FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
NOTES OF INTEREST © ON AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS.
Dalry Dangers---Diseases of Poultry-+ Fruit
Culture and Bees-~Bedding for Hogs--Va-
riety of Hens to Keep, Etc, Etc.
Dairy Dangers.
Persons afflicted with any
disease, either acute or chronie, should
not be permitted to milk a cow. All
disease germs find a good place to de-
velop in a can of warm milk, and you
owe it to those who may use the milk,
or its product,
tagious disease Is comunicated by its
use. Cans, pails, or bottles, which are
used for holding milk should not be
feft for a moment in a sick room, un:
less they are thoroughly
before being used.
a good disinfectant,
will not answer in
Elome,
kind of
such cases.— Rural
Diseases of Poultry.
The following mixture is a sure cure
for chicken cholera:
of red pepper, alum, sulphur and cop-
peras. Mix in scalded corn meal and
in severe cases allow one-third of a
teaspoonful to each fowl daily, but in
ordinary cases one tablespoonful In
three pints of meal is sufficient.
For gapes, a teaspoonful of flour of
sulphur mixed in a quart of water
will rid poultry of in a few
«days. This is a certain cure.
Roup is caused by damp,
weather and if the poultry house
warm and tight so there is no draught
there will be but little roup; but when
chickens contract it they can be cured
by making a paper funnel and blowing
sulphur down their throats.
remedies are simple, cheap and effect
ive.—Epltomist.
Rapes
chilly
is
Fruit Culture and Bees.
The fruit grower who able
handle bees without much trouble will
find them not only profitable in them.
selevs but of gredt value to his or
«hard fruits. As a rule the blossoms
of fruit trees are well fertilized by
various nsec of the section, but in
many cases the domestic bee has made
orchards profitable that for years fail
ed to set fruit blossoms in any guan-
tity. Many culturists make a
practice setting the hives in the or
chard to the advantage of both bees
and trees. The objection to this prac
tice has been urged that sting
fruit of kinds, especially
grapes, pears amd plums, This is not
Jo, for bees rarely if ever puncture
although frequently found tak-
is to
is
hee
&
of
bees
various
fruit,
ing the juices from fruits previously
injured by birds or in other ways. The
best results from bees in the orchard
are obtained when the trees are head
ed low. This will enable the bees
pollenize the blossoms all over the tree
and will also make the gathering of
the fruit easier. Try a hive of bees
among the trees that have been shy
bearers and note the results,
[£4]
Bedding for Hogs.
1 wonder how many farmers
bed down their brood sows with corn
fodder? Not very many, I dare say.
Bot it makes a splendid nest—superior
to straw when the hogs once get them
well broken up. Straw all right
when one has plenty on hand, and go-
ing to waste, and no doubt it would be
economy to use straw for bedding io
such a case and feed the fodder,
pecially so, If short of coarse feed. 1
speak of this simply to show how
stalks can be used, for on some farms
Straw is scarce and fodder plenty.
Clover hay makes a good nest. be
sides Fa worlds or nourish
gent to the hogs. There 5 one trouble
in bedding bogs with the clover in the
winter time. They will éat it up un
less bedded every day or depend.
ing on the amount used,
One mistake, 1 think,
as a role make,
properly bed our hog yards during the
winter months. Here we may say is
one of the leaks in the swine business,
Men of advanced ideas, and practieal
farmers, too,
that grain-feed manure is richer in
plant food than other kind, but what
else is there on the farm that is allow-
ed to run so much to waste as never to
collect enough manure to make any
ever
is
To
80,
we
best manure we ever used on our farm
was when we kept our hogs in a yard
-oply when feeding and bedded down
every day, the same as our cattle and
horses,
Supposing as much straw or corn
folder were used for bedding in the
big yards and nesis as is used in the
horse and cow barns, according to the
amount of grain fed. This would put
a stop to at least one leak in the swine
industry, and make the first cost still
less, and our profits more satisfactory.
«Ellas F. Brown In Agricultural Epi
tomist.
a
Caring for Farm Tools
It is a rule we have always found
true that the suceesstul farmer always
takes the best care of his tools. Jie
has sheds for his mower, rake, binder,
plow and cultivators, drill, planter,
harrow, ete. They are never left out
‘exposed to the weather, to decay or
rust, but ave housed as swoon as done
_msing them for the season. When the
season for a pleer of machinery is!
past, it Is run into shelter until a rainy
or, when it is carefu
previous year. The plows aad cult
vators can be taken apart as can other
pleces of machinery, so that less space
will be occupied,
Few farmers have a pines where
they can store their machinery, The
first cost of putting up a building
large enough, is one that many farm-
ers do not feel that they can afforg,
though the saviog in machiner in the
first ten years would more than pav
for the building. He cannot always
see that it would pay; he counts only
{the cost of the building, not the money
paid out in repairs and new machinery
| But nearly every farmer has unused,
sheltered nooks in barns, sheds, stable
or crib, where a part of a machine
i might be left, or where the harrow
{might stand. Perhaps he has more
shed room than is utilized. He can
{ partition off a few yards of it and run
i the mower, binder, ete, in out of the
| storms and snow of winter. Perhaps
there is room for a cultivator between
the corn and roof of the corn erib. By
storing the machinery in these old
{ nooks one can keep nearly all his tools
[out of the weather's harm.
| A sure sign of a shiftless farmer Is
to see a binder, dismantled and alone,
in the fence corner of a stubble field,
a mower where left in the meadow
with the rake for a neighbor, the cul
tivators at the end of the last row of
corn plowed, with the plows and plan.
ter near by, and no doubt the harrow
i close at hand, only the weeds hiding
iit from sight; the wagon out in the
sun and rain, and carriage, if he has
one, also sitting in the shade of a tree,
We have all seen this sort of
farmer, and know what the result of
his recklessness has been will be.
He can not stand the strain, and soon-
er or later must sink. It may not be
the cost of machinery that does it, but
it is the same shiftless disposition that
causes the neglect of this great leak,
i that causes the overlooking of the
irest. There are many leaks which if
tHleft to run, will sink the farmer's
craft. Farm machinery is one of the
greatest. Buy only what you must
i have, and take the best care
that.
ete,
or
of of
Variety of Heas to Keep.
What variety of hens shall we keep
is a question so frequently asked, but
never answered. No one will
meet all the requirements. If eggs are
what is principally desired, the great
majority of poulirymen will name the
White Leghorn. There may some
other that will produce a few
more but other considerations
will probably turn the choice to the
Leghorn nearly every time. The Ham
burg may lay a few more
they
less value per dozen,
orea is an excellent
Hittle when
table munch
horn, and this
into f«
breed
we
breeds
CEES,
CEES,
The Black Min
laver, but
wanted for
than the
acoonnt
worth leas Leg
Count, to
market,
principally for
Barred Plymouth Rock
lar all-purpose fowl,
farms, probably,
or Barred Plymouth
found four times
as a good many have
whether they are
or not
is a very popu-
On all
White
Rock
of five, which
certainly indicate that th
chol ny between these two: but 1
makes much less difference what the
breed is than does what care
If they are crowded into two
small pens they will be unprofitable,
whatever the breed, If their condi
tion in regard to lice is neglected, there
will be every time. We hear
of men undertaking to keep poultry on
a large and soon discarding i
as unprofitable, more frequently than
in aknost anything undertaken,
{and in nine cases out of fen they are
driven out of the business by lice,
Lice are the most serious drawback
fo the nouliry business, but they ean
be kept in check, and the poultry kept
in a healthy condition, but it requires
more care and vigilance that the ma-
jority of people are willing to give.
Mainé Farmer.
go to
op
Ch Rs
ouitry
the
will
out
6
it
receive,
a Ie me
scale,
Te
An Eskimo Burial
The Eskimos bury their dead under
mounds of stones on jutting promon-
A year or two ago a yachting
| party from St. John's, which had land-
ed near Cape Chidley, saw an Eskimo
burial. Four Eskimos hauled over the
dry ground the Komatik, or sled.
which was the body of a hunter who
had been drowned in the killing of a
walrus, After them came in irregular
order a procession of about thirty men
and women. On a high, rocky point
of land, overlooking the sea they
placed the body in a sitting position,
laid the hunter's paddle, harpoon.
throw stick, and snowkhoes beside it,
and then, with stones as large as
could be handled, proceeded to build
a wall about the body, When the wall
had been carfied above the head, they
roofed it with fiat stones and then
built a rounded mound over the whole,
But they left a hole in the roof so
that the man could come out at any
time if he wished. Then the party
ranged itself in a semicircle before
the mound and one man sang a weird
chant with a chorus or refrain in
which all the others joined. This
done, they went back to their encamp-
ment with no further show of grief
and resumed their usual oecupations.
An Interesting London Church.
Another interesting London ehureh
is in process of demolition—the
Church of the Holy Trinity, Minories.
The church building, which dates’
from 1708, is the successor of the ans |
SPORTS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
HOW THE NATIVES OF THE
AMUSE THEMSELVES.
Very Fond of Aquatics-Bouts With Man.
eater Sharks-~Bull and Pony Fights-Cock |
Fighting Amounis to a National Passion,
Natives of the
that we are different from themselves
in this regard. Consequently, it is
not certain that you will be
if you call to a native
as you are going down
time, How can a man be
when he has the water
to swim in? The native does not un-
derstand at all, and sits calmly
watching your third disappearance
and commenting on your lack of
grace. He may remark on the length
of time you can hold your breath and
possibly will jab around with a stick
a little, to see If you Imve not gone
to sleep. He cannot think “drown,” be
cause he has no word for it
It is good sport watching the natives
from the tobacco factories bathing af
ter the day's work Is done. Four or
five thousand of them in together
men, women and children—Iin the mer
riest confusion, playing all sorts of
pranks on one another and no end of
games, all in their birthday
Along some parts of the beaches near
Manila bathing is dangerous-—at
at certain for sharks abound
and come up even where the water is
no more than four feet deep. Maneat
crs will attack natives who ride dowa
into the on horseback to bathe
their animals, and nip off a if
they have half a chanse.
As a rule, though, the natives meat
the maneaters half way, and will dive
in and rip the fish open with a knife,
It is rare but has made little
headway among Europeans. They are
shy of bathing; for not only have they
no use for sharks, but they dread
Jelly fish, that stings like a live elec
tric wire and poisons one worse than
any ivy. One of them will swell a
man's to the size of his leg or his
leg to the size of his body.
Of course, where there are so many
Spaniards must be bull fights,
The Manila bull is a gentile creature,
compared to maguificant animals
raised in Mexico and in Spain, and the
fights are correéspondngly excl
ing. Variations are introduced, there
fore. One of not long ago was a
contest between a tiger,
‘ina, and a bull, whi
in a large cage in the middle of
There wns ex¢
day to even
for
the
in
second
danger
suits,
least
BEeaNons
sen
leg
sport,
si the
arm
there
the
ir BN
these
brought over
$
i
rom x took
place
arena.
enough that
enthusiasts,
Another diversion,
are tame,
the only
ment
the
{ the
:
satisfy
the bulls
Manila
to see this
when
is pony fighting.
in the world t
variety of Spanish sport. A coquettish
mare
i to a past in the
and
smiles
is
place
fa
ig hitched by four feet o rope
:
inclosure
win
center of an
ponies who would
Each is jealous of
he advanced to pay
three her
are
the others,
{ court to the
violent a
with an
! ribs or
ives the
two,
thin
in
or t
rede
other
kick
queen
good
ttentions he
in
herself
occasional swift
neck from the
she has a really opportu
i nity,
Cock -f igh
gion of the
its cockpit
their birds
the
natives,
The
than
ting is one grand pas
Every town lias
men think more of
their wives and
children, In case of fire they seize
them and run; afterward, if it is not
too late they think of their families
Cocks range in price from 335 to
$2,000, and large sums are wagered at
the mains,
of
The upper classes, foreign or Span
fsh, do not care for cock-fighting, but
the government derives a large reve
nue from the sport by issuing leenses
for exclusive privileges, one license
for each district. These licenses are
awarded to the highest bidder. He
puts up bis pit, which is ‘a rough
structure, like a barn, in which the
pit Is surrounded by tiers of seats, ar.
anged so as to give every one a fair
view. He gets a fee for every cock
to spectators. Although he does a
large business, most of his receipts go
to the government, because owing, to
license,
found
notifies the manager of the pit,
cocks on his list. Then they hand
their wagers to the betting official,
pit a spur on each bird and walt for
their turn.
This betting official has a good mem
ory and a good head for figures.
find bets and to take care of them. Hoe
keeps track of all the cocks entered.
Any one wishing to back a certain
cock tells the official which bird and
gives him the amout he desires to wa
ger. The official goes around among
the spectators to find a taker. He
makes no notes or record of any sort
but after the main is over he counts
onit the correct amounts and hands
them to the winners, without ever a
mistake. Sometimes $100,000 changes
hands on a single main.
There Is good hunting near Manila,
and some big game on the niarby
island, “Flying foxes” are queer
game, They hang Uke black bags
are not easily seen on account of the
| dense foliage. When they are roused
they make the air tumultouns with
re aa Bt
them with olla. and. ‘say they
| better than quail.
and will drink it 6ven
The Manila farmer
i sometimes finds his cane fields full of
Intoxicated bats in the morning, A
bat with a jag is lost. Even the crows
[make a monkey of him. Ludlow
Brownell in Detroit I'ree Press.
A SQUADRON OF MODELS.
suonr cane,
i when fermented.
| Miniatures of Our War Yosschs io Be at the
Paris Exposition.
There Is one fleet of Uncle Sam's
vessels whose wanderings are not re:
{corded in the reports of the navy, and
that is the squadron of models now
reating for a while In the hallways of
ithe Navy Department, Washington.
These tiny representations of our real
Hghting craft have traveled thousands
of unregistered miles and have, in all
probability, been seen by more of the
American people than the ships that
actually form our seagoing defense,
They have been in every state exposi-
nce their first appearance at the
' Chicago Falr, each time In augument-
ed numbers, and two of them have
even been to Japan, where they so i
pressed the Imperial Admirality as to
the building of the Chitose and
Kazsagl in this country. They will,
doubt, form an attractive feature
our exhibit at Paris next year, e
pecially as so many of the models rep-
the have actually
faced the guns of the enemy, and,
truly be said these miniatuge
have influenced legisintion in be
of the navy’ by reacn
the Inland people previously wu
interested in the As a last
ing record of the new navy they wil
prove material evidence in the decades
me when the
tion si
cause
the
io
of
resent vessels that
{00
it may
ships
haif
ing
8 increase
sry jee,
to Co ships themselves
passed, the late Maine, into
history. From the old Kearsarge to
the mighty new one the Nevy Depart
ment strikingly our advance,
and, too In a manoer to be grasped
by young and old, the technicist and
the layman,
At present
consists of 23
w—-id
have as
shows
this growing squadron
models either represent
ing individual ships or classes of s
and, with
boats and torpedo boat de
ery its
There models of
would be hard to say
thousands came
of
hips,
the ox¢ eption of torpedo
ev
double,
Maine,
how
siroyers,
miniature
f the late
type has
are
and it
many
the earls
Charleston, {
York, the
Monterey,
ton, the
‘Yorktown, the
ton, the Vesuvius,
lowa, the Olympia,
sarge,
Massachusetts,
the
Annapolis
The
wan
Chief Construc
yard,
Ago.
disaster; the
the New
Columbia, Texas, the
the Miantonomoh, the Bos
Bancroft, the Petrel the
Nashville, the Wilming
the Iinols, the
and the old Kear
amd the battleship class of the
Indiana and Oregon,
composite boats typified by
Wheeling.
of these models
the direction
Hitchborn at
Wa ashington, quite
years and the present fore
bering nearly thirty.
part been
this delicate work ever since
outward detail these little
ralthful miniatures of
doubles actual servi
that can be understood
form outline of the
and of fabrication,
Caught an Aldine Beaver.
“1 believe 1 am only white per
son that ever trapped or killed au
adult albino beaver,” sald Thomas
Gilroy, an ex-ranchman
“Albino beavers are the rarest of ani
mais, and the
saw besides the one [ trapped were
two cubs captured by an Indian on
Wind River more than thirty years
ago. There were four young beavers
in the pest this Indian secured, and
two of them were black. The mothe:
of the litter was captured with them
and she was black. There is another
very rare beaver in the Northwest ro.
gion.
| bears the choicest of all fur. The
golden beaver is almost as rare as the
| white beaver, the albino being merely
a freak of nature,
beaver is a species. This beaver was
not known in this cotintry until about
| 1880, where the first specimen was
discovered in the Milk River region.
Up to that time Siberia was supposed
to be the animals only habitat,” Phi.
adelphin Inquirer,
Bussia’s Unused Bell
As is well known, to Russia belongs
the largest unrung bell in the world,
{ This bell now occupies a building in
the Kremlin, It was cast two cen
turies ago, but was found foo heavy
to remove from the pit. The Russian
Monarchs, one after another, tried to
have it lifted, and dozens of lives
were sacrificed in the shifting pit of
sand. Finally fate intervened. A
raging fire broke oul, and heated the
bell in its pit. A quantity of cold
water flowed round it; and a great
piece, the size of a door, was broken
out. The Russian czar immediately
ordered it to be lifted on a pedestal,
and get within the Keemlin, where it
is sometimes used as a temple, Its
walls are two feet thick, and it is
twenty-five feet high.
A Torpedo Catcher.
The new torpedodefense pet, or
erinoline, for the British navy, Is sup-
posed to be impenetrable to any tor
days that
he Balt
more,
thie
and
the and the
construction
under
Vr
of
the
ied
uum
ma
ged on
in every
bu Rin
navy
for the
has
nuously eng
ua
conti
vessels nr
thelr big
in and what
means
brief
the care
"we,
best
a
the
1t is considerably heavier than the old
ath, et If. Swenty dive feet
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HENRY GEORGE, THE PRINTLR,
Noah Brooks Tells How the Famous Writer |
Became a Journalist.
In an article on “Henry George in
California,” Noah Brooks tells the
readers of the Century how the palit-
ical economist becawe
writer:
In the autumn of 1866 1 was the ed. |
itor of the “Times” a dally newspa-
per published in Ban Francisco, One
day, the foreman of the composing.
room, after disposing of business con-
cerning which he had come to my
desk, somewhat hesitatingly told
that one of the compositors had writ.
ten several editorial articles, by way
of experiment; and they were very
good, the foreman thought, But
the young printer had destroyed his
productions, after passing them
sround among his intimates in the
office, Would the editor-in-chief like
to look at one of the young man's
writings? 1 sald 1 should be glad to
one, and if he sent me anything
worth printing it should be used, and
the writer should be paid for it
A few hours later, a bundle of sheets
of Manila paper was laid on my desk
by Mr, Turrell, the foreman, who
vith a smile, sald that the young
printer had happened to have ready
an article which he was willing to
submit to my judgment. 1 read
paper, at first with a preoceapied mind
and and then with attentive
ness Considering the
the articie
1 recollect
al
far
halk
me
wo
Bee
in haste,
and wonder.
source from which it came,
was remarkable,
that it written in a delicate,
most feminine hand, in lines very
apart, and making altogether a
which bad at first misled me as to the
actual length of the disquisition, The
article was not long, and was entitled
“The a Glant:;" it
scriptive of the gradual extension
the Asiatic frontiers of Russia,
changes that had taken place in the
relations of the European powers,
and the apparent sympathetic apn
proach of the United States and Rus
sin toward each other.
in doubt to
this paper, sent to me by a young
and unknown printer, 1 first looked
through the American and foreign re-
views my table, tl satisfyine
to me
was
was de-
of
the
Strides of
some ax the originality
f
Gf
on 0,
myself that the article had not been
from publica
The Two
“leader”
18686,
fore
any of these
I ch
"and printed 1t
“el of Novem
title to
the
tions, anged the
Giants
the
as
fer" ber 30,
when | told ms
« excellence
ex.
Rome
inality of
warmiy
Cella Was a
would no
lie would
good friend Tuorrell
utation on the young
hat
that,
English, gd the «
in the artl I had
SUrpr
rudition
i
doubts
Young prin
replied the
thoroughly honest n
“nore
teal
concerning the ori
work
Bi
¥
at
th voune
iat ng
mn and
ies than
no; my
his reg
honesty
said
young man,
cortain case,
entrance
looked with
borrow
Oh
compositors
The foreman that, if I were
I would
many
COT.
in
was disappointed to find
and well-informed
was a little man,
had provided himself with a
plank on he stood at a
tall for him. He was appar
= old,
but iu fact was ten years older, as he
in 1831. His anburn hair
thin, and the youthfulness of his
face was disputed by the partial bald.
hig head; his bine eyes were
lambent with animation and a certain
look of mirthfulness,
Near acquaintance
find h at #0
Cf Seu
im
from
room i
and
my
the to the
posing some
vigorous
#0 short
that be
bit of
case (00
which
as
Henry
strong
prepossession in his favor, He wag
bright, alert, good-humered, and full
of fun: yet his talk showed that be
a thinker, 1:at he thought inde.
with
serious and original views
The man's manner, his sim.
his diffidence, and absolute
captivated me, and 1 liked
him thoroughly and at once. He con.
tinued to contribute to the editorial
fertility of production that dismayed
me: and, after a few weeks a va
happened in
the place. He was given a comforts
ble salary, and from that time-forta
be set type no more,
Commeres and immigration.
Commercially the United States has
from earliest colonial times showed its
importance to the world, and at pres.
ent our combined imports and exports |
count Up to 1800 millious a year. Our!
productions have always been sought!
by other countries, and the United |
States lies on a new world-highway |
from Europe westward to Asia, and
trade route to the West Indies and
South America.
In the movement of people to and
fro across the ocean, the United States
has been the focus of the most tre.
mendous hegira of clizilized people |
which the world has grer seen: from
1821 to 1808 more that 15000000 per.
rofis came to our shores to make their
homes here: in the last ten years
more people have emigrated to Ameri
ta than the whole population of Switz.
erland.
Germans and children of Germans
than in Bavaria. And the tide of
travel eastward--chiefly visitors—also
numbers hundreds of thousands every
year. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart,
tt,
Ceylon, it Las reached the gFrwit silage
of perfection, Rich and por’ 2ika beg
with equal facility. The first thine
that the wee nronze babies are tans
{is to hold out their hands for the C1
pers of the kind-hearted traveler, ais
even the gray-haired, yalow-gownes
juddah will appeal for s
nittance with a look of remorse that
| would stagger the starved denizens of
{the Bowery. The Ceylonese will beg
| for anything ¢ from a rupee 10 a red-hot
He will leave a spuare meal to
and the more one
more persistent pe.
of
stove,
refuses him the
come his efforts.
WOMAN'S LIFE IN DAWSON
Writes Interestingly of Her Experience ina
Queer Klondike Teal
Mrs. M, BR. Hiil bas written an inter-
esting letter to her mother at Nyack,
N. XY, from the Klondike. Mrs, Hill
after her marriage, went with her
husband to seek gold. She has had
| many thrilling experiences and gone
through much hardship. Mrs, Hall is
one of the few women in the gold
region, and aids her husband in pros-
pecting. Her mother has received sev-
eral gold puggets, which Mrs. Hill
found.
Mrs.
Hill writes from Dawson, on
She tells of going from
Dawson to Stampede Gulch, a dis
tance of seventeen miles, one Sunday.
It “Just about freczing She
cam back on Wednesday and it was
then 20 degrees below zero, It was 25
below when they reached Dawson.
“I walked back in five hours,” she
writes, "1 had on a fur cap and it
came down around my neyt and ears
and over my forehead to my i
had a vell, folded four times, tied
around the lower part of my face, |
wore a short moccasins, leg
ging and a heavy cape. 1 did not feel
cold, but 1 was just white with
frost, and a neighbor had to tear the
things from me. From that time on
the thermometer kept going down un
Hl it got to the bottom. 45 below. This
asted for a and it grew
warmer, until now it Is about at
freezing point.
“1 believe
but where |
dark at 4 p. m.
While waiting
can prospect we
thirteen hours out the
and then wonder what
remainder of day
“We 1 me
in
musa
Was
OYOR,
dress,
the
ow
g
week, then
the
we got little sun
see it
it at
a yor,
It is
Ya m.
that we
sleen
¥
:
ork
Bi
fig
and 1
for Epris
»
££. BO
»
again, iry to
r
of twenty-four.
we will do the
the
had
sual
but Be 1
about
ave
#43 snow,
it
The Prices of pro
visions still advance, There is plenty
of but the companies keep the
miner $5 a
as in
Hes deep now,
food,
prices
day to live.
“1 do not intend to leave here until
made m fortune, This life
rees with me and 1 am actually get-
ting fat. The trouble with many hers
hat they get discouraged too soon
and give it up. I am one of the few
women here who entered to stick to it
until it rich.’
“Our house it a tent fixed up on
make the walls six feet
It i= 10x17 inside. Outside it is
up the and about
inches of sawdust packed be.
the boards and tent. Then we
#iX inches of dead air space be-
tween the tent roof. and then another
as roof. We have a flat ceiling
of canvas and a board floor. We have
a door and two windows, and manage
live comfortably.”
up, and it costs a
have
is 1
we ‘strike
boards to
high
boarded to CATER
seven
fween
have
io
Uses of Pulp.
It almost as if the old saying. “cor
ton is King.” might be revised to apply
to woodpulp, Woodpualp has been nsed
as a substitute for iron, ivory and in
numerable Kinds of animal and vege
table fibre. As a material for cur
wheels the manufacturers have found
it superior to any kind of metal, being
ahont three times ag durable as steel
and much more elastic. It has been
found available as a material for pav
ing bricks, drain tiling and conduits
for lecetric cables, Por ivory, which
is becoming scarcer every day, col
is the best substitute that has
yet been found. When properly trear-
=i it is practivally proof against heat
and moisture, hence it has been found
superior to timber as a material for
telegraph poles and screws, Cannon,
too, and bicycles are made out of
woodpulp in Germany and Chicago re
spectively; while a Frenchman has
suceeded in producing a thread
which be declares
can be worked into all sorts of fabrics.
| A Vienna inventor declares that his
| woodpulp leather is superior to ani
‘mal leather in fineness and durability.
Among other articles made of wood
[pulp are boats, canoes, cuspidors,
| pails, flower-pois, tables, chairs, bu.
wagons, horseshoes,
and imitation porcelain ware. The
manufacture of silk from woodpulp is
now an important industry in England
and France —loventive Age,
Ro
Jackie a Great Eater.
Our Jack of the navy fs not only a
| great talker, but a great eater, and in
many cases 4 good share of his $16 a
month goes for food to supplement his
regular rations. The ration is reck.
oned at thirty cents a day, and it con-
slats of good, substantial food i what
a landsman ashore would consider Hb.
aral quantity. Under the regulations,
fresh meat and frait cannot he s