g£ TEACHING WILD INDIANS. j|
In 1892 the "Seger" school was
built in Oklahoma Territory, among a
colony of Cheyennes and Arapahoes,
considered among the wildest, most
backward and non-progressive of all
the Indians. Fortunately, says the
Chicago Record, the Superintendent
of the new school—Mr. John Seger—
had already gained their confidence in
another capacity, so that when they
were asked to put their children in
school they said that they would as
soon as they were weaned, And they
carried this out literally.
Many incidents are told illustrating
the splendid work which has already
been accomplished directly and in
directly by the school, for often the
influence in the community is equal
to the actual amount of education
within the school walls.
TYPES OF INDIAN STUDENTS.
One of the girl pupils who entered t
the school when it opened lias had ]
quite a remarkable record. Having <
no previous education and leaving her <
really savage home for the tirst time,
.she has demonstrated what education <
is doing and will do for the red man. <
There is a system in nearly all the i
Oovernment Indian schools by which i
those pupils who are both industrious i
nnd frugal may earn money in the 1
sewing room, on the farm or in some '
one of the school's other industrial de- 1
part men ts. Of course this must be <
outside of their regular work. This 1
young girl, after taking a regular i
course as a scholar, was judged capa
ble of receiving a salaried position. In
the course of a short time she filled
not one, but several, and worked in
the sewing room besides. Out of Uer
savings she bought a wagon, harness,
team, organ, bedroom set and a sew
ing machine, all in view of her pros
pective marriage to a young Indian to
whom she was engaged, and when
they were married she took enough
savings with her to build a home!
All this was accomplished in three
years' time.
LIVINC ANIMALS FOR JEWELRY.
New Fuslilon in Pari# lise» Live Tortol»es
For Ornaments.
The new "living jewelry" is all the
rage in Paris. In a show window of a
prominent jeweler on the Rue Royale
there are a number of tiny
toises imbedded in jewels and crawl
ing about on plush cushions.
The tortoises are from one-third to
one-half of an inch long without the
head. Their shells are covered with
an ornament of filigree gold in which
is set a number of precious stones.
The little animals are in no way in
commoded by their ornaments. To i
NEW LIVING JEWELRY.
he shell is attached a tiny gold chain
iat can be pinned on the corsage by
safety pin.
The illustration represents one of
ese ornaments. It is a tortoise cov
.red with a fine trellis work of red
diamonds and brilliants in Louis
Quinze style. Some are ornamented
with brilliants and rubies, others
with turquoises anil emeralds. In
some the stones are set in the shape
of a monogram.
When not exhibited on their plush
background in the shop windows the
animals are allowed to crawl around
in a little doll garden in the store,
which is planted with real shrubs
and has a rustic bridge and gravel
walks.
HUGE CLOBE FOR PARIS EXPOSITION
To Meagnre El|rlity-four Feet in IJlttine
tor, und Will Slowly Kcvolve.
The great globe which is to be the
feature of the Paris Exposition is now
nearly completed. Elevators and
stairways will run to nine tiers or
floors, from each of which a section of
the globe can be seen. It will thus be
possible to follow the equatorial cir
cles and make a thorough study of the
earth's surface.
The globe is being built by T. Rud
diman Johnson on a scale of 1 in 500,-
000 of the actual size of the earth, or
roughly, one-eighth of an inch to the
mile. It will measure eighty-four feet
in diameter, and have a surface area
of 22,000. Some idea of the vastuess
of the work is conveyed by the fact
that if the material composing the cov
ering were unrolled it would form a
band one foot in width and four miles
in length. In order that the globe
GREAT GLOBE FOll PAULS EXPOSITION'.
may be properly inspected it will be
surrounded by a circular wall, round
which will run a series of galleries.
The globe itself will revolve slowly,
thus permitting the spectator to view
every part.
Every place of any note will be
given and all towns of 5000 inhabi
tants, while larger towns will be
marked according to scale. Various
colors will bo employed to distinguish
between sea and land, forest and des
ert, while every zone will have a dif
ferent shade.
Underground Sanitation.
It is declared in London that the
health of employes on the Under
ground Railway is better than on any
line in England. The atmosphere is
said to have positively cured cases of
quinsy and bronchitis and to have
benefited people with lung troubles.
Cottof a Cavalryman.
I The cost of maintaining a cavalry
j soldier and horse in the British army
' is about SSOO per annum
BEST-PAID WOMAN OFFICIAL.
Hiss Mary Kirk Get* SIBOO a Year Foi
Translation; Portuguese.
The highest salary drawn by auj
women clerk in Uncle Sam's omploj
is SIBOO per annum, which is paid tc
MISS MARY KIItK.
Miss Mary Kirk, translator of Portu
guese in the Bureau of American Re
publics at Washington. Merit is re
sponsible for Miss Kirk's distinction.
She was born in Philadelphia, and,
after graduating at Swarthmore Col
lege, she went to Brazil to become
professor of languages in a girls' col
lege at Bio Janeiro. She returned to
the United States as translator for the
Brazilian Minister at Washington, and
lately assumed her present position.
The Diet of Ostriches.
The omnivorous qualities of tho
ostrich have hardly been exaggerated.
It swallows oranges, small turtles,
fowls, kittens and bones. Mr.
Sehreiner tells of one swallowing also
a box of peaches, tenuis balls, several
yards of fencing wire and half a dozen
cartrif' 'es. One followed the work
men and picked up the wire as they
cut it. Most frequently the ostrich
does not follow each dainty separately,
but collects several in its throat and
then swallows them all at once. Some
times it is strangled. Its windpipe
is then cut. the obstacle taken out,
and the wound sewed up, when all
goes well again. Household Words.
The Old Allien House Still Stands.
The old Alden house at Duxbury,
Mass., built in 1G53, still stands, ap
parently as solid as when John and
Priscilla Alden occupied it. Further
more, there lives therein a veritable
Priscilla Mullins Alden, a lassio of
eleven years, who is the ninth genera
tion from the original Priscilla Mul
lins, who became Priscilla Alden.
There are many others of the direct
descendants of the original Pilgrims
living thereabouts to-day.
Dm Killed More Than 4000 Ueer.
Jeff Watts, the king of deer killers
in the Ozark country of Missouri, ha
gone with a party of his Webster
County frieuds* on a hunting trip to
the Leatherwood Mountains in Arkan
sas. Watts had over 4000 deer to his
score several years ago. He is one of
the most successful hunters in the
Union.
Utilizing Seaweed.
Norway is utilizing seaweed for the
production of glue, starch and soap
after the extraction of the iodine the
weed contains. A sizing for paper is
also procured by the process. The
glue, or rather the acid precipitate
which forms it, is, when refined, an
excellent substitute l'or gum arabic.
He Spoke From Experience.
"Colouel"Fiegel, do you think ther«
! is any money in horse racing?"
"Yes, indeed! All mine i»."—New
I York Times.
fARM
Corn Cobs for Kindling.
Corn cobs are often used for kind
ling tires. But while they light easily,
the cob being solid does not create a
draught of air and the fire soon goes
out. Finely split kindling is much
better, as it gives more heat, and thus
sets tire to the heavier wood. But if
dipped in kerosene and placed under
the wood, the cob will furnish heat
enough to light dry wood in large
pieces without using any other kind
ling. It is the only way in which kero
sene oil can be used with safety in
lighting fires.
Utilizing; Inculmtor ICgga.
Eggs are expensive food for chick
ens, but when an incubator is used
the clear ones are sometimes given as
food, but usually cooked hard. This
is a mistake. The Lest mode of feed
ing eggs to chickens is to pour boil
ing water on the eggs, beat them, and
thicken the mess to a stiff dough with
corn meal. Fed in this manner con
stipation will be avoided, but they
should not be used oftener thau every
other day, giving them at night.
Hard boiled eggs are excellent, but
they are usually fed too liberally and
cause bowel disease.—Farm News.
Hog* in Small I.ots.
It is neither profitable nor always
entirely safe to keep great numbers of
hogs together. Besides the liability
to disease getting among them, there
is always a certainty that the stronger
will crowd the weaker from their feed
ing places, so that inequality in size
will increase instead of decreasing.
In every litter there are always one or
two weaklings that were born runts,
and unless given a better chance than
their fellows, they will always remain
runts. The best way to manage this
is when the pigs are seven or eight
weeks old, take out the stronger ones
aud wean them, giving them plenty of
the best food that can be got to make
growth. Then the runts left to suckle
the sow alone will in two or three
weeks more take a start that may
make them as good as the others, so
that in later life all can be fed to
gether. No other feed, without the
sow's milk, will do this, though such
other feed should be given and the
pigs be encouraged to eat all they can
be made to eat.
Providing Winter Cows.
Many fanners who would like to breed
cows so as to have them farrow in the
early fall are unable to do so, because
it is ditlicult to get a cow which is
giving milk to coine in heat at this
season. It does not pay to dry off
the cow, in which case she would come
in heat quickly enough, but might be
come too fat to breed well. The bet
ter way is to feed extra with oats,
wheat brau and middlings mixed with
ground rve. If this rye lias got some
ergot in it there will be no trouble
about the cow coming in heat. liye
in any form has the effect of increasing
prolificacy in all animals that will eat
it. There are many advantages iu
having calves dropped iu the fall, pro
vided there are warm quarters for
them the first winter. They will
make the best winter cows, as they
will naturally come in heat when a lit
tle more than a y ar old, and may be
bred then. Spring calves also coming
in heat in the spring make cows which
will give the bulk of their milk during
the summer, when milk and all dairy
products are cheapest.—Boston Culti
vator.
Tlio Sex of KRKS,
There are many theories regarding
the hatchiug of eggrf—i. e. the sex.
Some claim that round smooth eggs
will produce pullets; others that the
position of air space much to do
with the sex, etc.; but these are
inerlv theories—not a fact iu the lot.
One of these theories might seam to
give good results one season, only to
be reversed the next.
There is room for much experiment
on this line. The male bird has much
to do with it —cockerels mated with
two-year old hens and cocks mated
with yearling hens. In our opinion
the individuality of the male bird is
all important. The stronger this in
dividuality the mora male birds will
be the result. In special matings or
double matings for show birds thin
has often been commented upon. We
believe that this question will never
be settled, for the simple reason that
hens have as strong individual quali
ties as cocks, and while a strong cock
might influence a majority of his get,
yet the minority, due to stroug indiv
idual hens, will always be present.
While experiments along this line will
be profitable, yet it is idle for the
average poultrymeu to thus employ
himself. We do uot believe we will
ever be able to mate so as to produce
either all pullets or all cockerels.—
Agricultural Epitoinists.
Success With Home Made Fertilizers.
For nearly 40 years I have been the
occupant of a rough, sidehill New
England dairy farm, writes "A Vet
eran." Iran iu debt almost wholly
for it, having hardly means to stock it
«ud buy the necessary teams and tools.
And after all these years, I must say j
one of the greatest sources of pleasure .
has been in clearing land of stones •
and bushes, and increasing its pro- j
ductiou fourfold. I well remember i
the pleasure given me by the first
crop of hay taken from a niuc-acre
field of 24 good two-horse loads, this
from a rough hilltop pasture without
commercial fertilizer, audit is to
day a productive field, adding much
to the beauty of the landscape. This
is but one of a number of fields that
have responded bountifully to the ap
plication of homemade fertilizers, I
reoallect one crop of corn producing
over 200 bushel of ears per acre with
homemade fertilizer, with a very little
phosphate applied in the hill aud
clover turned under.
For composting manure, I have
found nothing equal to dry soil, often
taken from the roadside, where it has
washed from tho road bed, and is of
little value to use again as road ma
terial. A friend of mine made a prac
tice of storing a large quantity in the
dry season and using it as an absor
bent behind his cows during the stab
ling season. The results were two
heavy crops of grass aud rowenin one
season.
I use horse manure, sawdust aud
dry waste material in the trenches
behind the cows, as absorbents of the
urine. This greatly increases the
quantity of manure,with gooil results.
The live farmer who enjoys his calling
with eyes open, will discover sources
of supply to increase the manure pile
in fallen leaves, in the wild ferns iu
pastures, in swamp grass to be gath
ered and used for bedding for cattle,
horses and swine. Much fertilizer is
lost by allowing the waste from farm
building to run in the same channels
year after year, which should be
turned iu new channels, thus enrich
ing now parts of the fields.-—New
England Homestead.
I'oultiy Notes.
Good laving hens are neither hun
gry nor too fat.
The large breeds, as a rule are the
best for the table.
Reduce the winter stock of poultry
to layers as much as possible.
Use carbolic acid occasionally in
the dust bath, to destroy the lice.
The best plan is to give a good va
riety of both cooked and dry food.
Paralysis in chickens is often due
to overfeeding and lack of exercise.
Wheat, corn and buckwhat fed to
fattening fowls will whiten the flesh.
It is often a good plan to feed corn
on the cob and let the fowls do the
shelling.
So far as possible in feeding,scatter
the grain so that the whole flock" will
hold an equal chance.
Well fed fowls rarely become Over
fat when they are compelled to scratch
among litter for their grain.
The w inter care of fowls is an easier
matter thau the summer because
there is less liability of disease.
liens will not lay when their combs
are frosted. This is one reason why
warm, dry quarters are necessary.
Never try to stimulate egg produc
tion with irritating condiments, as
they usually do more harm than good.
Hardiness, vitality and vigor of
constitution are of more importance
in poultry for profit thau all other
qualities combined.
It is unreasonable to expect hens to
lay in winter under adverse condi
tions. They require more food than
at other times because a large per
centage goes toward supplying ani
mal heat to keep up their physical
condition.
Poultry iu yards would give better
returns than if on a rauge if properly
managed, but to give a small flock
the proper attention would cost too
much labor. This is not counted when
tho flock is kept for pleast.re, but on
the farm the case is different.
It is found that when charcoal is
added to the food of fattening turkeys
they gain more rapidly. When
crowded, a portion of the food is li
able to ferment in the gizzard. Char
coal absorbs gases and relieves acid
ity, and to this property of the char
coal the benefits are due.
Herding Sheep (iood for Consumpt'ves.
Another class of men who watch
sheep are those who do it for their
health. Dozens of men claim to have
been cured of consumption simply by
putting iu several months at watching
sheep. The work gives what is most
required in the deadly disease —plenty
of fresh air, moderate exercise, and
employment that is not wearing on the
brain, but is still enough to keep it
occupied and prevent nervousness.
Of course, if a mau has plenty of
money,he can get these without herd
ing sheep, but there are many men
who need them badly who have no
money, and all who have taken advan
tage of this knowledge have surely
been benefited. A number of men
who have taken up sheep herding
have become so fasciuated with it that
they have stuck to it long after they
got over the trouble.—Providence
Journal.
Captain Brown of the British ship
Windward has spent forty years sail
ing in the Arctic seas. He began on
a whaler when twelve years old, and
has been in the polar seas oftener
probably than any other man.
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
What Temperance Brines—Pledge the
Young—The Stimltir-Scliool an Efficient
Instrument 1o Rave Our Youth From
the Awful Evils of Intemperance.
More of food than we can tell;
More to buy with, more to sell;
More of comfort, less of care;
More to eat, and more to wear;
(lappler homes with faces brighter.
All our bnrdons rendered lighter.
Conscience clean and mind much stronger,
Debts much shortor, purses longer;
Hopes that drive away all sorrow.
And something laid up for to-morrow.
Pledge the Young'.
The dangers which threaten our youth
call for vigorous and earnest work to save
them. In our large cities boys between
the ages of eight and ilfteen are especially
exposed to the temptations of drinking
habits; arrests for drunkenness among
those of tender years are becoming fre
rment. More than one-fifth of the boys ol
the nation are hastening with quick steps
to All up the ranks of the perishing drunk
ards. The hundreds of ragged youth in
the cities with the marks of the curso now
upon them appeal for help.
But how shall we reach and prevent
others from following in their path? Our
public school system offers no solution for
this problem. The family relation, effec
tive though it might be, proves itsell
Inefficient to master the situation; for boys
will use liquor for years without the knowl
edge of their parents, or with the consont
of their oxample.
In the Sunday-school, however, may be
found an efficient and powerful instru
mentality. Here temperance may be
pressed upon the youngest consciences
with all the sacred force of religion added.
Indeed, If God's word is taught, if sin le
condemned, and righteousness upheld, the
principle of total abstinenco will be in
culcated, for how can a teacher with any
conscience bo content to point out the
locations of cities and towns in Palestlno,
or tell the depths of the Dead Sea, and not
iloelaro the law of temperance and point
out the pitfalls which are right about the
young?
Intempornneo can be denounced as a sin
against God and man. As Hamilcar led
young Hani ibal to the altar, caused him tc
lay Ills ehili>-liands upon the holy things
and swear taat as long as he lived he would
be tho enemy of Rome, so the Sabbath
school teacher can pledge these youthful
ones to eternal hatred of alcoholic drink.
If the church is to win and keep the chil
dren for Christ, this must be done.
Tho church must get Into close grip with
the wolf in the shape of the liquor traffic il
the lambs of the (lock are to be saved from
lestruction. The cause of feartiil leakage
In church membership and the devil's great
snglne of the bodies and soul of countless
thousands must Itself be destroyed, and the
church must do it by temperance teaching
in the Sabbath-school and pledging the
young to total abstinenco.
If the fathers and mothers of the boys
and girls of to-morrow, who are now in
our Sabbath-schools, are thus pledged, a
ruce of children will bo "well born'
with healthy bodies and clean souls.—
National Tomperauce Advocate.
Temperance n Physiological Necessity.
In like manner the influence of all drug?
which affect the nervous system must be in
! the direction of disintegration. Tho healthy
mind stands in clear and normal relations
with nature. It feels pain as pain. It feel?
action as pleasure. Tho drug which con
i coals pain or gives false pleasure when
I pleasure docs not exist, forces a lie upon
' tho nervous system. Tho drug which dis
poses to reverie rather than to work, which
makes us feel well when we are not well,
1 destroys the sanity of life. All stimulants,
; narcotics, tonics, which nffeet tho nervous
j *ystom iu whatever way, reduce the truth-
I fulness of sensation, thought, and action.
I Toward insanity all such Influences lead;
| and their effect, slight though It be, Is ot
tho same nature as mania. The man who
1 would see clearly, think truthfully, and act
j effectively, must avoid them all. Emer
j geney aside, he can not safely force upon
his nervous system oven tho smallest false
| hood. And here lies the one great unans
! werable argument for total abstinence; not
i abstinenco from alcohol aloue, but from all
nerve poisons and emotionnl excesses,
j \ppleton\s Popular Sclonce Monthly.
One of the Deadliest Evils.
The use or misuse of alcoholic liquors I?
' ono of the deadliest evils of tho times.
I Consumption in the United States in the
' llseal year 1H9(! was 1,170,8711,44S gallons, or
1<>.42 gallons per head of the entire popula
i tion. One gallon per head yearly is of dls
: tilled spirits. Iu 1823 tho quantity wasseven
j and a half gallons per head. Four hundred
thousand confirmed drunkards were in the
' land, and millions more were inthemuk
! ing. English rumholes no longer advertise
I ilrunkenuess for a penny, blind drunken
ness for twopence and straw on which to
sleep off debnueh for nothing. Moral senti
ment will not tolerate intoxication in good
society, business circles or responsible
; posts of duty. "Not a tithe of intemper
ance," Dr. Dorchoster declares, "exists as
: compared with llfty years and more ago."
Nor Is it likely .to devastate as wide an area
! In future. Tho nature of stimulants and
I lrugs and their terrible effects upon body,
j soul, culture, social condition and religion
! ure better understood than in the past.—
: Chicago Record.
A Man With a "Hi®*."
I The full court of Victoria has decided
! that a man with a "bias" against the liquor
i traffic cannot sit on tho Licensing Benah.
; for tho same reason, then, we suppose
! that a man with a "bias'' against burglary
' ar murder should not be allowed to sit in
I the Supremo Court, as the proceedings of
j the SupremoCourt should certainly lie kept
i is free from suspicion as tho proceedings
| of the Licensing Court,
j But if the teetotaler is barred from sit
ting on the Licensing Board by rea.son of
| his "bias" agaiust drink, must not the
I drinker be barred by reason of his "bias'
i in its favor, as a momont's reflection will
! show that the mun who likes hi* liquor,
and takes it every day, whether he is a Su
preme Court Judge, a Licensing mngis
- trate or an ordinary citizen, is necessarily
I prejudiced In its favor.
, If those men with an opinion either for
I or against tho drink arc barred from alt
| ting on the bench, who then will occupy
that seat? Idiots! Idiots only!— National
i Advocate.
Then and Nov*.
For more I ban ton years Cambridge has
voted "no license," so that there uro no
open saloons uroifnd Harvard. In tho llrst
years of the University, 250 years ago,when
money was scarce, payment of tuition wa9
allowed In produce, bear-skins and live
jtock. A "rundlot of sack" (keg of wine)
was good for a year's tuition. Tho llmos
have certainly changed.
An Injury and ft Detriment.
Alcoholio stimulants t.re not at all neces
sary, but, on the contrary, are Injurious
| and a detriment to tfeosn undergoing great
: exposure or strain. Doctor Nanson, on his
I expedition to the North Pole, took nostim
; oiants with him. His testimony Is that
'stimulants, with the exception of ohoco
late, which to mild in ::ts effect nnd at the
same time nourishing, liring practically no
nntrltlve snbetanco Into the body, and tho
snergy which one obtains by their uso at
! one moment must b-i plid for braeorre-
I exhaustion at the next.'* On* of
i the champion cyclists of Scotland said:
I 'Only a temperate man can be a good
;acer. Anyone who uses brandv'or whisky
| is soon broken-winded or Duffed."