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FARM AND GARDEN NEWS.
WIT AND HUMOR.
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{made, an animal is sold or one leaw.
y *
ing the farm for any other purpose, I Clarence. —Why, the same girl
¢ promised to be a sister to both of
[ night #* “The OId Homestead,”
“Swanee River,” *‘Auld Lang Syne,”
ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS.
Keeping Apples Sound All Winter «Pre.
serving Eggs-=Protecting Bees in Wine
ter--Shallow Covering of Manure--Efc.,
Ete.
APPLES SOUND
WINTER,
lake fine dry saw-dust, preferably
that made by a cirenlar saw from hard
wood, and place a thick layer on bot-
tom of barrel, then plage a'layer “of
apples, not close together, and not |
close to the sides of the barrel. Put
saw-dust liberally over and around,
and so proceed until a bushel and a
half or less are packed in the barrel.
Keep in a cool place. No bruised or |
mellow spples will be preserved. but |
they will not communicate rot to the |
other apples. This is an easier and |
quicker way than to wrap each speci- |
men in papers, and the apples would |
bring fancy prices in the late spring.
KEEPING ALL
i
PRESERVING EGGS.
If eggs are low in price it is a good |
plan to preserve them for the higher
prices that will come later. It is not
at all difficult to keep eggs, when not
fertile, for a long time in cool weather
and without the nse of preservatives. |
if the eggs are put in crates or placed |
in single layers on racks and turned
half over twice a week they will keep
in good condition for two months or
more if stored in a cool place during
the period. Not only will they be
fresh but look fresh, that is, the shells |
will retain that lustre which always
goes w.th an absolutely fresh egg. but
which cannot be retained when eggs
are limed or preserved in any of the
solutions used for the purpose. In|
order to carry out this plan succeds- |
fully thé eggs must be from hens who |
are not running with a male hird, and |
they should be gathered and stored
daily. The cool room in which they
are kept must be frost proof. The
plan is well worth trying, for eggs
will bring several cents a dozen more
in two months than now.
just how it is going to be handled.
We always teach our young cattle
to lead in the winter when there is
plenty of snow on the ground, then
the animal is not very liable to get
hurt in falling. But how should the
real task of breaking be managed? By
taking a cruel whip or club and try to
force them into submission? No. By
kindness? Yes. Use a § inch rope
30 or 40 feet long. Make an old-fash-
ioned tie loop at one end so when in
place it will not choke down the ani-
mal, then make a haif hitch around
tie nose, forming something resemb-
ling a halter. With sucha rope a per-
son can teach a calf or ‘critter’ to
lead in a few days,
direction, This is one of the
are required to do the work,
head should have a rope attached half
way between animal and opposite end
where the main man is,
by side, and if the animal makes a
lunge ahead one of the men can step
so as to give the animal a side turn to
the right, when once more both men
are using their full strength, which
soon teaches your scholar that you are
master of the situation.
{whichever is ne-
them when
a ealf or colt halter
cessary), and teach
young, beginning
days old. When the work has
begun never skip a day (unless Sun
day) without going through the regu
lar exercise, Calves or colts never
forget a training of this kind, and are
much more domesticated in later life
Elirns F. Brown in
once
FILLING THE SILO
There is not the need of filling the
silo in a single day. as was formerly
supposed, so that fermentation could
not begin until half the top was cov-
together. The effect of
to liberate carbonie
is
1%
This
PROTECTING BEES IN WINTER. |
Hives occupied by working colonies
of bees should be protected during
winter, Keepers of bees sel! a chaff
hive that answers the purpose of win-
ter protection better than anything
else. If these are too expensive, a)
good substitute may be made of dry]
goods boxes of various sizes but large |
enough to allow severalinches of space |
for packing material after the hive has
been set in. Make a false bottom and
set it about four inches above the oth-
er bottom after filling the space with
chaff. Cut an opening through the
box on a level with the false bottom, |
making it tight at top and sides so that |
the chaff will not work down and block |
the entrance. The box should be =
foot higher than the hive so that am-
ple protection may be placed over the
top of the hive. The broad chambers |
of the hives only shonld be used, the
lid fastened down closely and set in|
the outer box, the chaff being pack-
ed down firmly all around it and
on the top. It will be necessary to
make acover that will be perfectly wa-
terproof No special form is necessa-
ry, but a sloped roof will be the best.
Cover it with waterproof paper’ and
then a heavy coat of paint. This pro-
tecting box is easily made and opera- |
ted, the main care necessary being
proper roof. space to use plenty of |
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chaff and the carefnl making of the]
entrance through the onter box so
that the bees may go out and in at]
will. This protection will enable the!
bees to pass through the winter in good |
shape if they have a sufficient food |
supply in the hive.—Atlanta Journal. |
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SHALLOW COVERING OF MA-|
NURE.
Farmyard manure should be kept as |
near the surface of the soil as possi- |
ble. The rain water as it percolates |
through the soil has a tendency to]
carry the solable plant food down-|
ward and out of the reach of plants.
Consequently an attempt should be
made to’ delay the downward progress |
of plant food instead of assisting it by |
plowing the manure in deeply. Then |
again, nitrification is most active near
the surface of the soil. Therefore, |
manure kept near the surface is under |
more favorable conditions for having
Its plant food made available and con-
sequently gives quicker returns,
When a heavy applieation of manure
has been plowed under deeply, itis
no uncommon thing to see lumps of
manure brought to the surface hy sub-
sequent plowing, showing that it had
never become properly incorporated
with the soil. It is quite probable,
too, that this deeply buried manure
has lost considerable nitrogen through
denitrification. Economical manur-
ing consists in obtaining quick re-
turns over as large an area of the
farm ag possible, aud this is accom-
plished by moderate applications in-
corporated with the surface soil. Shal-
low covering of manure also increases
the humus of the surface soil. As a
result, the soil does” not bake and
crack in warm weather; it abworbs
and retains water much more satisfac-
torily, and works np into a fine tilth
more easily. Now England Home-
stead.
TEACHING STOCK TO LEAD.
One thing farmers are confronted
with every few days in the winter
wonson is the lead ng of the cattle.
Fall stock are the more diffienlt
to teach how to lead. Its a pleasure
to a farmer to have his cattle tanght
to lead as well as horses; forthen he
realizet shat when a change is to be
the silo unless there is a hole near the
bottom to send in
air. The greatest care should be ta
ken to see that insects or mice have
drilled holes through the wood-
work of the silo during the time it has
been nnoceupied. If such holes can
be found they ashonld be covered and
closed with cement.
The shorter the silage is ent the bet
ter it will keep, because short silage
packs itself closely and encloses little
air. It is the amonuntof air which the
silage holds at the beginning that de
termines how mneh it shall ferment
If the amount is small the silage will
come out sweet, The richness of the
silage has pinch to do with its
Corn that is
sweet
Ness OF sSourness, LEAT
ing maturity, but
the leaf, makes the best silage. It
has more sugar and starch, and these
ferment, are turned
acid gas, and thus stop
fermentation. On the
corn that is no-
mature, and has little
sakes a very poor silage,
very sour. So, in
any farther
green
where near
m
and is mostly too,
cornstalka
almost rotten when
taken from the silo.
Ina dryfall we think that stalks ent
The advantage of the
latter plan iz that 1t enables the farm-
er to limit the loss in a wet season
eutting the corn stalks fine, and put
ting them ina silo where the fermen-
the best covering is dry straw, all the
better if it is chopped fine.
je acid gas beneath, which will pre
Cultivater,
Some Psychic Research.
The band small girls had
stealthy tread and the surreptitious
titter which betrays youth en mis
chief bent, There was no doubt that
they should have been in bed hours
ago. but the manner in which children
escape the vigilanee of their elders on
such occasions will always be one of
the mysteries of an otherwise progres
sive civilization. They were running
on tiptoe to overtake a lady and a
man who had just gotten off the
street car. The fady turned sharply.
“Why aren't you at home?" she
asked with remarkable fortitude.
The answer came in a tone which
betokened full confidence in the right
sousness of a cause:
loweenin'.”
“Well what would you do If T were
to take a nandful of flour from under
my cape and throw it all over you
“Why, you wouldn't do angthing
like that, wedld you?’
“I don't know. You see, we're oul
Halloweenin®' oarselves.”
“Well, T «pose It would have to go
Pet look here, you muan't think we
children do all that mischief.”
“Who is it?”
JUUs unruly spirits, It tells all
about them in a book up at owt
house.” |
“I never saw any such spirite”
“They're around. though. This Is
their chance to have fun. But they're
too sharp to get caught, They kuow
how to hide.”
“But where do they go?’
“Well to tell you the tenth, ma'am,
1 believe they get inside us chiidren,”
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A CHILD'S THANKSGIVING,
T thank thee, Father in the skies,
For this dear home xo warm
bright;
I thank Thee for the sunny day
And for the sleepy, starry night,
I thank Thee for my father's arms,
Ho big and strong to hold me near;
I thank Thee for my mother's face;
I thank Thee for my dolly dear,
and
I thank Thee for the little birds
That eat my erumbs upon the sill;
I thank Thee for the pretty snow
That's coming down =o soft and still,
0, Father up there in the skies,
Hear me on this Thanksgiving day,
And please read in my little heart
The *‘thank yous’ T forgot to say.
—{ Kate Whiting Patch,
A——
A PLEASANY PASTIME,
A pleasant pastime is making chains
and disks squares of
These may bought in
or
he
home, Soak the straws well, and
then ent them in half-inch lengths,
The disks and squares may be ent
The
thread should be tied to the eve of
the needle, and the child taught to
thread alternately straw and disk or
square.
A GREAT NATURAL BRIDGE,
. his beautifnl wonder of is
situated twenty miles southwest of
Douglas, Wyoming, where the La
Prele creek breaks through the foot
hills of the Laramie Mountains, The
flows, or rather tnmbles
and pitches, throngh a narrow, ragged
about 1,000 feet in depth.
the end of the gorge a
wall of #olid rock, about 150
feet in height, stretches right
In time
plunged
which
but finally the
underneath,
natire
stream hLiere
cauon
Nem
ledge or
lower
ROTORS
canon, long past the
top of
a
water
Lins the
this rock
natural
found
Over
wall, wis then
dar
WAY
its and the
result is this Inidge.
In spau of
thing of its kind in the known world
From buttress to buttress the bridge
180 feet; arch
about seventy five feet the
water, and breadth of under side, up
and down eighty feet The
arch is as perfect as though
buil hands than
formed by the action of water. Not
alone for this remarkable bridge does
It pay the tourist to visit spot;
the wild, grand beanty of the canon
seeing, and added to
“Urystal Cave" in which may
ountless beautiful qnartz
various sizes and shapes.
its arch it exceeds any
if highest of
point
above
stream,
alinost
rather
t by man’s
thie
is will worth
this is a
be seen
©
cryials of
LIEUTENAST HOBSON.
As Lieutenant Hobson be
a lad, and was in the Naval Academy
at Anvapolis, moral
grew to
his conrage and
well matehed. You have read “Tom
at Rugby’? Yon remember
the gentle little Arthur and the rongh
and-ready, rugged Tom? Youug
dichmond had the fine qualities of
both,
One day vonng
rest of his class,
ming lesson Hoe was {ar
the breakers,
be almost sure drowning to
of the rope. But it happened
some mischance that, as
pressed still farther out
frown
with
the
out along
It would
hold
by
Hobson
he met a
celingiag for life
two
Hobson,
was at
the
SW
the rope in
lose
to the rope 1 hiey were sione
The two looked into each
other's eyes. It was a hard moment |
the voungsters, Safe passage
along the rope for both was nearly
fads
Hobson gave way to his classmate,
But, somehow, at the moment of the !
boy s passing him, even this slight
hold gave way, and he sank into the
breakers,
The boy left on the rope got in,
and sent aid. Hobson was brought
to shore. All supposed he was dead, |
“Nobody conld have come out of it |
alive but Hobson,” was the general
“He is a tongh fellow to stand |
And, from that day, he was |
among his classmates as!
“Parson Tough.”
You can see, even from this brief
up, Richimond Hobson has been grow
ing to be a hero,
FUN POR THANKSGIVING EVENING
After the holiday dinner is eaten,
a little fan largely assists digestion, |
and on Thanksgiving night young
folks will greatly entertain their elders |
if they arrange for their amusement
“A Family Picture Gallery.” For
this, a large picture frame is placed
on a table in a folding doorway and |
the upper part of the opening con-
cealed by draperies that can be let |
down between the tableaux. A num:
ber of persons then attire themselves
in antique costumes, and appearing
in tarn behind the frame, are de-
seribed as portraits. If the exhibitor
be a glib-tongned young fellow, this
cau be made extremely funny, as he
introduces little anecdotes connected
with each as~how “Grandpa Pratt”
once had an encounter with a cata:
mount; and how Aunt Mehitable from
Bquedunk flirted with Deacon Pop-
eye.
Tir little children in sunbonnets
and pantalets, simpering “bread and
butter schoolgirls,” solemn preachers
and comiortable ‘Samantha Allen”
sort of old ladies, way all be intro-
duced and dilated npon as ancestors
of the family, Meanwhile, between
the pictures, all might unite in sing-
stich as "The Old Ousken
Backer,” Whore
§
3
is my Boy To
tand “Home Sweet Home.”
Or, if preferred, the same idea can
be carried out in historical tableaux,
| celebrated pictures being earefully
| studied and reproduced. Thus might
{ be shown Btuart’s portraits of George
{and Martha Washington; Queen Lou
iise of Prussian holding her famous
rose; Qneen Elizabeth in ruff and
farthingale, General Grant, snd an
{ unlimited number of other well
known characters,
For gw round game ‘Lady Thanks
giving's Dinner'’ affords both amuse:
ment and a test of memory. Seated
in a circle, the first player asks the
next, “What had Lady Thanksgiving
for dinner to-day ?"* He replies what
ever he first thinks of, as “pumpkin
pie,” and, turning to his neighbor,
repeats the inquiry. This one men
tions the first dish and adds another,
as ‘her ladyship had pumpin pie
and popcorn balls,”
the company, the
with every answer,
menu increasing
while each must
be careful to repeat in the exact order
given, acyone failing to do so being
dropped from the game, At first this
is an easy matter, but when two or
three dozen dainties have been served
up to the fair dame, it will be found
to be quite a task to remember all in
correct rotation, and tue number of
players will decrease rapidly. The
one keeping up the game longest
might be rewarded with alittle favor.
But the children must not be for-
| gotten, and they would perhaps
better enjoy ‘‘Onr Minister's Cat.”
The first player remarks to her right-
hand neighbor, **Our minister's cat is
an awinl eat.” Number two repeats
it, only changing the adjective to
another commencing with the same
letter, “Our minister's cat is an
artful cat,” and so it goes around the
eircie until all the A's are exhausted.
Then B is taken up, and thus through-
out the alphabet, There must be no
repetition of adjectives, and the diffi-
enlty of thinking of a word creates the
sport.
as
By the close of the game the
if
that existende it would
prove a fortune to any museum.
The evening might then concinde
with *'A barnyard art exhibition.”
A blackboard is set npon a large sheet
of paper pinned upon the wall. Each
member of company
turn; blindfolded and bidden to draw
nrkey with eyes shut, The
performance is amusing, and the birds
thus created were surely never sen
A committee inapects
ench sketch and awards a prize to the
one work of art most nearly
the king of the Thanks
giving feast,
feline 6
the
a his
on sea or land,
w hose
resembles
The Beginning of an Assay.
imagine a gold mine, You
many climates-Riberia or
Australia
Nitnate
may a
Africa
or
you
the
ail
lect
Klondike or California
india
will Wey
where
your mine
t be a gold
in
over
ne 08 mine
¢
of sane
a
2 is (he
Seleet
fifty
PIO ilire
(l¢
the
Ore Wi
ASS Y
Ww world ass
f ighing perhaps is
Da
because
pPoun
amd smash It not
way
up
the
so thinly
any gold in it
pred
fous metal is probably and
that it 8 impossible to grain
ore
This
cone, which
of which
whose angles
re opposite to one another. Mix these
and again di
vide into four: take two portions again
and so ott till a sample of convenient
bulk obtained i¥ this logical
method the sample yielded is, on aos
ordinary ecaleniation of probability.
certain represent accurately the
original mass taken.
A ceriain quantity
i= weighed
#pot n
together, © Continue grinding the
« in the form of powder
a
parts,
two
is heaped into
is divided into four
sampler takes
o parts thoroughly
is
io
of this sample
out, two equal
taken ag checks upon
each other. The weighing may be
done in denominational values of eith
er grammes or assay tons. The assay
fon I= A most convenient invention and
very simply explained. The ordin-
ary ton contains 32.6666 onnces; if,
then, we make a unit (an assay tor)
weighing 32.6667 grammes, each 001 of
a gramme will equal one ounce per
ton. «Thus no ealenlation i= needed at
all to estimate the gold richness of an
ore per Chambers's Journal,
How
in
fon.
The Colonel and the President.
During the iat
a certain old
served all through
Spanish-American
colonel whe had
the civil war and
one of his eyes at the
because he was put aside ax
for admiscion to one of the New York
volunteer reghients,
Filled with wrath he journeved to
Washington, bent on having n person.
with the President. He
the President. after listening to his
plea, sald Kindly:
“But, my good Colonel J
only one eye”
“Just so, sir.” was the prompt re.
Joinder: “but ean’t you sev the great
advantage of my having only one eye?
When I alm my gun | will sot have
to close the other!”
He fought at Santiago.
SLR
The Work One Docs.
A statistician has estimated that an
average man of Nifty years oll has
worked 0500 days, slept 6.000 has
amused himself 400, has walked 12.
000 miles, has been ill 5,000 days, has
partaken of 36.000 meals, eaten 15.
000 pounds of meat and 4,000 pounds
of fish, eggs and vegetables and
drank 7.000 gallons of fluid,
The first theatre lu the United
States was built at Williamsburg, Va.
. You have
Up-to-Date Jokes and Witticisms From th:
comic Papers.
TAR HAPPIEST MAY.
Who is the happiest man ?
i
then !
A PROLIFIC INYVEXTOR. ‘
“I guess that man has invented
more airships than anybody else in
Is it he that is doing the best that he
can,
Or he that governs the State ?
Is it he that bas won a fair maid for
his own,
Or the warrior who makes his foes
scatter 7
No. no; it is he who is sitting alone
With @ woman who knows how to
flatter,
A SUITABLE NAME,
““If this is your ‘Indian summer,” "”
growled the refugee from Mississippi,
blinking dismally and drawing his
rain cont tighter about his shivering
form, “I kuow what Indian it was
named after,”
“Well 2?” said the curious citizen,
“Rain-in-the-face.”
TO SOUL.
CHEER A BADDENED
Good gracious, Bridget! I
dreamed that when I gave you aun
afterncon off you'd come back Ing
ging one of the funeral wreaths,’
**Ol am goin’ to sind it to me sis-
ter's husband's aunt, poor soul. Ble
Las foive weeks, an’ Oil
think it might cheer her up ’
been sick
BETTER THAN A WASTE BASKET.
Mildred— What's the ‘poetic fire”
one reads so much about ?
Charley—It's generally the fire in
the editor's grate, if he can afford to
have a grate in hiz office.
OFF FOR THR
Bridegroom.
HONEYMOON.
afraid we
contented
are
I'm
look so happy and
everyone wili know
married,
Jest-Man leonsolingly). — Don’t
worry, old chap; it ouly be for a
that
we just
will
day or two, you know !
AN IEREPARABLE BREAK.
her aud pressed
her rosy cheek against Lis and patted
it, she asked
“(reorge, do you
After he bad kissed
shave yourself ?"’
“Yes,” he replied
**1 thought so,” said. “Your
face is the roughest [ ever’ ——— Then
she stopped, but it was too late, and
he went away with a cold, heavy iump
in Lis breast,
sie
LIGHTNESS,
“You should pat your mind on your
work,” said the candid friend.
‘I do,” confessed Willie Wishing-
ton. *‘But I never ¢:n tell what
ment something irrelevant is
come along and brush it off ”
io
going
HIS GREAT WORK.
First Professor. ““Isn’t it strange
about old Dr. Hardbee: he has taken
to going to all the dances and after-
noon teas in town. Do you
his mind can be affected ?"'
Second Professor, “Ol,
suppose
he is
no;
Do Women really Reason ?”
RUIENTIFICALLY EXPLAINED,
“There is one thing in the compli-
our existence that
I have solved and confirmed by long
observation. People who are quick
to anger are just as quick to get over
i .
“How do you account for it, pro-
fessor ?”
**I have concluded that they get so
away in fervid heat.”’
HE BURNED IT.
chap.
“Yes, he is.’
“Has he got much money back of
him ?
+
has ahead of him.’
BIGHLY SENSITIVE
“I'm going to report that post office
clerk,” indignantly exclaimed
Young woman with ink on her fingers,
‘He always seemed very polite,”
said her companion.
“Well, he isn't What business
matter.”
UNKECESSARY QUESTION.
“Have yon bern getting your hair
ent?’ asked the observant boarder,
exasperating way some men have,
‘“No,” replied the cross-eyed board-
er, savagely. *‘I've been having my
shoes blacked.”
A GOOD THING.
Lambkin—But, really, is there any
money iw this thing yon are. pushing
80 energetically ?
Wolfson-—There will be, my dear
fellow, when the subscriptions for the
stock come in,
NO CONSOLATION,
“There's no use in being discour-
aged, Victor,” said his young wife.
“‘Bemember that when William Cul
len Bryant began to write he got only
$2 apiece for his poems.”
“Only $2!" exclaimed the strug-
gling young literary genius, with bitter
emphasis on the “only.” “If1 could
I could make $40 a day!”
HE WAS MYSTIFIRD,
“What is this 7” asked the custom-
er from U
“It's a kaleidoscope,” replied the
sales girl,
“How do you play it?" inquired
the customer, trying to find the
mouthpiece,
KRAR BELATIONSRIP,
Clarence,
“1 shouldn't have taken him for a
scientist.”
“He isn't one, He's a rural corre-
SYMPATHETIC,
“Yes, said the young man, ‘liter
*“Y shonld imagine 80,” replied Miss
Cayenne. “When I realize that some
authors have to keep their minds on
the staff they write 1 feel positively
sorry for them.”
DEVENDING HER
“You have to tell your age when
you register, don’t you, {ieorge 7"
“Yes, ''
““And whether yon sre married or
not #*’
“Yes. "
“Well, for my sake, please, George,
fell them that I'm your second wife
AGE.
$
MEAN TRICK OF A DENTIST.
An Episode That Put Murder in the Hess! of
an Estimable Gentleman.
nst the law to
a very
Orleans.
“1 wonder if it’
kill sald estimable
of New
I would like to indnige in a
A
has just cat
and he did
and ungen
we
dentists’
“hed Re
if
it is not
homicidal Con
molar mangler
with my best girl,
it in a peculiarly mean
manner. 1 knew
but be is a good operator. and 1
class orgie
te out
were ri
vals,
went to him to a back tooth filled
not thinking he stoop apy
thing unprofessional. Well, bad
trouble reaching the spot, so he pried
open my jaws as far as they would
and drove In a coup
to keep apart i
or gut
»
would to
he
go le of patent
then must
like an alligator,
» looked exactly
hile I was sitting there helpless
atures entirely obscured by my
the
heard a sort of
mouth, who should walk in but
lady herself i
titter, and In wy excitement I sat bolt
upright and
“avity on her
vit)
she
eo
yor
ng
trained that
like a thirteen
did
inf
yawning
f inch gun.
* » ’ we srivils «
Of course not know anything
>
about tho ernal plugs, and attrib.
to astonish
comcluded 1
idiot she had Oe,
our Mr. Blank’
yr vou'll cateh cold.” 1 made a
meaning
the brute pretesnd-
my expression
lie tarally
na
“ni eV er
' ¥ mouth
"5
gesiure at the dentist,
but
and remarked that 1
open countenance. 1
all 1 conld say
wowwow! and
went
I thought
She
im to tell,
tf 10 see me
“ing
ularly
=
tried to sniai
-
Ow!
like
wow!
that, and
nto shrieks of |
w ould
was
%s foe ora
ting
off
the girl
3
they both
anghier.
liever got
1s mast
for he
un tried fo
all a pure
. ¥
motioned for hia
S109.
hysterical, but the der
murder in my ey
her and
believe it
1 merels
to take out the plugs, 1
he armed 1
and stood
i said to
bul
have seen *,
showed out the
make me was
before he'd
yimself with a
defensive.
do it big
mallet on the
What him is pelither here
nor ie knows my opinion
of the whole business. and if it hadn't
been for the mallet—what about
lady, did ask? Oh. 1
seen her That's all
there,
the
young you
since,
off.”
——————
ludiana's Fat Maa.
Tongevity is not the only feature of
indiana rural life, Over near the vil
the distinction of weighing nearly a
quarter of a ton. George Washington
He stands § feet 10
27 inches around the
at 540 pounds.
the waist. His excessive flesh has
made him almost helpless, and he has
He now permits enterpris-
ing managers to exhibit him, that lie
family.
Mr. Walker's 18 a peculiar case He
apd had
married before any evidence of ap
became appar-
Noble county
2%
years of age he was as other men in
the matter of weight. None of his
ancestors, as far back as he can re.
member, was endowed with too much
flesh. His parents are both small peo.
ple, his father weighing but 145
pounds. His mother is somewhat lar.
ger, but she is far under 200. Shortly
after the birth of his son he began to
take on flesh rapidly, until it became
impossible for him to do even light
farm work.
When he had attained a weight of
over 400 pounds, be decided to make
this fact the vehicle for a living. For
several years he has put In the sum.
mer months at county fairs ac the
champion fat man, and bas earned a
comfortable income by his exhibitions,
His flesh continues to inercess so that |
hie Is almost helpless, alti otigh he can
still walk about slowly without the
assistance of a cane, Unlike most fat
men, Mr. Walker is a heavy eater. his
appetite keeping pace with the in
crease of adipose tissue. Chicago
Sige Up.
1t is sald that a French painter ones
visited the salon in Paris in company
with a friend who was a member of
the committee of selection, who had
been Instrumental in securing the ac.
He was born In