No More Fascinating
School in the Land.
Theoretical and Practical Forestry In the Appalachian Forests
Carolina's Timber Cruisers How Boys From Maine to Cali
fornia, Rich and Poor, Live and Play and Work on the
Wonderful Biltmore Estate.
Day Allen Wllley, In St. Nicholas! '
Ud In the heart of the great Ap
palacblan forest ia a little colony of
young Americans who can truly be
called woodsmen, for they are living
and working amid the woodland to
gain tuch a knowledge of the tree
that they can earn a livelihood from
their skill in what the scientists call
forestry. The geography tells us In
a general way that our forests are
among our greatest resources, on
the maps of many States you will find
here and there big black or darkened
Hatches that are marked "forests.
These patches are especially notice
able on the mapB of such States as
Washington and Oregon, In the Pa
cific region, and Minnesota, Wiscon
sin and Michigan, in what we usually
term the Northwest. But turn to
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Tennessee, and here you will see the
patches that the geography notes as
the forests. of the Appalachian Moun
tains.
Yes, the woods of America are one
of Its greatest sources of benefit to
us, for in a single year the lumber
that is sawed from the trees, the fuel
tbat comes from them for our fires,
the wood pulp made Into paper, the
telegraph poles, the bark covering
that goes into leather and acids are
some of the items that pay the Nation
a revenue of nearly a billion and a
quarter of dollars. Why, the fagots
and kindling which heat our homes
and cook our food amount to over
ono-tblrd of a billion dollars alone.
Just the beams, planks and shingles
that are cut in the 25,000 mills re
aulre forty billion "board" feet an
nually. So It is that a great army Is
employed in our woods Just to handle
the ax and the saw in the timber in
dustry. Such have been their inroads
that really enormous tracts of forest
have been stripped. The lumbering
has been done recklessly and waste
fully, without regard to caring for the
young trees. Often the tlmbermen
have left great stumps to rot and de
cay, so that fully a third of the value
of the woodland thus "cut over" has
been wasted.
About twenty years ago a New
York millionaire went down among
the highlands of North Carolina. So
pleased was he with the scenery, the
climate and other attractions of na
ture, that here he determined to have
his home, and, cutting oft the top of
a mountain, he built a mansion,
which, with the grounds surrounding
it, forms what Is probably the most
beautiful country seat in America.
Well, It ought to be, considering the
millions he spent in laying out boule
vards, landscape gardens and other
vistas, but the story of how George
Vanderbllt created Biltmore Is too
long to be told here, and Is referred
to because if he had not been drawn
into the wilderness, this article would
probably have never been written.
The wilderness, the bigness of the
woodland, fascinated him as it has
other nature lovers. He wanted to
preserve it, ye.t to make it of use, and
to retain Its beauty, so he began
adding forest after forest to his es
tate, until ho Is now the actual lord
over a domain that comprises 200
square miles of hill and valley, much
of which is tree covered. It includes
Mount Pisgah, which juts up above
the clouds to a height of over a mile
above the level of the sea. After he
had secured this little empire, the
question that arose was how he could
best make It serve his purposes. Tlm
bermen say that if all the good trees
were cut off to-day, Mr. Vanderbllt
would get so much money for the
lumber that he would be far more
that repaid for the cost of the land,
because the forest Is so dense In many
places. But he wants to keep the
wooc'tand "growing perpetually," yet
make it pay for itself and yield
enough money yearly to meet the ex
pense of fencing it, with taxes and
other outlay. Thus it Is that the
"Biltmore Rangers," as they may be
called, have a working ground, yet a
playground, which Is unlike that pos
sessed by any other set of youngsters
in the world. Here .they live the sort
of life that appeals to the boy who
has good red blood In his veins, for
it Is a life in the open, where the
tree, the bush, the leaf and blossom
are dally giving him knowledge of
woodcraft; where the mountain chal
lenges him to ascend it; where he is
continually in the midst of the air
and sunshine of the hill country. No
wonder boys have come here from
homes from Maine to California, as
these Rangers are a national organ
ization, numbering few from the sur
rounding country. They are here, as
stated, to learn of the tree Its
growth, its value, but they are also
gaining an Invaluable knowledge of
nature In genoral and an ac
quaintance with the great outdoors,
which is just as beneficial.
Every month In the year there Is
something to do at Biltmore. Even
In the winter they are busy in the
opeu, for . between November and
April their headquarters are in Bilt
more village, laid out by the founder
of the estate like a model English
town, on the outskirts Is a forest
of 8000 acres, which you will find
divides Into 6ver twelve square miles.
Krom this conies a third of the fuel
burned by the city of Ashevllle.
Here the boys study the trees beat
suited for fire wood, the way to
handle the ax for felling them, how
to saw and pile cordwood, also to cal
culate how. much fuel wood Is con
tained In an acre of standing timber
-an easy task when you know how.
In and about this forest are stretches
of old farm lands abandoned by the
former owners because regarded as
worthless, but the young woodsmen
have proved that they are fit for tree
growing. Part of their duties Is the
"reforesting," as It Is called, of this
bare solL They set out ash, cherry
and other hard woods found oa the
estate, and during the first year thus
turned a hundred acres lata a tree
plantation. When this "crop- is
ready to cut, the value of the wood
will be so much as to well repay the
time, labor and expense of reforest
ing. The firewood Industry is so profit
able because those who burn "Bilt
more wood" can always rely on get
ting the kind that gives the most
heat, as It Is the product of a scien
tifically conducted woodyard.
With the April days the young for
esters pack their Instruments, tools
and clothes, mount their ponies and
trail through the wilderness to the
foothills of Pisgah. Here they get
among the tan-bark trees, and for a
month or so they work In peeling oft
the bark, figuring on how much bark
a tree will yield, packing the bark
for shipment, also in analyzing such
wood as chestnut, which contains a
valuable sap used for chemical prep
arations. In a year the boys "har
vest" 1500 tons of tan-bark, which
goes Into tanuic acid nt an Ashevllle
factory. With the middle of May
camp Is again "struck," and the party
go farther Into the wild until they
are miles away from even the border
of civilization. Here they are woods
men in truth. Under the shadow of
old Pisgah they are amid the pri
meval forest. They become timber
"cruisers," which means that they go
through a tract, estimating the quan
tity of hardwood and other lumber it
contains, without cutting down a tree.
Scaling the trunk of a big oak or
pine, the young forester measures Its
girth. at different heights, the thick
nesB of the limbs worth sawing, and
notes them In his book. If a tree is
blown down, he can tell by examina
tion how much Is good and how much
is decayed. His surveying instru
ments give him ground measure
ments, heights and grades, so that
after a "cruise" he can map down
an acre or a hundred-acre "stand"
and tell you not only how many board
feet it contains, but the varieties of
wood and what it is worth at the
market price.
The ranger at Biltmore learns the
business of the logger cutting down
trees and hauling them from the for
est; also another important branch
of the industry of the forest that of
the mill worker, for the boys keep
two sawmills whirring and humming
while they are in the PlEgah foothills.
They become familiar with the
handling of logs on the deck and on
the carriage; they compare the actual
output of logs with the output as des
ignated by the various log rules, and
they grade the lumber as it comes
from the saw. By actual practice,
they know how boards are piled and
how the piles are arranged in the
yard. They are required to show by
charts and drawings how each ma
chine In the mill works and Its rela
tion to other machines. When a mill
is moved from one point to another
they aid in taking down the ma
chinery ond in setting it up in its new
poeltion, thus gaining an intimate
knowledge of the mechanical opera
tion of a mill.
Between five and ten miles of road
are built In Pisgah Forest annually.
These roads are surveyed and laid out
by Its guardians. In this connection
they also acquire a knowledge of
bridge-bulldlng. The building of
tramroads and making of log chutes
sometimes comes within their experi
ence. They have frequent exercise In
running compass lines, in establishing
boundaries, and In making plane
table surveys.
For ten years American boys have
thus been studying In this school of
the wild.. Already it has shown Its
value to the Nation, for not a few of
those who have left it are serving the
country in our great national parks
and other forest reserves where the
Government is protecting the wood
land. GlfTord Plnchot, the present
chief of the Forest Service, spent two
years amid the Appalachians, but ably
filling his place are Dr. Carlos
Schenck and Dr. Clifton Howe, to
whom the owner of Biltmore has in
trusted his woodland, and who are
at the head of his unique colony of
active American boys In the Carolina
overland.
The effect tbat such schools of na
ture will have upon the future of our
country can only be hinted at, consid
ering the great necessity for more
knowledge about our woodland, es
pecially the way by which we can
make It a permanent benefit to tV.S
Nation. In May, 1908, there gath
ered, at the White House a group of
the most notable men who have ver
assembled In Washington. They were
called together by President Roose
velt to discuss the best methods of
"conserving" our national resources.
Governors of States, authorities on
farming, lumbering, irrigation, com
merce and other great public ques
tions, gave their opinions on how the
Nation Is literally wasting Its sub
stance, and explained their plans for
stopping this national extravagance.
During the conference It was ad
mitted that one of our greatest needs
was a knowledge of forestry, of which
the great masses of the people are
so densely Ignorant. In fact, this was
one of the chief subjects for discus-,
slon, and was one of tho main reasons
why President Roosevelt called the
congress. How he regarded the neces
sity of woodcraft Is best shown by
quoting his own words, uttered as
far back as five years ago:
"The forest problem Is In many
ways the most vital Internal problem
of the United States. The very ex
IstencQ of lumbering the fourth
great Industry of the United States
depends upon the success of our work
as a nation In putting practical for
estry into effective operation. The
United States is exhausting Its forest
supplies far more rapidly than they
are being produced. The one remedy
Is the Introduction of practical for
estry on r lnrfre scale."
So it Is that in the mountain South
land an illustration ia shown of tho
truth of Mr. Roosevelt's words, and
here young Americans are being edu
cated for the work which he bo em
phatically said must l9 done. As we
have said, they have come to Carolina
all the way from Maine to California,
but they also include the rich as well
as the poor. The son of the million
aire does not hesitate to put on the
sweater and the blouse, to handle the
saw as well as the tape and transit,
side by side with the boy who has
gone into the wilderness because
forced by fortune to choose some
career to support himself.
iWORTU KffOWINGlJ
Hair grows at the rate of three
milllontbs of a yard per second.
Statistics show that, while England
Is becoming a less violent nation, it Is
at the same time becoming more dis
honest. Electric headlights on locomotives
may become compulsory in Indiana.
Government experiments Indicate
that with the use of oil as fuel, both
the speed and steaming radius of a
vessel are increased.
The vineyards of Algeria produce
the greatest yield per acre.
The proposed bridge across the
Snake River Canyon below the Great
Shoshone Fnlls, 700 feet above the
water, will be the highest bridge in
the world.
Telephone rates are fixed by the
State of Illinois and interchange of
service between companies in the
! same locality Is compulsory.
The boys of ancient Egypt played
with toy soldiers.
A special trolley enr made a trip
of almost 1000 miles recently, going
from Louisville, Ky., to Cleveland,
Ohio.
The shadow of the moon falling on
the earth during an eclipse generally
covers an area of about fifty miles.
Salt making by evaporation of sea
water is an industry which hns been
carried on for 800 years at Maiden,
Essex, England.
If the number of people dally en
tering London were to be dispatched
from any given station by rati 1977
trains, each conveying 600 persons,
would be required. If all these trains
were arranged in a straight line they
would cover 221 miles of railway.
The Laplander's average height Is
four feet eleven Inches for the men,
and two inches less for the women.
Seaweed, dust, goat's hair and
Irish moss, compounded by a secret
chemical process. Is claimed to be, by
its Inventor, John Campbell, a perfect
substitute for leather, vulcanite,
wood and marble. As leather it
makes serviceable soles for shoes.
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
of Trade says:
Reports from the principal Indus
trial and mercantile centers are of
an encouraging nature, and even the
long delay In tariff readjustment and
the new controversy over the prop
osition to levy a tax on the net
earntngs of corporations do not seem
to hold in check the Improvement
in business conditions. The Improve
ment, though based upon many
sound economic conditions, is un
doubtedly facilitated by the ease of
money, which also in part explains
the prevailing tendency toward high
prices. Hot weather Is stimulating
tho distribution of seasonable mer
chandise. Brad st reefs says:
Improvement is more manifest
this week, the mainspring of this be
ing better weather and crop reports
Bnd further expansion in the vol
ume of industlnl operations. Retail
reports are still rather irregular, e
ceHslve heat being credited with re
tarding distribution in some sec
tions, but, on the whole, sales of
summer good3 have been benefited
by more seasonable temperatures.
Wholesale Markets.
Xew York Wheat Spot firm; No.
2 red, old 147c., nominal, elevator;
N'o. 2 red, old, 1.47, nominal; new,
1.10 end August f. o. b. afloat; N'o.
1 Northern Duluth, 1.35 7. nominal
f. o. b. allnat; No. 2 hard white:-,
1.37, nominal f. o. b. afloat.
Corn Spot easy; N'o. 2, old, 81c.
In elevator and 79 f. o. b. afloat; N'o.
2 new, 6") 34 c., winter shipment. Op
tion market was without transac
tions, closing 94 c. net higher. July
,'losed 78 (.; September closed
75; December closed 67".
Oats Spot dull; mixed, 2ff32
:bs., 60c. nominal; natural white, "25
Ti 32 lbs., 59fiC2; clipped white,
3 4 (Ft 4 2 lbs., 60Va&6bi.
Hay Dull and easy. Good to
.'hoice, 90 rt 95c.
Eggs State, Pennsylvania and
nenvjy fancy, selected white, 27 5r
28c; do., fair to choice, 24ffj,26;
brown and mixed fancy, 24 25; do.,
fair to choice, 2223; Western
extra firsts, 22W22I2; firsts, 20 Vi
(official, 20); seconds, 19' 20;
Southern, 17 20.
IMilliulelphiu Wheat Quiet, but
steady; contract grade spot, 1.43
1.45; July, 1.13 (fj) 1.14.
Oats Weak, lc. lower; No. 2
white, natural, 63Vs64.
Butter Steady; good demand; ex
tra Western creamery and nearby
prints, 27c.
Eggs Firm; firsts c. hlsher;
Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts,
f. c, 22c. at mark; do., current re
ceipts, in returnable cases, 20 Vi at
mark; Western firsts f. c, 22 Vi at
mark; do., current receipts, f. c,
19 V 20.
Cheese Quiet, but steady; New
York full creams, choice, 13 c. ;
do., fair to good, 12V&T13.
Live Poultry Firm and higher;
fowls, 1 5 Vt 1 6c. ; old roosters,
1011; Bpring chickens, 19&24;
ducks, old, 11 12; do., spring,
1 4 111 6.
Baltimore Wheat The market
for Western opened firmer; July,
115i4c; August, 1.13. Prices im
proved after the opening and at the
midday call July wns quoted at
UtiVtc., and August at 1.13.
Corn Spot, 78 c; July. 77 'J.
Oats We quote, per bu.: White,
N'o. 2, 62 Vb fi 63c; do., No. 3, 61
ft 62; do., No. 4, 6 0 fit 6 1 ; mixed,
N'o. 2, 60 61; do., N'o. 3. 59)
60; do.. No. 4, 58 59.
Hay We quote, per ton: No. 1
timothy, large bales, $17.50 18;
do., small blocks, 17. 50 18; No.
2 timothy, as to location, $16.50)
17; No. 3 timothy, $14.50 15.50.
Butter Wo quote, per lb.: Cream
ery, fancy, 26 c; creamery, choice,
2 5 2 6; creamery, good, 22 23.
Eggs Market about steady and
unchanged. We quote, per dozen,
loss off: Maryland, Pennsylvania
nearby firsts, 21c; Western firsts,
21: West Virginia firsts. 21; South
ern firsts, 20; guinea eggs, 10 11.
THE RIGID TRUTH
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In the hips.
And Confirmation to Any Kidney Suf
ferer Who Asks It.
Mrs. W. H. Cobb. N'lcholasvlllc,
Kj., says: "1 will keep strictly to the
mort Hum truth In
telling of my exper
ience with Donn's
Kidney Pllts. and
will be glad to give
corroborutlve evi
dence to anybody. A
catch or stitch in my
back was followed
with dull, constant
backache and pain
ThpnlihlniF ha.fflntia.
l- .v....0 ..V H
took all the 'go' out of me. I lost ap
petite and weight and grew weak.
The kidney secretions became scan
ty and dropsy set In. I suffered so I
hardly cared what became of me, but
the first box of Doan's Kidney Pills
made me better, and I used the rem
idy faithfully until all symptoms left
me and I Rained 14 pounds."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
Hi' Was T IliiiL', Too.
During 'i.e maneuvers tho sub
ject of rille shooting frequently crop
ped ui nt one of the officers' messes.
"I'll bet anyonsfjjiere a box of cig
ars," said Lieutenant. A. "that I can
fire 20 shot? at 200 yards and tell
without waiting for the murker the
result of each one eonec'ly."
"Done:" crii d Major B, and the
whole mess turned out early the
next morning to witness the experi
ment. The lieutenant fired.
"Miss!" he announced calmly.
Another shot
".Miss:" he repeated.
A third shot.
"Miss:''
"Hold, hold on!" put In Major B.
"What are you trying to do. You're
not firing for the target:"
"Of course not!" was the cool re
sponse. "I'm firing for those cig
ars." Chattanooga Times.
Take Anything And Ito Quiet.
He wns one of the very few com
mercial travelers who cannot adapt
themselves to their surroundings,
and as a chronic hotel grumbler ho
Is known from East to West. The
waiter was possessed of an optimism
unusual for one weighted with the
responsibilities of his position and
served the sonp, fish end roast with
equanimity and poise. At the des
sert the tnrvellnR man waxed Irri
table and sarcastic.
"Look here," he Eald. "This pud
ding is on the bill of fare as 'Ice
cream pudding,' and there isn't any
ice, nor Is there any cream in It."
The wniter, In a tone of great
patience, replied:
"That's all right, sir. There's
nothing In names. If we serve you
with Washington pie. It's no sign
there's a picture of the Capitol on
every piece, and when we brine, you
college frl'ters there Isn't a terms
tuition in advance thrown In. Any
cheese with your pie, sir?" Colum
bus Dispatch.
Ma Is Phrenologist.
"Tapa. what do they call a person
that reads heads?"
"A phrenologist, my boy."
"lieel Then ma must be one or
those thinirs. She felt of my head
this afternoon and said right away:
'You've been swimming ' " Detroit
Free Press.
I
Cabby's Snrruiin.
Lady (after tendering a shilling
lr laie) And here are two buns
roti tan have, my man.
Cabby Thank you kindly, lady. I
tnppose you don't 'appen to 'ave a
ftisp of 'ay for the 'orse? Cassell's
Jaturday Journal.
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Atecdy cure for Con
etlpiitlon, Indigestion,
Jniiuillcp, Illllousui-aa,
Four Sr'tomacu. Head
Bi-bc, anil all ailment
analog frutn a dlsor
derod atomach or
aliiggliiti liver. They
contain In concentrat
ed form all the vir
tue and v.i him of
Mutiyon's I'&vr-Vnw
tmik nud are made
from the Ultra nf th.
Paw-Paw fruit. I nnlieRltutti.gl y rerom
tiiend thene pill, a lluir tlie lot lain
tlve and cathartic ever compounded. Get
a 'i'-i'fux ttottle and If von are not per-fer-tiv
ittticd I vill refund jour money.
-MUNYOS.
i ii I i l Mill) rind .IKFKKl'SOX gTS..
l'llll.ADKI.I'IIIA I'A.
cor in: i t an -iii. i..' i mi pink
Whether rtum t'filfU. II. :,t. 'lornfli'li or
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I leal (1 Something.
One summer evening a miller was
leaning over his garden gate, facing
the road enjoying his pipe, when a
conceited young farmer happened to
be passing. The miller, in a friendly
tone, said:
"Good evening George. "
"I didn't speak," said George
gruffly.
"Oh." said the miller. "I thought
you did; but it must have been your
ears Happing." Chattanooga Times.
Tempered To Tusk.
The three young men had Just
emerged from the fiery furnace.
"They are the boys to make a
tariff," cried the people.
Thus their political careers were
begun. New York Sun.
Hint In Time.
"The climate is considered very
healthy here. I believe," remarked
the tourist In Arizona.
"Yes, if you mind your own busi
ness," replied the native. Philadel
phia Record.
Every now and then some one tries
to write a national aiiiii' in for Cana
da, but. in the opinion of the Victoria
Colonist every effort is a failure.
HANDS RAW AND SCALY.
Itched atnl Iturneil Terribly Could
Not Move Thumbs Without I'lesli
Cracking Sleep Impossible
Cuttcurtt Soon Cured Keemn.
"An itching humor ryvorei both my
hands nml gi t up inn my wrists and even
up to the elbows. The in liinjr .ni l hurtling
Were terrible. My liamls got nil avaly and
when I aorntohi'il. t lie (.'iirfiu'e would lie
covered with ble-ters nml then get raw.
The eczema got so had that 1 could not
move my thumb without deep cracks a
pearing. 1 went to my dm tor. but hia
medicine could only atop the itching. At
night 1 suffered ho fearfully that 1 could
not sleep. 1 could not bear to touch my
hnnds with wnter. Thia went on for three
months and I was fairly worn out. At last
I got the C'uticurn Remedies and in a
month I was cured. Walter II. Cox. t
Somerset St., Huston, Mass., Sept. 2o, l'JiS."
Potter Drug & ( hem. Corp., Sole 1'iups
of Cuticura Uemeilies, iioston. Mass.
lHTsm
Two notables of Jerusalem, accord
ing to Levantine newspapers, hav
applied for the concession for fur
nishing Jerusalem with electric light
and building an electric tramway be
tween Jerusalem and Jaffa.
Syria and Palestine have an In
ordinate appetite for imported drugs
In Beirut, a city where soft drink?
are in great demand, there is not a
single soda fountain.
There are definite evidences of Im
provement reported from the Scotch
shipbuilding yards. May's new ton
nage was heaviest of the year.
Id'ugglng. Great Sliootinr;.
Dragging is such an easy habit to 1 "Yes, sir," said old man Brag
fall into that nearly every little de-gnrd, "as soon as I see them birds
light opens the way, and It requires , 1 went into the house and took down
a very strong character to resist the the old blunderbuss and pegged at
inclination. It may be classed as a ; 'em, an' by gorry! I brought down
discourtesy, and what makes It sojthntty birds to one shot. Can jo
is not the theme so much as the beat that?"
waste of time required to indulge it. i "Ya-as," drawled t'ncle Si Pea
There is another objection, and that I vey. "Ye know Bill Wiygins' frog
is, it encourages the use of many; pond?"
superlatives, which Is never in good ' "Yes." said old man Braggard.
torm. because they are mostly used I " "at or it .'
rooa
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Public Attention Should Not Be Diverted From
Real Peril in Human Contagion.
There Is a tendency to overrate the
danger to children from milk from
tuberculosis cattle was the decided
view expressed In the section of tu
berculosis In children of the National
Association for the Study and Pre
vention of Tuberculosis. The sub
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and very real danger of human con
tagion. If, they argued, tuberculosis
milk was as virulent as so many per
sons assert, it was difficult to conceive
how any children at all escaped in
fection. A diagnosis of tuberculosis
in a child by rational symptoms alone,
they contended, was Impossible In the
early stages. They said that the his
tory of tuberculosis In the family of
a sick child was almost a prior evi
dence of the presence In some form
o tuberculosis. The association of
the child with tuberculous parents, or
other consumptives, they said, was
a matter of such Importance in the
diagnosis as well as In the prevention
of the disease that every member of
a tuberculous family should be ex
amined as a matter of routine. In
fection during life, they said, may
take place throuh the air and from
food, but the other source ,of Infec
tion was probably by far the most
common. Children especially were
exposed to Infection because of theif
Irresistible Impulse to place every
thing in their mouthB.
They pointed out the enormous
danger to children In the home of the
tuberculous adult. Dust from a room
Inhabited by a consumptive, tbey de
clared, bad boen found virulent for
six weeks. Towels, they said, were
a fertile source of infection. Otner
dangers were In unhygienic surround
ings and improper food.
Tbat tuberculosis occurred more
frequently in artificially fed infants
was another view expressed by them.
Tbey maintained, however, that this
was not necessarily an Indication that
the Infection was always of the bo
vine type, and contracted from the
use of mtlk from tuberculosis cows.
They said that bottle fed babies had
a greatly lessened resistance to any
infection,
A campaign against tuberculosis
could only be waged with success,
they insisted, If its occurrence could
be prevented during childhood- Drs.
8haw and Laird urged the associa
tion as such and Individuals to bend
every effort to prevent and arrest the
spread of tuberculosis la children,
Live Stock.
Chicago Cattle Market 10c.
higher. Steers, $5.50 (fj 7.35 ; cows.
$4ffl6: heifers, $3.60 6.50; bulls,
$3.75 0 5.25; calves, $3(fJ7.60;
stackers and feeders, $3.30 6.25.
Hogs Market steady to strong.
Choice heavy, $7.70 7.80; butchers,
$7. Co 7.80; light mixed, $7.25
7.40; choice light, $7.40(7.60;
packing, $7.607.60: pltts, $5.50
7.00; bulk of sales, $7.407.65.
Sheep Market steady. Sheep,
$45.50; lambs, $7.60 fsf 8.75 ; year
lings, $5 6.75.
Kansas City, Mo. Cattle Mar
ket srong to a Bhade higher and ac
tive. Choice export and dressed
beef steers, $6.26 7; fair to good,
$5 6.30; Western steers, $5 7;
Blockers and feeders, $3.60 fi 5.50;
Southern steers, $46; Southern
cows, $3 ft 4.75; native cows, $3
6; notive heifers, $4 7; bulls, $3
5; calves, $4 7.50.
Hogs Market 10c.
$7.70; bulk of sales,
heavy, $7.407.70;
butchers, $7.25 7.60;
7.55; pigs, $6. 75 6. 75.
Sheep Market steady. Lambs,
$6 8.25; yearlings, $56.75; weth
ers, $4.5006.50; ewes, $4 5.1 5;
Blockers and feeders, $34.50;
Tex us muttons, $4 6.
I'lttsbiinc Cattle Choice,
7.25; prime, $6.60 6.90.
Sheep Prime wethers, $5.30
5.40; culls and common. $2 3;
spring lambs, $5 8.50; veal calves.
$8 iff. 8.25. .
Hogs Prime heavies, $8.05; me
diums, $7.85 7.90; heavy YorkerJ,
$7.757.85; light Yorkers, $7.26
7.35; pigs, $6.907; roughs, $6
6.75.
to fill up empty minds,
Still another problem, which Is
that bragging is placing a discount
upon the person listening, for he is
reminded of his own inferiority For
instance, the other day a man told
"Wa-al, I went down there the
other niHht after sundown to shoot
a couide o' bullfrogs wi:h mv old
shotgun," said Uncle SI. "There
was 5.000 of 'em Kit tin ' on them
there illy pads, an' I Just lifted that
us of catching a seven-pound fish, there gun to my shoulder and let
wnicn naa the erfect of malting us j "er go.
feel insignificant and uncomfortable, ' "S'pose ye did." said old man
until a friend informed us that he i Braggard. "How does that affect my
had seen the fish and that it welshed bird story?"
only three pounds, which suggested "Beats It all holler." retorted
to us another objection to bragging, Uncle Si. "The minute my pun went
which is that it is close akin to ly- , off the hull denied 5,000 bull frogs
tug; wnicn impression was made the. croaued. Harper s.
lower. Too,
$7.20 7.60:
packers and
lights, $7. .20
$7S
The allowance for the Imperial
household In Japan remains the
same In bard times and good $1.
600,000. ,
A German scientist has decided
that artificial light is not so injuri
es to humkn eyesight as is sunlight,
the latter containing more ultravio
let rays.
In the Baptist Sunday Schools In
England there Is one teacher to ten
pupils.
Switzerland's stringent pure food
law goes into effect a week from tomorrow.
Of the 400,000.000 persons In
China, only 40,000 are foreigner, of
whom 18.000 are Japaoea
deeper by the report of another per
son who said that he had seen the
man buy that Identical fish In Fulton
market. Thus one sees Into what
forbidden paths bragging leads one.
Ohio State Journal.
A Mulch For Him.
Country Drummer (with cigars)
Pardon me, have you a match?
Village Loafer ( tentatively )
Yaas: nut l nam t no se-gar.
"Does your husband belnnn to anv
club. Mrs. Duhbley?"
"None but the Knights of the Mys
tic Stairway."
"The Mystic Stairway? 1 never
heard of that order."
"Your're lucky. The members are
pledged to assist the brother who
needs help to reach home and to
curry him upstairs, provided they
are able to trust themselves on stairs
that go round and round, and after
that to try to make his wife believe
what Liver or Bowel medicine you
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