1 have always had my share of
woodchucks, and I never could get rid
of them until last season. |
il ounce carbon bisulphide where an
old one had young. The next morn
ing I dug out the hole and found them
dean. A neighbor joined with me and
We got twenty pounds carbon bisul-
phide. One pound is enough for fifty
furrows, and not one of the hundreds
we have treated has ever dug out un-
‘88 there was some opening that we
missed. Pour from one to two spoon-
fuls on anything that will absorb the
stuff, put it into the hole several feet,
push down a sod nearly to it, fill in
with dirt and tramp down.
main outlets the same and next sea-
ion one will be puzzled to find the
lace. —A. B. Johnson, in Orange Judd
Farmer,
STRAWBERRY CULTURE
In planting for commercial
yoses, be sure to have the early
late sorts, and then see to {t that
are planted separately that there
will be no danger mixing. It
only possible to make a success with
strawberries by having both early and
ate producing plants, because when
all the fruits come together there is
sure to be some trouble in marketing
hem successfully. Half late and half
early and medium varieties give the
best results. The plants put in
sarly spring should not be allowed to
produce the same season. Should fruit
buds appear pinch them off. To get
fruits in one year the plants must be
set out in the middle of summer, and
then they can be allowed to yield all
wish the following spring By
planting this spring and keeping off
fruit buds until next we
have strong, sturd; and
excellent crop of Good
plants, to begin with, the
first step, but they
strong and sturdy
and protection The of
every plant is to propagate itself and
it will attempt this to such-an extent
that it will ruin its own vitality it
will send buds and runners to
such a lavish degree that in a very
short time will le left of
the plant, and numbers than
quality will be the
This tendency must be checked
vitality the plants must be con-
served, and the strength limited to a
few fruits and runners instead of dis
sipated over many. The runners must
be removed as as they appear
during the fruiting season if we are
after commercial fruits. It must
ome out either in the plants or fruits
With good culture and rich this
system of checking the runners will
make the crop of strawberries large
ind profitable By following such a
simple process strawberry culture
really a very simple thing, and from
good plants we can be sure of crops
that will sell in any market t the
plants obtainable can be ruined
by letting runners extend in all dire
tions. Even when new plants
needed the runners should Himited
in numbers. —8 W. Chambers, in
*merican Cultivator.
pur
and
they
sO
of is
out
they
the season
plants
berries,
must
must
will
All
be
be Kept
by
seitesp
jiture
good
first impulse
out
here be littl
L
result
of
ast
soil
is
$s
Bu
best
are
he
DESTRUCTION OF BORERS
Years of study of the habits of tha
borer and contention with this in
sidious pest has caused me to adopt
an efficacious remedy To cut the
borer out leaves an ideal wound and
place for another deposit of eggs the
following season. This must also be
cut or dug out. If repeated about
three times it generally kills the tree
Any exposed bark on the trunk or
limb of a tree caused by a leaning top,
crook or bend of a limb, where the
sun's heat is sufficient to partly dry
the sap and hatch the egg of the
beetle depositing it, is liable to Be at.
tacked. Once through the bark. the
worm devours the partly dried wood
Just underneath the bark as far as
the sun's heat has rendered it palat-
cuts its way deep into the
where it remains until the
spring, a slow and tedious job
For a number of years 1
looked over my trees, and wherever
I find a borer has entered, | cover
with a batch of stiff clay, secure it
in place with a piece of burlap and
strings (never use wire) and let it
wood,
next
and the wound
pear,
it made will disap
The coating of clay and cloth
flow of sap, which the borer cannot
stand, and it either dies or is driven
out. While the nippers or mandi
bles of the worm are sharp enough
to cut partly dried wood, which it
eats, they are not adapted to cutting
dried clay, and when it starts out
of the tree to enter the ground to
form a chrysalis preparatory to be.
coming a perfect beetle, it strikes
the covering of clay and dies it
matters but little, however, what
becomes of it, as the covering of
clap makes its entry into the tree
impossible. A bucketful of clay and
a handful of burlap and strings in
the hands of a man who knows
where to look for the pest, will de
Stroy more borers in a day than he
can do by any other method in a
month. —W. J. Patton, in American
Agriculturist.
CORNSTALK DISEASE.
Governor Dockery, of Missouri, re.
quested Dr. Netherton to investigate
loss of cattle from poison on staiks.
Dr, Netherton reports that it is
caused by decomposition of nubbins
upon which worms lad previously
feérsted.
The nightshade has been aecused
of killing the animals, but fn a re-
cent statement J. J. Edgerton, of the
| Experiment Station of lowa, save
| that the nightshade iz not polson
| Then what are the cornstalks,
{ what is the disease, and what is the
| remedy ?
i The corustalks are a dead mum
{ mified mass of cellulose, or wood.
| They are the remains of a crop you
have produced, and when it is ready
for harvest let it stand in the
field and die.
Cornstaik disease
or infectious i
were so; then by
would be compelled to quarantine
{ every cornfield the corn had
| not been cut and harvested properly,
The disease is indigestion, gastro
enteric vertigo. Deéatu produced
80 suddenly in most that the
post-mortem shows almost no
In a few that have not died
80 suddenly we find congestion and
inflammation of the stomach and in
testines, a fragile condition of the
mucosa of the stomachs The con
tents of the stomach are in a nice,
pulpy condition There is no im-
The contents of the third
stomach or manifold in cattle is
sometimes in a dry condition, de
pending upon the lengtn of time di-
gestion has been arrested
Death produ by
and a reaction
‘nervous system. a in
ach.
The remedy is plain and easy
its application are
First, in not losing animals
ond, the reward of feeding animals
well and taking them through the
winter in good flesnm and
condition
Cornstalk dise
ror, and the
in field
face has tur
hard and horny,
duct We may
honestly and
There is
would eat (if
manner as the
There {8 no
th
you
not contagious
sometimes wish it
State law we
is
our
where
is
Cases
lesions
indigestion
upon the
the stom
is eu
shock or
ciub
In
paid
Seo
you doubly
a dietetic er
that has stood
beautiful
and
spoiled
ase is
cornstalk
until its
ned
the
brown,
pro-
at
corn.
black
is a
as look
the
well
acknowledge
no other forage our
treated in the same
cornstalks
use guessing what
that
a Eerm a
on e stalks AUSOS
Hitle
3 4
end
whether smut, a
toxine, a worm-eaten
it
lig
saitpetre, a
or a nubbin
to
to death.—W,
you are mpel them eat
thus star then A
Thomas,
an,
Ving
PD ¥
before
Association
KEEPING DOWN WEEDS
It is important to
parsnips in early
down of the weeds will be
cult. To delay planting
until after the corn ir
double the labor required In keeping
the ground clean. The plan used with
to let the weeds grow
one or two high,
use a cultivator, working
let the gel a
and then go over the plot
with the cultivator,
fine as to prepare
bed for the seed. Soms
dread a carrot crop, owing
getting ahead of the
young carrots, but if the weeds are
first allowed to put in an appearance
they can be so thoroughly eradicated
as to render the work of keeping the
clean much easier than any
method
get
Carrots
or the
more diff
such crops
Crop goes
crops is
about inches
then
weed
again
more
rowing the
a suitable seed
farmers
to the
until
every
start
once
weeds
880i! 80
weeds
by
GROWING ARTICHOKES
There is no crop raised on the farm
which can be successfully grown with
less labor than artichokes. On ground
of the same richness they will yield
more satisfactory returns than most
grains, and soll of fair fertility will
readily produce three to four hun
No doubt
with heavy manuring the fabulous
yields sometimes reported might be
reached, but as this has not been pos
sible with my experience 1 cannot
speak from personal knowledge. My
method of growing is to plow deep
and harrow the ground well, then
with the plow open furrows four or
five inches deep and thuree and a half
[ do not like to go down
to “hard pan” in making the seed
ment and no ob
If seed
I select the medium
sized artichokes and drop in the fur.
sixteen inches apart
From seed thus planted several stalks
will grow to a hill. If it is desired
the seed may be cut in pleces, one
eye to the plece as potatoes, and the
pleces may be dropped a little closer
Cover the artichokes by
turning a furrow right back into the
receive the seed, as
when planting potatoes: this leaves
Do not disturb
until weeds begin to show, then with
in all directions
This should be done
before the artichokes appear. Usual
ly this is sufficient wuntii the art!
chokes are large enough so the rows
can be followed with the cultivator.
If the ground is very foul a s.cond
harrowing may be necessary to de
troy the sprouting weeds, This
should be lengthwise of the rows.
Usually the one harrowing and two
plowings with cultivator are all that
Is needed, the artichokes soon getting
high enough to exclude the sunlight
from any new weeds that may start
up, thus choking them effectually.—D,
C. C, in Agricultural Epitomist.
No More “Bornin’.”
A little boy In a Yorkville Sunday
schoo! was asked if he did not want to
be born again. “Born again!” he ex.
clamed. “Naw, I would not.” “You
wouldn't?” said the teacher, sadly,
“Why not?" “’Cause I might be a
gel was the naive reply. New York
STERILIZED VEGETABLES.
NAY TO KILL GERMS ON THEM AS
A MATTER OF PRUDENCE.
#00d Receipes For Stewed Lettuce
and Ways to Cook Radishes—Bor-
acic Acid Quite Harmliess—Danger
of Eating Raw Vegetables.
*3t standing recently stated that a very
serious fever epidemic had been traced
0 the use of raw celery, which was
found upon investigation to have been
fertilized with night soil containing
disease germs. Watercress has often
of typhold fever Yet
who harbor all sorts of germ fads and
superstitions calm!y munch
lettuce and celery with no thought of
aow they may have been cultivated and
very little as how they have been
cleaned
As a matter of fact,
which are a
Are when
prefers raw
germs,
to
vegetables
eat raw
but if
vegetable it is the
many
We ustomed to
deilcion ooked one
the
simplest thing in the world to
it A saturate solution of
kept in a Jar on the ki
will insure a sterilized head of lettuce,
Dilute a cupful of the with
one of water, and after the lettuce has
freed from grit, dip it
antiseptic bath
with cold
steril
boracic acid
ir
chen table
Ze
fruit
soution
been into the
Then rinse imme
and
treated in the
carefully
diately water
“erve Celery shouid be
way, each stalk being
pulled apart to insure ieani
Some that it really
stiff kitchen
corry
celery {s
rubbing with a
grit
needs s
brush to {from
gated stalks,
Apropos to the
mitting Ameri
sOrIDAL
wil
i
remove
vexed question of ad
into Germany
re
is quite harm
an meats
chemists have themselves
1
ports that boracic acid
less, and the sinister
deter
not
ng it
vegetal
iS It iS ver
process of rrefore,
it may be impunity
Radishes a delicious dish when
1
bolled, and hich Ay t indulged
¢ unable to
itil tender in
iin by |
| digest
barely enough salted water to cover
take off the saucepan lid
water boll down about half:
| add as much
Rub
them. Then
{ and lof the
milk
there is water
flou
As
together a tablespoonful
and one of
ing milk and stis
This iz a
th who
thing to
ol
butter: add this to the boil
until it thi
te Swiss
Kens
favori dish
Ose don’t know
ook forward to
it is U Iarier
and put
enough mi
i steam
id a dash of pepper, a
Let it stand
and serve
vegetables are
way of preparing
{ heads, wash very in
to
carefully
a double boller
cover it. let th
tuce is tender, ac
tablespoonful of
i till the bulter is melted
The
| boiled
{ for the soup pot
be al to si
come part of the sauce, for it contains
{ 8 great deal of the bicarbonate of pot.
ash which Makes
some
The French make a deli
by boiling young, tender peas in a
tie water, adding a tablespoonful
butter. A head of fresh, clean
is set in with the peas and allowed to
steam thoroughly until tender. The
lettuce then removed to a heated
platter, a little milk added to the peas
mixed with a tablespoonful of flour
When this comes to the boiling point
the thickened peas are poured over and
around the lettuce and served
Cook in the same way as spinach,
and served with butter aud a hard
boiled egg. chopped fine an excel
lent dish
Cabbage cooked after the following
recipe is palatable to many people who
cannot eat the vegetable as ordinarily
cooked. Chop the cabbage as for cold
slaw and put it
boiling water Boil exactly
minutes; not a minute longer. Drain
off the water, add’ sufficient milk to
cover a dish of paprika and a I’'ttle
butter and flour mixed. When thig be.
comes quite hot again shake in liber.
ally grated Parmesan cheese. Let {it
stand a few minutes and serve. This
is a good lunch dish where little meat
is eaten. The milk and cheese make it
quite substantial. A clove of garlic
boiled with cabbage gives it a most
delicious flavor not at all gariicky.
Few people realize how infinitely su-
perior to the fine white turnip ig the
common yellow one
vegetable with a bit of garlic. add
black pepper and a good Jump of but.
ter, and you will never use the white
sort again,
Small radishes boiled whole with a
spoonful of minced parsiey make a
delicious salad when cold. Serve with
a French dressing.
A very good Macedoine saled is made
by adding to the radishes ard parsley
cold stewed celery and sirifig boans.
with
until let
{
butter
water in which
i drained off
Otherwise it
should be saved
should
mmer d and be.
owed own
vegetables whole.
dish
iit
of
lettue ©
ious
is
is
twenty
to it a tablespoonful each of pickled
nasturtium seeds and chopped chives,
Mix this with the Macedsine and
serve,
The pod of peas which we extrav.
agantly throw away are never wasted
by the thrifty Frenchwoman. Covered
with water they are allowed to sim.
mer then pressed through a colander.
This makes an excellent stock tn which
to boll lettuce. With the addition of a
single slice of bacon, a pinch of
thyme, and a clove of garlic, it makes
an unsually good soup.-—Washington
Star, :
Hedgehog and Viper, ,
A resident at Versailles, M. Guignet,
sends to Nature a vivid account of a
uel he saw between a hedgehog
a knew
moment's inattention would be fatal,
The viper was the first to get tired
of gazing and it began to glide away.
{Just then the hedgehog rushed for
[the viper's tail, and having nailed it
{fast with its teeth, rolled itself up.
| The hedgehog was very careful, how-
ever, not to cut the tail off. The viper
{ curled back, and delivered furious as-
saults on its aggressor, wrestling and
rolling with the curled-up hedgehog
all over the place, At length the
| snake, wounded in a hundred places,
| died. The hedgehog vegan its repast
fon the tail of its victim, and was care-
{ ful not at the head London
| New
to {
A FAMILY OF CONSULS,
{ History of an Appointment Held in
England Since Washington's Time.
When Horation
States Consul at Gibraltar
| months Was
the Sprague fami!
the
but
this
United
a few
that
en longer in
than other,
that
meme-
Fox,
the
Sprague,
died
announced
had b
service
ago, it
consular any
recent rove
the
nouses of
investigations 1
distinction
of
have
belongs to
bers the
who
celebrated
continuously retained
consniship
the e
States Government
at
since tabiishmen
State Wash-
Ww
Department is
D.C
the first
ington
Fox,
Rabert
indiather
* present
appointed
George May
for her hospital
of Portugal,
there
Re Wore
consul in 181
wh
ihe rt
the study of science, and made many
that
tempera
overies. In 1815 he proved
was a increase of
ture experienced Mu descending Cor
nish mines—a fact assert.
ed by the Saxon miners, but long dis
Humbodt and
valuable in
tor dipping
in every
dis
there real
previously
puted by such men as
Arago Among his many
ventions defle
which has been
Arctic and Antarctic
that time in determining the magnetic
diffi parts of the
the
the
Was
necdle used
since
expedition
condition of the rent
earth's surface
President Lincoln appointed the
third consul, Alfred Fox, in This
gentleman won the highest commenda-
tion from for his ef.
ciency and faithfulness during the late
war. The coast at Falmouth is very
dangerous, and often ships are wreck-
ed there. Mr. Fox did all in his power
in rendering help to these ship-wrees-
ed crews, and for this was highly re
warded by the heads of the nations.
Howard Fox, F. G. S., the present
consul, was appointed by President
Grant. He had been acting as deputy
consul, but in 1874 his
father to the consulate
1863
ih
the government
succeeded
Arresting Persons for the Rewards.
‘It's time something ~as peing done
| to put a stop to the practice indulged
in by certain men of arresting per
gons suapected of being fugutives from
the insane asylum.” remarked a police
man & few days ago. “There is a
| standing reward for the arrest of es
{ caped patients, and a number of peo
ple about Hillsdale and Anacosta
goem to be on the lookout for them.
Some pedestrians and even some per.
| sons who were in vehicles have been
‘held up’ and subjected to annoyances,
“The practice of these men,” added
| the officer, “is something on the order
of the conduct of pome members of the
| police force, who seem to be on the
| look out most of their time for desert.
i era from the army and navy.
“There is a standing reward for
| these deserters,” he concluded, "and
Lit is related that some of the police.
| men always have one or two of them
| spotted to arrest when their pocket.
| books are empty.”—Washington Star.
The Passing of Warships,
A short time ago--their keels were
laid only a little over ten years ago--
the cruisers Columbia and Minneapo.
lis were regarded as the pride of the
navy. The Columbia made a trip
across the Atlantic to show that she
would be able to overhaul fast At.
lantic liners. The Minneapolis is to
be nuded as a receiving ship, the Co.
lumbia having been used for similar
purposes for some time, says the Troy
Record. These ehips cost nearly
$3,000,000, but their present disposi
tion shows how soon the modern war.
ship gets out of date. Still, it is more
economical for the Navy Department
to use them in this manner, for both
are expensive ships to run.
A lion in a jungle will jump twenty.
five or thirty feet from a standing
start.
THE MAKING OF POTTERY.
CURIOUS METHODS USED IN
BACKWOODS “JUG FACTORIES.”
The Old-Time Potter's Wheel, of the
Time of Moses, May Still Be
Found in Some Parts of the South-
ern States—The Firing Process.
Among the arts and crafts
© man there is probably none
han the making of pottery
ort Fragments of rude pottery are
‘ound among the remains of prehis-
oric man everywhere and some of
hem appear have been made by
nachinery, other than the
iione,
The old-time
time of Moses, may still be
in some parts the
states, notably in the middle
f North Carolina
To any accustomed to large
nanufactories, with nachines
for turning out certain articles rapidly
and cheaply, the hand-made methods
if a hundred years would be
urious and interesting
A visit the
factories,’ the primitive
ter's wheel, run by
in would
mechanic that
known
older
of some
to
potter's
found in
Southern
5a of
one
gpecial
ago
Kwoods * JUg
pot
to one of ba
where
fool power
to the modern
time had
ihat part of
cen
ge,
of
world had several
When
the
re made
Bone
a hoy writer was
that and
molasses
by
vinegar
over a which was
afterward
withdraw
il of rope
removed by uncoiling and
$ $s nel } 4 f
DE It through the mouth of
1B Such a method would, «
ba impracticable
maker one «
spare time
Using the «
own
farm. he employs
ing own hands
and k ©
TT
rates or abor agitator ine
astride whi
volves foot
one 100
make ti omfortable
often !
In fr
ad
or
ont of
isk of
shallow box
carried
right
the
The
up a steady m
the movement
his foot on the
on
shaft
same
lower
aolion
or sidewis
swinging f«
The foot power is simpiicity itself
The : rod of
wood
impa
ot
stick or
or peg at
end next to the
to the bench
chain A short
of wood connects the crank in
vertical shaft to the foot
the side-way movement
keeps the wheel in motion
Having previously tempered his
pit, he divides it into
proper weight for a jug of a certain
gize One of plastic lumps
foot lever is
with a pl its ouler
the
suspended
end, while operat
or is by a
pie
e of rope or piece
the
and
ver
lever
of the
ay
the
lumps of
these is
disk and the potter proceeds to give it
form and shape, mainiy by the manip
ulation of his hands alone It is
under the
the
into symmetrical shape
simpie manipulations of
fingers, sometimes
simple tool of wood or bone
The first step in shaping a jug is by
inserting one or two fingers of one
lump, while the other hand is used to
press on the outside. This produces
a hole in the clay, which may be as
the fingers to one side of the center
thick ring and is made thinner and
drawn upward to form the side walls
of the jug, by simply raising both
hands at the same time, pulling the
clay up between them. At this stage
the article has assumed the form of a
cylinder or wide-mouth jar,
few touches at the brim will complete
inward with the hands, into the form
of a dome, while the neck and lip are
shaped with one finger inside the ori
fice and a stick on the outside.
fingers, bending this way or that, but
the speed of the wheel must be com-
paratively siow; otherwise the cen
trifugal force would throw the walls
outward and spoil the shape. If the
jug is to have a handle, it is molded
separately with the hands, bent into
shape and the ends pressed into good
contact with the moist jug. At the
bottom, the jug is still stuck fast to
the center of the wheel, but may be
lifted off after drawing a fine wire un.
der it.
After being properly dried, our
farmer-potter proceeds to bake his pot.
tery inside a long arch of brickwork.
This arch has a chimney at one end
and the fuel, which Is wood, is fed
into the other. In the arch, or oven,
at intervals, there are loose bricks
which may be removed during the fir
ing, and common salt is thrown
through these openings to produce a
glaze on the surface of the ware. Some
skill or experience is necessary to con:
duct the firing properly, or the pot
tery will be spoiled.
Though often ungraceful in shape,
this pottery is still in common use
wherever the distance from trade con.
ters makes freight rates too dear on
sich bulky and heavy articles —Sclen-
CITY SPANKS 'EM,
Moosier Capital's Juvenille Court a
Scone of Bmall Domestic Trugedies.
“Now, swat him?!"
“You mean, go at him wid de whip?”
“Yes: go it.”
And the whip falls
while the boy vells a
These little one-act dramas are en-
acted weekly at the police station,
only that the above dialogue 13 not all
and falls again,
nd yells again
| that takes plac The first scene trans-
| pires upon the third floor of the police
| Btation building on Friday afternoon,
when Judge Stubbs holds his juvenile
i court
| Snickering, snufMing boys in a row
face him and listen as the policemen
{tell bad they while their
parents laud them to the skies Judge
| Stubbs takes it all in, and
| then makes his disposition CH me
{ And it almost every Friday
that lot of boy: one
i boy that needs a licking when
the Judge tells them to ich a
boy intu the basement and give him
| logging, that boy goes
great big policeman and
parents and the flogging follo
It's the one place
whippings that they
the pollceman is a od
business, he has learned not to be
{ tegder hearted It’s up to him
when the lad has
never it unt
how are
patiently
if the
happens
among that
the boy
where boys get
remember if
at the
too
nana
to say
ough, and
inks that there
he
BAYS
is a cries
of angere«
Or
{ and
of
a few
in the right
3 little
ntéresting as he
11
like
OV Was A
» woman lool
Keq
this
was blac
f
task ol
thes
several
the
she was equal to
whippings. When
basement and the pe
reached
liceman told her
to begin, she said
ur pants Which
over that chair.”
the whimperings of
and his didn’t
leave the
the began. Cries
cease until he was ready to
station. The mother was de-
termined to give him something to re-
member and the policeman was there
to see that she did it right When
finally ft seemed that the had
about al! he could stand the trio start-
ed upstairs, where the policeman
winked at a friend and said:
“I'll bet that boy doesn’t sit
veral days.”"-—Indianapolis
boy
police
poi
hoy
down
for se Sua.
Dangers of the Bath.
| Brevity is commendable, but in the
| enunciation of great truths it is pos
{ sible to stop just short of compiete-
| ness of statement which leaves the
{ seeker after information at a loss to
{ know how to apply such knowledge
| after the manner in which our Puritan
| ancestors applied all Scripture—"By
| way of Improvement For example,
| the London Lancet startles the world
| with the following announcement:
| “Too much bathing is harmful, as it
| tends to macerction of the superficial
part of the epidermis, which is too fre.
| quently removed, and occasions prob
| ably too rapid a proliferation of the
{cells of the malpignian layer.” But
what is too much and how shall the
| man who seeks to regulate his life
by the teachings of science know
when the superficial part of his epider
| mis is macerated and when the pro
{ liferation of the cells of the malpig-
| hian layer is too rapid? No rightmina-
ed person would want these sthings to
happen in his own case, and to the in-
dividual to whom bathing is perfunc-
| tory and who feels a greater sympathy
than he would be willing to express for
the little girl who objected to her
morning ablutions in winter on the
ground that she had “rather be warm
and dirty than clean and cold,” macer-
ation of the epidermic superfices and a
galloping proliferation of the malpig-
hial cells would be symptoms to be
looked for as the result of bathing
oftener than, say, once a week. Hence
the information of the Lancet, while
shocking, is not likely to be revolu-
tionary of individual habits New
York Times.
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A Mouse Indicator.
“Did you ever hear of a mouse in
dicator?” asked a prominent official
of the Navy Department. “No? Well,
such indicators have been used in the
navy, and in their way they were very
valuable. When the navy first began
experimenting with submarine boats
it became necessary to devise means
to protect the men who went down in-
to the interior of the boats from the
strong gases. Finally a naval officer
hit upon the plan of placing a mouse
in a cage and having the men who
went below keep the cage close by.
We reckoned the respective strength
of man and mouse, and when the es-
caping gases had overpowered the Mt.