-dissolved add two quarts of castor oil,
then, while on the fire, stir in one
ounce lampblack. Mix well and strain
through a fine cloth to remove sedi
ment; let cool and you will have as
line a dressing for harness or leather
•of any kind as can be had.
WHAT MILK CONTAINS.
The great majority of the people
do not try to know what are the |
-component parts of the foods they eat ;
or drink. Here is something for the j
boy and girl readers of the Agricul- |
turist to fix in their minds. One hun- \
dred pounds of good milk contain (
about the following amounts of the ;
different constituents: 87 peunds of !
water, 4 pounds of fat, 5 pounds of :
milk sugar, 3.3 pounds of casein and i
albumen and 7 pounds of mineral
matter of salts.
liANGSHANS AND BLACK COCHINS
A Black Cochin hen, like any other
Cochin, requires plenty of time for
maturity, often not laying until fully i
■drown, while the I,an -whan hen often i
begins to lay when hut little over five
months old. The Cochin is the more
Sersistent sitter, while the Langshan
does not show a strong propersity for
so doing, but does her work well when
■she begins, the same as the Cochin.
.A Langshan can fly high for a large
■fowl, while the Cochin is no flyer at
all. The Langshan always has dark
legs, with pink between the toes, while
the legs of the Cochin may be either
dark or yellow’. The skin of the
Langshan is white and the flesh fine
In grain, but the Cochin has yellow
skin and rather coarser-grained flesh.
The carriage of the Langshan is ma
jestic. and its beauty of plumage is
Increased by the long sickle feathers,
while the Cochin is more compact In
body and should have no sickle feath- j
er. except such as are short and
nb: -aptly turned over.
DEHORNING.
The edil"r of Farm and Home says:
The vlm.s arising in consequence of
the dehorning of dairy cattle at the
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment
Station are well worthy of being giv
n the fullest publicity. They should
be known .o all who own such cattle.
Quite a number of cattle of this
class had the horns removed at the
Institution named.
At different times opportunity was
dn this way given to study and com
pare all the influences of the operation.
Thus It came to be held by those
participating that “the pain of the
•operation of dehorning has been over
eetlmated. The mortality is practi
cally nothihg."
The almost unanimous opinion of
those who have practiced it in their
berds Is in Its favor. “The worry,
pain and cruelty of animals to their
mates is eliminated when these in
struments of torture are removed, and
the lack of fear and quite content
ment of the individuals of the herd
' at once noticeable."
SELECTING SEED CORN.
The true selection of a better .breed
of corn Is not confined to the selection
of the best ears by any means, al
though this is the popular idea of corn
Improvement. As every corn raiser
■knows, certain seed will raise corn
that is almost ideal, so far as the ear
goes, but there are but few ears on a
pi rut
This being the case. It Is evident
that the true selection of corn is the
■election of the plants whieh show
the desired characteristics all through
their growth up to the time of har
vml. mo that the plants should be
closely watched from the time they
break ground ami thus securing the
bablt of growth as well rs the per
pectlon of ear so deslrab e.
Many of the plants will make a
■tronrer growth than others and ripen
the full crop earlier; If such a plant
Is what Is desired it can only be
found by wati-h!** its growth through
the season. Thn If the yield Is all
that is desired ode comes pretty near
bavins the 4csr nl/at and oae which
Is, prot.ab'y" capable of even greater
lmprov nu-nf
WASHING IRISH POTATOES.
A Michigan farmer who handles
over 2.P00 bushels of potatoes each |
pear, washes every bushel. He says:
"For five years I have washed all
potatoes and have never net a bushel |
by rot after I put them away In the
cellar 1 dip with a digger and pick
up the potatoes as fast as they are
dug.. They art then hauled to a suit- j
able rack for washing, where a mill
boat is turned on them with forty 1
pounds of pc .-sure. In this way 10#
bushels' are washed clean enough in .
ten minutea to bake or boll. I \m
them lie for a few minute* only, thea
pick them up and put la one bush
crate, after which they stand la the
sun or wind for from two to three
hours, long enough to dry nl-ely
The potatoes are then packed away
in a cool, dry cellar, where they re
main until wanted for use or to a n 'l
“I have feund thia to be the most
practical way to care for potatoes o>
other roots. The potatoes being In
bushel crates are ready to sell by the
load or bushel and can be handiet
very quickly and cheaply No mease r
ing Is necessary, no weighing requlp
ed—already to sell, use or plant.”
WATCH THE LITTLE PIGS.
The systematic man on th farm It
the one who generally makes the
money. At a Farmers' In titule in II ;
linois, one of the hog growers mads j
a statement which showed wonderful
results. He said:
“If you take a litter of pigs the
| morning after they are horn, and put
; them in a basket and on the sea es i
: you will fled they weigh all the way
, from sixteen to eightetn pounds, ac- ]
I cording to the age and size of tho
j mother; then if you weigh them the I
; next morning, and every twenty-fout
j hours in succession, you will And that i
j they have made a live-weight gain \
j of all the way from two pounds, three j
three and or.e-iaif, four and as high I
as five poends, and in order to train 1
this weight the sow must have given
! at least consideration twentv-flve ot
thirty pounds of miik during the
twenty-four hours. This is the way
: I have milked her. It takes elevtn
pounds of milk to make one pound ol
! live-weigbt in a fifty-pound pig, and
so f can easily calculate. I don’t know
how many litters of pigs I have weigh
ed on my place. Now, then, gentle
men, if you have a mother that Is a
good milker, a good mother of a kind
disposition, and of good hearing, keep
her on the farm, and do not discard
her and breed from immature hogs.
They should not farrow until they ar
tweleve .months old.”
POULTRY NOTES.
The time of hatch, more than the
breed, regulates laying.
In-breeding should not be tolerated
for more than two years
Keep all buildings for poultry weil
j covered with whitewash, put on thick.
The best stock is the cheapest,
therefore, never sell the best and
never bur anything but the best.
Fowls in confinement need a variety
of food, and one of the most import
ant of them is green food of some
kind.
Put a good flock of hens in the plum
orchard and the trees will be less sub
ject to curculio and will produce
good crops of fruit.
In no case can we make good, ma
ture fowls of poorly-fed and badly
managed chickens. It is economy first
and last to feed well.
So far as can be done, green food
should form a part of the daily ra
tions through the year, as it seems
necessary to insure health, produc
tiveness and fertility.
A stale egg which remains in one
position for a number of days has the
yolk adhering to the membrane of the
shell. The position of the germ often
causes the embryo chicken to hatch
either weakly or deformed.
The poultry business is one ol
many details, and they need close fol
lowing. Unless a person is willing to
give attention to little things, and not
only to them once, but many times,
as occasion may require, it is not ad
visable to go into the business ve r *
extensively.
Chinese Fond of Birds,
The Chinese are extravagantly fond
of birds and carry their caged favor
ites out to walk with them as com
monly as we take our dogs. As pet*,
the lark and the thrush are rivals.
The former is a sweet, untiring singer,
the latter has greater aptitude for
learning tricks, although the '‘specta
cle thrush," with its black-circled
eyes, looks so grave and wise that
one feels surprised to see it perform
all sorts of antics. One of its cousins,
no less clever, and far prettier, has
eyes only partially framec by a som
ber velvet line,'and is known as "hwa
mi,” or "painted eyebrows." Also
popular as a household bird, more par
ticularly in the southern provinces, Is
the magpie, or "Joyous one.”—Our
Ani Friends.
—
Study Your Msther-in-Law.
“Study your prospective mother-in
law befor? marriage, for ft might save
you a disagreeable life time at closer
quarters," was the Rev. H. N. Quisen.
berry’s advi'e to young men at the
College Avenue Baptist Church, Indi
anapolis, in his sermon on “Whom to
Marry, When to Marry and the Wed
ding.” The Rev. Quisenberry said
that the young woman who is usually
responsible for the “swell" weddings,
j His remarks were sarcastic regarding
I such wcdillt'-ss,' of which he disap
[ proves. “Marry in one of three places"
said the preacher, "the church, the
| home of the bride or the home of the
past r.” He octcluded,. says the In
' dianapalis News, by telling every
I young man in the congregation that
he ought to be married.—Philadelphia
Record.
Caution Against the
Habit of Quarrelling
By nmirlce Fairfax.
KSP% Wondfr ‘r H aur girl* think It necessary to maintain a
I *roe of patty quarrels with t%e own they care moat for!
II Men am ant nan loan to quarrel, but the sir's force the situa
■■■ ob os them an* they are obliged to answer back or appear like
pea- spiritless things without tbs spunk to stand up and assert
. i was Mach nautnt the other day at a conversation I over
beard on a ferryboat
A girl aad a nsaa were :s.k:ag togstber.
The nighi brt -*• ti ha 1 evidently >ft bin in thn lurch while she went
# n -r, -•:< Tin nsi was r* T iin'raiiot with her in the mildest
pnseible manner b ■ it pleased her to think be wna quarrelling.
"Well she said, "yon needn't get so and about It."
"Oh I'm set mad." he answer'd is only telling you what I thought
about it ”
You are mad the air 1 :i-cl "Y >ur eyes are just snapping.”
The roaversstlnai ran along la thta strain and by the time we landed the
man really was angry, though I am sure it would bare puzzled his masculine
brain lo have dt.. overed Just exS'tly what he waa angry about.
The secret of the matter was that the girl wanted him to be angry because
J It implied a ■ -rials amount of interest <ra bit aide
I think you make a mistake in quarrels of Ihia kind, gir’s and at flrst the
me* are rather amused. they like to tee you Mure up and answer smartly, but
j they soon tire of It and a man says to Mmself: "Dear me, I seem to be always
; quarrelling with this girl nnd I'm tired of R."
Men are penee-lovlng creatures nnd the girls they like best In the long
. run in* the gent>e. peaceful ones
It may it that many of these quarrels are provoked principally for the
pleasure of making up ay*>;n !ut 'her* will come a day when It will not be
so easy to make up The worm will turn and ihen good-bye to your friend.
Men nr Mtlb you know and It is hard enough to hold them, even when
things run rir.ooth y so If yon take nr advice you will stop the quarrelling,
i It Is not alcn • with the men they know best that girls adopt this quarrelsome
! lone Sometlm-s you will hesr a girl at It when she has barely met a man. It
never lakes well; and though the man may seem Interested at first, he gen
i erslly leaves her with the unpleasant feeling that he has been to blame, for
he doesn't qulie'know whit.
I Don't imagine that a man will fhlnk you are running after him just be
cause you are nice to him Men are not so conceited as all that.
Th y like the qfrl who frank'* shows that she enjoys being with them
and appreciates the little attentions paid her —New York Journal.
jm & m
C&nad&s National Ambitions
By I-*- X. VtcOrntli.
HMNCIDENT with the expansion of Canada's resources and the
marvelous growth of her property has been born a national sen
timent. This, no less than economic reasons, has dictated her
policy of developing the Northwest She alms to become a
sister state rather than a mere province; and she Is anxious as
to her national safety, with *u. h a powerful neighbor to the
south of her. She would b'-com self centered and independent
of outside aid. She chalks under the specta- eof Un:ted State* railways haul
ing her product*, and United States aegports forming outlet* or Inlets for her
commerce. She also fears that United States antagonism may cause the re
peal of the bonding privilege by which Canadian goods are carried across Am
erican territory In bond or an embargo on rtie shipment of wheat from Am
erican ports, as the Southern States proliblted the export qf cotton during the
Oivll War Should this be done at a critical period. Canada's commerce would
be crippled and the British tales reduced to the v-rge of starvation. Supple
mental to these facts is the contention of some authorities that the grain ex
portation of the United States has now reached Ita high water mark, because
with all Its prairie lands virtually under cultivation and Ita population grow
Ing at the rate of two or three millions a year, the country's domestic needs
will absorb larger quantities of the totsl grain product each year, so that
within twenty years It should hive little, if any, to export.
Canada's grand ambition Is to become Britain's granary, and to tend for
ward these breadstuff* by Canadian railway and steamship lines alone The
weakness of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, from the commercial standpoint |
of Canada. Is that Its western connections facilitate the '‘routing" of grnln
exports via American channels, while Its military drawback la that certain o I j
Its western stretches near the boundary and its short line through Maine, are
exposed to American attacks. Its rivals, the New National Transcontinental
(Grand Trunk Pacific) and rtie Canadian Northern ar so located as to be free
from this peril, and they will be, essentially, "all Canadian" lines, though fn
winter, when the Bt. Lawrence Is frozen Grand Trunk freight may be shipped
via Portland as well as St John's or Halifax —From "Canada's Commercial
and Industrial Expansion." American Monthly Review of Review*.
& & &
A Skit on Cheerfulness
By Addison Fox, Jr.
5 CHEERFUL. It'* not only a great mistake, but very wrong. In- 1
deed, to be anything else And remember that nothing Is worth I
striving for unless It requires an efTort to get It. That la why w
iywM should be thankful that the conditions surrounding us to-day
flD.i.infliht are such as to make cheerfulness such a laudable and desirable
thing.
When the doctor has carelessly removed a portion of your in
terior and found out there was nothing In It. do not give way to your feelings,
or show that yon are at all put out. On the contrary, smile gladly and say:
"Doctor, my only regret is that 1 have but one appendix to give to my
country.”
When the head of the syndicate that for the past few years has been un
demining your oredit and driving you out of business, conies In one morning
and says:
“I gues3 It’s about tlm? for you to lay down," be cheerful.
Don’t give way to your feelings. Don't squirm Hand over what cash
there Is left, and smile gaily. Rise above these p*tty things Be cheerful
It is your duty so to be.
When your best girl—the one whom so long you have adored, whom you
have held in your arms night after night, and just knew, as you looked Into
her gazelle eyes, was the most precious creature In the world —comes to you
and says:
"Darling, we may as well understand each other. The conditions of our
modern life, to say nothing of my standing in church demand that I have at
least five thousand a year to dress on. and I have decided to make a sure
thing of It. and take another man Instead of you." be cheerful.
Don’t get mad. Don't let your angry passions rise Smile sweetly and
reply. "My dear, thank you so much for your kind words."
That is to say. be cheerful, for you must remember that this la the time
when you need to be cheerful. If you are ever going to be.—Life.
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Whzkt is Love?
By Maude Roosevelt.
MERE are nervous disorders that are often termed love. A man
or a woman gets run down, sees everything dark, hopee foe no
thing. aims for nothing; then a person of the opposite aez ap- ;
proaches, sympathizes, plays on all the overtaxed nerves with
a soothing influence, which is studied and deliberate, hut the
9£aj£j£j man quaffs It blindly, as a sufferer drfnks brandy to Mae pain
without questioning whether it be Injurious or not. We do not !
examine the character of the one obtaining this power over us. because we 1
are n : . and our illness controls us; we seek merely to ease the inward gnawing
with as little pain or effort as possible.
Normal love—the iove of a mentally and physically sound person—la not
half so hi.ud as poets would have ns be ieve. Indeed, at such a time 1 think
the mind is actually critical. Characteristics that the world considers faults
in the oae we love may be particularly dear to us; they are nicks that corres
pond to the nicks in our own nature. But the Individual Is dissected again
and again by the unerring and ever busy blade of our passion. Every quick
ened element in us pries and probes to measure itself with the same element
in the other; It is the natural mating of things—of the many units in the one
unit. This is real love; but the other —the other is the cause of nine-tenths
if the world's misery; it is the creator of morbid generations, the destroyer
>f correct deductions, the worst menace of humanity.—Llppincotth Magazine.
Indian Mineral Oil.
• The production of mineral oil in In
dia has made remarkable strides dur
ing the last decade. In 189" the out
put amounted to only 19,100,000 gal
lons, whereas in 1902 it had increased
t 50,007,000 gallons. Uurmah in this
period trebled its output from 18,00'/.-
j 000 to 54,000,000. These large qunn
{ titles notwithstanding, nearly two
j thirds of the consumption is still sup
j pIKd from abroad.—London Engineer.
The total cost of the armored cruia
i e- South Dakota, recently launched at
[ San Francisco, was $5,000,000.
JAPAN’S CONSTITUTION.
How It Differs From the Constitu
tions of Occidental Nations.
There is an Important difference
between the constitutions of West
ern nations and .that of Japan. The
former are the putcome of popular
uprisings against the tyranny of rul
ers —in other words, of a demand, as
of natural right, by the people. Con
sequently, even in monarchical Eu
rope, constitutions are drawn in such
terms as to lay the greatest stress
upon popular rights, while at the
same time curtailing the power of the
sovereign.
The Japanese constitution, on the
other hand, emanated from the Em
peror, the fountainhead of all power.
Before the people dreamed of popu
lar rights or of a Parliament, the
Emperor had already marked out the
grand policy of establishing consti
tutional government in the future,
because of his evident desire and
purpose to elevate the country to an
equal place among the civilized na
tions of the world, not only because
he wished it, but also because that
course was in strict accordance with
the national policy bequeathed by
his ancestors.
Following that policy, our constitu
tion was drawn up with close adher
ence to and careful preservation of
the fundamental principle of the Im
perial Government from time Imme
morial.
In form, however, it is similar to
Western constitutions, with this dif
ference, that the text of our consti
tutions contains only the fundamen
tal principles of state —namely, the
prerogatives of the Emperor; the
rights and duties of the people; the
powers of Parliament; the powers
and duties of ministers of state and
Judiciary and finance.
These are all embodied in seventy
six articles. Matters of detail, such,
for example, as provisions relating
to the rules and proceedings cf Par
liament, the laws for the election of
members, the national budget, etc.,
are separated from articles enunciat
ing fundamental principles, and are
embodied in laws supplementary to
the constitution and enacted at the
same time. —The Century.
The Sun it Made of Yak-Meat.
The Thibetans have numberless
strange myths, one, the most curi
ous, pertaining to the sun, moon and
stars. The sun is believed to be an
immense ball of yak-meat and fat,
whereon the spirits, of departed an
cestors are supposed to feast, the
light being caused by its heated con
dition. The stars are portions of this
: Immense feast which, dropping to
i earth, give birth to animals for the
sustenance of suffering humanity.
The moon is a lesser ball of similar
1 texture as the sun, in use while the
larger one is being replenished for
the morrow. When sun or moon fails
to appear In cloudy days and nights,
It means that the deities are under
going a period of fasting and religi
ous abnegation. And the patched
and aterlle condition of bleak regions
la ascribed to the fact that many
thousand years ago the sun-ball slip
ped from the hands of Its keepers,
descended too near the earth, and,
before being recaptured, scorched
those parts with which It came in
' contact.
I These illustrations, out of hundreds
that might be cited, at least give a
hint of the Ignorance, superstition
and brutality of the Thibetans, as
well aa of their heterogeneous tribal
relations, their lack of any real na
tional union, and their inability to
resist aggression; a hint also of the
greatness of England’s task—not so
much as conqueror In war, but as up-
Ufter In peace.—W. C. Jameson Reid
In the Booklovers' Magazine.
Glove Wearers.
“It Is a peculiar fact that the
Southerners have small hands. I
rarely sell a size over 10. and the
average sizes are from 7 to 9. In the
North the average atze is from 10
to I*. Another peculiar fact is that
east of the Mississippi I sell Che
itressed kids, while west of the river,
even in St. Louis, the demand is for
mochas. I very seldom sell a smooth
i l y dressed glove west of the Mlssis-
I slppl. Styles have changed, cities
have changed. Milwaukee has chang
ed and men have changed during tne
22 years I have been selling gloves.
I have travelled out of Milwaukee
fourteen years and never before was
! Interviewed about the business,
i Among the cowboy* the gaunlet for
merly reigned supreme, and nothing
i could be sold them but a finely (lress
! ed gauntlet of the best buckskin.
: which la plain, but aa carefully made
ja* the finest Imported kid from
i France. The cowmen are extremely
I particular about the'lr gloves, and
wear cut a good many pairs. They j
- are ax particular about their gloves i
! as the Northerner I* about his white
i shirt or stand-up collar.”—Milwaukee
> Wisconsin.
Stripes.
-Did you ever stop to think about ;
the origin of the stripes we use in j
our prisons." said a man with an eye
for the curloua. "It you have not it .
will not take you long to figure the
thing out if you happen to know any- j
thing about the Bible. The fact Is j
that we get the idea from the oid dis- ‘
pensatlon. When I say we 1 mean the
people of our civilization, of our own i
| day and time and who live under ai.d j
are guided by our systems and no- j
j tlons. For instance, in the laws and !
ordinances Of Deuteronomy we find ,
the following, which will give us the
clew to the origin of stripes as i
badge of infamy: 'll there hi a con- ,
troveray between man, and they
coma into judgment, that the jungas
• may judge them; then they shill
justify the righteous and coudemn the
wicked. And it shall be, if the wick
ed man oe worthy to be beaten, that
the judge shall cause him to lie down
and to be beaten before hi 3 face, ac
cording to his fault, by a number.
Forty stripes he may give him and
not exceed; lest if he should exceed
and beat him above these with many
stripes, then thy brother should seem
vile unto thee.’ Now instead of in
flicting these physical stripes we put
striped clothes on the men who offend
the law, or who may come unto judg
ment, that the judges may judge
them,’ as it is put in the text. Of
course, you should go much fuither
back in history if you cared to trace
the origin of the marks of infamy,
but you would find that physical mu
tilation of some sort in a majority of
instances afforded the means. But I
was just telling you about the origin
of our penitentiary stripes and did
not mean to open the whole question
which lies behind the modern prac
tice."—New Orleans Times-Demo
crat.
Came From England to Register.
The fame of the Woman’s Domes
tic Guild of America has gone abroad
to the extent of inducing maids from
afar to journey here to register. The
very latest arrival on the carpet is
a woman from London, England, who
read in London of the splendid work
of the Guild, and on the strength of
that sailed at once for America.
Evidently the newspaper article
was somewhat highly colored in the
matter of wages paid by American
housekeepers, for the woman was
somewhat disappointed at hearing
that there were very few positions
in the menage of ;he American house
hold which brought $lO a week, as
she had been led to expect.
However, she came armed with the
best of references and means to try
her luck on American soil.
Other maids from the Far West
and the Sunny South as well have
hied themselves to New York to get
positions, and, according to the state
ment of the manager, there never
was a time when so many servants
were being placed or when so many
were registered.
Each day from 9 o’clock in the
morning until 4 o’clock In the after
noon free demonstrations In bed
making and waiting are being con
ducted in the Guild house in Madison
avenue, and are being well patroniz
ed by the servants registered there.
There may be persons who think
that there is no such thing as scien
tific bed making, but after an observ
ation of the methods employed by
the experienced instructor at the
Guild house those mistaken individu
als will change their minds.
All the nice points which a neat
and competent waitress should know
are explained, and the result will be
something for which housekeepers
will be deeply grateful to the Guild.
Education.
“J’know John Dorrington?’’ asked
Judge Bradshaw. “You ought to know
him. He is a newspaper proprietor
hisself. He is owner and publisher
and managing editor of the Arizona
Weekly Sidewinder. Whenever he
writes an editorial they take it to
the cold storage room of the ice plant
to keep the office from catching on
fire. His words is like a branding
iron. He is long-lolned, long-gaited
and he has a long, honest face, like
a horse.
“I visited him about a month ago.
‘Judge,’ says he, ’has you seeu my
■ new dog? Come along and take a look
at him.’
“He takes me out to the barn,
which is built on stilts, and com
mences to claw on a log chain. Pretty
soon evolves a yellow cur, with his
hind feet stuck back like a fighting
mule. John holds him up by the
chain for about a minute and kicks
him frequent in the side. He was
about the mangiest Indian cur f ever
see. Finally John lets him go and
the dog runs under the barn to the
length of his chain. ’Stay there, you
brute,' shouts John under the barn.
*• 'What d’ye think of my dog?’ he
asks me.
“ ’Finest dog I ever saw,' says I.
‘“Now, you won’t believe me.
Judge,' says he, ’when l first got that
dog he didn’t know a thing.’ ” —San
Francisco Call.
Famoua for Catchy Titles.
The Pall Mall Gazette used to be
famous for the catchy titles of its
leaders. J. Nicol Dunn, editor of the
Morning Post, who used to be con
nected with the Pail Mall Gazette,
has recently let the secret out as to
how these titles were found. Every
morning there was an assembling of
the staff, and each member would
write on a slip of paper bis sugges
tion for the day’s leader. The slips
were collected in the office top hat,
and after a discussion the most strik
ing was selected. One day, as Mr.
Dunn tells, the selected slip contain
ed the words: “Can’t think of a title
to-day," which ingenious title duly
appeared at the head of the lead?
I article.
Of course, nobody need be surprised
I to find that the modern highwayman
i has taken to the motor bicycle as a
j means of holding up the passengers
{ in an automobile. The incident offers
fresh and exciting materia! for the
! messenger boys* favorite authors.
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‘ c -mmander. la a devout member of
j Greek church-