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