reciting an im- "*" prom ptu dissertation on character. The ingenuity of some of these fellows ts amazing. I used to watch one of them in drawing-rooms, and he found hi 3 greatest success, curiously enough, not in flattery but in graceful insult. It was a treat to see him take the hand of a hopelessly respectable old lady of an unblemished humdrum »iery, glance at her palm, start with a shock, look at her with amazement, and refuse to read her hand before people. I said it was a treat to watch her, as sho writhed with delighted horror at his aspersions on character istics which, he told her, discretion or cowardice had kept in check, but •which her hand —ah, her hand dis played so that ho who read might run! Palmistry has kept what place It lias kept in civilized toleration by the fact that its character studies can hardly go entirely wrong. And palm ists have taken good care to provide a refuge from every mistake. The wicked trait which one "mount" pro claims is annulled by the opposite trait proclaimed by a "star;" the aw ful thing which this "lino" threatens is canceled by the shape of a "pha lange;" "grille" contradicts "tri angle;" "island" conquers "cross;" ■spatulate finger gives the lie to coni cal thumb, and the nails to the Itnuckles. Palmistry, then, involves nothing very tragic, because Its very believers <lo not believe in it very much. The •chief objections to it are that it is false in premise and conclusion, that It is a silly superstition allying itself •to astrology and phrenology and for "tune-telling, and that it is used to an extent by cheap swindlers to wheedle money Jrom people who could find ■better uses for it. When palmistry pretends to vivisect ■character, it is merely diverting non sense like charades and conundrums. When palmistry assumes to utter prophecies, it becomes impudent as •well as puerile. When the palmist sets himself up as a counselor upon mat ters of personal conduct, he becomes a public nuisance. It is a pitiful thing for a state to allow liars and charla tans to decoy the poor and the fool ish (for no one else visits them), and take hard-earned dollars for worthless advice. It is obtaining money under ialse pretenses, and in many enlight ened communities professional palm ists are under the legal ban along with thimble-riggers, clairvoyants, pick pockets, quack doctors, and confidence •operators. Among the numerous palmists work ing New York is one who has the un speakable impertinence to advertise £uch monstrous falsehoods as this: business, lawsuits, changes and the ;best moves to make, how to turn fail ure into success and accomplish your ends. Marriages, divorce, personal disagreements, love affairs and all so cial matters, and how to rectify mis takes are dwelt upon with great ac curacy. He has brought light to many In trouble. 11l health, accidents, dan gers, enemies and all the evils that beset mankind are plainly indicated, and words of warning given. You make no mistake in consulting him. "The hand is the mirror reflecting the many events the future holds, and palmistry shows how to change your relation to Fate, and thus choose the best course. Thousands who are suc cessful in every walk of life are be ing guided by it to-day." These are typical springes for woodcocks, and many palmists are •even less immodest in their claims than this man. All the professionals guarantee not only to r,ound the caverns of character, but also to read "tb.e vast backward and abysm" of your past and tho vast forward and Hbysm of your future. The libraries contah black-letter tomes in the French, lfcurUnh, Oos niiin, Latin of centuries ago giving true and infallible signs which make any palm as legible fis* this moruiug's jiewspaper. I should like to (juote some of the dogmas of the elder palmistry, con trast the tangled and contradictory doctrine of to-day, and then conclude by quoting what real scientists say of the evolution and meaning of the curious features of the hand—that wonderful tool which Aristotle called "the instrument of instruments." It may help the laity if I first out line the major states and territories of the hand-map as palmists see it. If you open your palm as widely as pos sible, you will see certain protuber ances and certain lines. The protuber ances, according to evolutionists, are remnants of the pads of our ancient quadrupedal ancestors. 13y palmists they are called "mounts," and they are not only named after the Greek gods of astrology, but are still sup posed to Indicate the qualities typified by those gods and the influences ex haled by their namesake planets. There is something really sublime in this process. An ancient race grad ually invented a group of gods. These gods were fortunate enough to have a number of marvelous poets, dra matists, and sculptors as press agents. They became very popular and their fame remained long after their power had vanished. Some of these gods \ got their names arbitrarily affixed to certain large but remote chunks of whirling slag called planets. Then the ' stupendous idiocy of astrology was evolved, and by jugglery of dates and ! zeniths and things, It was—and still la i —asserted that these chunks of slag s affect the soul-structure, the complex -3 ity and destiny of the Individual born t "under" them. If Saturn was in"the E ascendency" when you were born, you - will be sour and saturnine; if Jupiter, 1 you will be jovial, etc. One might as } well say that a person born in Wash -1 ington square could not lie, and a per son born in Lincoln square would be t assassinated. Now lengthen the ears of these • jackastrologers one yard more and r you reach the palmists. Certain 3 lumps of muscle In what used to be a 3 foot but is now a hand are arbitrarily given the arbitrary names of these a planets and then assigned tho qualities » of those imaginary gods by whose tl ties fchese planets were dubbed as they . were identified. And so we reach the i uttermost tip of the top icicle on the s peak of idiocy and are told that slnco r somebody called the large thumb . muscle "the mount of Venus," there i- fore the thickness of your thumb-mus h cle is the exact gauge of the quantity ;- you posses of those qualities for e which Venus was a proverb. There is nothing in all palmistry so ;- incredible as the credulity of the be i- lievers in it. 0 So we have a "mount of Jupiter" which measures the Jupiterlan quall t ties. So we have lines which Indicate e intellect, sentiment, wantonness, and I- even destiny. And wo have little sub r sidiary quirks of pattern called stars, il crosses, grilles, and tho like, which )• mean other things. Hut to outline the hand; At the base of tho thumb is the mount of Venus; y at tho base of the first finger is the mount of Jupiter; second finger. Sat . urn; third, Apollo (who had no plan ' et); little finger, Mercury. Under a neath Mercury Is the mount of Mars; and underneath this at the base of tho K hand is tho mount of tho moon. The 1 hollow of the palm Is the plain of r Mars. ® The large wrinkle made by the ; thumb turned in is the life-line, on whose clarity and length depend longevity and health. This line can r bo charted off for dates by beginning e at the top and dividing it into nearly 3 equal arcs for periods of five or ten s years. The fate-line which runs up 0 the middle of tho hand can be charted ' off for dates by beginning at the top '' and dividing it into nearly equal arcs for periods of five or ten years. The fate-line, which runs up the middle of r the hand—if it does—can also be •• charted in five-year periods, begin- M" ning at the base. If tho lingers are a folded inward they form in most palms s two wrinkles. The upper is the" heart-lino and it shows "the satisfied 0 or unsatisfied state of the affections." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1910. The lower crease is the head-line; It indicates "the inclination of the nature." Other lines are the lines of Apollo, of marriage, of travel, of the liver or health, and of Intuition. Then there is the ring or girdle of Venus, a curved line sometimes found running between the first and fourth fingers This we are told "has been the sub ject of great disagreement among various authors." According to one, it gives "energy" to either good or bad occupations. This is a very bald outline of the nearly infinite material of palmistry. C. Vanlair, in the Revue de I3elgique published a series of articles, "La Main Psychologique," in which he states that in hands still young there are hardly more than two kinds of lines. Age gradually develops others more fine, short, superficial. Then fi nally appear the lines of senility, which are nothing but the wrinkles of the haud. lie quotes Fere's recent observation of the gradual development in a pi anist of those little curved folds em bracing the base of the fingers which chiromancers designate as "the rings of Venus." The wrinkles in question were marked little by little as a re sult of the very assiduous exercises meant to perfect the individual play of the fingers. He notes that the superior monkeys, the gibbon and the orang, have three folds across the palm; the chimpan zee, more akin to us, has two. Some times criminals, Idiots, and degener ates have only one transverse fold, while normal human palms carry two. As for prophecy by palmistry Van lair exclaims: "Are there not already in the most simple hypotheses relative to the slew evolution of inanimate things, enough unknown terms? Has the science of nature predicted with a complete enough certitude the in finite transformations of the medium which surrounds us that one should dare to broach that imbecile audacity, the problem of the future of a human creature? Can one forget that if there Is one mystery more insoluble than all others, it is surely that of the innum erable contingencies presiding over our destinies?" Prof. Stirling, professor of physi ology at Victoria university, England, stated in the course of a lecture at the royal institution: "Palmistry is an absolute absurdity; the whole thing is beneath contempt. Look at your palms, and you will find certain classical lines. These lines— the so-called lines of life, heart and head, and the girdle of Venus and the bracelets of life around your wrists— what do you suppose they really are? They are nothing more nor less than creases or folds produced by the ac tion of the muscles. Tho line of heart, for instance, is the flexure of the four fingers. The lino of life is the result of the action of the thumb. All these lines that have been given astronomical names by palmists are characteristic flexures. You will find the same lines on the palm of the Barbary ape. Humanity Is daily gulled through its extraordinary igno rance of the elementary facts of physi ology." Prof. Stirling placed finger prints in a very different category. "The print of the thumb alone," he said, "is suf ficient to identify a person for all time." But this Is because of its physical, not Its psychical individu ality. There is. In short, no scientist of any standing whatsoever who gives palmistry any rating whatsoever. By the testimony of its own adepts it is in a state of hopeless contradiction and dispute. Its character-analysis is false, its prophecies do not come true. The hand is a marvelous mecha nism, and it has slowly evolved from the foot of the padded type. Its sen sitiveness and dexterity have coin cided with intellectual progress, but it is no primer of psychology, no tab let of mental and spiritual mysteries Its lines and bulges have no more sci entitle significance than the wrinkles in an old coat sleeve. LAYING FOUNDATION FOR PROFITABLE SHEEP FLOCK Greatest of Care Should Be Exercised In the Selection of the Ewe as Well as the Sire—Time and Patience Also Necessary. (BY W. R. GIT .BERT, CANADIAN EX PERIMENT STATION.) In laying the foundation of the flock the ewes should be selected as uni form in character and quality as pos sible. The first few years should be de voted to improving the ewe flock. This is more easily achieved and far less costly than ram breeding, inas much as sires suitable for getting good ewes never command such high figures as those likely to beget high class rams. In the selection of sires I argue in favor of choosing robust rams. In no case let the fashion lead the breeder to forget that the ultimate object in breeding sheep Is to produce mutton and wool at a minimum of cost. Some rely little on pedigree, others much on form and symmetry, but the Excellent Type of Dorset Ram. power of a carefully bred sheep to stamp a flock must be insisted on. The selection of sires during the first few years is not a difficult mat ter, but in after years it is very troublesome. Should a direct blood cross bo sought or a slight lin® outcross, I am inclined to tho latter view. Breeders should be in no hurry to dispose of rams in service, as some times lambs of little develop into good sheep. When mating ewes, flushing—l. e., placing them on fresh pasture or folding on rape, mustard, kale, etc. — is considered a good partice. It usually results in an early and prolific crop of lambs. After service breeders recommend that the ewes should be removed to poor pasture. In practice it has been found to prevent turning, and in the CONSTRUCTING A WAGON JACK |, j"| For oiling wagon wheels or taking them off some kind of lifting arrange ment is resorted to. For simplicity of construction and effectiveness jack herewith described is unique, writes I. G. Bayley in Scientific Ameri can. The whole, including the pegs or pins A, is made of oak, the best tough white oak being recommended. The beam is made from 3x4 inch timber, planed down to tho dimen sions given. An eye or slot is cut out at the wide end, 1 1-16 inches wide by 4V6 inches deep. This end 13 rounded off to a radius of 2 inches. Five pegs, one inch in diameter by two inches in length, are driven into the upper side. The holes are one inch deep and should allow the pegs to have a driving fit. The upright is 27 inches high to the center of the fulcrum, made from 3x3 inch stuff. The end is rounded off to a radius of 1% inches and a slotted hole is cut in, as indicated in the detail view. The lever is cut from one-inch board, six inches wide by about 33 or 34 inches in length. It should be laid out accurately to the dimensions given in the larger scale view. When correctly made and the slot in the dp right cut likewise, the two ho!»s case of large flocks can be carried out without trouble. Extra feeding at about tupping time results in a larger crop of lambs at the subsequent lambing. As to the date of mating, It varies considerably, Dorsets going to the ram in June, while many of the breeds are not mated until October or November. For show purposes ewes are generally mated three weeks ear lier. In the treatment of in-lamb ewes in early autumn sound old pasture or second year's seeds provide all that is required, and as winter approaches a few roots —preferably v white turnips or cabbage—may be given daily, with a little hay. A full supply of roots is not recom mended. Some months prior to lamb- ing a little trough food Is sound econ omy, as the lambs are healthier and the ewes stronger for the treatment. It is of importance that no crush ing shall take place at tho trough. The fold should be arranged to open to the south. To be perfect the in closure should have a sparred, raised floor, in sections, made of creosoted wood, so as to be easily removed and cleaned. Feeding Sheep. The best feeds are clover hay, a mixture of oats, wheat bran, linseed meal and roots. The sheep barn must be dry and well ventilated. Foul o<Jors and too much heat bring on pneumonia. All straw, stalks, etc., used for lit ter in the sheep barn should be run through a cutter to increase the pow er of absorption. for the pegs A will be in a verti cal line, when the lever is pressed down, as shown In the upper gen eral view. The pegs A should have a loose lit and be furnished with smftll wooden pegs or nails to keep them in place, when the parts are assembled. To operate the jack the lever is raised, us shown in dotted lines in the lower general sketch, and the beam slipped in place under the axle of the wagon, which should rest be tween one of the small pegs in the upper face. Rearing on the lever, it is pressed, down into its lowest posi tion, as shown in the upper sketch, raising the wagon wheal from the ground and securing it in that posi tion indefinitely, without the least chance of its slipping bsuk. Seeding Peas. Peas should be seeded early for the best results, although go.;>d crops are often secured from seeding as late as the tlrst week in June. The crop may lie harvested economically by cutting the peas with a mower equipped with a pea lifting attachment. The crop must be thoroughly cured Jn small cov ered bunches before it is stored. Hood's Sarsaparilla Will purify your blood, clear your complexion., restore your appetite, relieve your tired feel ing, build you up. Be sure to take it this spring. 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