OL' JOSHWAY AN DE SUN.
(Of Joshway atood In front er his tent,
Afif aicc'd hia aoltliat-a on,
Bat when h turned fer to look Broun',
De day wus nearly gone.
Se i n i 1 - I hia beard, be scratched hi
head,
An' kicked his heel in de groun';
Xaze he tranter finish de battle-jo'
Befo' de Sun went down.
He look ter de East an' he look ter de
Wat, , .
An' he ware hia han' on high,
"King Sun," seree, "I want jrou ter aca
Me amite uni hip an' thigh!
Come down ter camp an' real yu'ss
A little while wid me,
111 git you a fan an' big wide chei
An' aet it whar you kin see "
Dry wus lota mo' talk, but de Sun come
down
An tuck a little eaae,
'An' when he got too awful hot.
He called up Sr Brer Breeae!
"Mi time ia snort," aez de Sun, seze,
"An' you better do yo' do,
Kaie I'm feelin' like I wanter aee
His mortual scuffle throo!
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Well, dey fit an' fit, an' fowt an" Fowl,
Kit-Ill dar in de linht or de Sun.
But Joshway trailed um out an' aoon
He had um oil de run.
King Sun, he say, "I'm over due
'Croaa dar whar de night's still black;
De folka will wake 'fo' de chickens
crow,
An' put der big clocks back."
01' Joshway thanked him mighty polite,
An' ax him fer ter come "ft in,
King Sun, he Bay, "1 speck dat I
will be whar Tve aflers been."
Den he moaied off, kaaa he ain't got time
Ker ter set an' talk an' atay;
He hatter go off whar de night still
dark
An' start ter break in day.
Well, time run on an' people 'aps
'Rout Joahway an' de Sun,
Some say dia an' some aay dat,
An' splain why Joshway won:
Sometimes when he wuz aettin' 'rour.
What he couldn't he'p but hear.
H say, Uo in de aettin'-room an'
scorched my big arm-cheer! "
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HOW LOCO JONES
SAW LIGHT.
"I've rude night-herd, " the fore
man of the Jack Hall outfit Bald, "un
til I slep' astraddle of my horse; I've
rode night rung when I'd 'a' sold my
chance o' comln' through for a wore
out rope an' throwed a bridle In; I've
rode the trail an' seen tho cattle piled
up dead at poison springs, which ain't
no joyful vision by no means, but
when I think of the time tho Jack
Hall outfit night-herded Loco Jones
till he seen light, I pass; that Buro
was terrible." He blew a ring of
fragrant smoke and peered out
through It as If his eyes reached out
to his beloved mountains and their
canopy of turquoise sky. "Jones,"
he said, "wuz a poor devil that'd gone
loco tendin' sheep, which ain't no
ways uncommonly the end o' sich a
life. Bein' alone does it, under the
(tars that wink an' wink at you with
out no sound. An' days an' weeks
an' months without no human face;
the rustle of the sheep when they
lays down an' smell o' wool, by the
Tarnal, It must be awful to live that-a-way.
"Jones must 'a' came from Arizona
or New Mexico becuz he sure kin spit
the Spanish like a native-born, but
no one never heard him tell just
where his trail had led. Hla brain
wuz kind o' llko a crazy quilt, all
full o' patches, no two alike. I kind
o' think sometimes, he'd made a mis
cue back In the past an' drifted oft to
hide, but if he did we never knowed.
He stood plum six foot three, straight
la his socks an' must 'a' been a won
der of a man before the loco et him
down to skin an' bone. His face wuz
tan, but kind o' ashy underneath,
an' crow feathers ain't no blacker
than his hair, only his hair wuz dull
an' hung in strings as if the roots
wuz dead. He first come to the Jack
Hall outfit when Cook wuz holdin'
fort alone, the boys bein' off roundin'
up Poncha pasture, an' when I rode
In at night he d settled down to bein'
plum at home.
" 'Bill,' Cook says, lntroducln' of
him, 'I has a new-found neighbor, an'
I hopes a friend, which lives some
place on Poncha, close to Cottonwood.
I'd wish to have you meet him, as
near as I kin make it out his name Is
Jones.'
" 'My name,' the stranger says, 'is
reely Norval, becuz I tends my fa
ther's flocks, but Jones'U do. A rose
by any other name'd smell as sweet,
as Shakespeare aays, so Jones'U do.
The world is runnln' over with the
nanio of Smith, an' so I takes tho
name o' Jones to help the Joneses
out.' I looks at Cook, which points
his Hnger at his head an' winks,
which gets me straight, an' then old
Bull whlch'd been snoozln' some place
iu the sun comes up. 'Odds boddl
ln,' says Jones, 'a very devil of a
dog. Hero, knave, come here," an'
dern my pictures if Bull don't walk
straight up to him an' lick his hand,
which sure wuz plub unnatural, him
oeln' a backward dog by nature an'
slow in hookln' up with strangers.
" 'Plum locoed,' says Cook, speakln'
mu o absent-minded, but
mlsstatln' of tho truth.
That's right,' says Jones. 'The
"hole world locoed, all but me.'
'That ajn't noways a lie." says
Cook, to square the bread he'd mads.
" 'it's the eternal truth,' says
Jones, 'as this here doggie knows,
which he tells me with his eyes. I
ees tho real heart o' thing, the good
' true an' beautiful, only my head
18 full o prickly little aches that
sever dies.'
"I seen hia i :t urn t . , . i t i , . I . , ',..,,.
tho start, shni-n Witn D
"en that-a-way sometimes, but he
turned out to be a handy man to have
around an' buckled- up to Cook an'
"Ull like they wuz long-lost brothers
n helped around tho shack an' did
"dd chores an' acted as If he wuz
"Jin to show that ho wuz white
118 d bllllt IlisSelf n Shnplf hut mnxtlt
noways
whlch-a-way about his face, trampln'
alone, shakln' his fist an' cussln' an'
cryln' out awful in the night, but no
one could 'a' helped It an' we never
tried, the loco had too fast a hold on
him an' wuz corrodln' of him, lock,
stock an' barrel, slow but deadly sure.
Sometimes we let him ride a bit, more
to keep him contented than for any
good he done, an' Cook bein' plum
sympathetic for hlm'd let him have
his saddle any time he'd wish. Things
gradual settled down till no one hard
ly noticed Jones, but Cook an' Short
Leg Dwyer, which he'd kind o' picked
out from the rest, watched over him
plum concerned to see he didn't get
no harm, them two sure bein' as white
little men at heart as ever wore bow
legged pants to fit a bronch.
"We all knowed Jones couldn't last
no length of time. How flesh an' blood
c'd stand the demon fires as long as
he did marvels me, but w: knowed
well that soon or late the loco'd reach
his heart. One time when he'd took
out a horse to kind o' look up strays
In Poncha pasture a storm come up
most from a clear blue sky. The
clouds puffed up like steam, an' every
thing seemed kind o' prickly with
electricity till I sure see we had one
tarts off to see how things Is drlftln
on with Loco Jones.
"Cook comes n-rldln' back alone,
an' I kin see that somethln's hap
pened by the way he sets. 'BUI,' he
ays, 'poor Loco's glttln' close up to
the crossln', he's awful sick. Short
Leg, maybe, 's lied some, but then,
he's Irish an' thinks he sees things
when he don't, but they's n mystery
some place the which I ain't a-goln' to
make no efforts to explain, for Loco
Jones wuz In the nhack, laid out plum
stiff, his lamp all fired low, aa wet as
If he'd swum the Cottonwood. We
couldn't shake him up so we un
dresses him an' fixes him the best we
kin. He's plum sure goln' to die, but
If I ain't mistook It's goln' to take a
spell before he does, an' this here
outfit's got some nlght-herdln' on its
hands,' which prove to be tho tin
8klmmPd truth, for Jones Is surety
sllppln' off his hobble, the which I
sees when I rides over, but lettln" go
all-fired hard. Most o' the time he
lays there like a log, but now an'
then he kind o' stretches hlsself out
an' groans like life was rooted deep
In him an' hated bad to leave.
"Cook wrasBles up a nightshirt for
him, which Is a wonder, nightshirts
not bein" none esteemed In the Little
Gorell them days, but one o' my boys
has one the which his mnw'd made
for htm partlcular.an' which he'e kep'
as a kind of sooventr an' never men
tioned none for fear o' bein' called
sissy. He loans the shirt to Cook,
which says that when Jones dies he'i
goln' to die dressed up like the gentlo
man an' scholar that he Is.
"When Short Leg Dwyer sees thai
JoneB Is bound to die, he asks me kin
he ride over to Canon City an' gll
some holy water to baptize him If h
gets his senses back, an' when he's
gone we finds the pinto bronch right
close to where he seen him at the
bottom of a twenty-five-foot drop,
saddled and bridled, neck doubled up
under him an' broke, dead as the
mummy of a old Egyptian king. We
looked around lor signs of Loco, but
nary sign showed up an' no one never
knowed If he'd went over with the
horse or how he come to be there at
the shack only Short Leg kept a-sayln'
that he sure nad seen him streakln' it
along the side o' Poncha drove by the
devil to the place the bronch lay dead.
" 'It's mighty close,' says Cook, one
day, 'last night Bull howled, an'
mighty soon now Jones Is goln' to
that land from which no traveler re
turns, an' If I ain't mistook he's goln'
to get his brains back before he
goes, for mostly these here kind o'
cases happens that-a-way, aa I hag
heard.' What Cook says turns out
true. One night when him an' me It
aettin' up, Jones kind o' shivers an'
X
Keep the Boys on the Farm.
Fathers and mothers on the farm, before your boys have
hearkened to the call of the city, ebow them the opportunities that
await them at home. Begin a course of education that will enable
them to Improve these opportunities, sending them to agricultural
schools whenever possible. Then, the char.oes are, when the siren
promises of the city do catch their ears, they will bo so deeply con
cerned in becoming successful farmers that they will not be lured
from the soil.
1ihe desertlon ' the farm and overcrowding of the city - un
skilled workers from the country are two big factors In raising the
WlCe u ,rods,tuff8 nl lowering wages In the cities, where comne
t tion holds the knife at every second man's throat. These asser
tion, have verily become a national menace.
Educationally. Industrial training Is what the country mov
needs, and we will not get this sufficiently until there is waged a
vigorous campaign of enlightenment by the State normal scnoote,
the agricultural colleges and the Department of Agriculture accord
ing to Secretary Wilson, of that department, to show the American
people Just how much national greatness with us lies In the hand3
of the farmer. Agreeing with the Secretary, we would emphasize
the fact that even this educational work cannot bring about ths
desired results without the help of the mothers and fathers on tha
farm, who must instill the idea in the minds of the boys and girls on
the old home place. The wise mother there puts by the ambltio i
which spurred the mother of the last generation to disregard tha
dictates of her heart and urge her boy cityward in search of a
lire work. She knows that success may be found at home even If it
be the unblazoned kind that will nevjr be coupled with the word
"career."
fearful night to spend. 'Get out your
"Fishes," boys,' I tells the outfit,
'death an' high waters is goln' to roar
around us before we see the sun rlsa
any more,' which sure was true an'
no mistake, an' Cottonwood choked
up an' roared all night; the wind
blowed splinters off the hills an' llght
nin' filled tho valley till It smelted
like brimstone on u sulphur match.
It sure wuz hard to hold the jumpy
cattle till close to sunup when the
storm had gone on south, an' then we
got them rounded up an' quieted an'
left them feedln', knowln' plenty well
they'd have enough to keep them
quiet for a while, an' we rode back
where Cook wuz waltln' for us with
a kettle full o' coffee hot an' black,
an' most like pancakes, which wuz
his custom when the boys is bein'
pushed hard.
"W all wuz kind o' quiet, bein'
soppln' wet an mostly dead for sleep,
but Short Leg Dwyer wuz worst of all
an' looks like he'd seen a ghost,
which I remarks. 'Mather of Uod, I
did,' says Short Leg, crossln' hlsself,
tho devil rode with Loco Jones last
night, an' 1 seen it, Bill, It wuz aw
ful,' he says, kind c' chokin' off a
groau
lifts his head an' looks at us like he
ain't never seen no cow-men .111 just
then, an' kind o' brushes one pore
bony hand .across his eyes an' says
Light! Light at last!'
"Cook kind o' turns away an" 1
kin see his shoulders shake, an' as
fur me I knows plum well I weeps.
'I must 'a' traveled awful fur,' says
Jones, 'all in the dark, becuz I don't
know where I am. I'm awful tired,
an' my head feels awful queer, but
God has showed me light at last.' He
set up as he spoke, drawln' In hard
on his breath an' looked out through
the open door, an' as I looked I seen
the tip o' Poncha Mountin hangln'
up In the sky, lit up by the first peep
o' sunshine o' the day, ar' then I
hears a rustle an' I turns an' sees
the pore broke wreck of what wuz
once a man reach out his arms an
smile, an' hardly fiickerin' his lips he
whispers: 'Where the wicked ceass
from troublln' an' the weary are at
rest,' an' drops back dead."
Tho foreman pauBed. Thero was a
trace of mist behind bis eyes. "We
burled Jones," he said, "on Poncha
Mount'ln an' Short Leg Dwyer made
a slab to set up at Ins b phH 'i.r.n
jjones, it says, that boin' the only
II. -i-I I n aVluolr . ... I..
. "hi- i., um ii.uM i r
uu nung around with Cook an'
"uii, an' no time nln't passed till he
uz pretty near as muoh a fixture of
we Jack Hall outfit as Bull hlsself.
htch sure Is .Byin- loti. sometimes
e a middlln' sensible, which times Is
mostly when the weather's drv, but
we it's muggy an' the air Is thl.:k
hl.A ,he IJaln sets awful ; '. s
"wd an' his n i... .v..
look
you see a locoed steer ha
-" 'ys uown to die. Theiu .
TRlkg by hlef. an' IMUM "
hh . l0Be nl y"bt an' steps
stT; ir a" tha worl11 llk- 'coed
" that Jumps over piece o' straw
nn.,., T Ut thln8S that "-'' -ww-yi
. "? !, a"' he "Pouts out poetry an'
, 8 arn" "n ues word, that
bein- us kln 8t!t no en8 foni,
or iL0mV 0,618,1 lan--e, Greek
moil w 1 aln,t a-s-yln'
bl L S ?uly --"-Bless as If hi.
hi, 1,lttln " simple outs-rowed
'"dnKet yMW8ath8r' when "t-
"-To" set 1 ' ? thnm' once ,n 8 wblie
64 . ' f 8lgnt ' Jone- barehoad
' strings hangln' every
him, thlnkin' mabe he'd got over
excited in the dark.
" 'It ain't all right,' he says, 'I seen
the devil rid with Loco Jones last
night. Mothor of God, Bill, I seen
him, I seen him with my own eyes.
You know that pinto bronch which we
has noticed gettlu' loco, Jones wuz
a-rldln' htm. I never seeu him come
nor go, I never heard no noise. The
wind blowed every sound away, but,'
he says, a-crossln' hlsself again, 'a
Hash of llghtnln' that blazed the
lie lc of Poncha Mountain showed
ue a locoed man astraddle of a locoed
a.ise hot foottn' It to hades.'
"We kind 0' give Short Leg the
laugh an' asked him what kind o'
llckor acted that-a-way on the Irish,
an' he shut up, but kep' a-mumblln'
to hlsself an' shakln' his head till
we'd rode In. an' then after he'd got
a couple o' bowls - coffee In him he
cheered up some, but still stuck to It
that he'd seen Loco Jones a-racln' the
pinto where no horse could hardly
pick a trail by day, lot alone travel
there at all when things wuz dark.
He says he's goln' to help Cook clean
the ill.de s up an' go over to Loco's
shack on Poncha to prove he ain't
a-lylu' none, aa even If he Is the best
of us gits excited now an' then, so
Cook an' Short Leg hustles things an'
seen the light.'
azine.
Boats of Concrete.
It la predicted that the use of con
crete In boat-bulldlng will largely
take the place of Iron and steel. Largw
boats of reinforced concrete have been
built already In Italy, and five of
these, of 120 tonB and more, are in
commission In the Italian navy. The
first of these boats, a 120-ton barge,
was built in 1906, on the plana of Mr.
Gabelllnl, an Italian, who has given
his whole attention to reinforced con
crete, and for many years has been
conducting experiments with this
class of material. This boat, which
was built with double bottom ind of
the cellular type, was submitted to
severe tests in the 8pezii Arsenal,
where a much larger boat built of
Iron and with on Iron ram was di
rected against It without producing
any considerable damage. After some
time, and In consequence of the satis
factory results given by his first boat,
four more of these barges were or
dered on account of the Itailun navy.
Experiments and trials on a much
larger and more Important scale will
shortly be conducted. Harper's
Weekly.
Boils Not Suitable For Alfalfa.
Any field likely to be under water
or the soil saturated with water at
ny time for more than thlrty-slx
hours at a time Is quite unsuitable
for alfalfa. Any field with a hard
pan subsoil within two feet of the
surface will prove unsatisfactory for
alfalfa. Weekly Witness.
Wnrts on Horses.
To cure warts on horses rub the
wart well with soft soap, and In a
few days a scab will appear. Pick
the scab off when It gets loose and
rub again with soft soap, repeating
the operation until the wart is gone.
It will not leave a scar and will not
return. Weekly Witness.
Itnlsc Corn For SUngr.
All dairymen recognize the value
of corn ensilage as a cheap food for
milk production. It Is but seldom
on looking over the roughage of any
large dairy barn, that corn stover is
seen. The silo has taken the place
of the corn stnlk loft.
An experiment conducted recently
at the Pennsylvania experiment sta
tion showed that in meat production
steers fed corn silage as part of their
ration made better gnlns than those
fed corn stover. The stover fed
steers ate more grain than those fed
silage, but tho cost of the feed, how
ever, was less, to the credit of a sto
ver ration. But whether corn is In
a silo or on the loft it ia a mighty
good food, when rightly used, and
none too much is raised by New Eng
land farmers. F. P. H., In the
American Cultivator.
Setting anil Hutching.
When the turkey hen gets broody,
bring her to the house and confine
her in a pen or house where noth
ing can bother her, dusting her with
Insect powder when set and again
when taken off with the little tur
keys. I make my Insect powder
from ashes, sulphur, snuff and cam
phor balls.
When the hen hatches do not dis
turb her, except to take the empty
hells from the nest so they will not
get stuck on the eggs that have not
batched. When she Is through hatch
ing, let the little ones stay In the
place she hatched them until they
are several days old. They will be
gin to bunt for something to eat as
soon as they need anything. Then
take them away from tho house
where the chickens cannot run over
them, and put them down and feed
a little. Progressive Farmer.
Seeding In Corn.
After carefully noting ten years'
experience with one acre of ground
, of seeding grass in corn, as com
; pared with ten years of a rotation
of corn, oats and then seeding with
rye, the facts show that we can save
In labor S28, and will be ahead $84
I more on crops. We seed in corn Im-
mediately after the last cultivating,
and by using level cultivation, and
by cutting the corn stubble low we
overcome the objection of mowing
over rough ground.
Any farmer of ten to twenty-five
I acres of land, who does not need to
raise much grain for his own use,
' will find It pays to seed In corn. If
; Ihe land needs more stirring up one
can follow the corn with a crop of
potatoes very successfully, by a little
I more work, but with a good finan
cial gain, and then seeding tho fol
lowing spring with clover and timo
thy. Syivanus Van Aken, in the
j ' -lean Cultivator.
" 'All right. Short Leg,' I soys to . name we ever knowed him bv. -He
H.I..1. 1.. 1 ... I . - . A . ' .U. ILL, ...
-f rom outing Mug-
Haudling Hard Land.
There might be several classes of
land which we could find In this sec
tion. The first would be land which
Is adaptable to hoed crops; which
Is free enough from stones or sur
plus moisture so that it can be used
In a regular rotation of three or four
?-.irs. land suituble for growing po
tatoes or corn. Then there Is a lot
of New England land that is too
damp and has too many stones just
below the surface to allow it to be
plowed conveniently. That land we
must handle in a somewhat different
way. Probably as good a method
of handling this land as any Is one
that I have seen followed in New
York, topdresstng with a light coat
of barnyard manure, about eight or
ten spreader loads per acre, every
year, and at the same time using a
small quantity of clover seed and
working it In with a light harrow
ing of some kind, either with a epec
lal brush harrow or the ordinary
smoothing harrow. I have seen this
dono In several instances with
marked success. There is another
kind of land which is too rough to
be handled in cither of these ways,
or perhaps too steep, but land which
Is odmlrubly suited to the growiug
of apples. W. B. Dodge, U. S. De
partment of Agriculture.
Kvpi-rimi-nts With Stuble Manure.
At the Maiylund agricultural sta
tion two sets of experiments with
stable manure one covering three
years and the other seven years
have been conducted.
The results as a rule favored the
use of fresh manure applied directly
from the stable as against rotted fa
ilure. The best results were ob
tained by applying the manure as
long in advance of the time the
crop was to use It as possible. As
between up! lying fresh and rotted
manure before and after plowing,
The results favored applying fresh
manure as u tup-dressing after plow
lug. In a comparison of plowing
under manure In tho fall and spring,
the differences were slight but uni
formly lu fuvor of Hllowlng the mu
iiiire to remain ou the land during
thi! winter and plowing It dnwu In
the spring. 8ubsullin lu addition
to deep plowing did not show suffi
cient advantage to warrant the ex
tra expense Involved. "Tho use of
kalnlt with the mnnure seemed to
exert a beneficial Influence every
year, and It was more marked In
dry than wet seasons." The growth
of crimson clover was better on soils
receiving fresh manure than on those
treated with rotted manure.
Farm Higlm-ny Fences.
In the early settlement of the
American colonies the settlers need
ed every foot of their cleared land
to raise corn, potatoes and pump
kins, and could not possibly spare
any of their small clearings for pas
turage. Consequently everybody'!
cattle and horses (and frequently
hogs) were pastured In the woodi
and along the roadside, and of course
good, high, strong fences became an
absolute necessity for the protection
of the crops (which nobody disputed
and the law imperatively required)
or no damages could be collected fot
Injury to crops by a neighbor's cattle
The woods and roadsides were con
sidered as public commons upon
which everybody's farm stock bad a
right to run. In the colony of Mas
sachusetts there was one exception
ungelded horses "unless of comets
proportions and of good size, not leaf
than fourteen hands hlgt ," were not
slowed to run In the commons oi
woods.
The necessity which once existed
for .pasturing the woods and road
sides has long since passed In the
old, settled States, but tho fence laws
enacted under the old condition?
have been allowed to remain on the
statute books of most of thom to this
day because so many voters without
farms wanted to keep their cows In
the streets and not hire pasturage,
and the lawmakers dared not touch
the old laws for fear of losing votes.
With only the scanty pickings ol
the street cattle" soon get desperate
with hunger and become breachy.
Not many years ago seven cows were
pastured In our street; sometimes the
whole seven could be seen together.
A farm gate could not be left open
when drawing In hay and grain, or
five or Bit of the neighbors' cows
would rush In. A neighbor's breachy
cow broke into our garden in the
daytime. Another man's cow got In
to the dooryard In the night, the gate
being accidentally left open. At
length our lawmakers at Harrisburg
ventured to let the people of the
State vote on the question of fence
or no fence, and a large majority
was for no fence. As the law stands
now, everybody must take care of his
own stock. They are not required
to fence other people's cattle out,
but only find It necessary to fence
their pasture fields to keep their own
cattle in, and no stock Is allowed In
the public highways, except when
being driven to market or from
place to place. It appears to
be a just and beneficial law,
producing excellent results, and
It should have been enacted long
ago. The wages of labor are so high
that men without land can afford to
huy milk or hire pasturage for o cow.
I know several laborers who have
bought houses and lots and paid for
them from their earnings.
The saving In expenso to the peo
ple of the State In having fewer
fences to build and keep in repair is
Immense, and the saving In unnoy
ance and vexation has been still
greater. J. W. Ingham, Sugar Run,
Pa.
Farui Cullings.
Too heavy loads make balky
horses.
With all stock discomfort always
costs In extra feed.
Milking should always be done in
a clean, airy place, free from all bad
odors,
Plowing for wheat should begin
just as soon as possible after the
harvest work Is finished up.
Dairy stock can not be improved
if a promiscuous trying of all breeds
is permitted to go on.
Cream should have a uniform con
sistency as well as being of uniform
ripeness before churning.
The cow, to do her best and con
tinue It for the longest period, must
have at least one-fifth her food of
some kind of nitrogen.
tl takes longer and costs more to
make up a pound of loss than it docs
to add five pounds of gain under fa
vorable conditions.
In feeding fattening hogs, the food
should alwuys be given in a clean,
wholesome condition and never al
lowed to become sour.
The walk Is the foundation of all
the other gaits, und without begin
ning at the foundation alt future de
velopments will be unsatisfactory.
Ab Boon as the tops of the onions
are dead they should be putted,
thrown in rows, allowed to cure a
few days aud thou be stored away.
Good hickory ashes are said to be
excellent for expelling worms from
the bowels of young horses. (Jive
a couple of tablespoonfuls twice u
week lu their feed.
The great secret lu making under
draining a permanent improvmeut Is
Iq securing uniform form in laying
tho tile, and maintaining a good out
let. As a rule, the safest plan Is to
look tho ground over carefully and
then plan out the ditches to the best
advantage.
STILL PICKING,
Week's cleverest cartoon, by Ketten, in the New York World.
PREDICTS AN AIRSHIP TRIP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Mr. Walter Wellman Says Count Zeppelin's Achievement Gives Promise
of Great Things in Aerial Navigation and Warfare.
New York City. Mr. Walter Well
mnn writes as follows regarding the
achievement of Count Zeppelin lu bis
airship:
Count Zeppelin's rqcord breaking
voyage with his great an -Hip sur
prises no one familiar with the pres
ent state of the science of aerial navi
gation. That n modern motor balloon
can bo depended upon to make voy
ages of from ono to two thousand
miles, under fairly favorable condi
tions, has long been known to men
who are familiar with aeronautics.
Count Zeppelin's success is epoch
making In that It convinces a scep
tical world of the practicability of air
ships and of their utility as engines
of war and as Instruments of ex
ploration of the upper air as well as
parts of the earth otherwise Inacces
sible, like the great unknown area
surrounding the North Pole.
His latest demonstration without
doubt will assure the rapid building
of aerial navies by the chief military
Powers. In fact, Germany, France,
Great Britain and the United States
are already moving in that direction.
France has the Lebandy and La Re
publlqne already in commission, and
Count Zeppelin's ship, It Is under
stood, is to be taken over for the
German army.
The modern airship or motor bal
loon will prove to be an effective en
gine of war. She can make recon
nolsances of an enemy's position, fly
ing at an altitude giving her Im
munity from the enemy'B guns. 8ho
cannot only gain Invaluable informa
tion, but she can make attacks upon
strategic points, such as cities, bridges
and forts and tho camps of hostile
armies by dropping explosives down
upon them.
Can Drop Explosives on Enemy.
"This phase of the aerial warfare of
the future has been declared Imprac
ticable by some critics because the
dropping of a thousand pounds of ex
plosive from a ship of the air would
instantly cause her to Bhoot up to a
great altitude. The critics who think
this Is a fatal objection are not famil
iar with the art of airship construc
tion and operation. Dropping one
thousand pounds of ballast or weight
of any sort from a small balloon
dlrlglble like the one Captain Bald
win has built for the United States
Government would, of course, be
either Impracticable (because the ship
could not carry so much) or danger
ous It she could carry it. But that
weight suddenly released Is a baga
telle compared to the total lifting ca
pacity of such a ship as the Zeppelin
or my polar alrBhlp, the America.
The Zeppelin has a total lifting power
of between 25,000 and 30,000 pounds,
while the America lifts 19,500
pounds. The altitude gained by such
a ship through dropping one thousand
pounds In : lump presents no prac
tical difficulties whatever.
In the airship of the future, wheth
er used for military or scientific pur
poses, size Is sure to be a factor of
prime Importance. Interesting ex
periments may bo mado with small
ships. But real and Important work
requires large ships, built by en
gineers on a scalo great enough to
admit of the employment of steel and
other metals, instead of flimsy struc
tures of bamboo or such materials.
Breaks AH Records.
Count Zeppelin has broken all rec
ords for length of run. But there Is
no reason why the mlllta.y cruiser of
the future should not have a radius
of movement of three or four thou
sand miles. Of course the greater
the speed aimed at the greater the
quantity of fuel that must be carried
for a given distance. A ship like the
America carries three tons of gaso
lene in her steel tank, and If the In
fluence of the winds be regarded as
neutral she can motor 130 miles at
about twenty English miles an hour.
Count Zeppelin's remarkable cruise
Is only a foretaste of what is to be
done with motor balloons In the near
future. Within a few years I expect
to see the Atlantic Ocean crossed by
an airship of the Republlque or Amer
ica type. In fact, the America could
cross the Atlantic without much risk
of accident with a little help from the
winds. A voyage from New York to
Chicago, or vice versa, Is within her
Bcope, and I am strongly tempted to
bring her over from Paris this fall
and give Americans a demonstration
of what a first class engineering con
struction can do In the way of a long
voyage through the air.
In view of the success of the Zep
pelin, of the Lebandy, of the Re
publlque, and the undoubted ability
of the America to make a longer voy
age than Count Zeppelin has just
made, many experts regret that the
first venture of the United States
Government In military motor bal
looning should be with such a small
affair aB that of Captain Baldwin.
It has no class. It is too small. It
has no endurance. Captain Baldwin
is a skillful man, but his machine Is
not large and powerful enough to
give him a chance against a great
cruiser like the Zeppelin. When the
United States Government enters tho
aeronautic field It should not be con
tent to begin where foreign experi
menters ended years ago, but should
be up to date in size and engineering.
CONSUMPTIVES' LUNG CAPACITY.
French Doctor rim;.-. In Chest
of ni.i
Paris. While awaiting the discov
ery of some means to cure tubercu-
' losls scientists are searching for some
means of early diagnosis, which hith
erto has been must difficult. Dr.
Bourellle now describes a series of
experiments whereby an easy method
can be established.
He examined every year 1200
women and girls. He measured the
thorax at the moments of extreme
inspiration and expiration and noted
nt oHureinents the m hi Source
KtlOHlH.
the difference. For normal females
he found that the difference always
exceeded two and one-third Inches,
while for tuberculous women it never
reached one and one-sixth.
He then measured a thousand sol
diers and found a differences of from
three and one-half to four and one
half Inches. The tests on tuberculosis
patients Bhow that in ninety-eight per
cent, of the cases the difference never
exceeded one and one-sixth.
BIRDS SLOWLY INCREASING.
Duaty's Kick.
"Dose automobiles are a nuis
ance," growled Dusty Dennis, as bo
frowned at a passing tourlug car.
"What's de matter, pard?" aakr-d
Gritty George. "One of rtem run
you down?"
"No, but last night dny put tnu tn
t cell wld a chauffeur, and 1 couldn't
sleep for de smell of gasollua."
Chicago News.
Audubon Society's Efforts Saving
New Orleans. The census of the
bird Islands on the Louisiana coast
has been completed and shows a con
siderable Increase in the number of
the birds in spite of Leavy losses
through recent storms.
The islands are nineteen In number
nnd were given by the Federal and
State governments to the Audubon
Society as a bird reservation. At the
time of the gift the sea birds on the
Gulf coast were nearly extinct.
The census shows that 62,000 more
birds havu been added to the popula-
Many Species Now Nearly Extinc
tion of the islands this summer. They
are mainly laughing gulls. Next In
number are the Louisiana herons, the
royal cabots and Forster's turns and
black swimmers. Some of the varie
ties are nearly extinct. There are
only twenty-five snowy herons left,
twenty-two black crowned night
herons and thirty-Ova Caspian terns,
all once abundant on the Gulf coast,
but killed off for their plumage. A
number of eggs have been destroyed
and young birds killed by recent
! storms.
Cliiuu Burs .Morphine,
Asks Jupan'n Aid.
Pekln. China has asked Japan to
consent to the restriction of the im
portation Into China of morphine, as
well as the instruments used for the
injection of the drug. All the other
Powers long since agreed to this re
striction. It is highly desirable that Japan
consent to this proposal, particularly
In view of the opium congresi to be
held In Shanghai in January, when
measures for tbecontrol of the opium
traffic are to be devised.
German Machine Guuh' First Vol
ley Brought Bonn Balloon.
Berlin. During a session "ol night
practice by a machine gun corps of
the army near Augsburg the gunners
were ordered to train on a target bal
loon which had been sent up during
the day and was floating far above
and to the left of their point of en
campment. The balloon was brought down at
the first volley.
The test wus made for the purpose
of ascertaining whut chance an army
would have of opposing a hostile bal
loon corps.
France to Use Posters
to Gain lie. 1 1. ' -..
Paris. The vote on two years of
mllltnry service releases a number of
men In the French regiments. Thero
is also a scarcity of re-enllstraents.
The Colonel of the Twelfth Dra
goons, station at Pont a Mous.ion, has
decided to adopt the American sys
tem of recruiting throtmh brilliant
and artistic posters depicting the ad
vantages of service, including fnnry
cloth uniforms, the regulsr llff In th
service and at 10 p. in. bed for tho
petty officers.
Newsy Gleanings.
The Sultan of Turkey granted a
constitution and wilp -cull a Parlia
ment. The first steps toward the organiza
tion of a national aerial society xu
taken lu Washington, D. C.
Governor Hughes announced he
would accept a rsnomlsutlou it It
were the freely expressed wish of ths
party.
A bill has been Introduced In the
Portuguese Chamber of Deputies (a
expel the religious orders from the
kingdom.