IN HARBOR.
!fi little boat it In bar.
It awing with Ren tie motion;
And there 1 Ho and watch all day
The far-off, noisy ocean.
The ahip go up, the nhipn go down,
And never ire me spying;
They are the pride and (ear of town--
Sail wide and color flying.
A BELATED
By GERTRUDE
S tbe train puffed off from
tbe littlo station, a port-
7V I ''. well-dressed gcntleuinn
XJl. J seated himself In the wait
ing cnb, took off bis Pmf
nma hat, and mopped lit
perspiring brow. The brow had broken
from Us oldtlme limits and readied
nearly to the back of bis lieud. lie
was clean Rbaven and ruddy a fine
specimen of well-preserved years.
"Whar you want to go, sur?"
The negro cabman stood with his
Land on the door and bowed obse
quiously. Tbis was Just the kind to
give a half-dollar and ask no charge.
"To Wbnley's Hotel."
"Whaley's Hotel! Good gracious!"
The negro stepped back and beckoned
to another driver. Then he turned re
spectfully to his passenger. "Dey ain't
no Whaley's Hotel now, suh, but a
passcl o' rocks an' a ole chimney. It
done burn down, suh, 'fo' I was born,
t reckon."
"Hm m!" The stranger was evi
dently disconcerted. "Well, take me
to some hotel."
As the negro gathered up the lines,
Ills passenger put his head out of the
window. "Driver, do we pass by the
Presbyterian Church?"
"Vass, suh. Go right down Main
street."
' "Stop when you get there. And
here "
"Thankee, sub," said Jetf. lie had
not mistaken the species.
"Don't drive too fast I want to see
the places as I go."
Judge Blashford was passing through
an experience that, under the most
favorable circumstances. Is never with
out Its pangs. He was revisiting for
the first time the scene of his early
manhood. He had been educated in
this little Missouri town. It was en
deared to him by many tender associa
tions. He had left it a youth of twen
ty and now was returning, forty years
later,, expecting to find everything un
changed. As he leaned bark In the
carriage and closed his eyes, blessed
memories were forming a picture cf
the little old and bare church, which
Iiad been the gato of heaven to his
soul.
"Hyeah's de chu'eh, suh." The car
riage stopped before a handsome brick
edifice with cathedral glass and stone
steps.
"The church!" The Judge sat up
right and looked bewildered.
"Yass, suh. Dis de Prlsbyte'lau
Chu'eh. Maybe you was thlnkin' 'bout
de old one. Dat done pull down long
time ago, suh."
Judge P.asbford experienced a feeling
Of keen disappointment. "Drive on,"
he said briefly.
He was looking out Intently as they
passed down the street. "Yes," he
said musingly, "there's the old catalpa
in the Riley yard. That's the first
familiar thing I've seen;" and there
came into his mind a whimsical recol
lection of Holmes' words:
"There's nothing on earth that keeps its
youth,
60 far as I know, but a tree and truth."
"Stop at the next coiner, boy," said
the Judge. The next corner would be
the old Dyer place. It rose before him
as it he had seen it yesterday, the big,
square white house with a brick pave
ment leading up to it. Set in this walk
was r generous henrt filled with flow
ers, "painter's brush" and "golden but
tons," pink and portulaca. By the
side of the parlor window on the east
was a smoke tree, and a grape arbor
was in the garden. The carriage
stopped. "Hyeah's de corner, suh."
It had been transformed into a com
monplace business block, Not a ves
tige of smoke tree or flowers left.
"Drive me to the hotel," said the
passenger, with a kindling sympathy
for Rip Van Winkle in his heart. He
felt bereaved. The depression that
had fallen upon him deepened as he
talked with the landlord after dinner.
It seemed to him that he had returned
to a -place of tombs. The "boys" were
gone; the "girls" had passed away. It
was some minutes before he could
bring himself to the point of asking
that for which lie had come back.
"And Colonel Cailborne's family?" he
said at last, interrogatively. "What
has become of them?"
The laudlord shook his head. "Most
of them are gone. The old Colonel
died twenty years ago, I reckon, nnd
his wife soon after. John, you remem
ber John, the youngest boy; well, he
was killed. His girl lives here with
Mies Bettle now; 'she raised her.
Mighty pretty girl she is, too. They
say she is going to marry young Fales.
You remember the Faleses, don't you?"
'And the voluble landlord switched off
to a conversational sidetrack. The
Judge did not follow him closely. He
had the informatlou that he most de
sired. Miss Bettle Callborne was at that
precise moment making strawberry
preserves. "I won't put up many,"
she -was thinking rather drearily, as
she measured out the sugar. "When
little Bettie's gone there won't be any.
body but Delphy and me, nnd-l'ro
afraid we1 won't have much appetite."
Life looked a little gray to Miss Bot
tle. Little Bettle had been discussing
only the night before, tbe arrangements
for her marriage. All of this called
back a flood of memories to Miss Set
tle, as she sat in her own room late in
th, day, rocking gently in the moon
light Littlo Bettie's confidence bad
made her heart strangely tender. Did
he ever love anybody? All, she rose
from her chair, lighted the lamp, and
opened a bureau drawer,
Life from generation to generation
s but 8 repetition of the old. In every
lonely woman' wt tueie Is a secret
JVy are o atrong, they are so tall.
They fear no storm, no sorrow;
With brave eyea to the aim, they 1!
Set tail for aome to morrow.
Sometime. 1 long to range and roam,
My harbor life bewailing;
But little boats mint bide at home,
To gayly tpeed the aailtng.
Helen Uay Whitney.
ROMANCE
E. WRIGHT.
drawer, and in it Is a faded picture or
a bundle of letters, or n withered rose
bud, meaningless to all but her. Miss
Bottle's secret drawer was only a little
pasteboard box. As she raised the lid,
U6 scent of June roses filled (he air.
But one solitary letter, taken from
among notes and faded flowers, inter
ested Miss Bettio. A tender, troubled
look came into her eyes as she un
folded the paper, yellowed with ng'
"How strange it was!" she mused.
"How very strange! I will never know
why he did not come!"
The letter was replaced nt Inst. Then
Miss Bettio knelt down to say her
prayers. Dear, sweet Miss Kettle!
Such a fragrant, beautiful flower to
have been so long ungnthercd!
The Jam was going into the glasses
when tbe doorbell rang. Delphy ush
ered the visitor Into tbe dim, shaded
parlor, and left him to grope for a seat
alone. After stumbling over an em
broidered footstool or two, Judge
Blashford, for It was he. sat thank
fully down on the horsehair sofa and
looked around. He reached over and
turned the Venetian blind with an odd
feeling of acquaintance. It had been
a long time since he had seen Its like.
He could not have told for the life of
him what that parlor once held, except
a beautiful blue-eyed girl who had
blotted out for him all lesser things,
but when the sunlight fluttered through
tbe slats it revealed a strangely fa
miliar scene.
A big figured brussels carpet, a marble-topped
table on which "gift books"
and "unnuals" and little piles of family
daguerreotypes were primly placed
around the family Bible in the centre;
a small square piano with flowered
cover, surmounted by a wax cross un
der a glass globe, these were the sal
ient features that met his gifze. For
mural ornaments there was a long
mirror over the high mantel, and a
wreath of hair flowers.
He rose and went to where the
wreath hung. Ho remembered it well.
There was the same rose that he and
Bettie Cailborne had laughed over in
those old days. It was made of Sallle
Miller's red hair. How radiantly beau
tiful Bottle had been in those days!
Of course she would be changed, that
was unavoidable, but such color as
hers could hardly There was a slight
noise, and he turned. An elderly lady
with a sweet, wrinkled face stood be
fore him. Her hair was almost white.
and there was a stoop to the shoulders.
The Judge started. He was sure the
landlord had said that Mrs. Cailborne
was dead. But he advanced to meet
her.
"Mrs. Cailborne?" be said interroga
tively. "Miss Cailborne," she returned in a
voice that thrilled him with its famil
iar sweetness. "Miss Bettie Call
borne." Judge Blashford gasped. tf- had a
strong inclination to run. At that mo.
ment happening to raise his eves, he
caught sight of h' own bald head and
rotund figure in .he glass. Hp had
forgotten that time' stands still for no
one.
"May I ask your name?" said Miss
Bettle. "I think, perhaps, I ought to
know it."
"I am William Blashford," he said.
"Will Blashford!" Miss Bettie stead
ied herself by a chair. It was the
name Rlgned to her letter. And this
was the man that the slender, curly-
headed collegian had grown to be! She
had always thought of him as young
and slender. Miss Bettle felt as If she
had been personally bereaved.
When the first einbnrriissmcnt was
over, they entered cordially into con
versation.. They sat together 011 the
worn horsehair sofa and talked of old
times and old friends. They were
glad to meet; they laughed and chatted
merrily; but each held a baud close
upon the secret drawer. Each thought
that the other had forgotten all about
it.
Judge Blashford stayed to tea. Miss
Bettle had stolen from the room when
little Bettle had come In, and hurrledfj
donned her new black and white o:
gnndlo and pinned a Queen of the
Prairie rose on her breast. Perhaps
It was the hurry that brought a flush
to her faded cheek, but as she sat be
hind the silver coffee pot and poured
out delicious coffee, Judge Blashford
looked at her with deepening interest
lie was begluuing to see a little of the
Bettie of old.
Miss Bettio was a capable house
keeper. Judge Blashford was exnerl-
enced enough to know the signs. Those
not wjiffles and broiled chickens went
straight to the heart hidden beneath
his capacious vest. He had not had
such a meal since well, for some
years. Miss Bettio certainly looked
much younger than he had thought
at first. They went out on the porch
after supper, and little Bettle came out
with a crocheted Bhawl and reminded
ber aunt that she would be having
neuralgia if she were not more care
ful, and Judge Blashford remembered
that he had been a good deal troubled
lately .himself with rchumatism, and
they fell to talking about symptoms
and remedies and preventives. Strange
to say, a sense of couniradeship came
upon them with this interchange of
elderly confidences, that had not ac
companied the recalling of youthful
escapades. They bad grown old alike,
and it did not seem to be a matter for
unmixed regret. They began to talk,
now, of the sober, sad details of life.
He spoke to her of the wife of bis
youth, of their separation by death,
of the children who had left htm one
by one, until now his home was a
dreary place, and she listened with
only pity in her eyes. Then she
thought f little Bettle, and confided
to him that she had never let the dear
child know how she dreaded to have
her go away.
Finally the Judgo took a letter from
his Inside pocket. "Miss Bettie," he
said, and his tone was very sober, "do
you remember a letter I sent you on.
the day before I left college?"
Did she? Ah, could she ever forget?
It was the one she had read only tlio
night before.
"Yea," she said.
"You wrote an answer to It."
Miss Kettle's head dropped assent.
After all these years her cheeks flamed
to think of Hint answer, and how it
had been Ignored. Feople used to siiy
that Will Blashford had a way of
playing with girls' hearts, but she had
never believed It. He held a letter,
yellowed with age, In his hand.
"I sent my letter by nail. I expect
ed the answer In the same way. You
gave It to Henry Hillard and asked
him to give it t me."
Miss Kettle remembered. Ills letter
had said in cioslng, m tiie romantic
fashion of their age, "If I may hope,
solid me but one word, Come,' " She
had written that word. She had sent
It by his friend, for she would not trust
it to the uncertain malls. But he bad
not replied. Tiie next day ho hnd gone
awny and she had not seen him for
forty years.
"I did not receive it." he said quick
ly. Miss Kettle looked at him wonder
Ingly. for It was her letter that he was
holding In liN hand. "I did not re
ceive it," he repented, "for Just seven
years. Then Henry nnt It to me with
a humorous letter of explanation. Ho
had laid It away in his book and for
gotten all about it till he came across
it by accident. Ho did not know what
was In it. When It came I was mar
ried and had children about my knees.
It was too late then for explanation. I
put it away In my safe, and It has been
there ever since."
He stopped, but Miss Bottle could
not raise her eyes. He waited a mo
ment, nnd then went on: "I would
not have you think that this blasted
my happiness. Life is largely made
up of substitutes. I had a loving,
faithful wife and a good family. They
made for mo a true home. I have had
all the Joy of domestic life. You, I
trust, have not been unhappy."
"I hnve had much, to be thankful
for." she murmured. She would not
say more Just then.
"But while this is true," he contin
ued, "it is no disloyalty to the dead
to say that the miscarriage of this
letter has changed life entirely for both
of us."
She could not speak. She was think
ing of those sad, sad years of waiting
before hope died, of the girl who
thought each morning, "He will come
to-day," and ench evening, "He will
surely come to-morrow." And It had
been to-morrow, and to-morrow, nnd
tho years had passed away. She had
had a useful, busy life; she had been
content; but still she pitied that girl
she knew so long ago.
The Judge was speaking again:
"Miss Bettle," be said, "we have not
many more years of life, you and I.
We are on the downward slope; but"
He' stooped over nnd took her thin,
blue-velued hand In his strong one
"shall we not walk together the rest of
the way?"
A mist was in Miss Bettie's eyes.
It hid from her the portly Judge. Tho
lover of her youth was beside ber.
June roses were blooming again. The
question she had waited for so long
had come at last.
"Will you not speak to me, my
dear?" said the Judge.
And .Miss Bettie gave him the an
swer that had been in her heart for
forty years. Florida Agriculturist.
A Ituia of Battleflrld.
. It is not always policy to acknowl
edge a defeat. A little coolness nt the
critical moment sometimes saves the
day, as in the case described In Mr.
Ripley's "Story of Company F." In a
close encounter during the Clvlt War,
two soldiers, one f ,om each army, came
face to face within short range.
Each put up his gun nnd fired, as it
subsequently appeared, bis last cart
ridge. Both missed. Tho bullet of one
man burled itself In a tree, and the
shot of the other passed through the
coat of his enemy. Each man, know
ing his ammunition was gone, sup
posed himself to be at x disadvantage.
One of them made a great show of
reloading his gun, and, Rtcpping for
ward, demanded a surrender. Tho
other threw down his arms wilh a
groan.
"If I had another cartrklgo 1 would
never surrender!" he exclaimed.
"That's all right," calmly remarked
his cuptor, marching off his prisoner.
"If I had another, you may be sure I
shouldn't have asked you to surrender."
Tho Wiley Ways of luina.
Tho well-known Paris theatre man
ager, Doligny, relates In his "Reminis
cences" an encounter he once bad wilh
the elder D 11 inns which furnishes an
illustration of the novelist's willness.
Doligny produced Dumas' drama,
"Kenn," with the rather peculiar stip
ulation that the author should receive
one-third of the gross receipts when
these exceeded 3000 francs, and noth
ing at all if they fell below that figure.
Dumas, who was always hard up,
came late one evening to get his share.
"Luck is against you ngalu," said tho
manager. "You don't get anything to
night. Here is tho account."
Dumas glanced at It and went away.
In a few minutes he came back and
said:
"Just look over the account again,
and then pay me 1000 francs. Tho
ticket that I Just bought for three
francs brings tbe total up to 3000
francs 60c."
Mat Willi Ha Meant.
The supremacy in English history of
little Prluce Edward of Wales Is a
matter of Justifiable prido to his par
ents and tutors, but, according to a
story in tho Londou Telegraph, his
knowledge of periods and personages
Is healthily tempered by the m. con
ations humor of the average schoolboy
of eleven years.
He was being examined recently on
tbe time and reign of Henry VII.
"Who was I'erkln Warbcck?" he
was asked.
"Perkla Warbeck was a pretender,"
replied the prince. "He pretended to
be the son of a king, but he wasn't
He was the son of .respectable par-euts."
Bran Tor Sheep.
'A report of n German experiment
has been received nt the Depnrtincnt
of Agriculture of the digestibility of
brans fed to sheep wheat and rye
brans and brans resulting from mod
ern machinery. It appears that the
rye bran was more thoroughly digested
than wheat bran, nnd that, as It might
be expected, the bran obtained by mod
ern milling has a lower nutritive value
than old-fashioned bran, since the lat
ter is not so entirely divested of tho
other portions of the grain. -Weekly
Witness.
Dairy ItnU.
Milk separates best Immediately af
ter being drawn, while the natural
heat Is still In it.
The salt In butter will remain in
grains, not being dissolved, if the but
ter is worked very dry.
The best time to skim Is when the
milk has thickened just a little at the
bottom of the vessels.
Be sure that the bull used with the
dairy herd is from n good milking
strain of cows, if the heifer calves are
to be kept on the farm.
A cow will most probably produce
heifers similar to herself. By u 11
means keep the heifer calves from
cows with valuable dairy qualities.
Do not suddenly change the method
tit feeding or the ration given a cow.
as she is such a creature of habit as
to be affected undesirably by it.
Feeding Corn.
1 am one of those tha believe that
the corn plant Ic one of the most won
derful plants that ever grew and that
it is, trore than any other plant, the
one rendering greatest service to the
producer of pork, writes J. Owen in
Farmer's Review. For myself I feed
corn heavily as soon ns the hogs arc
large enough to mrko the feeding of
corn profitable, for. after all, it gets
down .to a matter of profit.
I gather from what some hog men
say In their writings and in their
speeches at conventions that they have
discarded corn altogether, but I am
unable to find any feed lot thnt bears
out the claim. I think it is getting to
be fashionable to claim not to feed
corn, but the popular drift is due to
a reaction, from the too constant feed
ing of corn. 1 will admit that some
of the farmers engaged in the raising
of hogs have overdone the matter in
tho past, but there Is a recession of the
practice. Nothing has helped this more
than the high price of corn. It is no
longer profitable to feed corn lavishly,
and the man that does feed it must
use the greatest care how he feeds it
or he will be badly out of pocket. The
time of ten-cent corn wus the time
when men shoveled the corn into the
hog troughs by the shovelful or cast
the whole cars Into the feeding lot
without knowing or caring much
whether It was eaten or tramped Into
the mud. That time has departed for
ever, and I never expect to see it re
turn, and corn must contiuue to be
a part of the hog's diet, but it must
be used at the time of finishing the
bog for market. The man that cannot
find any food for his hog but corn dur
ing the growing period of the animal
Is making pork at a greater cost than
he can sell it for.
The Pig' I.uneh Conutar.
Are you provided with u side table
where the pigs can go to get a lunch
when their mothers fail to furnish them
a sufficiency of feed to keep them
growing? The youngsters should never
pet so hungry that they fail to grow
rapidly and to supply feed where the
Old ones cannot get it Is nbout the
only way to keep them thriving, says
an exchange. Make n pen by the side
of the pasture with the fence made by
the boards put on perpendiculur, anil
spaced so that the pigs can and the old
ones cannot get through, nnd keep feed
there all the time until tho pigs get to
eating well, then they may be fed at
stated times. There should be care
used not to allow the feed to become
Stale or sour. Cleanliness is next to
godliness, and as an element in suc
cessful hog raising possibly ahead.
There Is in some quarters the mistaken
Idea that the hog is not a cleanly ani
mal; nothing is farther from the fact.
True he wallows in mud, but fnrulsh
him clean water and see how he en
joys a bath.
Do not require the vlg to lunch on
corn, but see that he has some more
suitable bone-forming material. Don't
expect bricks without straw. Oats are
the best grain, and nt present prices
are not expensive. Slop made of bran
aad shorts are about as good as any
thing if you huve to buy feed nnd can
get them right. Often shorts are high.
Tankage is most excellent feed, ond
can be used to good ndvantago when
feeding largely on corn, but see to the
price you have to pay. Don't feed en
tirely on corn, for some of the other
feeds combined with it will make a
cheaper feed, cheaper because better, if
not othenvUe. Don't complain about
small bone and "chuftinexs" in your
hogs and feed to rroduce these results.
Furnish pasture, clover, rape, blue
grass, and --hilu corn U tha basis of
the feed, let there be something else
up to the time of final fatleiiiu"
Faruiers' Home Journal. "
Building; Sllna.
Is there any experience in building
silos of cemeut, or cement blocks.? I
would like to build one nbout I2xia
feet square. Tho farmers around here
nre talking of building uuu;y silos and
would like some advice through your
PaPw' Henry Hosteller.
Lnporto Co.
In building cement silos a double
wooden hoop or receiver must bo con
structcd. In sections about two feet In
height for cement walls between the
hoop U to 14 inches in thickness at the
bottom and diminished to 4 to 0 inches
the Sll beI,1 ao t in
depth These double hoops are lilted
and when the cement, properly mixed
with coarse sand, is weH J,, ti"re
moved Up to tho top nU UKalll ulw1
ar-d so cm to the top of the Ulo, The
18 inches below tho surface filled In
with cement concrete and well ramm d
down and this foundation raised a riot
above the surface, when it ,8 ready for
the cement wails as described
Building the Ulo wUh cement blocks
Hie cement being properly mixed with
coarse sand, is an easier task. Moulds
ore made In a curved form to suit the
diameter of the alio; do not build
square silos, for silage docs not settle
nor keep so well in them. The curved
and moulded cement Mocks may be
made 8 to 10 inches In thickness, ac
cording to the ize of the silo, and f
and IS Inches In length. They ran be'
lajed up by almost any one. The
short blocks are used In breaking Joints
in the wall when laying them up. The
curved molds may bo made with a
core, so r.s to niako the blocks partly
hollow and with air spaces Inside, as
cement hous-bnlldii)g block are
made. The blocks should be made In
cement as they go Into the silo wi:II.
so that the silo shall be very strong
to stand the pressure of the silage
wlinn the silos are filled. When tiie
walls are completed the Inside of the
silo should be slushed with cement, a
kind of thin cement mortar, to keep
out moisture, ns cement blocks nre
penetrated with moisture from rains
outside.
It is said the wooden slave silo costs
less in construction, by those who nre
using those built by the I-.i.liana Silo
Company, of Anderson, this State, and
keep the sllnge in good condition.
If any of our readers have experi
ence In bu.luiiig and using cement, ce
ment block or tther kinds ti silos, we
would be glad to have their experience
for publication in the Indiana Farmer.
From every section we are advised
that a great ninny sll 's will be put iu'.j
u?o next season. Indiana Farmer,
Ventilation of Farm rinltillngn.
There are no smu buildings 011 the
farm that can not be amply ventilated
by tbe simple plan here described.
Generally such buildings nre of the
single or sloping roof sort, so that the
plan can be carried out at small ex
pense. In the rear of the house, near
one corner, build an air shaft, made
by Joining at the edges four boards
about eight inches wide. Set this into
the ground or fasten to the floor If of
boards, so thnt Is will be firm. Have
It open at the top, of course, and make
It three or four feet high. In the side
of it, next to the wall of the building
nnd about n foot up from the floor cut
out a piece so as to have an opening
the width of the board and about sis
Inches the other way, and in the side
of the building opposite this hole in
the shaft cut a hole of corresponding
size. Cover these two boles ns well as
the hole in tho top of the shnl't with
wire netting so thnt no bird or' small
animal enn get in.
This is the shaft by which the air
enters the building. Then build nnother
shaft long enough to rench from about
eight inches to a foot from the floor
up through the roof so thnt it will
come out through the roof a foot or
fifteen inches. The top of this shnft
must be capped so that the opening
will be protected from rain. The lower
end U to be covered with wire netting.
Fasten this firmly nt the roof end and
with comer supports to the floor at the
bottom. The plan is simple, easy to
construct and works splendidly. It is
particularly good for ventilating poul
try houses. Iu the plain illustration'
A represents the shaft through which
the foul air passes and B the shaft
through which the fresh air enters.
Indianapolis News.
(Inld Output of Alaska.
The gold mines on the American side
0" tho Hue in tho far Northwest are
this year, for the first time, producing
much larger quantiti-iS of the precious
metal than are being found iu British
territory. The yield for 1905 nt Nome
and in tbe surrounding district is esti
mated by experts nt approximately
$ 10,000.000, and the Tauanu valley has
cleaucd up $7,000,000. Last year the
total gold production for all Alaska
was $0,05(i,O(H), or nearly $1,000,000
less than this year's clern-up at Nome
alone, where the principal increase
took place during the last summer. It
Is safe to assuun that the entire Alas
kan gold output will not bo far short
of $0,000,000. On the other hnnd the
Klondike output for 1904, which wus
10,8JfJ,000, will not be much exceeded
by ltn total for 1005. Tacoma Ledger.
German Faturuallaui.
American tourists returning from
Europe bring back stories of the pater
nal watch which is kept upon them In
Germany. One woman was requested
by a policeman to bold up her gown,
which was a trailing, elaborate affair
of lace and chiffon. It was after din
ner, and she was taking u stroll with
her husband thrc jgh a park whoso liu
iiHieulate walks seemed to offer 110
harm to tz delicacy, so she let It hnug.
The policeman was polite enough, lie
informed her gravely that any dress
that was allowed to trail was liable to
collect undesirable matter and prove
Injurious to tier health, and he remind
ed lier that one time u law was under
consideration to make the wearing of
fucli fkitt: u misdemeanor. New York
Tribune.
Oa Woman' Odd rad.
Collecting wild birds and animals
for zoological gardens is certainly a
unique occupation for a wou.au, yet
Mrs. O. F, Latham, of Grant, Flu.,
seems to thorouglw.r enjoy it. Her
home has been iu that locality for
twenty yeurs, and sho has hud some
exciting as well as interesting exper
iences. Not long since, after securing
the specimen for an order, the num.
lier of birds was cut down, and Mrs.
Latham had throe big blue herons pud
ten whlto I'olses which refused to leave
her dooryord when liberated, and for
a long time ala with tiie family cat
and hens; Though sixty-five j eais old
Mrs, Latham lives mostly oui of doors
aud 011 tho water - Chicago Journal
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GREAT BRITAIN'S NEW PREMIER.
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SIR HENRY CAMP
SOFT-GHOUHD HORSESHOE.
Quite a demand has recently arisen
for soft-ground horseshoes that is.
broad, flat shoes which, owing to their
large area, will prevent the feet of
horses from sinking unduly into the
ground. A simple shoe of this type
has recently been invented, which Is
so designed that It can be easily re
versed. The advantage of this de
sign will be particularly felt in winter
time, : s the shoe .s prevented from
balling up with snow. As the revers
ible shoe Is smooth at one 6:dc. it will
be found advantageous for use on
horses when mowing lawns. It con
sists of a plate with a flange projec
tion from one face along the periphery
and formed with slots fo admit the
calks of a horseshoe. Ribs on the
SOFT-OROUND HORSESHOE.
plate prevent tue calks from sliding
tack and forth on the plate. At each
side a T-slot Is formed to admit the
head of a clamping strnn. The two
straps are bolted together over the
hoof of the horse, as shown. One of
the straps is formed ' f two members
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ABDUL HAMID, SULTAN OF TURKEY.
which are adjustably connected by
means of a pin. This permits of adopt
ing the shoe to different sizes of hoofs.
Scientific American.
NEW INCUBATOR IDEA.
A ChtCaifO nilin nt tho arnnnaa t f
considerable complication, proposes to
uunu incuuaiors, ana no nas patentee
IKOCBiTOB IMrROVBMBNTB.
tils idea, so that the eggs are iu con-
BELL-R A NNER M A N.
tlnuous rotation during the period of
incubation. To accomplish this he
provides within the warmed chamber
a wheel, with peripheral pockets, each
large enough to carry rn egg. The
latter are held in position by inclosing
bunds. As the wheels nre balanced.
It takes but comparatively little power
to Impart a speedy rotary motion ta
the wheel, so that the germ, to quote
the Inventor, "is brought successively
In contact with all purls of the nourish
ing material of the egg." Philadelphia
Record.
tfacuar and Atllicator.
The most Interesting thing about
crocodiles and alligators, declares the
author of "The Romance of the Animal
World," Is the way they get their food.
This they do mostly, and by preference,
In the water; but they huve also a
habit of lying In wait upon the mud of
river banks until some animal ap
proaches sufficiently near to be within
their reach.
Lying sunk In the mud. and of the
color of mud themselves, they may
well be mistaken for a log. A wild
pig, or some other animal fond of root
ing in the mud, sees the long, shape
less object, but Is not disturbed by it
as he roots happily among the reed
beds. He looks up suddenly, to find
that the log haR moved. One end of it,
the longest, thinnest end, the tall, Is
gliding away In a curve; but like an
arrow loosed, It flies back and meets
the body of the pig wilh a tremendous
sldewise blow, and tue poor pig falls
In a heap.
With a sudden, swift rush tbe alli
gator is upon him, and seizing the body
by the skin, which It holds puckered up
between its front teeth. It shakes It
furiously, as a terrier would a rat
TO THE POWERS.
and then halt drags, half pushes It be
fore it us it cruwls through the mud to
the water's edge.
There is only ono wild animal, ssys
the author, that will purposely attack
an alligator, and that is the Jaguar of
South America. The Jugtiur springs
on tbe back of tbe alligator, and with
all his n ight tears ut the roots, of the
reptile's tail. This, possibly, is with
the Idea of paralyzing that member,
and thus rendering it lucapuble of those
sweeps from side to side which are
more to be feared thun even the great
armed Jaws.
The fear of both these weapons uiuy
deter the jugr-ar from cluwing the
throat of the saurian, for were he to
be shaken off In the latter struggles,
he would be more exposed' to either
than if he fell farther buck.
Instances of 'the Jaguar's success la
destroying tiie alligator are given by
various observers. Youth's Compan
ion. I J he new musketry regulations of th
German army prescribe tiring at
human 'figure targets only, and these
are to be colored gray.