AW OUD MAN'S IDYL. Vr ths walar of hh we wt together, (land in hand in the golden day Of the beautiful early lumner weather, When skies were purple and breath was praiae, When the heart kept luno tj the carol of bra, And the birda kept tune to the songs which ran Through ahimmer of flowera on grassy awards, And treea with voice Aeolian. By the rivers of Life we walked together, i nnu my narnng, unatraui ; And lighter than nnv linnet'a feather The burdens of Being on ua weighed. And Love's aweet miracles o'er ua threw Mnntlea of iov nutlaalina Time. A-d up from the rosy morrows grew A eotind that seemed like chime. a marriage In the gardens of Life we strayed together: And tho !-- tis apples were ripe ana red. And the languid lilac and honeyed heather Swooned with the fragrance which they shed. And under the tree the angela walked, And up in the air a eense of wing Awed us '.enderly while we talked Softly in sacred communing. In the meadows of Life we strayed to gether, Watching the waviirg harvest grow; And under the henisnn of the Father Our hearts, like the lamls, skipped to and fro, And1-- -owalips, hearing our low replica, Broidered fairtr the emerald hanks, hud glad tear shone in the daisies' area, And the timid violet glistened thank. Who was with us, and what was round us, Neither myself nor my darling guessed; Only we knew that something crowned us Out from the heavens with crown of reat; Only we knew that something bright Lingered lovingly where we stood. Clothed with the incandescent light Of something higher than humanhood. O the rich Love doth inherit! Ah, the alchemy which doth changa Dross of body and drega of spirit Into sanctities rare and strange! My flesh is feeble and dry and old, V My darling's beautiful hair is gray; But our elixir and precious gold Laugh at the footsteps of decay. " Harms of the world have come unto us, Cup of sorrow we yet shall drain; But we have a secret which doth show us Wonderful rainbows in the rain; And we hear the tread of the year move by. And the sun is setting behind the hill; Hut my darling does not fear to die, And 1 am happy in what God wills. So we sit by our household fires together, Dreaming the dreams of long ago; Then it waa balmy summer weather, And now the valleys are laid in snow. Icicle hang from the slippery eaves; The wind blows 'ti growing late; Hell, we liaie garnered all our sheave, I and i.,y darling, and we wait.. -Richard Realt . 4 ( THE BLACK ROPE. By PAUL C. TRIFM. WW ) In the region nbout his own home Jay Hozleton had earned the name of being a "driver." In the busiest eason of the farm year work never crowded Jay. Instead, he crowded his work with all the relentlessness Of which his sturdy frame and square Chin showed him capable. Strangely enough, during the summer of 189.8 this very trait of forehnndedness Came near to wrecking the young far mer's fortunes. Jay's "hired man" was a scrawny youth of about eighteen years, the farmer's opposite In physical and mental characteristics. Jay had hired hlni partly In pliy or the boy's widowed mother, who rented the farm a mile southeast of his own, and partly, It must be confessed, be cause such help came cheap, and 'Jay believed that n few allopathic doses of "hustle" might Induoe tho dawdling Watson to do almo3t the work of a man. On the hottest afternoon tho sum mer had known Jay was sorting eggs flown in the basement of the barn. The little eggs were good enough for the farmer and his assistant, and the others would bring a fancy price from town customers. He was in even more of a hurry than usual, for this par ticular Tuesday was an Important day for the old Hazleton farm and Its master; from the place waa going the first herd of Hereford cattle that he had ever sold to a certain dealer. A dozen two-year-olds and Daisy and Lass, two of Jay's star mothers, had been purchased by the Worthlngton Stock Farm. The man who was to take them to their new home was probably in town at this very mo ment. He and his car were to have arrived during the morning, and as Jay remembered this, he called to Watson. "Hey, boy," he shouted, "It's time you were getting started with tho cows! I don't want you to have to hurry them. You'd better get the team out and be going." There was a moment's pause, as If the young fellow at work in the tool-shed was trying to think of an excuse for procrastination; then, "I don't like to start just now, boss," he sang, in his nasal tone. "There's going to be a storm before an hour's past I can feel it, and the stock Is plumb nervous. Better let me wait a while." "Walt at the other end, Watson!" commanded the farmer. "If there's going to be a storm, all the more reason for getting the herd down townbarn might be struck, you know. And come to think of it, I'll let you take the young stock Instead of Daisy and Lass. The herd would be harder to handle in a storm, and I can t start Just yet." Jay laughed to himself at the pause which followed thlB announce ment. He had purposely shifted to the boy s shoulders the harder part of the work, In payment for what he considered his attempt to dawdle. "All right, boss!" Watson agreed, after another pause. The sound of the grindstone's buss ceased abruptly, and a few min utes later Jay heard the collie bark ing aud heard the hlugeB of the gate aflve out a resonant squeak. He knew that be was alone; and instantly he began to doubt the wisdom of send ing this inexperienced young fellow to town with four thousand dollars' worth of fractious cattle. Only twelve of them there were, but they were the finest In tho State and to Jay they meant success or failure in the business of raising fancy stock. With the money obtained from them he could buy a couple of Imported animals and put up a small stable. If they should be damaged in any way and the man broke the egg he was transferring to the case as the thought struck him he must begin again at the beginning. He threw In the last dozen oggs, and hurried to the door of the basement. Down the road, beyond a series of little hllu, a cloud of dust was ris ing. It might be floating above bis cattle, and it might be simply a dust halo above a wagon. At any rate, for better or lor worse, it was beyond his recall. To the west some strange orange and black clouds were peep ing above the prarte. The farmer tared at them for a moment, then lun.cu, caugui up the filled egg-caso. and hurried with it into the farm yard . Into the back of the wagon he Jhoved the egg-crate. He noticed that the team was roatlea hnf a It had been hitched and waiting for an hour this did not surprise him j,When he went to the stock barn for the two cows, he found that they, too, were nervous and Irritable, "Guess they're feelln the heat," he mumbled. "It's time I was on the move. I made the boy start out in the teeth of this storm, so I guess I ought to risk It myself." He tied Daisy and Lass to the back of the wagon, and drove Blowly into the road. It was terribly hot, this July weather. The dust rose so thick ly about him that at times he could hardly see the fields he was passing. He had to drive slowly because of the cows, and this poking gait irritated the team, so that they jerked at the lines aiid shied nervously every time a weed stirred beside the fence or a stone turned under their heels. A light breeze was blowing down the road, going in the same direction as the wagon, and bringing a fog of dust along with It. Suddenly Jay no ticed that even this breeze had died out; and as he turned his head to catch any sign of wind In the dis tance, the sound of a continuous, humming roar came to him. He whirled in his seat and stared back up the road. he strove to control hi maddened team. Fortunately his neighbor's barn was directly In line with the lane. Still more fortunately, the double doors were open. Jay guided hlf team through tho dark arch of the doorway, and brought up against a row of stanchions. That was all that kept hftn from going through the barn and out the back way, he after ward declared. With the shaking knees of one who has been through the valley of death, he cr&wled from his wagon and tied the team to the stanchions. Half-heartedly he examined the two muddy cows. They were puffing and wlld-oyed, but apparently unin jured by their run. Then he went to the door, waited for a flash of lightning to show him the house, and started toward It on a run. He had stood the strain as long as he could without human companionship, and even at the risk of being struck by the darting lightning, he was deter mined to reach the house. He did reach it, and was received by the two old people within with gestures of welcome, but without a word that could be distinguished. After half an hour the storm began to abate, and Jay was able to tell of his race with the tornado, and of the misfortune that had overwhelmed him for In the loss of his cattle the young roan thought he bad been more stricken than he would have been by death Itself. "And the boy!" he groaned. "Hls mother a widow, and me sending him to his destruction when he didn't want to go! I thought It was just his shiftlessness. He was always making excuses for putting things off." "You're not to blame. Jay," the woman of the house comforted him. "No one will blame you. And you've lost all that fine stock. It's terrible." "You did the best you could," the husband agreed. After the storm had gone, leaving behind it the odor of wet dirt and fragrant meadows, the three went to the door to see what was left. Limbs of trees were scattered even in the farmyard, where the cyclone had not come. The straight wind that fol lowed it had sufficed to tear them from the trees and to strew them for rods In every direction. And across the fields the watchers could see a straw stack burning, where the lightning had struck it. As they stood on the porch, the telephone bell rang. It was a party line, and the old woman kept count. "One, two, .three and a short!" she mumbled. Then, "Why, that's your ring, isn't It, Jay?" Aajit , . "Yes," said Jay, while the white line about his mouth widened and the fear In his eyes grew more Intense. "I'd rather be shot than answer it but I've got to." -jv' Shakily ho walked to the tele- Logging in the Northwest. Darn Not Slainctl. Wo saw a barn the other day which hnd never been stained up from tho accumulation of manure along the tides. In fact, no manure was ever thrown out. Every day It was thrown Into a spreader, and when It wns full the manure went on to the meadows. Indiana Farmer. Muko tin- Land Yield. Tho secret of success In farming Is to make each acre of land yield Its utmost at the least possible expense. As many as sixty bushels of wheat have been grown on one acre, as an experiment, yet some farmers who secure twenty bushela per acre are satisfied. There Is always "room at the top" In farming as In every other occupation. Epltomlst. ricking Exhibition Cora. Because of the late season and the j difficulty In maturing corn, the man- agement of the National Corn Expo- sii inn. Chicago, decided to permit ex- hlhltors to fire-dry their corn. The method of flre-drylng Is exceeding I simple. Place the corn on racks or hnng It on raf-ers in some out i building where there Is good clrcu I latton of air. In this building place j an oil stove, or supply heat with any means convenient. An ordinary wood or coal stove will answer the purpose very well. Simply maintain enough heat to result in an nctive circulation of air. This will remove the Burplus moisture, but will not re sult In chaffy corn. American Cultivator. Clips or Tugs Stay On. I Have blacksmith bend flat piece of 1 Iron around singletree old buggy tire will do. Bend it back six or I eight Inches and put two rivets i through It. For centre clip use staple made of three-eighths round Iron, i Put nutB on ends of rivet. A flat piece of Iron with holes In it fits But here Is the poultry business figured to a definite basis. One hen will produce so much. It follows, with n certain discount for Increased number and Increased risk, that so many hens will produce so ninny times that much. Farmers who have tried raising hens with poor success may laugh at this as theory. Perhaps they might do better to examine the Storrs experiment moro fully and find out as they can Just why they did not do as woll. New Haven Hog-Ister. i I Safety Singletree. The highway upon which the Hot. leton farm lay was the old State; phone and took down the receiver isususj siraignt as a plumb line for nearly two hundred and fifty miies. Between the farm and the town lay a few Insignificant hills, but for several miles on the other side there was neither rise nor depression. For this reason, when Jay turned In his seat he could see nearly to the old creamery, two miles away not qnlte so far, because coming down the middle of the road and hiding all that lay behind, dragged what ap. That you, boss?" a nasal voice reached him. "Glory the! I was afraid you had started for town and got caught in that tornado. I'm glad to hear your voice!" ;Sc1 ""Jay's" hand "shook'so that" he had to press the receiver hard to his ear to keep from dropping lt. His eyes had grown bright, and joy sounded from his voice when he answered his hired man. "Where are you, Watson? over the end of staple. Make the hook flat, one-quarter Inch thick, I five-eighths inch wide. Drill a hole near the end. Use 3-16 round iron for lock. Take a square bend, put in hole and rivet just enough so It will work rather tight. When it wears I and works easy tighten again. Dot ! ted lines show lock turned ready for j hitching. I have used this on cul i tlvator for ten years, writes a Penn sylvania farmer to .Missouri Valley Farmer. The lock part is my own Invention. I he de-I NOT WHAT we QIVE, but WHAT wr SHARK (for tmi OJFT WITHOUT the GIVER, is BARE;) WHO GIVES HIMSELF WITH Hie ALMS -FEEDS THREE HIM8ELF, Hta HUNGERING NEIGHBOR, and ME. (Lowaix.) fmaarn peered to be the frayed end of a great black rope. Into the air tow ered this strand, bulging as It as cended, until it had reached its sum mit, two hundred feet above the prairie, and had widened Into a fun nel several hundred yards across. As Jay sat clamped to his seat, the sultriness of the day had disappeared, as far as he was concerned. He seemed to be freezing, and the sweat that ran down his face was ccfJJ sweat. The cloud was advancing with the speed of the wind the swiftest of winds, for that matter, for the young man knew that he was directly in the path of a cyclone. The act of forming the word In his mind seemed to release him from the terror that had bound him help less in his seat, and he turned to whip up the team. A little way ahead a lane opened from the highway and led toward the distant house of one of Jay's neighbors. Straight for this lane he urged his team, shouting to the cows behind to step up. After he had turned into tho lane he looked back, and found that the storm had gained so rapidly that he still was In jeopardy. He could see, too, that the -cloud was broader at the base than It had looked when farther away, so that anything within u wide radius was sure to be caught. Then he turned back to his team, and let them out to a gieater speed. He. was going as fast as be could with nit dragging the cows from their feet, and with stubborn resolution he refused to look round or to heed the swift advance of the cloud. He could hear trees snapping In its path, aud by this Bigu, and by the .very heavens above him, he could tell something of how near the storm was. Certainly he did not expect to escape. When the noise of the tornado sound ed behind him, and he found that he and hlB horses were still on the ground, he waH surprised rather than relieved. He was not eut of dtnger, however, for as he looked down the road after the dragging rope of the cyclone, a terrific crash of thunder sounded, and he saw the mass of clouds before him torn open by a ragged seam of Are. In the quivering, rosy light of the flash, he had a last glimpse of the storm-cloud sweeping past the lines of the fence, rising occasionally and leaving spots unharmed, then droop ing to tear up trees, and even posts, with its whirling tall, and to fill the air with a mass of rubbish. Afterward the darkness of night cov ered him. Crash after crash of thun der shook the ground over wblcb be was driving, and with daxed faculties I manded. "How did you miss the storm? Did It kill all the cattle?" To this three-barreled question Watson replied with his usual delib eration. "I'm over at mother's, and I missed the storm by reason of goln' half a mile south of it. The cattle Is all right little bit skittish, but I gueBs we'll beat you into town yet." The boy explained afterward that, feeling sure a bad storm was com ing, he had taken the road to his mother's place. Instead of keeping on toward town. And for once Jay did not scold blm for disobeying orders. From the Youth's Companion. Cause of Sort Shell Eggs. Hens that acquire the habit of lay ing soft-shell eggs should be watched very carefully in order to break them of It. There are two eauaes for soft eggs. One Is feeding too much stim ulating food; the other, not enough shell-forming material being fur nished. Too much spiced food anrt meat Is generally found to be the chief cause, and If that is cut out, the evil can generally be overcome. If the hens have been overfed they will show it by the lack of eagerness with which they eat new food. After you are satisfied that they have been fed too much, reduce the supply, and add a little epsom salts to their drinking water for about four days. Grit or crushed oyster shells should be fed If want of lime is the trouble. Farm Progress. s m fcs 1 l''iiiwnn wi ii'i i,faisws According to L'Electrlclan, a Vien na firm has recently placed on the market brushes made of glass, which are to replace emery cloth for clean ing and polishing the commutators of dynamos and motors. These brushes are said to clean the commutators without scoring the metal, and their use avoids the Inconveniences and dangers of emery cloth. An Inexpensive Instrument called the "snakebite laucet" has been in troduced In India with splendid re sults. It Is being distributed by the government In an effort to reduce the fearful loss of life, which amounts to 76,000 persons each year. A report Is to the effect that one person saved the lives of twenty persons bitten by cobras and karlats within the last year by the use of one lancet. One of the features of the recent submarine tests at Newport was an apparatus for the escape of occupants of a disabled craft under water, it is like a diving piece In appearance, with head-plec6 aaid Jacket. In the jacket 4a a copper flask filled with oxylite, which generates oxygen. Be fore closing the glass face visor the wearer places a tube In hit "mouth connected with the flask, and the moisture from his breathing acta on the oxylite bo as to produce fresh air to sustain life. Oxylite was dlscoverd by a Frenchman, but its application to this purpose was made by the makers of tho Octopus. The test was made In a hogBhead of water, but was not entirely successful. English Poultry Experiments. The second quarterly report of the experiments in the housing and feed ing of poultry undertaken by the University College, Reading, England, and carried out by the college experi ment station, has just been Issued. The first test made was for the purpose of ascertaining the value of the colony system "of housing poultry, which is largely employed In the United States, while the object of the second was to compare the merits of hopper and ordinary feeding. The experiments are being conducted with pens of White Wvandottes nnrt Huff j Orpingtons, and careful observations nave ueen mane of ttie quautlty aud character of the food consumed, tire cost of the different systems of feed ing, and the results as shown In egg production and fertility. The conclusions drawn from the experiments go to show that during the three months ending May 31, the ordinary fed birds cost much less for food; that they produced nine eggs more; that the White Wyandottes yielded 107 In excess of tho Buff Orpingtons; that the fertility was gieater by 0.6 In the Buff Orping tons; that the hntchlng percentage was greater by 3.81 in the Orping tons than in 'the Wyandottes; that the fertility of eggs from the hopper-fed birds was greater by 0.29 than where ordinary feeding was employed, and that the percentage of hatching was greater from hopper-fed birds by 0.22. Weekly Witness. Maintaining Fertility. Tho most Important, matter In farming Is maintaining the fertility of the soil so that there will be no diminution of crops. The neces sary thing In maintaining the fertil ity of the soil, says a writer of note, and In supplying the needs of the nverage worn out soli, Is organic mat ter. If the supply of organic matter Is maintained, the supply of fortuity Is generally maintained. Increasing the supply of organic matter In creases the amount of nitrogen In tho soil, because tho supply of nitrogen comes almost wholly from the amount applied In the organic matter. Then organic matter Is needed to keep the supply of available min eral plant food amplo. There Is enough potash In the typical soil to grow corn 1000 to 2000 years, yet If the supply of decaying organic matter In the soil Is not maintained we find thnt In a very few years tho soil will show signs of wearing out. The reason generally lies In the fact that, there Is not enough decaying humus In tho soil to keep the supply of available potash ample, and the crop suffers for want of the food when tho soli Is really rich In that food. It Is In the unavailable state and the crop cannot use It. Nine times In ten when wo find a soil that Is said to have worn out, It only needs the Increasing of Its supply of organic matter. As soon as the farmer applies a cast of ma nure or grows a crop that has a heavy root system and causes a consider able organic matter to be left in or to fall upon the soil each year, liko clover or alfalfa, we find that the fertility of the soil Increases and that It again produces us abundant crops aa it ever did before. God made the minerals, and Judging from the way Ho made all eUe, He made an abundance of them. He expects us to see to It that the supply of organic matter Is maintained to meet the needs of our crops. If we do this the fertility of the soil will be main tained; If not, it will decrease each year, till It will refuse to produce profitable crops. Column's Rural World. Hiving n Swarm. When bees get to hanging out on the hive, I raise It from the bottom board one Inch, and then If they do not stop raise fhem higher, explains a bee keeper In Farm and Home. I think that raising them is a very good preventative of swarming. A certain percentage of colonies will swarm -In spite of anything that may be done. It takes but little to Induce swarming during a good honey harvest. Bees left to themselves will generally send out one swarm In a season, often a second Bwnrm, sometimes a third. In hiving swarms it frequently happens that the bees take wing when dumped In front of their new hive instead of crawling Into It. We have had a few swarms go back and cluster on the same limb after they had been carried to the hive The Swarm Catcher. The Profit From Hens. Storrs' Agricultural College Is ful filling Its proper mission In its ex periments with poultry raising, made for the benefit of the fanners of the State. With White Leghorn hens it hus demonstrated that It Is possible to make on eggs alone a net profit of nbout JI.l!) per hen per year. With other bideds the profit Is less, falling as low as ninety-eight cents per hen In the case of Rhode Island Rede. This Is only a partially finished ex periment. The profit from poultry Is not from the eggs alone, and this is the least reliable and sometimes the least profitable part of poultry rais ing. Moreover, the price set for eggs Is slightly over twenty-two cents a dozen surely a conservative price, even for the farmer to receive, as eggt are selling now. It Is probable that the State Agricultural Collego will continue the experiment to a more illuminating extent. two or three times. We recently got the thought that a little spray ing would overcome this difficulty. We have tried it on a few swarms with good results. While the cluster Is yet hanging on the tree take a small spray pump, or syringe, and wet the cluster of bees with one or two quarts of cold water, then take your Bwaim catcher shown in the cut and turn it up under the clustor and get them Into It. They will cling together while you carry them to the hive, and when dumped In front of it tbey will not readily take wing again, but will run into it. Swarms that have been hived a few hours and seem restless, or cluster mostly on the outside of their hive, can also be made more tractable by a little spraying. Boes need a great quantity of water dur ing summer, and the beekeeper can supply their needs In a few mlautes where It would require hours for the bees to gather It themselves. Put the new hive containing the swarm on the old stand, exactly where the old hive stood and place the old hive close beside the new one. The next morning as the bees go forth from this hive to work, they will nearly all return to the old place aud enter the other hive, making that colony very strong, and lu condition to store a great crop. The other colony will be so reduced In num bers that the bees will not be moved to swarm ugaln and will fall In with the first queen that hatches and prob ably give much surplus. It will make a good, strong colony by the close of the season. A Visionary. The most visionary man in the world Ib the one who looks forward to the time when he will bo supported by his children. Chicago. Record Herald, i The Norwegian legislature has passed restrictions upon the sales of real estate along water courses to foreigners. Similar action is being ta (en lu most of the countrlea of Europe. The picturesque lumber regions of the North and Southwest which once produced most of the lumber sup ply, are now almost destitute of plno and cednr, the woods which once made them famous, and are cutting timber formerly despised. The well known logging scenes of the New England States Will live only In pic tures and history, nnd when the sup ply In the Northern Minnesota, Michi gan and Wisconsin forests It, exhaust ed, there Is only the Pacific slope on which to depend on the American side. Across tho Great Lakes on tho Canadian side lies one of the largest timber reserves In the world. There Is a great deal of the timber land of Canada which has not been surveyed yet, so, In splto of the tariff Imposed, It Is not unlikely that we will be able to draw from Cannda for many years after our own supply Is ex hausted. In fact, much timber cut on the other side of tho lino has been shipped to this country. It Is said that there In a timber belt of at least three thousand miles In Canada. Ks tlmatlng the amount of timber still standing In the United States, and that which we could draw from our neighbor country. It will he nearly a century before a substitute will be necejisnry. Of course the Forestry Department is not Idle In the meantime, and act ive steps are being taken to maintain tne reserves and plant new trees. When the Immensity of the Indus try forces Itself upon the attention, It Is little wonder that one Is Interested in the men who do the actual work Early In the fall the lumberman sends out his "tote teams." with min- plles to last for the season, from tho centres of Northern Michigan. Wis consln and Minnesota, and he gath ers a heterogeneous lot of men known as "lumber Jacks," compris ing men of almost every nation under , tne sun, who leave civilized life and go back close to "nature's heart" and to labor as did their forefathers In 1 the days before luxuries warped their strength. Their work. In snlte of tho mnnv labor-saving devices of the day, Is mat or the primitive man. Tho His j clpllne of tho camp life Is rigid. Tho men are up at 4 o'clock in the morn ing, ana work rrom dawn until dark. ! At night their lights are out at 9. j Thore are no holidays except Sun i days. No liquor Is sold or allowed to he used In the lumber camp. I ine cook and his assistants nre the flrst out In the mornlne. ami , have breakfast ready as soon as the men are up. The menu of the camp is very different from that of a few years ago. Now coffee, sugar, con densed milk and cream, unknown luxuries to the camp of even twenty j years ago, are dally staples. :helr hard outdoor life strength I ens these men physically, and when one sees a large crowd of them eat ing their dinner In the open with all ; the gusto of a schoolboy, while the temperature Is sixty degrees below j freezing, one Is disposed to envy thorn. The plan of bringing out the I midday meal to the men. Instead of j having them leave their work and I trudge back to camp, Is a recent Idea : and saves much time, besides being I very pleasing to the mon. The cook, i with his "run-about," brings the din I ner. "red hot," to the nearest open- lng, or clearing space, summons the men with his whistle, and they sit : about on logs or on the snow and ! partake of dinner utterly dlsregard I lug the weather. J It is at the evening meal that you see the men at their best. They re- j lax aud thoroughly enjoy themselves. After supper they retire to the bunk house and smoke. One might feel a little "finical" about sleeping In a room after fifty or sixty ill-smelling pipes of all sorts and conditions had been filled with tobacco, the odor of which baffles de scription, but this, like eating out of doors with the thermometer thirty i degrees below zero, is an acquired taste. It is only natural that there should be all kinds of men In a camp gar rulous, noisy men; sullen, morose and reticent men. Sometimes sick ness or death reveals tho fscf that . man who In camp Is known as John Smith really was given a name quite different when he came Into the I world, end perhaps Bold his birthright for drink, crime or for some other reason. A camp Is usually loyal, I though, and John Smith he remains to the end of the chapter if he so de I llres. Then there Is the born enter , talner, quite a different sort of a fel i low, who always has a storv and wi. I Is always In demand. The lumber Jack, like the dog with ! a bad name, is often a maligned In dividual, not being collectively any better or worse than other men. it Is said that nine out of ten lumber I lacks are Intemperate, and It Is cer i tain that the drink habit Is the pre- vailing evil. The very strictness with I which the liquor law s enforced dur ! lng the long lumbering seu.-on seems I to foster the desire, and In the spring, I when released from the camp, the I majority of the men never -get be yond the Bowery district of their home town, alwayB conveniently near I to their landing place, until every , cent of their hard earned money la gone. It Is said that the moral status of lumber camps has improved In the past few years, owing to the distribu tion of good literature, missionary efforts, and the infusion of a number of better class laborers, notably Flu- muuurv. In every camp there la a "general tore," where everything from a nee dle to a suit of clothes is kept, and an account run with every man. Each camp also has its own blacksmith aud harness shops; In other words, each camp Is a small settlement, complete within Itself. One thing done quite early In the season U the construction of an Ice road by means of a large water cart. And this roadway aids greatly the hauling of logs. The methods of handling and haul ing the giant logs differ in different parts of the country. In the South, an axle with the large wheels and the chain are used, In other places oxen fly MAVMOKtn .UTtRmTT. are used. In Minnesota and Michigan horses and sleds are used, and an tea rond Is made at the beginning of tho season by means of a sprinkling cart, and In this wny It is comparatively easy to draw a load quite a distance to the rollway. In Oregon and Washington trac tion engines are used to haul the tim ber from the cutting points to the place of shipment. On the great lakes the lumber boats are among the largest of tha modern water craft. It Is quite a sight to see two me dium sized horses drawing an Im mense load of logs with so little ap parent effort, this ease being entirely due to the li e roadway spoken of pre viously. When the trees are felled and sawed into logs they are skidded Into piles by the side of the Ice rond. Thla "skidding" Is done by means of a small sled, to one end of which tha logs are fastened while the other drags upon the ground. Modern skidding Is done by meanB of a skid ding machine. Loading logs Is an achievement of Itself. It is done by means of horses or by a machine. The bnnktng ground, or rollway, Is usu ally beside a river or stream of some' kind, down which the logs are floated to a shipping point. With the breaking up of the Ice in tho spring these larrfe piles of logs are rolled Into the stream, to be brought to the mills. This Is a most Interesting and exciting time. The drivers, as they are called, the men who guide these Immense lots of logs, are necessarily men of strength, quickness of perception and nerve, for it Is a very perilous occupation, and In which many lives have been' lost. Tho most expert of these men ride upon the swiftly moving logs. Jumping from one to another when the case requires it, and being a sec ond too late will cost them their Uvea. When, passing through some nar rows, a log lg caught, causing hun dreds of others to pile up, raising the water and forming what Is known aa a Jam, a driver has the opportunity to show his mettle, for this I the real danger. There are what are called "key logs" In this Jam, that Is. logs which, If released, will ease the con gestion, and It Is locating these and releasing them which becomes the driver's duty. Sometimes this Is not easily done, and freauentlv a driver loses his life because he Is not suffi ciently agile to escape, once the fallen giants are released. In mnny portions of the country rafts are used, as for instance In the South and on the Columbia River, rafts of from E, 000. 000 to 6.000.000 feet of logs are not uncommon. In the early days on the great lakes rafts were brought down to the harbors of Lake Erie, where the sawmill were located. For tho nnst number of yoars, however, the mills have been located at the shipping points, and tho lumber Is shipped on the boats. There are over 300 lumber boats de pending for cargoes on the lumber of Northern Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, loading at Duluth, Supe rior and other points. Sometimes there Is more than a million feet of lumber In one load, and it can be readily estimated what a statement of this kind would mean. when one realizes that thorn nro snmo dozen or more lumber harbors on the American side of the great lakes. Chlr cago, Cleveland, Duluth, Erie and Tonawandn are all large distributing points, and each has received mora than 5,000,000 feet of lumber during one shipping season. It would be In teresting to figure the number of car loads this would make, estimating the carrying capacity of a car at feet. Scientific American. Perfection to Be Aimed At. Alas we know verv well that tripsin can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever He a very great way off. and we will rlcht thankfully content ourselves with anv not Intolerable approximation there to! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meagre products of reality In this poor world of ours." We will esteem him no wise man; we will esteem him a slcklv. discon tented, foolish man. And yet. on the othor hand. It 1 never to be forgotten that ideala do exist; that If they be not approxi mated to nt all tho wholo matter goes to wreck! Infallibly. No brick layer builds a wall perfectly perpen dicular; mathematically thla is not possible: a certuin dceree of nernen. dlcularlty suffices him; and he, like a good bricklayer, who must have done with his Job, leaves It so. And yet, if he sway too much from the perpendicular, above all, If he throw plummet and level qulto away from him, and pile brick on brick heed less, Just as it comes to hand, such bricklayer, 1 think, is in a bad way. He has forgoUen himself; but tha law of gravitation does not forget to act on him; he and his wall rush down aud become a welter of ruins! Carlyle. First Woirnin Editor Dead. The first woman editor of a woman's magazine In the United States died recently at her home in New York City at the age of ninety Ave. She Is Mrs. Harriet Farley Don levy. As Harriet Furley, years ago, Mrs. Donlevy edited the Lowell Offering, a magazine the contributors to which were for the most part operatives In the cotton mills of Lowell, Mass. Her brother, the late Judgo Massilon Fax ley, was a friend of Sam Houston, and was identified with the early his tory of Texas. Mrs. Donlevy was a friend of the poet Whit tier- and other prominent literary ftgares of many years age The "Atito" of the Future, The inventor of the nutomobllu that will run on both laud and water should still further Improve it so that It will fly. The polio- trying to enforce the speed limit law will then be kept busy, Washington Post.
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