COMRADERY. By Clinton Scollard. Qood comrade mine, I do not care Along what path our feet shall fare, 80 be we toss our burdens by, And wunder free beneath the sky, Hale brethren of the sun and air. The morn awaits us, and the noon; Aye, even till the peer of moon, bee, With reed and vine, with grass and tree, Dur spirits shall be close ian tune, And well I know that we shall bring Back from our outland gypsying A largess captured from the mirth And lovingness of mother-earth Whose soul is ever like the spring. Then grip the pilgrim staff. Afar The hills and hermit hollows are; The sun pours ‘round us virgin gold, And from yon violet hight, beh id, The unknown beckons like a star! —New York Independent. Charging the Enemy. Old Gib Ezell went swinging and stumping upon his crutches down the street and up the steps of his store. It was the biggest store in though not the smartest. Joe Heenan, who had opened up the spring before, just across the street, was running old Gib hard in groceries and hard. ware, and leaving him out of sight when it came to knick-knacks or dry goods pure and simple. A man. who half knew, looked after old Gib, then across at the sign of his young rival, and murmured half to himself, “What a pity!” Another man who knew and ulso looked, lis tened to the exclamation, and answered it, sticking out his chin as he spoke. “Better say what a shame. “What's a shame, Doc?” said, coming up behind them Doctor Waters smiled half grimly. “I'm not quite gure—it seems to be the hitch in the course of a true answered, L.ew Bayne, the man spoken first, shook his getically. “I meant that Jow's legs,” he said; “I it's certain he'll “Now you've got protested. “I'd risk reputation that fall he got on the gleety pavement did no worse harm to his shrunk shanks than barking them up pretty generaly. There were bruises of course, ond on the and side as well. 1 told him out and about in plenty of time for the Christmas trade, but from the first he stood me up and down that he'd never take another steady step, and go far I'm bound to admit he was right. There's nothing on earth the matter with his legs—nothing, at least, that [ or the other doctors can see. Against that there is the fact that the minute he tries to stand on them they do the joint-rule act, dou- ble under him as though they hadn't the strength to bear up a spider. The trouble must lie in .he nerve. If that's what you meant, I gree with you, it's a pity. [I thought you had refer ence to the trick he's played on Joe Beepam."” “What is it?" asked Merton, the third of the group. “You know I've been away six months! Jgll me all about it.” a third love he had uel who head e poor old fel suppose Doc, again.” doctor my professional pever walk me,” the shoulder he'd be “You know Florrie Ezell—" “1 ought to—considering she sent me away.” Merton broke in ruefully like the rest of us? I thought—" “You've hit it” the doctor said. “Joe did stand out mighty well against the prevailing infection; until it hits him square in the face “Lord! To think of bomb-proof’ we called him.” chuckled. “How did it happen? me all about it.” Joe-—"the Tell “a comprehensive order.” Doctor ing his points: “Well, this way. when he saw Florrie Ezell you swirling waltz with Bob Acton at the Pattons’ party. Florrie's a pretty girl anyway ticularly fetching. the thing—I1 insist Joe's time had come. He knew it. Soon as the waltz was over, he froze to Florrie—dida’t get a yard away from her all the evening" “It was a freezing time, as [ remem. ber,” Lew Bayne interrupted with a laugh. “Indian summer up to dusk then a cold rain, that turned to sleet In short order. Say, dida’t old Gib get his fall that very night?” “I'm coming to that, if you'll wait,” the doctor ran on. “I tell you that was a sleet to remember. Joe, of course, wouldn't let Florrie walk home, though the Ezell house is only g1x blocks from the Pattons. No, siree! He telephoned for the finest rig at the livery stable and bundled all that blue tarletan in it, as snug as you please. I heard Florrie protesting that she ought really to walt for papa, but we all persuaded her pap wouldn't think of risking himself upon a pavement like glass, We ought to bave known better—old Gib always does the thing that any other man would let alone.” “Pet a hat he came,” Morton sald, ghuckling more than ever. “You win—from yourself,” Dr ing like a trooper, though he is a deacon. And he fell right before Mas. ter Joe's fine rig, coming home, hates him him fcr doing it. By him, hoping he'd break his neck, You he didn’t take " know gtore “That dida’t! credit Why, he man to keep a Merton interrupt. 3 na to our “That's like him.” “1 tell you, boys, nature must work certain line of compensation the slapped into old Gib all yf -it be and 8 just as good a woman made.” now?" erations iczells may even three His father was a flue man his daughtet as ever was “About Jos Waters frowned, Joe Merton queried with were lorrie they courted in a such a week engaged all in sth with him-—towd him about himself, and his business, and out, and down; but stance of it was he wanted Florrie for his wife, and would get her. And then the old crocodile pretended cry. said Florrie was all he had to live for; he hoped Joe wouldn't press him for an answer then, nor, indeed, talk of an engagement until he was either dead himself again You know how old Joe is, and how he ya to his word, once he passes it. Of course, he promised, never mis trusting id wretch was him--s80 there are! Florrie's worrying and losing color, because Joe nly speaks when they pass by, but ome to the house desperate, and old Gib fattening and getting YOars younger-—on spite and crutches What the end is nobody can guess.’ Can old Gib be shnamming?” Mer wi. Dr. Waters shook his head thought so at first” he sald; "but he is, beats anything in the books, certainly nothing legs, excem that flabby It's equally as can't walk on them I he has hypnotized it was deceit, and ussedness, | would have afore this to take him off out up the to ar the you don't is ten to be if it There's Lis ies just J and if gets step least go over Merton said, Any maybe worth an order,” he as he at Joe, Can wndole with PII ACTross the sympathy will be atreet his shoulder, steps alled back over the store struck » Ad » - . Although it was late March was nipping cold A red fire roared in the base burper inaide Gib's store Old Gib himsell sat beside it, his eye ranging all the miscellaneous merchandise which crowded shelves and floor. His three clerks bad been on the jump all morning, but toward noon there came a lull. He was about to send two of them off to dinner, when the door opened wide, and Mer. ton came through, with Joe Beenam in his wake, and Dr. Waters and Lew Bayne marching solemnly behind. Joa's face was white, his eyes bril- liant. his figure tense in every line. {ndeed. he looked desperate, and his voles rang hard, as he said, stopping short threa feet away: Mr. Exell, I have come to ask you, it 1 old close os. to release me from my promise, You know weil how it was given— truth.” “You mean rou daughter as well as my trade and leave me. a cripple, to starve!” old Joe set his teeth, he sald. "Give me your “You won't get the chance,” old Gib sneered. Joe half turned to his friends and whispered sepulchraily! “Go away' Quick!”" “Going to murder me, Gib sniffed Joe stood very straight, hey?" old The others heard Joe shout: “it is not murder! [I shall give my life to free Florrie from your intol- erable tyranny.” Then they saw him fling wide the stove door, and dash into it what semed like several pounds of gun. powder. Old Gib saw it too. With one wild, whooping yell, he leaped from his chalr, regardless of crutches, of ev. erything but flight, rushed madly for the door, darted through it, and did not pause until he came panting and trembling to his own gate. As he clung there, the others overtook him, as breathless as himself betwixt run. ning and laughing. Dr. Waters made a low bow. “If I had thought three pounds of black sand would be so effectual, I would have had you well long ago,” he sald. Merton dragged Joe forward. “If you want to kick anybody, kick me,” he sald to old Gib. “I put this lad” patting Joe's shoulder, “up to playing you that trick.” “Humph! I knew he didn’t have the brains for it himself,’ old Gib snorted. But though he had found his legs he was none the less old Gib. The fact was proved by his letting Joe and Florrie marry almost out of hand, and presenting them with both his store and his blessing. —New York Sun. “BROTHER JONATHAN." a— | How the Term Arose as a Designation i for Americans. The legend that Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut, was the Jonathan from whom came the designation of “Broth. er Jonathan,” as applied to the Amer. jcan people, has had the run of care less commentaries, afterdinner ora- , tory and glorifications of the Nutmeg State In particular for about half a century. This was on the strength of a Norwich newspaper's interview in 1846 with an alleged Revolutionary | veteran, who, on a comparison of dates, turns out to have nine years old, when, according to his ac count Washington remarked, “We must consult Brother Jonathan.” This nutmeg is now finally shown to be a manufactured article by Mr. Albert Matthews in of his fine-tooth been one bearing on a given moot point. Mr. Matthews’ that “Jonathan term; that it citations the during the Revo was arose as a derisive loyalists mildly epithet, by and applied by them to those the American gome time avolded Cause by who that it the Americans late in the eighteenth the Americans took it up they used it to designate a country bumpkin, and that gradually it came into popular VOR US both cides of the Atlantic, of the agpoused was for themselves, century, on as an appellation people The English contempt for Puritan term “Barebones Partiament,’ applied to the Commonwealth Parliament, 18 discernable in it, and it was evidently used in the same popular acceptation as gre now “the Macs and O's,” mean ing irish, “Isanc” and “Rac hael” and Minzenheimer meaping the “Hans” the Dutch, and so on As usual in Mr. Matthews’ unique studies. the footnotes are the richest part of this brochure Here ix one for the Tth of June, showing that, even after the Bunker Hill bloodshed there Pro-Boers, as they been during the British suv the print in English enough have struggle maintain the ereignty us, to ing of pro-American arti erst magazines occasionally Said Almon's Ramembrancer™ (1775): “But. ‘this action has the superiority of the King's troops: Has it indeed? How ?-—"Why {with a proportion of field artillery. and with the ships, armed vessels and boats, and with the of certain and speedy attacked I were would called to over secure shewn they assistance of encouragement { necessary) and defeated above three times their numbers What three times their own numbers? Of whom pray? Of French or Spanish regulars ?—No, of the Americans—Of the Americans’ reinforcement own cowards. who (Lord Sandwich knows) do not feel bold enough to dare to look a soldier in the face!”—Boston Trans cript LIGHTEST WOOD THAT GROWS. Found in Missouri and It Is Consider ably Lighter Than Cork. Deep in the bogs and sWamps of southeastern Missouri, In Dunklin and Butler counties, where the land is never dry and water from one to six feet deep stands perpetually in the forests, there grows a rare and curious tree. The natives know It 8s the cork. wood, or cork tree. Science has given it a longer name, the Leitneria flor | dana, floridana because it was first discovered in Florida along the coast, from which it has long since been washed away Some meagre speci mens of it, two to six feet high, are still found in the swamp near Appa | lachicola, Fla., and a few near Varner, Ark.. but in both these places it i= | exceedingly limited In pumbers, an occasional specimen being found, and | hardly rises to the dignity of a tree. Only in southeast Missouri, where it | reaches a height of fifteen ‘0 twenty feet and a diameter of two | inches, is it really a tree What makes the corkwood so re markable is ts exceeding lightness. Beyond a doubt it 18, Aas Mr. William Trelease of the Missour! Hotanicm | Garden has shown, the lightest tree in weight that grows. Its wood weighs | loss than cork. It is so light that | the natives use it to make floats for their fishing nets. And yet its wood, though so spotgy that one may easily | sink one’s fuoger nail in it, is far | tougher than cork. The specific grav- | ity of corkwood, as learned from care | ful tests made by Prof. Nipher in st. | Louls, is 207. The roots are even | lighter than the stem; a test showed | them to have the astonishingly low | specific gravity of .15. | A further idea of the lightness of | the corkwood ‘may be gained by a | comparison with other woods. | great majority of woods range between | 400 and 800, Cork itself is .240. The tree that approaches closest to the corkwood in lightness is the golden fir tree, which grows in the swamps around Tampa Bay and along the Indian River, Florida Its specific gravity, according to Sargent, is 2616, In comparison with the corkwood, which is the lightest wood with its specific gravity of 207, may be placed the heaviest wood known, the black fronwood of Florida, whose specific gravity is 1302. Kansas City Star. ————— A French inventor has discovered a method of toughening glass so that it can be used for paving. A pavement made of this glass cannot be easily broken, is smooth, clean, Impervious to water add not slippery. Houston, Texas, is going to give the glass pave ment a trial A Lynn firm recently made a shoe in thirteen minutes ¥ A HARDY PLANT. The radish is a hardy plant and can be grown every month from spring until late in the fall. But few should be planted at a time, as they soon be- come tough if left in the ground or are allowed to approach maturity. To have them crisp and tender they should be grown on rich soil and forced, as the sooner they reach the table stage the better their quality. -~ —— CULTIVATING TURNIPS. To prepare for turnips should be plowed deep suppose that the turnip will grow un- der any conditions, even when the soll but a few inches, but fact is that the turnip sends its roots the land | 1a plowed i feeder der they return a ‘large amount of | that is secured lower down than i plow reaches. INCUBATORS AND HENS. There is sometimes a tendency, if an incubator does not hatch well a8 expected, to lay the to that of machine or to bators in general. It would seem | had not quite the | izing Influence as the hen, especially on eggs in which the germ Is weak, | and a percentage of hatched should he expected in proportion | offset this disadvantage IL is incu make as if the incubator To . be managed with less trouble than if | hens are used will also be of more uniform size All hens do not hatch eggs ! Those that pluck thas feathers their breasts seem to do better others. indicating a power of mitting vital force to the CEs An incubator must have careful | management, and a good operator will frequently get where others have falled. If takes the advant ages of an incubator into consideration gives it proper care and with a fair percentage of chicks from eRKs, factory well. {rom than trans results one is satisfied the result will usually be ~New York Tribune Farmer Fi TRANSFERRING Transferring spring time, successfully summer BEES usually done in though it may be done almost time d sis Dut any OWIBE irire the fat tha there are but few bees in the haves in early spring compared to the ber that occupy them later, and the condition of the combs having but little honey in in early spring to . the num RIs0O them it is not best to transfer too early and before the bees have begun work the season. It work about the time they are gathering their first and have young brood in the hive | Transferring a hive of boes good lesson for the amateur It is easily done and any one can do it i First get the new bive all in readiness | 0 receive them, and by the use of a good bee smoker, smoke the ores in the old hive by raising it a little for is best to do the considerable honey is a smoke well up among the bees. Con tinue smoking them moderately for a | as before. Now turn the old hive bot | tom up, and if the bees come to the | down into the hive. Now | the hives. If any combs are fastened | to the inside of thes~ us? a knife with | long blade to cut them loose Now cut out the first combs and | with a feather from the wing of a | turkey brush the bees off and cut the | comb to fit inside of the new frame and | fasten in there by wrapping the frames | with hard twine and tying in several | places. Proceed with the next combs | and now brush the boes into the new | hive where the first combs are placed, | and so on until all are in the new hive. | =Agricuitural Epitomist BREEDING SWANS. Swans are the most graceful of all | breeds of waterfowl and where one wishes to beautify a pond they add more than any other breed to the scen- ery, as the illustration so well shows. Their keeping is easy, provided sur | roundings are congenial. Ponds that are freshly fed by springs and that have shallow banks, covered with veg. ftation, are their favorite abiding places. Make an artificial flost, cov- ered with a small partly uncovered house, and anchor the same in the middle of the pond, and you have the pest kind of breeding place for them. Cover it three inches deep with straw and allow their instinct to do the rest. Swans mate in pairs and the female, if more than two years old, is a good persistent sitter and whtehful mother. She will take her young within two days after hatching on the water and guard their every movement with ma j laranl care. Peed them three times daily with chopped greens, such as let tuce, watercress and young rye, and when five days old add some finely broken bread. Throw this in the water, teach them a certain call and | they will soon learn to come to you for "thelr feed. When four weeks old wheat, buckwheat and cracked corn may be given them, placed in troughs along the water edge, A swan will lay from 22 to 30 eggs are nually and if, as said, all conditions favorable, a large percentage of om should hatch and live. They are and do not need any extra b or care. even In the coldest C—O A AS A AIA Treat them as you would! treat old and hardened geese. Grea precaution should be exercised in buy ing mated stock birds, as many irre gponsible breeders sell two male swan: for a pair. The goose test. if applied to swans, will reveal their sex. Theo T. Jager, in American Agriculturaiist STABLE DISINFECTION. disinfection stables period of constant use should be 1 part of routine pre«tice. Dairy sta bles in particular sbould be disinfect od twice a year and oftener if the con ditions demand it it is not possible to give many stables that thorough dis infection that is possible in houses cause their construction will not admit | of it, but it is possibe to do very much and at little expense The method The of after 2 be ideal power to penetrate every where | effectiveness of this method large and maintaiping it Unless ths can The de volume of gas time. for stable be Foy all practical purposes the gas produced by burning sulphur over a pot of coal best if used in connection steam, The dry sulphur fumes little germ killing but combined with steam In forms a compound that is deadly. burning with | have wher Bir Ths sul power the and of Formaldehyde gas is not would have A us believe, very practica ondition is by whitewashing his is not expen piled by means of an inexpensive fruit spray pump. The lime should be thor oughly slaked and strained cloth and made just thin enough parts of room in about required with will kill reach all of a a pump and and ceiling the time Whitewash the germs with which it tat It has the effect the barn lighter and the first spraying usualy be suffi As the bufness of ities and « portions and « one the bold comes in con or too, of making cleaner After ation given regulariy piving i of me appii will ient if su] regineries IArge pre ipon cleanliness precaution should be regularly foll Veterinarian, Station ECONOMY IN SUMMER FEEDING in winter much foods thems In good pasturing as they and if one is judi of equalize matters down the to a Economy of feeding mean starvation of rood, wholesome, nourishing food The grass pasture should in particu the animals with & jire SO expensive condition Qur do in fous in his selection Kae the winter growing food it is possibls in feeding to bring cost very low point rist WA however, does food but these should be in addition to such muscle. A good deal of however, can be obtained expense from the sweepings of the barns are disposed of at Young corn raised for such food, little threshing nominal sums. its succulent nature. cropping is sometimes economy in to be deplored, ier sooner or iater the loss will prove of the greatest im portance. surfi- is obtained by portioning out by cutting the Erass and feeding it to stock in the yard. In this way we get the best from the pastures, and ETass, will graze over the youngest and tend- erest portions, and leave the large stalks standing. These latter are trampled under foot and wasted. There should be some method to prevent this, and cutting the long grass and feeding it in the yard or stable is sometimes the best way to do it—C. L. Water town, in American Cultivator. What Me Wanted to Say. A few days ago Mr. Taylor was ab sent from his drug store for a few minutes and left his wife in charge. A large Norwegian who spoke Eng lish with difficulty entered and said: “Hi owe de firm 10 cents.” “Very well,” replied Mrs Taylor, “Just pay it to me and it will be all right.” The Norwegian made no attempt to produce the coin, but gazed steadily at Mrs. Taylor and repeated. “Hi owe de firm 10 cents.” “Yes, 1 heard you say that before. Now, if you are afraid | will give you a receipt for it.” in astonishment the man from Nor way looked at her and walked out without a word. Pretty soon he re turned with a fellow countryman whose command of English was a lit. tle better and who interpreted the remark to Mrs. Taylor by explaining “He wants 10 cents’ worth of lode form. Frankfort (Kan) Review, THE KEYSTONE STATE. —————— From All Sources. latest issue « Miller, Cora Pittsburg, $12: Wm fio; Harry Burkett, Jacob ( uel Aske Brock W. 1 ryan McKee dy Ridge, $12; John Albert Pensions (seorge § $: Edward ‘ Gehert, Belleionte, Vandergriit, $8; town, $4; dam $12: Charles i $12; George 1 ow David KR £10; Jesse C. Brown, ph Murray, San Breckwoldt, Various Philip Ds tels In times conducte Lancaster, 13 ¢ ‘ 1 % Ear! Harshbar is water boy 4 Veytown i dressed and came down stairs immediately began throwing Duff asked him to go home, but he re fused, and finally, to protect himseli Duff went into the house and got his shotgun. Hardy kept throwing stones the shot striking Hardy Ajter the shooting Hardy in the head : within thirty eet Duff ran to started away of where he was shot t assistance, but Hardy died within 11 but fell tus a few filed an light and ompanies chartered under the gen con- solidate. The question arose in the case of a bill filed by the Common wealth at the instance oi Ant yrney-Gen- eral Elkin to enjoin the Huntingdon Gas Company and the Huntingdon “ompany from consol The Dauphin County Cour gas < Three railroad detctives ha with three men who were break into a freight car at dStewa tion. near Greensburg John Gilkey one of the robbers, may die and Detec- tive Palmer was badly wounded Jacob Shoemaker, who was chief of police of Pottsville during the reign of terror of the Molly Maguires in this region, died at the age of 72 years. Has life was threatened many times by the outlaws, but he always escaped. The Sharon Steel Company has pur- chased 4000 acres of coal and limestone on st Lawrence county farms for $1.- 000,000. The deal covers three town- ships. Work of developing the depos- its will begin immediately. A railroad will be built to carry the product to the mills. Hundreds of tons of coal are beng taken from the river at Steelton each day. During the floods much fine coal was washed down from the mines, and the scarcity of fuel owing to the strike has made coal dredging a profitable business, Roy Soinllard, a boy soloist, of Le- banon, was suddenly stricken dumb. Charles Bush died of tetanus at Potts- town, the result of a blank cartridge wound on July 4 After rescui a companion from drowning, Neil Carew, of Hazleton, a boy of 13 years, died from exhaustion. Mrs. Wm. Druckenmiller, of near Painterville, died from a snake bite re- ceived picking berries. Peter Drissell, of Easton, went Jefferson to lie down in the shade. - sleeping Drissell started to roll d fell over a 1oo-foot recipice, re- Seiving injuries from which he ded. he third time Emory Dall, a Kol ne in the aia Rail Harrisburg, was run
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