SOME DAY. Some day by laws as fixed and fair As gulde the planets in their swesp, The children of each outcast heir The harvest fruits of time shall rean. The peasant’s brain shall vet be wise, The untamed pulse beat calm and still, The blind shall see, the lowly rise And work in peace time's wondrous will, Some day, without a trumpet’s call, This news shall the earth blown: The heritage comes back to all: The myriad monarchs take own, Thomas Wentworth Home From the Seashore By Elinor Gray Ribbstone. Our adventure the night ed to our city house from the should have occurred anywh than in a large American city. look back on it, it able as it was unpleasant A letter, three days had Wrong o'er be their Higginson, we reurn- seashore re else seems sent previous ly, somehow gone and in consequence our housekeeper and cook had not arrived in advance open the house and have it warm and for with eturn home house of us to waiting dark, ready us, supper to a eight ur 1 cold, at o'cl in evenir was 80 depressing first Aunt Theod thoughts of driving to a But that is far from and on second tuoughts, had a d to go ia and hote night too, deci key, we te ourselves as The knows in what condition her house when it several omfortable could. summer absente she has been cl! ransacked Or all ’ 4ood th 1 may have colonized the It was not basement without some yentu he refore, that we 15¢. sniffed the hackman baggage in the hall Al as we had left it, Theodia felt her mantel, by the fireplace “Yes, the ttle safe igly back at struck a light, “the gzas That's a comfort I am glad we forgot to have it shut oh, the house Do you think, venture down int kindle a fire in t coal, but I don't know kindlings?" “1 am an something combustible,” I said: and having fully locked the front door and hooked the chain, we pairs of 1 gloves and went down into the cellar I Ughted the jet by the fur We soon noticed a very peculiar My aunt sniffed de der if that can be sald It was smell, “Elinor I never smelled anything quite like it.” my aunt remarked again and went from one corner of the cel lar to another, looking for a clue seemed to me that the strange odo: was strongest over the cold-air box of the furnace and [ followed the box along where it passed through rear wall to the back yard some hesitation [I unlocked from the cellar into and stepped ouf; the odor was stronger there than anywhere ‘Probably there is some sort of re. fuse in the yard which causes said my aunt when I returned. “And we a8 We are going to build only a light fire, it will be better to drop the slide in the cold-air-box, and not draw that foul air up into the house.” Accordingly 1 dropped the slide. and we then proceeded to kindle a fire in the furnace, using such kindlings as we could find, and after they were well afire, added a few shovelfuls of coal. We were in the cellar for per haps twenty minutes, and we then ascended to the back parlor and open. ed the register. “It will soon be nice and warm here,” my aunt remarked, holding her hands to the ascending hot air. “Doesn't the heat of the furnace seem good 7” Some sandwiches and fOr escal aen had be way to matches are she cried en here.” § me And 13 il i Od feels so canil Elinor. that » the basen | he furnace? WW there's sure we « find Cars two took ole ubtfully sewer Eas certainly a very It the After door yard far else the the back fe is, fruit were concluded to make them suffice for supper, And since the upper floor was as yet unopened and unalred, we decided to camp for the night on two lounges in the back parlor No sooner had we made these ar. noises that seemed to emanate from the furnace below began to be heard, heard very distinctly on the current of ascending air that gushed from the register pipe. They began with bumping sounds which we thought at first were occasioned by the expansion, due to heat, of the hot-air chamber about the firebox. But these were followed immediately by noises as of scraping over the metallic surfaces of the pipes, “What can that be?’ my aunt de manded. “That's not the heat.” We were soon convinced that some thing unusual was going on, Then came a clang that emphasized the matter, low!” 1 exclaimed. to do? We listened in the kitchen, then went to the cellar door and Aunt Theo- dia shouted “Who's there?’ in a #3 busky voice, “What are we Getting we looked jthe fastenings { hastily tot] i scraping, ! increased momentarily came quite what to think had been noise could hardly have heen | There ware odd thumpings as of ham. ‘mers and a sound as if tinmen were trying to t the joints of the hotair | pipes to pull them {apart I had thought at first it might a cat that had in through ithe cold-air box and wus now shut | the hot air chamber, But Aunt Theo of the floor—and our horrified dia exclaimed that no cat could make such sounds as these We stood over the register, listening terror, divided in to whether it was a burglar i nambulist The { leading to the was now creak ling and shaking and the register in the floor was visibly jarred “Elinor,” my aunt “did leave our-—hats hall had out no response, again back mening, to aad returned parlor changing till We Knew If a plumber or 168 they be frightful. not wemolishing the furnace areater, pu thor togetiier, or gise be Come nto before ever in our surmises as or som plumber hot-air pipe register viglently whispered we in—the because—becanse~—~[ think--we better run and find a policeman!’ Before we Id both of us strafght do this, however, cuiminat hopped vp out suddenly it our think went a var sath horrified +h there upreared and gaping LW snake! I had aunt out imagined that my Yagueiy Was pas her screaming 1ay sweet sixtes COW not have shrie remember ding but street sLreet the next Heeman un ignal box i. and then *d my aunt un Snake The in ad ifficer listened He calm at last of house front ompany way as hack said front 100 Was open hall officer, ! the to as burning the rr The n + park gtrode up peared not i wider 3 had been repo: ; have SUre:y came out of and good and | s He sirides. With a Theodia at t down steps at deal of difficulty managed t« the HOU de urea two Aunt pace round to those y Keep with him to rner and the signal-box “1 should comment you get long? first did him snake!” was his “Where had Say directly to him us " Have You With something approaching indig nation Aunt Theodia and | vigoroualy disclaimed previous acquaintance with the The officer could Well said, think I had take this drug store while [ get him that ¢ without heln any reptile understand it better the he you ato on other corner . We asaured the began For and 1 Lrug-store back near a8 we dared to go and watching eight policemen conduct a snake-hunt in house in fact they did not make an end it and haul the reptile away in one of the « ity jcarts until after midnight As numbers of rather queer people had been attracted to the vicinity by the wnusual proceedings an officer was detalled to guard the house until i morning, and also watch for any other snakes that might appear For it was help ould reach and We yt drug-stos he RIgnaiing the next one two hours aunt the Sp our time in sitting making brief trips as to house our our of reserve With many misgivings, we at i had the officer explore the upper floor arable report of the snakeless condi | chamber and fortified ourselves there | by placing a heavy chest over the reg. | ister pipe; this in case other boa-con- strictors were perambulating the pipes. The next morning the back parlor was found to bear unpleasant traces of the affray there. Our blue coated guardian was firm in the belief that we had been attacked by a sea serpent, He said that it was five yards long and was heavier than a bar. rel of flour, but it was evident that he was not a naturalist, : My aunt and I saw only the reptile’s head and neck, and that under circum. stances not conducive to careful ols er. vation; it had looked to us to be of an orange and black color, Later, when the mystery of its pres ence in our furnace had been traced, it was ascertained pretty conclusively to have been a python belonging to a popular “show,” which had escaped while the mepagerie sid- Cage dtanding overn vard ight th not om our quarter of the city lost sired it that the reptile entrance on a railway very At howmen had Hot 1 id an nie o Lie Such a nid had It wou ofr » al night Seon bad probably by yard and by way the furnace, apnea ir back coldly box to “ms to lair or den for of the which have served it as nearly months, caused the tions old-air hox upw:bd % pipe. --Youth's three heat of our fire had make to get out, and finding the « closed, was driven to escape through the Companion, reptile to strenuous ex it furnace MOUNTAIN MADNESS, Why People Continues to Swell the Al pine Death Roll Alpine Club, Saville ro Hy ome In the w. Lon. carefu are preserved n glass bits of human skulls hott CREOS, that once ngths of cloth les glass refreshments Of 1 held broken a short enstocks, and ragged ing bleached white BSNOWS They Lirave inters But is now goin the que tific m tion all over Europes . i this dangerous in the Im spread of langer he robibiting the climbing of by 1 mountains, there would no . * » useless throwing away of lives ip us more the mountain is id like to see the climber (and the English the most dangerous type) restraint, like any lunatic." London Express Parson put under harmless other Predecessor to the Tent-man. A predecessor to the man, who lived through the greater part of a a a vacant lot in Hunting and experimented at cur vd and died, it the Middlesex This man, afflicted with oniy his own his habitation the sunny west Winchest and rods east of o tent ge ai raw winter avenu himeeli aud sought Rell of eT be 0 st) the son rmost of ol 8 beaut near tl the carriage buried red with an iful chain of reservoirs. 3 fev There are a hogs ground and and signs of a with a rusty Few people, on place, would imagine that the was a house; that not many years a go a man like Diogenes in a tub This hermit came there iam, onls road in the iron COV Lap fireplace ron kettle near it seeing the ti hogshead before the stream flowed at the foot of his hill now the bottom of a lake. He lived there for nearly a year, trying tc off hie disease by a life of ex and then aled. On warm nights, he slipt in a hammock be tween two trees; but he is alleged to have taken to his bar rel, covered by a trap with alrholes posure railroad journey. caude of debate in Winchester how any man--even a hermit--could man age to obtain a night's rest in the somewhat cramped confines of a hogs head, The location of this novel bed chamber ig not far from the south dam, on the west shore of the lake «Boston Transcript, Fish Japanese Diet, The Japanese «cat more fish thes any other people in the world. Witt the:a ment eating ig a foreign inno vation, confined to the rich or, rather to hose rich peogle who prefer it & the national diel A A SN ATTENTION. manure seem to go intimately connected, success cannot be looked for without both. However strong the tendency on the part of mankind be remembered that it has proved that, as rule, crops will not perfect themselves with- CROPS NEED “Tillage and together or are a attention. CHARCOAL Every hog house should contain a box full of charcoal. This may be secured by digging a pit in the ground starting the fire bottom and as is progresses throwing in cobs and wood until it is full When the fire is well started, cover the whole with piece of sheet iron. The mass will thoroughly charred in and can be taken out fred make of salt and two pounds of coperas in a of water and charcoal FOR HOGS. at the be a day or two and used Some rs solution of 12 pounds a pail sprinkle wall aver until pretty satur Hogs will remain healthy and od condition if they are given harcoal IRRIGATION the value of a ing all + advantages surround of straw who needed The Is capacity i #x pens required ight the pipes and hose which carry five dry ap the any part of mg periods man k his ent mois ontinously time tank Can the the water to Dur the Acros ng weather supplied ture to make There has past five years when he lost anything from although farmers all around repeatedly lost a part or all of their small berry crops. The inven tion and work certainly pays big inter. est in the investment. and serve to encourage others to make some provision against destructive dry weather, where £0 much depends upon the 8. N Doty. in American of eps crops with 1 fi them never been 0 & a Bi drought, should results — Professor Cultivator BREEDING FOR THE DAIRY fhe measure of the dairy business is our ability to increase the productiveness of soil and the yield of the two go together, and the former is in large degree gauged by the latter While it stating a seifevident fact that only the cow of medium to large producing capacity profit on her keeping, the is just as of the the Cow is pays a other fact men come short of the full measure of success in their vocation because they fais to practice on that line evi dent While the disparity in the apprecia- tion of the farm incident to keeping upon it good or poor dairy cows may not vary greatly in favor of one or the other, the business as a whole is one-sided, and hence is not a success. In these days of low prices and com- petition with frouds in dairy products, BO the situation and score a positive gain Thera are but few @airies where the best cows are not carrying a lot o. poor ones, or rather, a lot of poor cows the best producers. In the majority of dairies in the country today, if we could strike a balanca we should find that the average butter produc tion of the herds is ncarer the stand. ard of the poorest than of the best This should be reversed. There is no reason why this happier condition can- not be brought about. It lies with the dairyman and farmers themselves, A large item in the current expenses of keeping a cow is In the food she wastes. The consumption of food is her legitimate and proper business, and ber rating in the dairy is based upon her capacity to consume and turn into good milk large quantities of food. But the qualifying circum. stance is the amount of food wasted diverted to the production of fat or failing to appropriate all the elements of the food Every dalryman should study and know the capacity of his cows, and, acting upon this kaowledge, eliminate the poorer animals from his herd, and fill their places with cows of higher producing capacity, flow to get such cows is the question. An economical and practical way is to raises them from the best cows of the herd. Sires of the best butter producing strains are cheap at their call. A little more thought and wise calculation in these matters may turned to good ac count, —Noew Tribune Farmer, be York COVERING FOR THE SOIL. Farmers cannot control the rainfall, but they can at least mitigate the ef. fects of drought to a certain extent by the proper preparations and culti | vation of the soil It is a well-known | fact that when the soil is kept in a | loose, fine friable condition it not only absorbs moisture from the at mosphere especially at night, but allows of the | downward course of the water during showers of a by flowing off, is the case when the surface { hard A loose, deep soil also permits | an upward tendency of water by capil | lary attraction, the moisture by instead loss as ie loose soll thus | storing its of ant greater rains are find, in the frequent when the require the power abund of absorption when We drought therefore time that even Bevere the | apparently is very of vator soll does not working, beneficia green tinge of that en iving evidence the & certain pro it the growing corn g the constant firs the portion of Bture ng oi soil ) . ables derive not of that wouid otherwise btain "he leave piants give When we { the moist very rapidly with absorbed by th. but it a a plant water not leave 48 many suppose, rapid piace temporarily the evapora that constantly which when the season is very fely compare a Dump which from be and the The 1ed roots OW leaves by the corn annot, 3 orn, but we ampunt of wate; "he warmer the the piant the retain Among Risling which absorbs moisture to » atmosphers Ax moisture degre from the ia: that Eireal only bs Serves { benefit to a growing preventing the evap from moisture keeping thod k the soil, but The we the =asih howe rion deep Co0i for of mols tant nown ver, he largest prop stated, the rouj pu There is COns the onsidersd off mois grows by for crop desired plant of Sometimes ion of anothoar fact to be grass give i every that nded verizat 801 Weeds and also an weed side of a deprives plant int the ire the f grass requires more moisture than the plant, and flourishes while the plant dies Clean cultivation therefore, prevents the robbery of the plant of moisture by destroying weeds and grass As two plants of the same kind growing together are rivals. the one struggling against the other for supremacy, in procuring food and moisture, we should cautious not have t« many plants to the hill When danger occurs during drought, as happens nearly evers summer. the rules should be to thin out every plant that can be spared in order that the stronger and more thrifty may have | better opportunities to mature. A clean surface and deep tillage will often save a crop that otherwise might be Jost during a dry season. - Phila { deiphia Record weed Or be to Wo That Creepy Feeling. “There is an old saying that ‘the boy is father to the man. ~ said a well | known local oharacter. “That this | rather trite saying is true is evidenced | every day of our lives, A man's recol { lections of his childhood are the clear est and brightest I can distinctly re call the fact that as a boy | had a perfect horror of fiying roaches. The { kind that were satisfiad with crawling | over the floor did not worry me much {for 1 could easily put them out of | existence by stepping upon them. But | those that flew through the air. strik | ing with explosive force against the walls or object in the room, always [gave me a creepy feeling. 1 have { had little experience with roaches the | past ten or twelve years, but a few |days ago 'l had occasion to spend {some time in an old warehouse. Well, | 8ir, you may find it hard to believe ibut 1 saw a roach flying about the { place, and In an instant | was in a | cold perspiration and was absolutely jcowed. 1 was compelled to remain {in the bullding and transact the busi ness which had called me there, but it was a terrible experience to me. and I cannot really say that | am afraid of them, for I know perfectly well that they cannot harm me. But the sight of them unnerves me, and | frankly acknowledge that 1 believe that if one of them was to strike me during its peregrinations through the atmosphere, I wonid have convul sions. It is peculiar horror they give me, but one I cannot overcome. 1! suppose it is about the same feeling women have when they see a mouse about them."-—New Orleans Times Democrat, Foreign Town Names. There are In the United States 20 Beriing, 21 Hamburgs, and 23 towas bearing the name of Paris. There are some laws which automo biligts must They are con tained In treatise on natural philoso phy respect It is considered most disrespectful, according Japanese etiquette, to raise an umbrella in the presence of a member of the imperial household. to A newspaper prints ths astonish ing information that t whale iz the most difficult of all marine creatures to preserve alive in an aquarium. That sounds like a first-reader inference. ue The Treasury Department puts the number of Chinese in United States at 300,000, If this be true, two thirds of them here in evasion of the exclusion laws, for there reg istered as arriving legitimately on our the are are shores but 92.000 Chinese of the broken Nahant, and Mon the begin volutionized old recently sold to The navy 11 up Canonicus } They of the type ti monitors be last oi the were junk Jason into were iohigh represented 141 al al nav warfare. of eighteen who gentleman of a love sayy YOURE man's sroverh gh nurse 1 woman 4 mature it was She man s did Was » Now a yi across irrigating of disturb ntempiation wil it pie wo ¥ ian soe Ameri remarks the on fool Missouri for tablishment o al res in that bination ivers wild bundant The Osage and Ary along beautiful One long and at sixty feot has » spring ris ain is 12¢€ deep, and acres water the » hi £ Camden ervation in State There rifmin Tr JUuiiiailln : springs that county in valleys anda CAVES ant are 8 § a anima ry Ey ouni) . 'S he traversed by the Rivers, the ene sxtremely 1600 caves is fest e 120 feet wide and extensive cave of 200 feet A noted foot of m and eighteen high Another width ing at the feet wide forms a In the same fall a lake covering eVvera region are many - - has re orem ineration of has there cremation has pe urnal hall cremated Halls of Gotha and for the ity ceme eed, Cov of a The Prussian Gosernment fused t LO n for s OT permissio establish a th atory in Berlin the in the dead, and grown nach that titioned for where the elsewhere this nature ind in Milan, and halls | purpose at Treptow and t tery, Friedrichsfeld are crowded. The refusal of the ernment to permit th crematory at Berlin forces those whe believe in the incinerat'on ol the dead to carry the s of the latter to Gotha and Hambvrg for reduc ashes the subject in popularity 80 ¥ + i for muncrpal a society a ashes of those be placed fon may are two erected he thorto Lia n hi bod i: tion 1a About thirty million gallons of mixed paint were sold in the United States during 1901. The greater por tion of this was not used in the large cities, but in the towns and villages, where structures are of wood. In no country is so much paint made as in the United States of America, and the bulk of that paint is composed of lead, zinc, and linseed oil, and only the darker shades are made of oxides of iron and other pigments Many manufacturers a small quantity of water in their mixtures, and when the quantity of water is not over two per cent. it cannot be regarded as an adulterant The water used iw usually slightly alkaiine, and in the case of lime water jit forms a calcium soap with linseed oil and thickens the paint, sc that it never settles hard in the tin and is easily stirred use Much interested 1s manifested in a ‘a process for the commercial produc tion of nitric acid from atmospheric nitrogen which is being developed at Niagara Falls, The importance of such a manufacture can be realized when it is understood that nitric acid, which lies at the basis of almost every | important chemical! industry, can now be obtained only frum saltpeter and other natural nitrates, the supply of | which is limited and will some day be exhausted. The nitrogen and oxygen ‘of the alr, however, can be forced to | combine chemically by powerful elec. tric discharges and a machine for carrying out this combination on a commercial scale has just been in vented. This is capable of forming and destroying no less than four hun- dred and ten thousand electric ares a minute. A current of air traversing these arcs becomes charged with ni- trous gases, which are conducted iway, and utilized in forming import. int commercial compounds. The sx. periments that have led to this pro. toss, says The Electrical World, are “us Interesting and promising as any- hing that the dawning century has vet shown.”
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