GOIN'
What's the ose o' fretting
'Cause yer sun ii lettiu'
In the sky?
'Ain't the cut-tin' risia' ,
On t most surprisin'
Scene up high?
Dan' get there a'weepin'
'Cause yer feet are creepin',
Once van apry;
Boon they'll be a-boundin
To the music soundin'
Glad and nigh.
-Louise
CHANG, "BALLYHOO" AND
"BALLYHOO'S" WAISTCOAT
M By ARTHUR E.
' This la the story of a new elephant
act. Chang was the elephant a
lank, big-boned, huge-eared, good
natured African, who bad been
caught In a trap-hole, when a calf,
on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. He did
Cot appear In the ring, but be did ap
pear in the parade and In the news
papers. For every "big show" with
any self-respect possesses an elephant
which Is positively "the largest ele
phant on earth." And with the
Jungling Brothers' Show that ele
phant was Chang.
. "Ballyhoo" Jackson a "ballyhoo
man" Is one who has once acted as a
"lecturer" for the side-show was
Chang's keeper, walked beside him in
the procession, saw that he ate and
drank all that was good for him, and
lept with him in "the monster, spe
cially constructed private car" at
night.
In the case of most big elephants
this would have been a good deal of a
bore, for in the main they are likely
to be stupid. But Chang was not
tupld. He had two mightily up
swelling, gray-black bulges on the
top of his cranium, like the gun-turrets
of a battleship in their war-
Yintnr TT hnrl tho vnpflnt BtinoA fnr
education; he had an elephant's nat
ural desire for It, and Ballyhoo be
gan to give It to him.
But he -did not teach him any of
those foolish fancy trick which take
the public eye. Other largest ele
phants on earth might be taught to
push baby carriages and carry doll
parasols. Ballyhoo aimed to give
Chang a chance to show that he pos
sessed the kind of brain one actually
thinks with. So he taught him how
to line up the four-ton pole wagons,
and "tote" ring banks, and load "Old
Hundred" which is the wagon that
carries the quarter-poles, and the
heaviest of them all.
But the thing to which Ballyhoo
really pointed with pride was this:
He had taught Chang how to warm
and ventilate that "monster, specially
constructed private car." At least,
Chang had come to comprehend that
When the air began to feel raw and
chilly, he had only to stuff the fan
light with some old sacking Diled in
the corner. And when It grew un
comfortably hot, he had only to take
the sacking out again. The sight of
Chang doing that tickled Ballyhoo
mightily. This was In the Eastern
States, where It was never very hot
or cold that summer, anyway. But
When there was a change of tempera
ture. Ballyhoo called on everybody to
come and see.
If Chang was slow In noticing the
change himself, Ballyhoo would re
mark, "Ah, Chang, old pardner, don't
you think It's gettin' a bit eneezy in
here?" Whereupon Chang would
tart for the sacking at once.
r And for the rest of that day Bally
hoo would go round shaking hands
With people he was not acquainted
with. "Did you see that? Did you?
Tchck! And It's Just the result of
teachin' an elephant somethln' that
It's worth his while to know."
Only there is this to remember.
When you have taught an elephant
anything, he Is never going to forget
It. Indeed, the elephant that ever
forgot anything would be a curiosity
among all his tribe. If, moreover,
you have once appealed to his sense of
pure reason, you need never try to go
back on it. If, again, what he has
learned Is something in the way of
useful information, he Is going to put
In hours of spare time reflecting upon
the advantages of that useful in
formation. He is going to act accord
ingly for all time to come. Nor need
you ever expect him to do the con
trary. ' The summer after that, the Jung
ling Brothers' Show was billed to
close Its season in Seattle. It spent
two months in swinging back and
forth across the plains. It loitered
for another month below the foot
hills. And then one night it began,
In a long two days' "Jump," to climb
the Divide.
V About 3 o'clock the next morning,
from his shake-down In the corner,
Ballyhoo heard Chang moving rest
lessly about. Opening an eye, he saw
that he had begun to stuff that sack
ing Into the fanlight. And that
pleased Ballyhoo even more than It
had done In the beginning.
. "For, "Shivering shakes," he
thought, "we've only started up the
climb! And this Is sure going to be
:the coldest thing in refrigerator-cars
before we're rolling down again! It
' comes Just the way I told them all.
If I hadn't showed Chang, I'd have to
be rustlin' out and shuttin' that lan
. light myself!"
, That was Ballyhoo's Idea of It.
And he hauled up his old checker
board quilt and his two big gray
army blankets, snuggled his feet into
' them, and went to sleep, telling him
self that while Chang might not much
take to the Rocky Mountain tempera
ture, a little of it would very likely
do him good.
ABOVE.
Ef yer heart b weary,
!An yer life ia dreary,
Forgin' 'long,
Hoi' yer head up steady,
God lie's waitin' ready.
An' He's strong.
Lif yer eyes.'thout cryio'
An' don' call It dyin'
Goin' above;
Hear yer folka a-callin',
He'll keen yer from fallin',
An He g love.
W. Caldwell, in Christian Register.
McFARLANE. QQ
1 That was Balyhoo's Idea of it. But
as it grew colder and colder, and
colder, Chang's thoughts ran some
thing this way: "Well, I dpn't know
that I understand this. It's the same
old car, all right," and he stood for
a while on the other forefoot. "It's
the same old fanlight and the same
old saking. But" and he tried to
get his trunk over his left ear
"seems to me I've only made It cold
er! Seems as if this climate But
say, maybe I didn't put that sacking
right."
And sure enough, he had left it so
loose that he could see the dawn
through it in three places. "I might
have known It all the time," he
thought, and giving a good, strong,
vigorous push he shoved the whole
bundle through and out upon the
other side!
Now, that would have discouraged
some people, but It could not dis
courage Chang. For he knew that
stuffing things Into that fanlight
made the car warm. There were two
or three sacks left, besides which
there were several things in Bally,
hoo's corner that would serve him
Just as well.
Well, would you believe it. when
he had Just begun to get those other
things wedged in good and tight, they
went through, too, and followed the
sacking down the mountain!
So he had to go back to Bally
hoo's corner again. There was noth
ing else for him to do. He had not
intended to. And after that he had
to go a third time.
Perhaps five minutes later Bally
hoo began to dream that he was
walking with Chang into a mighty
palace, such as he had seen on a
children's page of an Illustrated news
paper. And the king In it said it
was called the Cave of the Winds,
and It he would wait a minute or two,
he would see the winds all turning
into icicles. And Just about twenty
seconds after they had turned Into
Icicles Ballyhoo woke up.
His old checker-board cuilt and
FROM the long dim tracts of the past come strangely
blended recognitions of woe and bliss, undistin
gulshable now to our own heart, nor knows that
heart if it be a dream of Imagination or of memory.
Yet why ehould we wonder? In our happiest hours there
may have been something In common with our most sor
rowful, some shade of sadness cast over them by a
passing cloud, that now allies them in retrospect with
the somber spirit of grief; and In our unhappiest hours
there may have been gleams of gladness that seem now
to give the return the calm character of peace. Do not
all thoughts and feelings, almost all events, seem to
resemble each other when they are dreamt of as all past?
his first blanket were out on the
Rockies already, and Chang was Just
then crowding the second one Into
the fanlight. In fact, he was now
putting such supreme exertion into
the work that you could not say that
that second blanket ever really
stopped In the fanlight ot all!
Another half-minute, and Ballyhoo
ceased desperately attempting to
throw Chang to the other end of the
car by the tail. With a sudden hor
rid thought be looked for hlB clothes!
The one thing left was his red
parade waistcoat. And Chang had
missed that only becauso It had fallen
down behind the bed. There was
something about that waistcoat, too.
Ballyhoo had six one hundred dollar
bills sewed up in it. And with a
single plunge he gathered it up.
He did it too eagerly. Chang saw
him; he saw that waistcoat, and at
once, with a new hope, he extended
his trunk for it.
Now, from the standpoint of pure
reasoning, Chang could not see why
Ballyhoo should not have pointed out
that waistcoat to him as soon as he
saw that It had been overlooked. For,
as he put it to himself. "I've tried
the sacking, and that wouldn't stay
in. I've tried the quilts and blank
ets, and they wouldn't stay. I've
tried all the rest of his clothes I've
tried everything but that waistcoat.
So doesn't that prove that that waist
coat is the very identical article I
need?"
But Ballyhoo was not listening to
reason any more than if there had
never been any such thing. With
Chang reaching his big trunk now
round this side of him, now round
that, he had to keep flinging himself
up and down that monster, specially
constructed private car In a way
which made thinking difficult.
Quit it!" he kept yelling at the
persistent Chang. "Git away! Oh,
1 11 fix you for this! I'll fix you.'
Stop it! "
But Chang did not stop. He was
not that kind of elephant.
And then Ballyhoo lay down with
it. He bad cot an arm through one
side ot that red waistcoat, and he
thought that if he could once get it
buttoned up on him, he would be all
right.
But by the time he had got his arm
through that on side, Chang had got J
hold of the other. And then, firmly
and convincingly, he began to pull.
"Quit It!" yelled Ballyhoo again.
"Quit ltt Tou old bat! Ain't it
enough that you've got me pretty
near froze to death the way it is?"
That was precisely the point Chang
wanted to mke. For what was the
use of their freezing to death when
if Ballyhoo only chose to stop and
think a moment they could both of
them be snug and comfortable again?
But if one partner bad renounced the
use of his intellect, the more reason
why the other should use his. And
he began to exert himself in good
earnest. He began to pull Indeed.
For his part, Ballyhoo stopped ar
guing now. - He simply flattened him
self there, and tried to get a grip on
the straw with his teeth, and on the
floor boards with his finger-nails, and
to kick Chang's chest In with his bare
feet. His one idea was to roll him
self back on that waistcoat as fast
as Chang rolled him off It.
"Ob, you wait till I get out of
here!" he cried. "I'll feed you dyna
mite! I'll run you out of the show!
I'll beat yon to death! Quit It! Quit
It! Quit it!"
Chang understood all that; and It
seemed to him that he had never seen
Ballyhoo show himself so persever
Ingly unreasonable before. But since
the responsibility for their well-being
had now been placed upon his shoul
ders alone, he acted accordingly. He
gave one last, almost irresistible tug,
brought away that red waistcoat all
but a few shreds about the armtiole,
and carefully placed It in the fanlight.
In Ave seconds It bad followed
everything before It. Ballyhoo was
not trying to use his voice any more.
He was rushing Chang up and down
the car, batting him with a barrel
stave. And that was reasonable, at
any rate, for It did not hurt Chang
any, and It kept them both very near
ly warm.
The rest of the story Is what the
Jungling people will always tell you
first. For of a sudden the car Jerked
once, twice and then stopped so
lurchlngly Bhort that It Chang had not
been ahead Just then, there might
not have been anything left of Bally
hoo but a pancake.
There had been an accident. A
truck under the tender had broken
loose. Only that was not the acci
dent that might have taken place.
That truck had smashed nothing but
Itself. But a good hour ahead of
Its proper schedule, and without hav
ing any realization of it among those
long mountain curves, the second
Jungling train was following not half
a mile behind. A few short minutes
more, and there would have been
one of the most cruel rear-end col
lisions ever known In Colorado.
But even as the second train
slipped by, out of the tail of his eye
the engineer thought he saw a red
flag. Not a second sooner than there
was direful need, he applied his air
brakes. And the first person to hail
him was a brakeman running weakly
up the grade from the train ahead.
In his hand there was a genuine danger-signal.
They had ample time to go back
and see what the first had been. They
found it hanging from a rick. Thanks
to Chang aud his fine' sense ot pure
reason, it was Ballyhoo's red parade
waistcoat! Youth's Companion.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Shoot folly as It flies. Pope.
We are not born
alone. Cicero.
for ourselves
Blossom by blossom the spring be
gins. Swinburne. '
Success veils the evil deeds of men.
Demosthenes.
We are not allowed
things. Horace.
to know all
A friend Is a man to whom you
confide things that yon wish, on sec
ond thought, you had kept silent
about. Florida TImee-Union.
Wiles and deceit are female quali
ties. Aeschylus.
Ambition Is not a vice of little peo
ple. Montaigne.
Force without Judgment falls of
Its own weight. Horace.
That is every man's country where
he lives best. Aristophanes.
Habits of Justice are a most valu
able possession. Marcus Antonius.
Oysters are not good in a month
that hath not "r" In it. Butler's
Dyefs Dry Dinner.
Ambition, has but one reward for
all: A little power, a little transient
fame. William Winter.
No Advance Agents. .
'It would seem that we have not as
yet made sufficient advancement In
science to be able to predict anything
about the coming cyclones until after
they have arrived. Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
TFBY TEACHING REPELS MEN
1 Dependent and Harrowing Profession From
Which They Hold Oil.
From Vie Eilucatlimal Hevltir.
' ' i'.4mn,tttm4i4v
In the seven years ended 1906 the
number of men teachers In the
United States decreased twenty-four
per cent. It Is not a matter of wages.
Professionally fitted men teachers get
a higher average salary than the av
erage Incomes of lawyers, physicians,
clergymen and business men in their
communities. There are even begin
ning to be prizes for superior teach
ers. Salaries of $5000 are common,
110,000 is not Infrequent, $20,000
has been offered several times; there
have been private school principals
who cleared $100,000 a year. But
four reasons make the thoughtful
young men hesitate. First, It is a
hireling occupation. A college presi
dent was once comparing his work
with mine. "For one thing, you are
your own master," he said. "Yes," I
replied, "it Is a good many years since
I have had to take orders from any
body." "That's Just it," he mused,
thoughtfully; and though he is one
of the great college presidents, a man
with whose work mine is not for a
moment to be measured, I could see
that In this respect he envied me.
That president Is as little accus
tomed or likely as any man I know
to be interfered with by his trustees,
but the ordinary man teacher Is en
tirely at their mercy. The law makes
them the authority as to course of
Study, regulations, selection of teach
ers, equipment and supplies. Out
side of the board of education that di
rectly employs him the community
feels authorized to dictate whether
he shall smoke or dance or play cards
or call on a lady twice a week. The
present principal of the high school
at Newark, N. J., lost a place in Cort
land Normal School because when he
applied he was wearing a red necktie;
the chairman of the committee dis
liked red neckties.
Second, teaching is looked down
Upon in the community. We might
as well face this fact. "When A was
principal of a grammar school," said
the head of a normal school, "he
would run across the street to shake
hands with me. Now that he has
passed his law examination and hung
up his shingle be expects me to run
across the street to shake hands with
him." In other words, A feels that
to be at the tail of the law is higher
than to be at the top of teaching.
The teacher may have a personality
that commands respect in spite of his
calling, but as a teacher and outside
of his especial work he is regarded
by business men slightingly, as an
improvident visionary, thinking In a
world of Imaginary conditions, like
Alice In Wonderland.
This is shown from the fact that
the teacher is so seldom elected to a
place ot responsibility not educa
tional. "Oh, but look at the high
school principal of Lancaster elected
Mayor, and the deputy superintendent
of Instruction elected Secretary of
State In Pennsylvania! " you cry. Yes,
you who live In Pennsylvania point to
those two men, and If you lived In
Illinois or Louisiana or Arizona or
Oregon, and were well informed, you
would point to the same two men.
Why? Becahse they are the only
ones. There are 110,000 men teach
ers in the United States and two of
them have been elected to responsible
public places; the exceptions are so
rare and noteworthy that they prove
the general rule that teachers are not
so trusted. "At your age George
Washington had mastered mtthemat
les," remarked a teacher to an unsat
isfactory pupil. "And at yours he
was President of the United States,"
was the retort, and it stung.
Third, teaching usually belittles a
man. I do not say it ought to; I do
not say ft always does; I say It Usual
ly does. His daily dealing is with
petty things of interest only to his
children and a few women assistants,
and under regulations laid down by
outside authority, so that large ques
tions seldom come to him for consid
eration. His environment narrows
him, he grows to have only one In
terest, and that limits him In public
and in social life. You cannot usually
get it out of the heads of the kind of
men who go into teaching that they
are dealing.w'.th inferior minds. The
child cannot answer back; the teacher
has the last word; ergo the teacher is
correct. Of course the real teacher is
a listener; he learns more from his
children than they from him, because
It Is an ever new delight to watch the
Impression of ideas upon the budding
mind. But how many men teachers
are there of your acquaintance who
listen? How many of them delight in
a childish mind quick enough to catch
them In a blunder? How many of
them say when the child fails to com
prehend, "How etupid my teaching
must be?" It is the assumption that
the teacher knows it all and the
child nothing that belittle. The
teacher who has browbeaten his
school is at a loss when ho comes out
of the school into the community
which can answer back and Is by no
means disposed to accept his ipse
dixit.
This suggests the fourth and last
leason I shall give, that teaching
tends to bad manners, and the bright
young men who see this hesitate to
be classed with teachers. Some years
ago there was a vacancy In the sci
ence department of the Syracuse high
school. Among those who appeared
before the committee was a man from
Buffalo. He replied to the questions
put to him and then he asked three
or four. When they were answered,
he said: "Gentlemen, I withdraw my
application. I thank you for consid
ering me. The place has not advan
tages enough over my present one to
warrant me In changing. Good day."
And he was gone In less time than It
had taken most of the candidates to
Introduce themselves. When the door
closed upon him the committee looked
at one another and the superintendent
said: "I tell you what I think, gen
tlemen; when we come to choose a
principal for our commercial high
school, that's our man." And to that
place he was elected, although he had
given no special attention to business
branches.
Now what must be the general con
dition of teachers' manners when it Is
such a distinction as this to have the
appearance and bearing of a gentle
man and the decision and directness
of a business man? A normal and
university graduate of considerable
experience was a candidate for a place
in the Albany normal, and was pretty
sure ot it up to the point when he
called upon the State Superintendent.
This officer was at his desk, and the
candidate when he came In seated
himself familiarly on the side of It.
That cost him his appointment, and it
ought to. As a rule men teacheca are
uncouth, crude, HI at ease in com
pany. They do not know how to enter
a drawing room or a business office
or how and when to get out of either.
It Is amazing what a difference it
makes in a teacher's presence if Tie
goes Into business for a time anil
learns how to meet people.
Men principals are often petty
tyrants; they accept and demand obe
dience to the point of servility. How
often you see a principal and his as.
sistants coming in a body to an asso
ciation, the women cluttering about
him and he strutting majestically,
like cock and hens In a barnyard. I
could name a man, a fine man and
teacher at that, who has yielded to
this Influence so much that he never
listens to a remark when It Is first
made, but expects it to be repeated.
A superintendent ot schools in one
of the large cities was walking from
one building to another with some of
his teachers. It was an oppressively
hot day in June and they were In the
glare. Finally one of the ladies sug
gested: "Dr. , don't you think
it would be better to walk on the
shady side?" "Oh, no," he replied,
Imperturbably. "I don't mind the
sun! " He was a really great man, to
whom American education owes not
a little, but he got his manners in the
schoolroom.
WHAT OP ENGLAND?
When All Nations Equal Her in Pos
session of the High Seas?
What of England, the country
which ot all has most to lose and
least to gain? How Is she contem
plating the era when all nations equal
her In possession of the atmospheric
ocean, the higher seas? When the
aerial fleets of the world can pass as
readily as her own not Into, but over,
the Cinque ports; over St. Paul's,
and Lombard street, and Bucking
ham Palace; over Windsor, over Man
chester, and Birmingham, and Shef
field; over the length ot the fairest,
strongest, securest, most historic and
richest of argosled realms, from
Land's End to John o' Groat's from
her new naval base at Rosyth to the
borders of the Mersey?
Major F. S. Baden-Powell, late ot
the Scotch Guards, summed up the
whole matter, last year, with so
quiet a significance that one would
think there could be no other sub
ject so occupying the mind of bis
countrymen. ''If in the future all
nations adopt airships for war, much
of our insularity will be gone, and
we must make due preparation."
But in the event of England's loss
of insularity, what preparation, or
equality ot aerial equipment, can
restore to her a specific supremacy
like that with all It includes
which is possessed by her, so long as
sea power is the sovereign power,
and "Britannia rules (be waves?"
Recalling the past, it is typical to
say the least, that all England is not
at this moment evincing for once a
Just apprehension; not of defeat in
war or even ot violence at alien
hands, but of the falllng-in of that
concession of specific Immunity which
has been a sound warrant for the
"gude conceit of hersel" so little rel
ished by the envious. A like apathy,
howe'ver, prevails in other countries
most concerned, in some of which
the people at large express a full re
alization of what is soon to affect
modes of life and international lib
erties and restrictions. The subju
gation of the atmosphere has not
come impressively like the steamboat
of Fulton, or the "What hath God
wrought" over Morse's wire, but has
crept slowly from the diversion stage
to the utilization ot advanced engi
neering and equipment.
Who can doubt that the actual con
dition is understood in the cbancel
ries ot Europe it must be that cab
inets and rulers have an inkling of
it, that British statesmen know what
it means, elso why are they watching
so intently the efforts made by one
another? England, as usual, is let
ting others pull the chestnuts out ot
the fire, ready to profit in Imitation
ot what others may - produce; al
though, even the, at last, has tested,
rather unsuccessfully, a dirigible air
ship of her own.
And yet, if the statesmen of the
great powers really appreciate what
la coming, why do they insist so on
the increase of their navies? From
Edmund Clarence Stedman's "The
Prince ot the Power of the Air," in
the Century.
Thomas Pooley, eighty-sit, of
Claremont, N. H., acknowledges that
he made a mistake in never marry-ins.
8 Good Roads, g
Our Wretched Roads.
The much-exploited New York to
Paris motor car race has been for a
long time such an obvious farce, ow
ing to the execrable condition of the
roads between New York and San
Francisco, that the discovery of the
Impossibility of traversing the Alas
kan coast on the way to the Bering
Straits does not surprise people in
the least. The scheme was visionary
at the outset. It sounded well enough
when stated, but It soon became ap
parent that motor cars that could not
get through the snow on the high
ways of the continent could hardly
be expected to negotiate the chuck
holes, drifts and snow banks of the
frozen trail from Valdez to Nome,
regardless of the absurdity ot cross
ing Bering Straits on the tee.
However ridiculous the antl-cllmax
of this stage ot the race may be, the
affair has sharply emphasized tho
urgent necessity of concerted action
throughout this country in favor of
good roads. Our highways are at
present a disgrace to us as a civilized
people. We boast of our advance
ment, when we cannot send a motor
car, the highest type of our mechan
ical development to-day, 600 miles
without being mired helplessly.
Washington, for an example, is vir
tually isolated from the North, the
South and the West, as regards the
ordinary roads of travel. Heavy,
teams can make their way through
over long distances, but with tho
greatest difficulty.
Motoring to Washington should bo
one of the most delightful pastimes of
those with the leisure to travel about
the country in this manner. But it Is
no Idle task. It Is an achievement,
a triumph of patience and mechanical
construction. Only the more intrepid
motorists undertake it, save those
who venture without asking the way.
There should be a road between this
city and New York so well built and
well maintained that a good car could
make the run easily In a day and a
half without pushing at any stage.
Such a road would cost money, but it
would pay quickly. It now takes
four days, unless tho car is raced re
gardless of safety.
Those who use the roads always
note the difference in the appearance
of the country when the highways im
prove or deteriorate in quality. Mov
ing through a muddy, treacherous
road, the traveler see on either hand
the signs of indifferent management.
Passing thence into the region of tho
well constructed macadam "pike,"
with evidences of constant, Intelli
gent repairing, no imagination is re
quired to discern the tokens of pros
perity and progressiveness.
It is always interesting to tho trav
eler by road to ponder whether tho
good road is the cause or the effect of
the prosperity which is always so
abundantly visible on every band.
Certainly the good road enables the
farmer to do his work with less labor,
saves his stock, increases his profits
and adds to his net income if he bauls
his goods to market. That is a dem
onstrable fact. The poor road dis
courages settlers of the better sort,
gives the land the aspect ot neglect
and discouragement and, in short,
stamps the region with the sign ot
shlftlessness or poverty. Washing
ton Star.
Movement is Spreading.
The movement for a better system
of American highways is gaining in
avor throughout the country. Public
men in public speeches are making
"good roads" an Issue. In the West
counties are voting appropriations for
hard thoroughfares. And tbey have
found that such Investments have re
turned handsome Interest.
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oeuaLur caunueaa, oi A-auama, is
advocating an amendment to the
Postal Appropriation bill providing
for a fund of $500,000 to ImproveV
roads used by rural delivery routes I
in all the States where half such a
sum shall be raised locally or through
the operation ot State enactments.
New York American.
Farm Machinery For Pern.
There is a considerable demand tor
farm' machinery and Implements in
Peru, according to Charles M. Pep
per, special agent of the Department
of Commerce and Labor, and Amer
ican manufacturers have not neglect
ed it. He remarks, however, that
samples and exhibits ot these goods,
which are to be found in large num
bers, are ot a sort not particularly
suited to the uses of the Peruvian
farmer. Peru has almost no horses,
and its draft animals are oxen, a
fact which has an important bearing
on the styles of implements, such as
plows, cultivators, reapers and mow
ers, which are to be drawn by them.
Besides this, the natives are used to
the wooden stick, or beam plow,
which generally has a single handle.
Knowing no other form ot plow, the
farm laborers are prejudiced against
the improved two-handle imple
ment; but, so far as Mr. Pepper has
observed, only one American manu
facturer , has .taken note of this pe
culiarity and devised a single-handled
plow. There are in Peru many grad
uates .of American agricultural col
leges who' would serve as excellent
agents for the introduction of Amer
ican farming machinery, and Mr. Pep
per thinks that the employment of
these young men will be a large fac
tor in the growth ot American trade
In agricultural implements.
Fuses at Low Temperature.
A solder that will fuse at a low ,
temperature and used In uniting soft '
metals is made by adding three drops
ot mercury to each ounce of common
older.