0 lect e 5 strong foo gthen it with MS dine in the World. oxes, 10¢., 28¢. ramen 288. . bited verve and Oldcastle.’ “Did gs. “Josiah said was a peach.”’— ther: Foot. ou are afraid that ife. She—Not in ink ‘that a wife portable.—Boston to ‘do ‘the right ng to do it that § Yous, 3 SLEPT ON THE MARCH. Tired So.- ers ./'0 Actually Walked Whiie They Slumbered. In an art? le, “Sleep For the Sleep- les: in the World's Work the author quotes an eminent surged. who made a study of sleep in the FFrer ch army as follows: . “In the retreat from Mons to the Marne we bad an extraordinary human experiment in which several hundred thousand men secured littie sleep dur- ing nine dys and in addition made forced marches and fought one of the greatest battles in history. “How, then, nine days apparently without opportu- nity for sleep? They did an extraordi- nary thing—they slept while they marched! Sheer fatigue slowed down their pace to a rate that would permit them to sleep while walking. When they halted they fell asleep. They slept in water and on rough grounds when suffering the pangs of hunger and thirst and even when severely wounded. They cared not for capture, not even for death, if only they could sleep. “The suvaried testimony of the sol- diers was that every one at times slept on the march. They passe’ through villages asleep. When sleep deepened they were awakened by com- rades. They slept in water, on stones, in brush or in the middle of the road, as if they had suddenly fallen in death. With the ever oncoming lines of the enemy no man was safe who dropped out of the ranks, for no matter on what pretext he fell out sleép con: quered him. Asleep many were cap-: tured. That the artillery men slept on horseback was evidenced by the fact that every man lost his cap.” LOOK OUT OF YOUR WINDOW. Mayhap You Are Missing a Wonderful Moving Picture Show. Houses are so common, people are so common, and windows are so com- mon! How rare it is for any one to realize how important it is to stand up and look out of a window! Have you, for example, ever looked out of every window in your house? If not try it and see what a new idea you will get of the universe. Just looking out of one window is a wonderful thing to do. We do it sometimes when there is a big storm raging, and what a sensation we get! Clouds burst, the rain washes down in torrents. ~e think maybe the world is coming to an end. Out of the win- dow, even in placid weather, there is always a great ‘sight. We have a re served seat to the greatest show no’ going on. About everything is hap- pening out there that there is! Streams of universal knowledge flow in upon us through that window. All our senses become revitalized. Out of every window there is al- " most always a tree in sight some- where, even in the city. Take note of that tree, with its roots deep in the soil and. its branches. spreading ou! into the air. That tree will connect . you up with Mother Earth. Then there is always the sky, leading you into un- known depths of thought and feeling. and there are always people passing-— world. comrades! It iS the greatest moving picture show in the world.— Life. Teamwork on a Battleship. The problem of naval expansion would not be so hard were it not for , the fact that every ship needs such a great number in its crew, because the greater the number of men that must did these men survive | work together as “a team” the greater | the difficulty of accomplishing the ' title of “feldzeugmeister” (master of “teamwork” and the longer the time required. In a ship, especially in a large ship like a battleship or battle | cruiser, most of the men work together in large groups, such as turret crews, 100 mien. sometimes composing a tur- ret’ crew. Nevertheless the ship and all the men it floats are bound togeth- er by invisible ‘cords that make a ship a unit, and the major effect of the training .and of the drills of all kinds is to make the whole a. ig organ- ism.—Rear Admiral Bradley A . Fiske in World's Work. Waterlee. Sir Walter Scott once said that the loss of the battle of Waterloo threw kalf Britain into mourning, yet the casualties of England and her allies were only 22,428 which included the wounded and missing. The French are supposed to haye lost 81,000 or 82,000, - a8 many of the exhausted men were trampled on by the troops of Bluecher, but owing to Napoleon's exiie to St. Helena no accurate record could be Theatrical Nete. “There’s no demand for tragedians any more.” “Then why not go with the tide and bo a comedian, old top?” “Oh, I couldn't be funny if I tried!” “That isn’t necessary.” — Louisville Poarier-Journal. . Arthur's Seat. What is known-as Arthur's Seat is a east: of Edipburgh, the capital of -=It:ds-a-strange. formation in. the "shape of a lion and ix 822 feet high, yet th ascent is an easy one, and: | | from the Summita. Eigtions yew, Bl I gained. Her Sort. -Alice— What. kind of girl has Jack’ engaged himself to? : Rose—Qh, she's! the,sort of "voman you never dare ask to luncheon for fear she'll stay to din ‘mer. —Exchange. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.—Mark ; a aa i t RANK OF MARSHAL A Military Honor Instituted by a King of France. THE TITLE AN ANCIENT ONE. I: Was First Conferred by Philip Au- gustus In 1191, at the Time of the Third Crusade—The Baton Is Its Dis- tinctive Badge of Ofiice. It is only in France that the military dignity of marshal is a very ancient one. It was King Philip Augustus who first instituted it as a military office in 1191, at the time of the third crusade. St. Louis invested two of his commanders with the rank on the eve of his ill fated expedition to northern Africa. Francis 1. created three, and by the time that Louis XIV. bad com pleted his long reign there were no less than twenty of them: The office was abolished by the firs: republic, but restored by Napoleon I. when he proclaimed himself em peror. He limited the number to six teen. They were known as marshals of the empire. The Bourbon monarchy on its restoration in 1815 maintained them in office. but changed their title back to that of marshals of France. By the law of 1839, bearing the sign manual of King Louis Philippe, their | - number was limited go six in time of peace and twelve in time of war. The batorf. as provided for by exist- ing military regulations in France, con- sists of a staff about two feet long. an inch and a half in diameter, cover- ed with dark blue velvet, flecked with gold stars and tipped at either end with silver gilt, on the borders of which are engraved the Latin words, “Terror belli, decus pacis.” It is car ried in the right hand at all great mili- tary or state functions and is used in lieu of the saber for saluting. The baton of the field marshal of Great Britain is tipped at either end with crowns and lions; those of Germany. Austria and Russia with single headed or double headed eagles. In England the dignity of field mar- shal was unknown until the reign of George Il, who in 1735 bestowed it upon the second Duke of Argyll, one of the greatest commanders and states- men of his day and of whom Pope wrote: Argyll, the state’s whole under born to wield And shake alike the senate and the field. The first Duke of Marlborough, the victor of Blenheim, of Ramillies and of Malplaquet, bore the title of captain general to indicate his rank as gener- alissimo, a title undoubtedly originat- ing in Spain, where it is still retained. It 1s regarded there as the equivalent of the grade of field marshal in other countries. There are no field marshals at pres- ent in Russia. The last two command- ers to hold that rank were the late Field Marshal Gourko, governor gen- eral of Poland. and the late Grand Duke Michael Nicholaivitch. who when he died was the patriarch of the imperial house of Romanoff. In Austria-Hungary there is but one field marshal—namely, Archduke Fred- erick. He is a brother of the queen mother of Spain and heir to all the colossal fortune of his uncle, the late Archduke Albert, who had won his marshal’s baton on the battlefield of Custozza. The full generals in Austria bear the the ordnance) when they belong to the artillery, while all lieutenant generals are known as ‘“feldmarshal leuten- ant,” a title which is being continually mistranslated abroad as that of- field . marshal. In Italy, Scandinavia, Belgium and Holland and in the armies of the Bal- kan states the rank of field marshal is unknown, although the late King Charles of Roumania had received batons from Czar Nicholas II and from the kaiser. Portugal, too. has dispensed with field marshals. It is in Germany, however, that field marshals flourish, but only since the present kaiser has been on the throne. Just prior to the death of old Emperor William in 1888 there were but two field marshals in the entire German army~-namely, the then Crown Prince (afterward Frederick III.) and Count Moltke, both of whom had received their batons at the close of the Franco- German war of 1870. As soon as the 1t emperor came to the throne he to confer the dignity with such liberality that there are now fully a score of them, including Duke Bern- bard of Baxe-Meiningen, the Grand Duke of Baden, Prince Henry of Prus- sia and Baron von Plessen. Besides these there are about & dozen more with the rank of “general oberst,” or olonel general, whose renk is assim- to that of field marshal and who above the full general.—F. Cun- e-Owen in New York Sun. " Stepped the Buzzing. Alles (With Loto says here that” ™ “wifi remove that annoy- n _ope’s rs, Edith— 2 Fil n ght Een Ma been talking stéadily (té' me ' tor hon hours I Pa twice. and be went hone *Bosid P¢ snsfript. h Figure, It. Out. buzz ard COPPPOOPPOOOOOOOCO® © © MANURE WHEAT IN WINTER @ ® © © In order to aid the growth of © ® the crop and thus save some © © spring fertilizers and to prevent © © losses of manure through ex- @ © posure the Ohio station recom- « © mends winter manuring for ® ® wheat. For twenty-three years: © at the station eight tours 0 mia- ® nure applied directly to wheat ® before seeding have produced an © annual increase of 12.6 bu: hei: © in this crop alone. A reason:i e &® proportion of this increase iia) ® be expected eveir when the nia- © nure is applied during the win- © ter, while subsequent crops will ® show Jike increases. © Experiments at Wooster show © that a ton of manure spread di- ® rectly from the stable to the © field is worth 75 cents more thu ® a ton left in an open barnyard « ® for three winter months and ® ® then applied. Other experimoents © ® have shown that a ton of fresh @® © manure treated with forty ® ® pounds of acid phosphate and @® ® spread immediately is worth @ © nearly $2.50 more than a ton of &® © untreated manure le’t in an open ® © barnyard from January to April. ® : @® POOP PPOPPPROPOOOPO® PORK RAISING PAYS. Success Depends Largely on Good Hogs and Right Feeding. Is the problem of making pork at a profit any greater now that grain feeds are high? Have we not a correspond- ing rise in the values of tke product so that we are just as well off? Let us not overlook the fact that only good hogs pay at any time, says the Farm Jour- nal. Poor swine, poorly kept or wormy, are a losing proposition under all con- ditions of the market. In keeping first quality hogs, espe- cially pure breeds, there is always the additional inducement of occasional sales at good prices to breeders. But in feeding there is a right way that should not be forgotten. If you have skim- milk or buttermilk or are near a creamnm- ery where these may be procured at a cost of 40 cents per hundred or less it wilk add quality to the ration and do it profitably. Skimmilk is among the fore- most feeds as a grower of young stock, while it has few equals as a fattener when fed with corn. Says the Indiana experiment station: “The cost of grain per hundred of gain PURE BRED POLAND CHINA SOW, « 4 made when corn is 50 cents per bushel was $2.75 per hundred if skimmilk was fed. But the cost was $4.08 without skimmilk, feeding corn only. For each cent advance in the price of corn the pork cost 5.5 cents more when corn was fed with milk and 8.5 cents more when fed without milk. If milk cannet be procured tankage or oilmeal should be put into the grain ration to balance up the protein content. “However, aside from the grain ra- tion, which is high, forage is available at slight expense,:and’ swine should be given all they will consume. Try oats and peas, alfalfa, vetch. : “Again, let the makers of: York not forget that pigs weighing 175 to 225 T VBRCIAT, MEYERSDALE, PAT ttm T0D SG RISK. Washingtcen's cade! ths Matri One of the ie Silpzion’s bounty wax i r. 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