IF YOU WOULD SUCCEED,
Tis an adage as anclent as Adam-——
But not as old as the sun
fhat the earliest birds
Don't gather in herds,
They get there one by ome.
Now the motive of that is certain
And the moral of this is true—
{f you want to succeed
You must take the lead,
And the crowd will follow you.
—The Schoolmaster,
The accommodation
201 of the schedule
road was stuck in the
seemed to be no relief
vision had been made for such a
dngency, because the branch, shelter
od by trees and bluffs, nad been consid
sred proof against such
The engineer, who had
run for twenty years, was
ished for words when the small loco-
motive failed to cut the dri into
which it had plunged so confidently,
and he sat on his seat staring
at the conductor, who swore shocking
ly and gesticulated with his arms
In the coach were two passengers,
both young men. One was
of commercial salesman sent
small jobbing houses, well
seif-assertive, crudely philosophic, the
other, by appearance, plainly a far-
mer. He wore a baggy, shiny black
suit, and his white collar was attach
ed to a gingham shirt by a white
button, sewed with black thread
appearance was enhanced by a
fully trimmed shock of hair and
kers.
The commercial salesman had
arisen when the train stopped and had
walked to the door.
“l guess,” he remarked
minute, “that we're stailed ]
He whistled a popular melody as he
walked down the aisle, and no
some amusement that
was clutching the back
ves fliled with consternation
“Provoking, isn't it?” the drummer
sald as he lighted a cigar and d
paper-covered from his
“Y-vas, by
ed. “Say,
stuck?
“That's it e
ductor now.”
The conductor slan
viciously and shook
cap.
“We're up
he announced
founded teakettie {a «
pig out in a
a washtub. We're
Dilkport, and the
can't see your hand before
Lucky we've be
“Then we w
asked the
at his watch.
“That's the size of {t
here on this peavine the !
won't earn what's the matter w
till tomorrow Wa've
coal. It might be
“Yes,” said the
might but I don’t
be much worse for
“You
the buckle, “I've
gagrment tonight
if the train ain't
hoof it.”
He put on the other sh
reaching for the wolfskin
dangled from one
holder. The conductor and the
man contemplated him in
ment.
“But, man, you can't
said the conductor “You'll fail
through a bridge or something and
then you'll freeze to death”
“1 reckon ‘tis a bit risky. adm¥ted
the farmer; “but I ain't at all sure it
wouldn't be riskier not to. You see,
my wife's at Dilkport, and she's sick
She may be dying. [I've got to go to
her.”
An expression of sympathy same up
on the conductor's face and that of the
salesman took on a sudden gravity.
“There are certain circumstances,”
train—Number
-on the branch
snow, and there
for it. No pro-
on-
misfortune
the
i.
been on
too ast
1
lumbly
tha tyne
th Lv De
out b
v
dressed,
bone
His
Care-
whis
after a
ted with
the other ma
of a ze
hook
-cat!™
do you
the oth
m
an
against
in dis
taere
SNOW & 50
MLO SuPer
ont
farmer
gat
=
w
AnXxi
worse
farmer
ses kh
me.’
explained, fasteni
got a particular en-
up at Dilkport, and
going I've got to
see,” he
nd rose,
h
parcel
analog
astonish
coat whi
f the
and o
ena of
do it possibly.”
“which make it more important that
I should see her than you might natur.
ally think from the plain fact of her
being sick. I haven't treated her just
right, to tell the truth. [I've been
stupid and unreasonable. We were
married only a year ago. | won her
away from three or four other fellows.
& better husband than me Funny
how such things go, ain't it?”
“It's a blooming queer old world.”
said the conductor, nodding his head
sagely.
girls,” added the salesman in the tone
of an authority.
“We were married at Dilkport,
my farm to live.
wrong with her. A sort of a cloud
come over her. It was nothing but
homesickness, [ #'pose, but I couldn't
see it any other way than that she
was sorry she'd married me. And one
day 1 happened to find a sheet of pa.
per—a part of a letter she'd been
writing--that had dropped from her
portfolio, and I read it. There weren't
many words on the sheet. The first
one was “disappointed,” ending a sen-
tence she'd begun on the sheet that
went before. And then it said: ‘It is
not as 1 had pictured it. I wish to go
home" And right there it ended. 1
said nothing to her. I didn't think it
was necessary to have a scene, as they
call it. But I was hurt-—<hurt clean
to the core, and in trying to cover
up my feelings I 'pose [ was unkind
~maybe cruel. After two or three
days of brooding I got into a regular
was a damned, unnatural, unreason-
able brute.”
“Correct,” sald the conductor, frank-
ly.
bad state. I told her she'd vetter go
weren't made for each other.
she tried to put her arms about my |
neck I wouldn't let her. Then she ask-
ed for my reasons [ told her she knew |
well enough, and turned my back. 1
“Well, she went. For four months |
I've been baching it on the farm, |
When |
growing crabbier every day. And this |
morning I happened to meet a young |
chap in the store at Pepperdock that!
knows my wife's folks, He lives at
Dilkport when he {isn't traveling!
around the country selling things.
“‘l suppose you've heard from your
wife this morning? he asked me. ‘No.’
said I, with a snap, 'l hain't,! ‘Well, |
I've just come from home,” said he,
‘and there was a report on the street
when I left that she was liable to die.
The kid's all right, though.
“‘Huh!' sald I, startled death,
‘the kid!" ‘Yes,’ said looking at
n a sort of a peculiar way; ‘didn’t
you know there was a kid born yester-
day? ‘Why, yes, course,” 1 said,
shamed into the He. 1 was that dazed
[ didn't know my name for a minute
‘Your wife's a fine woman, the
voung chap went on, me listening like
in a dream. ‘lI sent her a patent
h washer about six months ago on
al. It didn't suit her, but she
didn't do as most people would have
done; she wrote me a real nice letter,
telling me that it had disappointed
that it wasn't what she had pic-
ft. She said she wished to go
to Dilkport for a visit in a
time, and thet when she come
bring it up with her, saving me
express charges. 1 tell you, a
in this agency business learns
appreciate littie things like that'|
“And then, in a flash, I saw it all
I'd seen was the one she
writing about that dishwasher.
[ bolted without getting the
things I'd to town after. 1
hustled around and spruced up a lit
tle, and got somebody to care for the
and—and I'm going to get to
tonight in spite of blazes,
Il there ia to it.”
the coach followed
and
sympathy
to
he,
me
of
one
dis
tr
her;
tured
bome
short
she'd
the
fellow
to
The letter
was
home
come
stock,
Diikpor
that's ¢
He the
who felt
m off
climbed
the
locomotive
car,” called
with
by
the salesman,
to see h
They
through
the
3 44
loaded
+ go ahead with
ofl
right,”
bar-
tae
of it Why
thinking that once I
and on the way
in a drift,
of the barrel
it was
have
ape. But
of straw
box, and lit
thing |
drift was meit-
rel of oll
sled tipped over
yt
nto the snow
night and 1
I was in bad
together a
in the sled
and
oll-soaked
didn’t
SN
dark
pilie
¥ ,
been
had
with a match, the first
green light!”
conductor, as the
came clear to him
ose we could do it?
the holy
iF ed the
fea b
Do you
ipp
‘I'd be willing to stand the expense
of three barrels of oil towards tryidg |
it
The conductor jumped into the cab
and laid the plan before the engineer,
had
the engine until compelled by the
CO
who
It might work,” said the engineer
after a few minutes’ deliberation.
Taint like as if we were buried.
We're just tangled up a little, that's
all. If I could get a start 1'd go
through. Jim"—addressing the fire
man, with sudden energy-—‘“coal her
up! Make her hum!”
The conductor called the two brake
rolled from the car and
the front end of the train.
oll was scattered on the snow by the
pailful and shovelful
a great handful of greasy waste and
threw It upon the drift. It spluttered
a moment-—flickered-—all but went out.
The farmer rolled one of the empty,
oil-soaked barrels within reach of the
burning waste.
“It's no g—"
There was a blinding glare, followed
by a sizzling, hissing roar. The drift
melted as if by magic. The flames
licked the drivewheels of the locomo-
| tive, and reached almost to the cab.
“Coal her! Coal her!” shouted the
i engineer to the fireman.
{ The conductor jumped up and down
| excitedly, waving his lantern. “All
aboarr«d!” he yelled,
Half an hour later the train pulled
into Dilkport.
The conductor received a note the
i next day. It read: “Everything's all
right. She's been getting better from
the minute I got here. 1 wanted to go
down to the station to see you, but
I can’t seem to tear myseif away from
her and the baby. Send me bill for
the oil”
To which the conductor replied:
“Gilad to hear you're 0. K. We all of
us want to shake hands with you. The
company pays for the oll.”"—New York
Evening Sun.
The Cynical Bachelor.
According to the Cynical Bachelor,
a man must first lose his head be
fore he can lose his heart.— Philadel.
phia Record,
Dieasings often come disguised.
TPalse teeth never ache,
LAZY LUNGS.
How to Overcome the Tenacious Habit
of Poor Breathing,
How much stress is laid in these
days upon the value of fresh air that
in all our schools, {f it is not always
alr method is becoming more and
advocated for certaln diseases,
especially tuberculosis.
In all this spread of knowledge and
good sense it is unfortunately very pos
sible to lose sight of the real issue.
It i8 no exaggeration to say that many
a one who can glibly patter of the num-
ber of cubic feet of alr necessary for
each one to draw a full breath. Fresh
air is a free gift, but it is like most of
the gifts of Heaven, in that
do our
No expect
fire just because a pair of bellows hung
on a nail by the chimney, but this
exactly what many people expect of
their lungs, which are really only the
we
one would
ssa } .
us by
of life burning
bellows given
fire
within us
It is not too
lungs properly
which to keep the
bright and
to assert that
a comparatively
much
used ir
close room will do more good than lazy
lungs in an open field This trick of
lazy lungs is a habit, like any
and may be overcome by
effort. Many persons, for example, are
afflicted with a nervous habit hold
ing the breath unconsciously. These
are the people who, in spite of plenty
time spent yet
cold easily, poorly, and are al
ways more or less “under the weather”
physically They are often much
benefited by a course of active train
ing because it impossible to cxer
cise vigorously without drawing some
good deep breaths
Many other persons—and they con
stitute the great majority of mankind
—breathe only with the upper part of
the lungs, and although they may
breathe regularly, do not draw in suffi
cient air at a breath to fill all the lung
cells.
of
of out-of-doors,
digest
is
When once the pernicious habit of
poor, shallow breathing has been brok
en up, the health undergoes such mark
ed improvement, there is such brig
ening of the spirits and improvement
of the looks, that the luxu of dee;
breathing is to be readily
foregone
A good way
ia to take deliberately a
stated intervals and
proper breathing
the
ry
not likely
to start the new hahil
utes at
to
done
reformer will find
breathing more
soon he iz oly
few mit
devote wim
it
this is
systematically
himself unconsciously
and more, until
ing nature and really breathing to
In this way must all work for a
living if we want a good one,
Besidea the gain to the gone
health which from the habit
of deep breathing is created 3
strength and preparedness
often of great e In
warding off acute pulmonary diseases,
Youth's Companion
very
live
we
rel
Comes
there
reserve
which is servi
ENGLAND'S LABOR MARKET.
Fifteen.-Mour Job, Work Seven Days
a Week, Pays $5 for the Week,
The state of the markeil for unskiil
ed labor in England has been revealed
by an investigator who answered ap
advertisement for a “young sober and
intelligent man to fill of
trust.” and has come in for a great
of sharp criticism from some of
London newspapers
The investigator's application for
the job was answered by a pier wom
pany in Blackpool, Lancashire, a popu
lar seaside resort in the north coun
try. The reply furnished these par
ticulars as to the job
“1f appointed, would you be willing
to wear uniform, and assist generally
with any kind of work? The hours
would be from 7 a
Sundays included.
a position
the
aa
The wages one
SHADE FOR HOGS.
Summer shade must be provided for
hogs, especially brood sows. At this
day and age when hog wallow is in dis
favor, the animals must be provided
with some place where they can cool |
off. Clumps of trees or shrubs are very |
desirable, but if these are not prac- |
ticable on western prairies, a simple |
shod with board roof and one or two
sides open answers very nicely. This |
slides should be so arranged that all
of the sides can be raised during the
hottest weather, making a free circu |
SELECTING FOR THE HERD.
For to estab
a dozen cows, |
made a spec- |
desire
of a
farmers who
small herd
a
after. to the end of the season.”
The
with a family to support on a salary
ously
newspapers:
duties if you could make the hours s
being fully occupied, so as to enable
me to save a good portion of the wage:
you offer. 1 think the public houses
open at 5 in your season and close af
11, so that if you could arrange for
my being at the pier at, say, 4:30 a
m. and finishing, say, 11:30 p. m., the
situation would suit me well and take
me out of temptation.
In my last situation, which [ held
for ten years, [ only worked eighi
hours a day, and Saturdays and Sun
days I was unemployed, which caused
me to get a little demented through
having so much idle time on my hands
I see your wages work out at some
thing like 2 2.7d (about 43§ cents) pe
hour, but I should not mind the re
duced amount if the situation were
made to my satisfaction. .
New York Sun.
Was Badly Shot.
An Irishman fighting under the
British flag was caught on the plair
by a party of Boers, He refused tc
surrender and resisted until he was
shot in a dozen places and left for
dead. He was found the next day
anconscious and carried to a fleld
hospital. As soon as he recovered
conaclousness a nurse asked him i
he were badly shot. “Badly shot?
he replied. “I am so full of bullel
holes that the man in the next coi
has caught cold from the draft:
through me."=" Nass Olyonicle.
cows of ex-
ane quality is
shown by fre
grade cattle, |
whether for either beef or milk pro-|
duction, are quite the equal of the!
pure bred, and as they are hardier and
botter rustlers, they not require |
quite so much care and attention.
WATERING HORSES.
Horses often suffer for want of |
For some unexplained reason
other animals are allowed to judge
for themselves, but horses are kept |
on short allowance. This is all wrong. |
Except when too worm or immediately |
after feeding horses should have all
the good pure pater they will drink. |
They need water to dilute their dry |
feed, to convert it into a liquid in the |
process of digestion. Food will re-
main in the stomach until sufficient |
juices are added to dissolve it. Fever |
sh symptoms are soon apparent to a |
close observer when a horse has in- |
sufficient water. A horse should be
given water both before and after feed
ing. Proper management will provide
th necessary conveniences. Horsds
should not be compelled to suffer for
thelr owner's neglect or other mis
management,
sire and ade
ceptional
advisable,
crossing on gr
individuality
It has
experiment
been
that
do
EXPERIENCE WITH BROODER
CHICKS
1 have been using brooders
son for first
of apacity
perience that 1 have
brooder chicks, teaches
often crowd too many chicks in
brooder. If you place about
or 50 ch a 100 capacity b
you find they will upy it
among them. 1 placed 40 chic
the brooder and lost but two
other time | placed 1 in a
and lost over half of them
The of feeding
chicks is of the utmost importance. 1
had several articles on fink
and care, but 1 thought there was too
much theory about the ques
tion. My little experience teaches me
that the feading must not
be neglected. The 40 chicks were fed
on food that 1 believed would do §
as but | plainly see my
Crowding in many together
improper feeding was the cause of a
large per of in the second
case mentioned Alvin Whitlock, in
New England Homestead,
this sea
and have
What little
had with
me that
Lhe time two
éex-
the
we
a
40 §
rooder,
100-chick
only
ks In
will OC
ks in
At an
00 brooder
method brooder
read {oe
feeding
question
folly
well, 3
and
LOO
cen joss
WHY CHICKENS DIE.
line per horee power per day when
running to its full capacity. A well
was sunk about 18 feet deep and 10
feet in diameter, from which an iron
pipe 4 inches in diameter run out
160 feet into a lake, the water in the
well standing within 4 or § feet of the
pump.
A survey of the grounds to be irri
gated, with a leveling instrument,
showed the average height to which it
would be necessary to force the water,
To distribute the water 1,000 feet, a
2% inch wrought iroa pipe was bought
as it was denired to irrigate. This is
screwed together and can be
changed for different crops as need
ed. Large valves opening to full size
of the pipe, with hose connections,
were atached at h places. as to
make it most convenlent to use a two
inch linen
The watering
suc
hose
of the strawberries
1,000 feet from the pump would throw
the water in a solid stream from 80 to
100 feet, breaking into a spray
like rain 1 reaching the ground.
With 100 of hose we can, with
one attachment of the “
le of 400 feet something over
two acres. This be thoroughiy
wet in two hours, ig really more
than is time for
strawberries, allowed to get
in the beginning
black raspberries we tried irri
The
results,
fine
wiore
feet
hose. cover
ere or
could
which
at
Necessary one
unless
For
latter method gave the best
for more water was got on the ground,
and the berries were larger, of better
and A heavy irr
gation of about 1% inches of water to
the acre was given as the berries were
color more juicy
carry the The berries sold
from two to three cents per quart more
than berries not irrigated —Walter IL.
Taber, in American Agriculturist,
crop.
SPRAYING HINTS
It ig within the last twenty-five
years that the great importance of
spraying orchards has become so
manifest Jefore that time there was
not the cl competition in fruit
growing that there is today, and
blemished fruit which would former
iy pass in the market unnoticed is now
thrown with the There
spraying
Insects
are constantly
from
orchards serve
our
¥
1
i
yohed
aside culls
are several reasons
now of prime
and fungous
coming to
Old
bree
why is
importance
liseases
pur orchards foreign
shores neglected
ling place for pests and help
r them about There are
who grow fruit along with their
general farming BAY ng
! it if these same people
their hards in good
a method of
and
would
as a
to scatte
MAnYy
who EPray
pesn’t pay;
would
tiith,
sprayi
HeeD or
follow systemat!
n grade their
i at the
hards
8
$ properly
ruit, they
be surprise
received from small ore
exercised
e mistake
An 1}
r Michigan
a formula for a
ng so many pounds of
$0 many gallons of
carelessness he
ms of
Was dam-
Had he the
you are right then
id have saved his
and his money
becomes necessary to spray
is ripening, the following
is recommended Copper car
ounce, ammonia enough
Care, however. m be
in handling sprays, {o itt
nay nse
irred in
read
spray
copper sulphate to
and
ainda
poundas
water, throu
read it
water, The
aged orchard
old adage, "Be sure
go ahead.” he
trees, his temper
When it
that
solution
result
a
followed
wu
ane
It has come to be a saying with
poultry breeders that the chicks must |
be four weeks old before they can be
safely counted on to mature. The rea
of this is that most of the loss
among young chicks is previous to this
it is not necessary to go far
to find it. It may be due to anyone
of three causes, and is often due to
two or even all three of them.
In the first place the vigor of the
chicks depends on the vigor of the
If the stock
is weak from any cause, the eggs can.
not be made to produce vigorous |
chicks. This lack in the breeding |
stock may be brought about by in
breeding, the presence of vermine, or |
tuents.
After the eggs are hatched the
chicks may be killed off by lice or |
careless feeding
For the first cause of this trouble
there is no remedy.
Chicks hatched from weak breeding
stock Are foredoomed to an early
death or a profitiess life, and oftenest
it is death.
The presence of lice is often due
to carelessness, and lack of proper food
may be due to ignorance of careless
ness, or a combination of both.
Soft feed mixed in excess of im-
mediate wants and allowed to sour
is a prolific cause of death. Bad drink-
ing water leads in the same direction.
The cause of this great mortality
among young chicks being pointed out,
the remedy is obvious, and anyone can
apply it. Sound, sweet feed, plenty
of grit, freedom from lice, pure water.
These are the requirements to main.
tain good health In chicks from
healthy stock. Not to furnish these
brings its own punishment in the loss
of chicks.—Farmers’ Volce.
WATER SUPPLY FOR FRUITS,
As the growing of strawberries has
been one of our special crops, and aim-
ing to produce as fine berries as pos.
sible, the application of water by ir
rigation has been forced upon us. We
put in a gasoline engine of 14 horse
power and a rotary pump with a ca
pacity of 300 gallons per minute. This
was selected because of its economical
method of producing power, it costing
only from $1 to $1.50 per day to run
it. The engine uses one gallon gaso-
gallons
The time to spray and the number
Every grower must know just whet he
aims to kill when he sprays. Trees
should never be sprayed with any of
the poisonous solutions while in blos-
some
other insects which are indispensable
in fertilizing some fruits. Apples,
pears, plums and grapes should re
ceive regular applications every year.
Cclorado Bees at St. Louis
Mayor Swink, of Rocky Ford, Col,
is an aplarist, and he has, perhaps, the
He is
Fair, and they will work at St. Louis
from the time the Exposition opens
Mr. Swink's plan,
which will cost fully $10,000 of nis
own money is to bring to St. Louia
enough beehives to construct in min-
fature a counterpart of the Colorado
State House, at Denver, The bees
terial for honeymaking in the country
surrounding the World's Fair grounds.
it will require about 640 hives to con-
struct the little State House, and in
it about 5.500.000 bees will work.
A Colorado representative at the St.
Louis Exposition said on this subject;
“We have one bee man who works
his bees all the year through. In
summer they work in his alfalfa fields
in Colorado, and in the fall he ships
them to his plantation in Florida,
where they work among the flowers
and orange groves until time to return
them to the West in the spring.
in Colorado we have each yea: a
Watermelon day, at Rocky Ford; a
Potato day, at Greely; a Strawberry
day, at Canon City, and & Fruit day,
at Grand Junction. These are holi-
days, and in 1904 these celebrations
will be held in St. Louis, and on these
days Colorado fruit will be as free
as water for those who celebrate with
us.” -
By the use of a process invented at
Bridgeport, Conn, wooden doors are
When & man gives himself away
naturally feels cheap.
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
From All Sources.
tive Department by
secretary to Gov-
ewspaper talk about
the Governor's
wer the chris-
syivania is
be
r the LOVErnor s
ernor Sit “ihe n
~ontroversy between
not
18 entirely proper for
the builder to select any one he pleases
to perform this ceremony, and as Sen-
ator Quay has been largely instrumental
in securing appropriations for the bat -
tleship it is very proper that his daugh-
ter be selected. So far as Miss Stone is
concerned, she never thought of the se-
lection. and. together with the Gover-
nor and his family, will be very glad if
the honor should come to Miss Quay,
who is in every way worthy of it.”
The Dark Water Coal Company's
washer at New Castle was closed by 300
marching strikers, who compelled the
entire working force to lay down their
tools and go home. The foreman of the
force of non-union men was carried
through the village headed by a band.
The strikers finally placed the man upon
fis feet in the suburbs of the town and
took up a collection for his benefit.
Injunction proceedings were institut.
ed at Scranton by the borough of Arch-
bald and Mrs. Katherine Kinback to
restrain the Elk Hill Coal and Iron
sompany from piping the waste water
from its Archbald washery into a ditch
which the city constructed. The Bar.
gess and Councilmen are nearly all
striking miners. i
As the result of an order raising the
wages of all employees of the Lorain
Steel Company, at Johnstown, 10 cents
a day, 1000 men are affected.
Burglars entered the shoe shop of
Viner Arnold, at Beaver Falls, and
~atried away about $10 worth of leather
ho | almost his entire kit of tools, Mr.
Arnold is also a musician and leer of
the silver cornet band, and they stole
his favorite clarionette. Le
Governor Stone received the resigna-
tion of Judge Samuel W. Pennypacker
from the bench of Common Pleas Court
No. 2, Philadelphia, to take effect Au-
gust 1. Norris S. Barratt, assistant dis-