c wst THE COUNTRY STORE. Does titer liv a littl urchin, (rowing np I imuv me iArm. IWho ran corn the honest pleasure or re- sist the breezy charm Of a jolting drive with "father," while the horses pick their way Over April's chirping runlet, or the an- tuinn's binding elay? For tho drive ia to the "Corner," and the team drawn up before That abode of life and color which its patrons call "the store." In its depths are plow and harrow, while "their pictures on the wall, Boldly done in green and scarlet, apeak in eulogies of all. On the shelves are rainbow ginghama, voven stout for little boys, CluiriDi boots for Sunday service and to swell the schoolroom's noise, Shining tin and loops of harness could a sity shop hold more In its prim and ordered quarters than this bulging country store? Then the rlienta that it gathers! Men of wisdom moat profound Captain Abel's "most a hundred," and has sailed the map around ; Jolly, self-professed old loafer, drawling out a traveler's tale .While the despot of the post-bag shuffles calmly through the mail. Politics and social matters, local newt sad weather lore Occupy this humle senate grouped about the country atore. Then, perhaps, the boy grows weary while the graybeards wag away, And his copper-toed tormentors feel amiss this working-day. Wistfully he eyes the roadside, wlrc the waiting horses atamp toitrr brush, or even get low enough to stun Denial with a blow OH the head. But Jerome dropped his pistol bark waning nnrses sismp, I - - , . . Till the gift of father'a enny rubs again I In Its holster. He would take no Aladdin's lamp. For within one ancient show rasa bristle, bright as precious orej Yellow stick and crimson lozenge quite the treasures of the store. What is this? The years have hastened, and a man, grown stout snd gray, Sfepa acmes the rounded threshold aftci many a homeock day. Tailored cloth in place of gingham, careful clip for mother's art Change the outward man's sppearance, but they cannot change his heart. To a hopeful beat it quickens as he pauses in the door .Scarcely has a feature altered in the well- remembered store. Now he knows another reason, as he gazes up and down, Why they say God made the country while His children made the town. Quiet life has brought these neighbors to an age of placid grace. And a seaman, scarcely younger, drones alons in Abel's place. In this Cld Home Week the townsman, back to haunts he used to know Wonders how ha could have left them. since they grip his heart-strings so; And among the kindly faces and the quaint, piled stock of yore, He is still a wee farm-urchin, come with "father" to the store. Jeannie Pendleton Ewing, in Youth's Companion. UNCLE SAM'S BIO GUNS. THE "LINE-BACK'S" CALF. L By CHARLES TENNEY JACKSON. 1 J Fleet as a scared fawn, the little red calf darted under Jerome's rlata and fled into the bunch of cattle rounded up on the parada grounds. The guarding vaqueros raised a laugh at the discomfited cowboy; the red calf had twice eleuded him. The rodeo "boss" lifted the Cres-cent-H branding-Iron the range mark of Jerome's employers from the fire and tossed it Into the dust. He took up the "scissors" Iron of tne Dry Creek outfit and gazed at It reflectively. 'Well, whose calf is It?" he asked. "You two will have to settle It." Now to tell the parentage of a buerfn.no, that the eyes of no man have seen until the round up, will baffle even a boss of the rodeo. Young Teddy Jerome was positive that the red calf belonged to a "line back" cow that had Mason's Cres-cent-H mark. Bernal, a truculent Mexican half-breed vaquero from the Dry Creek ranch, swore that tho red calf's mother was a gaunt old "long born" with the scissors brand on her flank. "Look!" shouted Jerome, angrily, drawing In his rope. "It knows its mother It's ours!" Tho disputed calf was dodging among the swaying cattle that the cowboys held on the parada space; It nudged close to the line-back then was through like a streak of red to the side of the Dry Creek cow. Bernal and some of the riders laughed. Young Jerome was nettled, but not shaken In his belief. Ho was the only man from his employers' ranch at tho rodeo, and felt the re sponsibility of getting every calf that was rightfully due him. Bernal had already secured one that Jerome thought waB his, but the wild moth' era had so nearly weaned their off spring by the end of the season that doubt might well arise. "You and Dernal will have to set tle It," repeated the rodeo boss. "Now cut out another calf from the bunch lively! " So the branding went on; the huor fanoB, one by one, were cut out, roped, and dragged to the branding lire to be identified and marked with any one of the dozen Irons that were hot in the embers. Bernal and Jerome were among the cowboys who rode about the wild herd. Every few minutes it was augmented by other terror-Btrlcken steers which the vaqueros were beating out of the brushy gulches leading down Into the main canon where the rodeo was held. It was rough, dangerous work. Even leather "chaps" and sombreros could not protect the riders from the thorny mesqult, nor could tho surest looted pony guarantee them from broken bones on the steep hillsides Since daylight the rodeo hands littd held a bunch of tame valley cows on the parada grounds to serve as a buffer to the wild steers that charged down tho canon. Young Jerome was behind these cattle, plying his quirt and yelling in the singsong fashion of the cattlemen to stop the pressure Dut from up the canon a shrill "hy-a-hy-a" announced the arrival of another bunch of cattle driven out by the workers. Straight Into the uneasy herd on the parada grounds charged two dozen fierce steers; the mass broke before the Impact, and the riders were swept away amoi-.g frightened groups of cattle. Jerome flew over the rocky creek bed In pursuit of a score that gained the brush before he could turn them. But one by one his trained cow-pony headed the fugitive.). He saw Bernal riding before half a dozen of the cat tle, and when the American went to bis aid, all but three bad been turned back to the parada. But these three, charging wildly ovor u thorny ridge beyond the riders, happened tp be the Hue-back cow with Mason's mark on her flank, the old long-horn that bore the scissors brund, and the fleet red yearling that bad no brand at all. Bernal turned In the saddle to laugh derisively at his younger rival. Tho Mexican was reputed tho best man with a rope In 'Northern Arizona. "Your calf ha!" he called. ' Jer ome, who rope ueera he have heoni, eh?" "No," shouted Jerome, "It's Ma son's calf! I'll not gamble It with any man! Its mother Is that Hue back, and you know It, too!" But. the calf kept so Impartially with tho two gaunt, flerco mothers that one might well have reserved Judgment. They piuuged over a bri.shy knoll, und Bernal, with a twist of his Spanish bit, turned his pun . to cut across their path. The move suddenly crowded Jer ome off the narrow trail, so that bis animal went flounderlug down a steep pitch of loose lava rocks on the hill side, and before he oould gain the ridge the three fleet ualUe and the reckless Mexican had disappeared In a little canon. Jerome was angry at his comrade. He was the youngest man at the rodeo, and his skill as a cattleman had twice been discredited by some unfortunate chance to-day. Bernal would have some sarcastic remark about his horsemanship now, when they rode Into camp; he had crowded Jerome out of the chase purposely. The Crescent-H ride felt his repu tation was at stake; he could never yield the disputed ownership of the red calf before his fellows at the rodeo now. He clattered along In tho dust which the Mexican bad left In the arroyo. A hundred yards up the canon a riderless cow-pony dashed past Jer ome so fast that he barely recognized It as Bernal's pinto. The American reined In to scan the rocky canon-bed In astonishment. Where was the dark-skinned vaquero with his won derful skill In riding and roping? A cowboy unhorsed on the range Is like a fish out of water. Some evil had befallen Bernal. Jerome rode rapidly on. The ar royo opened out on a steep gravelly slope on one Bide, which ran down a hundred yards to the edge of a sheer precipice. Over this cliff It was a drop of two hundred feet to the creek-bed, whence came the shouts of the men and the bawling of the calves on the parada grounds. The cowboy stared down this slope in surprise. The arroyo ended here; on one side the rocks barred the way, on the other was the sloping stretch to the edge of the cliff. Bernal was not to be seen. Tho cow with the Dry Creek brand suddenly clattered past Jerome, be ing turned from her flight by the unscalable rocks beyond. Then, half way down the slope, the cowboy saw the red calf flat on Its side, roped about Its forefeet, helpless and stunned, with Bernal's long rlata trailing back in the soft lava rock and dust. Farther down was the line-back cow, making furious plunges on the very edge of the canon, grinding the rocks with her king horns. Jerome stared at her, a reassuring satisfaction rising even through his wonder, for the Crescent-H cow was in all the savage fury of a wild moth er protecting her offspring. No cat tleman would doubt for an Instant to whom the red calf belonged, If he saw this frantic maternal solicitude. The scissors-brand cow had thought only of escape. But how came the ralf to be roped and abandoned, and where was Bernal? Jerome sat in his sweaty saddle on top of the terrace-lllte top of the hill, watcblng tho line-back's exhibition. A wild mother cow's rage Is to be approached with caution. A man might dismount, secure the rlata, and then drag tho calf up the slope, while the cow was raging along tho edge of the cliff below; Bhe could hardly charge up through the soft crumbling lava stuff in time to reach him. Ber nal must have gone over the cliff in some fashion; he was Inevitably killed, If such was the case. The gaunt line-back cow was on her fore knees, scraping her horns In a clump of greusewood that grew on the edge of the cliff. She threw bits of froth over her sides at each sweep of her head; she bellowed at each futile plunge of her horns Into the bush, and then Jerome saw what so excited her animosity, Dernal lay half over the chasm, clinging desperately to the grease wood roots and the crevices of the rocks, und the frantic mother was, at each plunge, tearing his support from tho soil. Jerome whirled his pony on the narrow flut to come nearer to the spot. He shouted at the Mexican, whose head and shoulder he could Just see. The rest of ths man's body actually appeared to hang over the precipice. Denial heard, and turned his head focbly. "Loco! loco!" he cried. "Shoot lieera! " Jerome's slx-shoter was In his hand at the suggestion. But he hesi tated. It was a long distance to use a revolver; he might hit Dernal, or, If he simply wounded the enraged anltuul, he would In nowise assist her vUtlrn. And if a bullet struck her dead she would plunge squarely upon the Mexican and carry him down to the rocky creek-bed two hun dred feet below. "Shoot! shoot!" shrieked Bernal, In a crevice of the precipice. It seemed as It the terrible horns were smashing his very knuckles as he clung to the greasewood. The animal almost lay In the hole she had torn out of the loose soil on the edge of the die. At any moment she might dislodge the test root of the chances with Bhootlng the cow. He spurred his reluctant pony over the flat, and was plunging down through tte sltdlng lava stuff to vard the edge of the cliff. The red calf struggled feebly In the rlata as Jerome's pony stumbled past It. The rider had hoped to draw off the mother, but she would not be enticed from her victim. A man dismounted will In stantly arouse the savage instincts of the range cattle In the Southwest; the old line-back seemed bent upon revenging all the wrongs of her kind upon the unfortunate Mexican. Again he called upon his compan ion to shoot the animal. The grease wood was cracking; there was noth ing else to stay his fall. Bernal's body simply lay In a crotch of the bush pulled down over the cliff. But Jerome spurred his snorting pony in a half-circle about the cow some yards away. Then he unloosed his rlata, measuring the distance. The line-back's head was so constant ly down In her efforts to get at the Mexican that roping was no easy feat. And In tho struggle she might go over the cliff, dragging horse and rider after her, for there would be no time to escape If she fell. Already Bernal seemed to be slip ping from his laBt clutch. So, gath ering In his bridle-reins, that he might urge the stout little pony for ward It the throw was good, Jerome sent the heavy llatn whirling down the slope. The maddened cow bad just bowed her neck for a final sweep at the brush when the rope struck her. She threw bark her head, and the rawhide fell clear about her nose, tightening with a jerk. Jerome'! spurs sent tho pony up the slope In s desperate plunge, and the cowboy was plying his quirt and yelling as the lino grew taut. The line-back cow was upreared; then sho toppled and rolled, fighting tho line, almost to the edge of th cliff. It was a critical moment; once tho brave little pony lost his feet 1 the loose, treacherous rock. Then he was up, making plunge after plunge, until the heavy animal at the end' of the line was choked Into helplessness. The heaving body of the cow lay with her hind feet over the cliff in Bernal's face, when Jerome at last stopped the trained pony with a sin gle word. But the wise brute still hung forward, keeping the line tight. His rider dismounts, and ran to help the Mexican. Ben.ni was weak enough as he staggered up the slope. Ho had roped the calf, but a broken cinch had given him a hard fall on the rocks, and he had scrambled up, to find himself dismounted and pur sued by the cow, maddened by the bawls of her offspring. "I jumped behind the bush on tho edge of the canon," said Bernal, as he watched Jerome releasing the sub dued line-back and her calf. "Dat cow push dat bush clear over the edge. She tear it to pieces! Dat calf yours all right. I wouldn't have heem. I tell the rodeo boss I put the Crescent-H on heem myself!" Youth's Companion. TRICK OF SUFFRAGE. Long Ranges and) Improved Accuracy of Fire. A few weeks ago the American So ciety of Mechanical Engineers was Invited to follow up its session in this city by n visit to Sandy Hook, where tho United tSates Government has a fort for the permanent defense of the harbor of New York, and also special grounds for the testing of new can non. Tho party Included six hundred members. Though the visitors were not permitted to learn certain secrets of the War Department relative to the protection of the country from a foreign foe, they had a good chance to see some of the guns which would be employed In emergencies. Muoh the largest cannon ever built for the United States has a calibre of sixteen Inches. This was not fired for the visiting engineers, but they had a good look at It. The monster takes a charge of 640 pounds of pow der and throws a projectile weighing 2400 pounds, or considerably over a ton. Up to the present time It has been discharged only five times. Tho ottreme range of the piece Is said to bo twonty-one miles, but It would do no particular ' damage at that dis tance. Its best work would prob ably bo limited to a range of eight or ten miles. Tho slxteen-lnch gun Is mounted on a "disappearing" car riage, as are most of the heaviest guns employed for coast defense. An Idea of the appearance of the disappearing gun carriage can bo de rived from the accompanying pic ture, which shows that type of mounting applied to a six-Inch rifle. As will be perceived at a glance, tho gun Is sustained by two enormous levers, which are hinged at both top and bottom. It Is thus possible for the gun to occupy two positions, one higher than the other. After being fired the gun swings backward and downward. When It has been loaded It can be raised several feet without altering the aim. This arangement allows the gunners to load the piece while It Is out of sight behind th.e parapet, but to bring It up again for actual service. The gun carriage can be rotated so as to sweep the horizon from right to left, llko tho older form of artillery mounting. The visiting engineers saw two rounds fired from a six-Inch rifle and one fromaten-inch gun. They also ex amined the twolve-lnch gun provided With a style of disappearing carriage unlike the others and invented by General Crozler, chief of the ord nance bureau of the army. Explain ing the wonderful advances which have been made In the last five years In practice with these guns, ono of formerly, using two guns alternately, the ofllcers present stated that where a shot could be fired every three minutes and fifty per cent, of the shots would be hits at a range of 4000 to 4500 yards, now tho guns aro shot with 100 per cent, accuracy at a range of 7000 yards, about four miles, with an average Interval be tween tho shots of only forty-three seconds. Another Kind of Memory. In the Hewitt family it was Frank whose wonderful memory was held up as an example to tho other chil dren, and Mabel who was alternately chlded and pitied for her forgetful ness. Therefore a remark nade by Great-Aunt Hewitt when she went to the city on one of her rare visits caused considerable surprise. "You ought to have trained that boy of yours better!" said Miss How ltt, with considerable sevorlty. "How in tho world ho can be so forgetful when there's Mabel for an example I don't see for the life of me!" "Mabel!" echoed the mother. In amazement. "Why, Mabel has the poorest memory In the family! It she has an errand to do, we have to write It down for her, and in school she can't remember dates or rules or anything without an awful struggle. But Frank why, ho never forgots anything Iio'b once been told." "Yes, he does," said Great-Aunt Hewitt, testily. "He forgot wbloY; was my chair In the Bitting room ev ery day of the two months those chil dren were at my house, excopt when I managed to get it ahead of him. I've seen Mabel rout him out of it day after day, and he looked just as bewildered every time. "It's all very well for the boy to have a head crammed with rules and dates and figures, but there's another part of bis memory that needs look ing to, and mighty hard work it'll be to get It In good order, If I'm any judge." Youth's Companion. Discovery of Nubian Manuscripts. While examining some shoots of parchment bought at Cairo for Cop tic manuscripts, Carl Schmidt made a discovery of much Importance to philology and history. The repeti tion of the word "Uru." which among modern Nubians means king, convinced the German savant, who Is nn authority on Coptic and the early Christian archaeology of Upper Egypt, that tho text was Nubian, a language which, although no longer spoken, Is still wrltteu. The manuscripts date from the eighth century A. D,, and are translations of Christian works In which frequent references to St. Paul are made. One manuscript is a collection of extracts from the New Testament, and the other a hymn of the cross. The reek original of the hymn is not known. When the documents are deciphered philological science will be enriched by tho knowledge of the language spoken by the people of Nubfa before the Invasion of Semitic tribes, and the mysterious Inscriptions on many of the Egyptian monuments may be read. Scientific American. Baffled But Determined. While Mr. Graham calmly and de liberately opened the morning paper and ran his eye over the headlines his wife looked volumes of reproach aud Impatience. "Can't you tell me about that fire yesterday before you read everything elBo In the paper?" she asked at last. "Certainly, my dear, certainly," said Mr. Graham, when she had re peated her question. "Er here it is. " 'At four-thirty yesterday after noon the great boiler at Stafford's I burst. The scene which followed baf fled all description.' " "Is that all It says?" demanded Mrs. Graham, as her husband's eye seemed inclined to wander over the page. "No," said Mr. Graham: "there are three full columns of descrip tion on this page, and It says 'con tinued on page six.' " Youth's Companion. Tho Family Honor. "Bobby," asked the teacher of the class In arithmetic, addressing the question to one of the younger pu pils, "how many pints are there in a gallon?" "I've forgot it again, ma'am," said Bobby, who found it hard to commit to memory the tables of weights and measures. Thinking that perhaps by turning from the abstract to tho concacte she might succeed better In stimulat ing his power of recollection, the teacher tried another tack. "Bobby," she said, "your father is a milkman, Isn't he?" ma'am." now, think as hard as you can. He sometimes sells a gallon can full of milk, doesn't he? Just o. Well, when he does, how many pints of milk are there In that gal lon can?" "It's all milk, ma'am!" indignant ly exclaimed Bobby. Youth's Companion. "Y.-s, "Well. Chopped Off His Finger, From Singapore comes the story of a Chinese cook who had been ad dicted to gambling, but repented his evil ways. Finding that his debts were accumulating day by day, he went Into the kitchen and chopped off the forefinger of his left hand as a self-punishment and warning to himself that he must relinquish this evil habit of gambling in the future. He became unconscious through the pain, but was brought round again In a few minutes. Talked in Her Sleep. A Paris woman who was arrested for picking pockets, and who pre tended to speak an unknown lan guage, betrayed herself In her sleep. When brought before tho magistrate she was Interrogated by Turkish, Russian, Polish and Hungarian in terpreters, but none could under stand her. The magistrate ordered her to be kept under strict surveil lance. In her sleep she talked fluent French, with the true Parisian accent. Cupltl Versus Sport. Although weddings uro many at this season of the year; engagements are few. The masculine mind Is too much taken up with sport, aud the delights of a "warm corner," when the long-tailoU birds are sailing over head in nut numbers, or the pleas urable excitement of cub-hunting, which is only a promise of greater Joys to como, occupy It to tbe ex clusion of all softer emotions. Tbe Brows. Committee Asked Enthusiastic Wom an to Remit. Mrs. Anna Bagley, who is visiting In this city, was once an enthusiastic woman suffragist In Wyoming. Her enthusiasm In the cause of her down trodden sisters has waned almost to the vanishing point. She cast just one vote "for Theodore Roosevelt for President," she says In the pride of her heart and It. came noar cost ing her $75. She declares It Isn't worth the money. Wyoming, It must be remembered, Is In the vanguard of American States in the march toward the universal franchise, in that Commonwealth a woman Is every bit ss good as a man, or better, and. moreover, she can prove It. She may not be able td chase a jackrabblt or coyote through the sage-brush quite so fast as her bucksklnned lord, or cut such fancy figures with a lariat at a "round-up," but when It comes to wielding the ballot she will admit no Inferiority. Mrs. Bagley, while holding a posi tion under the State Government in Cheyenne, exercised her right of suffrage with due solemnity. Soon afterward she moved to Great Falls. Mont., where the fact that she had once voted, mentioned casually dur ing nome small talk, became knowu among her friends. Mucn to her sur prise, Bhe became a heroine and had thrust upon her honors she had not counted on. The women of her im mediate circle made much of one who enjoyed the full political rights thus far dented them, and at a little dinner sho attended she found herself osten sibly labelled. "Montana's Only Wom an Voter." There It was on her menu card In letters so big and bold that there was none so blind she could not bear witness to the fame of this guest. She bore her distinction mod estly somewhat diffidently, in fact. After the lapse of a year or so Mrs. Bagley had called to her attention tho fact that another election was about to be held In Wyoming, and the State with a big "8" needed her. Feeling sure of her party loyalty, the managers of the campaign wrote to her, offering her transportation if she wished to return and cast her ballot. This was1 declined with thanks, and she resigned herself to life In Mon tana, where the electoral sovereignty of mere man Is absolute and undi vided. But Bhe continued to be an earnest believer In woman's rights until until she wbb rudely awakened to the fact that, her suffrage Idol had feet, not of clay but of mud. The blow was delivered In this wise: Mrs. Bagley received from the head of the Wyoming Campaign Com mittee a letter reading something like this: "Dear Madam We beg to call your attention to the fact that a cam paign is in progress in thin State in which Is Involved not only the very life of the party but the whole cause of good government. If not the safety of tho Nation Itself. We find our selves pinched for funds with which to pay necessary campaign expenses and an allotment of the amount nec essary has been made among those most interested in the success of the party. Your share has been fixed at $75. Please remit by check or money order." Mrs. Bagley rubbed hor eyes, and tho beautiful dream of the political oquallty of the sexes vanished. Chi cago Record-Herald. I It Is now possible to see and hear plants grow. In the apparatus of two Germans the growing plant Is connected with a disk having In its centre an Indicator which moves vis ibly and regularly, and this move ment, magnified fifty times over a scale, shows the progress in growth. Magnet windings of uninsulated wire are said to have proved feasible by the use of aluminum wire, the natural oxide upon which forms nn effective Insulation for moderate voltages. For over 200 volts, paper wound wet between tuo layers Is ef fective, and for higher potentials, ex tra oxidation has been secured by dipping in a chemical bath. HOXfJ OF THE MUHKKAT. It Is reported from Paris that Pro fessor Behrlng has discovered a new method of sterilizing milk without boiling It or destroying any of Its essential principles. The method Is based on tho powerful qualities of German perphydrol, simply otygen ated. One gram per litre of this substance is sufficient to destroy all noxious germs. Milk thus sterilized can bo kept a long lime. According to recent investigations, tho peculiar flavor that pleases smok ers Is largely duo to the activity of certain bacteria while tho tobacco is undergoing the fermentation stage of curing. Dr. Sueshsland, a Gorman scientist, has cultivated germs taken from fine Cuban tobacco while fermenting and introduced them into Inferior varieties of German tobacco. When the latter was cured connois seurs could not distinguish It from tho best Cuban brands. De of muskrat am sleek en fat. His mest am in its prime; Oh. watch him swim et rle riveh rim When de red moon staht to climb. He sniff del trap, de triggeh snap, A Ah heah do doah go slam: En Ah ketch det sinnah fob to morrow dinneh His meat am sweet es ham. Pemtis luh his 'possum. All baked wid velliili yam; But mus'rst meat So fat en sweet Am good en::f ioh Sam. De Cnnnel say when he rum mail way, "To cook det thing's a crime; Ah'd mtheli eat a bahn rat's meat Den a niua'rat eny time." Aunt C'hloc smile en afteli while She sen's a dish so sweet, De Cunnel chew each rich slire fro En tSiink et's chicken meat. Bemtis luh his 'possum, All lull. A wid vrllah yam; But mus'rat meat So fat en sweet Am good enuf fob Sam. Puck. Borings 1000 feet deep In New Orleans have encountered nothing more solid than mud, sand and a little thin clay; hence tho problem of making safe foundations for the piers of a gigantic railroad bridge whlqh Is soon to be built across the Mississippi near tho city is a hard ono for engineering science. The piers will rest on timber caissons, each measuring over sixty feet by 126 and 140 feet high. The bot toms of these caissons will be 170 feet below the surface of the river. For Those Who Would Be Strong. Everybody seeks health nowadays, although all are not successful In finding It. At tho same time, the amount of euro which most of us take must surely have some effect on the longevity of the race, and certainly the average age does seem to be increasing. The following rules Issued by tho New York Board of Health for the guidance of consumptives might very well be followed as nearly as possible by all of us: Never sleep or stay In a close room. When Indoors remain in the sun niest and best ventilated room one, It possible, which has no carpet. Have at least one window open In your bedroom. Have a room to yourself when pos sible, and at any rate have your own bed. Go to bed early and sleep at !east eight hours. Avoid draughts, dampness, dust and smoke. Keep your feet warm and dry. Don't wear a chest protector. If you have to work, take every chance to rest that you can. Avoid eating when mentally or bodily tired, or when In a state of nervous oxcitoment. Eat plenty of good and whole some food. Washington Star. "MOMENTUM IX VARIATION." Umbrellas in Bed. Mr. Barnard, M. P., has conducted nn inquiry on behalf of the Herts County Council ut King's Langlcy Into the housing question. It was stated that at Chipperfleld It took a man two years to find a house, and a woman had to walk eight miles to her work because she could not get a lodging nearer. In another case um brellas had to be held up In bed when It ruined, and young people could not Harry because theri! was nowhere for them to live.- London Chronicle. Explanation of Growth of Useless Animal Organs. In many animals thore arc certain organs which, useful In their earlier stages, have apparently been so great ly developed as to become rather hindrances. The horns of certain deer, for example, useful as weapons of defense when smaller, have be come so large as rather to handicap the animals In the struggle for life. The huge overgrown teeth, or tusks, of certain of the boar family may be cited as further examples. These are sometimes explained as organs whic h have been more useful in their pres ent stato under former conditions, and which have persisted through heredity. In the American Natural ist, however, Mr. F. B. Loomls brings forward another explanation. He thinks the growth of such organs in due to what he calls "momentum In variation." As a variation proceeds In a certain direction It acquires, like a body moving under the action of gravity, a momentum which may carry It past the stage of greatest utility. This factor in evolution, Mr. Loomls thinks, has not been assigned tho Importance It deserves. Other evolutionists, however, have suggested that when an animal or plant has once started to vary In a given direction, It acquires a tendency to go on varying In that direction. And this, although the word momen tum Is not used, agrees with the above theory. "Mrs. Baker gave a party for babies under two years old." "Wa it a success?" "Howling." Life. Daron "Is that a popular sons; your daughter is playing?" Egbert "It wns before she began playing it." YonkerB Statesman. We're shorted up our words a few, I The scheme is far from twaddle: Progressive young folks say "ekiadoo," Our griindsires said "skedaddle." Detroit News. He "Everything in this bouse looks run down!" She "But, dear, you haven't seen the bills this month!" Detroit Free Press. Rantlngton "Frohman wanted to present me this season." Manager (Frostvllle Opera House) "Gosh! Couldn't you make yourself present able?" Puck. The Western Senator had pur chased n home in the East. "Do you intend to abandon your State?" he was asked. "Not at all," he replied. "I need It for purposes of mileage." Philadelphia Public Ledger. Professional Humorist "Wit should never seem forced. Now, I never try to be funny." His Vls-a-VIs "Oh, but you should, Mr. Woodshine. One never knows what one can do till one tries." Puck. The Vicar's Wife "I'm sorry to see you're not paying into our coal club this year, Ooodenough." Good enough "Well, mum, you see well, it's like this 'ere. I lives right be'ind the coal yard now!" Punch. "You keep a cook, of course, madam," said the polite agent, who was trying to sell a new kitchen utensil. "No, I don't," snapped the woman. "The best I can do is to give ono employment." Cleveland Pre&3. Full many n spurt of fame in other days The verdant meadows und the cornfields hide; Full many a baseball hero gathers in Your nickel when you take a street car ride. Cleveland Press. "I ran't see anything of special in terest In that manuscript of yours," said the publisher to the aspiring au thor. "I didn't anticipate that you would," replied the author. "But I thought possibly your readers might have more intelligence." Milwaukee Sentinel. His Resolve. "When ) m first enierc-d politics," said the you:.-; n U who 1b looking for knowledge, "did you get out with the determination to win at any cost?" "No," an swered Sorghum, "I set out with the determination to win at as little ex pensa as possible." Washington Star. "Yls, ma'am," said Brldgut, "I'll be l'avin' ye. I don't like that snip of a dude that does be callln' on Miss Mabe! " "The Idea!" exclaimed her mistress. "He doesn't call to see) you, so what " "I know ho don't, ma'am, but I'm afraid some o' the neighbors might think he does " Philadelphia Press. Jews and Charity. It Is stated that moro than a fifth of London Jewry are In constant need of charity doles a curious und pain ful commentary on (ho popular phrdse, "as rich as a Jew." How admirably the .lews who can afford it respond to the needs of their poorer coreligionists Is indicated by tbe very striking fact that the value of en dowments of metropolitan Jewish charities Is now within easy distance of the magnificent sum of 1,000,000 sterling. Jewish Chronicle. An Unexpected Bite. One of the queerest experiences In catching trout that any man ever had was that at Moosehead Lake by an Attleboro sportsman named Will lams. He was standing on the apron of the dam at Wilson's, fishing In the quick water below, and had met with fair success. Near the shore, on his right hand, In a little eddy, ho noticed a barrel lying on Its side In several feet of water. He wan dered what It was there for, and was so curious that he left his fishing and went down to examine. He found that it was au old molasses barrel, and was lying so that lie could see the bunghole. Of course, the barrel was full of water, und the man had no Idea there was a tiBh inside of It, but just for curiosity he dropped his hook through the hole, and no sooner had It landed there than the water was boiling, and the fisherman knew ho had a trout on the other end. He played hlni until the fish was tired, and when he came to land him he could not get him through the bole. He secured a saw and sawed a piece out of the top of tho barrel near the hole. The fish came out. It weighed three pounds, and was one of the handsomest squaretalls caught In that section this year. One of tho guides said that the trout must have gone into the bar rol when small, and had lived on bugs and wormi which had taken up their abode inside. Maine Sports- i man. I He Was Right. "See here," feebly complained the victim, after tbe accident, "I thought you i aid It was perfectly safe to go up ltu that old elevator?" "Well," replied tbe elevator man. "so it was safe to go dp; you see, the dangerous part of it was comln' down." -Philadelphia Press. For Justice's Sake. A ChlcusC lawyer tells of a justice of the pence In a town In Southern lndiaua whose ideas touching the ad ministration of justice were some what bizarre. On one occasion, after ull the evidence was in and the plain tiff's attorney had made an elaborate argument, tbe defendant's attorney rose to begin his plea. '"Walt a minute! " exclaimed the Court. "I don't see no use it your proceeding, Mr. Brown. I have got a very clear ldeu now ot the guilt of tbe prisoner at the bar, and anything more from youweuld have a tendency to confuse the Court. I know he's guilty aud I don't want to take no chances." Harper' Weekly. Ijogic is Logic. The Irish Intellect is more often as sociated with wit than with logic; but an Irish workman recently si lenced for a moment the upbraiding tongue of his foreman by a display of something which bore Just enougb resemblance to logic to confuBe tho hearer. The workman enjoyed leaning on his hod and making shrewd observa tions much more than he did stirring about, and the cry for "Mort! Mort!" fell on dull ears. "Why don't you attend to your hod and keep that man going?" de manded the foreman severely, when Patrick was enjoying one of bis fre quent periods of rest. Patrick raised bis Rod with a lels urely movement and turned a pair of twinkling eyei on his accuser. "Sure, now," he said, easily, "If I was to keep him going all, tbe time. Bora a thing 'he'd say at all, at all; an' It he didn't say anything I'd be thinking he wasn't there. An' If ha wasn't there, Borr, what would he be wanting of morthar nnuyway?" Youth's Companion. ' A Direct Appeal. A story is told of a New Yo k car conductor who had once been In the ministry, and who retained some of his former ways of speech In his new calling. He bad been at tbe front of the car collecting fares, and when he re turned to his platform a well-disposed person told him that a man bad boarded the car at Houston street and had lound a plr.ee Inside. Tho conductor stepped Inside the doorway, and ran his mild gaze up und down the car, bin could not ba sure which of the tightly packed pas sengers was the late arrival. "Will the gentleman who got on at Houston street please rise?" ho asked, calmly. Tbe gentleman ro.-o Involuntarily, and with a bow and a "Thank you!" the conductor collected his fare. Youth's Companion. Butter in Arnocaia Is made fa churns suspended by rope from tbe rafters aud shaken from side to side by tbe women,
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