WHY SHE HURRIES, I know a little maiden who is always in a hurry; She races through her breakfast be in time for school, at her desk in a sort of flurry, And comes home in a breathless whirl that fills the vestibule. to Ble scribbles hasty She hurries through her studying, she hurries through her sewing, Like an engine at high if leisure were a crime, She's always in a scramble, no matter where she's going, And yet, would you never is in the? pressure, as believe it, she It seems a contradiction until you the I'm sure vou'll as I do, when [I state, Know reason, But think it simple. That she never has been known to be gin a thing in season, And she’s always in a hurry she starts too late. Trenton (N. J.) because America SAVED HIS 120435, oy about ten y old went to Ab Cent police stat the ral City, Kan, fine shepherd dog by a rope tied to his collar, relates tl sas City and swollen and he wi “Well, well, here?” ing face. It seemed like ¢ could stop cryin “Pleage, sir." is too poor pay Shep, and I brought hin you Kill him.” Then he broke that was building. motionless, looking his young out his handkerchie and the the hall { tane which nobody ever heard before while the captain remembered that h must telephone somebody. Then Chief McFarland led the boy to the door and, patting him on the head, sald kindly “There, little more. run home wouldn't kill a thousand dollars.” “Oh, thank tears of joy now. He bounded out in to the street and ran off home with Shep prancing along jumping up and trying to kiss t face. It was hard tell the Lappler, the boy or ue hansas one day recen eading a short piece of han red ie star. The boy's fa was well asked down and a he sobl fo for yt heard Shep stood master lieeman took lis nose, sergeant desk went absent-mindedly f we i" ur fellow, don’t cry dog. Shep any i with o for a your like dog You, sir! There were toward his he boy's to which the dog. was LEGENDS OF THE SEA. There is a woods, There 18 a rapture shore; There Is society where none intrudes, By the and roar. The place “where none intrudes” surely an ideal spot in which to read some of the stories about the sea that the poets of all ages loved to write. The legend of Venus must head the list, for though all readers will know well enough that Venus is the goddess of love in heathen mythology. they may not all remember that the Greeks knew her by the name of Aph rodite, which means “drawn {rom the foam.” Only the Romans called her Venus. Now, Aphrodite, 80 soon as she was born-—-not as an infant, mind, but as a lovely malden-—was placed by the sea nymphs in a bezutiful shell, em bellished with pearls. Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, wafted this cra dle to the island of Cyprus, where the instant Aphrodite landed, though it was only April, the flowers of every season burst into bloom. The Horae, or goddesses of the seasons, who were pleasure in the pathless on the lonely deep sea, music in its is have fillets in her hair, laughed in glaaness at as she beauty and then, the the clouds to the prekence of Jupiter. In future, when you watch the white foam creeping up the sands, you can hardly fall to recall this charming story of Aphrodite, The sea nymphs were known by the name of Oceanldes; they were known equally, however, by that of the Nere- ids. The classical poets describe them as being attendants on Neptune, and the most beautiful of all the nymphs, They moved over the sea, parting the water with their hands, their long hair floating upon its surface. At times they would sit upon the rocks watch- fng a ship, and as they had power to ealm the seas sailors petitioned them for a prosperous voyage. That par- ticular group of Nerelds known as the Sirens Is famous for Its connection with Ulysses. Among these sea nymphs was one of most mischievous disposition. Her name was Nails, and it was her delight to turn any suitor whe came to woo her into a fish. Neptune, to punish her, wmirned the nymph herself into one, Phere Is very little doubt that the sea are the origin of those later period myths, the mermaids, SLEEP HANGING UDP, There is one animal which lives en. tively in trees, but is able to maintain its position during slumber without the least of muscular foree, This is the sloth, common in the for- of tropleal America, Its long claws are 80 bent that they hook over branches and allow the creature to hang upside down like an animated wammock, Curlously enough, the ham mock appears to be a South Ameri can Invention, and is universally em- exercise els Amazons, Perhaps the primitive hu- dwellers In region sleeping in hammocks after observing the habits of the sloth The great ant which is both a kinsman and fellow countryman of the sioth has an enormous tail, which it in very I recently of lving together arranged their ta thelr whole bodies were Rid mnh this took to cater, uses i remarkable manner saw two these strange and 40 cley animals asleep, they had erly that den from view, this would afford excellent from the for the central solid part of acted idge-pole his ils Moreover, it was evi caudal coverlet protect fon $e dent that weather, the tails as a kind of over the hest part of the sleepers’ bodies go that the long fringes of halr sloped downward on each side like the thatch upon a roof, Like sleep suspended by their hooked claws ¢ the sloths, many kinds of bats muscular exertion what large fruit do not sleep In ' in without any aung hich neces common latitudes, but which o the branches of in trees adopt a position which difficult to be Gould's fruit warner fit for econo eating parts of 14 itself upside wn do ched, are ves to she shelter among th Mngaz “ warm Pearson's COMES riOM cheap and has Where does WHERE SALT Salt is plentiful, ‘ome necessity » oity of Detroit are ity of whi b "iy walt easily un 14» f ness of is lod drilled 1.0581 fe od mountain is high ta first be ot, as leon as n goon) %i7 nto the earth, througn Ars of siratun rock Down this frat fl then snlt, then again i hole Is sunk rst a fived nalde that a three water snd a ube br inch. 1 stream fresh the five-inch pipe this forces uj the three ine of the imaginable Y if sist $ aris tat ronges S000 thin 1 would ik it 100 per cent you tasted it After 5 conducted reaches the into a open air the rine is vacuum, in hich a temperature of 135 Is main The heat evaporates the water eaving the clear, fine salt, which falls upon a belt resembling one kind of mill At the highest of the slanting belt, the shovel belug inverted the damp salt drops into bins, where if continuous’ shovel some what wheel point remains nntil more of Pendent from the bins are salt, like oozed out great stalactites of with holes through them All left to do the salt preparatory to shipping hand dump cars are first ased to trans it to immense bins running whole length of another building. Here it must remain for fourteen days, ac cording law, in that it become dry igh so that the buyer will not cheated in the weight These great snowy salt mountains are the prettiest sight in all the works, Al expiration of the fourteen men shovel the salt by hand into bar- rele made in the place. So closely car there is is to the port order 10 be i the that they rarely have to change it by even two three pounds. Then the barrels are headed and rolled out upon or first steamer, The output is 625 barrels a day Though each weighs 100 pounds it sells for only 40 cents, This same stratum of salt is said to run beneath the city of Detroit at a depth of only 200 feet. There ling been some talk of mining the salt, but such a process would involve some difficulty likely to go farther. —Chicago Record. he IS Costliest Picture in the World. The costliest picture in the world is owned by the Duke of Marlborough, who has a large and very expensive collection of pletures, which has come down to him from the original Duke of Marlborough. The rarest of them is the Blenheim Madonna, painted by Raphael, in 1507, and now valued at $450,000, The picture was originally painted for the Church of the Servi at Perugia, It is eight feet high, representing the Madonna sid child sented on a throne, with a figure of St. John the Baptist ont the left and that of Xt, Nicholas of Bari on the right, the last two being life size. Its high value is due to the fact that it is one of the best preserve. od of the pictures of Raphael which are now in oxistenc® It has been pro- posed to the British government to bay this picture. ih ge ol i ITEMS OF INTEREST TURAL TOPICS. Like Producing Like - The Modern Cow an Artificial One-Increased Demand For Mutton Fatal Neglect in the Orchard The Old Wagon and Low Wheels. LIKE PRODUCING LIKE. In the breeding of all kinds of stock it Is pretty well that like produces like, and this applies more particularly of da COWS. A understood to the breeding iry ’ milking strain of cows se through past if established many Eg the well in breedin dalryman selects a cow that certors does herself, and her an t of them {oa milk and 1 hardly The ( gol accoun and comes from a FRYE 1 selves before breeds her bull that her, iit there can be nuy as to the quality of lf. doubt THE MODERN COW AN FICIAL ONE. Haecker, the Minnesota it it it Professor of station, puts well in saying ths has hecome necessary to feed concen ction rougiage, ile Had trates In MORIN $ because the veloped she remaine in her orl when t i ¥ yan sie ed only enough nourish her wot enough she could eat fgmount pose, but have feeding INCREASED DEMAND TN increase Consimenrs great taste for Many farme ind 2 have a i ly realize a this sheep would ment the country for every 4 the greater part of at the present time, is worthless farmer, as he does not make an it - : t ¢ % allowing sucu land to Ime whatever sheep may kept handsome year TOTAL NEGLECT ORCHARDS the School Horticultu: a ii ¥ IN # of From of Nova Scotia last spring, bloomed, weather that to spray the: Coles a statement that the was HO before apple frees there much hardists faile many trees, but did spras Or ai fwo or three thes after the blossoms In nearly such early spraying was done, were badly spotted, no many times they were But those early enough had fell evers case where no the apples matier gprayed who how after sprayed very free though they sprayed but once after the blossoms fell. The wet just time for the growth of the blossoming apples weatiier was the the fungus that spot This may explain why re ported small success 0 spraying while others who sprayed no more, but earlier or later in the season, report good crops fruit. This in the United States as tia. Keep the spraying 2.4 3 IHAUK CHUSOR soe have Om between showers is as applicable in Nova Sco up during the plicable to the pear cracking fungus, and to some of the rusts. THE OLD WAGON AND LOW WHEELS Inst two or three Within the years with economy, too. It often happens on is comparatively good, and there- fore a set of steel wheels can be put on and a very good wagon had at much less expense than an entire new wagon can be purchased for. It then becomes the very best thing the farmer can do to procure a set of broad tired steel wheels. This is just what has hap- pened to a wagon | am now using. The tires sre six inches wide and 1 like this width very much. It avoids cut- ting up the fields, and indeed, in pass ing over them, acts in a measure as does a roller. It I« low, and for haul- ing manure, stone, and most every thing else on the far, Is more conven fent than the high-wheeled wagon, saving, as it does, a great deal of lift ing. Possibly it may haul a little hard- er, and if this is the case, you can af ford to load a little lighter. In haul ing hay I nse my high wheeled wagon, as 1 pitch off by band, and so find it more convenlent, expecially when pitching up high. But there is a place for the low down wagon on every farm, and it should be possessed. The farmer who has never used it scarcely veulizes the convenience of it. 1 wil guarantee that the farmer having both wagons will hitch on to his low | wheeled one much the oftenest. -F. H D., in Farm, Field and Fireside, | BOILING CROPS IN DRY SEASONS {| The provisions made against dr) summers and falls such as the season just been presented 4 Zoot deal upon the farmer and the characte he has, A wit} and rundown 0 exert 1 depend of live stock man grub cows i prepare al But if good sheep himself much ead of time for emergencies owns pure-bred or grade of nny kind be is pretty sure t« fanine w not ono make provision against drought, I one does not intend to supply the ani mals with good food other than wha n the grass field, the and 1h They can husth better than But to-day make naturally i bh cows, sheep swine are st for his purpose for a living the pure bred intel pretence or graded animals most gent farmers a ep good stock, and they to run the risk of carry with reen was ein over a dry season of g Never soiling crop! localitie: 1 ii in to feed on, ly nothing Ie way succulent food the value of the silo and 57 than tter demonstrated in many this season, They have saved many a dairyman and stockman losses turned the the balances side would have * ledger on Wrong the KuMmime) the any wile ae and summer f weather i i an}! Of} ensilage { ss andi efer i} animals | midsumn ®0il property | 3 ¥ affect be planted early and 1 bel a soiling crop r comes there wil The cows then in for a living In bare eal good meals ind parts of the What y milk in their a difference | and butter general and ant aith! ud yet the extra labor ost required to do this is Insignific It is something th dalryman must | do if he would noney in rn days of « comparatively Farmer, Inj SHORT AND USEFUL POINTERS A dr chicken IWEY lousy chicken is a sige ef a "armers cannot learn the value of 4 The clean, pure water Wher feed only one to the sheep let it be cats iittle alrslacked lise In the poultry-yard after a rain ia i (O00 sean stock are at least entitled fe you can grain Neatfter a A varied ration Is what encourages the hens to fill the egg basket: Always keep the best for breeders Nothing can be too good for breeding siock It Hire pul is easier to give the poultry fresh water than to be doctoring them for cholera If rats are around your poultry house don’t rest until you have got rid of the last one of them Give the boys a little stock to take of and call their own Lots of farmers’ boys are clothing themselves in this way. Care Sealy legs can be cured by dipping the feet and legs of the fowl into coal oil. One or two dippings will be all that's needed. Twenty acres of land farmed well | will pay more profit and cause less {anxiety than forty acres farmed in a hap-hazard manuer. Once in a while throw a piece of iron, or a small handful of copperas, or {some venetian red inte the drinking water of the poultry. Recent experiments in sheep-feeding iat the Montana station show that | alsike clover gave better results than | either red clover or alfalfa. The garden fork and the poultry yard don’t come In contact with one another often enough. Dig up the yard more often and thus avold diseased poultry. it seems proper that a cow should have a short rest before calving. Don't expect too much from the good cows, but make the poor ones do better. There is no reason in letting a good cow kill herself in making up the losses of the poor ones, Hogs should only be kept for the profit there is in tuem, Some farmers do not really know what they keep their hogs for, but of all things it is not for the profit there is in them, for if this were the case the hogs would have been discarded long ago. Philadelphia was the largest of American cities at the time the first copgus was taken, 110 years ago, and New York was second. Boston was then third, Charleston fourth and ~ CLEANEST OF BAKERIES. EXTRAORDINARY HYCENIC METHODS OF A WESTERN CONCERN. Twirty Thousand Loaves of Bread Are Mads Each Day Each Employe Takes a Bath Before Coing to Work—Sciencs, Skill and Cleanliness Combined, skill and cleanliness have just combined at Milwaukee in estab lishing what, In many respects, the most remarkable bakery in existence, An idea of the size of the place may be gained from the fact that pan, tie housewife knows if, Is so large that it will hold 1,200 pounds of dough to in seven huge steel troughs, each holding 800 1004 loaves, while ovens, which the transformation from dough to palatable will bake 1.000 loaves at a tims ty thousand loaves of bread every the Belence, in the bread ns bread sit rise The is to the two in bread occurs, Thir- are made week day, says New York News, 1 he bread-making that high-grade than on which place depends there |x principle this for On big jt sucess is more | handling 1 goods in quantities or taking hit inferior mins chances with Quality and cleanliness go hand in hand. For inst there is in the building a iit tle laboratory the milk are using man these LLngs, ince in which tested and Every who has anything to do with the yeast hefo=s of bread is duty large making the required, just before he shower 1} goers on ath in a cated in one of the upper building, and to In th danger through fection i® ZH ine "hroughout the are hard serupulously els and thoroughly and In hol 3 : whole structure the floors of wood, key an, utensil used cleansed new frequently Far ulluing, const modern kept uy RLY It one barrel of flour sieve that ro | revolve § machinery rectly below the sieve a big box-like the tem square affair of nterior of which consists of a sys that the Senpt revointions a of steel rods revolve at rate of 65 minute an as measuring accurately then the milk the ber of pounds added, shortening. all measured and weighed. ire with yeast the Lae is then thrown on, and big box begins to tu and over rods ing the milk and lard A great deal of ge ed in this machine, due to the rapidity with which it is operated, and to overcome the effs connects with the outside air, and powerful fan blows a blast pure air through a fine gieve into the mixer. From 20 to 30 minutes are required omplete the mixing. and then big steel troughs is wheeled to the mixer, and the smooth dough is put into it, and then it is taken AWAY fig=. Or. as baker says, to ripen. This process requires froma five to seven hours, according to the kind of bread made, the Vienna bread requiring the longer time. A thermometer is placed in each “hatch.” and, if not warm enough. the big trough is wheeled in to the “proofroom,” where the required heat i= obtained, and Process hastened. When the proper reached the baker comes and it down. a process that answ second kneading that domest makers give their dough, and alter a second rising it is wheeled over to the great, long mixing board, and the bakers, in their immaculate white linen clothes and funny little white caps, weigh it out and mold It into loaves, which are placed in wooden trays covered with white linen cloths, and allowed to rise once more. dhe vienna ana the rye loaves are dusted on the bottom with corn meal and placed directly on the long peels, which, by the way, pudding sticke, and the thrust. Into the oven and then with- drawn, leaving the loaves to bake directly on the hot bricks of the oven. The other kinds of bread are put in pans, and then placed in the oven by means of the peels. The heat required in the ovens is from 440 to 450 degrees, and is kept accurately gauged. An even distribution of the heat is ob- tained by means of 22 flues in each oven. It takes from 20 to 30 minutes for a baking, and then the loaves are drawn out by means of these same peels and placed in big Wooden trays, and carried to the racks here they are placed on ventily belves until they cool off thorough 4 loaf is separately wrapped in po i'aper, which excludes the air a: deepe out all dust and Impurities, a: oil as keeping the loaves from the suite poclean touch of the driver od iw grocer who sells it. ish po with terrific force steel ix and tae inside whirling around and m mess of flour and water into a stpooth mass ik figerat aera heat cts of this, a fue a of io © of the up white, one Bice, to the 3 { saat is it is the is stage is knocks ers to the bread there peels are i i Tom Black's Marvellous Fight With Six. i teen Indians, | Ope hears some good stories In the | Bowery shooting galleries when ness is slack, Here is one Oklahoma Bill repeats, as told by Tom Black. “Tom,” Bill prefaces, “was the great est hunter and trapper of his day, and he was the biggest Har that ever trod in The following is one of his Hes that he often tells the people in barrooms when he feels good: “One day I was out a-huntin’ and 1 was tired and sot to rest, rite along the edge of the Missoury River, and 1 looked up geen 15 Injuns comin’ down the river in a canoe. 1 knowed If they hold of they would try to scalp me, so 1 jist wait ed till they off, I was layin’ down stump, and I raised my rifle and let go at "em, and killed six and us the others hesrd the shot and seen six of their party head stiekin’ shoes, down and oreyt Frid F 54 ri wi * ‘ got about 205 yards behind a of "em, As S00n fall dead, they seen wy stump, and they and started for whoops, 1 was just a little skeered when 1 | up , #0 when they th up behind the I made for the shore me with thelr War vk ord and seen just ten of got butt me | of my rifle ‘em; then | went at up to went the and killed dropped more and and of rifle sor dy B three got about faint ta saw the river Ly the thro Was GIraowl gi Was i} the one 1 kicked took i huntin’ A Century of Expansion, Y 1800 the In the year ferrite United Sta miles; Ww This 3.000, 000 square the torial miles is most growin if we all th ie ous domain on which it and language the same one « Epans from ocean 10 ocean WwW HOse inhabitants speak the = and lyre nnder substanti laws Bri of her empire Great inded the area 142505 square square acquired attered and a large variety of alien races, speaking different languages 18060 12.151. 000 ; miles in 12 miles in territories 160003 her newly are widely s« are peopled by and living under different laws France, which ruled 1.056.726 square miles in 1800, now flies her flag her is aver over 3.638755 square miles, but in case also her enlarged territory populated by many alien races Russian territory has increased from 5.018.127 square 1800 6.43% 682 square (zermany is miies ih io niles in 1900, 8 brand-new empire, which dates from 1870 only, and now embraces territory Aggregates 1,023. 840 square miles, And if the world is regarded simply as a big landed estate, these four na- the United States, Russia. Great Britain and France-own 23.000.000 of its total area of 510060000 square miles, including by far the most valu- able of it all. New York World. that tions Minding His "Ps." “1 have lost my grip.” This phrase is applied by men to all kinds of failures. One of the technical usages of losing one’s grip is in the cage of telegraph operators. Many of the most skilled operators suffer at times from loss of the “grip” and are compelled to give way tempo rarily to a substitute. This “grip” i= the hold on the key, and the moment the operator begins to lose the contry of this “grip” he realizes a rest, though for only a brief time, ia due him. Another, but unpleasant, term ap- plied to this loss or “grip” ix “tele- graphers’ paralysis.” It shows itself in many curious ways, all showing that the muscles brought into play in work- ing the key are badly worn. One of the most skilfal operators in Louisville, who is suliject to these at- tacks, cannot send “P” The Morse mannal calls for five dots for this let- ter. The operator in question has by | some hook or crook lost the power to | stop at the fifth dot, and it ix a com mon thing for him to warn the taker | to look out for his “Ps.” | Recently he asked a fellow operator {to watch him send “Ps” and to stop | bim at the end of the fifth dot. It re- | sulted that, although he would be warned at the fourth dot, the fingers, {no longer mastered by the brain, would continue dotting beyond the #fth— | Louisville Cfurier-Journal. The Dignified Frogs of Corea. Frogs In Cores do not hop or jump. They walk lke well-ordered animals, j quietly placing one foot after another luntil they arrive at the end of their journey. It i= an amusing sight to one ho has always seen the frog of Amer % -
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