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The SPORTING WORLD
Captain Charley Gould of Yale's 1001 j
football eleven is one of the sturdiest i
pigskin chasers that the New Haven
university has sent out in many a day j
Gould was a prominent member of last
year's great team, which won the j
championship.
Gould Is very confident that his team 1
will make a creditable showing, al
though he is fully aware that Prince- :
ton and Harvard, time honored rivals
of Old Eli, are also putting up an cf
fective game for the early part of the
season. Vale's rush line last year was
one of the heaviest In college records,
tint Gould's present linemen fall but
little short of it in point of weight. The
New Haven line averages 210 pounds
to the man, and the activity of the (
bulky athletes is remarkable.
Many of Yale's former football utar*
are now at New Haven drilling the
men into form. Coaches are invaluable
■ \IT MS < HAItLEY OOULII OF VAI.E.
in handling a partially developed team, i
and their efforts are directed by the :
teachings of experience. Among the !
famous football players who are now ]
coaching at Yale are "Beef" Ileffelfin- |
ger, Walter Camp, Morris Ely and
Adee. the quarter back of 189.1.
at Ilenlfy.
The whole question of the admission
of foreigners to the race for the Grand
Challenge cup at Henley will come up
for discussion before the stewards of '
the regatta at their next meeting.
\V. 11. lirevfell. the famous old Ox- |
ford oarsman, in a letter to the London
press urges that this matter be fully
considered by all rowing clubs in the
haiiit of making entries for the cup.
He re-enumerates the objections that
have been made to the conversion of a
domestic regatta into an international
meeting. "The course," he says, "is
too short for an important internation
al eight oared race. Under certain con
ditions of wind it is very far from be
ing a fair one, while the great array of
picnickers who have before now im i
peded racing boats might at any time j
through some accident give occasion I
for international unpleasantness." He
then goes oil to say that no one wants
to see Leander the perpetual winner
of the cup and that the pre-eminence
of the club in this respect is doing
great damage to amateur rowing, but
that so long as picked and elaborately 1
trained crews from abroad are admit
ted to the contest Leander is prac
tically compelled to organize ns strong
a crew as possible, even though in so
doing she is compelled to take the best
oars out of competing college boats.
He concludes with the suggestion
that a committee be formed to decide
upon a regular international course,
preferably at Putney, and to provide
every possible inducement to foreign
oarsmen to enter as competitors.
Qoal.fr Walfr Polo.
The University of Pennsylvania is to
have a water polo team. Professor
George Kistler, one of the strongest
professional swimmers in America, will
train the team. He promises to turn
out a good representative team for this
year, with prospects of a better one
next year. Games will be played In
New York with the teams of the New
York and Knickerbocker Athletic dubs.
Thus far Pennsylvania is the first uni
versity to take to water polo as a col
lege sport. Private golf links for the
studeuts have been procured by tin
University of Pennsylvania. These
have lately been completed and will be
used at once.
O'Brien an a Wrmllrr.
.lack O'Brien, the Philadelphia pugil
Ist. at Newcastle, England, recently
took on a husky fellow In a private
wrestling bout. O'Brien's opponent had !
the reputation of being scientific. H*
was strong, too, and Jack's friends pre J
dieted a quick defeat for him. How
ever. the American surprised every one
by throwing his rival.
Mow It la Glared.
it is stated on the authority of a !
Chicago tea merchant that the glaze
on the paper covering of tea chests is
due to a preparation composed prin- j
cipally of the refuse of sharks' fins,
tails aud skins
S THE LOST i
? GOLDMINE?
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V V
V An Inscription In a Lost Language
*•* Tells Where It Is Located. V
V V
This sold'er of fortune w as searching
for some stray asphalt bed In one of
i the wooded wildernesses of Venezuela,
j Accompanied by two native servants,
i a half breed guide and a young com
panion from the States, who knew lit
' tie of roughing it, he had left the dingy
1 old river steamer at the point where
the Caura flows Into the Orinoco and
rowed slowly up the smaller stream In
to the province of Guiana.
Tbe chief adventurer had beard, in
I his rambles among the old inhabitants
i of Caracas, of lakes of bitumen in this
j region which had never been discover
I ed by the all consuming companies
which were creating such disturbance
by their disagreements. This was the
1 land of the Farabena Indians, de
scendants of the ancient Toltecs, quiet
and gregarious. It was probably
through some wandering trapper from
j these Indians that the story of the
| asphalt beds had reached the country
of civilization.
But the chief of the expedition had
I read of the strange discovery of the
! diamond mines of Golconda. of the
gold of the Transvaal, and he was will
ing to risk something to find the hidden
asphalt beds of Venezuela. He and his
companions rowed up tlie Caura for
i three days, camping by night in their
i little boat, as a partial protection
I against the fauna that abounded on
| shore.
On the night of the third day they
i found a clear space by the side of the
stream, and there they decided to land.
They slept that night in their boat
again, but were up early next morn
ing, ready for the explorations of the
day. The boat was snugly moored un
der a clump of trees whose luxuriant
boughs overhung the water, and the
i travelers started out.
The soldier of fortune found that he
was near Mount Chanaro, right in the
heart of the Farabena country. As he
had lreen told that these Indians were
j very docile, like the North American
Lenapes, lie was rather curious than
otherwise to meet one of them. But
he encountered no sign of habitation
or trail on that day. It was all a wild
country, covered with high underbrush
and an abundance of trees. The trees,
however, were not very close together,
and travel was made correspondingly
easy.
It was late in the afternoon. Allison
Glenn and his party were walking
along the mountain side, about a hun
dred yards from where the earth l>e
glns to ascend. No asphalt had been
found. Suddenly the leader of the
party espied a curious projection of
leaves, stone, and dirt rising some six
feet not far ahead.
An examination was made, more as a
matter of curiosity than anything else.
I The dead leaves were brushed away,
| and at one end of this long projection
! there was found a carving that resem
j bled closely the bead of a huge fish.
1 The carving was so accurate that
Glenn made up his mind that tills was
i not a mere freak of nature, and lie
ordered his men to completely uncover
' the rock, for the entire projection ap
peared to be a rock covered over with
the fallen vegetation of years upon
! years.
The sight that met the eyes of the
travelers when all was made bare was
a startling one. It was a carved piece
' of solid stone, some 120 feet long and
: about 4 feet from the ground at the
highest point. The lines of the fish
were carefully reproduced, although
with the hand of an amateur. The
i years that had passed had disintegrat
ed parts of the huge rock, but enough
I was there to make it certain that this
I was the handicraft of human beings.
What was still more convincing of
: the fact that man had been there was
' a iiue of hieroglyphics on one side and
near the head of the fish. These crude
letters closely resembled inscriptions
Glenn had observed on old Toltec re
lics preserved In Caracas. But they
meant nothing to liini then except rtie
' belief that became firmly rooted in his
j mind at once that he had encountered
an unusual mystery.
The next day the adventurers were
early at work clearing away the debris
from around the stone fish, cutting
down the trees and digging into the
surrounding earth. Surely something
must be ill this neighborhood, It was
reasoned. But nothing was found.
Glenn then determined to clear away
the trees and get a good photograph of
the object with the small camera he
carried. This was done.
No trace of asphalt had been found.
; The soldier of fortune, like all his Ilk
i at times of uncertainty, was restless.!
j He longed to have the mystery of |
Mount Chanaro solved, lie decided at
once to return to Caracas and there to
report his curious find.
Glenu was a taciturn, inquiring kind
of fellow. He liked to ask questions,
i but little relished the answering of
them. He had no lutention of making
any formal report of his discovery. He
had little opinion, anyway, of the aris
tocracy of the v 'vnezuelan capital upon
matters of archaeological interest, and
so he determined once again to seek
his old friends of the suburbs of the
town cijaint individuals who lived in
the past, whose language was still
quite as much Indian as Spanish.
Au aged woman had told the story of
the hidden asphalt beds. Glenn thought
she perhaps might know something of
the carved fish. The imperturbable
creature, possessed of the stoicism of
her race, was little surprised appar
ently to mc the adventurer back in
the city so soon.
"Ah. sir. I fear you did not find tb«
lake of tar," she observed in her natlv#
vernacular
"No." Glenn responded, "but there
are other mysteries in that land."
"Yes. yes. senor: it is a strange, weird
country. Long has Mount Chanaro
been shunned."
"Why should thai small mountain b»*
feared by the natives'/" he persisted
It was not long before this line of
inquiry, with no revelation on Glenn's
part of the find he had made, drew
forth from the aged woman one of the
strangest traditions of Venezuelan
folklore She told the story as though
it was a settled part of the history of
her people, a chapter in the life of her
ancestors which was sacred for its an
tiquity and inspiring for the Incentive
it gave to ceaseless search, ceaseless
persistence
Generations ago, she said, there
dwelt near Mount Chanaro a family of
hardy woodsmen, half breeds sons o'
Spanish adventurers, who knew that
jewels were valuable in the world of
commerce, sons of Indian women, not
afraid of the woods, not afraid to light
intruders upon their settlement.
This family was secretive, and when
ariv of lt« members reachyd the fron
tier* li.'iil lit11«* to say of the lands the*
liiiu <•<• m«■ to inhiil>it The family in
creased. ami in lime there was a small
tribe huddled around r 11>* base of the
mountain Tin- Indians who lived
Jleai es| seldom observed these settlers
hunting or fishing. although it was
done occasionall >. Their settlement
\va> developed to an unusual degree,
and slims of civilization wore apparent
at mam pla< <•-.
ll was not lonu lief ore members of
this family began appearing periodical
ly at the month of the Orinoco with
gold nuggets to exchange with foreign
traders for what they wanted at home.
Even in it* undeveloped form this gold
was almost pure. It was sent to civiliz
ed countries and assayed, and all who
examined it pronounced it to lie the
purest gold ever mined.
The ancient Venezuelans heard of
this rich treasure, ami some of them
sought to find out its secret source and
share in the riches it was sure to bring.
But the old family would brook no in
truder. Lines were carefully drawn
and guarded. The gold would goto
market and all who saw it would be
astonished, but no outsider was per
mitted to see the wonderful mine.
Often while on their way to the fron
tier or the mouth of the river, in spite
of all the secrecy and efforts to hide
that might be observed, members of
the family would be attacked and nib
bed. sometimes killed. But the treas
ure continued to How out of that re
gion, seemingly inexhaustible. The
fame of the mine spread abroad, and
the tradition grew that here was the
richest gold mine in the world.
Long years afterward, when the
story of the mine became bettor
known, it was revealed that only a few
members of the old tribe really knew
where the mine was located. The
secret was hidden from all except the
few whose assistance was necessary in
mining the treasure. But the whole
tribe knew that the vein that had been
found was a continuous one, very near
the surface of the earth, and very easi
ly mined.
It was not possible that a great treas
ure of this kind should be heralded
abroad and the cupidity of neighbors
not be excited. It took years for this
to be done to such an extent that the
security of the growing tribe would be
disturbed. But the time came, and all
the resources of the settlement were
necessary to repel the invaders.
But, like the Goths and Vandals, the
invaders continued to come with ever
increasing frequency and strength.
The little tribe was diminishing, and
there were wails in the cabins of the
Gold tribe, as it had come to be called.
The struggle became so fierce that the
boats 110 longer wended their sinuous
way down the Chanaro and the Ori
noco. Lest outsiders should finally
force their way through, the mouth of
the mine was covered up, and every
effort made to destroy trace of it to
all except the initiated.
At last the final struggle came. In
dians broke through the fortifications
that had been erected, and the settle
ment was overrun. Most of the old
tribe were ruthlessly killed, and only
one of the miners survived. He lurked
about the neighborhood for several
days after the massacre had taken
place, saw the homes burned, and saw
the invaders take away gold in great
quantities, for the tribe had used gold
to make the simple necessities of the
hearth and the table.
But the lurking miner saw that the
source of his treasure was not found,
lie saw, too, that the secret marks had
not been discovered, and his heart re
joiced. Then he started on a journey
toward civilization. He now and then
met strange Indians, but successfully
passed by them, in many cases win
ning their friendship. At last he reach
ed the mouth of the Orinoco and told
the story of his travels to the settlers
there. But he would never tell the
story of the mine, nor where it was to
be found.
Every inducement was made to this
old miner to secure the secret of the
mine. But lie said it was the secret of
his tribe, and with that secret lie would
die. Years went by, and the settlers
petted the aged frontiersman, cajoled
him, took every means to prolong his
life in the hope that some day be would
tell the story—that liv would reveal the
sesame that would open the door to the
lost treasure.
But, no. He would tell all but the
thereabouts of that gold. His years
were drawing to an end. One day
death came. Just before the end ar
rived the old miner arose from his
couch, and, grasping a support to hold
him up, exclaimed:
"Find the fish, the fish! Itead it, read
it!"
"The fish?" asked Glenn when the
aged woman had reached this point in
the story, his enthusiasm having been
aroused as the narrative progressed.
"I>id you siy the fish?"
"Yes," she answered, "that was the
dying gasp of the old settler. lie said
no more."
"1 have found It!" exclaimed Glenn.
"I have found it, but 1 cannot read the
•writing. Who can read it? Where can
I find some one that can read it?"
"Ah, sir, that Ido not know. I havt
told you the story of the secret mine.
It is rich beyond all value, and if it
could be found Venezuela would be a
Klondike, a South Africa and a Tali
fornia all in one."
Glenn showed his pictures to the old
woman and asked her if she recognized
the inscription.
"No, signor," she replied; "that is
something like Toltec, but I can't read
it. Perhaps the man who knows that
l&iifiiage is dead too. It was written
years and years ago, you know."
The narrator continued on her story
She said that after the miner's death
adventurers had gone inland to search
for the fish, but had found nothing.
Many of them had caught the fever
and died. In the surrounding country
remains of settlers were found here
and there, people murdered doubtless
by the Gold tribe. Bad luck seemed ti
attend all who sought for the treasure
The search was kept up. Through
out all the country the story went, and
men sought Mount Chanaro to die or t<
come back broken hearted. Finally th*
tradition spread that there were in
fernal agencies at work at the place,
that the hand of fate was against the
finding of the lons lost secret. Mount
( hanaro's name I'ccame an object of
dread throughout all tiic land.
But Glenn was little affected by tlii
superstition, lie admonished the old
woman to keep the secret of his dis
covery, urging her In a small gift of
money. She promised faithfully to d<
it. but said:
"IJenienibe!. sjgnnr that you found
Mount Chanaro b\ chance. Ml who go
there to seek tie gold have met ill
fates Kcnic mix r I his
But the soldiei of fortune, feeling
that great i -!>•- 1 :,\ within his grasp,
begun see! ' _ | 'lis who might be
able to read tie inscription, lie felt
that this wi \v iihoiit doubt contain
ed directions for locating the lost gold
mine But no ;i: h one could be found
In tile Venezuelan capital. Having in
oui'ed of evert one possible he went
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Martin Schweitzer. Mont-onr House Danville, Pa.
to Brazil, inquiring of all the archie
ologists in Rio lie Janeiro, but with no
success, lit* kept the secret of his find
to himself, ••mieavoriiig alone to find
some one to road the writing without
tfliinic them what it was for, l>ut every
where he met with failure.
He stili seeks tlie solution of that
secret. ile lias gone back to Mount
Clianarn ami carefully covered up tin
stone lish. lie lias mule many ad
ditional photographs of it. lie has
come lo the I'nited Stat* s ami visited
college professors and areh'-.logists in
all parts of the country.
"I am sure that this is the secret of
one of the greatest gold mines in the
world." he always says.
"Well, sir." he is encouraged, "the
obelisk of Egypt and the cuneiform
writings of Babylon were read. Per
haps those surrounding your tish may
yet be deciphered." New York Times.
Ren I I e.
A woman happily in love is at her
best. Mwry outward charm has an
added glory, and every potentiality of
her soul, heart, conscience and intellect
is aroused. The plainest so influenced
will appear ..lino>t beautiful, the dull
est gain a kind of wit. the coldest can
be kind. They are transformed, glori
fied. inspired beings.
Kut nal.nv. ironically bountiful to
the suffering sex, metes out her rough
justice, half in jest, to the splendid
one. Men in love labor at once under
every disadvantage. Their judgment is
dethroned, their strength mocks them,
their associates complain of their wan
dering tempers, they get haggard and
feel hunted, they pursue tliei. fairs
and are pursued tile;-.selves as by ail
the devils. A hungry madness ab
sorbs their cr.ergy: they are capable of
any crazy deed. The tit does not last,
but while n does the dangers are mor
tal. This is why men are notoriously
silent in company on the subject of
real love. They fear it. resent it, will
join any conspiracy to keep it away •
from their friends, sons or associates. ,
John Oliver Jlobbcs, in "A Serious;
Wooing."
PillMlxiry'n Wonderful Memory.
Harry N Piilsbury, the chess player,
offered one day In South' Bethlehem, '
I*a., to memorize thirty words, no mat
ter how hard they might be, the selec
tions to be read to him only once.
Professor Merriman of Lehigh uni
versity and l>r. Threlkeld Edwards of
Bethlehem picked out most of the fol- i
lowing words: Antiphlogistiue, peri- 1
osteuni, takadiastase. piasmon, ambro
sia, Threlkeld, streptococcus, stapbc- ;
lococcus. micrococcus. Plasmodium, j
Mississippi, Freiheit. Philadelphia, '
Cincinnati, athletics, no war, Eicbcn
berg, American, Russia, philosophy, ;
Pict-Potgieters-Rost, Salmagundi. Oom j
»illecootsi, Banguiani vato, Scldochter's
Nek, Manzinyama. theosophy, cate
chism, Madjesoomslopa.
Mr. Pillsbury immediately repeated
these words in the order given ami in
the reverse order.
llriilur* mill Itiu Montli*.
All good orators have most abnormal
ly wide mouths. This is the direct con
sequence of their habit of using sono
rous words and speaking with delibt ra
tion and correct pronunciation. If one
practices this before the gla--s one can
see that the inuselcs iu the checks are
stretched more than ordinarily and the
mouth is extended a great deal more
than in everyday conversation. Then,
too, nature has something to do with
it. A large mouth, like a prominent
nose, is a sign of power.
Craba Are I* »i*t»vrri.
Crabs are fighting animals. In fact,
tliey will light anything, says a natu- |
ralist. 1 have seen a crab, in conflict j
with a lobster, catch the latter ovet I
the fore part of the head, where the i
shell is hardest, and crush it in by one j
effort, and it rather beats out my idea I
that the claws of these creatures are;
particularly weapons of war; that the !
moment one of them receives severe in- j
Jury in a claw it drops it off by volun- '
tary amputation, severing its connec- j
tion with the body at the shoulder by
an act of its own will. It seems to me
probable that if the claw were neces
sary for feeding nature would rather I
seek to cure an Injun to it than let the j
animal discard it altogether.
The species of crab which is most J
conspicuously a lighter Is the hermit j
crab, its lirst idea of independent life j
Is to eat a harmless whelk and occupy \
Its shell. Its next notion is to give bat
tie to every crab of the same persua
slon as itself that It comes across. Al
together h» ihi it crabs are undoubtedly
the most quarrelsome creatures In ex
istcnee.
Need Not IVrl l,on<*soi;»r
Rubhcrtou May I inquire what your
business is. strain.' ! - ?
Stianger (haughtily»- Sir. I'm a gen
tleman
Rubberton-Well. I reckon that's a
good business, stranger; but you're not
the only man that'* failed at it. -Chl
rairn
Grain Moved lu Strenmi,
Nowhere in North America will you
come on a more thrilling night scene
than the fresh water cargo tank un
loading at Buffalo, says Rollin Lynde
llartt in The Atlantic. Here she lies
beneath the towering grain elevator,
which thrusts a long pumping pipe
(called the "leg") down through her
hatchway. Mount the gangplank,
dodging the spinning ropes that make
your head reel, stumble about on the
dark deck, look down, down, down
through the open hatch, and, zounds,
what a sight! The hold glows with
electricity. It is misty with blown
dust. It roars with mechanical activ
ity.
An enormous steel "shovel," big as
the inside of a house and manipulated
by countless living ropes, charges back
and forth through the whole length of
the ship, pitching the yellow grain be
fore it and heaping it tip where the leg
can get hold of it to whisk it into the
bin that is somewhere up in the sky.
Beneath, in the liohl, an army of blue
dad men with wooden "scoops" barely
dodge the deadly shovel as they swing
the grain into its path.
Writing a Hook.
The following confession of a novel
ist as to the method in which he wrote
one of his books is not without inter
est. lie had had the story outlined in
his notebook for a long time and ought
to have been able to write it, but did
not feel able. Then one day he hap
pened to think of it again and saw, al
most as if It had been a stage scene,
the little tableau with which the book
was to dose—one of those ends which
■re also a beginning. So he began to
wor; and in a short time had complet
ed t ie first three chapters. Then, for
no reason that he can give, there was a
jump, and lie wrote the chapters which
are now numbered XXI and XXII, the
last in the book. Then he went back
and wrote straight on from IV to XVII.
The story had been with him so long
I that It was the easiest thing in the
j world to write it.and so he got through
this part of the work with remarkable
celerity. In the eighteenth chapter
, nothing happens. Every day for a
fortnight he rose, breakfasted and tried
i to write that chapter; every night he
tore up a big pile of manuscript which
he knew to be hopelessly bad. Then
j he got desperate. The chapter should
be written and should stand, whether
good or bad. He wrote it and left the
house because it was bad and he had
i resolved not to tear it up. Next day
he wrote chapter XIX, and on the mor
row he rewrote chapter XVIII and
somehow or other contrived to get into
i it all that he had failed to get before.
Then lie wrote chapter XX, and the
book was completed.—London Post.
Marr lo n Pillow.
There is in this city a young man
| v.'iio sleeps on a pillow that Is one foot
square and only four inches thick,
pillow that resembles a pancake. He
has used it ever since he was a baby.
When, at the age of twelve, he entered
St. Paul's school, he took it all the way
to New Hampshire with him, and
when he entered Harvard he took it to
Cambridge also. Starting on his wed
ding journey, ho carried it in his suit
case. When he went abroad, the pil
low went along. And now, when he is
tweiity-tivo. he is more attached to the
tiny thing than ever and will take it on
the briefest trips—on trips of a day,
say, to New York or on trips over night
to the country houses of his friends.
He says that hi' has not once slept on
anything but tliipillow since he was
; seven years old. Philadelphia Record.
Sudneftft K\pin I ned.
I In Liverpool recently a sentimental
I young lady was on the Cunard steam
j ship quay when she saw a young girl
| sitting on a trunk in an attitude of ut
| ter dejection and despair.
"Poor thing!" thought the romantic
j lady. "She is probably alone and a
stranger. Her pale cheeks and great,
sad eyes tell of a broken heart and a
yearning for sympathy." So she went
over to the traveler to win her confi
dence.
"Crossed in love?" she asked sympa
thetically.
"No," replied the girl, with a sigh,
"crossed in the Servia. and an awfully
rough passage too."—Tit-Bits.
I In* llctort Conrfeou*.
A story oft told is that of Lord ,
who when a young man was opposing
Mr. Sugden, subsequently lord chancel
lor of England, iu a parliamentary con
test. "He's the son of a country bar
ber," said the noble lord.
Replying afterward, Mr. Sugden said:
"His lordship has told you that 1 am
nothing but the son of a country bar
ber, but he has not told you all, for 1
have been a barber myself and worked
in my father's shop, and all I wish to
say about that Is that had his lordship
been born the son of a country barber
he would have been a barber still. That,
to my mind, is quite clear."—Household
Words,
Olli'trt' llrilcr-.
! An old N' I, . farmer was walk
! lug out one •: 100 lag very glnni and
j miserable. Me v a typical York
! ulilreinaii. i il 1. '1 ally loved a joke,
j But joke- ,ae i a long way oil' just
! then, and the old man was thinking
1 deeply when lie \\ as aci sted l»y a
tramp, who made the usual request for
a night's lodjzinu and something to
eat. as lie explained he had had noth
ing for two whole days. The effect
upon Hie larnn r when lie said this was
magical
"Why, man." lie said, "I've been look
ing for you all day."
And then without more ado he
knocked him down and walked on him
from one end to the < '':> >• The tramp
got up, locking \« • s(a:_'ied, and
asked iiini why he had done that.
"Well," >. 1 he, "1113* doctor has or
dered me to walk on an empty stomach,
and now that I have fulfilled his in
junction 1 can go and have a good feed,
and you can come with uie." London
Answers.
Bowleacefl Sailors.
Sailors are a how legged elass. An
old salt always walks as it he were on
the deck of a ship, and he never takes
great strides like a landsman. He is
used to having te walk great distances,
in his imagination, on the quarter deck,
and he can't get rid of the habit of
making the most of liis promenade.
The Sponjre.
The sponge reproduces its kind main
ly by eggs. In each animal are con
tained both the male and the female
elements, and it throws out the ova to
be hatched in the water. At first the
young are free swimming, and after
ward they* attach themselves to con
venient spots and grow.
Where She Differed From Paul.
A Scotch clergyman calh <1 upon a
parishioner not long since, an old wom
an who was not blessed with many
virtues, but who possessed a very vu
ried assortment of vices, lie took the
latter as a text for a sermon and spoke
to her at consult" ible length upon the
subject, concluding with some extracts
from one of St. Paul's epistles which
he felt to be apropos.
She didn't speak for several minutes
after he had finished, and he thought
that lie had made an impression upon
her at last. lie was mistaken, how
ever, for she suddenly turned round
with the remark: "Humph! That's
just where I'aul and I have differed
these ten years."
' The argument was not continued.
lie;* Cray or.
The liuflalo .Nev 'ejis a story of a
four-year-old girl is spending a
night away froi At bedtime
she knelt at her I knees to say*
her praycrs.expeetii • sual prniupt
i ing. Finding M able to help
I her out, she cone thus: "Please,
God, 'sense me; I : remember my
' prayers, and I'm >.ving with a lady
• | that don't know any."
Cunliliik ll>e Ccrnniliulatnr.
Mrs. Haskins—l saw your husband
» today in a bicycle suit. 1 didn't think
you'd let him ride,
r Mrs. Strougniind M,\ dear, that was
\ not a bicycle suit, although it might
I properly be called a "wheeling suit."
i You see, 1 want him to be appropriate
ly garbed when lie takes baby for an
- airing.—Philadelphia Press.
1 ! After the Hall.
t ' She—How nice to be at home again!
1 What a crowd there was! 1 don't sup
pose Mt\ l'.ankier knew one-half of his
, guests.
He—Didn't he. though! Why. he had
four detecti\*f sin evening clothes there.
1 —Life.
I!in I nlurky Day,
Ilarduppe Wigwag is rather super
stitious. isn't he?
P.orrowell Well, lie refused to ae
commodate with si loan this morn
ing because it was Friday.—l'hiladel
I phia Record.
Eczema for
;i Forty Years.
The Unqualified Statement of a Wei
Known A-.torney, St tgnace, Mich.
Some of the cures made bv Dr. A. W.
Chase's Ointment of stubborn and long con
tinuad eczeni.i and skin diseases are causing
jjsgh. much com men t.
People are begin
TV 11 il iS D ' nS t0 rea ' lze
i this Ointment is s
TV ti? wonder worker with
i + 1 all kinds of skir
trouble. At tome)
* Jas. J. Brown, St
" j fhM~- < 'cm • ,ce Mich, « jan
' JP writes as follows
WtV\>V.% il? . £ I)r A NV . t has.
■ Med Co. Buffalo
tS?. j N. Y. —Cents I
t lC 11 -°" ' ' cannot refrain fron
i expressing my acknowledgment for the rehe!
e I have felt from IJr Chase's Ointment. Foi
40 years I was afflicted with a skin disease
j j which was located in one spot—on my leg.
i 1 have spent at a rough estimate five hun
( I dred dollars trying to effect a cu>e ana not
' ! until I applied this ointment did I tet relief.
(> You are s'rangers to me and this letter i«
prompted direetly because 1 want to sa/ and 1
t feel as though I ought to say it. That
Chase's Ointment has effected a complete
s, cure ol my affliction. Three boxes did ihe
work on my leg. I was also suffering fron
itching piles and applied the ointment wh ch
' gave the best of satisfaction bv affording me
rest at night and rapidly causing the disease
t to disappear. 1 have received such rehel
and comfort from the ointment that I cannot
1 withhold expressing my gratitude. I was sc
long afflicted with the tortures of eczema I
feel now that 1 ain cured, a word of recom
mendation is due from me.
Yours truly,
JAS. J. BROWN.
' Dr. Chase's Ointment is sc Id at 50 cents a
box at all dealersor Or A. NV. Chase's Aledi
-1 cine Co., lh'.tlalo, X. V.
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HINTS FOR FARMERS
SpravliiK I'otatopN.
The effect of spraying potato s for
blisht and rot has been strikingly
shown by results obtained at the Ver
mont experiment station this year,
says the New England Homestead.
Tliis station insists that proper spray
ing hacked up by proper cultivation
will protect the potato crop from these
diseases, and continued experiments |
(imi field trials covering a period of ten
years have proved this beyond a doubt.
The potato fields at the station during
the latter part of September, when
most vines were dead and many fields
alr-ady dug. were as green and grow-
T T »*r ;is at any time during July or Au- !
gust, and it is claimed that they were i
making potatoes at the rate of twenty- i
five to thirty bushels per week for each
acre.
Ilrnt Time In Move Bees.
Tb" best time to move bees Is in the I
early winter before the weather has j
been cold enough to make the combs I
brittle, so that they will break in ban- <
dllng, or in a warm day near the spring
before the bees begin to fly out. Thus !
it follows that one who buys bees j
should have those times to move them, j
If they are moved In the summer, the
combs are liable to melt down, and if
in the honey season unless taken sev
eral miles the old bees are likely tore- :
turn to the old location when the} - take j
their first flight. The closing of the !
entrance is best done with wire net- !
ting which allows of ventilation. Move
with as little jar or shaking of the
hive as possible.
Pure Bred Sto"'c Pari.
The high prices pure bred live stock
has sold for of recent years have con
vinced farmers more than ever that the
keeping of pure bred stock pays, says
Farm and Home. Little can now be
said of the scrub, while the pure bred
commands phenomenal prices. The one
costs but little more than the other to
raise, but the results in quality of car
cass or for breeding put the raising cf
scrubs out of the question with the in
telligent feeder. Many have begun a
valuable herd with only two or three
animals, increasing the number as cir
cumstances would warrant. This is a
safe way to do, especially by the Inex
perienced.
Beet*.
Table beets to keep well should b«
kept cool and moderately moist. They
will stand hard frosts without mate
. rial damage, but should not freeze.
They may be left in the ground as late
as possible and the danger of over
growth and cracking open will permit.
They can be pitted out of dnors nicely
in dry elevations iu piles two to four
feet high or about three feet wide and
high anil as long as liked, same as po
tatoes. To keep in the cellar it should
i be cool, and they can be placed In tiers,
barrels, etc.. or in piles on the floor and
cover with sand to keep in moisture,
as th?y tend to dry out and shrivel.
Tobacco For the Hennery.
If one put a four ounce package of
[ the fine cut smoking tobacco in every
: hen's nest in the poultry house at a
i cost of "> cents a nest, it would prob
i ably prove a good investment in help
ing to drive out lice and mites, says
American Cultivator, but if there is a
lar«;e hennery the tobacco stem or a
i tobacco dust that can be bought at al
most any of the agricultural ware
-1 houses at from 3 to 5 cents a pound,
and much cheaper if one goes directly
to the cigar manufacturers, will serve
an equally good purpose at much less
cost.
Tlit* IIor««* Outlook.
There seems to be bright prospects
before horse breeders, notwithstanding
the mechanical contrivances designed
1 to supplant the noble beast, says Farm
and Ranch. Wars have caused the sac
! rillce of hundreds of thousands of
horses and mules, and their places
must be supplied by breeders. There is
an increasing demand from the cities,
and teams are said to be scarce on
farms. Nest year there will be good
feed and plenty of it, and every vacan
cy will demand a horse to fill it
Benelltn of Fnll I'lowlnn.
Fail plowing is to be commended not
only because it makes plant food al
ready contained in the soil more availa
ble for next year's crop, but stores up
much more rainfall as well, says a New
York farmer. Thus the land is putin
better condition to withstand drought
during the ne*t season than if it had
remained unplowed through the winter.
Tbe land Is also ready for replowing
much earlier Iu the spring.
The RTTIH Barrel.
The swill barrel Is the source of
much of the trouble with hogs. As it
is seldom or uever cleaned it soon be
comes reeking with putrid, filthy mat
ter and infested with countless millions
of germs. Many of the so called cases
of hog cholera could be traced to the
old swill barrel Keep the swill In cov
ered buckets, feed it out each day and
treat the pails frequently to scalding
water.
Time to Spread Manure.
The best most economical way to
use manure is to spread It where want
ed after the hot weather Is past and
before the ground Is frozen, says a
Massachusetts, farmer in New Eng
land Homestead. 1 do not like to see
it spread on the frozen ground and
snow. There must be too often a great
loss by washing and drying ere It can
be absorbed by the ground.
Clover Hajr For llo**.
At this season and a little later, when
protein food is difficult to secure, well
cured clover hay cut fine and mixed
with swill or moist ground feed is ex
cellent. If fed warm, so much the bet
ter. Hogs eat it readily.
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