FARM AND GARDEN.
Feed Vont HnriM Properly.
Farmer generally do not give the
,'eediug of their horses the attention
it deserves. Balanced rations and
food mixtures for the dairy cow and
the feeding steers are carefully en
trained and discussed, bnt the feed
ing of the horses is usually all the
hay tbat they can eat and varying
quantities of oats according to the
work being done. Sometimes even
the latter part is neglected, If
horse is required to do extra bard
work he should be liberally and fre
quently fed. The amount of food
given should be regulated by the size
and breed of the animal and by the
amount and kind of work he is re
quired to do. The horse has small
stomach in proportion to his size,
hence frequent feeding when under
hard work is necessary. The human
Stomach can boar hunger far better
than that of the horse. If driving on
a journey yon feel hungry yon may
be sure your horse has felt it before
you did and is needing his feed more
than you do.
Needed on All Farm.
Grain scoops are needed on all
farms. Make a half-dozen according
to the pattern shown in the illustra
tions. The part left for a handle can
HANDY IIOMB MADK ORAIX SCOOP.
methods of preserving eggs have been
tested; the three which proved most
effective were coating the eggs with
vaseline, preserving them in lime
water, and preserving them in water
glass. The conclusion wae reached
that the last is preferable, because
varnishing the eggs with vaseline
takes considerable time, and treating
them with lime-water is liable to giv
them a disngreeablo odor. There is
one drawback to the water-glass
method of preservation; the shell
easily bursts in boiling water. This
may be avoided by piercing the shell
with a strong needle.
Tht North Dakota Experiment
Station has beeu making tests with
the water-glass method of preserva
tion, and has found that a ten per
cent, solution of water-glass preserves
eggs so effectually that "at tho end of
three and ft half months eggs that
were packed the (trst o( August ap
peared porfeotly fresh. In most
parkod eggs, after a little time, the
yolk settles to oue side, and the egg
is then inferior in quality. la these
eggs preserved in water-glass the yolk
retains its normal position, and in
taste they were not to be distinguished
from fresh, unpacked store eggs."
Water-glass can be produced for
about fifty oents a gallon, and one
gallon will make enough solution to
preserve fifty-dozen eggs, so that the
cost of the material will not interfere
with its use. If this latest bulletin of
the department gives an impetus to
the business of preserving eggs, con
sumers must beware.
be rounded so as to fit the hand nioe
ly. Use seven-eighths inch .boards
for the ' bottom, thinning it from the
back toward the front. Make the back
of half-inch board buo the sides of
three-eigbths-inoh stuff and put all
together with wire nnils.
Feed fur 'lurkeja.
One who has raised turkeys mcny
years, and who takes pleasure in mak
ing experiments, states that charcoal,
turkey fat, aud diamonds are alike in
some respects, says American Garden
ing. It is a faot that more fat may be
gotten out oi charcoal than one would
suspeot without a knowledge of chem
istry. Here is an accouut of one ex
periment: Four turkeys were confined
in a pen and fed on uual, boiled po
tatoes and oats. Four others of the
same brood were at the same time con
fined in another pen, and fed daily on
the same article, but with one pint of
very finely pulverized charcoal mixed
with their food mixed meal aud po
tatoes. They had also a plentiful sup
ply of charcoal (broken) in their pen.
The eight were killed ou the same day
and there was a difference of one and
one-half pounds each in favor of the
fowls that bad been supplied with
charcoal, they being inuoh the fatter,
and the meat being much snperior in
point of tenderness and flavor.
There is a general complaint that
young turkeys suddenly droop and
die without apparent cause. This oc
curs usually during tho summer sea
son and especially during tho very
warm weather. If a close examination
be made, tho solution will be fouud in
the presenoo of lice. Tho best rem
edy is to dust them with insect pow
der and remove tbeni to a new location
from the one to which they have re
paired for the night. As a further pre
caution, make a mixture of ten parts
carbolic acid and 100 parts cotton seed
oil, and grease them on top of tho
head and around the vent, but do not
grease thorn on tho body. ,
Honey iu the lllvo.
Every oolonyof bees should have
twenty-five or thirty pounds of good
sealed honey to carry it through tho
winter properly. The only feed that
I would recommend in granulated
sugar, thoroughly melted by adding
water, and bringing it to the boiling
point. It should not boil for any
length of time, or it will certainly
crystallize. The syrup shauld bo thin
when fed about the consistency of
molasses.
Before foediug begins it would bo
well to arrange the brood nest, but in
most cases the bees have already done
this. The center of tho hive should con
tain three or four oombs tbat are empty
in the center and lined at the top and
ends with honey. Other frames,
heavy with hooey, may be placed nt
the sides until the hive is filled. Dur
ing autumn we often find frame of
oombs filled with pollen near the
brood nest, and an excessive amount
of this ia not desirable for wiutering,
and may be removed. Pollen is used
only for rearing brood, und to confine
bees on it for winter food has a ten
dency to produoe dyseutery. Any
pollen thus removed should be re
placed early in the spring.
Bees sursly need some other treat
ment ia winter than leaving them out
in ordinary hives. Differeut modes
of wintering have been adopted, but
two methods are most in vogue. One
It to place them in cellars, aud the
other ia chaff protection on summer
ntauls, or, in other words, chaff
iuva. Tho latter plan is the most
xlnnive!y praoticed. The chaff
hivo is an outside box or shell enclos
ing the hivo of bees, and much larger.
II admits a packing spnoe of two o.
three inches around the sides, ends,
Mid bottoms, and fiom six to ten
inches on top. A. II. Duff, iu Farm,
i'icld nud Fireside.
'rarVMlluu of Kgg.
A i scout bulletin of the Dopnrt
mei! of Agriculture, ut Washington,
thrown floiuo light upon a very old
subjeot, iutuiosliug aVtk.ii to producers
nud consumers how to put awny
!r.rs durins; tho summer mouths, wliou
thoy lire plentiful aud cheap, aud
tetp thorn iu good couuition until tut
winter Mouths, when they are scarce
uuJ dear. Tun uacoinplishuieut has
Joug l-oca aimed at by egg-producum,
nml tt ib could once be made entirely
nuccessful, would correct . the dis
parity Ittweeu the two seasons by
bringing winter prices down near to
those of summer. Iu Ueruiauy twenty
Light In Cattle Quarter.
In too many bnrns the windows bo
hind the cows are made of board, fit
ted to slide back aud forth. Board
windows are used because manure is
thrown out of tho openings, and it is
feared glass would be broken. Hence
the cattle have dark aud unhealthy
quarters. Glass windows can be ar
ranged so there will be no danger of
breaking thorn. They can be fitted
to slide to one side, slipping in behind
t cover of boards, or they can be made
to drop, as shown in the out, or to
rise, being protected by boards in
front, not shown iu cut. In either, or
any case, the thing to provide is the
hiuged board that turns up over the
wiudow sill white manure is being
thrown out. It is then turned back
aud the sill is left clean and entirely
o
''I. JJI
ffilll
A BIRD IN THE BONNET.
MILLINERS ARE SUBSTITUTING
FEATHERS F0.1 FLOWERS.
BT.TDIWf! WINDOWS TOD, THIS BARN.
nucloged for tha reception of the
window again. ' This board makes it
impossible to keep the window always
clean and unologged. New York
Tribune.
The Milkman's Itest Aerator,
For a long time it has beeu goner
ally supposed that milk while still
warm from the cow's udder was less
susceptible to odors than after it had
become cool, but Dr. H. L. Bussell,
the eminent Wisoonsia bacteriologist,
has showu this to be a mistake and
that warm milk actually takes on
niu're odor than does cold nnder
Himilar conditions. This is au im
portant discovery, and throws much
light upon the proper handling of milk
for best results. '
Clean milking, by clean hands, in
as pure a stable atmosphere as obtain
able, must be supplemented by a
rapid and thorough coding of the
milk. Cooling at onoe lesseus the
oapaoity of the milk to take up odors,
arrests the process of fermentation,
and, if well stirred during the cooling,
the cream is kept from rising to the
surface and will afterward more surely
remain mixed with the milk while
being distributed from the wagon.
These are valuable considerations for
a milkmau who desires to give his
customers a good servioe.
For us the simplest and best way to
accomplish all of these good results is
to have a tank of ice water in room
near or adjoining the milking room.
As fast as the pails are tilled, take-
immediately to the tank and pour the
milk into tin oans,whioh are suspended
in the ioe water. Have au agitator
in the can while being filled. The
simplest aud best form for this is not
uuhke au old fashioned churu dasher,
ouly make the dasher of a piece of tiu
six or seven iuchos iu diameter,
soldi red firmly on to the end of awiro
hAudle, which had better be galvan
ized and have a loop in the end to
hang it up by. Two or three plunges
with this implement in a cau of milk
each time that a pail is emptied will
be fouud to be very effective in agi
tating and oousuqueutly iu cooling the
milk.
We much prefer this simple and ef
fective method to any of the more
elaborate and expensive oner, and it
is our experience that milk so treated
will keep longer than as though ex
posed to the atmosphere iu a fine
pprny or a thiu sheet, iu neither of
which case are any germs removed,
hut it is reasonably certain that even
under very favorable conilitions, a few
are added to the milk. Milk or any
other fluid will cool much more read
ily when brought in close ooutaot with
water thun iu air, even though the air
i considerably colder thau the wuter.
This is especially true of milk in tiu
cans or glass jars. If oue must have
uu aerator, be should choose one
through which water is run for cool
ing purposes. F. W. Mossmau, in
Now England Homestead,
Iteantlfnl Hlrda Are Horrific J That Thev
May Adorn Alllariy'a llonnet Kyen the
Kngtish "narrow la it Snflerer Feath
ered Creatnre Are llecomlnu Scare.
Feathers have taken the 'place of
Sowers in the windows of the millinery
marts, and the heart of the bird lover
is sad. Dame Fashion seems to have
decreed that the songster and the
"soft-breasted birds from the sea"
must be saorifloed that tbe bonnet and
the walking hat may be made beauti
ful, aud where is tbe woman who cau
withstand fashiou's fiat? In one great
store, from which onoe went forth the
promise that so far as it was possible
trie sale of feathers should be limited
to those of game birds and domestic
fowl, there are to-day shown the bodies
of birds which when living do as much
as blade, leaf or flower to add to the
attractiveness of nature.
In the windows of the store men
tioned and in nearly all the others as
well are shown whole closely feathered
breast skius ripped ruthlessly from the
birds known as the great northern
divers or loons. The call of this bird,
a weird sort of lanqh, is typical of Ihe
wilderness of remote Wisconsin lakes.
The laugh of the lake loou is ns much
a part of the charm of the wild north
ern summer life r.s is the plashiug of
the water upon which the bird makes
its home. It builds its nest in the
sedge of some little island lake. When
the home is completed something softer
comes into the diver's eves, which be
fore had mirrored only the wildness of
its surroundings. Before the young
birds appear iu the mossy structure on
the shore it is useless for the plume
hunter to attempt the killing of the
loons. They keep long stretches of
water between themselve nuds the
prow of his predatory boat. They
laugh and dive at the flash of his rifle.
But the young come, and parental
love makes the birds fearful for the
safety of their Ibrood, and then the
man who shoots that woman's bonnet
may be decked finds au easy prey. It
matters little perhays that, like the
offspring of the egret in the everglades
of Florida, the young of the loon
clamor three days for food which does
not come before final silence falls
upon the lake.
In death they are not divided. In
the same windows which show the
beautiful black aud white plumage of
the loons are to be seen hundreds of
terns and gulls, birds which when
flying northward acoompany the great
diver in its spring migration. .The
coloring of the plumage of these grace
ful winged water birds shows that
they were killed at the breeding sea
son. In the spring the Bonaparte
gull, one of tho most oommoii of our
northern lake visitants, throws off its
winter hood of white and takes on a
cap of black. Tbe contrasting gray
white, and jetty black make oue of
fashion's desired contrasts. There
fore tho milliners' agents must needs
seek out the hauuts of the Bonaparte
gull while it is reuring its young.
When the cares of the household are
over tho bird changes its bonnet onoe
more. So the plume hunters' work,
to be done well from their point of
view, must bo done quickly, and the
birds are killed while bearing food to
the nestlings.
Gulls aud terns are confounded by
most people who have, not made a
study of winged feathered creatures.
The flight of the two species of birds
northward is coincident, but they are
as different in habit as they are in
plumage. They are both beautifnl
and boih of graceful flight. They add
a living interest to the wiud-swept
lake shore. The tern dives for its
food from a height, aud Hhooting
down head first disappears under the
water. The gull comes down more
slowly for its food, grasping it with
extended feet. By these characteris
tics the uninitiated may know them.
The flocks of gulls and terns that go
northward in April and southward in
September are yearly gettiug smaller.
The Illinois Audubon Society is
over two years old. It has many
members aud it has done a good
work. Last winter, largely through
the efforts of the society, a law was
passed bv the Illinois Legislature
which makes the possession of any
harmless bird, living or dead, au of
fense punishable by a fine. Prior to
the enactment of this law it was il
legal to kill any harmless bird, but in
order that punishmeut might be iu
flicted the person must be caught in
the act of killing. For possession
there was no penalty. It must be
confessed that those bird lovers to
whom the task will fall look with
some trepidation upon the work ahead
whioh involves an attack upon a cita
del in the shape of a woinau's bon
net. It may be tbat the dealers who
oifer this bird plumage for sale in de
fiance of law and the women who wear
it as defiantly will say that the feather
covered skin of a bird does not con
stitute a dead bird in the eyes of the
luw.
The water birds are not the only
ones whioh have suffered this season
tbat hat plumes may be flaunted. The
ranks of son birds have been de
pleted, and to the eye of even the
casual observer the cry of "dyed Eug
lish sparrows" availeth nothing. If
it be true, as the best scientists de
clare, that man's disappearance from
the earth oannot be long delayed after
the disappearance of the birds, then
it is time that the subjeot of bird pro
tection be considered seriously. Chi
cago Beoord.
CURIOUS FACTS.
Fluger noils, like hair, grow faster
iu summer than iu winter.
A herring weighing six or seven
ounces is provided with about 30,001)
eggs.
There is nn Icelsndio superstition
that ambidextious people are born to
good luck.
A Michigan justice of the pence mar
ries couples by reciting jingles of bis
own composition.
Publio story tellers earn a good
livelihood in Japan. Six hundred of
them ply their trade about Tokio.
The Tnrk will solemnly oross hands
upon his breast and make a profound
obeisance when he bids anyone fare
well. Tho largest flower in thi world is
tbe Kafllesia Arnold! of Sumatra. Its
size is fully three feet in diameter
about the size of a carriage wheel.
One of the features of the grand fait
and midway, whioh was recently held
at Middlesboro, Ky., was a publio
wedding, when twin brothers marriod
twin sisters.
Think of a man shedding his skin!
In forty-three years, every July, J. M. I
Price, of Bntte, Mont., has this ex
perience The entire skin of his body
aud limbs comes off.
In the olden-time letters were re
ceived at the Sea of Okotsk twelve
mouths after they were mailed at Mos
cow. Tho Siberian railway will de
liver thorn in four days.
One of the queerest villages known
is in New Guinea, and is called
Tupnsoloi. The houses are all sup
ported on piles, und stand out in the
ooeau a couBiderable distance from
shoro.
In only times any one having the
the inisfortuno to spill salt was sup
posed to incur the angor of all good
spirits, and to be renlerod suscepti
ble to the malevolent influences of
demons.
The spider that seeks out a pobble
and anchors her wob with it clearly
makes use of a tool. The pebble is
analogous to the iron anchor used by
men. Spiders have beeu seen to use
nails for auohors.
Several streets in Paris are being
paved with a new material called
keramo, made of pressed powdered
glass. It cau be made to resemble
granite, marble aud other materials,
and is said to be remarkably durable.
CAUSES OF NIGHTMAllE.
FRESH 0 ATA WHICH THROW A NEW
LIGHT ON DREAMS.
Rifles Used by tho Doers.
Tho rifles used by the Boers in the
war of 1881 were mostly Westley
Bichavds. It was the sporting rifle
most iu favor in the country at the
time, and every store kept a supply
of the paper-covered cartridges thnt
were used for it. Each man
made small alterations to his
rifle to induce it to come into
the fthootiug position with tho
balance that he preferred, and there
was scarcely a rifle iu the Transvaal
that had not a bit of lead let iu some
where in its woodwork! It was
nooessary to shoot quickly to kill the
tpriugbok and other high veldt buck,
aud the Boers' arm and cartridge belt
were especially adapted to rapid load
ing aud firiug. In the old days
a Boer was as fond and as
proud of his rifle as he was of his
"tripling" ridiug horse, and
knew exactly its shootiug powers
under nit conditions, lie has just had
the best military rifio of the day put
into his hands, but he will not kuow
it as he know his old rifle, and will
uot have quits the same oon lid once iu
its shooting. Comparing the Mauor
issued to the Boers and tho Lee-Met-ford
the English use, the former is
the slrouger aud simpler weapon, but
tho British know their rifles thor
oughly, the Boers do not which
should about equalize matters. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
I'nilected Spiders.
At the Royal Observatory ut Green
wich, England, the -visitor may peer
into the tube of a veteran telesoope
twenty-five feet long, much in nso
some one huudred and seventy-five
years ago, but now inhabited by sev
eral aolouies of spiders. These crea
tures find such irresistible attraction
in its roominess, coolness, aud dark
ness that, when some years since on
assistant endeavored to bring
about their removal by the
customary methods, they sturdily re
fused to move. IVotien failing, the
astronomers made the spiders pay for
their lodgiug iu tho form of goods
supplied, l or years an extremely fine
fabrio had been wanted to Btrotch
aoross tbe eye-pieces of telesoopes
devoted to transit reading. Ouo day
a boiectiflo eye lighted on the spidors.
The day following the spiders wore
raido'd, aud now they live and weave
under official protection.
Large sums of money have been
roado from suiull things. The man
who invented the roller ekuto mado
81. 000. 001), aud tho gimlet-pointed
! screw has made fabulous wealth. ,
Clly of Maples.
Angelica, N. Y., is famous for the
size and number of its maple trees.
Its priiroinal street, whioh runs in a
straiirK line for over a mile, is nor
dered on either side with a row of im
mense maples. In the center of the
village is a flowing well, which spronts
water aud fire at the satiM) time. The
water is dear and oold, and the gas
I whioh rises to the sufaoe through the
same pipes, burns fiercely when ig
uited.
Unhealthy alula Pencil.
The use of slate and penoil by chil
dreu is denounced as unhealthy. It
has been forbidden iu the schools of
Zurich, Switzerland, and pen, ink aud
paper have beau substituted instead.
Thet'eaHons given are that tho light
I grui murks on the slate cannot belol
.d without straiuiuz the eyes.
No Fear For tlrorge.
"I suppose you worry a good deal
about your son, dou't you, Mrs.
Magnus?"
"Yes," I jus.t tremble every time I
see a messenger boy coming down the
street, and until he gats past our
house I nut ulways snro that he must
hare a telegram telling me that some
thing terrible bus happened to my
boy."
"Still, you must remember tbat the
chauoes against him arc comparative
ly small. Let me see, I thiuk I saw
a statement somewhere the other day
that the percentage of soldiers killed
or wounded in the Philippines was
only "
"Oh, it inu't George who enlisted
that I'm worrying over. It's Harry,
who has been made a member of his
college football team this year."
Chicago Times-Herald.
loets ami I'oetry.
Here is a Georgia boy's composition
on "Poetry:"
"A poem is a thing which has
rhyinos at the last eud. A poem al.so
liai feet, but some poems dou't stand
steady on 'em. Poets mostly hai long
hair, because times is hard, and its
cheaper to let it grow. Poets used to
live iu garrets, on a crust oi ureaa
when the baker would credit 'om.
Now thev live on the erouud floor.
where thoy can escape easy when the
bailiff is after 'em. My father says
pou try makes the world better, but my
mother say it uin't the kind he
writes. Poets have a monument
when they die, us people waut to
weigh 'em down so's thev can't come
baok."
Haw Character Can Kt Head by These
VUlone Within Certain Limits Ploss
ant Dream Made to Order Ilreaius
Glren to V For a Good 1'urposa.
"Recent experiments, which do not
seem to have found their way into pop
ular print, throw a tremendous amount
of new light upon dreams," said a
well known specialist in nervous dis
eases a day or two ago to a New York
Herald reporter. "For instance, it is
shown very satisfactorily how charac
ter can be read from dreams within
certain limits, aud how dreams oan now
be made to order by applying certain
stimuli. Then, there is no end of
fresh data explaining onuses of hide
ous nightmares and ordinary dreams,
as well as of supposed premonitory
visious during ho sleeping state.
"I have an instrument whioh has
lately been used to penetrate deep in
to dark and unexplored chasms of
dreamland. Technically, it is known
as tho ophthomalosoope, but I bften
jokingly refer-to it as my dream tele
scope. It is ordinarily used for care
ful examination of the inner mechan
ism of the eye. It has aided in show
ing that much of the real food for
dreams is contributed by opaque part
iolos upon tho eye, which in the wak
ing state appoar projected into space
as twisted bodies, drops, lines, black
spots, etc., often mistaken for natural
objects.
How, then, can the dreamer see in
the dark? That is easily explained.
Few people realize thnt the human
body normally has the glow worm
characteristic of self illumination. Yet
it is true. Phosphorus exists in all
healthy bono, tissue, niusclo, blood and
nervous gray matter. As is well known,
phosphorus emits light. So does the
protoplasm iu every cell of the body.
So do calcio sulphide, borio sulphide
and chalk, naturally found iu tho body.
So do teeth.
TIIK EYE ILLUMINATED.
"As oxygen is being constantly
brought to these ingredients through
the lungs and circulation, light is be
ing generated inside every part of the
organism. The eyelid, us well as the
inner eye, thus becomes illuminated
to a degree imperceptible in the wak
ing state. Some people have been
kuowu to be so phosphorescent as to
be normally luminous anywhere in the
dark. This is so especially in certain
diseases, suoh as phthisis aud during
'luminous sweat.'
"Foreign substances upon the eye
thus throw their dark shadows, and
suggest objects which sot the dream
mechauism iu motion. Particles iu
or upon the retina seem when the eye
is closed to be five. or six feet distant.
Tho same is often true of shadows
due to folds in the cornea, shadows of
twitching blood vessels and their cor
puscles withiu the retiua. Indeed,
increased blood pressure through tho
retiua is known to causo various
speotra.
"Iu our dreams we see more than
wo hear. Iu n storm portrayed in a
dream we sou the lightuing but seldom
hear the thuuder. Likowiso we hear
more thau we feel, feel more than we
tnsto and tasta more thau we smell
while dreaming.
"However, we have all noticed what
dream images have been suggested by
noises. The sharp banging of a door
suggests a dream in which the re
port of a gun is heard. During sleep
tho ear reooivea innumerable vibra
tions, or molecular sounds, imper
ceptible in tho waking state. These,
as well as shadows, furnish food for
mauy inexplicable dreams.
"How sensations of touch and of
temperature bo act duriug sleep is
well known. I know a man who upon
feeling a hot water bottle placed nt his
feet dreamed that ho was walking upon
hot lava. In another su.h case Mexi
cans were holding the subject's feet to
fire to make bun confess the secrets
of alohemy. A woman so treated im
agined herself a bear being taught to
danoe over hot iron plates. If you
want to have somo fun, try this ex
periment upon some unsuspecting
friend. -
"A cold application will probably
suggest walking on snow or ice in the
bare feet. This often occurs when
the feet become uncovered. Then
there is the very common dream of
walking about the street divested of
your lower apparel,1 and of suffering
great embarrassment at being so dis
covered. When you dream this note
that you have kicked the covers off
your leers. Another common dream
is that of flying through the air. This
is due to n draught blowing over the
body. The sensation suggests to the
backward dream reasoning that the
body is moving through the wind.
BFFBOT.H OP BMELL AND TASTE.
"Likewise with the sense of smell.
I hoard of a physician who when re
el uired to spend the night ut the ill
s melliug house of a oheesomonger
dreamed he was sealed up in au im
mense cheese, where au army of rats
were running over his body.
"Taste will act similarly. Former
Surgeon-General Hammond tells of a
young woman who put aloes ou her
thumb to cure her baby habit of suck
ing thnt member. She dreamed that
uho orossed the ocean in a vessel of
wormwood and that she tasted its bit
terness whenever eatiug or drinking.
In Europe, she imugined a physician
treated her with ox gall, and the Pone
ordered her to eat a piece of Lot's
wife turned to salt, from whom she
broke a thumb, which she put to her
mouth. When bLio awoke she was
sucking her own thumb, and all of the
aloes hud disappeared.
CAUSES OP JilailTMARlS,
"Nightmares are similarly suggest
ed by latiguo, ouungos iu circulation,
hunger, thirst, aud especially by inch
gestion, when gases of the stomach
press against the diaphragm and act
indirectly upon the heart. Pains
caused iu this inauuor will appear in
nightmares to be duo to some acci
dent. Often the nightdress collar is
accidentally tightened or the head has
assumed suoh au augte as to interfere
with circulation, causing a siuotberod
sensation, which suggests haugiug or
falling from some high point, aud bu
iug unable tJ breathe the while.
"Pleasant as veil as bad dreams
cau be made to order. Experiment
prove that hideous fuoes seeu iu sloop
may be replaoed by attractive oues if
steadily at a beautiful picture jnsl
before the eyes are closed in sleep.
Experiments have also showu thai
dreams of oertaiu colors can be in
duced by causing tho subjeot to gazi
steadily at disks or through glass of
the same color, shown in suoh a waj
ns to cause surprise just before retir
ing. "Experiments -further show thai
cold compresses applied to the heaJ
will banish bad dreams. A layer ol
cotton wool, similarity placed, will,
by raising its temperature, tnakt
dreams -more vivid and intelligent.
Placing the sleeper on his right sidi
will mako his dreums absurd, extrava
gant and of a remote time; on the lofl
side, reasonable and of a reoent time,
Experiment also bIiows that plaolug
a candle in the otherwise dark room cl
the sleeper will serve often to dissipate
bad dreams.
ENFORCED BY ASSOCIATION.
"Experiments further show how
dreams are euforced by association. A
man who, while traveling iu a oertaiu
place always used a peouliar perfume,
invariably dreamed of that place when
a drop of this perfume was placed
upon his pillow. Auother important
fact lately brought out is that many
people on awakening from vivid
dreams retaiu these dream images iu
their eyes. These dream images can
be retained nntil the position of the
eye is changed. ThU phenomenon
may accouut for many supposed
ghosts seen immediately utter awakeu
ing, wheu the parent dream images
have not beeu retained in memory.
Dreams and hallucinations have the
same radical cnuse.
"It hns been said that dceomlng is
a'normal, temporary iusanity. Elabor
ate notes lately made on thousands of
dreams show that the d'. taming brain,
like the savage brain, has but feeble
appreciation of cause aud effect.
Simple resemblances of form, color,
sound, etc., will briug together dream
images without sensible relationship.
Bad dreams are sometimes so vivid as
to drive men permanently mad. Cow
per's madness is said to have been
due to this cause.
"A characteristic of dreams' of the
aged is that scenes portrayed to them
iu the present are usually composed
of influences figuring in younger days.
It is also fouud that dreams almost
invariably appear to be iu the pres
ent time, that they occur most fre
quently during . the light morning
sleep, that those nfter four o'clock are
more vivid than those before, aud that
the deeper the sleep the less we par
ticipate in our own dreams. Did you
ever note that you never see your owu
face in your dreams?
"I have told you that oharaoter can
now be read from dreams. At least,
this possibility is indicated by these
researches. The data show tbat tho
greater the individual development of
the subjeot, the more rich and varied
bis dreams. The uncultured seldom
dream, and wheu they do, their visions
are usually limited to crude repetitions
of experiences of the previous day or
week. Beoent investigations of tho
sleep of idiots and imbeciles show that
they are poor dreamers.
"Criminals ure fouud the same. No
sleep is like tho proverbial 'sleep of
tho just' as that of the murderer.
Even during the night following his
crime he is not apt to dream.
"The best dreamers are usually tho
best thickei'3 r.nd tho best sleepers. -Absence
of dreams often is a premoni
tory oyniptom of mental aud nervous
disease. Diseases which exhaust the
organism aud depress the emotions
diminish dreaming power. I might
also add that women are found to
dream more thau men of their own
nge unmarried women more than
those who havo husbands.
"A man once told his son, a small
child, where he had deposited his
will and where it might be found
should he die. The sou grew to mid
dle nge before his lather's death. Ho
had forgotten about the will, and
after worrying about the settlement
of the ostato for weeks, dreamed one
night that his father appeared and re
vealed the hiding place Evidence of
witnessos present when the disclos
ure was actually made could not con
vince him that tho dream was but a
rejuvenation of memory.
"Dreams are given to ns for a good
purpose. Their function is to exer
oise regions of the brain left idle in
the waking state. They certainly
vary the grinding monotony of a uni
form, workaday life. There is a tie v
theory that premature age may ba
hastened by dreamless sleep. The
oircumstanoes of each man's life de
termine what sort of repose hia con
sciousness should enjoy duriug Bleep.
Hence, things which iuterest ns most
during the waking state seldom onter
our dreams."
Her Cordial Ileccplloii.
A strong-minded woman, albeit sho
looked it not, moved iuto a rather
lonely suburb and tho house was topsy-turvy
from the moving. On the
second night the strong-minded wom
an was awakened by the light of a
dark lantern Bhiniug into her face
from the baud of a burglar. It was
the last straw, and she sat up in bed
and exclaimed with vexaticn: "Well,
if you can Aud anything iu this house
you're welcome to. it; it's more thau I
cau do." The burglar snapped down
the slide of his lantern. "Good
night," he said, and left the house
without touching a thing. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
the subjeot is made to gazo long aud
It VFellnian Had lleuvored the role.
Walter Wellraan, the returned Aro
tio explorer, has a quaint gift of hu
mor, whioh wai happily displayed just
before leaving upon his lust trip to the
frozen north. A pompous merchant,
who does not believe iu Arctio explora
tion because it produces no Uuuneiul
results, said to the traveler: "Sup
posing, after all this trouble and ex
pense, you do reach tho North Pole,
what will you do then?" ,
"Why, oomo back again, of course,"
replied Wcllman. "There really
doesu't seem to bo anything else to
do." Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post.
A nmisrroiu Mootlilnft- to Hleop,
In certain pnrt.i of tho Himalaya
Mouutaius the native women have a
singular way of putting their children
to sleep iu the middle of the day.
The child is put near a stream of
water, aud by moans of a palm leaf
tho water is deflected so hs to ruu
over the baok of the child's head.
The water jpouring on the child's head
apparently puts it to sleep.
iily
THE SABBATH
INTERNATIONAL LESSlf
. FOR NOVEMsr 1
:
Subject: Xehemlah'e Pr,,B!"'
Onldeu Text! Neli, Ihil
Vernea, 8-10 Coii',J,
Uay'e Uiiun. Itt T,u ,
CONISKCTISO LtSKS. P.j.Ey
toryof tbe first restorVtln,
people artur ttm. Ual.vlooJ?
of t lie btilldlog of Wm'c F81
umlnh name Into .Iiidf,r
rer later than Ezra, i,nl
la tbe governtn tat t lutre i"1'1
have n further nueouut
In Jerusalem, the bmidr'nTw
ttia olty, and ulso ot om.'.
about. 21
1. "Tbe words of NtJ
the narrative or rworj k
llsb." Probably ol their r.
oi tho royal family of bml'i
benrerto Kln Aruxurxa. I" '
capital. This title Impn'1"
was a counsellor, statum JTI
favorite. For twelve Ju
urnor ol Juries, leading t d
revival nod rebulldliiK th-s
lem. At tbe end of tri j
bank to Persia, but ntt?V
returned to Jerusalem n,l'.'
refitrttie IhMru Afu.v...'
- - --. or
uo more povernois np.c;
by the Persian kluuv but
to have beeu left to Him..
tllfrh rtrluata Kaliuml.L.I
ual book of the Old Ts. J
written." "Month (JhltU L
corresponding to tlieeuj t"
the beginning of Deonm .l
year." Of the reign of iV
inauut, who rulfrued. fro: ..'w
It was under thin king (I -ijrauted
letters to go tol.f"
2. "Hamuli." Hi own r n
jic uiiciwaru Kve me t
i Jerusalem. Chap.
Jerusalem to Shush
i!uaunti... r........i
'Jews that had eseiipml,",
lautrnrs to which tu u,-blc
Jerusalem had beeu expaa (j
U. "In the province." i
provlnuu of the rersian t r
ii unction and reproach."
to l'crslu for. e.t itself nn
turn. The tribute linnim
heavy burden to u poor p.!
cruus uau uouijubss bcei,
l'ursiau armies. The con;!
In open day, and many J A
Into slnvory by nightly uf ;
corpses of inurdered nienil
on the road. "The wall
Is broken down." Th
had been destroyed liy f
more than HO years hefor-u.
find their rubbish still Ih-.'
were partially rebuilt nB!i
4:12. The uoltfliborliiR ml 1
the rejection of their frleijy.
Blstanee by Zernbbabel, w '
still more so by Kzra'n rti
luw back to their liome-f''
non-Jewish raoos found 1 Ik:
Judea, and nttnaked Jcn.rj
tlorce etruKKlea liuj brot. .
ly-bullt walls and burnojl
O.I 1 1 K
4. "I sat rlottoand wef.
ior ine nrsi time a auep, ;
people's woes oume
"Mourned." Over the
people, the desolation ol:
reproach upon the nauict
Kltlf, wllii.il hurl ltr,,li t
estate, whioh had not jrj
"Certain days." From Of '
four months, until the i- I
grief. "Fasted." A tokc:"
iiess of his sorrow. "i'r
Drotracted nr.ivnr thnt i
the purpose which he seer
iy lormed of asking tbu n
go to Jerusalem.
No such permit had ev
ed since Its cestructlon I
car. The proclamation ot
only the re
6. "Cove
fers to O oil's dolluito prou
lets to His loving churu
more tluin In rtli.il iml
6. "Ear attentive. . . .ey'
Thine ear hear our cnnlt'-
fully pardon. Let Thin.
suffering and mud spe
nud nlirht." , His grit!
increased nt the thought I
existed In spite of Eara'.i '
drew fiom his court iln
ihe -'!l:.:.
f. 7:1 P
shau, o
b i-esiruccion i ei
iroclamutlon odft?'
ebulldlng of ttte WV
Bnant n nd mercf,"
ft
't.
time In retirement Iu mus:
His prnyer was oft repent
of these days of soparatlo
at hours of the night ,i
Ufmil hours ot daily ira
father's house." Nuhein
sense of bis Identification:
la sin ns in misery.
7. "Havo dealt oorru
these sins are nieutlouuil !s
it; u; jo; i.zra v:i; i
"Thy aominnndmouts,"
cepts ky which our llveq
lated. "Slututei." Win
rites and eeromnnles
"Judgments." Tho pr
relative to our conduct to
8. "If ye transgress." ii
tatlon, but n reference
snuso of various passnvr:
20:27-80; Dent. 28:45 5J.
Ood had fulfilled His wor
was a proof that He woui;
of nrmnlau
0. "But If je turn unto(
turn to sin Ood turns to :
we turn to rlghteousun.
nieroy. "Yet will I gatlij
bnd a place devoted to f 11
when they Wxe content tvpii
gave them liberty And rlR-lr,
10. "These are Thy sar
devote themselves to do "t
Tby people." With whom)
covenant. They are thoL
those whom Thou bant r
Fl.Vnh i'tn wlinm Thnn liu.fl
Dy Joshua, by Samson. l)
caused to overthrow the
All their bUtory shows the
bus given them.
11. "Who desire to funr
desires are: 1. Constant.
Hearty, strong and gro'e
the favor of Ood and m n.
Itegard the menus of brIv1
Thy servant this day." 11'"
as It or King Artaxerxes um
to Jerusalem and help i i
asked definitely forexactlv'
"Meroy In tbe sight of thM -'
Nebeuileti bad decided tt.
reproach of Jerusalem he
person, mat to do so h
king's permission. To gi
lie must be in sprclal In
urua t lia blnrr's on r,ti.itrir
ofllcer, huving charge of Id
royal household, ntandlu
side at meals, and tastiuK U
that it was not poisoned. '
"Teachings.' Love IQ I
should prompt Vis to lnqj ,
teres!. Wheu Ood's pool
with them. The wisest c lu
tliuesof sorrow Is to aeelejv
We should never blame 01 '
If
lief
IbvJl
ih relations betwr
the United Statos m
closer than those of
other wis tern iiowe-.
herself from the lotbu
teristiu of orh ntul uu'
accomplished a marvel
terprise. In her euV
herHelf among the grH
should recoive every
especially Irom Ainein
her relations buve ul'
friendly and villi win
likely to be brought
coutuct through trudo
pines.
Three stanch crui
added to the Navy,
Spanish ships Islu de 1
Cuba and Don Juan d'
liinko six shins of v
Navy by capture, uot i jj
small gunboats aud a
The largest oue is the
raised at Santiago i4
equipped for sorvice.