8TILL A BOY. "BtiU a boy" we heard one say To another, hall In jest. Then fun-wrinkles joined In play With a lai'sh of merry xest; And the Joi y frame or him Bhook with burets of sheerest joy Am he answered back with vim. "Well, I'm glad I'm still a boy!" Btltl a boy aye, true enouprh Glad, yet gentle; pure and kind; Voided sure of ninnly stuff Ktnd of boy It's hard to find. Kind of boy It's icood to see Man-boy, wholesome; simple; true Kind of boy you'd libo to lm If the choice were left to you. Still a boy how many now Have forgot the solemn eye Bave forgot the wrinkled brow Is the boy's that once came byT Call him back It Is his due; Let him come with youth and Joy Back Into the heart of you, Laughingly, and still a boy. Btill a boy ah, well-n-day, Boys -are scarce enough at best. With the rippling roundelay Let the boy still be your guest; Let him cleave unto your heart In boy-confidence and hold Still a boy the man apart, Long long after he Is old. -Frank Bates Flanner, In The Reader. t 1 1 1 I II H 1 1 1 I l4 t II "Jl Grizzly. B HERBERT CODLIDGE. 1 One of the minor "cattle kings" of California bears the title of "Clover Leaf" Johnson. The neat mark of his brand, the conventionalized clover leaf, Is indelibly seared on the flanks of two thousand cattle that range over the mountains and deserts of three large counties. It Is my good fortune to have met Johnson and to bave heard from him the following story of the days when the clover-leaf brand was young: "The proudest hour of my life was when I sat on a horseshoe keg and watched a blacksmith as, with deft Manipulation of Are and hammer and nvil, he fashioned the original clover af brand. I told the smith to spare (either time nor expense in its mak ing, and the figure came out with thin, even edges, and as true as a die in outline. Then, by indiscernible weld ing, it was made the end of a three foot rod, the other extremity of which was bent to form a handhold. The finished product was suited for long, hard service, and, what Is also of im portance, was one that would brand cattle without mutilation and with a minimum of burning. "The next day I started for the high mountains with five hundred cattle, Which I was running on shares. Every fourth calf was to be my own, and be fore the season was over a number of the small fry were wearing the clover leaf. "Duplicating the graceful Imprint of my iron gave me such pleasurable thrills that in the long waits between calves, I sometimes fell to decorating the lightning-scarred trees and fallen logs about my camp. "The other cow-men called my at tention to this weakness by roughshod and well-taken jests, and have ever Blnce called me Clover Leaf Johnson. Aa this name was also given to dis tinguish me from my nearest neigh bor, whom they called Cattle Thief lohnson, I did not In the least object to the title. ., . "Some of my jocular friends de tlared I put several brands on each talf, although this I denied emphati cally. Before returning to the foot hills that fall, however, I did go to Just such an extreme of 'art for art's take' under conditions that were somewhat unusual. ' "The cattle I was running were al lowed to roam at will over the moun- , tains, and my principal business, after getting them 'haunted, was to keep the salt-licks filled and to look out for animals that were sick or crippled. Late one evening I found a cow and a steer that seemed to have been torn by some wild animal, and with the In tention of treating their wounds the text day, I ran them into a corral fiat had been built near the huge lone ak under which I camped. "Before dawn the following morn tig I was busy cooking breakfast rhea a pitiful bawling arose from the to'rral. Thinking that one of the cow brutes was goring the other, I seized my branding-iron, which happened to be the only weapon near at hand, and trashed to the rescue. "I could not see what was happen ing inside the., enclosure, as the stock ade was of logs piled five feet high'; but without hesitation I vaulted, clear ing the top log neatly under the cir cumstances far too neatly, for as my legs swung downward I caught sight of the unoffending' steer cowering In the farther corner, 'and not fifteen feet from the spot where' I must alight the Cow lay prostrate and bleeding, with big grizzly walking round her. "Ordinarily 1 am not a scatterwit, Wut on this occasion I certainly at tempted a backward leap from a foun dation of light, mountain air, and in consequence, landed fiat on my back,. With arms and legs sprawling. "My plight demanded action ' swift and strong, for the moment I hit the (round the grizzly made for me with Just such an up-and-over hop as a spider executes when jumping a fly. Just how I evaded his charge I could never say. I know only that I got out f the corral very quickly, and with the bear close behind, raced for my one oak, "The lower limbs of this old glunt branched some five or six feet above my head, and the great girth of the trunk offered little hope of ascent by the 'shinning' process. I should cer tainly bave become meat for the grizz ly had It not been for the branding Iron, which I had forgotten to drop, n the thought that I might kook tbf handle end over a stub which pro jected at the bas of the lowest branch. "The claws and teeth In the im mediate rear heartened me for the leap of my life. I was fortunate enough to book the snag with a sin gle carefully timed sweep of the Iron, and with no noticeable pause in my upward flight, I ascended to a foothold in the crown of the tree. ! "The grizzly, although falling back into an awkward heap from his first spring at my receding legs, seemed uuwtlling to admit that he was not a tree-climber; and spreading himself out like a flying squirrel against the broad trunk, he dug bis huge claws into the rough bark and began inching bis way upward. "The tree leaned from the direction of the prevailing winds, and this, with the bear's great teal and strenuous application, gave some premise of his attaining his ambition in spite of natural disadvantages. He became quite encouraged over his prospects; but when he had climbed a couple of feet, I reached down and hit him a clout over the head with the hand hold of my iron. The stout rod re bounded from the blow as if the old fellow's hide were made of India-rubber, but It affected his temper violent ly, and with a guttural snarl, he dropped all holds, and promptly slid to the ground. "We played this game until high noon. The grizzly could not resist the Impulse to return buffet for clout, and upon every withdrawal of his fore hooks he dropped back to mother earth, always landing In a sitting posture, with a bump so harsh that his teeth would rattle. "Finally he took a recess, and after Btlrrliig about my camp for a while, ate dinner for us both. Everything he did not eat he tore to pieces or overturned. Flour, bacon, bedding, beans, stock salt, dried fruit and sugar he "pied' with grave satisfaction, ignoring completely the wild whoops and the lively war-dance with which I strove to divert him. "Then, as if with the thought of settling his dinner, he reclined on his bulging side, and watched me with languid interest while I took up my belt a couple of holes and wondered how long it would be before I got an other square meal myself. 'For me nothing clears the brain like fasting, and after an hour of si lent contemplation, I began to work out a scheme which promised a neat combination of business and pleasure. First I procured some dry branches and built a lively fire in the saddle shaped crotch of two gigantic limbs. Then I climbed out to where a storm twisted branch threw out a luxjrtant growth of new shoo., and cut a couple of stout staves six feet in length. One of these I whittled to a sharp point at the tapering end; the other I lashed to the handle of the branding-iron by means of my leather belt and some buckskin strings which f found In my pocket. "By this time the fire had a good foundation of coals, in which I bedded the clover leaf. While I waited for the iron to heat, I offended the teclin Ing grizzly by pelting him with chunks of oak bark, and when he came protesting to the base of the oak, by some vigorous digs with the pointed staff. Upon this, he took up the cares of the world again, aspiring, as before dinner, to become a tree- climber. "But I caused him to defer the pre liminary trunk-grappling effort by vigorous prods with the sharp stick. Then, as he reared in a great rage to threaten and parry, I let him chew and claw the staff for a moment, while I thrust the branding-Iron un der his guard, slapped the glowing clover leaf on his breast, and held it firmly an instant, while the over heated metal settled through his shaggy coat. "It was a very much discomfited and outraged grizzly that withdrew from the dense little cloud of slnged halr smoke. As he backed about, angrily spitting out bits of the splin tered staff and examining his fore quarters in grave amazement, I ob served with keen delight that the clover leaf had taken splendidly. The imprint centered his broad, tawny breast, and was as true and as trim as a die. Never to my eyes had It looked half so Imposing. " 'One more before you leave me! One more to match It from below!" I shouted, and proceeded to rekindle my fire and the grizzly's tree-climbing ardor. . - " "In this latter I found considerable difficulty, as the branding Incident seemed to have Imbued the old fellow with deep-rooted diffidence. 'A full half-hour of pelting with sticks and bark was required to draw him within reach of my prod, although once this was accomplished, he speedily" became lost In a ferocious craving for revenge. So overwrought was be with this base passion that he shortly found himself backing out from the fumes of burnt hair again. "Now he bore on bis breast two of my symbols of ownership, placed per pendicularly and stem to stem. So high did my enthusiasm run Wat I de termined to add one at each side, thinking thus to complete a design in which four clover leaves radiated from a common center. The grizzly, how ever, would have none of it A long season of futile effort, attended by a painful gnawing In the region where my breakfast and dinner should have been, made me decide to send him back to his haunts without further decoration. "When I descended to put this plan into execution, the big brute scared me nearly to death by throwing tuji self Into a tremendous bristle and making a furious charge. He did not really mean It, however, for he wav ered as he Beared me, and upon my leaping forward and extending the glowing clover leaf, reversed ends with astonishing alacrity,, and wonder fully tore up the earth between me and the nearest clump of timber. "That was the last I ever saw of my grizzly In the flesh, but ten years later, when looking for cattle that had drifted a hundred miles off their range, I had an opportunity of closely examining my handiwork on his hide. It came about through a settler's noticing the brand on my horse. "'Is that your Iron?" he inquired. "Oh my answering affirmatively, he invited me Into his cabin, saying that he had something to show me. There, covering half the floor, spread the pelt of a grizzly bear which bore the dou ble sign of the clover leaf. Thinking to have some fun at my host's ex pense, I shook him warmly by the hand, saying: "'That's my irony all right You're an honest man, and I'm right glad to know you. I will take the hide, of course, and In the circumstances w''l agree to say nothing at all about the meat.' "The settler scratched his head some time before answering. " 'That was a good word you said about my being an honest man. I sup pose I can say the same for you?' " 'Yes, sir!' I replied. " 'AH right, then, here is your hide. You will owe me something for dam ages, though. Your bear pulled down six of my cow brutes, killed fifteen hogs, and busted open thirteen bee hives.' " 'Prove your losses and I'll stand them,' said I, somewhat faintly. " 'That's a go,' agreed the stealer, promptly, and then proceeded with great gravity to enumerate the losses of his neighbors. Finally, noting the length my face was assuming, he burst out laughing. " 'How about it? Hadn't we setter say that the bear was wild and the hide Is mine?' " 'Yes,' I replied. 'You keep the hide.' "Youth's Companion. ADDS SPLEEN TO LIST OF FOODS. Boston Physician Declares Hitherto Discarded Organ Is Edible. Declaring that red blood corpuscles come from the spleen and also an nouncing that spleens are edible, Dr. Edward T. Williams, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, believes he has found the means of adding 60,000, 000 pounds to the nation's annual meat supply, which should mean a saving of 15,000,000 a year. His dis covery, he believes, makes It possi ble for the poor to obtain meat at a cost not exceeding ten cents a pound. Dr. Williams was graduated from the Harvard Medical school In 1865, and several years ago gave up rt profita ble practice to engage in original re search. In humble rooms, In Dudley street, be has lived as a recluse, de voting his time to study and experi menting. Speaking of hia work to one of the few persons who ever gained admit tance to his quarters, he said: "In the work I have been carrying on I have made is in regard to the spleen, for I have found that it Is this organ which makes the red blood cor puscles. "While this may be a matter of con siderable interest to physicians and specialists, still what is of far greater importance to the average man or wo man Is that I have discovered spleens are good to eat, and extremely palata ble when fresh. The average spleen contains 3-4 of a grain of iron and 1 1-2 grains of phosphorus per ounce, which makes it the richest possible food and particularly valuable in cas es of Impoverished bloods or nervous debility.' "The spleen is really the iron gland of the body, and contains more phos phorus than any other organ with the exception of the brain. I ate my first spleen about five years ago and found It quite palatable. "The reason spleens have never be come an article of commercial value in the beef industry Is because they spoil so quickly. There is little use In placing them on ice, for after a few hours they seem to disintegrate and fall apart, and consequently are not marketable." Dr. Williams has found, however, that spleens can be kept like other meat if the albumen In them Is first coagulated by cooking. Ho says he if negotiating with a sausage manufac turer' to put spleen on the market put up like sausages. Boston correspon dence of the New 'York Herald. Advice to a Lawyer. A young man from the South who, a few years ago, was so fortunate ns to be enabled to enter the law offices of a well known New York firm was first intrusted with a very simple case. He was asked by the late. James C. Carter, then a member of the firm, to give an opinion In writing. When this was submitted, it waj noticed by Mr. Carter that, with the touching confidence of a neophyte, the young Southerner bad begun with the expression, "I am -learly-of the opin ion." When this caught his eye, fie smiled and said: "My dear young friend, never state that you are clearly of opinion on a law point. The most you can hope to discover Is the preponderance of the doubt." -Success. Didn't Know. Hostess: Let's have a game of bridge. You play, don't you. Miss Oreenley?" Miss Greenley: "Well, really, 1 don't know. You see, I've never tried " Cleveland Plain Dealer. New ' York City. The tasteful breakfast jacket Is one of the most aatlsfactory garments any woman can possess. It means comfort aa well as daintiness during the morning hours; It affords relief from the high collar and cuffs of the regulation shirt waist and If well selected is apt to to be ex tremely becoming. This one can be made as Illustrated, with the V- shaped neck and elbow sleeves, or I high with a sailor collar and long sloeves so that It becomes adapted both to present needs and to the fu ture colder days. As illustrated, the material is Indian linen with the yoke of tucking and trimming of embroid ery, but there are a great many sim ilar washable materials that are liked by women who prefer such at all sea sons of the year, while there are also Innumerable light-weight flannels, albatross, cashmere and the like, that also are well adapted to the design. For the present and for many weeks to come pretty dimities, lawns, wash silks and the like, are perhaps to be preferred to everything else, but the time of cooler weather Is approach ing, and when it shall have arrived wools will be in demand. Trimming is always a matter of taste, and any pretty heavy lace or banding can be substituted, or narrow banding can be UBed as shown in the small view. The jacket is made with the full pointed yoke, and a plain hack. It can be gathered at the waist line and finished with a belt or can be ad justed by means of a belt of ribbon as In this instance. The sleeves are of moderate fullness. Those of elbow length are finished with Btralght bands over which the embroidery is arranged, while the long ones are gathered into deeper, shaped cuffs. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three yards twenty-seven or thirty-two or two yards forty-four Inches wide with three-eighth yard of tucking and one Pink Carnation as Trimming. Spikes of creamy pink carnations, looking so natural that one could al most catch a whiff of their fragrance, were used In the trimming of one hat, and a huge mushroom leghorn shown by the same importer had a scarf and back bow of very broad light blue ribbon, and at intervals around the crown stiff bunches of wood violets, primly encircled by their foliage, nestled among the su't folds of the scarf. and three-quarter yards of embroid ery to make as illustrated; three and three-quarter yards twenty-seven or thirty-two or two and one-quarter yards forty-four Inches wide to make with sailor collar and long sleeves. Fancy Dlouse Waist. The fancy blouse is always in de mand and la ever taking on fresh and fascinating forms. This one is dis tinctly novel and is adapted to all the pretty materials of the Incoming sea son. It would be equally charming In light-weight silk and wool, and, as we are promised an increased number of both, it will find many uses. In the illustration chiffon taffeta Is stitched with beldlng silk, and is combined with lace, while the edges are piped with very narrow velvet, the color being one of the new orchids that are constantly Increasing in fa vor. Marquisette, Telling and all similar materials are, however, quite as appropriate as the silk and either lace, embroidered net of some pretty light weight contrasting plain mate rial can be used for the chemisette and under sleeves. The blouse is made with a fitted lining on which the yoke, the front and the back are arranged. There are tucks at the shouldors, and there are box pleats that extend for full length at front and back, these last terminating in points and being ar ranged in novel fashion in combina tion with straps of the material. The double sleeves make a notable fea ture and are eminently graceful. The quantity of material required for the medium ' size Is three and three-quarter yards twenty-one, three and one-quarter yards twenty seven, one and five-eighth yards forty four Inches wide, with two yards of all-over lace. A Black Costume. Quite economical and extremely ef fective is a fine black Russian net dress trimmed with stripes or broad black taffeta ribbon, and the same idea may as well be executed In col ored net and colored taffeta ribbon. Cutaway Coat. One of the favorite coat models Is a short cutaway, with a lengthening tall in the back extending eighteen Inches below the waist line, 5QENC A learned man of London, In at tacking tho recurring ambidexterity craze, says that this accomplishment 1b quite common among Idiots," and ttat it is quite natural that weli-bal-anced persons should use one limb more than the other. California pear, apple, plum and cher ry trees are a success at the German agricultural experiment station at Tslngtau in the Kincbow (German colony) territory of China. Shantung province may yet be one of the great fruit gardens of the world. An electrical generator in a smelt ing plant at West Jordan, Utah, is said to have been in constant operation, 21 hours a ray, for nearly four years and a half, with a single interruption, which was due to a broken pulley, for which the generator was in no way responsible. More than 100 Instances of the lm-" portant Influence on history of weather in war time have been collected by Richard Bentley of the Royal Meteor ological society. Wind, fog, rain snow, hall, thunder storms, heat and cold have all materially affected inva sions, battles, retreats and other op erations. Considerable lead has been found In the ice cream, fruit ices, etc., sold In. Rome. The receptacles used in freez ing are lined with an alloy of lead and tin, and this not only dissolves n the ice cream but particles are rubbed off" in turning the freezer. An Italian, chemist, proving the presence of these metals with copper, conclndes that lead poisoning accounts for much of the digestive troubles of the ice cream sea son. Mars possesses about one-half the earth's diameter and one-seventh Its. volume. It Is some 140,000,000 mlles from the sun, and consequently at a mean distance of nearly 50,000,000 miles from us. It .receives less than one-half the sunlight and heat a square foot that we do; has an atmosphere less dense than purs, and possesses water and ice. Th& planet exhibits two ice caps at Its poles, ar-.d orango and greenish tints between thess poles. At the recent exposition of the French Society of Physics exhibitions, were given of an Ingenious combina tion of the phonograph with the cine matograph, whereby the figures upon the screen were caused to go through all the motions of singing, while the sounds Issued concordantly from the phonograph, so that the Illusion was astonishingly complete. Similar com binations have been made before, but seldom with so much attention to de tails. The apparatus employed la--called the chronophone. MOTORS vs. HORSES. Their Relative Value In Military Ser vice. The relative merits of motors and horsed vehicles for the requirements of army transport and for employment as heavy baggage wagons have been studied with great care abroad, and repeated trials of special motors have been made under tho conditions like ly to occur In actual warfare in the open field. As tho result of these teBts certain necessary structural al terations have been formulated Involv ing bright off tV.e ground for crossing, ditches and ploughed fields and ex ceptional strength in the frame, as also the rck of spare gear needed, with other essential conditions for sijc'a purposes. It has, we believe, bui definitely determined that as weight carriers motor wagons are for army purposes greatly superior 'to horsed vehicles, especially In hilly country and over very rough ground. Colonel the Right Hon. Sir J. H. A. Macdonald has recently been discuss ing the use of motors for the convey ance of troops in war time, and he has given some striking illustrations of the advantages gained over railway transport under certain circumstanc es. He selected Dorking for the point of concentration and taking an ordi nary train traveling between London, and Dorking, the period occupied In the journey Is set down In the time table at an hour an J twenty minutes. He asserted that a motor vehicle could cover the distance, "driven with care and consideration," in one hour and a quarter; the motor could then return light to London In an hour and five minutes, and could repeat this performance many times In the day. Assuming that the 1500 motor omni buses that will shortly be available in London could be pressed Into the transport service, each of which could cover this distance In two hours and ten minutes and make six double journeys of this length, he showed that with the modest unit of loal of thirty men per vehicle this fleet of omnibuses could convey 270,000 men over the distance between London and Dorking In. thirty hours, leaving the railways free for cavalry, artil lery and bulk material, as also for or dinary traffic. London Times Engin eering Supplement. Agasslz and "Bird'a-Eye View." On one occasion a person entered Prof. Agasslz's" room with a picture which he desired to sell, denominated a "Bird's-Eye View of Cambridge." The f professor contemplated it for a mo ment, lifted his eyes, looked at the vendor of the picture, and said with his characteristic accent: "Well, I thank God sat I am not a bird." Boa ten Evening Transcript
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