HARVEST SONG.
Farther to the south the sun
Droops his falling: head.
Now the summer's course is run
And her pride is dead;
Rich along the weeded roads
Goldenrod stands tall,
And the purple thistle mist
riumes the summer's pall.
Now In drowsy autumn dreams
Locked the landscape lies.
While a chastened glory stream*
Prom the azure skies;
Like the harmony of bloom
On ripe fruit, the day's
Morning's blush and evening's dyes
Blur in mist-blue haze.
Deep the mellow languor falls,
On the silent noon;
No bird save the blue-Jay calls.
Woods and meadows swoon;
Ghostlier than on summer nights
Winds sound from afar.
Weak the sun pales as the moon.
Or the evening star.
So the tide of life endures.
Waxes, wanes, and falls.
While earth's mystery immures
Souls in mortal walls;
Still to joy my heart will cling,
What though winter come,
I have heard the throstle sing
And the brown bees hum.
Sweetest season of the mist,
When the summer wanes, ,
Skies of tender amethyst,
, Fields of gol'len grains;
Blessed d~ays of ripened joy.
With the harvest crowned—•
Nourislier of Nature's pains
As roll the seasons round.
—Edward O. Jackson, in Boston Tran
script.
t
FAVORED BY
MISFORTUNE
By CLINTON DANGERFIELD
I Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Jerry Brannon studied her delicate
profile eagerly, through the medium
of one of the dingy, narrow, mirror
jiaue'v set in the car. Hitherto he had
always considered these panels as a
weak truckling to feminine vanity.
He now perceived their intrinsic value
and blessed the man who had con
ceived the idea.
It hurt him seriously to think that
she would pass out of his life when
they reached Louisville. He raged
against the conventionalities which set
a barrier between himself and the un
known.
A gray-haired, stately old gentleman,
whom he correctly supposed to be her
father, sat beside her, and was just
strewing her lap with magazines
bought from the train boy.
"No earthly chance of an introduc
tion," groaned Brannon to himself.
"Not a soul here who could possibly
help me."
His eyes involuntarily turned with
disgust on the other occupants of the
little car.
It was a mixed train, running from
far beyond Anchorage, and it carried
half a dozen owners of small tobacco
farms, on the way to atteud the Louis
ville auction, and some equally bucolic
females, several of whom were bur
dened with restless, sticky children.
The fair unknown shone the more
by contrast. Brannon involuntarily
compared her exquisite grooming with
the frowzy condition of a middle-aged
and solitary female who sat just across
the aisle from him.
There was a huge basket on the seat
beside her. Over its top was tied a
white cloth, which occasionally bulged
up fiercely in bumpy spots, while
smothered sounds of inarticulate wrath
issued from within.
The owner of the basket detected
Brannon's glance. To his horror she
nodded, smiled, arose, and, coming
across, dumped herself down beside
him, smoothing back her thin hair
■with a cotton-gloved hand.
"I seed you a-lookin' my way," she
said, with great friendliness, "and I
knowed you wuz jest spilin' to find out
what's in that there basket."
"Pardon me," said Brannon, freez-
Jngly, "I had not thought of the bas
ket. I would not have you put your
self to any trouble in explaining. 1
am not the conductor, you know."
"Good land!" chuckled his self-found
friend. "Did ye think I took ye for
the conductor? Why, he's dressed a
sight smarter than you. Bright blue,
aud brass buttons on it. 'stid of gray.
Not but what you look real nice," she
amended, hastily. "That there suit fits
you to a figger and sort of agrees with
your style. I dunno but mebbe you
look better in that than you would in
his blue and brass."
"Thank you." said Brannon, with an
Irony totally lost.
Jerry was no snob; but the familiar
manners of the owner of the basket
made him rage lest the unknown, sit
ting several seats ahead, should regard
her as belonging to him. He assumed
u pose of quiet iciness, which was quite
undetected by the friendly dame be
side him.
His indifference as to the mystery
of the basket had the usual stimulat
ing effeat. She lowered her voice to a
confidential pitch, determined to inter
est him.
"Conductor, he knows there's poultry
In that there basket," she said, in a
half whisper, "but lie don't know all."
Jerry remained silent.
"They ain't no common chickens.
They arf thoroughbred games. I'm
a takin' 'eni Into a young feller in
town. I'm afeared he's goln' to light
the cock, but husband he says 'taint
none of our affair."
Jerry looked out of the wludow.
"That there cock," pursued she. "has
got the wust temper In Kalmuck, an'
the hens they ain't much better."
Jerry tried another tack
"Then you had better stay by them
and wat< h them," lie suggested, artful
ly "You shouldn't leate th in alone.
That cover looks Inoee "
"I reckon I shouldn't," agreed the
dame. "An' yit I'm powerful thirsty.
1 been thinkin' 'bout that ice tank
back there fer some time."
Jerry returned to bis investigation
of the window.
If the poultry owner had expected
him to offer to bring her the desired
water she was disappointed. She arose
heavily.
"I'll go git some now," she an
nounced. "This here train don't go
fast enough to disconcert a body
much."
But as she passed the T/asket Jerry's
caution returned to her mind.
She turned back and seized the han
dle of the basket.
"Long as you done warned me about
ieavin' 'em alone," she said, at that
cheerful pitch affected by those who
have never heard of the "moat excel
lent thing in woman," "I reckon I'll
jest set 'em by you till I git back."
There was a resolute heave, a stag
ger, and the basket came down plump
on the red velvet seat occupied by
Jerry.
"Take good keer of 'em," said the
dame, anxiously, much as if she were
going on a serious journey, and then
she went cautiously toward the tank.
Jerry cast a wrathful look at the
basket, but worse was to come.
Swaying and clutching, the rail
road's tin cup in one hand, the ad-
Venturous poultry owner found herself
unable to turn the water on. The lit
tle spigot was rusty and would not
move. She looked back despairingly
at Jerry, and seeing only a resolute
back and a sternly posed head, she
lifted up her voice, instinct telling her
that he had had more experience with
such difficulties than any of the rough
ly-clad men.
"Young feller," she shrilled, "come
down here an' help me. I kain't git a
drop."
At the wailing accents, each person
in the car turned his head, arid Jerry,
blushing scarlet, saw the amused smile
that danced lightly on the lips of the
lovely unknown.
But he rose to the occasion. Squeez
ing past the basket, not without an
effort, he went quietly down the aisle.
If he hail seen the glance of admira
tion which a certain person gave his
broad shoulders and finely-built form
he might have felt compensated.
As it was, he saw only the flushed
and thirsty dame, and for her he filled
the tin cup courteously, wondering bit
terly why fortune should place him at
a disadvantage just when he most
wanted to appear dignified.
Suddenly, as he waited for the poul
try owner to drink that he might re
fill the cup for her, there arose on the
hot air of the car an ear-splitting
sound, a cross between a squawk and
a battle-cry.
That effort of Brannon's to get past
the basket had torn loose the cover,
and never did prisoners more quickly
avail themselves of liberty.
Wide-breasted, long of leg, arrogant
ly haughty of carriage, and powerful
of wing, they shot out, all six of them,
into the narrow precincts of the car,
defiance in the hens' eyes, murder and
sudden death in the cock's.
In an instant confusion reigned and
a babel of tongues.
With whoops of Joy and peals of
rough laughter, the farmers arose en
masse to help recapture the runaways;
but they found it less amusing than
they expected.
The conductor, hurrying in from the
smoker, received a blow in the face
from a resolute hen that hurled her
self at the opening. Fortunately she
merely sent the conductor staggering
back against the door, closing It the
quicker.
"What the hell!" began that out
raged individual, forgetting his man
ners. But he got no further. The air
was full of whirring wings, of wildly
scrambling forms, of shrieking wom
en and screaming children.
The games darted forward, retreated
overhead, clung now to lamps, and
now beat against deceptive windows;
they eluded, feinted, struck savagely,
wheeled on angry, rapid wings, played
havoc with hats and curls, and
scratched manfully.
It was the cock who selected the
pretty unknown for his special prey.
He came whirring down on her, hav
ing just dazed a tobacco grower by a
snapping whack with his spurs; but
he was received in the arms of Jerry
Brannon, who had thrown himself in
front of the frightened girl.
Beak and spurs had no effect on
Jerry. He was thoroughbred himself.
The enraged game was reduced to
ignominious submission, but not \intil
he had left an ugly scratch across each
of Brannon's hands.
By this time the hens had been cap
tured, the children had crawled from
under the seats, and the women were
twisting up their disordered hair.
The poultry owner, much subdued,
was sniffling faintly as Jerry helped to
reimprison the cock. Turning away
from her and the treacherous basket,
he found the unknown was standing
beside him.
Casting looks of regret at his some
what bloody hands —"I came—to help
—if I can," she said, blushing. "And
here's my father, Mr. Coulter, who
wants to thank you, Mister "
"Brannon," said Jerry, joyfully.
• • • • •
That evening the poultry raiser nar
rated her adventure at home.
"And I met a turrlble nice young
feller on the train," she said, com
placently. "Him and me came to be
real good friends. And after them
chickens had Mewed all around h« acted
jest lllie I'd done sopiethlu' clever for
him. While ever'body diet was grum
blln' an' growlln' Rial Christian, I
>all him "
A Long Tim*.
"I'M. what kind of men la It that
wear their hair lonn?"
"Single men, nay §on."— Houstoa
Post.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1905.
A LESSON IN
MANUAL TRAINING
PRACTICAL POINTS FOR BOYS
WITH AMBITION AND
GENIUS.
Final Lesson—A Tool Cabinet More
Convenient and Accessible Than a
Chest—Arrangement of Tools in
Cabinet.
BY JAMES IUTCIIEY.
(Instructor In Woodworking and Pattern-
Making, Armour Institute of Technology,
Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowies.)
As a workman's tools need his con
itant care and attention, it is very nec
essary that he should have a place for
them, aud that each tool, except when
il
Fig. 183.
In actual use, be kept in its appointed
place, so as to guard it from injury and
to enable the owner to find it readily
when he needs it.
It is still customary for the regular
tradesman to have a tool chest for this
purpose, but the beginner, or the ama
teur workman who has a workroom of
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Fig. 184.
his own, will find a tool cabinet, such as
w r e illustrate in Fig. 183, more conveni
ent and accessible than a chest.
Such a cabinet may be hung on the
wall directly over the work bench, or in
any position where it will be easy of ac
cess, and where its contents will be
within easy reach of the workman. It
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may be closed and locked when not in
use with the same facility as a chest. The
cabinet is shown open, with a few of the
principal tools in place in Fig. 184.
The right-hand side, which contains
the heavier tools, should be hung or
screwed to the wall, while the left-hand
half of the cabinet, with its lighter tools,
is free to be swung open or shut as re
quired.
A good size for such a cabinet is that
given in the detail drawing, Fig. 185, and
may be made of pine, yellow poplar or
other light wood. It will, however, be
more desirable if made of quarter-sawed
oak, cherry or hard wood of some sort.
The two sides and the top and bottom
pieces should, because of the hinges and
lock, be made out of seven-eighths-inch
stock, while the front aud back of the
:ase need net be more than three-quar
ter-inch, as given in the detail drawing,
185.
Each half of the cabinet, when open,
should not be less than three inches
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Tig, 187.
deep In the Inside, but the cabinet la
trained ami glued up as one single case
sr box. without openings, which, after
Having all parts planed even and lln
shed, is sawed 111 two a* iudlcated by
the dolled line market) xln K»n. 185, ami '
ilso lu Fig. 187.
The front and back must be framed !
together, being mortised and tenoned
as Riven lu detail lu Fig INC. and In
practice Is made u little larger than the I
inquired slxu of tha case. This la done 1
by making the stiles (side pieces) and
rails of the framing one-sixteenth to
one-eighth-inch wider than the net
sizes shown in the detail drawing.
This will afford room and stock suffi
cient to dress all parts even after the en
tire case has been glued together. The
panels must be of such thickness as to be
flush with the framing on the inside, so
as to afford an even surface for the bet
ter arrangement of the tools. This is
shown in the cross-section through At)
in Fig. 186.
These panels are grooved three
eighths of an inch deep into the framing,
all tenons being one inch long and one
quarter of an inch in thickness, with
mortises one and one-eighth inches deep.
In all paneled framing of this kind the
panels should fit snugly in the grooves,
but must not be glued, because they will
check or split by the shrinking and
swelling caused by the changing condi
tions of the atmosphere of the work
room. In all cabinet furniture work the
tenons and mortises only are glued.
The top, bottom and side pieces of the
case must each be made six and one-half
inches wide, thus affording one-half
inch of stock for sawing open and refit
ting the two halves of the case together
preparatory to hinging. They may be
framed together either by means of the
plain dovetail shown at A, or as illus
trated by the drawer front dovetail at B
in Fig. 187. In either case the middle
tenon of the dovetail must be made one
half inch wider than regular, as shown
in the illustration, so as to afford suffi
cient wood for the sawing open and fit
ting together again of the two halves of
the cabinet.
If preferred, a tenon one-quarter inch
long and about one-eighth inch in thick
ness iray be cut on each end of the top
and bottom pieces, and fitted into a saw
kerf groove in the sides, as shown at C
in Fig. 187. Each joint, however, must
be further strengthened by means of six
one and three-quarter inch No. 10 wood
screws, and where possible the oval head
screw should be used. The head of this
screw differs from the common flat head
only in having its surface slightly round
ing, and does not project so far above
the surface of the work as the ordinary
round head. This gives the work In
which it is used a more finished appear
ance. This screw is shown at Bin Fig.
188.
The front and back of the cabinet are
simply glued and clamped to their posi
tion on the dovetailed frame, and in case
there are not a sufficient number of
hand screws for the purpose at the com
mand of the workman, they may be
fastened by using cither flat or oval head
wood screws—one and onc-lrtlf inch.
No. 10—using five screws on each end
and six on the sides of the frames.
In the arrangement of the tools shown
in Fig. 184, A, on the shelf, is a 22-inch
jointer, and is kept in position by two
small blocks, each screwed to the shelf.
The No. 5 jackplane B, 14 inches long,
and the No. 4 smooth plane C, which is
nine inches long, each rests on a stout
block screwed to the side of the case, and
is held in position at the upper end by
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Fig. 186.
means of the sliding block shown at x
and x.
The details for this block, with the
screws and screw slots, are shown at C
in Fig. 188. By sliding this block up on
1 the two round head screws by which It la
loosely fastened, the plane Is released
from Its position. I) Is a No. It; block
| plane, and the oil stone Is shown at E.
Haws and many other tools may be
I hung on brass screw hooks such as
I shown at A lu Kig 188. but they must be
. furt hi r secured by means of a recessed
I strip of wood Into which the lower end
of the tool is slipped, as Is ohown lu the
drawing
Foi chisels, gougta aud other toola of
this description, this strtp must have a
separate recess cut to the exact width of
each tool, and must be fastened to the
case by means of wood screws instead of
nails or brads.
The five small two-inch opening!
shown in the detail drawing, Fig. 185,
must be fitted with small boxes or
drawers made of thin stock, one-quarter
inch in thickDess, and will be found con
venient for boring bits, nail sets, brad
awls, and other small tools. These
small boxes or drawers are marked z in
m
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C "
Fig. 183.
Fig. 184. The hinges used for thl3 cabi
net should be three inches wide, brass
butts.
A common chest lock may be used,
but a simple hasp and staple, with a
good padlock, will be more easily ap
plied.
The stock list for this tool cabinet, as
illustrated in the drawings, will be as
follows, all net sizes:
2 pieces 30xG%x%— case sides, plain dove
tail.
2 pieces 24xC' / £x"i— case top and bottom,
plain dovetail.
4 pieces 30>rx3 l-16x & i—sides for front and
back, frames mortised.
2 pieces 2fjx3 l-16x%—upper rails, tenons
1 inch long,
2 pieces 20x4 l-lßx'Ji—lower rails, tenons
1 inch long.
2 pieces 25x3x%—middle upright rails, ten
ons 1 inch long-.
4 pieces 23«ix£'.ix9-16—panels, % inch into
grooves all round.
3 pieces 22%x2x> / 4—shelves, % Inch Into
grooves.
6 pieces 24x2x< / 4—for boxes, marked Z.
3 pieces 2Jsc3x!4—for boxes, bottoms and
partitions.
DAUGHTER OF REGIMENT.
France Mustering Out Vivandiers
and Germany About to
Enlist Them.,
In view of the 'present friction be
tween France and Germany, it is curi
ous to note the contrary steps those
countries are taking with respect to
women in the army. The French have
recently mustered out of the military
service over a thousand cantinieres and
vivandieres, or "daughters of the regi
ment," while the German emperor Is
seriously considering compulsory mili
tary service for young German women.
Their duty, says Youth's Companion,
would never be upon the field of battle,
but in tho various military offices of
the empire, thus releasing for field
work thousands of men siow detailed
as clerks and employes. The em
peror believes that such service would
not only greatly augment his army,
but would materially benefit German
women, training them in punctuality,
| order, obedience, business procedure,
I and increasing their mental and phy
i ical well-being.
Whatever her career, the German
j army girl will have none of tho pic
' turesque features which have pertained
to the French "daughter of the regi
, ment." This interesting character first
j appeared in the French revolution, and
■ for over 100 years she has flitted over
! the French battlefields of Europe,
tending the wounded, feeding the hun
] gry, moistening the parched lips of the
I dying. The"daughters" were general
ly mature women, called "mother" by
the officers and men; women able to
rough it, mannish in attire and speech,
but respectable, the confidante of her
"children," courageous, merry, devoted,
patriotic.
The ambulance system on the field
renders the services of the cantinieres
no longer essential; and the thousand
on the rolls have been retired with a
triflng pension. Heretofore she had
been pensionless, although often more
deserving than the male soldier with
whom she marched.
Now the "daughter of the regiment,"
theme of novels and plays and verse,
so picturesque in processions, so devot
ed to suffering humanity, so blindly
indifferent to self, passes from the
scene. Far better so, although men
would be less keen about war were
their part to watch and pray at home,
while their mothers and sisters and
daughters marched off to slaughter and
be slain. How the German woman, as
part of the military system, will affect
the growing cause of peace remains to
be tested; but her deeper knowledge
of tho details of war can hardly fail
to add to her womanly horror of tha
battlefield.
Neck and Neck.
The lawyer for the plaintiff had fin
ished his argument, and counsel for
the defense stepped forward to speak,
when the new judge interrupted him.
His eyes were wide open, and filled
with wonder and admiration for tha
plea of the plaintiff.
"Defendant nsed not speak," he
said. "Plaintiff wins."
"But, your honor," said the attorney
for Ihe defendant, "at least let me pre
sent my case,"
"Well, go ahead," said the judge,
weai ily.
The lawyer went ahead. When ha
tftd finished the judge gaped lu eveu
greater astonishment.
"Don't It beat all!" he exclaimed.
"Now defendant wins."- Ureeu bag.
Sarcasm.
Foreigner—Ar« the earnings of jrour
liuum hold servants large, as a rule?
American No; uot nearly go large
as their pay,— Chicago Sun.
TO IMPROVE DEFENSE
| PLANS TO STRENGTHEN FOBT
j HAMILTON IN NEW YORK.
Has Long Been Regarded as Weak and
in Need of Reconstruction—ss,-
000,000 Necessary to Carry
Out Rebuilding Plan.
New York.—When Prince Louis of
Battenberg commented during his re
cent visit to this country, upon the
; ease with which a hostile fleet of war
ships anchored in the North river
could knock New York into smither
eens, a chorus arose from military au
thorities declaring that no hostile fleet
could ever gain access to the North
river, because the fortifications of New
York harbor were much too formidable
for any fleet to get past. Well, are
they? No exact statement of the
strength of these forts can be obtained
from the war department, for ob
vious reasons, but the weakness of at
least cne of them, Port Hamilton, has
been apparent to the military author
ities, and because of this Col. G. G.
Greenough, commander of the post,
has prepared and submitted to the
war department plans for its recon
struction and enlargement, at a cost
of about $5,000,000. Secretary Taft iB
much interested in the project, and
there is reason to believe that the
j needed appropriation will be granted
by congress.
Col. Greenough points out that the
fort in its present condition is in poor
shape to withstand a concerted at
tack from land and sea. His remedy
lies not only in the rebuilding of tne
entire post, but in the establishment
and maintenance, upon a 45-acre tract
adjoining it on the north, of a perma
nent sanitary carnp site on which a
large force of regulars could be moved
at short notice and camped for an in
definite period, thus affording a sup
port to the garrison and adequate pro
tection against land attack in the
rear.
Col. Greenough makes no attempt to
mince matters in what he has to say
about the condition of the fort which,
because of its relation to New York
city, should be, he declares, the strong
est in the land.
"There should be no sentimental-
Ism," says Col. Greenough in his re
port upon the needs of the post, "about
the facts In the case. The old fort
and redoubt do not adequately pro
tect New York from land attack. The
natural plan of attack of the fortifi
cations of New York harbor would be
a sea feint in support of a powerful
landing party. A successful dash by
the left flank of surh a force would
j sr.
I i 1 IPI
PLANS FOR NEW FORT.
(How Fort Hamilton Will I-ook When
Rebuilt.)
carry the works, now absolutely un
protected and open in the rear."
"The importance of this post as u
strategic point in time of war cannot
be overestimated," said Col. Green
ough, recently. "One of the chief de
fenses at the main entrance to New-
York harbor, it is practically a part
of the city itself, and should be so
thoroughly manned and equipped as to
render it the strongest point in the
country."
Col. Greenough's plan contemplates
laying the 45-acre c?.mp site out with
water and sewer mains, which, he es
timates, 'an at small yearly expense
be kept Hi juch condition as to be in
stantly ready for use of a small body
of men. The mains would be so laid
out as to render sanitary every part
of the camp they are intended to sup
ply. Col. Greenough says that four
regiments, or about 5,000 men, can be
easily accommodated in such a camp
as he proposes to establish.
In addition to the accommodations
of this camp site, the reconstructed
post lor which Col. Greenough's plans
call would provide accommodations for
a garrison of 20 companies, or more
than 2.000 men. The present gar
rison of Fort Hamilton is only 450
men, and this, says Col. Greenough,
is all who can be accommodated un
der existing conditions.
The colonel's plan for the recon
structed fort calls for the wiping out
of all the present buildings, most of
which are about 40 >•• ars old, and the
erection in plate of them of modern,
brick and stone structures, fireproof
and perfectly sanitary throughout. Ac
cor.l'ng to the plan, these would be
grouped in horseshoe form about a
great parade ground fronting Fort
Hamilton avenue. I? is estimated that
the land desired for the new camp site
can be had tor >300,000, and that the
whole plan of rebuilding the fort can
be carried out for about $5,000,000.
The use of Dyker Meadow park
for.v drill ground by volunteer militia
when necessary is also contemplated.
Orandson of Famous Poet.
Hubert Iturns Thompson, a grandson
of the great Scottish poet. Is a hal«
ami hearty octogenarian, living in a
suburb of Glasgow. Ills mother wan
a daughter of Robert Morns by Aim*
Hysl'ip, of the Globe Tavern, in bum
fries. In the days of his young man
hood Thompson was the counterfeit
presentment of him whoa* name h»
bears. Also he has the Maine pithy
humor which was a diNtlugoishlua
char icterlitlc of his noted giaudnire.
com blued with a tattle for poetry tun I
music aud charade Matle 8 (use ut
niauly ludepi odeuc«.