, Pa., August 9, 1912. ———— A QUEER BOY. He doesn't like study, it weakens his eyes,” But the “right sort” of book will insurea sur- prise. Let it be about Indians, pirates or bears, And he's lost for the day to all mundane affairs; By sunlight or gaslight his vision is clear. Very weary of life and of “‘tramping around.” But if there's a band or a circus in sight, He will follow it gladly from morning till night. The showman will capture him, some day, I fear, For he is so queer. If there's work in the garden, his head “aches to split,” And his back is so lame that he “can't diga bit.” But mention baseball, and he's cured very soon: And he'll dig for a woodchuck the whole after. noon. Do you think he “plays possum?” He seems quite sincere; But—isn't he queer? HER DISARRANGING PLENS. “How nice to meet you, Martha Shaw!” exclaimed the little woman with her hat awry as she sank into the vacant seat on the elevated train beside a serene faced young woman. “I suppose you also are bound on that necessary errand. Don't you abso- lutely dread Christmas shopping?” “Not in the least, you funny Josie Graham,” Mrs. Shaw answered with a superior air, “I don't believe in rushing madly around at the eleventh hour to select gifts that invariably prove unsuitable and oftentimes are unappreciated. I'm giving only to my Sunday school class and the children din the family. For the girls I have made dainty little fancy things dur- ing the summer; for the children I (bought books away back in Septem- ber. Today I'm going downtown to lunch with a dear friend.” “Fortunate creature!” Mrs. Graham sighed, enviously, another wrinkle appearing in her forehead as she opened her bag, drew forth a list and hurriedly added another line of cramped writing. “I've just remem. bered that I must get something for the little girl next door. Last vear her mother sent the baby a book, and, of course, she'll expect some- thing for Betty this year.” “Don’t you think that is a wrong conception of the Christmas spirit, giving because one gets?’ Mrs. Shaw asked. “I never will be a party to such a mercenary arrangement.” “It doesn’t seem quite right, but 1 Jhate to hurt any one's feelings by ‘seeming to slight her,” Mrs. Graham replied, looking out of the window anxiously. “Mercy! How this train crawls. I know I won't have time to ‘buy half the things on my list.” “I wish I could persuade you to try my plan,” Mrs. Shaw said. “Outside the children and the Sunday school class not a single soul will receive anything from me but a card express. ing a Christmas sentiment. You know, that is the custom abroad, and it is a very convenient and pretty one.” “But I'd feel awfully embarrassed on receiving gifts, especially if they happened to be things I really want ed, knowing that I had sent the donor merely a trifling card,” Mrs. Graham demurred. “Wouldn't you feel embar- rassed under similar circumstances?” “Not in the least,” Mrs. Shaw an- swered, placidly. Mrs. Graham looked dubious as she removed a needle from the front of her shirt waist and picked a strand of red silk thread from her skirt. “If one could only make up one's irind to begin one’s Christmas work early in the year!” she mused. “Some of my friends did and— That reminds me; can you keep a secret? I can't, I'm afraid. When we were at the lake last summer Mrs. Kemper knit you the most exquisite pale pink porch shawl for a Christmas gift.” “How sweet of her!” Mrs. Shaw ex- claimed delightedly. “And pink, too! She knows that pink is my favorite color.” A thoughtful look came into her eyes. At the next stop the two arose and left the car together, parting when they reached the sidewalk. Late in the afternoon when Mrs, Graham paused beside a handkerchief counter she bumped elbows with Mrs, Shaw, who was frantically inspecting the contents of various boxes. Her calm appearance of the morning had vanished and she was disheveled and wild eyed. “If it isn’t the luckiest thing to meet you now!” Mrs. Shaw exclaimed. “Do you think Mrs. Kemper would like a lace handkerchief for a gift? I've racked my brains and I can't think of another thing. Thers, that's my bundle that dropped—all thege are mine. I must have them made futo one. You never know when you'll get things. if you have them sent at this busy season. “But I thought——" began Mrs. Graham wonderingly, “Something fine and exquisite, of course,” Mrs. Shaw said. taken so many love-stitches for me in the pink shawl. By the way, I had a delightful visit today with my friend. She brought me an exquisite center. plece, her own handiwork. I've just bought her dain ki- down again tomorrow and buy the other gifts. I caught a glimpse of my brother Jack's wife at the fancy work counter matching a cord to a pillow top that I know is for me; I have always openly admired hers. I think I'll give Jenny and Jack a plece of cut | glass; they are starting housekeep- ing, you know.” “Haven't your Christmas plans be- come a little disarranged, my dear? Mrs. Graham asked, unkindly. “No, indeed,” Mrs. Shaw returned quickly, giving her hat a push which landed it over the left eye instead of the right. She held out her hand en. cased in a soiled white kid glove for her package and added with dignity, “I am simply elaborating on my vlans.” NIGHT COURT JUDGE METES OUT DISGUISED INJUSTICE. Fashionable Women Enjoy His Cruel- ly impertinent Questioning of For lorn Girl and Then Praise Him for His Kindness, “She’s been up here thirty times,” said the court officer, with a backward jerk of his thumb. She wasn't a bad looking girl at all. Not many months ago she had been a very good looking gir! indeed. In spite of the slush underfoot and the drizzling rain that had been falling, she was not noticeably bedraggled when she came into the night court for women. One chiefly noticed that her eyes were dull and her bearing careless. She had become used to the routine of her life—and that rou- tine included the court. Emotion had been burned out of her by the caustic of existence. A flare of drunken an- ger—a maudlin sob—were her limits of expression. She mounted the bridge drearily, hopelessly. It was evident enough the girl didn't care, “Ask her—" A buzz of whispering filled the court room. One looked up to see a bevy of handsomely dressed women sitting by the side of the judge. They wore evening gowns. Gems sparkled against the pallor of their breasts. Their fair shoulders were protected against the draughts of the filthy courtroom by costly furs. They rested white kid elbows upon the judge's desk and propped their arrogant and complacent faces in slender hands and stared that dingy courtroom down. The judge had obviously been dining with them. His handsome face was flushed and he often laughed behind his hand with the prettiest of his callers. At their prompting he asked that poor, bedeviled, hopeless woman who stood before him questions that were still cruelly impertinent, though he was a judge and she a woman of the streets. The silk clad women by his side tit- tered and exchanged mocking glances. The woman's voice grew hoarse and strained as she replied. She stared at the women of another world as those women of the poor streets in Paris may have stared at the women of the court some hundred odd years ago. “You may go now,” said the judge, silkily. The women who sat by his side upon a bench that had been de- filed, stretched out their pretty hands and patted him gently upon the arm. “How good you are to these people,” said one to him, addressing him by his first name. The old court officer was leading the woman toward the door. A bright spot burned high upon her cheek- bones. The flames of rage flared in her widely opened, staring eyes. “G'wan now, kid,” said the old court officer, patting her shoulder with awkward kindness. * 't you care.” ~Cincinnati Times-Star, Nature Not to Blame for That. “I don’t see anything to laugh at,” she said. “I just happened to think of a hair- lipped Englishman whom I met the other day.” “One should never laugh at the mis- fortunes of others. It was nature's fault and not his own that the English- man was hair-lipped.” “I know that; but he was criticizing Americans for talking through their noses.” Highly Misleading. “I'm afraid Mrs. Buffins takes life too seriously.” “A great many married women do.” “For instance, if you should ask where Mr. Buffins was and he hap- pened to be down in the cellar work- ing with the furnace, Mrs. Buffins would say, ‘Henry's gone below,’ in such a tragic tone that you would feel sure he was dead.” Diplomatic. First Legislator—You don't do any- thing for the suffragists, yet they seem to like you. How do you manage it? Second Legislator—Easy enough. When they come to me I tell them I'll be perfectly willing to talk about their voting when they look old enough to vote, and that sends them away smil- ing. An Elaborate Apology. “What do you mean by waving that red flag and stopping the train?” ask- ed the irate engineer. “You wrong us,” replied Meandering Mike. “We was holdin’ a little meet- in’. What you saw was de new an- grils version of de Chautauqua sa- ute.” On Second Thought. “Is it true,” said the manufacturer “that yoa compared armor plate to a piece of cheese?” § SHE BLAMES “SPIRIT WIFE” Mrs. William Phelps Dodge Divorced | Husband Because Uncanny In. | fluence Ruled Him. The uncanny influence of a “spirit ; wife” is said to have been responsible | for the divorce action which Mrs. Wil liam Phelps against her millionaire husband. The decree, which was signed in Philadelphia, would have been grant. ed several weeks ago, it is under- stood, but the judge wanted to make a longer investigation of the unusual charges brought by the girl wife of the widely known author and lawyer. According to the papers in the case, Mr. Dodge, who is forty-eight years old, met his young bride here at Sher- ry’s on election night, 1909, and after an impetuous wooing, married her in London on January 10, 1910. Prior to that time she and her sis- ter had been in the chorus of “Ha- vana,” a musical comedy playing at the Casino. Despite the difference in thelr ages —the bride was only eclghteen—the couple lived happily for a counie of months after the wedding. Then Mrs. Dodge charges that the .pirit of Mr. Dodge's first wife, Ethel, appeared be- fore him and began to “pick on” her successor. Young Mrs. Dodge said that when- ever she wore a jewel, a vell or any- thing that the first Mrs. Dodge had possessed, the latter's spirit would ap- pear before her husband and demand that he have it removed at once. And, according to the girl-wife, the spirit-wife was always obeyed. This treatment got on the nerves of the youthful Mrs. Dodge finally, and she packed up and returned to this country, leaving Mr. Dodge in London. Immediately on her arrival here, she applied for the divorce through her mother, as guardian, and charged that cruel, barbarous and inhuman treat. ment had been inflicted upon her by her husband.—New York Evening Mail. Rather Unreliable. “You say that you refuse to believe the sworn testimony of this man?” asked the examining barrister. “That is 0,” replied the witness. “What rcusons have you?” “Why, I know the man! He hates to tell the truth—it's absolutely for- eign to his nature. He and I were at the same school, and he used to cry repeat that two and two made four.” “Have you any further reminis- cences, sir?” This rather sarcastical- ly from the man of law. “Oh, dear me, yes! Once he was ill and described his symptoms so that the doctor prescribed for water on the knee, when he was really suffering from inflamed toneils!” Draining Desert Lands, One of the curiosities of irrigation is that it is sometimes necessary to drain such lands. When the lands are situ- ated on a comparatively level, the water from the irrigation ditch above seeps along the line betwen the rock formation and in many cases accumu- lates in such an amount that it actual ly becomes swampy. Then it has to be drained, just as in the case of the the south. It seems strange to wit- ness the laying of a drainage system in an arid country, but it has been done a great many times, The aver- age user of irrigation who fails may trace his lack of success to the too liberal use of water. Instead of water- ing he really drowns his crops. All That Was Left. A large boarding house caught fire during dinner and much confusion re- sulted. After the worst was over the landlady, who was a philosophical soul, remarked that it was a blessing that the fire had not happened at might, as some life might have been ost. A little later the colored boy, who heard this, mysteriously called her aside and cautiously exhibited a great bunch of dark, tangled hair. “Don't say nothin’, Miss Nora,” he whispered. “Dis fiah is worse dan it "pears. One 0’ dem ladies in de room ovah de li- berry done get burnt up. I ben up dar to see, an’ I found her hair.”"—La- dies’ Home Journal. Best Way to Rest. Sometimes the best way to work is to take a few hours of relaxation be- fore plunging into troublesome duties. It is impossible to rest unless there are quiet and calm in the mind and peace in one’s heart and soul. A trouble worried brain disturbs the entire physical forces, making one incapable of work or one's best ef- forts. There is a great difference between the naturally lazy person and one who knows the need of rest. One cannot find pleasure in rest unless one works, like eating when one isn’t hungry. No hurried, flurried, fussy woman can ever be beautiful, Her Reason. “Mrs. Bloodgood is sending out cards of invitation for a little dance.” “Wants to entertain a few friends, does she?” “Yes, and to snub a few more. "= Harper's Bazar. Against All Tradition. “That millionaire is a very queer chap.” “As to how?” “Never claims he was happier when “e was poor. Always says he is hap- ra? | Dodge has just won i | bitterly when the teacher made him | ge] for otherwise there is no contrast. It's | I Hi fle He 2 He: f 3 l &EF il EFS = heh J Li it 26 iF 8 i 88 i F ih | I ie The estimated annual Pro is probable that about 10,000,000 pounds of estimated consum) of glue per capi- | nited States is about three pounds. ’ Sus io used 08 gonierally that Jt is very | hard to specify its uses in detail, but it would be difficult to find a wooden or ge Fak fm 2 g g : ? leather article of daily use in which glue and is not in some way a component part. A mere mention of a few of these uses would be in furniture of all kinds, cush- ions, carpets, woodwork, boxes, carriages, bags, paper, mouldings, paint, shoes, and leather articles. Carts, wagons, auto- mobiles—even aeroplanes—are made | partly of glue, The most wonderful works | of the greatest geniuses in painting re- ceive the admiration of humanity through. ' part. Glue is never absent from the | daily life of civilized man. i Glue is not generally made from the feet or hoofs of cattle, in spite of the popular impression to that effect. As a matter of fact, while glue can be made from the feet or hoofs, the quality of such glue is so poor as compared with glue made from other material that feet and hoofs are at a decided disad- vantage. Most of the glue is made from what is known in the glue trade as hide | pieces, fleshings, or bones, Different por- | tions of the hides which the leather-man | does not use are trimmed off by the tan- ner before the hide is tanned, and these portions go to the glue manufacturer. According to the part of the hide from which they come, and according to the method of taking them off, they are call- ed pieces or fleshings or trimmings or skivings. The best quality of glue comes | from such pieces as are taken from the | best quality of hides. Jeanclele: and jaw bones also Jurish raw mate or a large proportion o the glue product. A very high of | glue is also made from a kind of bone called “dentelles,” which is nothing more | She or less than the flat bone which is left after coat-buttons are punched out,and it, of course, is full of holes. The higher the grade of glue which it is desired to ! make, the more care must be taken in | ecting the raw material and in the process of manufacture. The glue which comes from fish is an entirely different article from that which comes from cattle hides or bone. It is almost invariably in liquid form, and while it has distinct advantages for cer- tain uses, it will not in every instance do the work that the cattle glue will do. Contrary to popular opinion, there is not such a large margin of profit in the glue business to-day as there used to be twenty years This is largely due to three causes. First, the higher price for th the raw material, which has been exact- ed by the tanner and for which he pre- sumably gets a benefit; second, increas- | ed competition, in some instance injudi- : cious; third, increase in the cost of labor. | In the Tower of London are yet pre- served some of the relics of the past, when men used “the thumb-screw and the rack for the glory of the Lord.” Some of these instruments of torture are dyed deep with the blood of the unfortunates who suffered from them, and many of these sufferers were women. We shudder at the thought, and yet women to-day are undergoing a slow torture, incom- parably more severe than the torments of the torture chamber. When the nerves are racked ceaselessly, joyless and the night is many a woman sees the gaunt, wild-eyed han. tom of insanity clutching at the darkness. Even insanity, when caused by disease of the womanly organs, has been cured by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre- scription. It has cured St. Vitus's dance and other forms of nervous disease. Fruit Beverages 0 make a fruit drink, squeeze juice trom any fruit bo don. pp fill up with cold soda water or cracked ice and spring water. abe— do 1 i ee he ei they were geniuses if they didn't. 8 nif. ied PEecl Ai 13 9 fall makes the value of book, but the extent 28d quality of knowledge it con- veys. test Dr. Pieces great work on biology, physiology hygiene day. It is scientifically written, He such simple English that all may ay stand. It is sent free on recei of stamps to pay expense of mailing on. Send 21 ing, or 31 staiupe In i Jager Bind. or , . Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. ————————————————rre a... FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN DAILY THOUGHT. Good comes to pass, We know not when nor how, for, looking to What seemed a barren waste there starts to view Some bunch of grass, Or snarl of violets, shining with the dew. —Alice Cary. The moment one begins to travel one finds what an anxious problem is the one | of the right clothes for a different en- vironment. As long as we stay at home | we feel that we can make things do. We realize that some of our clothes are not ! ight, and that some of them are some. | t shabby, but we do not feel much anxiety about either predicament. We grow careless when we are in our own atmosphere when the weather is hot | and sultry. We have a feeling that any- | thing will do as long as it is clean. When | we start away for a long or a short vaca- | tion, for a visit, or even for a week-end | with friends, we face the distressing fact | that our wardrobe needs careful revision | many new things added thereunto, | The skirt and the blouse that will do at home will not do in a new place among | new people. The defects that we have successfully hidden through the last! month will no longer remain concealed. We really need new clothes. It depends very much where you go | for your vacation as to what you need. | Itis a blessed custom at the majority of the American resorts tn wear white irts | with wash blouses. It does not save the laundry bill, but it saves though, much sewing and No matter where the American woman goes this side of the Atlantic at the pres- ent time, she will find herself admirably fitted out for the morning with four white | wash skirts and six white blouses. The | latter may be China silk, of nainsook, of dotted swiss and of white homespun linen, with hand-embroidered scal | Of course, she wants frills. Every! woman does, and it is just when she is going on her vacation that the need of | these accessories is urgent. She wants | all these fancy trifles for her neck that | the shops offer in such bewildering va- | riety. ! a reakises that sis Hable the s020m slip by without treating herself to many | of the fascinating new fashions that are small but very important. Shoes and | stockings may have been commonplace | at home, but the moment she starts away | a woman wants to indulge in the gayeties | of hosiery and footwear. | She instantly tires of the plain black or | brown pump, with its stockings to match, | wants white buckskin pumps, with | large silver buckles, a pair Ee | patent leather slippers, with large oval cut steel buckles, and a pair of white can- | vas shoes, laced with broad, white ribbon, and stockings in as many hues as Joseph's | coat, | — | The top coat is important, for it has | now taken the place of the sweater and the warn suit. The world of shops is filled with a number of coats. It would | seem, from the output, that the manu. | facturers had spent the most of their | winter designing new things in the way | of loose, warm jackets for women. ] They take up large blocks on the upper floors of the department stores, and even | e ers for men have gone into the business, and now offer to women all kinds of sporting coats that were hereto- | fore only worn by men. Among the best of th is the half- | le loose coat in heavy plaids, with wide box plaits. These are the woods- men’s coats of the Northwest, and have been worn here in great numbers all spring. They are the first kind offered to women who are going on a vacation. ere is one in white that is immense- ly popular, although it soils easily, and oes not always have snap of the colored ones. Women are also wearing the well- known Burberry coat Susi Lo n, which sportsmen took up sev years ago. is made of a heavy tweed in checks, with one strong line There are few so simple that do not Sows, 95d if one is visiting at private they are nec- of wha oh Jes 1m the Jute what ne, phur or the lead benzoate; but the index of yields in both cases was against the new materials as compared with the old standby, Bordeaux mixture. —The working life of a sheep is short. Old Scotch shepherds say it is practically | done at the end of six years. All sheep that are beginning to show signs of old age, such as loss of some teeth, and dull, hollow eyes, should be turned off this fall. Get them in trim early and don't spend much on them for extra feed either. It will not pay. —The value of manure from the sheds and yards varies according to the | amount of bedding used and concentrates fed. It is worth at least $2 perton. A carefully ~onducted experimentona farm in Knox county, Illinois, showed that where eight tons per acre were applied the value of the increase of the six fol- lowing crops over those of the untreated adjoining acre was $16. —An experienced horseman and ex- cavalry officer says that the horse, when rearing, must always come u straight. He cannot rear otherwise. fore, the quick-witted rider, when he finds his saddle horse rearing, should promptly pull ithe horse's head to the right or left, thus throwing him off his balance, when he drops back to the earth on his fore- feet. This remedy is used by experienc- ed horsemen, but the rider must act quickly, and by pulling the horse's head to one side as soon as he begins to rear 2 horse is Sutbalanced and Saanot rear. rearing horse will repe at his attempt, but the rider simply repeats the remedy until the horse, finding that his efforts are baffled, ceases to try to rear. —The use of lime upon the soil is an old-time practice. It is said that the Chinese were probably the first to adopt it, and it is likewise credited back in the ages of the Romans, and the English and the French. In this country the first mention of lime dates back to 1818, when it was advocated in the American Farm- The use of lime isnot generally recom- mended. There are soils,without a doubt, that would be benefited thereby. Just what is the action of lime on the soil is not generally understood. It is not a fer- tilizer in the sense that stable manure or commercial fertilizer would be. It can- not take the place of these materials, but should be used in connection with them. As a rule, there is enough lime in all soils to meet the plant-f requirements of the crops for this element for all time, consequently the benefits of lime are dis- played in another way. Science tells us that lime’s action upon the soil is in three different ways— chemically, physically and biologically. Chemically speaking, lime acts upon the insoluble potash compounds in the soil, changing them into forms available as plant food. However, this action must not be depended upon as a means of sup- plying the crops with available potash to the exclusion of artificial fertilizers, for, unless there is an unlimited supply of potash in the soil, the timeis only hast- ened when the soil will be entirely rid of this form of plant food. Lime will correct acidity. Such soils as have heen cultivated for a great many years are apt to become acid, due to the accumulation of organic acids produced by the decomposition of organic matter. Many crops are affected by an acid con- dition of the soil, and in such cases are groally benefited by the addition of some orm of lime or material containing lime, sch as san or heYywood hes, ysically speaking, vy clay soils that puddle and bake after a rain, receive beneht by the application of lime. It benefits by acting upon such soil by bind- ing the fine particles together in “crumbs,” thus making the soil more friable and easy to cultivate. Besides, it makes it more open and porous, thus facilitating the movement of air and water in the soil. On sandy soils, the action of lime is oh fle Tevefse of hat on clay galls, as it hynds together the loose particles o sand and makes the soil more retentive of noises, speaki the decomposi ly ing, the posi- tion of organic matter added to the soil in the form of stable manure, green manure, etc,, is brought about by the action of the numberless bacteria that exist in the soil. Certain of the soil bacteria living in connection with the roots of legumes are able to take ni from the air and change it intoa form that is available to plants. In order for these bacteria to accomplish the most good the soil conditions must be favor- able for their best development, and this tion may sometimes be improved by the addition of some form of lime. After several years of careful experi- menting upon the use of lime on various soils and with many different crops. Dr. H. J Wheeler, of the Rhode Island Ex- t pea, alfalfa, . Bt ru timothy, Kentucky blue grass, seed fruits, stone Plants indifferent to lime—Corn, millet, Sh iach le forme predominating, as | golden rye, potatoes, carrots, red top grass. Plants injured by lime—Watermelon, Bigs lupine, sheep sorrel. Michigan Agricultural College says that it the lime is applied for the benefit of any im te crop, it should be applied, in whatever form used, after the has been done, and should then be thoroughly harrowed into surface soil. Itis to make the application some little time before sow- ing the crop. "h is occasionally recommended that lime in whatever form, if in a fine condi- spread with a shovel over an area extend- — ing about one rod in all directions from op: Leon f iv vo By annby Bok od better, . To squeeze cover four square ly lemons into a bowl, allowing two lemons | even distribution can be made in this to every three glasses of lemonade; strain | way, and the distribution is improved the juice. Sweeten the juice with sugar | when the lime is harrowed into the soil. which is made boiling one | By this method there will be 40 piles to of in one of water 19 | the acre. The amount of material to be minutes. wanted for use, add the put in each ile. is found by. dividing the required amount of water, and to each | rate of a in pounds per acre by glass add a piece of ice and a slice of 40. 0 “I Deus pee ante, 20 pounds is the amount per If the rate be 1200 pounds per acre, 30 pounds Finest Job Work at this office. in the amonnt per nile
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